| 1982 | Andy Roddick, born in Omaha, Nebraska, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World for singles in November 2003 |
| 1977 | Shaun Alexander, born in Florence, Kentucky, football, running back, played college football at University of Alabama, drafted by Seattle Seahawks, placed 19th overall in 2000 National Football League Draft |
| 1975 | Natalia Nadtochey, Miss Ukraine Universe 1997 |
| 1974 | Matt Bongiovi, heavy metal rocker, cousin of Jon Bon Jovi |
| 1973 | Jimmy Herndon, offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears |
| 1972 | Cameron Diaz, born in Long Beach, California, actress, Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding |
| 1972 | Jose Herrera, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, outfielder for the Oakland A's |
| 1972 | Ryan Leahy, WLAF OL for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1972 | Shonte Peoples, CFL linebacker for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1971 | Aubrey Beavers, NFL/WLAF linebacker, Miami Dolphins, Rhein Fire |
| 1971 | Joseph Fitzgerald, born in Brooklyn, New York, team handball center back 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Tre Johnson, NFL guard for the Washington Redskins |
| 1969 | Jerold Jeffcoat, WLAF defensive tackle for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1968 | Vladimir Malakhov, Sverdlovsk Rus, NHL defenseman, Montreal Canadiens |
| 1967 | Barbara Anne Kendall, Auckland New Zealand, mistral yachter, Gold and Silver Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Catrin Nilsmark, Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer, 1995 PING Welch's-14th |
| 1967 | Frederique [Van derWal], Netherlands, model, Victoria Secrets |
| 1967 | Justin Vaughan, cricketer, New Zealand all-rounder 1992- |
| 1966 | John Terry, CFL tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1966 | Michael Michele, Evansville, Indiana, actress, Nikki-Central Park West |
| 1966 | Simon Wheeldon, hockey forward, Team Austria 1998 |
| 1964 | Joan Bennett, born in Chicago, Illinois, playmate, January, 1985 |
| 1964 | Michael Chiklis, actor, Wired, Commish |
| 1964 | Stephen Baker, NFL receiver for the New York Giants |
| 1964 | Steve Smith, NFL fullback for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1962 | Ricky Sanders, NFL wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1960 | Vic Wilk, born in Los Angeles, California, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Knoxville Open |
| 1956 | Jayne Irving, English TV hostess, Live at 3 |
| 1955 | Martin Jackson, rocker, Swing Out Sister-Swing Out |
| 1955 | Butch Johnson, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, archer, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics, Bronze Medal 2000 Olympics |
| 1954 | David Paymer, actor, Love Mary, Mr. Saturday Night |
| 1954 | Gerard Hadders, Dutch postage stamp designer, 1991 children stamp |
| 1953 | Robert Parish, NBA center, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1951 | Dana, singer and actress, Flight of the Doves |
| 1951 | Timothy Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Paper Chase, East of Eden |
| 1950 | John Landis, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, American Werewolf in London |
| 1948 | Lewis Black, American Comedian |
| 1947 | Peggy Lipton, Lawrence, New York, actress, Julie-Mod Squad, Twin Peaks |
| 1946 | Anne-Marie, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX |
| 1944 | Charles Colbert, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker, American Breed |
| 1944 | Freek de Jonge, Dutch comedian, Neerlands Hoop |
| 1944 | John Surman, jazz musician |
| 1944 | Tug McGraw, American Athlete |
| 1944 | Molly Ivins, born in California, newspaper columnist, author, political commentator |
| 1943 | David Henry Maslanka, composer |
| 1943 | Jean-Claude Killy, born in Saint-Cloud, France, French alpine skiier, 3 Gold Medals 1968 Olympics |
| 1943 | Robert Crumb, U.S., cartoonist, Father Time, Fritz Cat |
| 1942 | Jonathan Aitken, English MP |
| 1942 | Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricket left-arm spinner, 19 Tests 1964-73 |
| 1941 | John McNally, Liverpool, rock guitarist and vocalist, Searchers |
| 1941 | Sue MacGregor, BBC-radio hostess |
| 1939 | Elizabeth Ashley, Cole, Ocala Florida, actress, Coma, Evening Shade |
| 1939 | John Peel, British Entertainer |
| 1938 | Steve Delaney, Dobbs Ferry, New York, newscaster, Monitor |
| 1936 | Fabrizia Ramondino, writer |
| 1935 | John Phillips, singer/guitarist, Mama and Papas-California Dreaming |
| 1934 | B P "Baloo" Gupte, cricketer, brother of Fergie, Indian leggie |
| 1934 | Eric Schneider, Dutch actor, Drop Out, Family, Flanagan |
| 1933 | Arne Mellnas, born in Stockholm, Sweden, composer, studied, taught orchestration at Royal College of Music in Stockholm, musical language filled with diverse moods |
| 1931 | Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major U.S. city, Hartford CT |
| 1931 | John Leonard Swigert, Jr., Denver Colorado, astronaut, Apollo 13 |
