| 1978 | Justin Guarini, American Musician |
| 1977 | Lara Antunes, Miss Portugal Universe 1997 |
| 1974 | Braden Looper, Weatherford, Oklahoma, baseball pitcher 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1974 | Henri Crockett, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1974 | Joaquin Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor, Russkies, Space Camp |
| 1974 | Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor, Russkies, Space Camp |
| 1974 | Joaquin Phoenix, American Actor |
| 1973 | Frank Juric, Australian soccer goalie, Olyroos, 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Calvin Jackson, NFL cornerback for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1972 | Chad Folk, CFL cornerback for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1972 | Terrell Davis, NFL running back, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1972 | Brad Paisley, American Musician |
| 1971 | John Coker, NBA center for the Phoenix Suns |
| 1971 | Nicole Green, Springfield Ohio, 400m runner |
| 1971 | Tracy Hanson, Coeur D'Alene ID, LPGA golfer, 1995 GHP Heartland-4th |
| 1970 | Bracey Walker, NFL safety, Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins |
| 1970 | Rob Hitchcock, CFL defensive back for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1969 | Denny Fercho, Ventura California, team handball circle 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Pete Shufelt, WLAF linebacker for the Rhein Fire |
| 1969 | Troy Ridgley, WLAF defensive tackle for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1969 | Ben Harper, American Musician |
| 1968 | Aleksandr Koreshkov, hockey forward, Team Kazakhstan, 1998 Olympics |
| 1968 | Chris Oldham, cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1968 | Ernie Mills, NFL wide receiver, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers |
| 1968 | Glenn Clear, soccer player, Vitesse |
| 1968 | Rodney Thomas, NFL running back for the Houston Oilers |
| 1968 | Shawna Molcak, Cardston Alberta, basketball guard 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Stan Thomas, NFL tackle for the Houston Oilers |
| 1967 | James Joseph, NFL running back for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1967 | Julia Roberts, born in Smyrna, Georgia, actress, Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman |
| 1967 | John Romero, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, game designer, programmer, co-founder of id Software, games include 'Dangerous Dave', 'Quake', Wolfenstein 3D' |
| 1966 | Andy Richter, Yorkville, Illinois, writer/sidekick, Conan O'Brien |
| 1966 | Benoit Hogue, Repentigny, NHL center for the Dallas Stars |
| 1966 | Juan Guzman, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1966 | Kaylynn Hick, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Steve Atwater, NFL safety, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1966 | Tim Bogar, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, infielder for the New York Mets |
| 1965 | Eric Floyd, NFL guard for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1965 | Jami Gertz, Chicago, actress, Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies |
| 1965 | Mark Carrier, NFL wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1964 | Lenny Harris, born in Miami, Florida, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1964 | Paul Wylie, figure skater, Olympic-silver |
| 1963 | Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician/songwriter, Adesso Te |
| 1963 | Kevin Dineen, Quebec City, NHL right wing, Hartford Whalers |
| 1963 | Lauren Holly, born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, actress 'Picket Fences' and 'NCIS' |
| 1963 | Lisa Bettio, Cleveland, WPVA volleyballer, Ft. Myers Beach-17th-1992 |
| 1963 | Robert Bailey, cricketer, England batsman in four Tests 1988-90 |
| 1963 | Veronica Gamba, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, playmate, November, 1983 |
| 1962 | Daphne Zuniga, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Jo Reynolds-Melrose Place, Spaceballs |
| 1962 | Peter Cantrell, cricketer, Queensland opening bat, Netherlands WC 1996 |
| 1960 | Mark Derwin, Park Forest, Illinois, actor, AC Mallet-Guiding Light |
| 1960 | Robert Pukalovic, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia 1998 |
| 1959 | Neville Henry, rocker, Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways |
| 1958 | Jay Don Blake, St. George, Utah, PGA golfer, 1991 Shearson Lehman Open |
| 1957 | Stephen Morris, English pop drummer, Joy Division-Atmosphere |
| 1955 | Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington billionaire CEO, Microsoft |
| 1952 | Annie Potts, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actress, Mary Jo-Designing Women |
| 1952 | Flavian Aponso, cricketer, rebel Sri Lankan 1982, Netherlands World Cup 1996 |
| 1952 | Tommy Dobeck, rock drummer, Michael Stanley Band |
| 1951 | Ron and Don Gaylon, midwest U.S., siamese twins, Jerry Springer Show |
| 1949 | Bruce Jenner, born in Mount Kisco, New York, decathalete 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1949 | Robert Mellors, gay activist |
| 1948 | Ricki Lee Reynolds, country singer, Black Oak Arkansas |
| 1948 | Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer, Tony Orlando, Family Matters |
| 1948 | Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut |
| 1947 | Tom Fitzsimmons, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Franklin-Paper Chase |
| 1945 | Dennis Lillie [sic], cricketer, Queensland leg-spinner 1965-66/80-82 |
| 1945 | Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker, Groovy Kind of Love |
| 1945 | Sandy Berger, American Public Servant |
