| 1980 | Stephanie Stiegler, born in Santa Monica, California, pairs skater, & Zimmerman |
| 1978 | Devin Doherty, actor, Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing |
| 1976 | Paz Vega, Spanish Actress |
| 1974 | Juha Lind, NHL forward, Team Finland, Dallas, Bronze Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1973 | Abu Wilson, running back for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1973 | Chris Woodruff, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, tennis star, 1993 NCAA Division I |
| 1973 | Fredric Ford, WLAF CB for the Scotland Claymores/NFL cornerback, Eagles |
| 1973 | Sarah Schwald, Bellingham Wash, 1.5k runner |
| 1972 | Jeff Jackson, U.S. baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1972 | Lake Dawson, NFL wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1972 | Mattias Norstrom, Mora SWE, NHL defenseman, Team Sweden, Los Angeles Kings |
| 1972 | Taye Diggs, American Actor |
| 1971 | Aamer Nazir, cricketer, Pakistani pace bowler 1993- |
| 1971 | Aaron Williams, NBA center, Seattle Supersonics |
| 1971 | Brad Parpan, WLAF quarterback for the Rhein Fire |
| 1971 | Horace Copeland, NFL wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1971 | Robert O' Neal, WLAF DB for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Shimin, hockey goaltender, Team Kazakhstan, 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Anthony Stuart, cricketer, Australian ODI pace bowler, hat trick 1997 |
| 1970 | Glenn Cadrez, NFL linebacker, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1970 | Royce Clayton, born in Burbank, California, infielder, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1969 | Christy Turlington, born in San Francisco, California, model, Calvin Klein Eternity |
| 1969 | Rick Tabaracci, Toronto, NHL goalie for the Calgary Flames |
| 1969 | Robert Svehla, born in Martin, Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman, Florida Panthers, Slovakia |
| 1969 | Stephen John Davies, Australia field hockey forward/vice captain, 2 Bronze Medals and 1 Silver Medal 1992, 1996, 2000 Olympics |
| 1968 | Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor, Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men |
| 1968 | Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback, Detroit Lions |
| 1967 | Harlon Barnett, NFL safety for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1966 | Tia Carrere, Althea Janairo, Honolulu, actress, Wayne's World |
| 1965 | Diane Lane, New York City, actress, Streets of Fire, Lady Beware, Lonesome Dove |
| 1965 | Greg Swindell, Fort Worth, Texas, pitcher, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians |
| 1965 | Russ Courtnall, Duncan, NHL right wing, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1964 | Pernell Whitaker, boxer, Olympic-gold |
| 1964 | Rumesh Ratnayake, cricketer, Sri Lankan pacer in 23 Tests 1983-92 |
| 1963 | David Cone, born in Kansas City, Missouri, baseball pitcher, New York Mets/Tor Blue Jays/New York Yankees |
| 1963 | Edgar Martinez, New York City, baseball 1st baseman for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1962 | April Winchell, American Actress |
| 1960 | Raman Lamba, cricketer, Indian opening batsman 1986-87 |
| 1959 | Kirti Azad, cricketer, Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83 |
| 1957 | Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress, Gorky Park, Kiss |
| 1956 | Lynda Barry, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, cartoonist, author, known for comic strip, 'Ernie Pook's Comeek', wrote 'The Good Times are Killing Me', 'What It Is' |
| 1954 | Ludmila Borozna, U.S.S.R., volleyball player, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1952 | Ricky Van Shelton, Grit, Virginia, country singer, Wild-Eyed Dream |
| 1952 | Wendy Phillips, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Executive Suite, Promised Land |
| 1951 | Nadia Cassini, Gianna Lou Muller, Woodstock, New York, model, Oui |
| 1949 | Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist, Ten Years After-I'm Going Home |
| 1949 | Christopher Durang, Montclair, New Jersey, playwright/actor, Sister Mary |
| 1947 | Aleksandr Tikhonova, U.S.S.R., biathalon relay, Gold Medals 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1947 | Calvin Hill, NFL running back for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1947 | Lanny Bassham, U.S., rifle-3 position 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1947 | Jack Hanna, American Celebrity |
| 1944 | Peter Eotvos, born in Odorheiu Secuiesc, Hungary, now Romania, composer, conductor, works include 'Love and Other Demons' |
| 1942 | Dennis Hastert, American Politician |
| 1942 | Hugh Shelton, American Soldier |
| 1939 | Jim Bakker, televangelist, PTL Club |
| 1938 | John Considine, actor, Reginald Love-Another World |
| 1937 | Marianne McDonald, classicist/philanthropist |
| 1936 | Roger Miller, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, country singer, King of the Road, Dang Me |
| 1932 | Dabney Coleman, born in Austin, Texas, That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill |
| 1931 | Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan, 1989-91 |
| 1930 | Julius LaRosa, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer, fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air |
| 1929 | Art Prysock, jazz musician |
| 1928 | Dan Rostenkowski, born in Chicago, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1959 - 1995 |
| 1928 | Gerhard Amanshauser, writer |
| 1928 | Harry Hyams, English immovable goods owner, Center Point |
