| 1982 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor, Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun |
| 1981 | Donielle Thompson, Wheatridge CO, gymnast, World-bronze-95, 1996 Olympics |
| 1981 | Lisa Skinner, Queensland Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1981 | Paris Hilton, born in New York City, New York, model, actress, socialite, heiress, fashion designer, appeared in 'The Simple Life' television series |
| 1980 | Shanyn MacEachern, Brampton Ontario, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1980 | Jason Ritter, American Actor |
| 1975 | Sung-Hee Park, Pusan Korea, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Seoul |
| 1975 | Todd Harvey, Hamilton, NHL center for the Dallas Stars |
| 1975 | Vaclav Prospal, NHL forward, Team Czechoslovakia, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics, Philadelphia |
| 1974 | Jerry O'Connell, New York City, actor, Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity |
| 1974 | Valeria Mazza, Rosario Argentina, model, Cosmo-July 1995 |
| 1974 | Bryan White, born in Lawton, Oklahoma, singer, songwriter, albums 'Bryan White', 'Between Now and Forever' certified platinum, album 'The Right Place' certified gold |
| 1973 | Chris Robinson, NBA guard for the Vancouver Grizzlies |
| 1973 | Drew Barry, NBA guard for the Atlanta Hawks |
| 1973 | Frank Sanders, NFL wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1973 | Raymond Jackson, NFL defensive back for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1972 | Billie Joe Armstrong, singer/musician, Green Day |
| 1972 | Lloy Ball, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, volleyball setter 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Richard MacQuire, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Stephen Robinson, Arlington, Virginia, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Tony Lawson, NSA Australia, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Vladimir Vujtek, NHL forward, Team Czechoslovakia, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics, Tampa Bay |
| 1972 | William Floyd, full back for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1971 | Denise Richards, born in Downers Grove, Illinois, actress, fashion model, appeared in 'The World is Not Enough', reality show, 'Denise Richards: It's Complicated' |
| 1970 | Tommy Moe, Anchorage Alaska, nordic skiier, Olympic-gold/silver-1994 |
| 1969 | David Klingler, NFL quarterback, Oakland Raiders, Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1969 | Joel Steed, NFL nose tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1969 | Levon Kirkland, NFL linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1969 | Traci Adell, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, playmate, July, 1994 |
| 1968 | Bryan Cox, NFL linebacker, Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears |
| 1968 | Celita Schutz, Riverdale, New Jersey, half-middleweight judoka 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Patrick Uterwijk, pop guitarist, Pestilence, Consuming Impulse |
| 1967 | Gary Shuchuk, Edmonton, NHL center for the Los Angeles Kings |
| 1967 | Michelle Forbes, born in Austin, Texas, actress, Ensign Ro-Star Trek Next Gen |
| 1966 | Luc Robitaille, Montreal, NHL left wing, New York Rangers, Pitts Penguins |
| 1966 | Melissa Brooke-Belland, rocker, Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee |
| 1965 | Clayton Prince, Philadelphia, actor, Hairspray, Reuben-Another World |
| 1965 | Jim Bowie, Japanese/US baseball infielder, Oakland Athletics |
| 1965 | Michael Bay, American Director |
| 1964 | Mike Campbell, born in Seattle, Washington, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs |
| 1963 | Dan Reed, rocker/actor, HOTS, Lake Consequence |
| 1963 | Michael Jordan, NBA guard, Chicago Bulls |
| 1962 | David McComb, Australia, vocalist/songwriter, Triffids |
| 1962 | Hennie Meijer, soccer player, Cambuur L, FC Heerenveen |
| 1962 | Lou Diamond Phillips, Philippines, actor, La Bamba, Stand and Deliver |
| 1962 | Tony Blain, cricketer, New Zealand Test wicket-keeper |
| 1961 | Deb[ra] Richardson, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, beach volleyballer 1996 Olympics |
| 1961 | Guy McIntyre, NFL guard for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1961 | Michael Jordan, born in Brooklyn, New York, NBA guard and forward, Chicago Bulls |
| 1961 | Wendy Liebman, born in Manhasset, New York, comedian, performs stand up comedy, American Comedy Award for Female Stand-up Comedian of the Year, 1997, appeared on HBO, The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Tonight Show |
| 1959 | Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines, U.S., 100m swimmer, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics |
| 1959 | Daniel Ray "Danny" Ainge, basketball and football star |
| 1959 | Richard Karn, born in Seattle, Washington, actor, Al-Home Improvement |
| 1959 | Rowdy Gaines, U.S. swimmer, Olympics-3 gold-1984 |
| 1958 | Heidi Hagman, actress, Linda-Archie Bunker's Place |
