| 1990 | Jeremy Snider, U.S. actor, Eric Jr-Bold and Beautiful |
| 1981 | Elize Du Toit, British Actress |
| 1973 | Jenny Whittle, Australian basketball center 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1973 | Tina Yothers, actress, Family Ties |
| 1973 | Alexandra Kerry, American Actress |
| 1972 | Cari Shayne, Penn, actress, Karen Cates-General Hospital |
| 1972 | Dirk Copeland, born in Los Angeles, California, pursuit cyclist, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Jimmy Haynes, born in La Grange, Georgia, pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles |
| 1972 | Tom Carter, NFL cornerback for the Washington Redskins |
| 1971 | Carlester Crumpler, NFL tight end for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1971 | Kim Maher, Saigon Vietnam, U.S. softball infielder, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1970 | Brad Hopkins, NFL tackle for the Houston Oilers |
| 1970 | Lori Harrigan, born in Anaheim, California, softball pitcher, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1970 | Michael Potts, Langdale AL, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1970 | Willie Clay, NFL safety, Detroit Lions |
| 1969 | Dweezil Zappa, born in Hollywood, California, rock guitarist/son of Frank/VJ, MTV |
| 1969 | Maurice Miller, CFL linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1968 | Dennis Scott, NBA forward, Dallas Mavericks |
| 1968 | Yuki Ishikawa, wrestler, NJPW |
| 1967 | Michele Ebadi, born in Omaha, Nebraska, Miss Nebraska-America 1991 |
| 1967 | Rein van Duynhoven, soccer player, Helmond Sport, MVV |
| 1966 | Simone Jacobs, England, 4X100m relayer 1984 Olympics bronze |
| 1965 | Barbara Lufthansa Herzog, born during Lufthansa Frankfurt-NY flight |
| 1965 | Christopher Nolan, born in Ireland, handicapped writer, Under Eye of Clock |
| 1965 | Tony Martin, NFL wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1964 | Kristian Alfonso, born in Brockton, Massachusetts, actress, Days of Lives, Falcon Crest |
| 1963 | Brandon Krovoza, born in Newport Beach, California, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1963 | Dave Brantley, born in Florence, Alabama, pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1963 | John Elliot, Bristol CT, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Miss Gulf Coast |
| 1963 | Tim McKyer, NFL defensive back, Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32 |
| 1962 | Beth Underhill, born in Guelph, Ontario, equestrian jumper, Olympics-26-92, 96 |
| 1960 | Rob Stull, born in Damascus, Maryland, U.S. pentathlete 1992 Olympics |
| 1960 | Willie Gault, bob sledder/NFL receiver, Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Raiders |
| 1959 | Tom Pernice, Jr., born in Kansas City, Missouri, Nike golfer, 1989 Centel Classic-4th |
| 1956 | Sandra Guiboard, born in U.S. AFB West Germany, actress, Donna-One Life to Live |
| 1955 | Bruno Zarrillo, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 |
| 1954 | Hans-Jurgen Gerhardt, born in East Germany, bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold |
| 1953 | Paulie Carmen, born in Champaign, Illinois, rock vocalist |
| 1952 | Graham Salmon, blind runner, fastest 100m by a blind man |
| 1950 | Cathy Guisewite, U.S. cartoonist, Cathy |
| 1950 | Kathy Cronkite, actress, Annie-Hizzonner |
| 1949 | David "Clem" Clempson, rocker, Humble Pie |
| 1946 | Buddy Miles, born in Omaha, Nebraska, George Allen Miles, Jr., drummer, member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, played with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon |
| 1946 | Dennis Dugan, born in Wheaton, Illinois, actor and director, Can't Buy Me Love, Howling |
| 1946 | Freddie Mercury, [Bulsara], British vocalist, Queen-We are Champions |
| 1946 | Loudon Wainwright III, vocalist, April Fool's Day Morn |
| 1945 | Al Stewart, born in Glasgow, Scotland, rocker, Year of the Cat |
| 1944 | Dario Bellezza, poet |
| 1944 | Rod Arrants, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Vamping, Ape, Young and Restless |
| 1943 | Joe "Speedo" Frazier, rocker, Impalas |
| 1943 | Steve Miller, Milwaukee, rocker |
| 1942 | Eduardo Mata, Mexico City Mexico, conductor, Improvisaciones |
| 1942 | Werner Herzog, director, Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck |
| 1940 | Lewis Spratlan, composer |
| 1940 | Raquel Welch, born in Chicago, Illinois, Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles |
| 1939 | George Lazenby, born in Goulburn, Australia, actor, OHMSS-James Bond |
| 1939 | John Stewart, born in San Diego, California, rocker, Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind |
| 1937 | William Devane, born in Albany, New York, actor, Family Plot, Missles of October |
| 1936 | Alcee Hastings, born in Altamonte Springs, Florida, Representative-D-Florida, 1993 - |
| 1936 | Bill Mazeroski, MLB 2nd baseman, won 1960 World Series for Pitts |
| 1936 | Cornelius Boyson, bassist |
| 1936 | John Danforth, born in Missouri, Senator-R-Missouri 1977 - 1995 |
| 1935 | Helen Gifford, composer |
| 1935 | Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1935 | Werner Erhard, Philadelphia, founded EST |
