| 1983 | William Hung, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, outsider musician, rose to fame for an off-key performance of 'She Bangs' by Ricky Martin on 'American Idol' show |
| 1977 | Orlando Bloom, born in Canterbury, England, actor, appeared in 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'Kingdom of Heaven' films |
| 1976 | Gary Brent, cricketer, Zimbabwe ODI pace bowler 1996 |
| 1976 | Vaclav Batlik, born in Costa Mesa, California, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Angela Holbeck, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Matt Lepsis, NFL tackle, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1974 | Sergei Brylin, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center for the New Jersey Devils |
| 1973 | Nikolai Khabibulin, Sverdlovsk Rus, NHL goalie, Winnipeg Jets |
| 1972 | Bryon Morris, running back for the Baltimore Ravens |
| 1972 | Byron "Bam" Morris, NFL running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1972 | Nicole Eggert, born in Glendale California, actress, Charles in Charge, Baywatch |
| 1972 | Richard Woodley, NFL cornerback, Detroit Lions |
| 1971 | Elmer Dessens, Hermosillo Mexico, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1970 | Anne-Marie Goddard, born in Utrechtum, Netherlands, playmate, Jan, 94 |
| 1970 | Frank Kooiman, soccer player, Sparta |
| 1970 | Keith Coogan, Palm Springs, actor, Adv in Babysitting, Hiding Out |
| 1970 | Keith Mitchell, born in Palm Springs, California, actor, Jeffrey-Waltons, Gun Shy |
| 1970 | Nachi Abe, WLAF tight end for the Scotland Claymores |
| 1969 | Andre Cason, U.S. runner, world record 50 indoor |
| 1969 | Dan Footman, NFL defensive end, Cleveland Browns, Indianapolis Colts |
| 1969 | John Flannery, guard/corner for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1969 | Katarzyna Nowak, Lodz Poland, tennis star, 1994 Futures France |
| 1969 | Kevin Foster, U.S. baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs |
| 1969 | Orlando Miller, Changionola Panama, infielder for the Houston Astros |
| 1969 | Robert Wilson, NFL running back for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1969 | Stephen Hendry, British snookers player |
| 1968 | Kelly Boucher, Calgary Alberta, basketball forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Traci Bingham, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actress, model, appeared on television series, 'Baywatch' |
| 1966 | Joseph Harper, Ventura California, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Marcus Turner, NFL cornerback and safety for the New York Jets |
| 1966 | Patrick Dempsey, Lewiston Me, actor, Mike-Fast Times |
| 1964 | Penelope Ann Miller, American Actress |
| 1963 | Dirk Tazelaar, cricketer, Queensland and Surrey left-arm pace bowler |
| 1963 | Felita Carr, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, dance skater, & Komarov-1995 Pac Champ |
| 1963 | Tim Patrick Kelly, Trenton, New Jersey, guitarist, Slaughter-Stick it Live |
| 1962 | Brett Maxie, NFL safety, Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers |
| 1962 | Kevin Mitchell, U.S. baseball outfielder, New York Met, San Francisco Giants, for the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1962 | Trace Adkins, born in Springhill, Louisiana, country music singer, successful album 'Songs About Me' was certified double multi-platinum |
| 1961 | Graham "Suggs" McPherson, Sussex, rock vocalist, Madness-Our House |
| 1961 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus, born in New York City, comedienne, SNL, Seinfeld, Soul Man, Troll |
| 1961 | Kelly Hrudey, Edmonton, NHL goalie for the Los Angeles Kings |
| 1961 | Kent Hull, NFL center for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1961 | Wayne Coyne, American Musician |
| 1960 | Matthew Bourne, English Dancer |
| 1959 | Kevin Anderson, Illinois, actor, Hoffa, Sleeping with the Enemy |
| 1958 | Ricardo Acuna, born in Santiago, Chile, former tennis player, ranked was 47th in the world, won three doubles titles during his career |
| 1957 | Christina Seufert, Sacraento California, diver 1984 Olympics bronze |
| 1957 | Don Snow, born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1992, changed name to John Savannah, musician, guitarist, drummer, saxophonist, toured with Van Morrison, member of Squeeze, Procol Harum, played Hammond organs, piano |
| 1957 | Mark Francis O'Meara, Goldsboro, North Carolina, PGA golfer, 1984 Greater Milw |
| 1956 | Janet Hubert-Whitten, actress, Vivian Banks-Fresh Prince of Bel Air |
| 1956 | Jay McInerney, writer, Bright Lights, Big City |
| 1956 | Malcolm Foster, rock bassist, Pretenders-Mystery Achievement |
| 1955 | Fred White, rocker, Earth Wind and Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover |
| 1955 | Jay McInerney, author, Bright Lights, Big City |
| 1955 | Titus M Mafolo, South Africa journalist/ANC-leader |
| 1954 | Vicki McCarty, born in Los Angeles, California, playmate, Sep, 1979 |
| 1954 | Trevor Rabin, born in South Africa, musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of Yes, a progressive British rock band, film composer |
| 1952 | Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist, Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute |
| 1952 | Sharon Gabet, Fort Wayne, Indiana, actress, Edge of Night, Another World |
| 1949 | Brandon Tartikoff, TV executive, NBC |
| 1949 | Rakesh Sharma, India, cosmonaut, Soyuz T-11 |
| 1948 | Kenia Jayantilal, cricketer, 5 at Kingston 71 his only inns for India |
| 1947 | John Lees, England, rock guitarist and vocalist, Medicine Man |
| 1947 | Peter Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1947 | Robert Martin, American Politician |
| 1945 | [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author, High Kings |
| 1943 | Richard Moll, Cal, actor, Night Court, House, Dungeonmaster, Survivor |
| 1943 | William Duckworth, composer |
| 1941 | Meinhard Nehmer, born in East Germany, 2 man bobsledder 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1940 | Edmund White, American Novelist |
