| 1978 | Kate Robinson, Peoria, Illinois, dance skater, & Kate Robinson |
| 1978 | Ian Somerhalder, American Actor |
| 1977 | Elsa Benitez, Mexican Model |
| 1976 | Dominic Monaghan, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, known for playing role of Merry in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'Lost' and 'FlashForward' television shows |
| 1974 | Paul Staight, Victoria Australia, badminton player 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Mitch Jacoby, tight end for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1973 | Monty Montgomery, defensiveback for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1971 | Garvin Alston, Mount Vernon, New York, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies |
| 1971 | James Stewart, NFL running back for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1969 | Antoon Kuil, soccer player, Veendam, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1969 | Bobby Phillips, WLAF running back, Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1969 | Darrin Shannon, Barrie, NHL left wing, Winnipeg Jets |
| 1969 | Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America 1991 |
| 1969 | Victor Green, NFL cornerback and safety for the New York Jets |
| 1968 | Bill Johnson, defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1968 | Mike Mussina, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles |
| 1967 | Jeff George, NFL quarterback, Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders |
| 1967 | Marina Augusta Baker, Windsor England, playmate, Mar, 1987 |
| 1967 | Ron George, linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1967 | Tony Mayberry, NFL center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1966 | Douglas Allan Martin, Bluffton, Ohio, PGA golfer, 1995 Buick-2nd |
| 1966 | Joe Staysniak, NFL guard for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1966 | Matthew Laborteaux, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Albert-Little House on Prairie |
| 1966 | Sinead O'Connor, Dublin Ireland, singer, Nothing Compares 2 U |
| 1965 | Greg Truitt, NFL safety/linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1965 | Teresa Weatherspoon, WNBA guard, New York Liberty |
| 1965 | Troy Sadowski, NFL tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1964 | James Martinez, Santa Fe, New Mexico, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Teri Hatcher, born in Sunnyvale, California, actress, Lois Lane-Lois and Clark |
| 1962 | Berry van Aerle, Dutch soccer star, PSV |
| 1962 | Stephen John Elkington, Inverell Australia, PGA golfer, 1990 Kmart |
| 1961 | Ann Coulter, born in New York City, New York, conservative political commentator, author, 'Godless: The Church of Liberalism', 'How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)' |
| 1959 | Mark Dickson, born in Tampa, Florida, tennis star |
| 1959 | Marty Raybon, Sanford, Florida, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South |
| 1959 | Paul Rutherford, vocalist, Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax |
| 1958 | Billy Hufsey, actor, Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life |
| 1958 | Wayne Dickert, Chattanooga, Tennessee, slalom double canoe, Olympics-11th-96 |
| 1956 | Warren Cuccurullo, rock guitarist, Missing Persons |
| 1955 | Ian Greig, cricketer, brother of Tony Two Tests for England 1982 |
| 1954 | Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist |
| 1953 | Kim Basinger, Athens, Georgia, actress, 9 Weeks, Batman |
| 1953 | Roy Firestone, sportscaster, Life's Most Embarrassing Moments |
| 1953 | Tom Barrett, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, politician, Democratic party, 38th Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| 1952 | Richie Morales, drummer, Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance |
| 1952 | Sam Kinison, screaming comedian/actor, Back to School, Charlie Hoover |
| 1950 | Dan Hartman, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, singer, songwriter, record producer, known for "I Can Dream About You" |
| 1950 | Rick Baker, Binghamton, New York, special effects makeup artist, Exorcist |
| 1949 | Mary Gordon, U.S., author |
| 1949 | Ray Shulman, born in Portsmouth, England, born Raymond Schulman, musician, record producer, member of Gentle Giant, British progressive rock band, produced records for The Sugarcubes |
| 1949 | Robert Sternberg, American Educator |
| 1947 | Belinda Balaski, Inglewood California, actor, Cannonball, Proud Men, Howling |
| 1947 | Frans Leijnse, Dutch politician, PvdA 2nd Chamber |
| 1947 | Gregg Allman, Nashville, guitarist and vocalist, Allman Brothers Band |
| 1947 | Thomas R. Cech, American Scientist |
| 1946 | John Rubinstein, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/composer, Family, Boys from Brazil |
| 1943 | Jim Morrison, born in Melbourne, Florida, singer, Doors |
| 1943 | Mary Woronov, Brooklyn Hgts, New York, actress, Eating Raoul, Terror Vision |
| 1943 | Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief, Evening News, Manchester |
| 1942 | Bobby Elliot, rock drummer, Hollies |
| 1942 | Hemant Kanitkar, cricketer, batted in two Tests India vs. WI 1974 |
| 1942 | Mario Savio, born in New York, New York, activist, member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Sproul Plaza steps named Mario Savio Steps, taught mathematics, philosophy, logic at Sonoma State University |
| 1941 | Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch undersecretary of Economic, VVD |
| 1941 | Geoff Hurst, cricketer, Essex 1962, better known as soccer immortal |
| 1940 | Jenny Linden, English actress, Hedda, Dr. Who and the Daleks |
| 1940 | Nick Nolte, actor, Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40 |
| 1939 | James Galway, born in Belfast. Ireland, flutist, 18k gold flute, Royal Phil |
| 1939 | Jerry Butler, Sunflower Mississippi, rock vocalist, Never Give You Up |
| 1939 | Lynn Wilson, contractor/multi-millionaire |
| 1938 | John Agyekum Kufuor, Ghanaian Statesman |
| 1937 | James MacArthur, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0 |
| 1937 | Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch undersecretary of Defense, CDA |
| 1936 | David Carradine, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Kung Fu, Mean Streets |
| 1936 | Peter Parfitt, cricketer, fine England batsman of the 1960's |
