| 1992 | Sean Rademaker, actor, Kirkland Harrison-Another World |
| 1988 | Michael Tylo, son of U.S. actor/actress Michael Tylo/Deborah Hunter |
| 1982 | Kelly Clarkson, born in Fort Worth, Texas, singer, songwriter, winner of first season of 'American Idol' television series, hits include, 'Thankful', 'Because of You' |
| 1977 | Ryan Mitchell, born in Port Augusta SA Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Shane McDermott, actor, Garrett Booth-Swan's Crossing |
| 1976 | Sonya Jeyaseelan, born in Newestminster BC, tennis star, 1995 Futures Fla |
| 1975 | Justin Boocock, born in Launceston, Australia, canoeist 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Michael Stewart, NBA center for the Sacramento Kings |
| 1974 | Jared Tomich, defensive end for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1974 | Marc Collins, NFL punter for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1974 | Toine Rorije, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles |
| 1974 | Derek Luke, American Actor |
| 1973 | Eric Snow, NBA guard, Philadelphia 76ers, Seattle Supersonics |
| 1973 | Jamie Brown, NFL tackle for the Denver Broncos |
| 1973 | Mark Babic, Australian soccer defender, Olyroos, 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Melissa Short, born in Kaaawa, Hawaii, Miss America, Hawaii-Top 10-1997 |
| 1973 | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer, prodigy at 16, Indian captain at 23 |
| 1973 | Ville Peltonen, hockey forward, Team Finland, Bronze Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1973 | Lee Westwood, born in Workshop, England, professional golfer, top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings between 1998 - 2001 |
| 1972 | Chipper Jones, born in Deland, Florida, infielder, Atlanta Braves |
| 1972 | Jamie Brown, NFL tackle, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1972 | Nicolas Gill, born in Montreal, Quebec, 86kg judoka, Olympics-bronze-92, 96 |
| 1971 | Jeff Brohm, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1971 | Ken Klee, born in Indianapolis, NHL defenseman for the Washington Capitals |
| 1971 | Kumara Dharmasena, cricketer, Sri Lankan off-spinner |
| 1971 | Phil Rogers, born in Adelaide, Australia, 100m breaststroker, Bronze Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Damien Fleming, Australia cricket pace bowler, hat-trick on Test debut |
| 1970 | Emanuela Zardo, born in Switzerland, tennis star |
| 1968 | Mark Vanderloo, Waddenveen, Netherlands, model |
| 1968 | Todd Jones, born in Marietta, Georgia, pitcher for the Houston Astros |
| 1968 | Tracy Gravely, CFL linebacker, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1967 | Dino Radja, NBA forward for the Boston Celtics |
| 1967 | Leslie M Marx, born in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, fencer-epee 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Pam[ela] Bustin, born in Somerset, Massachusetts, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer, Indian off-spinner 1989 |
| 1966 | Pascale Paradis-Mangon, born in France, tennis star |
| 1966 | Theo Adams, WLAF tackle for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1965 | Mike Blowers, born in Wurlzburg, Germany, infielder, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1963 | Billy Gould, born in Los Angeles, California, rock bassist, Faith No More |
| 1963 | Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker, Armored Saint-Aftermath |
| 1962 | Stuart Pearce, English Coach |
| 1960 | Paula Yates, born in London, England, Mrs. Bob Geldof/rocker/writer, Blondes |
| 1959 | Yvonne D. Cagle, born in West Point, New York, MD/astronaut |
| 1958 | Fernando Luna, born in Cuidad Real, Spain, tennis player, highest singles ATP-ranking was 33rd in 1984 |
| 1957 | Tricia Lange, born in Hollywood, California, playmate, June, 1984 |
| 1955 | Jack Kingston, born in Bryan, Texas, Representative-R-Georgia 1993 - |
| 1955 | Michael O'Keefe, born in New Jersey, actor, Caddyshack, Ironweed, Slugger's Wife |
| 1954 | Captain Sensible, born in Balham, London, rocker, musician, songwriter, bassist, member of Johnny Moped band, Oasis, co-founded punk rock band The Damned, wore signature red beret |
| 1954 | Jack Blades, rock bassist, Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger |
| 1954 | Vince Ferragamo, NFL/CFL quarterback, Los Angeles Rams, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1953 | Eric Bogosian, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, actor, Talk Radio |
| 1953 | John P. Hiler, born in Chicago, Illinois, Representative-R-Indiana 1981 - 1991 |
| 1953 | Porter Carroll, Jr., drummer, Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover |
| 1952 | Jean Paul Gaultier, born in Arceuil, France, fashion designer, host of television series, 'Eurotrash', clothing line for Hermes |
| 1951 | Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator |
| 1948 | Benzion Freshwater, English multi-millionaire |
| 1948 | Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner, Olympics gold 72 |
| 1948 | Paul Cellucci, American Politician |
| 1947 | Glenn Cornick, rock bassist, Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick |
| 1947 | Hubert Ann Kelly, U.S. singer, Hues Corporation/Rock the boat |
| 1946 | Bruce Stuart Saylor, composer |
| 1945 | Doug Clifford, rock drummer, Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary |
| 1945 | Robert Knight, born in Franklin, Tennessee, singer, rocker, debuted with the Paramounts, recorded hit, signature song, Everlasting Love |
| 1944 | [Bernard] St. Clair Lee [Calhoun], U.S. singer, Rock the Boat |
| 1943 | Richard Sterban, Camden, New Jersey, country singer, Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira |
| 1942 | Barbra Streisand, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer and actress |
| 1942 | Richard M. Daley, mayor-D-Chicago |
| 1942 | Valeri Abramovich Voloshin, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1941 | John Williams, born in Melbourne, Australia, guitarist, Academy Award |
| 1940 | David Larter, cricketer, two-metre tall England pace bowler |
| 1940 | Sue Grafton, American Novelist |
