| 1984 | Taran Noah Smith, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Mark Taylor-Home Improvement |
| 1981 | Rebecca Wilson, born in Queensland, Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Jim Farnum, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Alex Gonzalez, born in Miami, Florida, infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1973 | Joel Davis, guard for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1973 | Walter Nicholas Henry Tongue, born in Auckland New Zealand, 50m/100m swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Emma Caulfield, born in San Diego, California, actress, appeared in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Beverly Hills 90210' |
| 1972 | Damon Watts, NFL center for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1972 | Isaac Davis, NFL guard for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1972 | Katrina Powell, born in Canberra, Australia, field hockey striker 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Edward Fryatt, born in Rochdale, England, Nike golfer, 1994 NCAA West Regional |
| 1971 | Marc Peers, born in Edmonton, Alberta, tornado yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Derek D. Brown, born in Washington D.C., team handball right wing 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Gerald Vaughn, CFL defensive back for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1970 | Harold Bishop, NFL tight end for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1969 | Steve Jackson, NFL cornerback, Houston/Tennessee Oilers |
| 1968 | Don Davey, NFL defensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1968 | Patricia Arquette, born in New York City, actress, Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3 |
| 1967 | Kenneth Charlie Griffith Benjamin, cricketer, WI like his namesake |
| 1966 | Robin Wright Penn, born in Dallas, Texas, actress, Santa Barbara, Princess Bride |
| 1964 | Biz Markie, rocker, Meteor Man, Townsend Television |
| 1964 | Valinda Hilleary, born in Littleton, Colorado, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-9th-1993 |
| 1964 | Lisa Guerrero, American Journalist |
| 1963 | Alec Stewart, cricketer, son of Micky/opening bat Occasional WK |
| 1963 | Erica Terwillegar, born in Nelsonville, New Jersey, lugist |
| 1963 | Julian Lennon, John's son and singer, Too Late for Goodbyes |
| 1963 | Terry Porter, NBA guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1962 | Izzy Stradlin, born in Lafayette, Indiana, guitarist, Guns and Roses |
| 1959 | Franklyn Stephenson, cricketer, great all-rounder |
| 1959 | Martin Weston, born in Worcester, England, athlete, professional cricketer, played for Worcestershire 1979 - 1995 |
| 1955 | John Campbell, harness racer, 3-time winner of Hambletonian |
| 1955 | Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist |
| 1955 | David Wu, American Politician |
| 1954 | Gary Carter, catcher, Montreal Expos, New York Mets |
| 1954 | John Schneider, born in Mount Kisco, New York, actor, Bo-Dukes of Hazzard |
| 1952 | Adam Woods, rock drummer and pianist, Fixx |
| 1949 | Jim Lampley, born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, newscaster, Monday Night Baseball |
| 1948 | Gerald McRaney, born in Collins, Mississippi, actor, Rick-Simon and Simon, Major Dad |
| 1948 | Richard Alan Litchfield, born in Massachusetts, bank robber, FBI most wanted |
| 1947 | Cindy Pickett, born in Norman, Oklahoma, actress, Guiding Light, St. Elsewhere |
| 1947 | Hsiao-hsien Hou, director, Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster |
| 1947 | Steve Howe, born in London, rock guitarist, Asia, Yes-Roundabout |
| 1947 | Tom Delay, born in Laredo, Texas, Representative-R-Texas 1985 - 2006 |
| 1947 | Tom DeLay, American Politician |
| 1947 | Robert Kiyosaki, American Author |
| 1946 | Jim "Catfish" Hunter, major-league pitcher, A's, Yankees |
| 1946 | Stuart Pankin, born in Philadelphia, comedian, Striptease, Congo, Earl-Dinosaurs |
| 1946 | Catfish Hunter, American Athlete |
| 1945 | Ian White, born in South Bristol, United Kingdom, studied law, Member of the European Parliament in Wandsdyke |
| 1944 | Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian |
| 1944 | Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover |
