| 1983 | Natalie Gulbis, American Athlete |
| 1977 | Dustin Diamond, born in San Jose, California, actor, Screech-Saved By Bell |
| 1975 | Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge New Zealand, Single scull rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Jennifer LeRoy, Craig CO, playmate, Feb, 1993 |
| 1973 | Bobby Engram, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears |
| 1973 | Brian Milne, fullback for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1973 | Ricky Wood, Van Nuys California, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Robert Dunn, Glenn Cove, New York, team handball left wing 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Aaron John Mcintosh, Auckland New Zealand, sailboard yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Chuck Levy, kick returner/running back for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1972 | Donald Brashear, Bedford, NHL left wing, Montreal Canadiens |
| 1971 | Bobby Hamilton, NFL/WLAF defensive end, Amsterdam Admirals, New York Jets |
| 1971 | Masato Itai, WLAF wide receiver for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1971 | Todd Yeaman, NFL defensive tackle for the New York Giants |
| 1970 | Doug E. Doug, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, screenwriter, comedian, played Griffith Vesey on television sitcom Cosby, voice of Bernie in the animated movie Shark Tale, and Sanka Coffie in film Cool Runnings |
| 1970 | Darryl Williams, NFL safety, Seattle Seahawks, Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1970 | Frank "Cliff" Mannon, Amarillo, Texas, team handball 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Paul McCallum, CFL/WLAF kicker/punter, Claymores, Sask Roughriders |
| 1970 | Todd Day, NBA guard and forward for the Boston Celtics |
| 1969 | Chris Hatcher, U.S. baseball outfielder for the Houston Astros |
| 1969 | Erric Pegram, NFL running back, Pit Steelers, New York Giants, San Diego Chargers |
| 1969 | Todd Kinchen, NFL wide receiver, St. Louis Rams, Atlanta Falcons |
| 1968 | Michael Rosati, hockey goaltender, Team Italy 1998 |
| 1968 | Nathaniel Bolton, WLAF running back for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1967 | Guy Hebert, Troy, NHL goalie, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Team USA 98 |
| 1967 | Scott Galbraith, NFL tight end, Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys |
| 1966 | Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, model/wife of John Kennedy Jr |
| 1966 | Jennifer Luff, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Randy Burridge, Fort Erie, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres |
| 1965 | Mark Rushmere, cricketer, South Africa opening bat in comeback Test 1992 |
| 1964 | Francisco Maciel, Mexico, tennis star |
| 1964 | Nicolas Cage, actor, Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon |
| 1963 | Craig Shipley, Australian/US baseball infielder for the San Diego Padres |
| 1962 | Hallie Todd, actress, Check is in the Mail |
| 1962 | Jeff Montgomery, Wellston, Ohio, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1961 | John Thune, born in Murdo, South Dakota, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Dakota, U.S. House of Representatives from South Dakota's At-Large district |
| 1960 | David Marciano, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Det Ray Vecchio-Due South |
| 1960 | Tierre Turner, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Waverly Wonders, Cop and the Kid |
| 1960 | Loretta Sanchez, American Politician |
| 1959 | Kathy Valentine, rocker, Go-Go's-We Got the Beat |
| 1958 | Donna Rice, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, model/Gary Hart's lover |
| 1958 | Peter R Mokaba, president, South African Youth Congress |
| 1957 | Katie Couric, born in Arlington, Virginia, TV news host, Today |
| 1957 | Kristen Meadows, actress, Santa Barbara |
| 1957 | Nicholson Baker, American Novelist |
| 1956 | Robin Walton, Boise ID, LPGA golfer, 1995 GHP Heartland Classic-15th |
| 1956 | Rosalyn Bryant, born in Chicago, Illinois, 4x400m runner 1976 Olympics silver |
| 1956 | Trudie Styler, England, wife of Sting/sponsor, Rainforest Concert |
| 1956 | David Caruso, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, producer, known for television series, 'CSI: Miami', appeared in films, 'First Blood', 'China Girl', 'An Officer and a Gentleman' |
| 1955 | Sandra Bernhard, born in Arizona, Follow That Bird, King of Comedy |
| 1954 | Alan Butcher, cricketer, one Test England vs. India, scored 14 and 20 |
| 1953 | Agha Zahid, cricketer, open batting for Pak vs. WI 1975, scored 14 and 1 |
| 1953 | Earl Wilber Force "Wire" Lindo, rocker, Bob Marley and the Wailers |
| 1952 | Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI |
| 1951 | Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian Major/cosmonaut, TM-19, TM-27 |
| 1950 | Erin Gray, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers |
| 1949 | John Christopher Parry, rocker, Cure |
| 1949 | Marshall Chapman, Spartanburg, South Carolina, country singer |
| 1948 | Kaz Lux, Poland/Netherland, singer |
| 1948 | Kenny Loggins, born in Everett, Washington, singer, & Messina-This is it, Footloose |
| 1947 | David Porcelijn, Dutch composer and conductor |
| 1946 | Andy Brown, rock drummer, Fortunes Birmingham |
| 1946 | Jann S Wenner, publisher, Rolling Stone |
| 1945 | Tony Conigliaro, Massachusetts, baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox |
| 1944 | Ad Nijhuis, Dutch MP, VVD |
| 1944 | Mike McGear, born in Liverpool, England, singer, Paul McCartney's brother |
| 1943 | Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne California, baseball manager for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1943 | Leona Williams, singer and songwriter, Ladies Get the Blues |
| 1943 | Nicholas Warner, test Pilot |
| 1942 | Paul Revere, rock keyoardist, Good Thing |
| 1942 | Vasili Alexeyev, U.S.S.R., weightlifer, Olympics gold 72, 76 |
| 1941 | Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist |
| 1941 | Frederick Drew Gregory, Washington D.C., Col USAF/astronaut, STS-51-B, 33, 44 |