| 1934 | Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress, West Side Story |
| 1933 | Vincent McDermott, composer |
| 1929 | Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Vostok III, Soyuz 9 |
| 1929 | Bob Newhart, born in Oak Park, Illinois, comedian, Bob Newhart Show, Newhart |
| 1927 | Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve chairman |
| 1927 | Paul A. Volcker, American Economist |
| 1925 | Jos Vandeloo, Flemish journalist/playwright, Cola Drinkers |
| 1925 | Justin Kaplan, born in New York, New York, writer, editor, Pulitzer-prize winner and National Book Award-winner for biography on Mark Twain, edited Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition |
| 1924 | Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar, composer |
| 1923 | Arthur C Nielsen, market researcher, TV's Nielsen's Ratings |
| 1921 | Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system |
| 1920 | Fons Rademakers, director, Assault, actor, Daughter of Darkness |
| 1920 | Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author, Anna and her Father |
| 1920 | Peter Racine Fricker, British composer |
| 1917 | Jack Buetel, born in Dallas, Texas, actress, Outlaw, Half Breed |
| 1914 | Gail Kubik, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, composer, Gerald McBoing Boing |
| 1914 | Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet, Defense of Violeta Parra |
| 1913 | Connie Stuart, [Cornelia van Meygard], Dutch cabaret performer |
| 1912 | John Cage, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O |
| 1908 | Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer |
| 1907 | Henri Storck, Flemish poet, Cantico do Lomem, Olympics Bichos |
| 1907 | Sunnyland Albert Luandrew Slim, blues pianist |
| 1906 | Peter Mieg, composer |
| 1906 | Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet, Semj Dnej Nedeli |
| 1905 | Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer, Arrow in Blue |
| 1902 | Darryl F Zanuck, film magnate/president, 20th Century Fox |
| 1901 | Florence Elridge, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Long Days Journey into the Night |
| 1901 | Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer |
| 1898 | Ebbe Hamerik, composer |
| 1897 | Doris Kenyon, Syracuse, New York, silent screen actress, Alexander Hamilton |
| 1897 | Luella Gear, New York City, actress, Joe and Mabel |
| 1897 | Morris Carnovsky, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dead Reckoning |
| 1897 | Arthur C. Nielsen, American Businessman |
| 1892 | Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist, Violinist Notebook 1933 |
| 1890 | Albert H Edelkoort, theologist, Zondebesef |
| 1888 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president, India, philosopher |
| 1885 | John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor, National monument on the Dam |
| 1883 | Otto E Deutsch, Austrian musicologist, Schubert-Brevier |
| 1881 | Otto Bauer, Austrian social-democrat |
| 1877 | O. W. Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher |
| 1875 | Napoleon "Larry" Lajoie, Rhode Island, hall of fame shortstop, .426 in 1901 |
| 1867 | Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer |
| 1867 | Amy Marcy Beach, American Musician |
| 1857 | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist |
| 1856 | Jacobus C J Hermans, actor, 7th Command |
| 1852 | Gustav Enestrom, Swedish mathematician |
| 1848 | Manuel Giro, composer |
| 1847 | Jesse James, Missouri, bank/train robber, son of a clergyman |
| 1842 | Louis F J Bouwmeester, Dutch actor, Shakespeare |
| 1817 | Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet and writer |
| 1815 | Carl Wilhelm, composer |
| 1815 | Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General Confederate Army, died in 1902 |
| 1792 | Alexis-Charles-Maximilien Thibault, composer |
| 1791 | Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer, Golt Und Die Natur |
| 1774 | Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist |
| 1771 | Charles L J, archduke of Austria/Gov, Austria Netherland |
| 1767 | August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic |
| 1750 | Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Scots poems |
| 1737 | Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer |
| 1735 | Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach, English Bach |
| 1734 | Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer |
| 1733 | Christoph Martin Wieland, German Poet |
| 1694 | Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer |
| 1688 | Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet, Fight of Kings and Mice |
| 1666 | Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter |
| 1644 | Gillis Schey, Dutch Admiral, battle at Lowestoft |
| 1638 | Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France, 1643-1715, |
| 1600 | Loreto Vittori, composer |
| 1568 | Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, Citt del sole |
| 1568 | Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher |
| 1319 | Pedro IV, king of Aragon |
| 1187 | Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France, 1223-26 |
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