| 1975 | Scott Speedman, English Actor |
| 1974 | Harmony Korine, American Director |
| 1973 | Gillian Boxx, born in Fontana, California, softball catcher, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | Trent Bray, New Zealand, 100m/200m swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Eiman Thakeb, Miss Egypt Universe 1997 |
| 1972 | Josh Davis, U.S., 800m freestyle swimmer, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1972 | Louise Dobson, born in Shepparton, Australia, field hockey fullback 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Matt O'Dwyer, NFL guard for the New York Jets |
| 1971 | Gabe Wilkins, NFL defensive end, Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31 |
| 1971 | Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan 3K runner, world record |
| 1970 | Barbara Paulus, born in Vienna, Austria, tennis star |
| 1970 | Flora Perfetti, born in Faenza, Italy, tennis star |
| 1970 | Jodi Lambert, Australian 100m/200m sprinter 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Mardi Lunn, born in Liverpool, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1994 McDonald's-17th |
| 1968 | Michelle Buckingham, born in Los Angeles, California, Canadian 61 kg judoka, Olympic-20-92, 96 |
| 1966 | Katja Bienert, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Praxis Bulowbogen |
| 1966 | Stephane Talbot, born in Greenfield Park, Quebec, golfer, 1992 Quebec PGA |
| 1966 | Tim Hardaway, NBA guard for the Miami Heat |
| 1965 | Aldo Swager, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1965 | Hardy Nickerson, NFL linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1963 | Carola Smit, Dutch singer, BZN-Bad bad woman |
| 1963 | David Zhuang, born in China, U.S. table tennis player 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Ruud Gullit, Suriname/Dutch soccer star, Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan |
| 1961 | Bam Bam Bigelow, born in Secaucus, New Jersey, WWF wrestler, Wrestlemania XI |
| 1961 | Dee Dee Myers, American Public Servant |
| 1961 | Mike Ross, American Politician |
| 1959 | Keith Allen Clearwater, born in Long Beach, California, PGA golfer, 1987 Colonial National |
| 1957 | Gloria Estefan, born in Havana, singer, Miami Sound Machine-Conga |
| 1955 | Bruce Foxton, born in Woking, Surrey, guitarist, bass player for The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers |
| 1953 | Chuck Orton, U.S. sysop, Emerald BBS, Oregon |
| 1951 | Timothy Zahn, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Cobra Strike |
| 1951 | Nicu Ceausescu, born in Romania, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds |
| 1950 | Phil McGraw, born in Vinita, Oklahoma, television personality, former psychologist, host of 'Dr. Phil' television program, earned $80 million in 2009 |
| 1946 | Barry Gibb, born in Manchester, England, guitarist/singer, Bee Gees |
| 1946 | Erich Scharer, born in Switzerland, 2 man bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold |
| 1946 | Greg Errico, U.S. drummer, Sly and Family Stone-Stand! |
| 1946 | Gregg Errico, rocker, Sly and Family Stone |
| 1944 | Archie Bell, U.S. singer, & the Drells-Tighten up |
| 1944 | Don Stroud, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story |
| 1944 | Leonard Slatkin, born in Los Angeles, California, conductor, Concert Orchestra, Netherlands |
| 1944 | Ander Crenshaw, American Politician |
| 1943 | Pat Connolly-Daniels-Winslow-Banks, U.S. pentathlete, Olympics-7th-1968 |
| 1942 | C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherry, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy |
| 1939 | Heinrich Messner, born in Austria, downhill skier 1972 Olympics bronze |
| 1939 | Katie Webster, Swamp-Boogie Queen]/US R&B pianist/singer |
| 1939 | Lily Tomlin, born in Detroit, comedienne/actress, 9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me |
| 1938 | Alan Dershowitz, born in New York City, attorney, Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson |
| 1938 | Art Agnos, U.S., politician |
| 1938 | George Maharis, Astoria, New York, actor, Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game |
| 1937 | Al Geiberger, Red Bluff California, PGA golfer, 1962 Ontario Open |
| 1937 | Ron O'Neal, Utica, New York, actor, Superfly |
| 1937 | Allen Weinstein, American Public Servant |
| 1936 | Roderick Thorp, American Novelist |
| 1935 | Seiji Ozawa, Hoten Manchuria, conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| 1933 | Ann Richards, born in Lakeview, Texas, American politician, Democrat, Governor of Texas, second female governor of Texas, defeated for re-election by future U.S. President George W. Bush |
| 1933 | Conway Twitty, born in Mississippi, country singer, Hello Darlin' |
| 1933 | Tom Vreugdenhil, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1931 | Boxcar Willie, born in Red Oak, Texas, born Lecil Travis Martin, guitarist, American hobo music singer, sang country, gospel music |
| 1931 | Matthew John Rinaldo, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Representative-R-New Jersey 1973 - 1993 |