| 1938 | Billy Gray, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Bud-Father Knows Best |
| 1938 | Paavo Johannes Heininen, composer |
| 1937 | Haje J Schartman, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1936 | Edward Rell Madigan, born in Lincoln, Illinois, Representative-R-Illinois 1973 - 1983 |
| 1934 | Rip Taylor, comedian, Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show |
| 1934 | Nick Clooney, American Politician |
| 1933 | Nurdin Jivraj, Tanzanian/British hotel magnate, Buckingham International |
| 1933 | Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, U.S., sci-fi author, Deadwalk, Plunder |
| 1933 | Tom B Gola, NBA Hall-of-Famer |
| 1931 | Charles Nelson Reilly, born in New York, American actor, director, comedian, drama teacher, game show panelist |
| 1930 | Frances Sternhagen, Washington D.C., actress, Outland, Starting Over |
| 1930 | Liz Anderson, born in Roseau, Minnesota, country music singer, songwriter, Grammy Award nominee, wrote hits for Merle Haggard |
| 1930 | Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer |
| 1929 | Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist |
| 1929 | Wim Bary, Dutch actor/theater director, Nice Boys |
| 1928 | David Sheiner, New York City, actor, Paul-Mr Novak, Norman-Diana |
| 1928 | Gregory Walcott, Wilson, North Carolina, actor, 87th Precinct |
| 1927 | Sydney Brenner, British Scientist |
| 1926 | Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life' |
| 1926 | Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author, Change of Use |
| 1925 | Gwen Verdon, born in Louisiana, actress/singer/dancer, Cotton Club, Sweet Charity |
| 1925 | Rosemary Murphy, Munich Germany, actress, Margaret-Lucas Tanner |
| 1924 | Philip Rawson, artist/teacher |
| 1923 | Jack Watling, London, actor, Nanny, Adventure for 2, Naked Heart |
| 1919 | Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host, Movie Game |
| 1919 | Robert Stack, born in born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane |
| 1918 | Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer |
| 1918 | Steve Dunne, Northampton Massachusetts, actor, Professional Father |
| 1918 | Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter, It's Great to be Young |
| 1917 | Felix Guerro Diaz, composer |
| 1916 | Bella Lewitsky, choreographer |
| 1916 | Osa Massen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Jack London, Rocketship XM |
| 1915 | Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property developer |
| 1913 | Jeff Morrow, New York City, actor, Bart-Union Pacific, Temperatures Rising |
| 1913 | Ralph Edwards, born in Merino, Colorado, TV host, This is Your Life |
| 1911 | Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, premier, Queensland |
| 1909 | Danny Barker, jazz guitarist |
| 1909 | Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist |
| 1907 | Sabine Zlatin, nurse |
| 1906 | Maxime Jacob, composer |
| 1905 | Percy Humphrey, musician |
| 1904 | Richard Addinsell, born in London, England, composer, Taming of Shrew |
| 1903 | Kay Francis, Katherine E Gibbs, Oklahoma City, actress, False Madonna |
| 1900 | Yasuji Kiyose, composer |
| 1898 | Pedro DE Teixeira de Mattos, Dutch diplomat |
| 1895 | Anton Betzner, writer |
| 1895 | Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer |
| 1893 | Clarke Ashton Smith, U.S., sci-fi author, Lost Worlds, Genius Loci |
| 1893 | Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer |
| 1892 | Paul Smart, U.S., yachtsman 1948 Olympics gold |
| 1885 | Alfred Fuller, CEO, Fuller Brush Man |
| 1884 | Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor and writer, Arie, novel from the Jordan |
| 1884 | Sophie Tucker, Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas |
| 1874 | Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal and archbishop of Mechlin |
| 1870 | Henryk Opienski, Polish composer and conductor, St. Moniuszko |
| 1869 | Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general, WW I, fascist |
| 1866 | Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer |
| 1866 | G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Alexandropol, Armenia, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way |
| 1864 | Wilhelm K. W. Wien, German phyicist, Nobel 1911 |
| 1859 | Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature |
| 1859 | Kostis Palamas, Greek poet/scholar, Flogera tou Basilia |
| 1850 | Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer |
| 1835 | Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian jurist/minister of the Interior |
| 1834 | Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere Massachusetts, author, Lost at Sea, Work and Win |
| 1824 | Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer |
| 1815 | William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1812 | Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1810 | Ernestine Rose, Activist |
| 1808 | Salmon P Chase, Sen-R, cabinet member, 6th chief justice, 1864-73 |
| 1808 | Salmon P. Chase, American Politician |
| 1808 | Salmon Portland Chase, American Politician |
| 1807 | Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1802 | Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright |
| 1788 | Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer |
| 1778 | Anton Fischer, composer |
| 1734 | Luca Sorkocevic, composer |
| 1727 | Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer |
| 1720 | Richard Hurd, English Writer |
| 1690 | Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer |
| 1683 | Johann Christoph Graupner, German composer |
| 1674 | Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French poet, Atree et Thyeste |
| 1628 | Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer, Mother Goose |
| 1616 | Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic |
| 1596 | Jan J Goyen, Dutch landscape painter |
| 1505 | Joachim II Hector, ruler, Brandenburg |
| 1406 | Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer, Della vita civile |
| 1381 | St. Colette, abbess/reformer, Poor Clares |
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