| 1978 | Laurie Schwoy, soccer forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Nathan Osmond, Utah, vocalist, Osmond Boys |
| 1975 | Jennifer Michelle Roberts, Greensboro, North Carolina, Miss America-North Carolina 1997 |
| 1974 | Michael Lowery, NFL linebacker for the Chicago Bears |
| 1974 | Rob Jahrling, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | George Hegamin, NFL/WLAF tail back, Dallas Cowboys, Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1973 | Michael "Mike" Theodore Lambert IV, Thomaston, Georgia, rower, 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Steve McNair, NFL quarterback for the Houston Oilers |
| 1973 | Tyus Edney, NBA guard, Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings |
| 1972 | Bruno Heppell, CFL full back, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1972 | Drew Bledsoe, NFL quarterback for the New England Patriots |
| 1972 | Erika Rachael Schwarz, Folsom, Louisiana, Miss America, Louisiana-2nd-1997 |
| 1972 | Raymond Beerens, Dutch soccer player, PSV, FC Groningen |
| 1971 | Derrick Witherspoon, NFL running back for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1971 | Gheorghe Muresan, NBA center, Washington Bullets/Wizards |
| 1971 | Kenny Shedd, WLAF receiver, Barcelona Dragons, Oakland Raiders |
| 1971 | Lonnie Johnson, NFL tight end for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1970 | David Podlich, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer |
| 1970 | Elaine Youngs, Orange California, volleyball outside hitter 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Guillaume Raoux, France, tennis star |
| 1970 | Kelly Stinnett, U.S. baseball catcher for the New York Mets |
| 1970 | Richard Smehlik, Ostrava, Czech Republic, NHL defenseman, Team Czech Republic, Buffalo |
| 1970 | Sean Hill, Duluth, NHL defenseman, Ottawa Senators |
| 1970 | Simon Pegg, British Comedian |
| 1969 | Chad Magee, Tyler, Texas, Nike golfer, 1993 NIKE Shreveport Open-36th |
| 1969 | Harry Colon, NFL safety, Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions |
| 1969 | Jeff Graham, NFL wide receiver, Chicago Bears, New York Jets |
| 1969 | Roy Barker, NFL defensive end, Minnesota Vikings, San Francisco 49ers |
| 1968 | Chris Lewis, cricketer, in Guyana England all-rounder |
| 1967 | Calle Johansson, Goteborg Swe, NHL defenseman for the Washington Capitals |
| 1967 | Laura Martin, LaJolla California, WPVA volleyballer, Nationals-13th-1994 |
| 1967 | Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis player, 1984 U.S. Mix |
| 1966 | Clark Sherwood Dennis, born in Houston, Texas, PGA golfer, 1990 Hawaiian Open-3rd |
| 1966 | Petr Svoboda, Most Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman, Philadelphia Flyers, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1965 | Jessie Tuggle, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1964 | Darrick Brilz, NFL center for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1963 | D'Wayne Wiggins, singer, Tony! Toni! Tone! |
| 1963 | Jeff Dellenbach, NFL center, New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1963 | John Marzano, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, catcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1963 | Zach Galligan, New York City, actor, Gremlins |
| 1961 | Gresham Barrett, American Politician |
| 1960 | Eric Shea, born in Los Angeles County, California, actor, appeared on television episodes and in films 'Yours, Mine and Ours' 1968, film 'The Poseidon Adventure' 1972 |
| 1960 | Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1960 | Meg Tilly, Margaret, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Big Chill, Impulse |
| 1958 | Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor, Loving, All My Children |
| 1957 | Renee Fleming, American Musician |
| 1956 | Dave Dravecky, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, had arm amputated |
| 1956 | Howard Edward Davis, Jr., Glen Cove, New York, lw boxer 1976 Olympics silver |
| 1956 | Ken Wahl, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Wanderers |
| 1955 | R Jeremy H Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary |
| 1953 | Wayne Siegel, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, influenced by minimalist Steve Reich, music commissioned by Kronos Quartet, Harry Sparnaay, Safri Duo |
| 1951 | Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager, Newcastle United |
| 1951 | Michael Doucet, singer/musician, Beausoleil |
| 1950 | Raymond van het Groenewoud, Belgian vocalist/actor, Brussels by Night |
| 1949 | Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Candy, Fiorina LeVacca |
| 1949 | Richard E. Neal, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1989 - |
| 1949 | Richard Neal, American Politician |
| 1948 | Jackie Martling, "Jackie the Jokeman", comedian, Howard Stern Show |
| 1948 | Pat O'Brien, reporter, Entertainment Tonight |
| 1948 | Wally Tax, Dutch guitarist |
| 1947 | Heidemarie Rosendahl, born in West Germany, long jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1947 | Judd Gregg, born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Representative-R-New Hampshire 1981 - 1989, Governor-R-New Hampshire 1989 - 1993, Senator-R-New Hampshire 1993 - |