| 1939 | Ernst Zundel, German Activist |
| 1937 | Joe Henderson, American Musician |
| 1936 | Jill Ireland, born in London, actress, Breakout, Assassination, Chino |
| 1935 | Louis Keith, born in Chicago, physician, expert on multiple-births |
| 1934 | John Barbour, born in Toronto, TV host, Real People |
| 1934 | Shirley MacLaine, born in Richmond, Virginia, actress/mystic, Irma la Douce |
| 1933 | Freddie Scott, U.S. songwriter/singer, Cry to Me |
| 1932 | Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor, Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje |
| 1931 | Bridget Riley, British painter, op-art |
| 1930 | Conn Findlay, born in Stockton, California, coxswain, Olympics - 2 gold/bronze - 1956, 1964, 1976 |
| 1930 | Richard Donner, American Director |
| 1928 | Gustav Krivinka, composer |
| 1927 | Josy Barthel, born in Luxembourg, 1500m runner 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1927 | Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer |
| 1927 | Patrick Bowles, writer/translator |
| 1924 | Marilyn Erskine, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Fran-Tom Ewell Show |
| 1924 | Yehoshua Lakner, composer |
| 1924 | Clement Freud, British Writer |
| 1922 | J. D. Cannon, born in Salmon, Idaho, actor, McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory |
| 1921 | Laci Boldemann, composer |
| 1917 | Len Creed, bookmaker |
| 1916 | Stanley Kauffmann, born in New York City, playwright, Red Handkerchief Man |
| 1914 | Bernard Caulfield, judge |
| 1914 | Justin Wilson, cajun chef, Wise Potato Chips |
| 1914 | Ruth White, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, actress, Up the Down Staircase |
| 1911 | Jack E. Leonard, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian, Disorderly Orderly |
| 1911 | Karl O. Schiller, German economist, Minister of Economics |
| 1911 | Robert Joseph Kane, born in Ithaca, New York, President of U.S. Olympic Commission, 1976 |
| 1911 | Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer |
| 1909 | Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist, West Germany |
| 1909 | Irven Spence, animator |
| 1909 | Willie Herenton, American Politician |
| 1908 | Heddy Bouber, Hermanus G Blom, actor, Bluejackets |
| 1908 | George Oppen, American Poet |
| 1907 | Vaclav Trojan, composer |
| 1905 | Robert Penn Warren, 1st U.S. poet laureate, All the King's Men |
| 1904 | Willem De Kooning, born in Rotterdam Netherland, artist, North Atlantic Light |
| 1903 | Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, founder, Spanish Falange |
| 1903 | Mike Michalske, NFL guard, New York Yankees, Green Bay Packers |
| 1903 | Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist, Black Byzantium |
| 1900 | Elizabeth Goudge, English Writer |
| 1897 | Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist, or 1797 |
| 1897 | Gyorgy Kosa, composer |
| 1897 | Benjamin Whorf, American |
| 1895 | S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner |
| 1893 | Robert Harron, born in New York City, actor, Birth of a Nation, Intolerance |
| 1892 | Jack Hulbert, born in Ely, England, actor, Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack |
| 1889 | [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of airplane manufacturing, 1942 - 1945 |
| 1886 | Kurt Pinthus, writer |
| 1886 | R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man, died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108 |
| 1877 | Charles Cuvillier, composer |
| 1875 | Jeno Huszka, composer |
| 1874 | John Russell Pope, U.S., architect, Jefferson Memorial |
| 1874 | Willem E. Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist |
| 1873 | Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president |
| 1867 | Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American, 113 y 273 d at death |
| 1864 | George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen, PTT, Dutch Minister of War, 1918-20 |
| 1862 | A. C. Benson, British Author |
| 1856 | Henri POBJ Petain, French marshal, Verdun/Vichy regime |
| 1851 | Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer, Ismael, Grito de Gloria |
| 1849 | Joseph S. Gallieni, general, Battle of Marne, military governor, Paris |
| 1845 | Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919 |
| 1837 | Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, die graue Eminenz |
| 1836 | Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist |
| 1829 | George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1828 | Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1824 | Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger |
| 1822 | Erastus Barnard Tyler, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1815 | Anthony Trollope, born in England, novelist/poet, Barchester Towers |
| 1815 | James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1814 | Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire |
| 1814 | Vincente F. Lopez, Argentina historian, La Novia del Hereje |
| 1807 | Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1804 | Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy |
| 1796 | K L Immermann, writer |
| 1791 | Nikolaj A. Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter, Account about Holland |
| 1773 | Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director |
| 1769 | Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington |
| 1766 | Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, Farmer's Almanac |
| 1750 | Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician |
| 1743 | Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor, power loom |
| 1742 | Roman Hoffstetter, composer |
| 1721 | Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised |
| 1706 | Giovanni Battista Martini, composer |
| 1670 | Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer |
| 1660 | Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver |
| 1620 | John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography |
| 1594 | Benedikt Lechler, composer |
| 1538 | Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer |
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