| 1986 | Jeffery Wood, actor, Austin Warren-In The House |
| 1977 | Joanna Hughes, Victoria Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Stanislav Neckar, Pisek CZ, NHL defenseman, Ottawa Senators,Gold Meda 1998 Olympics |
| 1974 | Heather Donahue, American Actress |
| 1973 | Annie Pelletier, born in Montreal, Quebec, 3m diver 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1973 | Jamel Williams, safety for the Washington Redskins |
| 1972 | Andrew Moore, WLAF tackle for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1972 | Anthony Edwards, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Kirk Maltby, Guelph, NHL right wing for the Edmonton Oilers |
| 1972 | Mike Thompson, NFL defensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1972 | Vanessa Paradis, France, model, Channel, actress, White Wedding |
| 1970 | Brooks Findlay, CFL linebacker for the BC Lions |
| 1969 | Andrew Scott, Australian baseball infielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Marcie Aguilar, born in Tucson, Arizona, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets |
| 1968 | Lauralee "Bug" Bell, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Cricket-Young and Restless |
| 1967 | Mike Sullivan, NFL center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1967 | Roland Holder, cricketer, West Indian batsman in ODI's 1993- |
| 1967 | Sean Foster, WLAF wide reciever for the Rhein Fire |
| 1964 | Mike Jackson, born in Houston, Texas, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1963 | Bryan McMillan, cricketer, brilliant South African all-rounder since 1992 |
| 1962 | Ralph Fiennes, born in Suffolk, England, actor, English Patient |
| 1961 | Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko, Russian Lt-colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-19 |
| 1960 | Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter, Gray, SAMO |
| 1960 | Tyrell Biggs, Philadelphia, super HW boxer 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1958 | Lenny Von Dohlen, Augusta Georgia, actor, Love Kills, Electric Dreams |
| 1957 | Ricky Ross, British rock vocalist, Deacon Blue-Raintown |
| 1957 | Susan Powter, diet guru/author/talk show host, Susan Powter Show |
| 1956 | Marcy Hanson, born in Galveston, Texas, playmate, October 1978 |
| 1954 | Derick Parry, cricketer, WI off-spinner early 80's |
| 1954 | Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader |
| 1953 | Bernnadette Stanis, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Thelma-Good Times |
| 1953 | David Leisner, born in America, teacher, classical guitarist, composer, taught at Manhattan School of Music, expert in focal dystonia |
| 1951 | Charles de Lint, Netherlands, sci-fi author, Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow |
| 1951 | Gerald Grosvenor, English 6th duke of Westminster/billionaire |
| 1951 | Jan Stephenson, Sydney Australia, golfer, LPGA Rookie of Year-1974 |
| 1949 | Manfred Burgsmuller, WLAF kicker for the Rhein Fire |
| 1949 | Maurice Gibb, Manchester Eng, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever |
| 1949 | Michael Osborne, rock guitarist and vocalist, Axe |
| 1949 | Robin Gibb, born in Manchester, England, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever |
| 1948 | Chris Old, cricketer, England medium-pacer of 70's |
| 1948 | Noel Edmonds, British TV personality, Foul-ups, Bleeps and Blunders |
| 1948 | Steve Garvey, 1st baseman, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres |
| 1948 | Lynne Thigpen, Joliet, Illinois, actress, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Nancy-Love Sidney |
| 1947 | Brian C Daley, U.S., sci-fi author, Exploits of Han Solo, Tron |
| 1947 | Dilip Doshi, cricketer, India's main slow lefty post-Bedi |
| 1946 | Rick Nielsen, Rockford, Illinois, rock vocalist and guitarist, Cheap Trick |
| 1946 | Roberta Speer, LPGA golfer |
| 1945 | Diane Sawyer, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time |
| 1945 | Joris J C Voorhoeve, Dutch Defense minister, 1994-, VVD |
| 1945 | Marianne van Wijnkoop, Bosscher, Dutch actress, Les Miserables |
| 1944 | Barry Jenkins, rocker, Animals-House of the Rising Sun |
| 1944 | Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher, Cy Young 1972, 1977, 1980, 1982 |
| 1944 | Mary Archer, British Scientist |
| 1943 | Billie Jean King, born in Long Beach, California, tennis pro |
| 1943 | Paul Wolfowitz, American Celebrity |
| 1938 | Lucien Bouchard, Canadian Lawyer |
| 1937 | Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician |
| 1936 | Hector Elizondo, New York City, actor, American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love |
| 1935 | John L Finley, USAF/astronaut |
| 1935 | Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov, Russia, pairs skater, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics |
