| 1978 | Carmen Kass, Estonian Model |
| 1975 | Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint |
| 1973 | Terrell Fletcher, NFL running back for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1972 | David Bell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1972 | Donnell Bennett, NFL fullback for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1971 | Jonathan "Adam" Holland, Philadelphia, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Kimberly Williams, actress, Father of the Bride |
| 1971 | Mario Henry, NFL wide receiver, Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons |
| 1970 | Satoshi Kojima, professional wrestler, born in Koto, Japan, works for New Japan Pro Wrestling, trained by Hiroshi Hase, Kensuke Sasaki |
| 1968 | Dan Cortese, actor/TV host, Jess Hanson-Melrose Place |
| 1968 | Ginger Helgeson Nielson, St. Cloud, Minnesota, tennis star |
| 1968 | Pete Chilcutt, NBA forward for the Vancouver Grizzlies |
| 1965 | Troy Neel, born in Freeport, Texas, professional baseball player, first baseman, hitter, played for Oakland Athletics, Orix BlueWave team in Japan |
| 1964 | Faith Ford, born in Louisiana, actress, Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown |
| 1964 | Kurt Gouveia, NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1963 | Antonia Real, Spain, 400m freestyle, Olympic-1976 |
| 1963 | Jaromir Dragan, born in Liptovsky, Czechoslovakia, hockey goalie, Team Slovakia 1998 |
| 1961 | Antonia De Sancha, born in London, England, lover of British MP David Mellor |
| 1960 | Anthony Addabbo, actor, Jason-Generations |
| 1960 | Melissa Leo, American Actress |
| 1959 | Mary Crosby, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Kristin-Dallas, Ice Pirates |
| 1959 | Morten Harket, Konigsberg Norway, rocker, Aha-Take on Me |
| 1958 | John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka, Oklahoma, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut |
| 1957 | Jerry Don Gleaton, born in Brownwood, Texas, professional baseball player, pitcher, played for Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, and Kansas City Royals |
| 1957 | Tim Wallach, Huntington Park, infielder for the California Angels |
| 1956 | Joe Penny, London, actor, Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake and the Fatman |
| 1954 | Barry Cowsill, Newport, Rhode Island, rock bassist, Cowsills-We Can Fly |
| 1952 | Margit Schumann, born in East Germany, luge 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1951 | Eugene H Trinh, Saigon Vietnam, PhD/astronaut, STS-50 |
| 1950 | Paul Kossoff, born in London, England, rock guitarist, Free |
| 1949 | Steve Gaines, Seneca, Missouri, rock vocalist, Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| 1948 | Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist |
| 1947 | Joan Thirkettle, journalist |
| 1947 | Jon "Bowser" Bauman, Queens, New York, singer, Sha Na Na |
| 1947 | Sam Neill, Northern Ireland, actor, Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano |
| 1947 | Wolfgang Schwartz, Austria, figure skater, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1944 | Joey Heatherton, Rockville Center, New York, dancer/actress, Bluebeard |
| 1942 | Oliver Eugene Lake, composer |
| 1942 | Robert C. Solomon, born in Michigan, philosophy professor, studied Hegel, Nietzsche, Sartre, philosophy of emotions |
| 1940 | Larry Brown, NBA player/NBA coach for the New York Knicks |
| 1940 | Leo H Ferrier, Suriname writer, Atman |
| 1939 | DeWitt T Weaver, Jr., Danville, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1972 Southern Open |
| 1939 | Piet R Stoffelen, Dutch ambassador/MP, PvdA |
| 1938 | Nicol Williamson, Scotland, actor, Excalibur, Robin and Marian, Spawn |
| 1937 | Joseph Jarman, American Musician |
| 1936 | Stan Williams, baseball pitcher, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1936 | Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer |
| 1936 | Walter Koenig, American Actor |
| 1934 | Kate Millett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, feminist/author, Sexual Politics |
| 1934 | Sarah Kofman, philosopher |
| 1933 | Harve Presnell, Modesto California, actor, Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| 1933 | Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| 1932 | Harry Sinden, NHL player and coach, Team Canada |
| 1932 | Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler 1956 Olympics bronze |
| 1929 | John Gutfreund, former CEO of investment bank, Salomon Brothers Inc., featured in book Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis |
| 1929 | Mel Hancock, born in Cape Fair, Missouri, Representative-R-Missouri 1989 - 1997 |
| 1928 | Albert Shanker, American labor leader, American Federation of Teachers |
| 1928 | Angus Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra |
| 1928 | John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer/climber |
