| 1980 | Angela Ruggiero, ice hockey defenseman, USA, 1998 Olympics |
| 1977 | Beata Handra, born in San Francisco, California, dance skater, & Sinek-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd |
| 1976 | Mendel Witzenhauser, soccer player, Ajax, VVV |
| 1975 | Jason Marsden, actor, General Hospital, Eddie-Munsters Today |
| 1975 | Danica McKellar, born in LaJolla, California, actress, author, mathematician, appeared on 'The Wonder Years' television show, wrote, 'Math Doesn't Suck' and 'Kiss My Math' |
| 1974 | Stefan Ustorf, Kaufbeuren Ger, NHL right wing for the Washington Capitals |
| 1974 | Todd Warriner, Blenheim, NHL left wing for the Toronto Maple Leafs |
| 1973 | Paula Knoll, Moorhead Minnesota, Miss America-Minnesota 1996 |
| 1973 | Tyrone Brown, NFL wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1972 | Charles Johnson, NFL wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1972 | Deborah Carter, WNBA forward for the Utah Starzz |
| 1971 | Cory Cross, Lloydminster, NHL defenseman, Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 1971 | Ku'ualoha Taylor, Hawaii, Miss USA, Hawaii-Miss Congeniality-1996 |
| 1971 | Rene van Rijswijk, Dutch soccer player, RKC |
| 1970 | James Brown, NFL tackle for the New York Jets |
| 1970 | Tony Farmer, NBA forward, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1970 | Trudi Jeffrey, Brisbane QLD, golfer, 1990 Australian, Jr. Champion |
| 1970 | Yogi Johl, Vancouver BC, 130 kg Greco Roman wrestler 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Matt LaBounty, defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1969 | Nikki Nelson, Topaz Lake Nev, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry |
| 1969 | Steve Poapst, Cornwall, NHL defenseman for the Washington Capitals |
| 1969 | Michael Schumacher, German Celebrity |
| 1968 | Kent Carlsson, Sweden, born in Eskilstuna, Sweden, professional tennis player, won nine career titles, three-time European Champion |
| 1968 | Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman, Philadelphia Flyers, Ottawa |
| 1968 | Shannon Sturges, born in Hollywood, California, actress, daytime soap opera veteran, appeared in television shows Passions, Charmed, Savannah, Days of Our Lives |
| 1968 | Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1967 | Demetri Davis, WLAF tight end, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1967 | Joseph Amor, San Jose, video game record holder, Space Invaders |
| 1967 | Magnus Gustafsson, Sweden, tennis star |
| 1966 | Chetan Sharma, cricketer, Ind Test bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987 |
| 1966 | John Kropke, CFL defensive tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1966 | Luis Sojo, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1966 | Wendell Davis, NFL wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1965 | Daniel Stubbs, NFL defensive end, Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins |
| 1965 | Mark Dewey, Grand Rapids, Michigan, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1964 | Cheryl Miller, Riverside California, basketball player 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1963 | Aamer Malik, cricketer, Pakistani batsman in 13 Tests 1987-90 |
| 1963 | Ashley Chinner, Cape Town South Africa, golfer, 1992 CGIA Canadian Tour |
| 1963 | Jim Everett, NFL quarterback, Los Angeles Raiders, NO Saints, San Diego Chargers |
| 1962 | Darren Daulton, U.S. baseball catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1962 | Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1962 | Mark Gardner, U.S. baseball player for the Florida Marlins |
| 1961 | Erwin Blom, Dutch singer/guitarist, Eton Crop |
| 1961 | Lloyd Cole, born in Buxton, Derbyshire, rocker, singer, songwriter, lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions |
| 1960 | Joan Chen, Chen Chung, Shanghai China, actress, Last Emperor |
| 1957 | Frank Dicopoulos, born in Akron, Ohio, actor, Frank Cooper-Guiding Light |
| 1956 | Mel Gibson, born in Peekskill, New York, actor, Mad Max, Mrs. Soffel, Lethal Weapon |
| 1955 | Cynthia Sykes, Coffeyville, Kentucky, actress, Flamingo Road, St. Elsewhere |
| 1955 | David Pratt, Canadian Politician |
| 1954 | Ross Friedman, born in New York City, New York, Ross Funicello, Ross The Boss, guitarist, rocker, founding member of The Dictators punk band and Manowar heavy metal band |
| 1953 | Angelo Parisi, France, heavyweight judo, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics |
| 1951 | Frank Chikane, Secretary-General of South Africa Council of Churches |
| 1950 | Beth Anderson, born in Lexington, Kentucky, composer, singer, neo-romantic genre, invented swales, a musical form based on collages, samples of newly composed music vs. existing music, famous for singing with Limahl on 'The Never Ending Story' film title song |
| 1948 | Larry McNeeley, Lafayette, Indiana, banjo player, Glen Campbell Hour |
| 1948 | Manfred Kokot, East German runner, world record 50 m indoor |
| 1947 | Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1946 | John Paul Jones, rocker, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven |
| 1945 | Stephen Stills, born in Dallas, Texas, songwriter/guitarist, Cosby Stills and Nash |
| 1945 | Victoria Principal, Fukuoka Japan, actress, Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas |
| 1944 | Christina von Saltza, U.S., swimmer, Olympic-3 gold/silver-1960 |
| 1943 | Richard Ben-Veniste, American Lawyer |
| 1941 | Shima Iwashita, actress, Red Lion, Hara-Kiri, Double Suicide |
| 1941 | Van Dyke Parks, Alabama, actor/musician, Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour |
| 1940 | Thelma Schoonmaker, actress/editor, Casino, Cape Fear, Good Fellas |
| 1939 | Bobby Hull, NHL forward, Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72 |
| 1936 | Betty Rollin, actress, Crossing Delancey, author, Last Wish |
| 1936 | David Vine, British sport commentator |
| 1934 | Bryan George Kelly, composer |
| 1934 | Carla Hills, politician, U.S. President Commission on Housing-1982 |
