| 1997 | Michael Jackson, Jr., son of Michael Jackson |
| 1981 | Kelly Rowland, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, actress, founding member of group, Destiny's Child, sold more than 50 million albums, collaborated with Nelly on 'Dilemma' single |
| 1980 | Matthew Lawrence, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, actor, Matthew-Gimme a Break |
| 1980 | Natasha Bobo, Watsonville California, actress, Sally-Together We Stand |
| 1979 | Brandy Norwood, born in McComb, Mississippi, known as 'Brandy', singer, songwriter, appeared in film, 'Cinderella', Grammy-Award winning song, 'The Boy is Mine' |
| 1977 | Jessica Carlson, Kalamazoo, Michigan, archer, alt-Olympics-1996 |
| 1977 | Stephanie Richardson, born in Toronto, Ontario, 200m/800m swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Veronica Marie Duka, Campbellsville, Kentucky, Miss America, Kentucky-Top 10-1997 |
| 1977 | Mike Shinoda, American Musician |
| 1976 | Brice Beckham, born in Long Beach, California, actor, Wesley-Mr Belvedare |
| 1976 | Tony Battie, NBA forward for the Denver Nuggets |
| 1975 | Chuck Watanabe, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Jacque Vaughn, NBA guard, Utah Jazz |
| 1974 | Brian Newman, guard for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1974 | Ronnie Ward, linebacker for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1974 | Wally Richardson, quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens |
| 1973 | Tom Tumulty, linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1972 | Dennis Iliohan, Dutch soccer player, FC Lisse, ADO Den Haag |
| 1972 | Steve McManaman, English Athlete |
| 1971 | Jennifer Lynne Faucette, Burlington Vermont, Miss America-Vt 1996 |
| 1971 | John Bock, NFL center, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins |
| 1971 | Linda Wild, Arlington Heights, Illinois, tennis star, 1993 Melbourne Open |
| 1970 | Alistair Brown, cricketer, Surrey and England ODI opening batsman 1996 |
| 1970 | Jason Allyn Scott, Iowa City Iowa, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Bryan Eversgerd, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1969 | Jennifer Aniston, born in Sherman Oaks, California, actress, Rachel-Friends |
| 1969 | Joe Valerio, NFL outside corner/tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1969 | Kevin King, U.S. baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1969 | Mark Atkinson, cricket wicket-keeper, Tasmanian batsman |
| 1969 | Mary Stoker, Miss Wisconsin USA 1996 |
| 1969 | Shannon Long, Gladstone Australia, playmate, Oct, 1988 |
| 1967 | Barbara Byrne, Princeton, New Jersey, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Chris Reohr, Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, fencer 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Derek King, Hamilton, NHL left wing for the New York Islanders |
| 1967 | John Patterson, U.S. baseball infielder for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1966 | Alexander Semak, Ufa Russia, NHL center for the New York Islanders |
| 1966 | Anthony Parker, NFL cornerback, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams, TB Bucs |
| 1966 | Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star |
| 1966 | Stephen Gregory, New York City, actor, Chase-Young and Restless |
| 1965 | Angie Ridgeway, Wabash, Indiana, LPGA golfer, 1992 Sara Lee-8th |
| 1963 | Todd Benzinger, U.S. baseball player for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1962 | Scott Kolden, Torrance California, actor, Scott-Me and the Champ |
| 1962 | Sheryl Crow, vocalist, All I Want to Do-Grammy 1995 |
| 1962 | Tammy Baldwin, American Politician |
| 1961 | Becky LeBeau, born in Los Angeles, California, vocalist, Mischief |
| 1961 | Carey Lowell, New York City, actress, Me and Him, Guardian, Dangerously Close |
| 1961 | Mary Docter, U.S., 3000m speed skater, Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92 |
| 1960 | Richard A. Mastracchio, Waterbury, Connecticut, astronaut |
| 1959 | Corinne Shigemoto, U.S. judo coach 1996 Olympics |
| 1958 | Regina Marsikova, Czechoslovakia, tennis star |
| 1956 | Kathleen Beller, Queens, New York, actress, Ft. Apache the Bronx, Touched |
| 1954 | Catherine Hickland, Ft. Lauderdale, actress, Capitol, Star Trek IV |
| 1953 | Alan Rubin, music figure, Blues Brothers |
| 1953 | Philip Anglim, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Dane-Thorn Birds |
| 1953 | Stephen D. Thorne, born in Frankfurt-on-Main, West Germany, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut |
| 1953 | Jeb Bush, politician, born in Midland, Texas, 43rd Governor of Florida, younger brother of former President George W. Bush |
| 1950 | Clarence Ellis, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, football player, safety, played with National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, drafted in first round of 1972 NFL Draft |
| 1950 | Ernest Istook, born in Fort Worth, Texas, Representative-R-Oklahoma 1993 - 2007 |
| 1950 | Johanna E "Joke" Beerens, actress, Schipper Next to God |
| 1950 | Rochelle Fleming, U.S. soul vocalist, First Choice, Smarty Pants |
| 1949 | Charlie Hargrett, rock guitarist, Blackfoot |
| 1948 | Sue Bernard, born in Los Angeles, California, playmate, Dec, 1966 |
| 1947 | Derek Shulman, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, singer, rocker, instrumentalist, vocalist for band Gentle Giant, recorded twelve albums with them in ten years |
| 1947 | Roy Moore, American Judge |
