| 1991 | Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik, world Chess Champion |
| 1986 | Bryton McClure, Lakewood California, actor, Richie-Family Matters |
| 1977 | Jake Patellis, actor, Paul Bowman-Good Life |
| 1977 | Thierry Henry, French Athlete |
| 1973 | A J Wood, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, soccer forward, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Kerry Mock, WLAF linebacker for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1973 | Paul Wiggins, offensive linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1973 | Tim Forsyth, Australian high jumper, Olympics-bronze-92, 96 |
| 1972 | Ernie Conwell, tight end for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1970 | Bernard Wilson, NFL defensive tackle for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1970 | Brad Bretz, WLAF quarterback for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1970 | Jim Courier, born in Sanford, Florida, tennis champ, 1990, 91 French |
| 1969 | Christian Laettner, NBA forward and center, Atlanta Hawks, Gold Medal 1992 Olympics |
| 1969 | Donald E Wahlberg, Jr., Boston, rocker, New Kids-Hangin' Tough |
| 1969 | Ed Cunningham, NFL center for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1969 | Maria Strandlund, born in Akersberga, Sweden, tennis star, 1987 Futures NOR |
| 1969 | Donnie Wahlberg, American Actor |
| 1968 | Ed McCaffrey, NFL wide reciever, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1968 | Vince Marrow, WLAF TE for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1967 | James Jenkins, NFL tight end for the Washington Redskins |
| 1967 | Kenny Davidson, NFL defensive end for the Houston Oilers |
| 1967 | Nelson Emerson, Hamilton, NHL right wing, Hartford Whalers |
| 1966 | Cedric Figaro, WLAF linebacker for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1966 | Zefross Moss, NFL tackle, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots |
| 1965 | Dottie Mochrie Pepper, born in Saratoga Springs, New York, golfer, 1992 Dinah Shore |
| 1965 | Fred Grim, soccer player, Cambuur L, Ajax |
| 1965 | Glen Goldsmith, rocker, What You See is What You Get |
| 1965 | Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft |
| 1965 | Steve Gorman, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, rock drummer, Black Crowes |
| 1964 | Pete McCutcheon, born in Boston, Massachusetts, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Quebec Open |
| 1963 | Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate, July, 1987 |
| 1962 | Gilby Clarke, U.S. pop guitarist, Guns n' Roses-Civil War |
| 1961 | Jamie Macoun, Newmarket, NHL defenseman for the Toronto Maple Leafs |
| 1960 | Bruce Penhall, Balboa California, actor, Savage Beach |
| 1960 | Sean Penn, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| 1959 | Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist |
| 1958 | Belinda Carlisle, born in Hollywood, California, GoGos lead singer, 'Heaven on Earth' |
| 1955 | Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist, XTC |
| 1955 | Janet Quist Austin, Texas, playmate, Dec, 1978 |
| 1955 | Kevin Welch, California, country songwriter/actor, Thing Called Love |
| 1953 | Kevin Rowlands, rock vocalist, Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen |
| 1953 | Robert Brent Thirsk, BC Canada, astronaut, STS-78 |
| 1952 | Guillermo Vilas, Argentina, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1977 |
| 1952 | Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery, Alabama, PhD/astronaut, STS-33, 49, 61, 73 |
| 1952 | Nelson Piquet, auto racer, 3-time Formula One champ, 1981, '83, '87 |
| 1952 | Thomas J Hennen, Albany Georgia, astronaut, STS-44 |
| 1951 | Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer 1972 Olympics bronze |
| 1951 | Robert Joy, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Big Shots, Suicide Club |
| 1949 | Sib Hashian, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock drummer, Boston |
| 1949 | Norm Coleman, American Politician |
| 1948 | Bo Rucker, born in Tampa, Florida, actor, Superman, Soup for One, Lock Up |
| 1947 | Gary Talley, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock guitarist, Box Tops |
| 1946 | Hans Vandenburg, Dutch singer/guitarist, Gruppo Sportivo |
| 1944 | Larry Ellison, American Businessman |
| 1943 | Edward Cowie, born in Birmingham, England, composer, orchestral, chamber, choral works, conductor, painter, author |
| 1943 | Koos Postema, editor-in-chief, Vrije Volk, Dutch TV host |
| 1943 | Robert De Niro, born in New York City, actor, Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver |
| 1943 | Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1941 | Boog Powell, baseball player, AL MVP 1970 |
| 1941 | Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria, 1985- |
| 1940 | David Price, born in Erwin, Tennessee, Representative-D-North Carolina 1987 - 1995 |
| 1940 | Thomas Williams, U.S., ice hockey play 1960 Olympics gold |
| 1940 | David E. Price, American Politician |
| 1939 | Luther Allison, Mayflower, Arkansas, rock guitarist, Bad News is Coming |
| 1939 | Josh McDowell, American Writer |
| 1938 | Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist |
| 1937 | Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1934 | Maureen Connally, champion tennis player, Wimbledon |
| 1932 | Chet Allen, Chickasha Oklahoma, actor, Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter |
| 1932 | Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, Middle Passage |
| 1932 | V. S. Naipaul, Indian Novelist |
| 1930 | James Gulliver, businessman |