| 1932 | Anatoli Petrovich Kuklin, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1932 | Jaswick Taylor, cricketer, WI pace bowler 50s, 10 wkts in 3 Tests |
| 1932 | Mara Corday, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Foxfire, Black Scorpion |
| 1930 | Eddie Egan, Bronx New York City, actor, Joe Forrester |
| 1930 | Robert Loggia, Staten Island, actor, Officer and a Gentleman, THE Cat |
| 1929 | Marilyn Lloyd, born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Representative-D-Tennessee 1975 - 1995 |
| 1929 | Sergio Leone, Italian, director, Fist Full of Dollars |
| 1929 | Gordon Moore, American Businessman |
| 1928 | Frank Ross Anderson, Canada, International Chess Master, 1954 |
| 1926 | Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist |
| 1926 | George Martin, record producer, The Beatles |
| 1924 | Andre Franquin, cartoonist |
| 1924 | Henry M Fazzie, South Africa Union/UDF-leader |
| 1924 | Roy Harding, British teacher |
| 1923 | Dragutin Gostuski, composer |
| 1923 | Jaroslav Hasek, Czechoslovakian writer, Good Soldier Schweyk |
| 1923 | Hank Stram, American Athlete |
| 1922 | Bill Travers, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, actor, Born Free, Gorgo |
| 1922 | Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter |
| 1921 | John Russell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Pale Rider, Rio Bravo |
| 1919 | Jesse White, Buf, New York, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Million Dollar Mermaid |
| 1918 | Maxene Andrews, Minnesota, singer, Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy |
| 1918 | Jeane Dixon, American |
| 1917 | Vernon Walters, New York City, U.S. permanent rep to the UN |
| 1917 | Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier |
| 1916 | Antonio Estevez, composer |
| 1916 | Betty Furness, New York City, actress/consumer activist, Studio 1 |
| 1915 | Jack Levine, American Artist |
| 1914 | Jean Louvel, Flemish pianist/conductor/composer |
| 1912 | Robert Flemyng, Liverpool Eng, actor, Windom's Way, Young Winston |
| 1911 | John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7 |
| 1910 | Thomas Stuart Willan, historian |
| 1909 | Victor Borge, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, pianist/comedian |
| 1907 | Anna May Wong, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Impact, Study in Scarlet |
| 1906 | Roman Brandstaetter, writer |
| 1905 | Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer |
| 1905 | Ray Milland, born in Neath, Wales, actor, Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945 |
| 1904 | Boris Kochno, Russian ballet dancer, La Chatte |
| 1903 | Charles Foulkes, Canada, general |
| 1902 | Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician |
| 1901 | Eric Voegelin, Germany, U.S. philosopher, Order and History |
| 1901 | Ngo Dinh Diem, president/dictator of South Vietnam, 1955-63 |
| 1900 | Dorothy Arnzer, director |
| 1900 | Maurice Jaubert, composer |
| 1898 | Johannes Hin, Holland, yachtsman, Gold Medal 1920 Olympics |
| 1898 | ZaSu Pitts, Parsons Kansas, actress, Life With Father, Dames |
| 1897 | Marion Davies, Marion Cecelia Douras, Brooklyn, actress, Operator 13 |
| 1897 | Pola Negri, Barbara A Chalupec, Polish/US actress, Madame Bovary |
| 1897 | Dorothy Arzner, American Director |
| 1895 | Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer |
| 1895 | Mihail Andricu, composer |
| 1893 | Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, Gilles |
| 1892 | J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist, Lord of Rings |
| 1891 | Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj |
| 1887 | Helen Parkhurst, U.S. educator, Education on the Dalton plan |
| 1886 | Arthur Mailey, cricketer, great Aussie leg-spinner and cartoonist |
| 1886 | John G Fletcher, U.S., poet, Epic of Arkansas |
| 1886 | Josephine Hull, Newtonville, Massachusetts, Academy award actress, Harvey |
| 1884 | Eli S Jones, U.S., evangelist, Christ of Indian road |
| 1884 | Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer |
| 1883 | Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, 1945-51 |
| 1883 | Clement Atlee, British Statesman |
| 1882 | Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director, Pygmalion |
| 1879 | Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady, 1923-29 |
| 1876 | Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60 |
| 1870 | Henry Eichheim, composer |
| 1870 | Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist, Richard Mahoney |
| 1869 | Paul Charles Rene Landormy, composer |
| 1868 | Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian |
| 1853 | Iwan Knorr, composer |
| 1840 | Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii |
| 1835 | Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor |
| 1830 | Alexander Ewing, composer |
| 1829 | John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian |
| 1829 | Konrad Duden, German linguist, Der grosse Duden |
| 1823 | Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer |
| 1819 | Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen, Confederacy |
| 1810 | Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness |
| 1803 | Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit, Punch Mag |
| 1802 | Feliks Ostrowski, composer |
| 1793 | Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist |
| 1793 | Lucretia Mott, American Activist |
| 1789 | Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher |
| 1786 | Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer |
| 1777 | Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker |
| 1777 | M. A. Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino |
| 1763 | Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator |
| 1757 | Johann Abraham Sixt, composer |
| 1730 | Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician |
| 1680 | Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker |
| 1624 | William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America |
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