| 1978 | Nick Johnson, American Athlete |
| 1976 | La Chanda Jenkins, Miss District of Columbia USA 1996 |
| 1974 | Victoria Silverstedt, Skelleftehamn Sweden, playmate, Dec, 1996 |
| 1974 | Jimmy Fallon, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian, actor, television host of 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon', appeared on 'Saturday Night Live' television show |
| 1973 | Jeremy Jordan, born in Hammond, Indiana, singer, actor, pop, dance music, recorded music featured in the film 'Airborne', appeared in made-for-TV movies and theater performance of Never Been Kissed |
| 1972 | Amy Frazier, born in St. Louis, Missouri, tennis star |
| 1972 | David Tamburrino, Saratoga Springs, New York, speed skater 1994 Olympics |
| 1972 | Eric van de Merwe, soccer player, Dordrecht '90 |
| 1972 | Fred McCrary, NFL fullback for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1971 | Colleen Coyne, ice hockey defenseman, USA, 1998 Olympics |
| 1971 | Jeremy Nunley, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end for the Houston Oilers |
| 1971 | Sanaa Lathan, American Actress |
| 1970 | Antii Tormenen, Espoo FIN, NHL forward, Finland, Bronze Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1969 | Candy Dulfer, Amsterdam Holland, saxophonist, Lily Was Here |
| 1969 | Matthew Perry, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, actor, known for role of Chandler Bing on television sitcom, 'Friends' |
| 1967 | Jim Abbott, born in Flint, Michigan, pitcher, California Angels, New York Yankees |
| 1966 | El Samurai, born in Hanamaki, Japan, professional wrestler, works for New Japan Pro Wrestling, trained by New Japan Dojo |
| 1966 | Michael Campbell, CFL defensive tackle for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1965 | Debbye Turner, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, beauty queen, Miss America 1990, veterinarian, talk show host, CBS News reporter |
| 1965 | Katrina McClain, Charleston, South Carolina, basketball forward, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1964 | Kim Richards, LI, New York, actress, Nanny and Professor, James at 15 |
| 1964 | Trisha Yearwood, Monticello Georgia, country singer, Sweetest Gift |
| 1963 | Alessandra Martines, Italian entertainer |
| 1963 | Jarvis Cocker, English Musician |
| 1962 | Randy Myers, Vancouver, Washington, pitcher, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles |
| 1962 | Tonja Walker, Huntington, West Virginia, actress, Alex-One Life to Live |
| 1960 | Julianna Young, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, playmate, Nov, 1993 |
| 1958 | Kevin Hooks, Philadelphia, actor, Sounder, Aaron Loves Angela |
| 1957 | Richard M Linnehan, Lowell Massachusetts, astronaut, STS-78, sk: 90 |
| 1956 | Rex Smith, born in Jacksonville, Florida, actor, Solid Gold, Pirates of Penzance |
| 1952 | Rhys Chatham, born in New York City, New York, composer, trumpet player, guitarist, minimalist, avant garde music |
| 1952 | Scott Colomby, Brooklyn, actor, Stash-Sons and Daughters, Szysznyk |
| 1950 | Joan Lunden, Fair Oaks California, news host, Good Morning America |
| 1950 | Rudy Ramos, Lawton Oklahoma, actor, Wind-High Chaparral |
| 1949 | Twiggy Lawson, Leslie Hornby, England, model/actress, Boyfriend, W |
| 1948 | Jeremy Irons, England, actor, French Lieutenant's Woman |
| 1948 | Michael Cooper, born in San Francisco, California, sodomizer, FBI Most Wanted List |
| 1948 | Nadezhda Tkachenko, U.S.S.R., pentathlete, 1980 Olympics gold |
| 1947 | Larry Brown, NFL runningback, 3rd to rush over 4,000 yards |
| 1947 | Steve Bartlett, born in Los Angeles, California, Representative-R-Texas 1983 - 1991 |
| 1947 | Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author, Don't Bite the Sun |
| 1946 | Hans van de Berg, actor, Ciske the Rat |
| 1946 | John Coghlan, London, rock drummer, Status Quo |
| 1945 | Benoat Lamy, Belgian director |
| 1945 | David Bromberg, Philadelphia, musician, Demon in Disguise |
| 1945 | Freda Payne, born in Detroit, Michigan, vocalist, Band of Gold |
| 1945 | Jane Blalock, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, LPGA golfer 1972 Colgate-Dinah Shore |
| 1945 | Lee Dorman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, rock bassist, Iron Butterfly |
| 1945 | Randolph Mantooth, Sacramento California, actor, Emergency, Loving |
| 1944 | Ard Schenk, 500, 1500, 5000k speed skater, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1943 | Chris Joyce, photographer |
| 1943 | Christi Haas, Austria, downhill skier 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1943 | Joe Leonard Morgan, 2nd baseman, Reds, commentator, ESPN |
| 1943 | Joe Morgan, American Athlete |
| 1941 | "Mama" Cass Elliot, born in Baltimore, Maryland, rock vocalist, Mamas and The Papas |
| 1941 | Jim Fox, England, pentathlete, Olympics-1972 |
| 1940 | Bill Medley, Santa Ana Cal, rocker, Righteous Bros-Up Where We Belong |
| 1940 | Paul Williams, born in Omaha, Nebraska, singer/composer/actor, Planet of the Apes |
| 1940 | Sylvia Tyson, born in Chatham, Canada, guitarist, singer, songwriter, sang with Ian Tyson in folk duo Ian and Sylvia in the 1960's |
| 1938 | Zygmunt Krauze, born in Poland, composer, pianist, contemporary classical music genre, professor, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy |
| 1936 | Al Oerter, born in New York City, American athlete, four-time, consecutive, Olympic Champion in the discus throw |
| 1935 | Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader |
| 1935 | Nick Massi, Newark, New Jersey, rocker, 4 Seasons-Sherry |