| 1930 | Ted Hughes, British poet laureate |
| 1929 | Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident |
| 1928 | Jean R Adams, entomologist |
| 1928 | Thomas Jefferson Anderson, composer |
| 1928 | Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host |
| 1927 | Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld, Romanian/U.S. financier, Fund of Funds |
| 1927 | Robert Moore, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Marshall-Diana |
| 1926 | Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting, Gold Medals 1948, 1952 Olympics |
| 1926 | Jean Poiret, French actor and writer, Le Dernier Metro |
| 1925 | John Hawkes, U.S. writer, 2nd Skin |
| 1925 | John Howard Purnell, scientist |
| 1924 | Evan S Connell, U.S. writer |
| 1924 | Helen Wallis, cartographer/librarian |
| 1924 | John A Emmens, art historian/poet, Kunst and Vliegwerk |
| 1924 | Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist |
| 1923 | Anton Kersjes, violinist and conductor, Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 1923 | Larry Rivers, Grossberg, New York City, painter, Washington crossing Delaware-1953 |
| 1922 | Ralph Roberts, Salisbury, North Carolina, actor, Tradition, Gone are the Days |
| 1922 | Roy Tattersall, cricketer, brilliant England off-spinner early 50's |
| 1921 | Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer |
| 1921 | Maureen O'Hara, Fitzsimmons, Dublin, actress, Miracle on 34th St |
| 1920 | Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Massachusetts, singer, Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire |
| 1918 | Mort Marshall, New York City, actor, Cully-Dumplings |
| 1917 | P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer, Singular Love |
| 1917 | Safa Khulusi, writer |
| 1917 | Jiang Zemin, Chinese Leader |
| 1916 | Eleanor Steber, opera singer |
| 1916 | John de Young, resistance fighter |
| 1914 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., born in Campobello Island, Canada,Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1913 | W. Mark Felt, born in Idaho, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, Watergate whistleblower "Deep Throat" |
| 1912 | Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop |
| 1911 | Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince |
| 1911 | Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist, God's Murderer |
| 1910 | Eric Aaltonen, composer |
| 1910 | J A Manusama, Moluccan politician |
| 1910 | R Peyrefitte, writer |
| 1908 | Kurt Hessenberg, composer |
| 1907 | Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer |
| 1906 | Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer |
| 1906 | Marcello J das Neves Alves Caetano, premier of Portugal, 1968-74 |
| 1905 | John Hay Whitney, publisher, New York Herald Trib 1961-67 |
| 1903 | Abram Chasins, composer |
| 1901 | Henri Tomasi, Marseilles France, composer, Don Juan de Manara |
| 1900 | Quincy Howe, born in Boston, Massachusetts, newscaster, CBS Weekend News |
| 1898 | Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian |
| 1896 | Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter and poet, Laws of the Americas |
| 1894 | Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden |
| 1894 | Johan Polet, Dutch sculptor |
| 1892 | Mae West, Brooklyn, actress, Go Up and See Her Sometime, Klondike Annie |
| 1890 | Harry L Hopkins, U.S. politician, Loan and Lease law |
| 1890 | Harry Hopkins, American Diplomat |
| 1888 | Monty Wooley, New York City, actor, Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner |
| 1887 | Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary, 1916-18 |
| 1887 | Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among U.S. blacks |
| 1885 | Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist, Wife and society |
| 1885 | Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement |
| 1882 | Samuel Goldwyn, movie producer, MGM |
| 1880 | Leo Ascher, composer |
| 1880 | Percy Sherwell, cricketer, great South African batsman-keeper-captain |
| 1878 | Reg Duff, cricketer, Australian bat, century on debut 1902 |
| 1876 | Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations, 1919 - 1933 |
| 1876 | Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940 |
| 1876 | Theodor Daubler, German writer, Northern Lights |
| 1870 | Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine |
| 1856 | Violet Paget, Vernon Lee, British author, Satan the master |
| 1851 | Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist |
| 1844 | Menelik II, King of Ethiopia, 1896-1913 |
| 1841 | Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet |
| 1840 | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer, Irish Land League |
| 1839 | Hubert Platt Main, composer |
| 1839 | Thijs Maris, Dutch painter/etcher |
| 1834 | Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor, Leie/Rubens Cantata |
| 1828 | George William Warren, composer |
| 1819 | James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1817 | Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister, 1870-71 |
| 1811 | Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist, Free Will |
| 1786 | Davy Crockett, U.S., frontiersman/adventurer/politician, Alamo |
| 1779 | Franz de Paula Roser, composer |
| 1775 | Philippe Libon, composer |
| 1761 | William Carey, English Clergyman |
| 1720 | Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, Contes de La Fontaine |
| 1686 | Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer |
| 1586 | Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer, Christenburg |
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