| 1947 | Pham Tuan, Vietnam, cosmonaut, Soyuz 37/36 |
| 1947 | Salah-ud-Din, cricketer, played 5 Tests for Pakistan 1965-69 |
| 1946 | David Green, English TV/video producer |
| 1946 | Tim Buckley, born in Washington D.C., rocker, Blood, Sweat and Tears-When I Die |
| 1946 | Tina Aumont, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Master of Love, Casanova |
| 1946 | Bernard Dowiyogo, Politician |
| 1945 | Gregory Hines, born in New York City, actor/dancer, White Nights, Taps |
| 1945 | Hans Adam, prince of Liechtenstein |
| 1945 | K M Jenkins, British director of personnel, Royal Mail |
| 1945 | Vic Briggs, England, rocker, Animals |
| 1945 | Bill Boner, born in East Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1979 - 1987 |
| 1944 | Alan Parker, English actor, Bugsy Malone, Evita |
| 1944 | Bruce Summerhays, born in St. Louis, Missouri, PGA golfer, Provo Open-1966, 91 93 |
| 1944 | Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter, Watergate |
| 1943 | Eric Anderson, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, vocalist, Avalanche, Be True to You |
| 1943 | Ischa Meijer, journalist/critic/actor, Boezemvriend |
| 1943 | Maceo Parker, U.S. tenor saxophonist, King's One, Mo' Roots |
| 1943 | Robert J Murphy, Jr., born in Brooklyn, New York, PGA golfer, 1968 Philadelphia Classic |
| 1942 | Margaret Wright, chief commissioner, Guide Association |
| 1942 | Michael Bloomberg, American Politician |
| 1941 | John Butterfill, born in Kingston upon Thames, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament Bournemouth West |
| 1941 | Paul Tsongas, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1979 - 1985 |
| 1941 | Donna Shalala, American Public Servant |
| 1939 | Chris Pyne, born in Bridlington, England, Norman Christopher Chris Pyne, musician, trombonist, played with Humphrey Lyttelton, recorded with Ronnie Scott, toured with Frank Sinatra's backing bands, Gordon Beck, Charlie Watt's big band |
| 1939 | Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years |
| 1938 | Lee Chamberlin, New York City, actor, Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale |
| 1937 | John MacGregor, British MP |
| 1937 | Magic Sam, rocker, Chicago Bluesman |
| 1936 | Andrew Pine, Jennings, Florida, actor, V, WEB, Wide Country |
| 1936 | Fanne Foxe, Annabella Battistella, Argentina, Wilbur Mills affair |
| 1935 | Christine CT "Christel" Adelaar, Dutch actress, Pipo the Clown |
| 1935 | David Wilson, British governor, Hong Kong |
| 1935 | Dave Wilson, born in Scotland, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, diplomat, administrator, Sinologist, 27th Governor of Hong Kong 1987 - 1992 |
| 1935 | Mickey Wright, born in San Diego, California, LPGA golfer, 4 times LPGA champ |
| 1934 | Florence Henderson, Dale, Indiana, actress and singer, Carol-Brady Bunch |
| 1934 | Marlene Matthews, Australia, sprinter, 2 Bronze Medals 1956 Olympics |
| 1933 | Andrey Mikhaylovich Volkonsky, composer |
| 1933 | Bertram Jay Turetzky, composer |
| 1933 | Evelyn Ebsworth, Vice-Chancellor, Durham U |
| 1932 | Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema |
| 1932 | Jack Hibbert, director, Central Statistical Office |
| 1932 | Jocelyn Stevens, CEO, English Heritage |
| 1932 | Michael Ball, Bishop, Truro |
| 1932 | Peter Ball, Bishop, Gloucester |
| 1931 | Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, NHL right wing, Canadiens, Rangers |
| 1931 | Phyllis McGuire, born in Middletown, Ohio, vocalist, McGuire Sisters |
| 1931 | Vic Morrow, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie |
| 1931 | William Warner Westenra, born in Ireland, born William Warner Westenra, Lord Rossmore, 7th Baron Rossmore, Peerage of Ireland |
| 1930 | Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal, Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford |
| 1930 | Harry Mathews, American Author |
| 1929 | Matthew G. Martinez, born in Walsenburg, Colorado, Representative-D-California 1982 - 2001 |
| 1928 | Vincente T. Blaz, born in Agana, Guam, Representative-R-Guam 1985 - 1993 |
| 1928 | Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author, Tormenta de verano |
| 1927 | Lois Maxwell, Kitchener Ontario, actress, Miss Moneypenny |
| 1926 | John Clark, CEO, Plessey Company |
| 1925 | Elliot Lawrence, Philadelphia, orchestra leader, Guide Right, Howard Cosell |
| 1924 | Arghyris Kounadis, composer |
| 1924 | Countess Mountbatten, of Burma |
| 1923 | Derrick Holden-Brown, CEO, Allied-Lyons |
| 1923 | Jay Herbert, golfer, 1960 PGA winner |
| 1921 | Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor, Essex U |
| 1921 | Hugh Downs, born in Akron, Ohio, TV journalist, 20/20, Concentration |
| 1921 | Jeanne Demessieux, composer |
| 1921 | Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player |
| 1921 | Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep |
| 1920 | Arnold Elton, consultant surgeon |
| 1917 | Herbert A Hauptman, New York City, x-ray crystallographer, Nobel 1985 |
| 1916 | Edward Platt, Staten Island, New York, actor, Chief-Get Smart |
| 1916 | Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director, Joi-uchi |
| 1916 | Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer |
| 1915 | A. W. H. Stewart-Moore, CEO, Gallaher |
