| 1979 | Virginia Ledgerwood, Chester, Virginia, rhythmic gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1978 | Marissa Perez, Miss Connecticut Teen USA 1996 |
| 1978 | Louise Woodward, British Celebrity |
| 1977 | Aki-Petteri Berg, NHL defenseman, Team Finland, Kings, Bronze Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1977 | Debbie Koegel, Norristown, Pennsylvania, dance skater |
| 1976 | Angie Kennedy, Nambour QLD Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Ali Larter, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, actress, fashion model, appeared in 'Heroes', 'Dawson's Creek' television series, appeared in film, 'Legally Blonde' |
| 1975 | Azhar Mahmood, cricket pace bowler, Pakistani ODI 1996 |
| 1974 | Katie Allen, Australian field hockey full back/half back 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Kevin Abrams, cornerback, Detroit Lions |
| 1974 | Michael Manasseri, actor, License to Drive |
| 1974 | Michael Swift, WLAF CB for the Rhein Fire |
| 1973 | Demetrice Martin, WLAF cornerback for the Scotland Claymores |
| 1973 | Denard Walker, cornerback for the Tennessee Oilers |
| 1973 | Eric Lindros, London Ontario, NHL center for the Philadelphia Flyers |
| 1973 | Gary Walker, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end for the Houston Oilers |
| 1973 | Henry Bailey, NFL wide receiver/kick returner for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1972 | Melisa Moses, born in Jacksonville, Florida, diver, Olympics-4th-96 |
| 1972 | Scott Gragg, NFL tackle for the New York Giants |
| 1972 | Rory Cochrane, American Actor |
| 1971 | John Buchanan, actor, Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man |
| 1970 | Jan Varholik, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia 1998 |
| 1970 | Mika Stromberg, Helsinki FIN, hockey defenseman, Team Finland |
| 1970 | Noureddine Morceli, Algeria, 1500m runner, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1969 | Elisa Fiorillo, singer, Forgive Me For Dreaming |
| 1969 | Robert Sean Leonard, New Jersey, actor, Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge |
| 1969 | Shawn McEachern, Waltham, Massachusetts, NHL forward, Boston Bruins, Senators |
| 1968 | J T Snow, U.S. baseball 1st baseman, New York Yankees, California Angels |
| 1968 | Mike Milchin, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, pitcher for the Minnesota Twins |
| 1967 | Antone Davis, NFL tackle, Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1967 | Jeff[rey] Pfaendtner, Detroit, rower, Olympics-bronze-1996 |
| 1967 | Marcus Lillington, rock guitarist, Breathe-All I Need |
| 1966 | Erik van Kessel, Dutch soccer player for the FC Utrecht |
| 1966 | Jan Varholik, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia |
| 1966 | Tim Goad, NFL defensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1966 | Vincent Askew, NBA guard and forward, Seattle Supersonics, Trailblazers |
| 1965 | Duane Ferrell, NBA forward, SF Warriors, Indiana Pacers |
| 1965 | Mikko Makela, Tampere Finland, NHL right wing for the New York Islanders |
| 1962 | Angela Bailey, England, Canadian 4X100m relayer 1984 Olympics silver |
| 1962 | Chunli Li, Auckland New Zealand, table tennis player 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Rae Dawn Chong, born in Edmonton, Alberta, actress, Quest for Fire |
| 1962 | Steve Tsujiura, hockey forward, Team Japan 1998 |
| 1961 | Wayne Smith, Albany, Washington, Australasia golfer |
| 1960 | Dorothy Stratten, Vancouver BC, playmate, August, 1979, Galixina |
| 1960 | Barry McGuigan, born in Clones, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland, professional boxer, world featherweight champion, number one featherweight challenger in the World Boxing Association |
| 1959 | Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader, SACP |
| 1958 | Christine Lathan-Brehmer, born in East Germany, 400m runner, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics |
| 1958 | Mark Pavelich, NHLer for the New York Rangers |
| 1958 | Jack Abramoff, American Criminal |
| 1957 | Cindy Wilson, Athens Georgia, rock vocalist, B-52's-Love Shack |
| 1957 | Ian Smith, cricket wicket-keeper, New Zealand of the 80's |
| 1957 | Ian Stanley, born in High Wycombe, England, Ian Christopher Stanley, keyboardist, musician, songwriter, record producer, member of Tears for Fears band, made multi-platinum selling album 'Songs from the Big Chair' |
| 1957 | Jeff Woodland, Papua New Guinea, Nike golfer, 1991 Dakota Dunes Open |
| 1957 | John Turturro, born in Brooklyn, actor, Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever |
| 1957 | Phil Gould, rock percussionist, Level 42-Hot Water |
| 1955 | Adrian Dantley, born in Washington, D.C., NBA forward, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics, Utah Jazz |
| 1955 | Gilbert Gottfried, comedian, Beverly Hills Cop |
| 1955 | Randy Jackson, New Orleans, guitarist, Zebra-Tell Me What You Want |
| 1953 | Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat, Richard Blood, wrestler, NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA |
| 1953 | Paul Krugman, born in New York, economist, liberal, political columnist, author, op-ed columnist for 'The New York Times', wrote, 'The Conscience of a Liberal' |
