| 1993 | Elian Gonzalez, Cuban Celebrity |
| 1979 | Tim Cahill, Australian Athlete |
| 1976 | Alicia Machado, Venezuela, Miss Universe 1996 |
| 1976 | Lindsay Price, Arcadia California, actress, Bold and Beautiful, All My Children |
| 1976 | Colleen Haskell, American Celebrity |
| 1975 | Natalie Titcume, Australian softball catcher 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1974 | Arjan Ebbinge, soccer player, FC Groningen |
| 1973 | Tim Kohn, guard and tackle for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1972 | Brendan Garard, Australian field hockey halfback 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Gary Bandy, NFL defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1972 | James Logan, NFL linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1972 | Mike Gruttadauri, corner for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1971 | Ainsley Robinson, Oshawa Ontario, 62 kg Greco Roman wrestler 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | David Defiagbon, Sapele Nigeria, Canadian boxer, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1971 | Matt Maloney, NBA guard for the Houston Rockets |
| 1971 | Richard Krajicek, Netherlands, tennis star, Wimbledon-1996 |
| 1971 | Rika Hiraki, Beirut Lebanon, tennis star, 1992 Japan doubles |
| 1971 | Thomas Bailey, NFL wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1970 | Eric Mahlum, NFL guard for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1969 | Elmore Spencer, NBA center, Portland Trail Blazers |
| 1969 | Greg Knox, CFL safety for the Calgary Stampeders |
| 1969 | Todd Black, Kenton Ohio, 800m runner |
| 1967 | Kevin Appier, Lancaster California, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1967 | Spanky Marcus, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman |
| 1966 | Lindsay Price, actress, All My Children |
| 1964 | Will Johnson, CFL defensive end for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1962 | Ben Watt, rocker, Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood |
| 1962 | Janine Turner, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, actress, Maggie-Northern Exposure |
| 1960 | Jasmina Perazic Gipe, WNBA guard and forward, New York Liberty |
| 1958 | Nick Park, British Director |
| 1957 | Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuba, discus thrower, Olympic-bronze-1980 |
| 1957 | Andrew Cuomo, American Politician |
| 1956 | Peter Buck, U.S. pop guitarist, REM-Murmur |
| 1956 | Randy Rhoads, born in Santa Monica, California, rocker, guitarist, songwriter, producer, studied classical guitar, member of Quiet Riot, played with Ozzy Ozbourne |
| 1955 | Bill Lloyd, Bowling Green, Kentucky, singer, Foster and Lloyd-Crazy Over You |
| 1955 | Malcolm Jarvis, cricket lefty paceman, Zimbabwe's 1st Test side |
| 1955 | Rick Buckler, Paul Richard Buckler, rock drummer, Jam |
| 1955 | Steven Wright, droll comedian, Steven Wright Live |
| 1955 | Tish Hinojosa, San Antonia, Texas, country singer, Something in the Rain |
| 1954 | Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, musician, rocker, songwriter, record producer, formed the dB's, founded Car Records indie record label, founded recording studio called Modern Recording where he recorded and mixed Whiskeytown |
| 1954 | Miles Chapin, New York City, actor, French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse |
| 1953 | Gina Hecht, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork and Mindy |
| 1953 | Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor, Scott-General Hospital, Rituals |
| 1953 | Thomas Hulce, Plymouth, Michigan, actor, Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park |
| 1953 | Wil Shriner, New York City/Indiana, talk show host, Wil Shriner Show |
| 1953 | Geoff Hoon, British Politician |
| 1952 | Ric Charlesworth, cricketer, WA opener, Australia hockey captain, MP, Labour |
| 1950 | Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist, Viva la Libertad |
| 1949 | Peter Willey, cricketer, England batsman late 70's early 80's |
| 1948 | Don Nickles, born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Senator-R-Oklahoma 1981 - 2005 |
| 1948 | JoBeth Williams, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Kramer vs Kramer, Poltergeist |
| 1948 | Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, Duesseldorf Germany, rocker, Stinker |
| 1947 | Miroslav Vitous, born in Prague, Czech Republic, bassist, double bass, electric bass, jazz musician, compared to Dave Holland, Christian McBride |
| 1946 | Frank Hayes, cricketer, 106* England vs. WI on debut 1973 |
| 1945 | James Naughton, Middleton CT, actor, Stranger is Watching |
| 1945 | Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman, Phillies |
| 1944 | Jonathan King, born in London, England, Kenneth George King, singer, songwriter, pop music producer, wrote song 'Everyone's Gone to the Moon', successful writer, producer for other musical artists |
| 1943 | Mike Smith, born in Edmonston, England, born Michael George Smith, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, music producer, played for The Dave Clark Five |
| 1942 | Len Barry, Leonard Borisoff, Philadelphia, rocker, Bristol Stomp |
| 1942 | Peter Handke, Austrian songwriter, Ritt uber den Bodensee |
| 1941 | Helen Cornelius, Hannibal, Missouri, country singer, Nashville on the Road |
| 1941 | John Nelson, San Jose Costa Rica, conductor, Les Troyens of Berlioz |
