| 1988 | Beatrice E M, Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl |
| 1981 | Roger Federer, born in Wollerau, Switzerland, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in March 2010, many consider him the greatest tennis player of all time |
| 1976 | Liraz Mesilaty, Miss Universe-Israel 1996 |
| 1974 | Andrei Mezin, NHL goaltender, Team Belarus, 1998 Olympics |
| 1973 | Shane Lee, cricket all-rounder, NSW and Somerset, Australian ODI 1995- |
| 1971 | John Raposo, CFL defensive tackle for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1971 | Marcello Simmons, CFL defensive back for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1971 | Steve Hinton, Australian baseball infielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Catriona Fallon, born in Burlingame, California, rower, Olympics-4th-92, 96 |
| 1970 | Trev Alberts, NFL linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1969 | Jerome Henderson, NFL cornerback, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1968 | Abey Kuruvila, cricketer, promising Bombay fast bowler |
| 1968 | Matthew Lane, born in Wellington, New Zealand, Nike golfer, 1991 S Australian Open-4th |
| 1968 | Patricia Arquette, born in New York City actress, Ed Wood, Pretty Smart |
| 1968 | Suzy Hamilton, U.S. olympic 1500m runner |
| 1967 | Ben Fouchee, born in Kuruman, South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer, 1987 South Africa Amateur |
| 1967 | Howard Cross, NFL tight end for the New York Giants |
| 1967 | Margo Malowney, born in Saint John, New Brunswick, volleyball player 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Akitoshi Saito, born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japanese professional wrestler, trained by Masashi Aoyagi and Yoshiaki Fujiwara, works for Pro Wrestling Noah |
| 1965 | Angus Fraser, cricketer, England right-arm pace bowler 1989- |
| 1964 | Harry Lee "Butch" Reynolds, U.S., 400m runner, world record |
| 1964 | Paul Taylor, cricketer, England left-arm pace bowler in one Test 1993 |
| 1963 | Carol Lewis, born in Willingboro, New Jersey, high jumper, Olympic-9th-1984 |
| 1963 | Ron Karkovice, born in Union, New Jersey, catcher, Chicago White Sox |
| 1962 | Charmaine Crooks, Mandeville JAM, Can 800m runner, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Jim Sweeney, NFL center/guard, Seattle Seahawks, Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1962 | Suzee Pai, born in Toledo, Ohio, actress, Big Trouble in Little China |
| 1962 | Kool Moe Dee, American Musician |
| 1961 | Bruce Matthews, NFL guard/center for the Houston Oilers |
| 1961 | Charmaine Crooks, born in Jamaica, Canadian 4X400m relayer, Silver Medal 1984 Olympics |
| 1961 | The Edge, Dave Evans, London, rock guitarist, U2-I Will Follow |
| 1959 | Rikki Rockett, rocker, Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn |
| 1959 | Ronald Weigel, East Germany speed walker, 5 km indoor |
| 1958 | Chris Foreman, rock guitarist, Madness |
| 1958 | Deborah Norville, news anchor, Today Show, Inside Edition |
| 1958 | Harry Crosby, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Friday the 13th |
| 1957 | Nancy Glass, TV broadcaster, American Journal |
| 1956 | Chris Foreman, guitarist, Madness-Burning Down the House |
| 1956 | David Grant, Jamaica, singer and songwriter, Stop and Go, Heaven Knows |
| 1956 | Wes Chandler, Florida, WLAF wide receiver coach for the Rhein Fire |
| 1955 | Ali Score, rock drummer, Flock Of Seagulls |
| 1954 | Nigel Mansell, formula-1 racer, Portugal Grand Prix-1990 |
| 1953 | "Sweet" Lou Dunbar, basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters |
| 1953 | Donny Most, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Ralph Malph-Happy Days |
| 1952 | Robin Quivers, radio/TV personality, Howard Stern's sidekick |
| 1952 | Philip E. Berger, American Politician |
| 1951 | Martin Brest, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| 1951 | Phil Carlson, cricketer, Australian all-rounder 1979 |
| 1950 | Willie Hall, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rocker, drummer, played with Isaac Hayes' The Movement, member of The Bo-Keys |
| 1949 | Airrion Love, U.S. singer, Stylistics-16 Bars |
| 1949 | Bela Magyari, Hungary, cosmonaut |
| 1949 | Keith Carradine, San Mateo California, actor, Young Guns, Pretty Baby |
| 1948 | Svetlana Y Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz T-7, T-12, T-15A |