| 1946 | M C Walker, CEO, Iceland Frozen Foods |
| 1946 | Timothy Chambers, pediatrician |
| 1944 | Bert Greene, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, professional golfer, played for the Professional Golf Association Tour |
| 1944 | Buddhadev Dasgupta, director, Charachar, Grihajuddha |
| 1944 | Mike Oxley, born in Findlay, Ohio, Representative-R-Ohio 1981 - 2007 |
| 1944 | Michael Oxley, American Politician |
| 1943 | Iain Cameron, British brigadier |
| 1943 | Win Griffiths, born in Wales, born Winston James Griffiths, politician, Labor Party, served as Member of Parliament for Bridgend, member of the European Parliament, Chairman of Bro Margannwg NHS Trust |
| 1943 | Rob Simmons, American Politician |
| 1942 | Archie Andrews, comic book character, Archie |
| 1942 | James Couchman, born in England, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Gillingham |
| 1942 | Leon Haywood, U.S. vocalist/keyboardist, It's Got to be Mellow |
| 1942 | Otis Clay, U.S. gospel/R&B-singer, That's how it is |
| 1942 | Tony Colton, rock producer, On the Boards |
| 1941 | Glenn Randall, Jr., stuntman, Species, Mrs. Soffel, Return of the Jedi |
| 1941 | Jeremy Mackenzie, general |
| 1941 | Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician, Brazil '66/'77/'88 |
| 1941 | Sonny Landham, American Actor |
| 1940 | Bobby "Boris" Pickett, rocker, Monster Mash |
| 1940 | Calvin Fowler, Pitts, basketball player, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1939 | Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary |
| 1939 | Gerry Goffin, Queens, New York, rock lyricist, married Carole King |
| 1939 | Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, U.S., sci-fi author, Spider Jane, Heart's Blood |
| 1938 | Bevan Congdon, cricketer, New Zealand batsman of 60s and 70s |
| 1938 | Boris Majorov, U.S.S.R., ice hockey 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1938 | Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator, -1990 |
| 1938 | Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer |
| 1938 | Yevgeniy Majorov, U.S.S.R., ice hockey 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1937 | Bill Lawry, cricketer, dour Australian lefty opener, Can talk a bit |
| 1937 | Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist and playwright, The Family |
| 1937 | Marilyn Butler, Rector, Exeter College-Oxford |
| 1937 | Peter Lashley, cricketer, 4 Tests for West Indies 1960-66 |
| 1936 | Burt Reynolds, born in Michigan, actor, Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball |
| 1935 | Bent Lorentzen, born in Stenvad, Denmark, prolific composer, dramatist, wrote 18 operas to date, compared to Richard Vagner |
| 1935 | Gene Vincent, born in Norfolk, Virginia, rock guitarist and vocalist, Be-Bop-A-Lula |
| 1934 | Francesco Pennisi, composer |
| 1934 | John Surtees, British race car driver |
| 1934 | Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer, Chelsea Look, Mod Look |
| 1934 | Patrick Holmes Sellors, ophthalmologist |
| 1934 | Tina Louise, New York City, actress, Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas |
| 1934 | Mel Carnahan, American Politician |
| 1932 | Dennis Skinner, born in Derbyshire, England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Bolsover, attended Ruskin College, left-wing supporter, homosexual and pro-choice advocate |
| 1932 | Jerome Lowenthal, Philadelphia, pianist and professor, Jerusalem Academy of Music |
| 1931 | Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator, Showtime |
| 1930 | Alevtina Koltschina, U.S.S.R., cross coutry relay skier, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics |
| 1929 | Leonard Gregory Kastle, composer |
| 1929 | Earl of Rosebery, born in Scotland, born Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery, Scottish nobleman, grandmother Hannah, Countess of Rosebury, was richest woman in England |
| 1928 | Archibald Forster, CEO, Esso UK |
| 1928 | Conrad Janis, New York City, actor, Mork and Mindy, Quark, Bonino |
| 1928 | Gerry Alexander, cricket wicketkeeper, WI of 50s and 60s |
| 1926 | Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera |
| 1926 | Paul Bocuse, France, great chef, Legion of Honor |
| 1926 | Leslie Nielsen, Canadian Actor |
| 1925 | Kim Stanley, Patricia Reid, Tularosa, New Mexico, actress, Right Stuff |
| 1925 | Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral |
| 1925 | Virginia E Johnson, doctor/sexologist, Masters and Johnson |
| 1925 | Virginia Johnson, American Psychologist |
| 1924 | Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian |
| 1923 | Pamela Sharples, born in England, Baroness Sharples, BConservative Party, made a Life Peer of Chawton in the County of Hampshire, after husband, Sir Richard Sharples, was assassinated |
| 1923 | Ronald Arculus, British diplomat |
| 1922 | Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun |
| 1921 | Eva Gabor, born in Budapest, Hungary, actress, Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi |
| 1921 | Lloyd Bentsen, born in Mission, Texas, Senator-D-Texas 1971 - 1993, 1989 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee |
| 1920 | Billy Halop, New York City, actor, Bert Munson-All in the Family |
| 1920 | Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, U.S., sci-fi author, Dark Universe, Last Leap |
| 1920 | Farouk I, Cairo, last King of Egypt, 1936-52 |
| 1920 | Paul Peter Piech, artist |
| 1919 | Gretchen Fraser, born in Tacoma, Washington, slalom skier 1948 Olympics gold |
