| 1980 | Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor, Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year |
| 1980 | Jessica Simpson, born in Abilene, Texas, singer, actress, television personality, starred in reality show, 'Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica' |
| 1980 | Adam Petty, American Celebrity |
| 1974 | Idalmis Marina Vidal, Miss Florida USA 1996 |
| 1974 | Jennifer Montica Curry, born in Muscatine, Iowa, Miss America-Iowa 1996 |
| 1973 | Claudius Wright, WLAF CB for the London Monarchs |
| 1972 | Damon Sharpe, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor/musician, Guys Next Door |
| 1972 | Sofia Vergara, Colombian Model |
| 1971 | Adam Foote, born in Toronto, NHL defenseman, Colorado Avalanche, Team Canada |
| 1971 | Brent Alexander, NFL defensive back for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1970 | Klaas Van Noortwijk, cricketer, Holland batsman 1996 World Cup |
| 1969 | Marty Cordova, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, outfielder for the Minnesota Twins |
| 1969 | Gale Harold, American Actor |
| 1968 | Hassisba Boulmerka, born in Algeria, 1500m, Olympics gold 92 |
| 1967 | Alfred Jackson, NFL cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1967 | Virgil Breedveld, soccer player, Dordrecht '90 |
| 1966 | Alvoid Mays, NFL cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1965 | Buddy Groom, born in Dallas, Texas, pitcher for the Oakland A's |
| 1965 | Scott Michael McCarron, born in Sacramento, California, PGA golfer, 1995 Las Vegas-3rd |
| 1962 | Mike Saxon, NFL punter for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1960 | Rob de Weerd, Dutch rock guitarist, Trockener Kecks |
| 1960 | Roger Craig, NFL reciever for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1958 | Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress |
| 1958 | Bela Fleck, American Musician |
| 1957 | Cindy Sheehan, American Activist |
| 1956 | Tom McClintock, American Politician |
| 1955 | Pamela Theresa Jiles, born in Louisiana, 4X400m relayer 1976 Olympics silver |
| 1954 | Andre Dawson, born in Miami, Florida, outfielder, Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP |
| 1954 | Neil Francis Tennant, rocker, Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices |
| 1954 | Neil Tennant, American Musician |
| 1953 | Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, rock vocalist, Triumph |
| 1950 | Willie Ford, U.S. R&B-singer, Dramatics-Me and Mrs. Jones |
| 1949 | Dave Smally, rocker, Raspberries |
| 1949 | Mark Shera, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, actor, SWAT, Barnaby Jones |
| 1949 | Ronnie James Dio, rocker, Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath |
| 1949 | Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricket player, opener, 10122 Test runs |
| 1949 | Wally Bryson, born in North Carolina, rock guitarist and vocalist, Fotomaker, Raspberries |
| 1947 | Arlo Guthrie, Brooklyn, singer, Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans |
| 1947 | John Trevor Key, photographer |
| 1946 | Sue Lyon, born in Davenport, Iowa, actress, Lolita, Night of the Iguana |
| 1945 | Ron Glass, born in Evansville, Indiana, actor, Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place |
| 1945 | Virginia Wade, England, tennis star, Wimbledon 1977 |
| 1945 | John Motson, British Celebrity |
| 1943 | Arthur Ashe, tennis pro, 1968 U.S. Open, 1975 Wimbledon |
| 1943 | Jerry Miller, born in Tacoma, Washington, rock guitarist, Moby Grape |
| 1941 | Ian Whitcomb, born in England, rocker, You Turn Me On |
| 1941 | Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, born in Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 13, 18B, 30 |
| 1941 | Robert Pine, born in Scarsdale, New York, actor, Joe Getraer-CHiPs |
| 1940 | Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy, 1989- |
| 1940 | Keith Stackpole, cricketer, aggressive Australian opener 1966-74 |
| 1940 | Mills Watson, born in Oakland, California, actor, Harper Valley PTA, BJ and Bear |
| 1939 | Lawrence Pressman, born in Kentucky, actor, Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle |
| 1937 | Sandy Stewart, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, singer, Sing Along With Mitch, Mr. President |
| 1936 | Barbara B. Kennelly, born in Hartford, Connecticut, Representative-D-Connecticut 1982 - 1999 |
| 1936 | Jan Wincenty Hawel, composer |
| 1934 | Munir Malik, Pakistani cricket pace bowler, 3 Tests 1959-62 |
| 1933 | Chuan-Kwang Yang, born in Taiwan, decathlete 1960 Olympics silver |
| 1933 | Jerry Herman, Broadway composer, Hello Dolly |
| 1931 | Alice Munro, author, Dance of the Happy Shades |
| 1931 | Del Insko, harness racer, toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader |
| 1931 | Julian May, U.S., sci-fi author, Golden Torc, Magnificat |
| 1931 | Nick Adams, born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, actor, Johnny Yuma-Rebel |
| 1930 | Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist |
| 1929 | Moe Norman, born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer, 1966 Quebec Open |
| 1928 | Jack Nel, cricketer, South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57 |
| 1927 | David Norman Dinkins, 1st black Mayor-D-NYC, 1990-93 |
| 1927 | Don Revie, English soccer coach, Leeds, National team |
| 1927 | William Smithers, born in Richmond, Virginia, actor, Witness, Peyton Place, Attack! |
| 1926 | Carleton Carpenter, born in Bennington, Vermont, actor, Up Periscope, Summer Stock |
| 1926 | Fred Gwynne, born in New York City, actor, Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters |
| 1925 | Dorothea Hochletiner, born in Austria, giant slalom 1956 Olympics bronze |
| 1923 | Jean Kerr, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, novelist, Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
| 1922 | Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director, Le Scandale |