| 1936 | W S "Buster" Farrer, cricketer, South African Test batsman 1962-64 |
| 1933 | Flip Wilson, Clerow, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, comedian, Flip Wilson Show |
| 1931 | Rudolf Komorous, composer |
| 1930 | John Morressy, U.S., sci-fi author, Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane |
| 1930 | Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor and director, Odessa File, Julia |
| 1929 | Goffredo Parise, writer |
| 1927 | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 4, 8, 10 |
| 1925 | James E "Jimmy" Smith, U.S. jazz/organist, Walk on the Wild Side |
| 1925 | Sammy Davis, Jr., New York City, singer/dancer/actor, Ocean's 11, Candy Man |
| 1922 | George Fullerton, cricketer, South African keeper-batsman 1947-51 |
| 1922 | Jean Ritchie, rocker |
| 1922 | John B McKay, U.S. test pilot, X-15 |
| 1922 | Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist, Boy With a Rat |
| 1921 | Johnny Otis, California, R&B talent scout, Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up |
| 1921 | Terence Morgan, born in London, England, actor, Adv of Sir Francis Drake |
| 1921 | Terence Weil, cellist/teacher |
| 1920 | Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner 1952 Olympics bronze |
| 1920 | Ron Gulliford, educationalist |
| 1919 | Hans-Dieter Hosalla, composer |
| 1919 | Moyssey Samuilovich Vaynberg, composer |
| 1918 | Gerard Souzay, Angers France, baritone, Le Nozze di Figaro |
| 1918 | Ian Johnson, cricketer, Australian Test captbetween Hassett and Craig |
| 1917 | Rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist/composer, Ca'i Organ |
| 1916 | Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep |
| 1915 | Denis Harding, soldier |
| 1915 | George Scheuer, writer/journalist |
| 1913 | Delmore Schwartz, U.S., poet/short story writer/critic, Shenandoah |
| 1913 | Paul Felix, Flemish architect, Sun Song |
| 1912 | Jura Soyfer, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, writer, political journalist, imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, wrote the Dachau song with composer Herbert Zipper |
| 1911 | Lee J Cobb, New York City, actor, Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront |
| 1911 | Lee J. Cobb, American Actor |
| 1909 | Cleo Brown, born in Mississippi, pianist, vocalist, stage name Cleo Patra Brown, performed on National Public Radio, stride piano playing was compared to Fats Waller |
| 1908 | John Volpe, Gov-Mass, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1969 - 1973 |
| 1907 | Tony Aubin, composer |
| 1906 | Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist, How Green Was My Valley |
| 1905 | Charles Cushing, composer |
| 1905 | Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer |
| 1905 | Frank Faylen, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis |
| 1905 | Julius Silverman, politician |
| 1904 | Wilmer L Allison, Jr., tennis champ, U.S. Open-1935 |
| 1903 | Adele Simpson, New York City, fashion designer, Neiman-Marcus Award-1946 |
| 1903 | Irene Eisinger, singer |
| 1903 | Kathleen, Kitty, Rosalind Muggeridge, author |
| 1903 | Zoltan Szekely, composer |
| 1899 | James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist |
| 1899 | John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor, Grapes of Wrath, Searchers |
| 1899 | Sarah Williamson, U.S. missionary in Liberia |
| 1897 | Leslie Heward, composer |
| 1894 | James Thurber, American Comedian |
| 1890 | Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer, Hry o Marti |
| 1890 | Bohuslav Martinu, composer |
| 1889 | W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet, Anthony Adverse |
| 1889 | Hervey Allen, American Author |
| 1888 | Fiske Kimball, U.S. architect/art historian |
| 1888 | Paul Cavanagh, Chislehurst England, actor, Tarzan and his Mate |
| 1888 | Vesey D'Davoren, character actor |
| 1887 | Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer |
| 1886 | Diego Rivera, Lenin of Mexico, Mexico, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo |
| 1882 | Manuel Maria Ponce, Fresnillo Mexico, composer, Estrellita |
| 1881 | Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems |
| 1879 | Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor, Bauhaus, |
| 1877 | Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer |
| 1865 | Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, Taylor series |
| 1865 | Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer, Valse Triste, Finlandia |
| 1864 | Camille Claudel, French Artist |
| 1862 | Georges Feydeau, French playwright, La Dame de Chez Maxim's |
| 1861 | Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor, Seated Woman |
| 1861 | Georges Melies, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story |
| 1861 | William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine |
| 1832 | Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway, novelist, Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903 |
| 1828 | Clinton Bowen Fisk, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1828 | Robert Bullock, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1828 | Henry Timrod, American Poet |
| 1826 | Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist |
| 1822 | Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1811 | Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer |
| 1795 | Jacques Francois Gallay, composer |
| 1789 | John Fawcett, composer |
| 1765 | Eli Whitney, inventor, Cotton Gin |
| 1744 | Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer |
| 1741 | Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer and choreographer, Menuet Reine |
| 1737 | Robert Kimmerling, composer |
| 1731 | Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer |
| 1730 | John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia |
| 1728 | Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author |
| 1715 | John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet, Frisianche rymlery |
| 1708 | Francis I, Holy Roman emperor, 1745-1765 |
| 1704 | Anton de Haen, medical expert, Ratio Medendi |
| 1626 | Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic |
| 1542 | Mary Queen of Scots, Scottish Royalty |
| 1508 | Gemma Frisius, Jemme Reinersz, Frisian geographer and astronomer |
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