| 1932 | Joe Clark, born in Los Angeles, California, WLAF off coordinator coach for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1930 | Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1929 | Jan Wiegel, director/producer, Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada |
| 1929 | Wazir Mohammad, cricketer, eldest of Pakistan's 4 Mohammed brothers |
| 1928 | Piero Angelo, Italian writer, Control |
| 1926 | Peggy Castle, Appalachia, Virginia, actress, Lily Merrill-Lawman |
| 1925 | Gunther Schuller, New York City, jazz composer |
| 1925 | Thomas Christian David, composer |
| 1924 | Frank Corsaro, New York harbor, opera director |
| 1924 | Geraldine Page, Kirksville, Missouri, actress, Interiors, Beguiled |
| 1924 | Dan Devine, American Coach |
| 1923 | Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director |
| 1922 | Barbara Billingsley, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, June-Leave it to Beaver |
| 1922 | Calder Willingham, novelist/scriptwriter |
| 1922 | Jim Wright, born in Fort Worth, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1987 - 1989, Speaker of House |
| 1921 | Hawkshaw Hawkins, Huntington, West Virginia, country singer, Ozark Jubilee |
| 1921 | Robert Frank Kurka, composer |
| 1918 | Frankie Darro, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men |
| 1918 | William Kennedy, baseball player |
| 1917 | Andrew Fielding Huxley, born in London, England, physiologist, Nobel 1963 |
| 1917 | Gene Rayburn, born in Christopher, Illinois, TV game show host, Match Game |
| 1917 | Piet De Somer, Belgian rector, University of Leuven |
| 1913 | Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller |
| 1913 | Benjamin Britten, born in Suffolk, England, opera composer |
| 1912 | Doris Duke, New York City, heiress, American Tobacco Co |
| 1912 | Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles, 1938 |
| 1912 | Lady Bird Johnson, born in Texas, First Lady of the United States, called "Lady Bird", beautified Washington, D.C. |
| 1912 | Claudia Johnson, American First Lady |
| 1911 | Grote Reber, U.S., astronomer, 1st parabolic radio telescope |
| 1910 | Richard Ainley, Middlesex England, actor, I Dood It, Above Suspicion |
| 1909 | Alan Carney, David Boughal, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Zombies on Broadway |
| 1908 | Giacomo Manzu, Italy, sculptor, St. Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize |
| 1908 | Marius F Duintjer, Dutch architect |
| 1908 | Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin |
| 1907 | Peggy Ashcroft, Croydon England, actress, Dear Brutus, Happy Days |
| 1907 | Yoshio Hasegawa, composer |
| 1905 | Kenneth Rexroth, U.S., poet, critic and translator Birds in the Bush |
| 1905 | Pierre Brasseur, Espinasse, French actor, Enfants du Paradis |
| 1904 | Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970 |
| 1903 | Barbara Moore, doctor, walked across U.S. in 86 days in 1960 |
| 1903 | H Keffer Hartline, U.S., biophysicist, Nobel 1967 |
| 1903 | Marc Lavry, composer |
| 1903 | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist |
| 1902 | Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, France, WW II hero, liberator of Paris |
| 1902 | Joe Adonis, Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York and New Jersey |
| 1901 | Andre Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Lincoln Portrari |
| 1901 | Joaquin Rodrigo, Spain, composer |
| 1900 | Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher |
| 1899 | Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M |
| 1899 | Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington, Indiana, pianist/composer |
| 1899 | Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer |
| 1898 | Lionel Charles Robbins, Middlesex England, economist |
| 1896 | Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St. Petersburg Russia, poet |
| 1891 | Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent |
| 1890 | Charles de Gaulle, Lille France, premier of France |
| 1890 | Mark Tobey, U.S. abstract painter, Broadway Norm |
| 1889 | Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright |
| 1889 | Minor Watson, Marianna AR, actor, Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid |
| 1889 | B. Carroll Reece, American Politician |
| 1888 | Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron |
| 1887 | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician |
| 1885 | Joseph Deems Taylor, New York City, composer, Peter Ibbetson |
| 1883 | Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners |
| 1883 | Edgard Victor Achille C Varese, Paris, France, composer, Innisation |
| 1882 | Charles Vildrac, Paris, France, poet/playwright |
| 1881 | Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician |
| 1879 | Ralph Hawtrey, Buckinghamshire England, economist, multiplier |
| 1879 | Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion, 1925 |
| 1877 | Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet |
| 1876 | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer, Futurism e Futurista |