| 1922 | Herb McKenley, born in Jamaica, 4 x 400m relay runner 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1921 | Eunice Shriver, founder, Special Olympics |
| 1921 | Jake LaMotta, born in Bronx, middleweight boxing champ, 1949-51, Raging Bull |
| 1921 | Jeff Donnell, born in South Windham, Maine, actor, Gidget Goes to Rome |
| 1921 | Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, composer |
| 1921 | [Leopold J] Paul Cammermans, Flemish actor, Getatoeeerde Rose |
| 1921 | Harvey Ball, American Celebrity |
| 1920 | David Brinkley, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, NBC news anchor, Huntley-Brinkley |
| 1920 | Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer, antiproton, Nobel-1959 |
| 1919 | Rusty Gill, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Polka Time |
| 1917 | Don Herbert, born in Waconia, Minnesota, scientist/TV host, Watch Mr. Wizard |
| 1917 | Reg Smyth, English cartoonist, Andy Capp |
| 1916 | Dick Cary, jazz Musician |
| 1914 | Saul Bellow, born in Quebec, novelist, Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet |
| 1913 | Ljuba Welitsch, born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano, Nedda-Pagliacci |
| 1912 | Francis Showering, brewer |
| 1911 | Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier of Indonesia |
| 1910 | Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster |
| 1905 | Thomas Gomez, born in New York City, actor, Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout |
| 1904 | Isa Krejci, composer |
| 1903 | John Wyndham P L B Harris, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of the Triffids |
| 1902 | Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer |
| 1902 | Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel 1950 |
| 1902 | Nicolas Guillen, Cuban poet, Motivos de son |
| 1900 | Bob Catterall, cricketer, dashing South African batsman of 20's |
| 1900 | Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer and actress, Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow |
| 1897 | Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director |
| 1895 | Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer, Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969 |
| 1895 | John Gilbert, Pringle, Logan, Utah, actor, Heart o' the Hills |
| 1895 | Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court |
| 1895 | Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization |
| 1894 | Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer |
| 1892 | George "Slim" Summerville, U.S. actor, Keystone Cops |
| 1890 | Andre Souris, composer |
| 1889 | Robert [Harriot] Barrat, New York City, actor, Go West, Distant Drums |
| 1888 | Giorgio De Chirico, born in Greece, Metaphysical painter, Soothsayer |
| 1888 | Graham McNamee, sportscaster, 1st Rose Bowl |
| 1888 | Toyohiko Kagawa, born in Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer |
| 1887 | Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer |
| 1886 | John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/Field Marshal of Palestine |
| 1883 | Johann Blaskowitz, German general |
| 1883 | Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| 1882 | Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony |
| 1882 | Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer |
| 1879 | Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr., crystallized vitamin A |
| 1877 | Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian female pilot |
| 1875 | Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College |
| 1875 | Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English Journalist |
| 1874 | Austin Diamond, cricket non-Test captain, NSW batsman 1899-1919, Australia |
| 1871 | Marcel Proust, France, novelist, Remembrance of Things Past |
| 1870 | Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist, nappism |
| 1867 | Finley Peter Dunne, U.S., journalist/humorist, Mr Dooley |
| 1867 | Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor, Oct-Nov 1918 |
| 1865 | Jan "Pa" van der Steur, Dutch philanthropist, Steurtjes |
| 1858 | Karl Flodin, composer |
| 1856 | Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavia, physicist, developed alternating current |
| 1852 | Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister |
| 1846 | Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, German writer, Young Nietzsche |
| 1835 | Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist and composer, Souv de Moscou |
| 1834 | James A. McNeill Whistler, US/British painter, Whistler's Mother |
| 1833 | Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1830 | Camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter, impressionism |
| 1830 | Camille Pissarro, French Artist |
| 1826 | Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer |
| 1824 | Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician |
| 1821 | Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1820 | Andrew Porter, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1818 | John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1813 | Arthur Helps, British Historian |
| 1802 | Robert Chambers, Scottish Writer |
| 1797 | Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer, Great Pull |
| 1792 | George Mifflin Dallas, D, 11th Vice President, 1845-49 |
| 1779 | Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer |
| 1778 | Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master |
| 1759 | Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer |
| 1723 | William Blackstone, England, jurist, Blackstone's Commentaries |
| 1697 | Francois Hanot, composer |
| 1638 | David Teniers III, Flemish painter, carpet cartons |
| 1526 | Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien |
| 1517 | Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Chatillon/bishop |
| 1509 | John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian |
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