| 1978 | Laura Nicholls, Kitchener Ontario, 50m swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Chauncey Billups, NBA guard for the Boston Celtics |
| 1974 | Brigette Wilson, actress, Mortal Kombat, Billy Madison, Save by Bell |
| 1973 | Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, Gold Beach Oregon, Miss Teen USA 1990 |
| 1973 | Melonie McGarrah, Rogers Arkansas, Miss America-Arkansas 1997 |
| 1973 | Tijani Babangida, soccer player, Roda JC |
| 1973 | Bridgette Wilson, American Actress |
| 1972 | Kevin Mason, CFL quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1972 | Nikole Viola, Miss USA-Louisiana 1997 |
| 1971 | John Lynch, NFL safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1971 | Tony Harrison, WLAF receiver for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1970 | Curtis Buckley, NFL safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1970 | Damon Pieri, NFL safety for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1970 | Doug Pelfrey, NFL kicker for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1970 | Kerri Kendall, born in San Diego, California, playmate, Sep, 1990 |
| 1970 | Shannon Jones, WLAF linebacker for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1970 | Dean Ween, American Musician |
| 1969 | Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress, Christopher Columbus |
| 1969 | David Weathers, Lawrencburg, Tennessee, pitcher, Florida Marlins, New York Yankees |
| 1969 | Hansie Cronje, cricket captain, solid South African batsman |
| 1969 | Michae Wright, WLAF cornerback, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1969 | Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh Actress |
| 1968 | Johan Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands |
| 1968 | Reggie Jefferson, Tallahassee, Florida, 1st baseman, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Seattle, Boston |
| 1968 | Will Smith, actor/rapper, Men In Black, Indepedence Day, Fresh Prince |
| 1967 | Lezlie Lund, Tolna ND, Miss ND-America 1991 |
| 1966 | Elizabeth "Liz" Tchou, Medford, New Jersey, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Todd Philcox, NFL quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1965 | Fresh Prince, Will Smith, rapper, Parents Just Don't Understand |
| 1965 | Scottie Pippen, Hamburg Ak, basket forward, Bulls, Gold Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Scottie Pippen, NBA forward, Chicago Bulls |
| 1964 | Bryan Tooley, Eugene Ore, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1963 | Keely Shaye Smith, correspondent, Unsolved Mysteries |
| 1962 | Rajiv Kulkarni, cricketer, Indian Test pace bowler 1986-87 |
| 1962 | Aida Turturro, American Actress |
| 1961 | Heather Locklear, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Stacy-T J Hooker, Sammy Jo-Dynasty |
| 1961 | Tim Zoehrer, cricketer, Aussie keeper, and occasional WA leggie |
| 1959 | Andy Waller, cricketer, big-hitting Zimbabwe batsman-1992 World Cup |
| 1958 | Michael Madsen, Chicago, actor, Reservoir Dogs, Straight Talk |
| 1957 | Rupert Haselden, journalist/Screenwriter |
| 1955 | Adelmo "Zucchero" Fornaciari, Italian R&B-singer, Senza una Donna |
| 1955 | Steven Severin, British pop bassist, Siouxsie and Banshees-Wild Thing |
| 1952 | Christopher Reeve, New York City, actor, Superman, Somewhere in Time |
| 1952 | Tommy Norden, New York City, actor, Flipper |
| 1952 | Gloria Jean Watkins, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, born Gloria Jean Watkins, author, feminist, focus on race, class, gender, wrote, 'Ain't I a Woman? : Black Women and Feminism' |
| 1951 | Bob McAdoo, NBA forward and center, Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles Lakers |
| 1951 | Burleigh Drummond, rocker, Ambrosia |
| 1951 | Mark Hamill, born in Oakland California, actor, Luke Skywalker-Star Wars |
| 1951 | Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter, Kika, Matador |
| 1949 | Anson Williams, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Potsie-Happy Days |
| 1949 | Inshan Ali, cricketer, big-spinning WI chinaman bowler 1971-77 |
| 1949 | Jerry Costello, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1988 - |
| 1949 | Mimi Kennedy, born in Rochester, New York, actress, Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof |
| 1949 | Burton Richardson, American Entertainer |
| 1949 | Jerry Costello, American Politician |
| 1947 | Cheryl Tiegs, born in Minnesota, model, Sports Illustrated |
| 1947 | John Fiddler, born in England, rock vocalist and guitarist, British Lions |
| 1946 | Bishan Bedi, cricketer, mighty Indian slow left-armer 1966-79 |