| 1917 | Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer |
| 1917 | Sidney Sheldon, born in Chicago, American writer, Academy-Award winner, crime fiction novelist |
| 1916 | Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist |
| 1915 | Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist, VARA Orchestra, Orkestgebouw Orch |
| 1915 | Mervyn Levy, artist/critic |
| 1915 | Patrick Leigh Fermor, author |
| 1914 | French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer |
| 1914 | Matt Dennis, born in Seattle, Washington vocalist, Matt Dennis Show |
| 1914 | Menelaos Pallantios, composer |
| 1914 | Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam |
| 1913 | Lucio Diestro San Pedro, composer |
| 1912 | Roy Fuller, England, poet and novelist, Lost Season |
| 1912 | Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist, Julliard |
| 1911 | Alec Cairncross, chancellor, Glasgow U |
| 1909 | Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, film writer and director, Sleuth |
| 1909 | Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ, 1934-35 |
| 1909 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Director |
| 1908 | Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan |
| 1908 | Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist |
| 1908 | Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer, British Antarctic Survey |
| 1907 | E. W. Swanton, author and sports commentator |
| 1906 | Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal |
| 1905 | Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Netherlands/Indonesian writer, Camp diary |
| 1904 | Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF, 1965-79 |
| 1904 | Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM, 1960-72 |
| 1903 | Hans Redlich, composer |
| 1903 | Rex Lease, West Virginia, actor, Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custer's Last Stand |
| 1902 | Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect |
| 1900 | Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher |
| 1900 | Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., great polo player, Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39 |
| 1898 | Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist |
| 1897 | Yves de La Casiniere, composer |
| 1896 | Else Lasker-Schuler, writer |
| 1895 | Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer |
| 1894 | Alfonso Leng, composer |
| 1894 | Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist, Massenanalyse |
| 1893 | Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary, Festival |
| 1891 | J. W. Hearne, cricket leg-spinner, all-rounder for England in 24 Tests |
| 1890 | John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer |
| 1889 | John Mills, dancer, Mills Brothers |
| 1889 | Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer |
| 1887 | Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstangl, German/US pianist/politician, NSDAP |
| 1887 | John van Melle, South African writer, Dawid Booysen |
| 1883 | Paul August von Klenau, Danish composer and conductor, Sulamith |
| 1882 | Gheorghe Cucu, composer |
| 1879 | Jean Gilbert, composer |
| 1875 | Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer |
| 1874 | Elsa Beskow, Maartman, Swedish children's book/fairy tales author |
| 1874 | Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer |
| 1873 | Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist, Pages from My Life |
| 1869 | Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch founder, Kroller-Muller Museum |
| 1867 | August W. Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist |
| 1860 | Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, Monsieur Venus |
| 1847 | Thomas A. Edison, born in Milan, Ohio, American Inventor |
| 1846 | William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor |
| 1840 | Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy |
| 1839 | Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist |
| 1833 | Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice |
| 1830 | Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, composer |
| 1830 | Peter Arnold Heise, composer |
| 1829 | William Anderson Pile, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1821 | Auguste Edouard Mariette, French egyptologist, dug out Sphinx 12/16/42 |
| 1821 | Hermann Allmers, writer |
| 1819 | Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer |
| 1812 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President, Confederacy |
| 1812 | Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy |
| 1810 | Loisa Puget, composer |
| 1802 | Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany |
| 1800 | William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer |
| 1790 | Ignaz Assmayer, composer |
| 1783 | Jarena Lee, famous African |
| 1780 | K vs. Gunderode, writer |
| 1776 | Joannis Capodistrias, Greek governor of Troezen, 1827-31 |
| 1764 | Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet, Cajus Graechus |
| 1755 | Albert Christoph Dies, composer |
| 1657 | Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer, Plurality of Worlds |
| 1568 | Honore d'Urfe, French writer, L'Astree |
| 1557 | John Wtenbogaert, remonstrants theologist |
| 1535 | Gregory XIV, Niccolo Sfondrati, Roman Catholic pope, 1590-91 |
| 1506 | Juliana van Stolberg, engraver of Nassau |
| 1465 | Elizabeth of York, London, Consort of King Henry VII |
| 1380 | Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist |
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