| 1928 | Alberto Korda, Cuban Photographer |
| 1926 | Hovhannes Gorgeni Ter-T'at'evosyan, composer |
| 1926 | Richard Ellsasser, composer |
| 1925 | M L de Braauw, Dutch minister, DS'70 |
| 1925 | Ruth Mompati, South Africa secretary of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu |
| 1924 | Jerry Coleman, 2nd baseman/sportscaster, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres |
| 1924 | John Michael Grimes, set Designer |
| 1922 | Michel Auclair, Vujovic, Germany, actor, Story of a Love Story |
| 1921 | Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster, CBS/ABC |
| 1921 | Constance Baker Motley, American Activist |
| 1920 | Bud Palmer, born in Hollywood, California, NBAer for the New York Knicks/sportscaster |
| 1920 | Lawrence R. Klein, American Economist |
| 1919 | Deryck Victor Cooke, composer |
| 1918 | Jack Somack, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show |
| 1917 | Sydney J. Harris, born in London, England, journalist, wrote, syndicated column, 'Strictly Personal', wrote for Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, political positions placed him on the list of Nixon political opponents, wrote, 'The Authentic Person: Dealing with Dilemma' |
| 1916 | Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer, In Search of Theater |
| 1915 | Douglas Kennedy, born in New York, actor, Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold |
| 1914 | Kay Medford, born in New York City, actress, Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love |
| 1914 | Michael Spisak, composer |
| 1914 | Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style |
| 1913 | Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala, 1951-54, ; overthrown by CIA |
| 1910 | Gaston Deferre, French politician |
| 1910 | Lehman Engel, Jackson, Mississippi, conductor/comp, Streetcar Named Desire |
| 1910 | Rolf Liebermann, born in Zurich, Switzerland, composer, Leonore |
| 1908 | Bernie Green, born in New York City, orchestra leader, Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show |
| 1908 | Clayton Moore, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Lone Ranger |
| 1907 | A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico |
| 1907 | Cecil Brown, news correspondent, CBS |
| 1904 | Anton Zischka, Austrian writer, Lebendiges Europa |
| 1904 | Gaston Vandermeulen, Flemish actor, Heilig Experiment |
| 1904 | Richard Mohaupt, born in Breslau Germany, composer, Bucolica |
| 1900 | Sidney Marion, born in Massachusetts, entertainer |
| 1899 | Hal Wallis, movie producer, Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park |
| 1887 | Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist |
| 1887 | Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, 1908-10 |
| 1886 | Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czechoslovakia, statesman/minister to London, 1918-35 |
| 1885 | Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer, Batture d'aspetto |
| 1883 | Martin Dibelius, German theologist, Die Lade Jahwes |
| 1882 | Harald Fryklof, composer |
| 1880 | Paul Fechter, German writer, Der Zauberer Gottes |
| 1879 | Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent |
| 1873 | Josiah Bailey, American Politician |
| 1867 | Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl" |
| 1864 | Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937 |
| 1864 | Robert Cecil, viscount of Chelwood, Nobel 1937 |
| 1849 | Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, Nobel 1904 |
| 1840 | George Elbridge Whiting, composer |
| 1838 | John Pelham, Major Confederate Army |
| 1836 | Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister, Liberal, 1918-27 |
| 1835 | J A de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands, Died 1940 |
| 1835 | Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1835 | YES de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands, Died 5/30/1940 |
| 1819 | Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army |
| 1817 | Theodor Storm, German judge/author, Imense China |
| 1792 | Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane |
| 1768 | Georg Johann Schinn, composer |
| 1761 | Pavel Lambert Masek, composer |
| 1760 | M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer |
| 1748 | Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer |
| 1742 | James Wilson, Scottish lawyer, U.S. judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| 1737 | Johann Michael Haydn, composer |
| 1732 | Franz Josef Haydn, Austria, composer, Die Schopfung |
| 1722 | Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer |
| 1644 | Gijsbert Cuper, Dutch classicist/regent |
| 1547 | Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch Grand Pensionary |
| 1531 | Philipp Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German geography/cartographer |
| 1486 | Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer |
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