| 1952 | Cristina Raines, Tina Herazo, Manila Phil, actress, Sentinel |
| 1952 | Eddie Manion, born in America, Eddie 'Kingfish' Manion, saxophonist, tenor and baritone sax, session musician, member of Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band Tour, recorded and performed with Diana Ross, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, The E Street Band |
| 1952 | Jennie Lynn, born in San Diego, California, actress, Love and Marriage |
| 1952 | Melissa Babish, South Carolina, swimmer, Olympic |
| 1951 | Gustavo Thoeni, Italy, giant slalom, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1951 | Karsan Ghavri, cricketer, Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s |
| 1950 | Ilene Graff, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Marsha-Mr Belvedere |
| 1950 | Stephen Chatman, born in Faribault, Minnesota, Canadian composer, received Fulbright grant for study at Hochschule fur Misik in Cologne, since 1976 has served as professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
| 1948 | Bernadette Peters, Queens, New York, actress, Jerk |
| 1948 | Mercedes Ruehl, Queens, New York, actress, Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People |
| 1948 | Steven Chu, American Scientist |
| 1948 | Kenneth Blackwell, American Politician |
| 1948 | Mike Figgis, English Director |
| 1947 | Stephanie Beacham, England, Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys |
| 1946 | Graham Vivian, cricketer, son of Giff, 5 Tests for New Zealand 1965-72 |
| 1946 | Robin Cook, Scottish Politician |
| 1945 | Charles "Bubba" Smith, Texas, NFLer for the Baltimore Colts/actor, Police Academy |
| 1945 | Mimsy Farmer, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Devil's Angel, Road to Salina |
| 1945 | Ronnie Rosman, rocker, Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion |
| 1945 | Bubba Smith, American Athlete |
| 1944 | Colin Nutley, director and writer, Such is Life, Black Jack |
| 1944 | Kelly Bishop, CO, actress, Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn |
| 1943 | Barbara Acklin, Allen, Chicago, R&B singer, Love Makes a Woman |
| 1943 | Hans F Dijkstal, Dutch minister of the Interior, VVD, 1994- |
| 1943 | Donnie Iris, born in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, musician, guitarist, performed with The Jaggerz, Cellarful of Noise, The Cruisers, famous for Wild Cherry's hit 'Play That Funky Music' |
| 1942 | Brian Jones, rock guitarist, Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar |
| 1942 | Frank Bonner, Little Rock AR, actor, WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love |
| 1941 | Marty Sanders, rock vocalist |
| 1940 | Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer, Games People Play |
| 1940 | Mario Andretti, race-car driver, 1969 Indianapolis 500 |
| 1939 | Charles Brown, Cin, Ohio, featherweight boxer 1964 Olympics bronze |
| 1939 | John Fahey, singer, Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death |
| 1939 | Tommy Tune, born in Wichita Falls, Texas, dancer and choreographer, Boyfriend |
| 1938 | Martin Olav Sabo, born in Crosby, North Dakota, Representative-D-Minnesota 1979 - 2007 |
| 1937 | Jeff Farrell, U.S. swimmer, Olympics-2 gold-1960 |
| 1935 | Clive Halse, cricketer, South Africa fast bowler on 1963-64 Australia/New Zealand tour |
| 1934 | Willie Bobo, New York City, jazz drummer, Cos |
| 1932 | Brian Moore, British commentator, Big Match |
| 1932 | Don Francks, Vancouver, actor, Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow |
| 1931 | Gavin MacLeod, Mount Kisco, New York, actor, Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat |
| 1931 | Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier, World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75 |
| 1930 | Frank Malzone, baseball player |
| 1930 | Leon Cooper, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 |
| 1929 | Frank Gehry, American Architect |
| 1929 | Hayden Fry, American Coach |
| 1928 | Bettye Ackerman, Cottageville, South Carolina, actress, Maggie Graham-Ben Casey |
| 1928 | Tom Aldredge, born in Dayton, Ohio, actor in What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers |
| 1927 | Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer |
| 1927 | John Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific |
| 1926 | Seymour Shifrin, composer |
| 1926 | Stanley Glasser, composer |
| 1926 | Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author, My Life |
| 1925 | Harry H Corbett, Rangoon Burma, actor, Steptoe and Son, Jabberwacky |
| 1925 | James E. Burke, American Businessman |
| 1924 | Robert A. Roe, born in Wayne, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1969 - 1993 |
| 1923 | Charles Durning, Highland Falls, New York, actor, Fury, Sting, Tootsie |
| 1921 | John Bouber, Blom, actor/author, Fool of Heideloo |
| 1921 | Vladimir Sommer, composer |
| 1920 | Edward Kassner, music publisher |
| 1920 | Jim Olin, born in Chicago, Illinois, Representative-D-Virginia 1983 - 1993 |
| 1920 | Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist |
| 1918 | Alfred Burke, born in London, England, actor, Backfire |
