| 1981 | Stevie Ficker, Miss Oregon Teen USA 1997 |
| 1980 | Jake Gyllenhaal, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, appeared in films, 'The Day After Tomorrow', 'Jarhead', 'Brokeback Mountain' |
| 1978 | Lauren Petty, Miss New Jersey Teen USA 1997 |
| 1977 | Maria Joana Parizotto, Miss Universe-Brazil 1996 |
| 1975 | Casual, born in Oakland, California, born Jon Owens, rapper, hip hop, vocalist, songs use a verse-chorus-verse arrangement, member of Hieroglyphics |
| 1975 | Kristin Folkl, born in St. Louis, Missouri, volleyball outside hitter |
| 1974 | Bryant Westbrook, cornerback, Detroit Lions |
| 1974 | Jake Plummer, quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1974 | Ricky Ponting, cricketer, prodigious Tasmania batsman, Australia 1995 |
| 1973 | Kebu Stewart, NBA forward for the Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1972 | Warren Sapp, NFL defensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1972 | Waverly Jackson, DL for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1972 | Alyssa Milano, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, singer, appeared in Broadway production, 'Annie', appeared in 'Who's the Boss' television sitcom |
| 1971 | Amy Locane, Trenton, New Jersey, actress, Andrea-Spencer, Sandy-Melrose Place |
| 1971 | Jen[nifer] Dore, Kearny, New Jersey, rower, Olympics-4TH-1996 |
| 1971 | Mike Groh, WLAF quarterback for the Rhein Fire |
| 1970 | Jon Cleveland, born in Fresno California, Canadian 100m/200m swimmer, Bronze Medal 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Robert Lang, Teplice, Czech Republic, NHL forward, Team Czech Republic, Los Angeles |
| 1970 | Wendy Miles, Australia, golfer, 1993 T77 Alpine Australia Ladies Masters |
| 1970 | Zac Foley, rock bassist, EMF-Unbelievable |
| 1969 | Chris Robinson, Atlanta, rocker, Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker |
| 1969 | Kristy Swanson, actress, Knots Landing, Buffy Vampire Slayer |
| 1969 | Michael Bates, NFL wide receiver, Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers |
| 1969 | Mike Alexander, WLAF corner for the Rhein Fire |
| 1969 | Nayan Mongia, cricketer, Indian Test batsman-wicketkeeper 1994- |
| 1969 | Santana Dotson, NFL defensive tackle, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1969 | Scott Pearson, Cornwall, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres |
| 1969 | Tom Gugliotta, NBA forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1968 | Jennifer Devine, born in Portland, Oregon, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Doug Johns, South Bend, Indiana, pitcher for the Oakland A's |
| 1966 | Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier, Gold Medal 1988, 1992 Olympics |
| 1966 | Courtney Griffin, CFL defensive back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
| 1966 | Eric Weinrich, Roanoke, NHL defenseman, Chicago Blackhawks |
| 1966 | Monique Oliver, Malibu California, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-4th-1994 |
| 1966 | Rajesh Chauhan, cricketer, Indian off-spinner since 1993 |
| 1966 | Robert MacNaughton, New York City, actor, ET |
| 1966 | Roberto Beam, soccer player, Vitesse/MVV |
| 1965 | Chuckii Booker, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, singer, songwriter, bandleader, rhythm and blues artist, musical director, recorded and produced with Barry White, Janet Jackson |
| 1965 | Jessica Steen, Toronto, actress, Earth II, Homefront, Trial and Error |
| 1964 | Arvydas Sabonis, NBA center, Portland Trailblazers |
| 1964 | Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress, Betty Blue, Sabbath |
| 1964 | Lorie Kane, PEI Canada, LPGA golfer, du Maurier Ltd-1994, 95 |
| 1964 | Mike Fetters, Van Nuys California, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1964 | Randall McDaniel, NFL guard for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1963 | Chris Greatrex, LPGA golfer, 1995 Fielcrest Cannon Classic-71st |
| 1963 | Jennifer Beals, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Flashdance, Bride |
| 1963 | Karen Bliss-Livingston, Quakertown, Pennsylvania, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Bettina Huebers, born in Hamburg, Germany, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney |
| 1962 | Charith Senanayake, cricketer, played for Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand 1991 |
| 1961 | Reggie White, NFL defensive end, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1961 | Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist |
| 1960 | Daryl Hannah, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Splash |
| 1960 | Mike Lookinland, born in Mount Pleasant, Utah, actor, Bobby-Brady Bunch |