| 1941 | Robert Hicks, rocker, Paul Butterfield Blues Band |
| 1941 | John E. Walker, English Scientist |
| 1940 | William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist |
| 1939 | David Buchan, ethno-musicologist |
| 1939 | Tom Kierman, British rugby player |
| 1938 | Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer, Jan Rao en z'n Maat |
| 1936 | Eldee Young, U.S. bassist, Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy |
| 1935 | Noam Sheriff, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, musician, composer, conductor, most renowned Israeli musician, director of Haifa Symphony Orchestra |
| 1935 | Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cosmonaut, Soyuz 6, 19, 36/35 |
| 1934 | Charles Lamont Jenkins, New York City, 400m runner 1956 Olympics gold |
| 1933 | Elliot Kastner, New York City, producer, Bobo, Big Sleep, Ffolkes |
| 1931 | Mack Mattingly, born in Anderson, Indiana, Senator-R-Georgia 1981 - 1986 |
| 1929 | Douglas Kiker, NBC newsman, 1970 Peabody Award |
| 1929 | Kenneth Henry, U.S., 500m speed skater 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1929 | Terry Moore, Helen Luella Koford, LA Cal, actress, Little Sheba |
| 1928 | Rajindranath, cricketer, 4 stumpings in his only Test for India |
| 1928 | William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist |
| 1925 | Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer, Mockery Bird |
| 1924 | Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer, A Time of Gods |
| 1923 | Charles Russell Woolen, composer |
| 1922 | Jean-Pierre [Louis] Rampal, Marseilles France, flautist |
| 1922 | Vincent Gardenia, Naples Italy, actor, All in the Family, LA Law |
| 1920 | Albert Meltzer, anarchist |
| 1920 | Aubrey Brabazon, jockey/trainer |
| 1920 | Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist |
| 1918 | Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party |
| 1918 | Colin Snedden, cricketer, Test New Zealand vs. England 1947, 0-46, did not bat |
| 1917 | Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer |
| 1916 | Gerrit Schulte, Le Fou Pedalant, Dutch 6 day bicyclist |
| 1916 | Paul Keres, U.S.S.R., chess grandmaster, 1950 |
| 1915 | Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder, NVSH |
| 1913 | Francis De Wolff, England, actor, From Russia With Love |
| 1913 | Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm |
| 1912 | Charles Addams, cartoonist, New Yorker, Addams Family |
| 1911 | Merv Waite, cricketer, S Australian all-rounder |
| 1910 | Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron |
| 1910 | Jack Lovelock, New Zealand/U.S. surgeon/runner 1936 Olympics gold |
| 1907 | Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist |
| 1905 | Francis Taylor, builder |
| 1903 | Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor, Alfred-Batman |
| 1903 | Albrecht Haushofer, writer |
| 1903 | Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer |
| 1903 | Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer |
| 1899 | Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist, Les Biches |
| 1899 | Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor, Broadway Melody, Little Giant |
| 1898 | Art Baker, New York City, TV host, You Asked For It |
| 1898 | Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer |
| 1896 | Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist, The Ghost Train |
| 1895 | Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist |
| 1894 | Jose Rozo Contreras, composer |
| 1892 | Rudolf Moser, composer |
| 1891 | Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist |
| 1890 | Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star, Deception |
| 1890 | Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1912 |
| 1883 | Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral, WW II |
| 1879 | St. Bernadette, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, 1844, religious visionary |
| 1877 | Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, 1 great dog |
| 1876 | William Yeates Hurlstone, composer |
| 1875 | Thomas Hicks, English/U.S. marathon runner:, Olympics gold 1904 |
| 1873 | Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive, Paramount |
| 1873 | Charles Pierre Peguy, Orleans Fr, Catholic writer, God Speaks |
| 1873 | Charles Peguy, French Philosopher |
| 1868 | Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist |
| 1860 | Emanuil Mandlov, composer |
| 1855 | Eliezer Ben-Jehuda, Perelmann, Latvia, writer, 1st hebrew newspaper |
| 1853 | Nikolai Arkas, composer |
| 1845 | Louis III, last king of Bavaria, 1913-18 |
| 1845 | Paul Deusen, German philosopher, Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft |
| 1844 | Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, saint/visionary |
| 1842 | Johan Lindegren, composer |
| 1839 | Ouida, English Novelist |
| 1830 | , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1830 | Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter, US landscapes |
| 1824 | James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1822 | Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author, Goethe |
| 1822 | Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist, Rigveda's Hymns |
| 1821 | Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General, Confederate Army |
| 1816 | Stephen Miller, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1808 | Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1800 | Millard Fillmore, Locke, New York, Whig, 13th president, 1850-53 |
| 1799 | Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1710 | Josef Antonin Sehling, composer |
| 1685 | Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company |
| 1653 | Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician, Frederick of Prussia |
| 1652 | Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian |
| 1634 | Adam Krieger, German composer |
| 1612 | Paul de La Pierre, composer |
| 1611 | James Harrington, England, political author, Commonwealth of Oceans |
| 1539 | Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish lexicographer |
| 1528 | Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV |
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