| 1958 | Karen Lende O'Connor, born in Concord, Massachusetts, equestrian 3-day, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1954 | Rene Russo, born in Burbank, California, Renee Marie Russo, television, film actress, model, breakthrough role as Lorna Cole in 'Lethal Weapon 3' and 'Lethal Weapon 4', appeared in 'The Thomas Crown Affair' with Pierce Brosnan |
| 1953 | Janice Dickinson, born in Brooklyn, New York, model, Vogue |
| 1952 | Guillermo Vilas, tennis player, 1977 U.S. Open |
| 1952 | Insook Bhushan, Seoul Korea, U.S. U.S. table tennis player 1992 Olympics |
| 1952 | Randy Forbes, American Politician |
| 1950 | Rick Medlocke, rock guitarist and vocalist, Blackfoot |
| 1949 | Fred Frith, English guitarist, violinist and bassist, Skeleton Crew |
| 1947 | Ben Cramer, Dutch vocalist, Clown |
| 1947 | Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer, Terror From Within |
| 1947 | Dodie Stevens, actress, Mary Hartman! |
| 1946 | Andre Dussollier, Annecy France, actor, 3 Men and a Cradle |
| 1946 | Valdemar Bandolowski, Denmark, yachting, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1946 | Zina Bethune, New York City, actress, Nurses, Who's That Knocking at My Door |
| 1945 | Brenda Fricker, Dublin Ireland, actress, My Left Foot |
| 1945 | Patricia Morrow, actress, Rita-Peyton Place |
| 1945 | Willie J L Swildens-Rozendal, Dutch MP, PvdA |
| 1944 | Bernie Grant, British politician, Labour |
| 1942 | Huey Newton, Black Panther leader |
| 1941 | Heidi Biebi, Federal Republic of Germany, downhill skier 1960 Olympics gold |
| 1940 | Dennis Gamsy, cricketer, South African bat in 2 Tests vs. Australia 1970 |
| 1940 | Gene Pitney, Hartford, Connecticut, vocalist/songwriter, Town Without Pity |
| 1939 | Mary Ann Mobley, Biloxi Ms, Miss America-1959/actress, Diff'rent Strokes |
| 1938 | Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights |
| 1937 | Mickey McGill, U.S. vocalist, Dells-Love is Blue |
| 1936 | Barry Jarman, cricketer, Australian wicket-keeper in 60's |
| 1936 | Jim Brown, Georgia, NFL full back for the Cleveland Browns/actor, Dirty Dozen |
| 1935 | Johnny Bush, country singer |
| 1934 | Alan Bates, born in Allestree, England, actor, Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman |
| 1934 | Barry Humphries, Australia TV host, Dame Edna Everage |
| 1934 | Buddy Ryan, NFL coach, Philadelphia Eagles, Phoenix Cardinals |
| 1933 | Bobby Lewis, rocker, Tossin' and Turnin' |
| 1933 | Craig L. Thomas, born in Wyoming, United States Senator from Wyoming, protected America's national parks |
| 1932 | Buck Trent, Spartanburg, South Carolina, banjoist/singer, Hee Haw |
| 1931 | Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell |
| 1930 | Usko Merilainen, composer |
| 1930 | Ruth Rendell, British Writer |
| 1929 | Chaim Potok, New York City, novelist, Promise |
| 1929 | Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader, Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994 |
| 1926 | Friedrich Cerha, composer |
| 1926 | Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer, 1957 Arts and Letters |
| 1925 | Fritz Behrendt, German/Dutch cartoon character, The Slogan |
| 1925 | Hal Holbrook, born in Cleveland, actor, All the President's Men, Mark Twain |
| 1924 | Margaret Truman, born in Missouri, singer, writer, only daughter of President Harry and Bess Truman |
| 1923 | Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton, Illinois, banker, President of World Bank |
| 1922 | Tommy Edwards, rock vocalist, It's All in the Game |
| 1920 | Trevor Oswald Ling, religious studies professor |
| 1919 | Jock Mahoney, Chicago, actor, Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury |
| 1919 | Joseph R Hunt, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1943 |
| 1919 | Kathleen Freeman, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Beverly Hillbillies |
| 1918 | Charles Hayes, born in Cairo, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1983 - 1993 |
| 1918 | Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner |
| 1916 | Don Tallon, cricketer, perhaps Australia's greatest wicket-keeper |
| 1916 | Raf Vallone, Tropea Italy, actor, El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon |
| 1915 | Homer Keller, composer |
| 1914 | Albert Westerlinck, Jose J M Aerts, Flemish literary |
| 1914 | Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Massachusetts, actor, Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place |
| 1914 | Per-Jakez Helias, writer/teacher |
| 1914 | [Bert de] Wayne Morris, born in Los Angeles, California, WW II-pilot/actor, Paths of Glory |
| 1913 | Josephine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director |
| 1913 | Oskar Danon, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, composer, conductor, earned Ph.D. musicology in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, director for Belgrade Opera, chief conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 1913 | Rene Leibowitz, composer |
| 1912 | Andre Norton, American Writer |