| 1944 | Hywel Bennett, born in South Wales, actor, Family Way, Shelley |
| 1944 | Roger Chapman, rock vocalist, Family-Family Entertainment |
| 1944 | Santiago Jimenez, Jr., U.S. accordionist, El Mero Mero, Viva Seguin |
| 1943 | Carol Lavell, born in Fairfax, Vermont, equestrian dressage, Olympics bronze 1992, 1996 |
| 1943 | J. P. Kavanaugh, racehorse trainer |
| 1943 | Robby Weaver, actor, Stone |
| 1943 | Tony Banks, English politician, Lab |
| 1943 | William Garth Morrison, Chief scout |
| 1942 | Douglas Trumbull, director, Silent Running, Brainstorm |
| 1942 | Eduard Visser, Dutch writer, Fyffes are now called Chiquita |
| 1941 | Peggy Lennon, born in Los Angeles, California, singer, Lennon Sisters |
| 1941 | Vivienne Westwood, English Designer |
| 1940 | John Havlicek, born in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, NBA hall-of-famer for the Boston Celtics |
| 1938 | Barton Keith McLean, composer |
| 1938 | Lory Patrick, born in Beckley, West Virginia, actress, Trina-Tales of Welles Fargo |
| 1938 | Mohammad Farooq, cricketer, Pakistani pace bowler in 7 Tests 1960-65 |
| 1938 | Kofi Annan, born in Ghana, Kofi Atta Annan, diplomat, statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997 - 2007, received 2001 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1937 | Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader |
| 1937 | Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times |
| 1936 | Klaus Lowitsch, born in Berlin, actor, Despair, Marriage of Marla Braun |
| 1935 | Albert Bustamante, born in Asherton, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1985 - 1993 |
| 1935 | Donald Thompsett, cricket umpire |
| 1935 | Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, epidemiologist, Living legacy award-1984 |
| 1933 | Fred Ebb, lyricist, Cabaret |
| 1933 | Jaroslav Smolka, composer |
| 1932 | John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Felony, Jennifer, House of Shadows |
| 1930 | Dorothy Tutin, born in London, actress, Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell |
| 1930 | John Bartholomew Tucker, born in Pennsylvania, TV host, Candid Camera, Treasure Island |
| 1930 | John Reardon, born in New York City, baritone, Falke-Die Fledermaus |
| 1930 | Mary Moore, principal, St. Hilda's College, Oxford |
| 1929 | Jacques Brel, Belgium, singer and actor |
| 1929 | Renzo de Felice, historian |
| 1929 | WIlliam K. Everson, film historian |
| 1929 | Walter Berry, Austria singer and ex husband of Christa Ludwig |
| 1928 | Eric Porter, born in London, England, actor, Antony and Cleopatra, 39 Steps |
| 1928 | John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale |
| 1928 | Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, CEO, NVSH |
| 1928 | Monty Sunshine, jazz bandleader, Gotta Travel On |
| 1925 | Shecky Greene, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian/actor, Love Machine, Combat |
| 1923 | Edward Mulhare, Cork, Ireland, actor, Daniel Gregg-Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
| 1923 | Franco Corelli, born in Anconia, Italy, tenor, Don Jose-Carmen |
| 1921 | Alfie Bass, born in London, England, actor, Moonraker, Are You Being Served |
| 1921 | Betty Ford, 1st lady, 1975-76, and namesake for Betty Ford Clinic |
| 1921 | Virginia O'Brien, born in Los Angeles, California, actress and singer, Gus, Ziegfeld Follies |
| 1920 | Carmen McRae, Clark, U.S. jazz singer/pianist, Dream of Life |
| 1920 | Erik Pausin, born in Austria, figure skating pairs, 1936 Olympics silver |
| 1919 | Ian Smith, born in Zimbabwe, founder, first Prime Minister of Rhodesia |
| 1914 | John Cameron, cricketer, brother of Jimmy WI v-captain 1939 England tour |
| 1913 | H Ernst, bishop, born in Breda, Netherlands |
| 1912 | Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, attacked Heydrich |
| 1912 | Sonja Henie, born in Oslo, Norway, ice skater/actress, Gold Medals 1928, 1932, 1936 Olympics |
| 1911 | Douglas Hyde, socialist and Christian |
| 1911 | Emil Mihai Cioran, writer and aphorist |
| 1911 | Melvin Calvin, U.S. chemist, photosynthesis, Nobel 1961 |
| 1911 | Emile M. Cioran, writer |
| 1910 | George Musso, NFL guard for the Chicago Bears |
| 1910 | Wendell Bill, cricketer, NSW bat 1929-36 Century on debut 1930 |
