| 1978 | Rio Ferdinand, English Athlete |
| 1976 | Mark Philippoussis, Australia, tennis star, 140 MPH serve |
| 1976 | Zahir Raheem, Philadelphia, bantamweight boxer 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Suesan Rajabi, Miss Colorado USA 1996 |
| 1974 | Kris Benson, Konnesaw, Texas, baseball pitcher 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1974 | Tarek Saleh, linebacker for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1972 | Christopher Daniel Barnes, ME, actor, Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns |
| 1972 | Clive B Barnes, Portland Me, actor, Scott Hayden-Starman |
| 1972 | Emily Porter Lesueur, born in Glendale California, synchro swimmer, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Jane Taylor, born in Maitland, Australia, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Wagga Waga |
| 1972 | Jeremy London, actor, I'll Fly Away, Party of Five |
| 1972 | Jimmy Gary, NFL running back for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1970 | Andre Hastings, NFL wide receiver, Pittsburgh Steelers, NO Saints |
| 1970 | Kris[ten] Fillat, born in San Diego, California, field hockey forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Marc Rosset, born in Geneva, Switzerland, tennis star, 1992 French Doubles |
| 1970 | Morgan Spurlock, American Director |
| 1969 | Michelle Morse, Ft. Rucker Ala, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-13th-1995 |
| 1969 | Tanya Dubnicoff, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist, Olympics-6th-92, 96 |
| 1969 | Bryant H. McGill, born in Mobile, Alabama, editor, author, celebrity publicist, creator, celebrity verification group, books include the 'McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme' |
| 1968 | Russ Springer, born in Alexandria, Virginia, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1966 | Andy Tomberlin, Monroe, North Carolina, outfielder for the New York Mets |
| 1966 | Lisa Canning, Virgin Islands, hostess, Entertainment Tonight |
| 1966 | Murphy Logo Su'a, cricket pace bowler, New Zealand left-arm of Samoan parents |
| 1964 | Dana Plato, born in Maywood, California, actress, Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes |
| 1964 | Liam O'Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist, Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry |
| 1963 | John Barnes, born in Kingston, Jamaica, British professional soccer player, manager for Tranmere Rovers Football Club |
| 1963 | Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman, Team Germany |
| 1963 | Shelly Miller, Youngstown, Ohio, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-25th-1994 |
| 1963 | Todd McKee, actor, Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold and Beautiful |
| 1963 | Sam Graves, American Politician |
| 1962 | Arend Bouwmeester, Dutch saxophonist, Bob Color |
| 1962 | Wayne Norman Phillips, Vic opener cricketer, Test for Australia vs. Ind 1992 |
| 1961 | Mintcho Pachov, Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifer 1980 Olympics bronze |
| 1960 | Charlie Bell, Australian Businessman |
| 1957 | Christopher Knight, New York City, actor, Peter-Brady Bunch |
| 1957 | Kathy McMillan, long jumper 1976 Olympics silver |
| 1956 | Denise Jannah, Zeefuik, Suriname jazz singer, Farmer's Market |
| 1956 | Jonathan Palmer, born in London, England, professional racecar driver, entrepreneur, Formula Championship winner, CEO, MotorSport Vision |
| 1953 | Lucinda Green, born in Andover, England, born Lucinda Jane Prior-Palmer, champion equestrian, journalist, won gold at 1982 World Championships |
| 1951 | Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer, Howard Stern New Years Party |
| 1951 | Nick Gilder, born in London, England, singer, Hot Child in the City |
| 1950 | Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator |
| 1950 | Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher |
| 1949 | Judy Tenuda, comedienne, Spotlight Cafe |
| 1944 | Jim Watkins, Philadelphia, actor, Jerry-Magician |
| 1944 | Joe Niekro, baseball knuckler, New York Yankees |
| 1943 | Joni Mitchell, Roberta J Anderson, Alberta Canada, singer, Clouds |
| 1943 | Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist, To Red, Dust Drawings |
| 1943 | Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer |
| 1943 | Silvia Cartwright, New Zealander Statesman |
| 1943 | Stephen Greenblatt, American Critic |
| 1942 | Jean Shrimpton, British model/actress, Privilege |
| 1942 | Johnny Rivers, Ramistella, New York City, singer, Secret Agent Man |
| 1942 | Helen Garner, Australian Novelist |
| 1942 | Tom Peters, born in Baltimore, Maryland, writer, author, speaker, consultant, business management practices expert, co-wrote, 'In Search of Excellence', believes the least amount of overhead business processes can produce empowering decision-makers within an entire company organization |
| 1941 | Angelo Scola, Italian Clergyman |
| 1940 | Guido Provoost, Belgian historian |
| 1938 | Dee Clark, Arkansas, singer, Hambone, Nobody But You |
| 1938 | James Katt, pitcher/sportscaster, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins |
| 1936 | Barry Newman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli |
| 1936 | Gwyneth Jones, Pontnewyndd Wales, soprano, Die Walkure |
| 1936 | Jaap Stobbe, Dutch actor, Dageraad |
| 1935 | Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet, Ballad orang-orang tertjina |