| 1911 | Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor, Big Sky, Apache Uprising |
| 1910 | Marc Lawrence, New York City, actor, Man With Golden Gun |
| 1909 | Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, champ sprinter 1932-37, |
| 1909 | Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano, Venus-Tannhauser |
| 1908 | Staats Cotsworth, born in Oak Park, Illinois, actor, Peyton Place |
| 1908 | Walter L "Red" Barber, Mississippi, sports announcer, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees |
| 1907 | Alec Wilder, born in Rochester, New York, composer, 1973 ASCAP award |
| 1907 | Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer, Russia Black on White |
| 1906 | Galo Plaza Lasso, President of Ecuador, 1948-52, head of OAS, 1968-75 |
| 1906 | Ramon Tapales, composer |
| 1904 | Albert Kuyle, Louis Kuitenbrouwer, Dutch writer, Jesus' Robe |
| 1903 | Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen |
| 1902 | Marian Anderson, born in Philadelphia, operatic contralto, banned by D.A.R. |
| 1898 | Tom Lowry, cricketer, New Zealand batsman in seven Tests and their 1st Test captain |
| 1897 | Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager, My Fair Lady |
| 1895 | Anita Stewart, New York, actress, South of Hell Mountain |
| 1895 | Edna Park Edwards, PA |
| 1892 | Theodor Plievier, German writer, Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad |
| 1891 | Georg Britting, writer |
| 1890 | Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician |
| 1889 | H. L. Hunt, American Businessman, Texas oil multi-millionaire |
| 1888 | Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress, Bouwmeester Award |
| 1888 | Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943 |
| 1888 | Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer, Viaduct Murder |
| 1888 | Ronald Knox, English Theologian |
| 1887 | Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer |
| 1884 | Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs, 1940 |
| 1882 | Kurt Schindler, composer |
| 1882 | Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor, Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro |
| 1880 | Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24 |
| 1879 | Dorothy Canfield Fisher, U.S., novelist, Book-of-Month-Club |
| 1877 | Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author and poet, L'homme Jeune |
| 1874 | Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist, IBM |
| 1870 | Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party |
| 1867 | William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer, Cadbury |
| 1864 | Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet, Waltzing Matilda |
| 1862 | Edward German, Jones, Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer |
| 1862 | Mori Ogai [Mori Rintaro], Japanese author, Maihime/Gan |
| 1858 | Ernest Ford, composer |
| 1857 | Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher |
| 1855 | Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey, WW I |
| 1854 | Friedrich A. Krupp, German arms manufacturer |
| 1853 | Jaroslav Vrchlicky, Emil Frida, Czechoslovakian poet, 1 night on Karlstein |
| 1850 | Anton Urspruch, composer |
| 1850 | Ludwig Bonvin, composer |
| 1849 | Selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter |
| 1844 | A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business, Montgomery Ward |
| 1837 | Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1837 | Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws |
| 1831 | Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer |
| 1824 | William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1820 | Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher, Brussels Cons |
| 1816 | Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer |
| 1804 | Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1796 | Giovanni Pacini, composer |
| 1781 | Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor, stethoscope |
| 1774 | Raphaelle Peale, U.S., painter, After the Rain-1823 |
| 1758 | John Pinkerton, Scottish historian |
| 1754 | Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer |
| 1752 | Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright, Wirrwarr |
| 1747 | Narciso Casanovas, composer |
| 1740 | Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist |
| 1723 | Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination |
| 1699 | Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect, Sanssouci |
| 1697 | Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer |
| 1696 | Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer |
| 1675 | Johann Melchior Conradi, composer |
| 1667 | Georg Bronner, composer |
| 1653 | Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist and composer, Concerto Grossi |
| 1583 | J Henry Alting, Dutch theologist |
| 1519 | Francois de Guise, Balafre, French general strategist, Calais |
| 1490 | Charles de Bourbon, officer/governor, Lombardy |
| 1444 | Rudolf Agricola, Roelof Huysman, Dutch humanist/organist |
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