| 1930 | Noel Harford, cricketer, brother of Roy New Zealand Test batsman in 1950's |
| 1930 | Warren Burger, U.S., author, The Midas Touch |
| 1930 | Warren Buffett, American Businessman |
| 1928 | Johnny Mann, born in Baltimore, Maryland, music director, Johnny Mann Stand Up and Cheer |
| 1928 | Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist, Dr. Ruth |
| 1927 | Geoffrey Beene, Louisiana, dress designer, 8 Coty Awards |
| 1927 | Pieter Willem Kee, composer |
| 1927 | Bill Daily, Des Moines Iowa, actor, 'I Dream of Jeannie', 'The Bob Newhard Show' |
| 1926 | Olgerts Gravitis, composer |
| 1925 | Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor, Daens/Medea |
| 1923 | Elias Victor Seixas, U.S., mixed double tennis player, Wimbeld 1953-56 |
| 1923 | Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer, Glove |
| 1922 | Regina Resnik, New York City, mezzo-soprano, Sieglinde-Bayreuth |
| 1920 | Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet, Rose from Mud |
| 1919 | Kitty Wells, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Grand Ole Opry |
| 1918 | Ted Williams, Baseball's last .400 hitter for the Boston Red Sox |
| 1917 | Denis Healey, English politician |
| 1916 | John Thoday, geneticist |
| 1916 | Kornelis M R van der Beek, reformed vicar, Arnhem |
| 1916 | Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker |
| 1915 | Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor |
| 1914 | Julie Bishop, born in Denver, Colorado, actress, My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat |
| 1914 | Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur |
| 1913 | Allan David, actor, director andproducer, Cry of the Children |
| 1913 | Thomas Torrance, theologist |
| 1912 | Edward M Purcell, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1952 |
| 1912 | Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist |
| 1910 | Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer and actor, Battle of the Sexes |
| 1909 | Barry Appleby, cartoonist |
| 1909 | [Rose] Joan Blondell, New York City, actress, Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides |
| 1908 | Leonor Fini, painter |
| 1908 | Willie Bryant, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, singer, Sugar Hill Times |
| 1907 | Fred MacMurray, Kankakee, Illinois, actor, Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons |
| 1907 | Shirley Booth, actress, Hazel |
| 1906 | Countess of Longford, biographer/historian |
| 1902 | Arnold Maria Walter, composer |
| 1901 | John C. Stennis, born in Mississippi, Senator-D-Mississippi, 1947 - 1989 |
| 1901 | John Gunther, born in Chicago, Illinois, author/host, John Gunther's High Road |
| 1901 | Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP |
| 1900 | Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister, Lutheran World Relief |
| 1896 | Raymond Massey, born in Toronto, Canada, actor, Dr. Gillespie-Dr. Kildare |
| 1893 | Huey Long, American Politician |
| 1890 | Sandor Remenyik, Vegvari, Hungary, poet, Campfire |
| 1889 | Edward Ciannelli, Ischia Italy, actor, You Can't Escape Forever |
| 1887 | Adam Kuckhoff, writer |
| 1884 | Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids, Nobel 1926 |
| 1883 | Theo Van Doesburg, Christian EM Kupper, painter/architect, Style |
| 1882 | Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi/writer |
| 1878 | Paul Hazard, French literature historian |
| 1871 | Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908 |
| 1866 | Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor |
| 1852 | Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Netherlands, physical chemist, Nobel 1901 |
| 1849 | Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher |
| 1844 | Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer, Lebensraum |
| 1842 | Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer |
| 1837 | Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady, 1881-85 |
| 1820 | George Frederick Root, composer |
| 1811 | Thomas Gautier, writer |
| 1809 | Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer |
| 1805 | Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist |
| 1804 | Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet, Sasjka, |
| 1797 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born in London, England, author, Frankenstein |
| 1772 | Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader |
| 1769 | Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer |
| 1767 | Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer |
| 1748 | Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter, Death of Marat |
| 1693 | Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist |
| 1687 | Francesco Maria Vallara, composer |
| 1609 | Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised |
| 1334 | Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia and Leon |
| 580 | Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder, Islam |
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