| 1909 | George Dixon, trumpet and sax |
| 1909 | Olavi Pesonen, composer |
| 1909 | William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist |
| 1908 | Neil Lawson, British high court judge |
| 1907 | Maurice Stacey, chemist |
| 1906 | Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet and writer, Mirror of the Sea |
| 1905 | George Baxter, born in Paris, France, actor, Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged |
| 1905 | Hans Scherfig, Danish marxist and writer, Idealister, Frydenholm |
| 1905 | Helen B M Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer, Side by Side |
| 1904 | John Antill, born in Sydney, Australia, composer, studied under Alfred Hill, played in NSW State Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, famous for ballet suite Corroboree |
| 1904 | John R. Hicks, British economist, Nobel 1972 |
| 1903 | Ilka Chase, born in New York City, actress, Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien |
| 1902 | Arthur Wellard, cricketer, big hitting Somerset and England batsman |
| 1902 | Josef Krips, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, London Symph 1954-63 |
| 1898 | Achiel H. Acker, born in Belgian premier, 1945-46, 1954-58 |
| 1898 | Cecil Bowra, British classics expert, Greek experience |
| 1898 | E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, Isidore Hochberg, lyricist and librettist |
| 1897 | Herbert Eimert, German composer and musicologist, Glockenspiel |
| 1896 | Karl Hermann Pillney, composer |
| 1895 | Bert I Gordon, New York |
| 1895 | Sigurdur Thordarson, composer |
| 1893 | Grace Cunard, born in Columbus, Ohio, silent screen actress, Resurrection |
| 1893 | Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor, Sereniteit |
| 1893 | Mary Pickford, actress, Poor Little Rich Girl |
| 1892 | Richard J. Neutra, Austrian and U.S. architect, Who Built America |
| 1892 | Richard Neutra, American Architect |
| 1889 | Adrian Boult, born in Chester, England, conductor and composer, BBC Symphony Orchestra |
| 1888 | Dennis Chavez, American Politician |
| 1887 | Walter Connolly, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl |
| 1886 | Margaret A. Barnes, writer |
| 1885 | Dimitrios Levidis, composer |
| 1881 | Fernand Lamy, composer |
| 1880 | Victor Schertzinger, composer and director, Uptown New York |
| 1878 | Rudolf Nelson, composer |
| 1875 | Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium, 1909-34 |
| 1869 | Harvey Cushing, U.S., neurosurgeon, blood pressure studies |
| 1859 | Edmund Husserl, born in Germany, philosopher, founded Phenomenology |
| 1850 | William Henry Welch, U.S., pathologist, founded John Hopkins |
| 1843 | Asger Hamerik, composer |
| 1832 | Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian Field Marshal |
| 1831 | Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost, philosopher, art historian and poet |
| 1828 | George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1818 | Christaan IX, king of Denmark, 1863-1906 |
| 1816 | Frederick William Burton, painter |
| 1798 | Dionysios Solomos, poet |
| 1783 | John Claudius, born in London, England, horticulturist |
| 1776 | Thaddaus Weigl, composer |
| 1775 | Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general and Napoleon's wife Marie lover |
| 1756 | Joseph Gehot, composer |
| 1741 | Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet, O Uraguai |
| 1731 | William Williams, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence |
| 1726 | Lewis Morris, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence |
| 1708 | Georg Zarth, composer |
| 1697 | Pierre Prowo, composer |
| 1695 | Johann C. Gunther, writer |
| 1692 | Giuseppe Tartini, born in Italy, violinist and composer, Trillo del Diavolo |
| 1655 | Louis Willem I, Margrave, Baden-Baden |
| 1642 | Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral |
| 1631 | Cornelis de Heem, painter |
| 1605 | Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter |
| 1605 | Philip IV, King of Spain and Portugal, 1621 - 1665 |
| 1582 | Phienas Fletcher, poet |
| 1533 | Claudio Merulo, organist and composer |
| 1460 | Ponce de Leon, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida |
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