| 1985 | Tina Majorino, actress, Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman |
| 1979 | Cerina Vincent, Miss Nevada Teen USA 1996 |
| 1978 | Ashton Kutcher, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, actor, fashion model, played role of Michael Kelso in 'That '70s Show', produced 'Punk'd', appeared in 'Dude, Where's My Car?' |
| 1977 | Christine Scheels, New Berlin Wis, speed skater 1994 Olympics |
| 1977 | Hillary Wolf, Chicago, extra lightweight judoka 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdottir, Miss Universe-Iceland 1996 |
| 1976 | Terry Battle, running back, Detroit Lions |
| 1975 | Alexandre Daigle, Montreal, NHL center, Ottawa Senators |
| 1975 | Marika Lehtimaki, ice hockey center, Finland, 1998 Olympics |
| 1975 | Wes Borland, American Musician |
| 1974 | Ryan Phillips, linebacker for the New York Giants |
| 1974 | Steve Nash, NBA guard for the Phoenix Suns |
| 1973 | Billy Baumhoff, born in St. Louis, Missouri, soccer midfielder/forward, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Juwan Howard, NBA forward and center, Washington Bullets/Wizards |
| 1973 | Kristin Godridge, born in Traralgon, Australia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Singapore |
| 1973 | Leanne Schuster, Mesa, Arizona, WPVA volleyballer, National-9th-1995 |
| 1973 | Sonia Paquette, St-Janvier Quebec, hurdler 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Tim Bowens, NFL defensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1973 | Drew Curtis, American Businessman |
| 1972 | Aftab Habib, cricketer, Leicestershire righty batsman 1996 |
| 1972 | John Slaney, St. John's, NHL defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings |
| 1971 | Andrew Currey, Australian javelin thrower 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Marvin Graves, CFL quarterback, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1970 | Chris Gardocki, NFL punter for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1970 | Denis Chasse, Montreal, NHL right wing, Winnipeg Jets |
| 1970 | Stanley Roberts, NBA center, Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1969 | Bucky Richardson, U.S. football quarterback for the Houston Oilers |
| 1969 | Fiona Robinson, born in Collie, Australia, basketball player, Bronze Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Ashely Allen, born in San Antonio, Texas, playmate, Aug, 1992 |
| 1968 | Martin Sinner, Koblenz Germany, tennis star, 1990 Pretoria |
| 1968 | Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star |
| 1968 | Peter Bondra, Lutsk Ukr, NHL right wing for the Washington Capitals |
| 1967 | Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene, born in Dayton, Ohio, long jumper, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Chris Rock, comedian, SNL, CB4, Boomerang |
| 1965 | Jason Gedrick, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Heavenly Kid, Class of '96 |
| 1965 | Kristal Parker-Gregory, Columbus, Ohio, LPGA golfer, 1995 Hawaiian-20th |
| 1964 | Cynthia Woodhead, born in Riverside, California, swimmer, Silver Medal 1984 Olympics |
| 1964 | Dona L Speir, Norwalk California, playmate, March, 1984 |
| 1964 | Gretchen Magers, Pittsburgh PA/San Antonio, Texas, tennis star |
| 1963 | Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper, St. Paul, Minnesota, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut |
| 1963 | Roland Lefebvre, cricket pace bowler, Glamorgan and Holland |
| 1962 | Garth Brooks, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, country vocalist, No Fences |
| 1962 | Alan Sippy, cricketer, dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's |
| 1962 | David Bryan, rock keyboardist, Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name |
| 1962 | Eddie Izzard, born in Colony of Aden, Yemen, actor, comedian, standup sets include, 'Stripped', 'Dress to Kill', 'Glorious', appeared in films, 'Ocean's Twelve', 'Mystery Men' |
| 1960 | James Spader, born in New York City, actor, Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin |
| 1960 | Steve Bronski, rock synthesizer, Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy |
| 1959 | Brian Travers, rock saxophonist, UB40-Red Wine |
| 1959 | Sammy Lee, born in Liverpool, England, professional soccer player, midfielder, played for Liverpool, represented England fourteen times |
| 1958 | Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish vocalist, Maria Bonita |
| 1958 | Michele Drake, La Jolla California, playmate, May, 1979 |
| 1957 | Carney Lansford, born in San Jose, California, Major League Baseball player, third baseman, played for California Angels, Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics 1978 - 1992 |
| 1956 | Emo Philips, American Comedian |