| 1944 | Coluche, Michel Colucci, France, comedian, My Best Friend's Girl |
| 1944 | Dennis Franz, Maywood, Illinois, actor, Buntz-Hill Street Blues, New YorkPD Blue |
| 1943 | Randy Newman, rock vocalitst, Short People |
| 1942 | Kees Verkerk, skater World Champion, 1967, Olympics gold 68 |
| 1942 | Sharron Moran, LPGA golfer |
| 1941 | Curtis Lee, born in Yuma, Arizona, singer, doo-wop and pop recording artist with Phil Spector, partnered with Tommy Boyce, sang 'Under the Moon of Love', 'Pretty Little Angel Eyes' |
| 1941 | Glenn Moore, born in Portland, Oregon, rocker, jazz bassist, played with saxophonist Jim Pepper, recorded 'This is It' with Nick Brignola, 'Bird on Wire' with Tim Hardin |
| 1941 | Hank Marvin, England, rocker |
| 1940 | Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov, cosmo, Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11, TM-21 |
| 1939 | Jane Alexander, Quigley, Boston, actress, Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer |
| 1938 | Peter Carlstein, cricketer, South African Test batsman 1958-64 |
| 1937 | Lenny Wilkins, NBA player and coach, Seattle, Cleveland, Atlanta |
| 1936 | Charlie Daniels, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, singer, Devil Went Down to Georgia |
| 1936 | Horst Antes, German painter |
| 1936 | Ted Hawkins, singer/guitarist |
| 1935 | Folke Rabe, born in Stockholm, Sweden, composer, electronic drone pieces, works include 'What??' |
| 1934 | Jim Beatty, track runner, 1st sub 4 minute indoor mile |
| 1930 | Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer |
| 1930 | John Henry Mayer, composer |
| 1929 | Joan Plowright, Brigg England, actress, Brimstone and Treacle |
| 1929 | Narotam Puna, cricketer, Bombay New Zealand off-spinner vs. England 1966 |
| 1928 | Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team |
| 1927 | Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress and singer, Flesh to a Tiger |
| 1926 | Bowie Kuhn, born in Maryland, lawyer, sports administrator, fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball |
| 1925 | Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist, Little Orphan Annie |
| 1925 | Wim Keja, Dutch MP, VVD |
| 1925 | Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet |
| 1924 | Alfonso Montalva Montecino, composer |
| 1921 | Peggy Kirk Bell, LPGA golfer |
| 1919 | Bernhard Wicki, St. Polten Austria, director/actor, Crime and Passion |
| 1918 | Harold Sheperdson, soccer trainer |
| 1916 | Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright |
| 1915 | Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne, Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan |
| 1915 | Richard Michael Fraser, political Administrator |
| 1914 | Jonas Salk, born in New York City, medical reseacher, polio vaccine |
| 1914 | Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist, Nobel 1952 |
| 1913 | Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director, Hotel Paradiso, Becket |
| 1910 | Arthur Altman, songwriter |
| 1910 | Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint |
| 1909 | Adolfs Skulte, composer |
| 1909 | Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist |
| 1909 | Francis Bacon, born in Ireland, painter, Study for a Pope |
| 1908 | Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman |
| 1907 | Edith Head, fashion designer, MGM |
| 1905 | Harry Broadhurst, airman |
| 1904 | Louis de Meester, composer |
| 1903 | Evelyn Waugh, English Author |
| 1902 | Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress, Bride of Frankenstien |
| 1897 | Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander |
| 1896 | Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer and conductor, Nordic |
| 1893 | Christopher K Ingold, English chemist |
| 1892 | Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian, Fall and Throw |
| 1892 | Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer, Night Watch |
| 1890 | Andres Isasi, composer |
| 1886 | Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, Russian revolutionary politician |
| 1885 | V Chlebnikov, writer |
| 1884 | Miloje Milojevic, composer |
| 1879 | Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer |
| 1876 | Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist |
| 1869 | Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, Spanish playwright, Corte de Amor |
| 1856 | Franz Xavier Arens, composer |
| 1855 | Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist, new types of fruit |
| 1846 | Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs and chef of kings |
| 1842 | Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War |
| 1842 | Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad, 1885-1908 |
| 1834 | Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1818 | Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, |
| 1810 | Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1805 | John Thomson, composer |
| 1804 | Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician, logistic curve |
| 1801 | Karl Georg Lickl, composer |
| 1798 | Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer |
| 1795 | Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, 1848 . .53 |
| 1793 | Eliphalet Remington, U.S. gun maker |
| 1789 | Johann Schneider, composer |
| 1746 | John Vaclav Stich, Giovanni Punto, Bohemian horn player/composer |
| 1733 | Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer |
| 1689 | Michel Mathieu, composer |
| 1585 | Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader |
| 1510 | Francisco Borgia, great grandson of pope Alexander VI/theologist/saint |
| 1017 | Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor, 1046 - 1056 |
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