| 1947 | Jose Cruz, leftfielder, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros |
| 1947 | Larry Wilcox, SD California, actor, Lassie, Officer Jon Baker-CHiPs |
| 1946 | French W. Weisglas, Dutch MP, VVD |
| 1946 | Robin Tallon, born in Hemingway, South Carolina, Representative-D-South Carolina 1983 - 1993 |
| 1945 | Erskine Bowles, American Businessman |
| 1944 | Hans van Eijk, Dutch rock guitarist, Jumping Jewels |
| 1944 | Michael Johnson, born in Alamosa, Colorado, pop, guitarist, country, pop music, known for song, 'Bluer Than Blue' |
| 1944 | Smokey Bear, named after New York City fireman Smokey Joe Martin |
| 1943 | Denny Payton, saxophonist, harmonica player, guitarist, singer, performed with the Dave Clark Five, English pop rock group |
| 1942 | Jay David, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show |
| 1940 | Dilip Sardesai, cricketer, high scoring Indian batsman of 60's |
| 1939 | Philip E Baisley, Augusta, Virginia, singer, Statler Bros-Class of '57 |
| 1939 | Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romania, long jumper, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1939 | William Alden Hibbard, composer |
| 1938 | Connie Stevens, born in Brooklyn, singer and actress, Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach |
| 1938 | Jacques Hetu, born in Trois-Rivieres Quebec, composer, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1989, Officer of the Order of Canada, 2001 |
| 1937 | Dustin Hoffman, born in Louisiana, actor, Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer |
| 1937 | Louis Neefs, Belgian singer |
| 1936 | Don Bowden, U.S., 1st American to run a sub 4 minute mile |
| 1936 | Frank Howard, baseball player, NL Rookie of the Year 1960 |
| 1936 | Keith Barron, born in Mexborough, England, actor, At Earth's Core, Baby Love |
| 1935 | Ron Marlenee, born in Scobey, Montana, Representative-R-Montana 1977 - 1993 |
| 1935 | Sandy Horn, lesbian activist |
| 1934 | Julian C. Dixon, born in Washington, D.C., Representative-D-California 1979 - 2000 |
| 1933 | Joe Tex, singer and songwriter, Hold What You've Got |
| 1932 | Jimmy Witherspoon, singer |
| 1932 | Mel Tillis, born in Tampa, Florida, country singer, Who's Julie, M-M-Mel |
| 1931 | Roger Penrose, English Physicist |
| 1930 | Jerry Tarkanian, basketball coach, California State, UNLV, 625-122 |
| 1930 | Joan Mondale, wife of U.S. vice-president Walter Mondale, 1977-81 |
| 1930 | Nita Talbot, born in New York City, New York, actress, Supertrain, Here We Go Again |
| 1930 | Terry Nation, writer, Dr. Who, Blake 7 |
| 1929 | Josef Suk, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, violinist, Artist of Merit-1977 |
| 1929 | Ronald Biggs, British Celebrity |
| 1928 | Ken Scowcroft, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire |
| 1927 | Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/poet, Lady of the Night: A flower |
| 1927 | James H. Weaver, born in Brookings, South Dakota, Representative-D-Oregon 1975 - 1987 |
| 1927 | Juri Kasakow, writer |
| 1926 | Richard Anderson, born in Long Beach, New Jersey, actor, Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man |
| 1926 | Webb Pierce, born in West Monroe, Louisiana, country singer, Ozark Jubilee |
| 1925 | Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist |
| 1925 | Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak Activist |
| 1924 | Thomas Beversdorf, composer |
| 1923 | Esther Williams, born in Inglewood, California, actress/swimmer, Dangerous when Wet |
| 1922 | Michael Parkin, journalist |
| 1922 | Rory Calhoun, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, 'Capitol', 'Motel Hell', 'The Texan' |
| 1922 | Rudi Gernreich, designer, 1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt |
| 1921 | Roger Nixon, born in California, musician, composer, professor of music, composed for orchestra, band, choir, opera, Professor Emeritus of Music, San Francisco State University |
| 1920 | Don Cook, foreign Correspondent |
| 1919 | Dino De Laurentiis, Torre Annunziata Italy, producer, King Kong |
| 1914 | Arthur Holt, politician |
| 1913 | Axel Stordahl, born in Staten Island, New York, orchestra leader, Frank Sinatra Show |
| 1913 | Daan Wildschut, painter/glazenier/author |
| 1913 | Robert Stafford, born in Rutland, Vermont, Senator-R-Vermont 1971 - 1989, Governor of Vermont 1959 - 1961 |
| 1912 | Daniel Mann, Brooklyn, director, Willard, Butterfield 8 |