| 1946 | Felicity Kendal, Indies/British actress, Shakespeare Wallah |
| 1946 | Gilmer Bryan Morgan, Wewoka, Oklahoma, PGA golfer, 1977 BC Open |
| 1945 | Kathleen Brown, state treasurer, D-Calif, 1991- |
| 1945 | Owen "Onnie" McIntyre, Scotland, guitarist, Average White Band |
| 1945 | Reynold Henry Weidenaar, composer |
| 1945 | Dee Dee Warwick, American Musician |
| 1944 | Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist, Deceptive Cadence |
| 1944 | Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler, WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets |
| 1944 | Michael Douglas, born in New Jersey, actor, Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile |
| 1943 | Gary Alexander, Tennessee, rock vocalist and guitarist, Association |
| 1943 | John Locke, rock keyboardist, Spirit-I Got A Line on You |
| 1943 | Robert Walden, New York City, actor, Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors |
| 1943 | Robert M. Gates, American Politician |
| 1942 | John Taylor, jazz pianist |
| 1942 | Michael Stephen, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Shoreham from 1992 until 1997 |
| 1942 | Peter Petherick, cricketer, New Zealand slow lefty 1976-77, hat-trick on debut |
| 1941 | Vivian Stern, director, Nacros |
| 1940 | Timothy Severin, author/explorer |
| 1939 | David S. Mann, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1993 - 1995 |
| 1939 | Joseph "Jesse" Russell, U.S. singer, Slip Sliding Away |
| 1939 | Leon Britain, vice president, Commission of European Communities |
| 1937 | Michael Gibbs, jazz composer |
| 1936 | Edward Jones, U.K. military rep to NATO |
| 1936 | Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer, Who Killed Teddy Bear |
| 1936 | Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman |
| 1934 | John S Bull, Memphis Tennessee, astronaut |
| 1934 | Struther Arnott, professor, St. Andrew University |
| 1933 | Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, premier of Spain, 1976-81 |
| 1933 | Erik Darling, born in Baltimore, Maryland, rocker, Rooftop Singers |
| 1933 | Ian Tyson, born in British Columbia, Canada, singer, songwriter, guitarist, song 'Four Strong Winds' chosen as greatest Canadian song of all time, in Canada's Country Music Hall of Fame |
| 1932 | Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster |
| 1932 | Daphne Swallow, commandant/director, WRNS |
| 1932 | Glenn Herbert Gould, born in Toronto, Canada, pianist, sued Steinway Piano |
| 1932 | Glenn Gould, Canadian Musician |
| 1932 | Charles Stanley, born in Dry Fork, Virginia, senior pastor, founder of In Touch Ministries, created globally syndicated religious broadcasts, appearing in 500 radio stations, 300 television stations, in 49 languages |
| 1931 | Barbara Walters, born in Boston, Massachusetts, newscaster, Today, 20/20, ABC-TV |
| 1931 | Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer |
| 1929 | John Rutherford, cricketer, one Test for Australia 1956 |
| 1929 | Ronnie Barker, British comedian, 2 Ronnies |
| 1928 | Hendrika G "Tine" de Vries, actress, Seaman's Wife |
| 1927 | Carl Braun, basketball player for the New York Knicks |
| 1927 | Colin Rex Davis, Weybridge England, conductor, New York Met 1967-71 |
| 1926 | Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, actor, God's Little Acre, Green Beret |
| 1926 | John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor, Sam Bolt-Honey West |
| 1926 | Sergei Filatov, U.S.S.R., equestrian dressage 1960 Olympics gold |
| 1925 | Silvana Pampanini, Rome, Italy, actress, Day in Court, Island Sinner |
| 1925 | William Edgar Mitchell, physicist |
| 1924 | Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Academy - UK |
| 1923 | Sam Rivers, American Musician |
| 1922 | John Farr, born in Nottingham, England, Sir John Arnold Farr, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Harborough 1959 - 1992, served with Royal Navy during World War II |
| 1921 | Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet |
| 1921 | Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand, 1975-84, chairman, IMF |
| 1920 | Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace |
| 1918 | Phil Rizzuto, born in Brooklyn, New York, Major League Baseball player, shortstop for the New York Yankees |
| 1916 | Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer |
| 1914 | Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist |
| 1913 | David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner |
| 1911 | Lionel Henry Nowak, composer |
| 1909 | Florizel A Glasspole, governor-general of Jamaica, 1973-91 |