| 1959 | Edward Metgod, Dutch soccer goalie, Haarlem, Sparta |
| 1959 | Kathryn "Furu" Carpenter, Marshall, Michigan, fencer-epee 1996 Olympics |
| 1958 | Iqbal Sikander, cricketer, Pakistan leg-spinner 1992 World Cup |
| 1958 | Limahl, British rocker, Kajagoogoo-Too Shy |
| 1958 | Rick Pearson, Marianna, Florida, Nike golfer, 1990 Yuma Open |
| 1957 | Doug Johnson, rock keyboardist, Loverboy-Get Lucky |
| 1957 | Kevin McHale, NBA forward for the Boston Celtics |
| 1957 | Liz Glazowski, born in Chicago, Illinois, playmate, April, 1980 |
| 1956 | Alice Barrett, born in New York City, actress, Frankie Frame-Another World |
| 1955 | Susil Fernando, cricketer, 5 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983 |
| 1955 | Rob Portman, American Politician |
| 1953 | Peter McEwan, cricketer, New Zealand batsman early 80's |
| 1951 | Fred W. Leslie, Ancon Panama, PhD/astronaut, STS-73 |
| 1949 | Claudia A. Kolb, U.S., 200m breast stroke swimmer 1964 Olympic silver |
| 1949 | Lenny White, born in New York City, New York, musician, drummer, performed on Miles Davis' 'Bitches' Brew', recorded 'No Mystery', 'Romantic Warrior' with Return to Forever |
| 1947 | Janie Fricke, South Whitley, Indiana, singer, It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy |
| 1946 | Marianne Faithfull, born in Hampstead, England, singer, Money, As Tears Go By |
| 1946 | Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor, SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$ |
| 1945 | Elaine Joyce, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, City of Angels, Mr. Merlin |
| 1945 | John McEuen, rocker, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| 1944 | Alvin Lee, Nottingham England, rock vocals/guitarist, 10 Years After |
| 1944 | Richard Leakey, anthropologist |
| 1944 | Tim Reid, born in Norfolk, Virginia, comedian, Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place |
| 1944 | Zal Yanovsky, rock guitarist, Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe in Magic |
| 1943 | William De Vries, Brooklyn, surgeon-inventor, Symbion artifical heart |
| 1942 | Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer |
| 1941 | Maurice White, born in Memphis, Tennessee, nicknamed Reese, rocker, singer, songwriter, record producer, founded band Earth, Wind and Fire |
| 1940 | Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over |
| 1934 | Al Kaline, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Hall of Fame outfielder for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1934 | Rudi Carrell, Rudolf W. Kesselman, Dutch showmaster |
| 1933 | Cicely Tyson, born in Harlem, New York City, actress, Roots, Miss Jane Pittman |
| 1933 | James Booth, born in London, England, actor and writer, Zulu, Robbery, Revenge |
| 1933 | Mel Gussow, American Critic |
| 1929 | Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member, VVD |
| 1928 | Galt MacDermot, Montreal Canada, composer, Letting Down My Hair |
| 1928 | Michael Hurd, composer |
| 1926 | Bobby Layne, NFL quarterback, Detroit Lions |
| 1926 | Jeanne Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to UN |
| 1925 | Jimmy Dickens, Bolt, West Virginia, country singer, Grand Ole Opry |
| 1924 | Edmund Purdom, England, actor, Asissi Underground, Pieces |
| 1924 | Peter Prowtiny, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire |
| 1923 | Luigi Innocenti, designer |
| 1922 | Walter Hollerer, writer |
| 1921 | Ludvik Podest, composer |
| 1920 | David Susskind, New York City, TV host, Open End, David Susskind Show |
| 1920 | Ragnild Hveger, Denmark, 400m swimmer 1936 Olympics silver |
| 1917 | Graham Sharp, ice skater |
| 1916 | Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer, Sister at Sea |
| 1916 | Hal Hastings, New York City, orchestra leader, Chevrolet on Broadway |
| 1916 | Mervyn Wallace, cricketer, 13 Tests for New Zealand, latterly as captain |
| 1915 | Edith Piaf, E Giovanna Gassion, Paris, chanteuse, Little Sparrow |
| 1910 | Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks |
| 1910 | Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet and novelist |
| 1906 | H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole |
| 1906 | Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R., 1964 - 1982 |
| 1906 | Leonid I. Brezhnev, Politician |
| 1905 | Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer |
| 1903 | Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist, hereditary mechanisms |
| 1903 | George Davis Snell, Bradford Massachusetts, geneticist, H-2 gene |
| 1903 | George Snell, genetecist |
| 1903 | George D. Snell, American Scientist |
| 1902 | Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch |
| 1902 | Ralph Richardson, born in England, actor, Anna Karenina, Dr. Zhivago |
| 1901 | Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, New York City, anthropologist/novelist |
| 1901 | Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author, Presenea |
| 1897 | Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator |
| 1896 | John Seldon Whale, theologian |
| 1895 | Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet, Loke Saar Havre |
| 1895 | Maurice Roelants, Belgian author, Jazz Player |
| 1894 | Ford Frick, baseball commissioner, 1951 - 1965 |
| 1894 | Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter, Berlin, 1925-33 |
| 1894 | Yoshida Isoya, Tokyo, Japan, architect, modern sukiya style |
| 1893 | Harry Blomberg, Swedish author, Master Jacob |
| 1891 | Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, president-in-exile, 1979 - 1986 |
| 1890 | Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist/vicar, Occupied Territory |
| 1888 | Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| 1885 | F S Flint, born in London, England, translator/poet, imagist movement |
| 1884 | Antonin Zapotocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia |
| 1884 | Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer |
| 1883 | Louis Davids, Simon David, Dutch cabaret performer/chorus performer |
| 1883 | [Francis] Barry Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, architect |
| 1882 | Walter Braunfels, composer |
| 1880 | Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer |
| 1879 | Beals C Wright, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1905 |
| 1879 | Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer |
| 1878 | Anton Lajovic, composer |
| 1876 | Carlo Gatti, composer |
| 1875 | Carter G Woodson, New Canton, Virginia, American historian, black studies |
| 1875 | Carter G. Woodson, American Historian |
| 1869 | Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist, Homer |
| 1868 | Eleanor Porter, American Novelist |
| 1865 | Hermann Hirt, Magdeburg Prussia, linguist, Indo-European Grammar |
| 1865 | Minnie Maddern Fiske, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actress, Henrik Ibsen's plays |
| 1865 | Tikhon Toropets, Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint |
| 1864 | Adolf Sandberger, composer |
| 1861 | Constance [Clara] Garnett, Brighton England, Russian-English translator |
| 1861 | Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist, La Coscienza di Zeno |
| 1852 | A[lbert] A. Michelson, Strelno Prussia, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1907 |
| 1849 | Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke and steel operation |
| 1837 | John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1836 | Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator, PTA |
| 1832 | John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone |
| 1825 | George Frederick Bristow, composer |
| 1824 | Hercules Robinson, Ire, South Africa Commissioner, 1880-89, 1895-97 |
| 1821 | Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader |
| 1819 | James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1817 | James Jay Archer, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1814 | Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861 - 1865 |
| 1814 | Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer |
| 1813 | Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist, ozone |
| 1809 | Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Belg, paleont, life cycle of tapeworms |
| 1797 | Josef Theodor Krov, composer |
| 1796 | Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Quel Spain, poet/comic playwright |
| 1792 | [Andries] Hendrik Potgieter, Cape Colony, settled Transvaal |
| 1790 | William Parry, England, Arctic explorer |
| 1783 | Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician, Brianchon's theorem |
| 1779 | Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris, France, engraver |
| 1778 | Marie-Therese-Charlotte, daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette |
| 1753 | John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher, Jeffersonian Democracy |
| 1744 | Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland |
| 1723 | Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother |
| 1683 | Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain, 1700-24, 24-46 |
| 1676 | Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris, France, composer/organist |
| 1498 | Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist |
| 1036 | Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher |
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