| 1911 | Rosetta LeNoire, New York City, actor, Grandma Winslow-Family Matters |
| 1910 | Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil, 1962 |
| 1910 | Sylvia Sidney, born in Bronx, New York, actress, WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon |
| 1909 | Bill Voce, cricketer, England left-arm bodyline bowler |
| 1908 | Arthur J. Goldberg, born in Illinois, United Nations ambassador and Supreme Court justice, 1962 - 1965 |
| 1908 | Chivu Stoica, premier of Romania, 1955-61 |
| 1907 | Benny Carter, born in New York City, musician/composer, Easy Money, King Carter |
| 1906 | Andre Demedts, Flemish writer, Rainfall of the Days |
| 1905 | Andre Jolivet, Paris, France, composer, L'Eunuque |
| 1905 | Nino Martini, Verona Italy, actor, Here's to Romance |
| 1905 | Wachtang Ananjan, writer |
| 1904 | Istvan Szelenyi, composer |
| 1903 | August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state |
| 1902 | Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933 |
| 1902 | Paul Dirac, British Physicist |
| 1901 | Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 |
| 1901 | Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist |
| 1900 | Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange |
| 1900 | Victor Young, born in Chicago, Illinois, orchestra leader, Milton Berle Show, In Old California |
| 1898 | Paul Belmondo, French sculptor, Bathing Woman, Orleans |
| 1896 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Washington D.C., writer, Yearling |
| 1895 | Law Pendleton, U.S., wrestler/actor, Laughing Lady |
| 1889 | Jack Ryder, cricketer, athletic Australian all-rounder and captain |
| 1887 | Esme Percy, born in London, England, actor, Old Spanish Custom |
| 1887 | J C Heldring, Dutch businessman |
| 1887 | Malcolm Keen, Bristol England, actor, Uncle Chris-Mama |
| 1887 | Ullrich Haupt, Prussia, actor, Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion |
| 1886 | Daniel Ruyneman, composer |
| 1886 | Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer |
| 1884 | Sara Teasdale, U.S., poet, 1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-Love Songs |
| 1881 | Paul L E von Kleist, German general-Field Marshal, Eastern Front |
| 1879 | Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader |
| 1871 | William Henry Squire, composer |
| 1866 | Matthew A. Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole, Jun 4 1909 |
| 1866 | Matthew Henson, American Explorer |
| 1864 | Henri de Vries, Van Walterop, Dutch actor, Cleopatra, White Cargo |
| 1861 | William Bateson, English biologist, originator of term "genetics" |
| 1857 | Cecile Chaminade, composer |
| 1857 | Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author, 52 Years of Research |
| 1852 | Barend Barendse, actor and director, Wandering Jew |
| 1839 | Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1839 | Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier |
| 1835 | James William Forsyth, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1823 | Theodule Augustin Ribot, painter |
| 1820 | Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General, Confederate |
| 1819 | Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union |
| 1814 | Esther Hobart Morris, suffragist/anti-slavery activist |
| 1812 | John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy |
| 1805 | Antoon Jurgens, Dutch margarine manufacturer |
| 1794 | Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician |
| 1763 | Charles Bulfinch, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1st U.S. pro architect, Mass State House |
| 1755 | Luigi Marchesi, composer |
| 1746 | Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet, church songs |
| 1732 | Johann C Adelung, German linguist/librarian |
| 1705 | Gustaaf Imhoff, Governor of Ceylon, 1736 - 1740, Governor of Netherlands-Indies, 1743 - 1750 |
| 1694 | Francis Hutcheson, born in Drumaleg, Ireland, philosopher, Scottish Presbyterian, founding father of Scottish Enlightenment, proponent of Utilitarianism |
| 1693 | Laurent Belissen, composer |
| 1653 | Jacques Basnage, French/Netherlands historian/vicar |
| 1617 | Adriaan W. "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, Bantu Dictionary |
| 1586 | Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen |
| 1571 | John Ward, born in Canterbury, England, composer, chorister, Canterbury Cathedral, composed madrigals, anthems, works for viola da gamba |
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