| 1934 | Stephen L. Neal, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Representative-D-North Carolina 1975 - 1995 |
| 1933 | George Tibbits, born in Boulder, Australia, composer, architect, works include, Otway Ranges Symphony, Battue |
| 1932 | Harry Lammertink, Yrrah, Dutch cartoonist, Vrij Netherland |
| 1930 | Peter Woods, born in Britain, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, famous newsreader, appeared on News Room for BBC News |
| 1930 | Rudy Boschwitz, born in Berlin, Germany, Senator-R-Minnesota 1978 - 1991 |
| 1929 | Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor |
| 1927 | Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kyoto Japan, owner for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1926 | Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano, Met Opera |
| 1924 | Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright |
| 1923 | Matthew Coady, journalist |
| 1922 | Al Hirt, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, jazz trumpeter, Greatest Horn in the World |
| 1918 | Billy Graham, Charlotte, North Carolina, Baptist evangelist, Crusades |
| 1917 | Andras Mihaly, composer |
| 1917 | Helen Suzman, born in South Africa, politician and anti-apartheid activist, served 36 years in parliament |
| 1916 | Joe Bushkin, New York City, jazz pianist, A Couple of Joes |
| 1915 | Philip Morrison, American Scientist |
| 1914 | R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, U.S., sci-fi author, Devil is Dead |
| 1913 | Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957 |
| 1911 | Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist |
| 1910 | Edmund Leach, British Scientist |
| 1907 | Maurits Mok, Dutch author and poet, Cheese and Bread Game |
| 1906 | Eugene Carson Blake, U.S. Secretary-General of World council of Churches, 1966-72 |
| 1906 | Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO, Primary Education |
| 1906 | Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian, Saar |
| 1905 | William Alwyn, composer |
| 1903 | Albert Helman, Lou Lichtveld, Suriname politician/novelist |
| 1903 | Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio, actor, Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry |
| 1903 | Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist, Man and His Ideas, Nobel 1973 |
| 1903 | Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, Albert Helman, Suriname author |
| 1902 | Jesus Maria Sanroma, Carolina PR, pianist, Boston Symphony |
| 1902 | Rob van der de Bas, Barend Robberts, troubadour, Klucht of the Cow |
| 1900 | Efrem Kurtz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Houston Symph 1948-54 |
| 1897 | Ruth Pitter, British poet |
| 1897 | Herman J. Mankiewicz, American Writer |
| 1896 | Herbert R O'Connor, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Sen-Md, TV narrator, Crime Syndicate |
| 1895 | Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi, 1955-81 |
| 1889 | George Davis, Netherlands, actor, Devil May Care |
| 1889 | Lord Tennyson III, cricketer, England batsman and captain |
| 1888 | Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist, Nobel 1930 |
| 1886 | Aaron Nimzowitsch, Latvian chess player, openings theorist |
| 1886 | Mark Aldanov, Landau, Russian/French chemist/writer |
| 1886 | Aaron Nimzovich, Latvian Celebrity |
| 1885 | Frank H Knight, American Economist |
| 1883 | Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New, Virginia, TV preacher |
| 1879 | Eugeen Yoors, Flemish etcher/glass painter |
| 1879 | Leon Davidovitsj Trotsky, Leib Bronstein, Russian revolutionary |
| 1878 | Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist, Protactinium |
| 1877 | Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer |
| 1876 | Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, Gov-D-Cal |
| 1876 | Ted Arnold, cricketer, England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05 |
| 1874 | Joseph Willoughby, cricketer, 2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96 |
| 1867 | Marie Curie, French Scientist, discovered radium, Nobel 1903, 1911 |
| 1866 | Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer |
| 1866 | Paul Lincke, German composer and conductor /publisher, Frau Luna |
| 1859 | Hendrik G. Kleyn, church historian |
| 1856 | Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place, 1878 |
| 1855 | Edwin H Hall, U.S. physicist, Hall effect |
| 1852 | Bohdan Borkowski, composer |
| 1846 | Ignaz Brull, composer |
| 1839 | Henry Holmes, composer |
| 1832 | Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell |
| 1828 | Ludwig Deppe, composer |
| 1828 | Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry, French painter |
| 1822 | Edouard Gregoir, composer |
| 1811 | Karel J Erben, Czechoslovakian poet, Bouquet |
| 1810 | Ferenc Erkel, Hungary, composer and conductor, Hunaydi Laszlo |
| 1810 | Fritz Reuter, writer |
| 1806 | August Friedrich Pott, composer |
| 1797 | Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral Union Navy |
| 1786 | Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer |
| 1758 | Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician |
| 1706 | Carlo Cecere, composer |
| 1692 | Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon, Insel Felsenburg |
| 1656 | Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/Governor of Nimegen |
| 1598 | Francisco de Zurbaran, Spain, Baroque painter, baptized |
| 994 | Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain |
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