| 1941 | Richard Speck, mass murderer, killed 8 student nurses in 1966 |
| 1941 | Bruce Nauman, American Artist |
| 1940 | Steve Alaimo, born in Rochester, New York, rocker, Mashed Potatoes |
| 1939 | Tomas Svoboda, born in Paris, France, Czechoslovakian composer, Etude |
| 1938 | David Ossman, comedian, Firesign Theater |
| 1935 | Robert Crandall, American Businessman |
| 1934 | Nick Bockwinkel, wrestler, WCW/AWA |
| 1933 | Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, composer |
| 1933 | Jim Pothecary, cricketer, South African pace bowler on 1960 England tour |
| 1930 | Bobby Van, Robert King, New York City, singer, Hollywood Palace |
| 1929 | King Moody, New York City, actor, Shtarker-Get Smart |
| 1929 | Mark Kopytman, composer |
| 1928 | Bert Geoffrey Achong, inventor, electron microscopist |
| 1927 | Jacques Bondon, composer |
| 1926 | Martti Katajisto, Parkano Finland, actor, Mar Oksalla Ylimmaellae |
| 1925 | Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end, Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants |
| 1924 | Wally Cox, Detroit, actor, Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares |
| 1921 | Nicolas A. Pina, Venezulian/Aruban songwriter |
| 1921 | Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1920 | Dave Brubeck, Concord California, jazz pianist/composer, Gates of Justice |
| 1920 | George Porter, English Scientist |
| 1919 | Paul de Man, Belgian Critic |
| 1918 | Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner |
| 1918 | Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor, Endoscope |
| 1918 | Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter |
| 1918 | Willem Oosterheers, resistance fighter |
| 1914 | Cyril Washbrook, cricketer, stalwart Lancs and England opener |
| 1913 | Eleanor Holm, New York City, 100m backstroke swimmer 1932 Olympics gold |
| 1911 | Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary |
| 1910 | Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator |
| 1909 | Alan McGilvray, cricketer, 20 games for NSW mid 30's, comentator, ABC |
| 1909 | Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist |
| 1906 | Agnes Moorehead, Clinton Massachusetts, actress, Endora-Bewitched |
| 1906 | Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician |
| 1904 | Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie |
| 1902 | Virgilio Mortari, composer |
| 1899 | Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith |
| 1899 | Nikolai Batalov, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Mother |
| 1898 | Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist |
| 1898 | Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist, Nobel 1974 |
| 1898 | Herman Shumlin, actor, Watch on the Rhine |
| 1897 | John Axel Fernstrom, composer |
| 1896 | Arnold Foster, composer |
| 1896 | George Trafton, NFL center for the Chicago Bears |
| 1896 | Ira Gershwin, lyricist, 'S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm |
| 1893 | Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960 |
| 1893 | Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist |
| 1892 | F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet and writer, Out of the Flame |
| 1892 | Lina Carstens, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, actress, Homeland, Broken Jug |
| 1887 | Joseph Lamb, composer |
| 1887 | Lynn Fontanne, born in Woodford, England, Bdwy actress, Dulcy, Arms and the Man |
| 1886 | Joyce Kilmer, U.S., male, poet, Trees |
| 1885 | Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer, The General |
| 1884 | Rose Schneiderman, New York state department of labor sect, 1937-44 |
| 1876 | Dewi Angrenie, Martha CA Giese, Flemish/Dutch actress, Champagne |
| 1872 | Mikulas Moyzes, composer |
| 1870 | William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns, Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds |
| 1864 | William S. Hart, American Actor |
| 1846 | Henryk Jarecki, composer |
| 1843 | Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher |
| 1833 | John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col Confederate Army |
| 1831 | Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1823 | Max Muller, German Educator |
| 1823 | Max Mueller, German Writer |
| 1822 | John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US |
| 1816 | Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1809 | Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1808 | Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author, Future |
| 1808 | Johann Christian Gebauer, composer |
| 1806 | Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer |
| 1803 | Susanna Moodie, British Author |
| 1792 | Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer, Biographic Dictionary |
| 1792 | Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands, 1840-49 |
| 1788 | Richard Harris Barham, English Comedian |
| 1776 | Paul Friedrich Struck, composer |
| 1775 | Nicolas Isouard, composer |
| 1768 | Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer |
| 1743 | Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer |
| 1732 | Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India, 1773-84 |
| 1731 | S von Laroche, writer |
| 1608 | George Monck/Monk, English general and Governor of Scotland |
| 1550 | Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer |
| 1421 | Henry VI, king of England, 1422-61, 1470-71 |
| 1285 | Ferdinand V, king of Castile and Leon |
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