| 1917 | Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer |
| 1917 | John B. Connally, Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx, took a bullet with John F. Kennedy |
| 1915 | Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist, Nobel 1953 |
| 1915 | Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor, Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1914 | Jim Boles, Lubbock, Texas, actor, Joe-One Man's Family |
| 1912 | Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director, Max-Planck-institute |
| 1911 | Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet, Njanji Sunji |
| 1910 | Roman Maciejewski, composer |
| 1910 | Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, American in Paris, Gigi |
| 1909 | Olan Soule, La Harpe, Illinois, actor, My 3 Sons, Arnie |
| 1909 | Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet and critic, Vienna, Edge of Darkness |
| 1907 | Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist, Terry and Pirates |
| 1906 | Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas |
| 1901 | Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962 |
| 1901 | Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet, Hverdagen |
| 1900 | Laura Z. Hobson, writer |
| 1899 | Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist |
| 1898 | Molly Picon, Yiddish actress, Milk and Honey |
| 1896 | Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician, cortisone-Nobel |
| 1895 | Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist, Brazilian Order of Merit |
| 1895 | Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director, Marchands de Gloire |
| 1893 | Ben Hecht, New York City, novelist/playwright/screenwriter, Front Page |
| 1890 | Vaslav Nijinsky, born in Kiev, Ukraine, ballet dancer, 3/12 NS |
| 1889 | Victor Sutherland, Paducah, Kentucky, actor, Captive City |
| 1887 | William Zorach, Lithuania, U.S. sculptor, Spirit of the Dance |
| 1886 | Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author, Madrid Escenas |
| 1886 | Max Vasmer, German slavic, La Tertulia de Pombo |
| 1882 | Geraldine Farrar, U.S. soprano/actress, Story of American Singer |
| 1882 | Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher |
| 1882 | Richard Heinrich Stein, composer |
| 1877 | Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer |
| 1876 | John Alden Carpenter, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, Sea Drift |
| 1875 | Viliam Figus, composer |
| 1874 | Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor, Phantom ofthe Range |
| 1866 | Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet |
| 1865 | Arthur Symons, Welsh poet, critic and co-founder Savoy |
| 1865 | Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary |
| 1858 | Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist, founder NV Royal Salt Industries |
| 1857 | Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer |
| 1857 | Alfred Loisy, French Clergyman |
| 1854 | Juliusz Zarebski, composer |
| 1850 | Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher, Gott und Geist |
| 1833 | Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-Field Marshal |
| 1825 | Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1824 | Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist |
| 1824 | John Creed Moore, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1823 | Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion |
| 1822 | Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1820 | John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator, Alice in Wonderland |
| 1817 | James Craig, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1812 | Berthold Auerbach, German author, Schwarzwalder Dorfgeschichten |
| 1810 | Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian |
| 1799 | Johann von Dollinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian |
| 1797 | Mary Lyon, U.S., educator, Mount Holyoke, Hall of Fame |
| 1797 | W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, 10 day campaign |
| 1792 | Henriette ALF countess d'Oultremont de Wegimont, wife of King Willem I |
| 1792 | Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist |
| 1786 | D. Francois J. Arago, French astronomer, physicist, and politician |
| 1771 | French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter |
| 1764 | Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist |
| 1750 | Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister |
| 1747 | Justin Morgan, composer |
| 1712 | Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, France, general |
| 1690 | Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great |
| 1683 | Rene-Antoine de Reaumur, France, biologist/engineer |
| 1663 | Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor, steam engine |
| 1632 | Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer |
| 1616 | Kaspar Forster, composer |
| 1612 | John Pearson, British Theologian |
| 1573 | Elias Hill, German architect/city builder, Augsburg |
| 1552 | Jobst Burgi, Justus Byrgius, Swiss/German mathematician |
| 1533 | Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher |
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