| 1908 | Eugen Suchon, composer |
| 1907 | Jan Felderhof, composer |
| 1907 | Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer, A to Z Map Company |
| 1907 | Robert Bresson, France, director, Pickpocket, Mouchette |
| 1906 | Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St. Petersburg Russia, composer |
| 1906 | Jaroslav Jezek, composer |
| 1906 | Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer |
| 1906 | Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer |
| 1906 | Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer |
| 1906 | Franklin Garrett, American Historian |
| 1905 | Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist, Discovering Jerusalem |
| 1905 | Red Smith, Green Bay Wisconsin, sportscaster/columnist, Fight Talk |
| 1903 | John Everett Allen, U.S. businessman |
| 1903 | Mark Rothko, Marcus Rothkovich, U.S., painter, Green on Blue |
| 1902 | Ernst von Salomon, German writer, Kette Der Tausend Kraniche |
| 1902 | Jeno Takacs, born in Cinfalva, Hungary, composer, studied with Joseph Marx, Paul Weigarten, professor of piano, composition at University of Manila in the Philippines, gave concerts in China, Japan, Hong Kong |
| 1897 | Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat/politician |
| 1897 | Teddy Hart, New York City, actor, 3 Men on a Horse |
| 1897 | William Faulkner, Mississippi, author, Sound and Fury-Nobel 1949 |
| 1896 | Elsa Triolet, writer |
| 1896 | Roberto Gerhard, composer |
| 1896 | Sandro Pertini, president Italy |
| 1889 | George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist |
| 1887 | May Sutton Bundy, U.S., 1st U.S. woman to win Wimbledon, U.S. 1904 |
| 1886 | Jesus Guridi, composer |
| 1886 | John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright |
| 1884 | Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist |
| 1881 | Lu Xun, Chinese Author |
| 1879 | Luis da Costa, composer |
| 1877 | Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president, 1924-28 |
| 1872 | Charles Blake Cochran, impresario |
| 1869 | Rudolf Otto, German Theologian |
| 1866 | Thomas Hunt Morgan, U.S., biologist, Nobel-1933 |
| 1862 | Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer, Variations Symphoniques |
| 1862 | William Morris Hughes, Australian Politician |
| 1858 | Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist |
| 1852 | Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy, 1910-18 |
| 1852 | Gestur Palsson, Iceland writer, Verdandi, Ritsafn |
| 1852 | Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher, Nietzsche Philosophy |
| 1846 | Vladimir Koppen, Russian/German meteorologist |
| 1839 | Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist, Libya |
| 1839 | Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist |
| 1832 | William Le Baron Jenney, U.S., architect/"father of skyscraper" |
| 1830 | Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor |
| 1829 | William Michael Rossetti, civil servant |
| 1823 | Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1822 | Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union |
| 1805 | Henry P. Scholte, Dutch / U.S. vicar and founder, Pella colony in Iowa |
| 1798 | Henri Scheffer, painter |
| 1798 | JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist |
| 1793 | Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet |
| 1785 | George Frederic Pinto, composer |
| 1766 | Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM, 1815-18, 1820-21 |
| 1752 | Carl Stenborg, composer |
| 1744 | Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia, 1786-97 |
| 1741 | Vaclav Pichl, composer |
| 1734 | Louis RE prince de Rohan-Guemene, French archbishop of Straatsburg |
| 1729 | Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist |
| 1725 | Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed and built 1st automobile |
| 1718 | Louis E of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Thick Duke, Austrian duke |
| 1714 | Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer |
| 1683 | Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer, Traite, baptized |
| 1657 | Imre Thokoly, Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule |
| 1644 | Olaus Romer, Denmark, 1st to accurately measured speed of light |
| 1627 | Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, theologist |
| 1612 | Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian |
| 1599 | Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect |
| 1593 | Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller |
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