| 1935 | Robert Kruger, Sen-D Texas |
| 1935 | Thomas W. Ewing, born in Atlanta, Illinois, Representative-R-Illinois 1991 - 2001 |
| 1934 | Brian Epstein, rock manager, Beatles |
| 1933 | David McCallum, Glasgow Scot, actor, Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE |
| 1932 | Mike Royko, born in Chicago, journalist, Symphony Daily News, author, Boss |
| 1931 | Brook Benton, Camden, South Carolina, vocalist, Frankie and Johnny |
| 1931 | Ray Danton, New York City, actor and director, Longest Day, Psychic Killer |
| 1930 | Muhal Richard Abrams, composer |
| 1930 | Rosemary Harris, Ashby Suffolk England, actress, Holocaust |
| 1929 | 10th duke of Richmond, English large landowner/art collector |
| 1929 | Marge Roukema, born in Newark, New Jersey, Representative-R-New Jersey 1981 - 2003 |
| 1929 | Timothy Colman, English manufacturer/multi-millionaire, Reckitt and Colman |
| 1928 | Adam West, born in Walla Walla Wash, actor, Batman, Last Precinct |
| 1928 | William Hickey, actor, Prizzi's Honor |
| 1926 | Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| 1926 | Edwin "Duke" Snider, Brooklyn Dodger centerfielder, 406 home runs |
| 1926 | Lurieen Wallace, Gov-D-Ala, 1966-68 |
| 1926 | Pierre Janssen, art museum director |
| 1926 | Duke Snider, American Athlete |
| 1926 | James Lipton, American Educator |
| 1924 | Ernest Tomlinson, composer |
| 1922 | Catherine Mary Hall, nurse |
| 1922 | Damon [Francis] Knight, U.S., sci-fi author, CV, Beyond the Barrier |
| 1922 | Dana Zatopek, born in Czechoslovakia, javelin thrower 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1922 | Emil Zatopek, born in Czechoslovakia, 5K/10K/marathon 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1922 | Damon Knight, American Writer |
| 1921 | Billy Ward, U.S. songwriter/singer/pianist/arranger, Dominoes |
| 1921 | Paulo Freire, born in Recife, Brazil, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phenomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' |
| 1920 | Karen Khachiturian, composer |
| 1920 | Roger Angell, American Writer |
| 1919 | Blanche Thebom, Monessen Penn, mezzo-soprano, Amneris-Aida |
| 1919 | Harry Shorto, linguist |
| 1917 | Joe Pasternak, Transylvania Hungary, producer, Spinout, Big City |
| 1914 | Frances Farmer, born in Seattle, Washington, actress, Son of Fury, Among the Living |
| 1914 | Rogers Morton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1968 - 1975 |
| 1912 | Emma "Nono" Batenburg, actress, Noah |
| 1912 | Clifton Daniel, American Editor |
| 1911 | Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer |
| 1911 | William Golding, England, novelist, Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983 |
| 1910 | Margaret Lindsay, Dubuque Iowa, actress, Take a Guess |
| 1908 | Mika Waltari, novelist, Egyptian |
| 1907 | Lewis F Powell, Jr., Virginia, Supreme Court justice, 1972-87 |
| 1907 | Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judge |
| 1906 | Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer |
| 1906 | Massimo Freccia, composer |
| 1905 | Betty Garde, Philadelphia, actress, Aggie-Real McCoys |
| 1905 | James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser |
| 1905 | Leon Jaworski, American Public Servant |
| 1904 | Bergen Evans, Ohio, English professor, $64,000 Question |
| 1904 | Karen Aabye, Danish author, Less bedstemor there jomfru |
| 1902 | James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis |
| 1902 | Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian |
| 1901 | Joseph Pasternak, film producer, Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy |
| 1900 | Solomon Pimsleur, composer |
| 1898 | Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy, 1964-71 |
| 1894 | Cornelis Rijnsdorp, writer, Kings Children |
| 1889 | Ernest Truex, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Pop-Pete and Gladys, Mr. Peepers |
| 1889 | Ricardo Cortez, Jack Krantz, Vienna Austria, actor/dir, Blackmail |
| 1889 | Sarah Delany, author/teacher |
| 1888 | Porter Hall, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Half-Breed, Double Indenity |
| 1882 | Paul-Marie Masson, composer |
| 1871 | Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert, examined syphilis |
| 1867 | Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator, Grimm's Fairy Tales |
| 1862 | Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County, Iowa, actress, Son of Dracula |
| 1839 | George Cadbury, American Businessman |
| 1837 | Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer |
| 1825 | Henry Charles Lea, American Historian |
| 1824 | Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer |
| 1822 | Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1811 | Orson Pratt, American Theologian |
| 1802 | Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary, 1849 |
| 1800 | William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy |
| 1770 | Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker |
| 1769 | Joseph Comb, missionary to Molukkas |
| 1737 | Charles Carroll, signed Declaration of Independence |
| 1730 | Augustin Pajou, French, court, sculptor, Psyche abandonnee |
| 1705 | Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/band master |
| 1655 | Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer |
| 1551 | Henry III, duke of Anjou/king of Poland/France, 1573 - 1589 |
| 866 | Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor, 886-912, writer, Problematica |
| 86 | Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman emperor, 138-161 |
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