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1978 Chris Swan, born in Southport, Queensland, professional cricketer, rower 1996 Olympics
1975 Lise Mackie, Te Kuiti New Zealand, Australian swimmer 1996 Olympics
1974 Dave Fiore, tackle for the San Francisco 49ers
1974 Miro Simonovic, hockey goaltender, Team Slovakia 1998
1974 Walt Harris, cornerback for the Chicago Bears
1973 Jessica Grieco, born in Englewood, New Jersey, cyclist 1996 Olympics
1973 Keisha Delancy, Miss Turks and Caicos islands Universe 1997
1973 Lisa Raymond, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, tennis star, 1995 Indian Wells doubles
1973 Mark Doubleday, Australian baseball infielder 1996 Olympics
1973 Sherriden May, NFL fullback for the New York Jets
1972 Julann Vadnais, Miss Maine USA 1996
1972 Angie Harmon, American Model
1971 Craig Newsome, NFL defensive back, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31
1971 Martin Quinney, Quesnel BC, Canada Tour golfer, 1994 Glen Meadows-2nd
1971 Mike Morreale, CFL slot back for the Hamilton Tiger Cats
1971 Paul Newlove, born in Pontrefract, England, professional rugby league soccer player, played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
1971 Roy Keane, born in Cork, Ireland, soccer player, midfielder, manager of Ipswich Town, an English Championship club, represented Republic of Ireland in 1994 World Cup and 2002 World Cup
1971 Sal Fasano, born in Chicago, Illinois, catcher for the Kansas City Royals
1970 Brendon Julian, cricketer, in New Zealand Australian left-arm quickie 1993-
1970 Bret Hedican, St-paul, NHL defenseman, Vancouver Canucks
1970 Gino Torretta, quarterback, Heisman Trophy 1992, Seattle Seahawks
1969 Arthur Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh, son of Arthur Benjamin Guinness, member of the Guinness family, founders of the Guinness brewery
1969 Iain Fraser, Scarborough, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets
1968 Alex Andrievski, NHL forward, Team Belarus, 1998 Olympics
1968 Jennifer Horton, Dover, New Jersey, team handball goalie, 1992, 1996 Olympics
1968 Michael Bivins, Boston, rock vocalist, New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe
1968 Michel Doesburg, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen
1968 Miroslav Mosner, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia 1998
1968 Moe Gardner, NFL nose tackle for the Atlanta Falcons
1967 Carlos Briceno, born in Fountain Valley, California, beach volleyball, Bronze Medal 1992 Olympics
1967 Lorraine Pearson, born in Romfod, United Kingdom, born Lorraine Samantha Jean Pearson, singer, rocker, writer, member of pop group Five Star, published novel 'Her, Me and Reality", 1989
1967 Peter Murphy, Australian rower 1996 Olympics
1967 Reinout Scholte, cricketer, Netherlands batsman 1996 World Cup
1967 Riddick Bowe, born in Brooklyn, New York, HW boxing champ 1988 Olympics silver
1966 Gerald Williams, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, outfielder, New York Yankees
1965 Carolyn Schuwalow, Australian distance runner 1996 Olympics
1965 John Starks, NBA guard for the New York Knicks
1965 Patricia Spurgin, U.S. scherpschutser, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics
1965 Claudia Christian, American Actress
1964 Andy Stankiewicz, born in Inglewood, California, infielder, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos
1963 Andrew Sullivan, American Journalist
1962 Dan Donovan, born in Britain, rocker, musician, member of Big Audio Dynamite, founding member of Dreadzone, toured with The Sisters of Mercy in 1990
1961 Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress, Lisa-Four Seasons
1961 Jon Farriss, Australian rock vocalist and drummer, INXS-Kiss the Dirt
1960 Antonio Banderas, born in Malaga, Spain, actor, Philadelphia, Evita, Mambo Kings
1960 [James] Kenneth Perry, born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1991 Memorial
1959 Mark Price, bass/vocals, All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged
1959 Rosanna Arquette, born in New York City, actress, Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour
1958 Jack Richards, English cricket wicket-keeper, mid-80's
1956 Dianne Fromhottz, Balestrat Australia, tennis star
1955 Marja-Liisa Hamalainen, Finnish cross country skier, 3 Gold Medals 1984 Olympics, 4 Bronze Medals 1984, 1988, 1994 Olympics
1955 Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist
1952 Ashley Putnam, born in New York City, soprano, New York City Opera 1978
1952 Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russian Lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1950 Eric Braunn, rocker, Iron Butterfly
1950 James Reynolds, born in Oskaloosa, Kansas, actor, Abe Carver-Days of our Lives
1949 Gene Johnson, born in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, singer, Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle
1948 Pal Gerevich, Hungary, fencer, Olympic-bronze-1972, 80
1948 Patti Austin, soul singer and actress, Real Me
1947 Alan Ward, England cricket pace bowler, 1969 - 1976
1947 Ian Anderson, born in Scotland, rocker, Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle
1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party
1945 Larry Larden, rocker, Every Mother's Son
1943 Ronnie Spector, born in New York City, New York, singer, 'Be My Little Baby'
1943 Shafqat Rana, Pakistani cricket batsman, 5 Tests 1964-69
1942 Betsy Johnson, fashion designer, 1971 Winnie Award
1941 Anita Lonsbrough, born in England, 200m backstroke swimmer, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics
1941 Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union
1940 Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions
1940 Bobby Hatfield, born in Wisconsin, rocker, Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody
1940 Richard Wells, Chief Constable, South Yorkshire
1939 Charles Rose, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Representative-D-North Carolina 1973 - 1997
1939 Kate O'Mara, born in Leicaster, England, actress, Caress Morell-Dynasty, AbFab
1937 Lucinda Williams, U.S. sprinter 1960 Olympics gold
1936 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao
1935 Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Georgian composer, Night Prayers
1935 Jerrie Anthony Hulme, British major-general
1935 Ian Stewart, born in Scotland, born Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewartby, Baron Stewartby of Portmoak in the District of Perth and Kinross, Member of Parliament for Hitchin
1934 James Carl Tenney, composer
1934 James Tenney, American Composer