| 1928 | George Maharis, actor, Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66 |
| 1927 | Tommy Evans, rocker, Drifters |
| 1925 | Art Pepper, U.S., alto saxophonist |
| 1925 | Ruth S. White, composer |
| 1923 | Rocky Marciano, heavyweight champion boxer, 1952 - 1956 |
| 1923 | Theo H Joekes, journalist/Dutch MP, VVD |
| 1922 | Melvin R. Laird, born in Omaha, Nebraska, Representative-R-Michigan 1953 - 1969, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1969 - 1973 |
| 1922 | Vittorio Gassman, born in Genoa, Italy, actor, War and Peace |
| 1922 | Yvonne De Carlo, Vancouver BC, actress, 10 Commandments, Munsters |
| 1921 | Matt Higgins Doran, composer |
| 1921 | Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer, Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid |
| 1920 | Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist, Coming of Joachim Stiller |
| 1920 | Richard Farnsworth, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Misery, Havana, Sylvester |
| 1916 | Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner |
| 1911 | Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, trade union leader |
| 1910 | Jack Hawkins, London, actor, Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story |
| 1908 | Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist |
| 1908 | Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist |
| 1907 | Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic |
| 1907 | Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO |
| 1905 | Gervase Hughes, composer |
| 1904 | Johnny Mack Brown, Dothan AL, actor, Lawman is Born, Back Trail |
| 1904 | Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach for the New York Giants |
| 1900 | Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht |
| 1900 | Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer |
| 1900 | Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor, Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand |
| 1898 | Marilyn Miller, Renolds, U.S. actress, Sunny, wife of Jack Pickford |
| 1895 | Edit Angold, Germany, actor, Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel |
| 1893 | Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/U.S. painter/etcher/lithographer |
| 1892 | Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician |
| 1887 | Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Swiss poet/writer |
| 1887 | Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar |
| 1886 | Othmar Schoeck, composer |
| 1877 | Francis William Aston, British Scientist |
| 1875 | Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S., sci-fi author, Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga |
| 1874 | Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer |
| 1874 | Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi, Encyclopedia Judaica |
| 1873 | Guy Standing, English actor, Cradle Song |
| 1870 | Timotei Popovici, composer |
| 1868 | Kin Hubbard, American Journalist |
| 1866 | James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer, 1892-97 |
| 1864 | Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist, Easter uprising 1916 |
| 1862 | Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist |
| 1856 | Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, Laodania |
| 1854 | Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer, Parisfal |
| 1849 | Elizabeth Harrison, U.S., educator, National Congress of Parents and Teachers |
| 1845 | Paul S Methuen, English Field Marshal/governor of Natal/Malta |
| 1834 | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer, I promissory note sposi |
| 1829 | James Conner, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1827 | Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author, Overbetuwsche Novellen |
| 1824 | Isaac Hardin Duval, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1816 | Gustav Schmidt, composer |
| 1803 | Jacobus T Abels, Dutch painter |
| 1798 | Richard Delafield, Major General Union Army |
| 1791 | Lydia Sigourney, U.S., religious author, How to Be Happy |
| 1789 | Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer |
| 1789 | Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist |
| 1787 | John Bake, classical composer |
| 1768 | Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer |
| 1758 | Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch Staatscourant |
| 1732 | Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer |
| 1732 | Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer |
| 1724 | John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder, Society of It General |
| 1712 | Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator |
| 1711 | Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau |
| 1689 | Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder, Prague |
| 1653 | Johann Pachelbel, composer |
| 1611 | William Cartwright, English Dramatist |
| 1608 | Giacomo Torelli, composer |
| 1549 | Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc |
| 1529 | Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter |
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