| 1928 | Howard Caine, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Brushfire |
| 1928 | Tiberiu Olah, composer |
| 1928 | Vaughn Beals, Cambridge Massachusetts, CEO, Harley Davidson motorcycle |
| 1928 | Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese Writer |
| 1927 | David Herbert, publisher |
| 1927 | Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end, Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts |
| 1925 | Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich, composer |
| 1925 | William J Crowe, Jr., Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff |
| 1922 | Jason Evers, New York City, actor, Wrangler, Channing |
| 1922 | Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano |
| 1920 | Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector |
| 1920 | Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer, I Robot, Foundation Trilogy |
| 1920 | Penelope Jessel, politcal activist |
| 1920 | Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker |
| 1920 | Issac Asimov, American Writer |
| 1915 | John Hope Franklin, historian |
| 1913 | Ernest Sidey, British air marshal |
| 1913 | Gardner Read, Evanston, Illinois, composer |
| 1913 | Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, U.S. head, NAACP |
| 1913 | Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, France, meteorologist |
| 1912 | Andre Ameller, composer |
| 1912 | Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress, Scruples, Lila-General Hospital |
| 1912 | Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer |
| 1912 | Renato Guttuso, Italian painter, Flight from Etna, Crucifixion |
| 1910 | Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation |
| 1909 | Rene Etiemble, French literature historian, Parlez-vous Franglais |
| 1908 | Ben Grauer, New York City, newscaster, Big Story |
| 1908 | Janis Kepitis, composer |
| 1907 | Edward Albert Radice, economist |
| 1907 | Salvador Ley, composer |
| 1905 | Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer and conductor, Child of our Time |
| 1904 | James Melton, Moultrie, Georgia, opera tenor, Ford Festival |
| 1904 | Sally Rand, Hickory County, Missouri, stripper, fan dance |
| 1903 | Anton van Duinkerken, Willem JMA Asselbergs, literary |
| 1901 | Rex O'Malley, born in London, England, actor, Camille, Zara, Midnight |
| 1901 | Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society |
| 1901 | Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor, Daphne |
| 1899 | Alexander Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg Russia, composer |
| 1899 | Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/Secretary-General of NATO, 1957-61 |
| 1896 | Dziga Vertiv, Denis A Kaufman, Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet! |
| 1896 | Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer |
| 1895 | Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman, Red Cross, UN |
| 1894 | Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie |
| 1892 | Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer |
| 1889 | Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer, La Rondine |
| 1889 | Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor, Gay Amigo |
| 1886 | Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet, In New-York |
| 1885 | Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer, dikes |
| 1884 | Jacques Chardonne, Boutelleau, French writer, l'Epithalame |
| 1880 | Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer |
| 1879 | Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary, Grimaces |
| 1879 | Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist, Pedestal of Nederlands |
| 1873 | Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, Communist Tactics |
| 1870 | Ernst Barlach, writer |
| 1866 | Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat |
| 1865 | William Lyon Phelps, American Educator |
| 1863 | Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human, 2.1 kg at 17 |
| 1861 | Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady, 1909-12 |
| 1861 | Wilhelm Bolsche, writer |
| 1860 | William C Mills, museum curator, excavated Ohio Indian mounds |
| 1857 | Frederick Opper, cartoonist, Maud, Alphonse and Gaston |
| 1857 | Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College |
| 1846 | Sandor Erkel, composer |
| 1842 | Amy G. C. A. Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist |
| 1837 | Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer, Tamara |
| 1835 | Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1831 | Justin Winston, historian/librarian, Harvard |
| 1831 | Justin Winsor, American Writer |
| 1830 | Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer |
| 1830 | Henry Flagler, American Businessman |
| 1822 | Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist, thermodynamics |
| 1809 | Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer |
| 1807 | Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer |
| 1803 | Gugliemo Libri, della Somaia, Italian/French mathematician/book collector |
| 1777 | Christian D Rauch, German sculptor |
| 1752 | Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village |
| 1732 | Franz Xaver Brixi, composer |
| 1728 | Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium |
| 1727 | James Wolfe, commanded British Army, captured Quebec |
| 1699 | Osman III, sultan, Turkey |
| 1647 | Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia, 1676 |
| 1642 | Mehmed IV, sultan, Turkey |
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