| 1955 | Charlie Puleo, born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Major League Baseball player, pitcher, played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Red and Atlanta Braves 1981 - 1989 |
| 1955 | Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/TV host, Wheel of Fortune |
| 1955 | Damaso Garcia, born in Moca, Dominican Republic, Major League Baseball player, played for the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos 1978 - 1989 |
| 1954 | Miguel Ferrer, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Robocop |
| 1953 | Robert Brazile, born in Mobile, Alabama, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League's Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', named 1975's NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year |
| 1952 | John Hickenlooper, American Politician |
| 1951 | Benny Ayala, born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Benigno Ayala Felix, Major League Baseball player, played outfield, first base, designated hitter for New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1951 | Manfred Schumann, born in West Germany, bobsled, Olympic-silver/bronze-1976 |
| 1950 | Burt Hooton, born in Greenville, Texas, Burt Carlton Hooton, baseball player, nicknamed 'Happy', right-handed starting pitcher for Major League Baseball teams Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1950 | Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1950 | Marilyn Cochran, Burlington, Vermont, skier, Olympics-1972 |
| 1949 | Alan Lancaster, bassist, Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level |
| 1949 | Sunil Wettimuny, cricket, Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups |
| 1948 | Jimmy Greenspoon, LA Cal, rock organist, 3 Dog Night-Joy to the World |
| 1946 | Hector Babenco, director, Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| 1946 | Lawrence Ascott, rocker, Isotope |
| 1946 | Sammy Johns, rocker, Politics, Religion and Her |
| 1945 | Gerald Davies, British rugby player |
| 1945 | Pete Postlethwaite, actor, The Boxer |
| 1944 | Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state sect, CDA |
| 1944 | Berry Esselink, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1944 | Michael A. Andrews, born in Houston, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1983 - 1995 |
| 1942 | Ton de Kok, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1941 | Doc Hastings, American Politician |
| 1940 | Gary Bond, England, actor, Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days |
| 1938 | Juan Pizarro, baseball player |
| 1938 | Robert Frank Baksa, composer |
| 1935 | Herb Kohl, Sen-D Wisconsin |
| 1934 | Earl King, rocker |
| 1934 | King Curtis, Curtis Ousley, U.S. vocalist, Memphis Soul Stew |
| 1934 | Piet Bukman, Dutch minister for Development Aid, CDA |
| 1932 | Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut, Apollo 15 |
| 1932 | Gay Talese, author, Honor Thy Father |
| 1928 | Al "Fuzzy" Smith, baseball player |
| 1926 | Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Voskhod I |
| 1925 | Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985 |
| 1925 | H Eisenreich, writer |
| 1925 | Marius Constant, Rumania, Dutch composer and conductor, Paradise Lost |
| 1925 | Romolo Valli, actor, Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia |
| 1924 | Mary Catherine Small Long, born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Representative-D-Louisiana, 1985 - 1987 |
| 1924 | Dora Bryan, Broadhurst, Southport England, actress, Taste of Honey |
| 1924 | Hattie Jacques, Kent England, actress, Carry on Doctor |
| 1924 | Johnny Jordaan, Jan van Musscher, Amsterdam folk vocalist |
| 1923 | George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader, Covent Garden |
| 1923 | Keefe Brasselle, Elyria Ohio, actor, Be Our Guest |
| 1921 | Athol Rowan, cricketer, brother of Eric, South African off-spinner |
| 1921 | Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk |
| 1920 | Eddie Bracken, born in Astoria, New York City, actor, Summer Stock, Young and Willing |
| 1920 | Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist, Draw Me a Laugh |
| 1919 | Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian bishop |
| 1919 | Ilse Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs, Olympics-silver-1936 |
| 1917 | Dick Emery, born in London, England, actor, Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love |
| 1914 | David Ignatow, U.S. poet, Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead |
| 1914 | Jacques Mornard, Ramon Mercader, murderer, Trotsky |
| 1914 | Ralph Whitlock, writer |
| 1912 | Derek Farr, London, actor, 8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large |
