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1975 Vitaliy Yeremeyev, hockey goalie, Team Kazkhstan 1998
1974 Doris Glenn Easterly, Richmond, Virginia, diver 1996 Olympics
1973 Grant McDonald, Australian baseball outfielder 1996 Olympics
1973 Michelle Tolson, Manchester, New Hampshire, Miss America - New Hampshire 1997
1973 Trick Daddy, born in Miami, Florida, rapper, popular hits 'Let's Go', 'Shut Up', 'Thugs are Us'
1971 Eric Montross, NBA center, Detroit Pistons
1971 Marcel Boudesteyn, soccer player, Excelsior/FC Groningen
1971 Osamu Nishimura, wrestler, NJPW
1971 Taunya Harris, Miss USA-New Mexico 1997
1971 Willie Greene, Milledgville Georgia, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds
1970 Brian Wells, Carmel California, pairs skater, & Lyons-1995 Midwest champ
1970 Ani Difranco, American Musician
1969 Jeff Cirillo, born in Pasadena, California, infielder for the Milwaukee Brewers
1967 Harry Connick, Jr., New Orleans Louisiana, singer, We Are in Love
1966 Doug Widell, NFL guard, Detroit Lions
1966 Pete Harnisch, Commack, New York, pitcher for the New York Mets
1965 Ian Leggatt, Cambridge Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 Canadian Tour
1965 Mark Woodforde, Adelaide Australia, tennis star, 1993 Wimbledon mixed
1964 Diane Dixon, born in Brooklyn, New York, 4x400m runner 1988 Olympics silver
1964 Leon Meijs, soccer player, Willem II
1963 Gabriele Reinsch, born in East Germany, discus thrower, world record 1988
1962 Jack Warren Pierce, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, hurdler
1961 Elizabeth Pena, Havana Cuba, actress, La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder
1961 Phyllis Hines, born in Nashville, Tennessee, cyclist 1996 Olympics
1961 William C McCool, born in San Diego, California, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut
1960 John Rocca, English funk singer, Southern Freeze
1959 Heather Drew, born in St. Louis, Missouri, LPGA golfer, 1987 Henredon Classic-5th
1959 Jason Alexander, Greenspan, Newark, New Jersey, actor, George-Seinfeld
1958 Larry Hogan Mize, Augusta Georgia, PGA golfer, 1987 Masters
1958 Danielle Dax, English Musician
1957 Sylvie Garant, Montmagny Quebec, playmate, Nov, 1979
1957 Tony Fossas, Cuba, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
1956 June Forester, Chattanooga, Tennessee, country singer, Forester Sister-Men
1956 Lili Carati, Varese Italy, Miss Italy, 1975, actress, Alcove
1956 Maren Jensen, Arcadia California, actress, Athena-Battlestar Galactica
1955 Patti Weaver, West Virginia, actress, Days of our Life, Gina-Young and Restless
1951 Ron Klink, born in Canton, Ohio, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1993 - 2001
1949 Bruce Springsteen, born in Asbury, New Jersey, rock musician, 'Born in the USA'
1949 Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist
1948 Rob van Koningsbruggen, sculptor
1947 Don Grolnick, jazz musician
1947 Mary Kay Place, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress/country singer, Mary Hartman!
1945 Paul Petersen, born in Glendale California, actor, Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show
1945 Ronald Bushy, Washington D.C., rock drummer, Iron Butterfly
1944 Loren J. Shriver, Iowa, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46
1943 Bob Clement, born in Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1988 - 2003
1943 Julio Iglesias, Spain, singer, Of All the Girls I Loved Before
1943 Walter Scott, rock vocalist, Whispers
1943 Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer
1940 Tim Rose, born in Washington, D.C., born Timothy Alan Patrick Rose, singer, songwriter, guitarist, voice compared to Ray Charles, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker
1939 Roy Buchanan, Ozark, Arkansas, rocker
1938 Clifford Ann Creed, LPGA golfer
1938 Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress, Bloodline, Death Watch
1936 Sylvain Saudan, skiier, 60 degrees descent
1935 Pierre Marietan, composer
1934 Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer, Hour of the Lynx
1931 Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter
1930 Colin Blakely, Bangor N Ireland, actor, Shattered, Equus, King Lear
1930 Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin, cosmonaut, Soyuyz 7, 10, 11 backup
1930 Ray Charles, Albany, Georgia, singer/pianist, Georgia
1929 Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster
1928 Robert Helps, composer
1926 John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist, Round Midnight
1925 Barry Linehan, actor, Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft
1922 Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator
1920 Alexander Arutiunian, composer
1920 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon
1920 Mickey Rooney, American Actor
1917 Imry Nemeth, Hungary, hammer thrower 1948 Olympics gold
1915 Finn Arnestad, composer
1915 Ian Dawson-Shepherd, campaigner
1914 Norman Cazden, composer
1913 Alexey Davidovich Machavariani, composer
1913 Stanley Kramer, Argentinian Director
1910 Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer, Murder in the Oval Office
1910 Soulima Stravinsky, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Russian pianist, Igor's son
1909 Marianne Straub, weaver
1907 Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68
1906 Willard F McMurry, musician
1905 Jeno Kenessey, composer
1904 Meyer Schapiro, art historian
1904 Wallace "Scotty" Scott, rock vocalist, Whispers
1901 Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet, Nobel 1984
1900 Louise Nevelson, U.S., sculptor, Sky Cathedral
1899 Louise Nevelson, sculptor
1899 Marcel Dalio, Israel Blauschild, Paris, France, actor, China Gate
1899 William Levi Dawson, composer
1899 Tom C. Clark, American Politician
1897 Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter, surrealist
1897 Walter Pidgeon, New Brunswick Can, actor, Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie
1894 Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist, Edda and Thora
1890 Arthur Walter Kramer, composer
1890 Friedrich von Paul, German General-Field Marshal, Netherlands
1889 Walter Lippmann, New York City, journalist/political writer, Men of Dystany
1888 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist, Die Oden Salomons
1880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949
1871 Frantisek Kupka, Czechoslovakian writer
1870 John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
1866 Edouard Combe, composer
1865 Marie-Clementine"Suzanne" Valadon, French acrobat/model
1865 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist
1863 Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist, bacteria plague
1863 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
1861 Edmond H H Allenby, English Field Marshal/high director, Egypt
1856 William Archer, Scotland, writer, Green Goddess
1854 Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch engineer and Governor of Suriname, 1902 - 1905
1853 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar
1852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st U.S. surgical school
1849 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer
1842 Karl Munzinger, composer
1838 Martin Woodhull Victoria Chaflin, U.S., feminist/reformer, Woodhull
1838 Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love
1820 Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers
1817 Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer
1816 Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC, Union
1816 Julius White, Major General Union volunteers
1805 Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Massachusetts, numismatist
1804 David Van de Kellen, coin engraver
1800 William H McGuffey, educator, McGuffey Readers
1791 Johann F Encke, German astronomer, Encke Comet
1791 Karl T Korner, German poet, Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt
1782 Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace
1745 John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter, Gov/Rep-Tn
1712 Ferdinand VI, the wise, King of Spain, 1746-59
1703 Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
1684 Johann Theodor Romhild, composer
1642 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer
1641 Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, theologist, against jansenisme
1605 Daniel von Czepko, German poet
1596 Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher
1591 Michael Lohr, composer
1555 Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange
1215 Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman
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