1933 Alan Hardcastle, chairman, Lloyds Regulatory Board
1933 Bill Nieder, shot putter, 1960 Olympics gold
1933 Butler-Sloss, British Lady Justice
1933 David Rowland, chairman, Lloyd's
1933 Rocky Colavito, Cleveland Indians, baseball player, Hit 4 home runs in a game
1932 Alexander Goehr, composer
1930 Barry Unsworth, novelist, Pascali's Island
1929 John Alldis, composer and conductor
1928 Eddie Fisher, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, singer, Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain
1928 Jimmy Dean, Texas, actor/singer, Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever
1926 Edwin James Nairn Carr, composer
1926 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer
1925 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher
1925 George Cooper, general
1925 Lawrence Byford, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1924 Martha Hyer, Texas, actress, Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly
1923 Fred Ridgway, England cricket pace bowler, 1951-52 Indian tour
1923 Gillian Brown, diplomat
1923 Rhonda Fleming, Marilyn Louis, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Spellbound
1921 Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen, British Tourist Authority
1920 William "Red" Holzman, NBA coach, New York Knickerbockers, 754 wins
1919 Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant
1916 John Clark, born in Hampton, Iowa, actor, Graveyard of Horror
1914 Jeff Corey, born in New York City, actor, Getting Straight, Superman and Mole Men
1913 Noah Beery, Jr., New York City, actor, Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot
1913 Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV, 1954
1912 Herman Strategier, Dutch organist/ composer and conductor
1912 Izaak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice, PvdA, mayor of Amsterdam
1912 Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer, O Pais do Carnaval
1912 Richard Reeves, born in New York City, actor, Murph-Date With an Angel
1912 Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist, Tour de France 1935
1910 Angus Campbell, U.S., psychologist, Elections and Political Order
1909 Brian Easdale, composer
1909 Claude Thornhill, composer
1909 Frank Bowden, industrialist/landowner
1909 George W. Crockett, Jr., born in Jacksonville, Florida, Representative-D-Michigan 1980 - 1991
1909 Julio A Abraham, president, Democratic Party Bonaire
1909 Leo Fender, Anaheim California, rocker, Fender guitars
1909 Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco, 1953, 1955-61
1908 Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer
1906 Era Bell Thompson, Dakota Dick, U.S. actress, Ebony
1905 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
1905 Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
1900 Arthur Porritt, New Zealand, 100m sprinter, Olympic-bronze-1924
1900 Norma Shearer, born in Montreal, Quebec, actress, Divorcee, Idiot's Delight
1900 Rene Crevel, French author, Mon corps et moi, Detours
1899 Jack Haley, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Tin Man-Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue
1897 Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper 1924 Olympics silver
1897 Piet Bakker, Dutch novelist, Ciske the Rat
1895 Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author
1893 Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue, New York, composer, Good Night Harvard
1893 Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Governor General of Australia, 1959 - 1961
1893 Voranc Prezikov, Lovro Kuhar, Slovenian author, Samorastniki
1891 Henry O'Neill, Orange, New Jersey, actor, Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble
1889 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
1889 Irene Steer, England, 4 x 100m relay swimmers, Gold Medal 1912 Olympics
1888 Johanna E F G, Bachigaloupi, Tourniaire, actress, Saint Joan
1886 Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement
1883 Carlos Lavin, composer
1882 Max Kowalski, composer
1881 Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
1880 Clarence Cameron White, composer
1878 Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm
1877 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
1874 Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, R, 31st President, 1929-1933
1874 James, Tod, Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
1874 Herbert Hoover, American President
1869 Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet, Symbolic Wounds
1865 Alexander K Glazunov, St. Petersburg Russia, composer, Chopiniana
1861 Almroth Wright, born in Yorkshire, England, bacteriologist
1856 Paul Geisler, composer
1854 J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist
1843 Joseph McKenna, American Politician
1836 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer
1835 Gyula Beliczay, composer
1823 Antonio G Dias, Brazilian poet
1823 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist
1823 Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers
1821 Jay Cooke, American Businessman
1814 Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
1814 John Clifford Pemberton, Lieutenant General Confederate Army
1814 William Lowndes Yancey, MC, Confederacy
1810 Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM
1810 Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect
1810 Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman
1808 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
1801 Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC, Confederacy
1794 Leopold Zunz, German scientist, Synagogical Poetry
1793 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
1782 Charles Napier, London, soldier
1762 Santiago Ferrer, composer
1753 Edmund Randolph, American Lawyer
1750 Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer
1740 Samuel Arnold, composer
1720 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
1708 John Stinstra, baptist vicar
1699 Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer
1657 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
1654 Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist
1652 Peterus I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor, tomb stones
1589 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer
1567 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer
1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, composer
1556 Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer
1296 John the Blind, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg











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