| 1912 | Jane Ross, Spokane, Washington actress, Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever |
| 1910 | Buster Crabbe, 400m U.S. swimmer, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics |
| 1909 | Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist, champ sprinter 1932-37, |
| 1907 | Arthur George Bottomley, politician |
| 1905 | Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist |
| 1905 | Paul Nizan, French journalist and writer, L'Humanite, La Conspiration |
| 1905 | Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist, Nobel 1970 |
| 1904 | Milton Krims, writer, Speed |
| 1902 | Ethelda Blebtrey, Waterford, New York, 100m swimmer, Gold Medal 1920 Olympics |
| 1901 | Bob den Doolaard, Cornelis Spoelstra, Dutch writer, Grape Pickers |
| 1899 | Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member |
| 1897 | Quincy Porter, New Haven, Connecticut, composer |
| 1896 | Harold Hoffman, South Amboy, New Jersey, Governor of New Jersey |
| 1896 | Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer, Jorgen Stein |
| 1891 | Joachim Stutschewsky, composer |
| 1885 | Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930 |
| 1883 | Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist, Memories of You |
| 1883 | Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist |
| 1878 | Ossip Gabrilovich, composer |
| 1877 | Feliks Nowowiejski, composer |
| 1877 | Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist |
| 1877 | Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs, 1929-.. |
| 1877 | G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician |
| 1877 | Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician |
| 1875 | Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer |
| 1875 | Walter Courvoisier, composer |
| 1872 | Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister |
| 1871 | Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer |
| 1870 | Alfred Adler, born in Austria, psychiatrist, Inferiority Complex |
| 1869 | Jindrich S Baar, Czechoslovakian pastor/writer, Jan Cimbura |
| 1867 | Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisconsin, kid book author, Little House on Prarie |
| 1866 | Raf[ael] Verhulst, Koen Ravestein, Flemish writer, Jesus of Nazarus |
| 1864 | Arthur Collins, singer/comedian, Peerless Quartet |
| 1864 | Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer |
| 1863 | Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer |
| 1862 | Bernard Maybeck, U.S. architect, Palace of Fine Arts, SF |
| 1847 | Ernst Franck, German composer and conductor |
| 1842 | Alexandre Ribit, premier, France |
| 1839 | Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier, 1897-1901 |
| 1837 | James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary |
| 1834 | Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist, Periodic Table |
| 1833 | Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet, Tradiciones Peruanas |
| 1825 | Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer |
| 1824 | William Higgins, discoverer, nature of spiral nebulae |
| 1823 | Richard Genee, composer |
| 1822 | Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer |
| 1817 | Leroy Pope Walker, U.S. lawyer/Confederate minister of War, 1861 |
| 1812 | Charles Dickens, born in England, novelist, Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities |
| 1809 | Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet, Danserinden |
| 1804 | John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements |
| 1803 | Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian, Ahasverus |
| 1801 | John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist |
| 1758 | Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer |
| 1753 | Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer, Zwolle/Thirsa |
| 1741 | Henry Fuseli, British Artist |
| 1740 | Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP |
| 1739 | Joseph Pouteau, composer |
| 1710 | William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music |
| 1707 | Carl August Thielo, composer |
| 1700 | Philippe Buache, French geographer/cartographer, Contourlijnen |
| 1693 | Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia, 1730-40, |
| 1688 | Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, Marijke Meu, princess of Orange |
| 1655 | Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedy writer, Slave in Algeria |
| 1612 | Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader, King's Men |
| 1589 | Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor, Dordrecht, mathematician |
| 1556 | Maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren |
| 1478 | Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint, Utopia |
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