| 1915 | Irving Gordon, songwriter |
| 1913 | Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet and writer, Man Without a Head |
| 1913 | James Pike, Oklahoma City, bishop, Beyond Anxiety |
| 1913 | Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975 |
| 1913 | Mel Allen, born in Birmingham, Alabama, sportscaster, voice of New York Yankees |
| 1912 | Edmund George Love, U.S., teacher/historian/author, A Small Bequest, = |
| 1912 | Juan Pujol Garcia, Garbo/Arabel, Spanish British/German double agent |
| 1912 | Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist |
| 1911 | Florence Rice, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, Double Wedding, Riding on Air |
| 1911 | Willem J. Kolff, Dutch/U.S. internist/inventor, Artificial Kidney |
| 1909 | A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet, Hath Not a Jew... |
| 1907 | Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer, 1958 Racing Hall of Fame |
| 1905 | Thelma Ritter, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Miracle on 34th Street |
| 1904 | Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer |
| 1904 | Hanning Phillips, Lord Lieutenant, Dyfed |
| 1904 | Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist |
| 1902 | Fred Scott, born in Fresno California, vocalist/actor, Vincent Lopez |
| 1902 | Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Milwaukee, cowboy, Crash Corrigan's Ranch |
| 1902 | Stu Erwin, Squaw Valley California, actor, Stu Erwin Show |
| 1902 | Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer |
| 1899 | John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man |
| 1898 | Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer, super nova |
| 1897 | Jorgen Bentzon, composer |
| 1895 | Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, Studies in prejudice |
| 1894 | Jack Benny, Benjamin Kubelski, Waukegan, Illinois, "Oh! Rochester!" |
| 1893 | Kay Fisker, Danish architect, Hornbeck House, Copenhagen |
| 1892 | Nikolaj A. Orloff, Russian/British pianist, Chopin |
| 1886 | Theodor Werner, German painter |
| 1882 | George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury |
| 1882 | Ignaz Friedman, composer |
| 1881 | Otto Selz, German psychologist |
| 1881 | William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar, Ynys yr Hud |
| 1880 | Aida Overton Walker, U.S. dancer/singer, In Dahomey, Salome |
| 1880 | Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer |
| 1869 | Charles Wilson, English physicist, Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel |
| 1868 | Henricus A. Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman |
| 1864 | Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist, Children of Ghetto |
| 1864 | Robert E Park, U.S., sociologist, human ecology, marginal man |
| 1859 | George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., engineer/inventor, Ferris Wheel |
| 1858 | Charles Beach Hawley, composer |
| 1858 | Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist, Thomson's gazelle |
| 1856 | Frank Harris, England, journalist and writer, My Life and Loves |
| 1853 | Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor, Antwerp |
| 1847 | Anna Howard Shaw, U.S., suffragette |
| 1845 | Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion, 1866 |
| 1838 | Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison" |
| 1835 | Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, Snikken en grimlachjes |
| 1829 | Alfred Iverson, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1828 | Edmond About, French Novelist |
| 1824 | Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | James Green Martin, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1817 | Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor |
| 1813 | Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer |
| 1813 | John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1806 | Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary, 1848-49 |
| 1778 | Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer |
| 1766 | Thomas Malthus, England, population expert, Law of Malthus |
| 1760 | Richard Allen, Philadelphia, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church |
| 1707 | Claude-Prosper J de Crebillon, French writer, Le sopha |
| 1679 | Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer |
| 1670 | Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer |
| 1638 | Sybilla Schwarz, writer |
| 1602 | Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer |
| 1572 | Hans Christoph Haiden, composer |
| 1546 | Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian |
| 1533 | Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer, Vita Jesu Christi |
| 1515 | Frederick III, the Pious, elect of the Palts |
| 1513 | Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian composer |
| 1487 | Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht/Worms/Freising |
| 1483 | Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, prince/founder Mogols-dynasty |
| 1462 | Edzard I Cirksena, the Great, earl of East-Friesia, 1494-1528 |
| 1404 | Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura' |
| 1368 | Emperor Sigismund, German Statesman |
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