| 1875 | Antoine Mariotte, composer |
| 1875 | John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor, Dead Water |
| 1874 | Franz Schmidt, composer |
| 1874 | Herman Harrell Horne, Clayton, North Carolina, philosopher, idealism |
| 1873 | Leopold Stennett Amery, British politician |
| 1873 | Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Austria-Hungary, linguist |
| 1869 | Edwin Arlington Robinson, U.S., poet, Richard Corey |
| 1869 | Andre Gide, French Novelist |
| 1869 | Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant |
| 1868 | John Nance Garner, Texas, Vice President-D-1933-41 |
| 1867 | Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic |
| 1867 | Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, Silesia, German architect, Wiener Sezession |
| 1867 | Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general |
| 1866 | Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer |
| 1863 | Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter |
| 1863 | Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier and explorer, Sudan |
| 1862 | Connie Mack, born in East Brookfield, Massachusetts, HOF baseball executive/manager, Philadelphia A's 1900 - 1950 |
| 1861 | Erich Schaeder, German theologist, Theocentric Theology |
| 1859 | Cecil [James] Sharp, born in London, England, folk musician |
| 1858 | Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer, La Boheme, La Tosca |
| 1857 | George Gissing, England, novelist |
| 1856 | Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929 |
| 1856 | Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician |
| 1853 | Maria Teresa Carreno, composer |
| 1849 | Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism |
| 1847 | Heihatjiro Tojo, Japan, Admiral, Russian-Japanese war |
| 1846 | Andreas Hallen, composer |
| 1846 | Oscar Carre, Dutch circus director |
| 1844 | Izydor Lotto, composer |
| 1842 | Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet |
| 1842 | Nicola d' Arienzo, composer |
| 1832 | Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1831 | Mark Rutherford, writer |
| 1831 | Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army |
| 1831 | Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet |
| 1830 | Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope |
| 1826 | James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General |
| 1821 | Giovanni Bottesini, composer |
| 1819 | Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor |
| 1819 | George Eliot, England, Victorian novelist, Adam Bede |
| 1815 | Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian |
| 1815 | Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader |
| 1812 | Johanne Luise Heiberg, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Romeo and Juliet |
| 1809 | Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, French psychologist, dementia praecox |
| 1808 | Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son |
| 1803 | Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1795 | Thomas Ainsworth, English/Netherlands industrialist, Twentse textile |
| 1787 | Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar |
| 1768 | John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher |
| 1767 | Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, military leader, fought Napoleon's France |
| 1764 | Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility |
| 1761 | Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress |
| 1753 | Dugald Stewart, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, Scottish common sense |
| 1735 | Ulrich Braker, writer |
| 1728 | Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden |
| 1727 | William Ellery, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence |
| 1723 | Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer |
| 1710 | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach |
| 1702 | Jean E Liotard, Turk, Swiss painter, Madame d'Epinay |
| 1700 | Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent |
| 1696 | James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia |
| 1684 | Johann J Dillenius, Dillen, German botanist, Historia Muscorum |
| 1643 | Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer, Louisiana |
| 1639 | Jean Racine, born in La Ferte-Milon, France, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate' |
| 1624 | Tomas Micieres, composer |
| 1573 | Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen |
| 1523 | Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen |
| 1515 | Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland |
| 1459 | Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II |
| 1452 | Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer |
| 1428 | Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury |
| 1400 | Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor, Madonna of Rose Garden |
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