| 1991 | Scout Larue Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore |
| 1980 | Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian Model |
| 1978 | Charlie Korsmo, actor, Dick Tracy, What About Bob |
| 1978 | Denny Mendez, Miss Italy Universe 1997 |
| 1978 | Jen Grubb, born in Elk Hart, Indiana, soccer defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Julia Syriani, Miss Universe-Lebanon 1996 |
| 1977 | Shany Kedmy, born in Israel, Women's 470 yachter, 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Ray Allen, NBA guard for the Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1973 | Peter Forsberg, born in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche |
| 1972 | Jay Barker, NFL quarterback for the New England Patriots |
| 1972 | Jozef Stumpel, NHL forward, Team Kazakhstan 1998, Los Angeles Kings |
| 1971 | Bernard Whittington, NFL defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1971 | Charles Johnson, born in Fort Pierce, Florida, catcher, U.S. Olympics 1992, Marlins |
| 1971 | Ed Giddins, cricketer, promising Sussex pace bowler, England A 1995 |
| 1971 | Ron Stone, NFLer for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1971 | Tom Tovo, WLAF defensive tackle for the London Monarchs |
| 1971 | William Deering, Jr., South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter |
| 1970 | Dean Wells, NFL linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1970 | Shannon Baker, CFL receiver for the Saskatchewan Roughriders |
| 1970 | Tom Sherrer, born in Syracuse, New York, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Cleveland Open-2nd |
| 1969 | Josh Holloway, American Actor |
| 1968 | Chris Kennedy, actor, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure |
| 1968 | Chris Tsangaris, CFL linebacker for the BC Lions |
| 1968 | Robert Rodriguez, director, El Mariachi, Desperado |
| 1967 | Akihito Sugisawa, hockey forward, Team Japan 1998 |
| 1967 | Ian Beckles, NFL guard for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1967 | Jon Normile, born in Cleveland, Ohio, fencer 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Beth Coats, Albuquerque, New Mexico, biathelete 1994 Olympics |
| 1966 | Carlo L'Ami, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1966 | Mike Pero, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 CPGA Winter |
| 1966 | Tracey Mcfarlane, U.S. breaststroke swimmer, U.S. record 100m |
| 1965 | Stone Gossard, musician with Pearl Jam |
| 1964 | Murray Craven, NHL left wing, Chicago Blackhawks |
| 1963 | Jenny Spangler, born in Monroe, Wisconsin, marathoner 1996 Olympics |
| 1963 | Paula Ivan, Romanian runner, world record mile |
| 1960 | Katie Rabbet, born in London, England, Prince Andrew's former girlfriend |
| 1960 | Lauren Gregg, born in Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. women's soccer coach 1996 Olympics |
| 1959 | Radney Foster, born in Del Rio, Texas, singer, Foster and Lloyd-Crazy Over You |
| 1958 | Michael McNeill, synthesizer, Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me |
| 1958 | Billy Mays, born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc. |
| 1957 | Donna Dixon, Virginia, Mrs. Dan Ackwoyd/actress, Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies |
| 1957 | Larry Rinker, born in Stuart, Florida, Nike golfer, 1985 Bing Crosby Pro-Am-2nd |
| 1957 | Merlina Defranco, rocker, Defranco Family |
| 1956 | Charlie Magri, world champ flyweight boxer, 1983 |
| 1956 | Mima Jausovec, born in Yugoslavia, tennis player, French Open-1977 |
| 1956 | Paul Cook, London, rock drummer, Sex Pistols |
| 1954 | Jay Jay French, born in New York City, guitarist, Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It |
| 1953 | Thomas Friedman, American Journalist |
| 1951 | Larry Black, born in Miami, Florida, 4x100 runner, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1948 | Richard H. Lehman, born in Fresno, California, Representative-D-California 1983 - 1995 |
| 1947 | Carlos Santana, born in Mexico, rock guitarist, Santana-Black Magic Woman |
| 1947 | Gerd Binnig, born in Frankfurt, physicist, tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986 |
| 1947 | James Harris, born in Monroe, Louisiana, NFL quarterback, Buffalo, Louisiana, San Diego |
| 1946 | Kim Carnes, born in Pasadena, California, rock vocalist, Bette Davis Eyes |
| 1946 | Randal Kleiser, American Director |
| 1945 | Betty Burfeindt, LPGA golfer |
| 1945 | John Lodge, born in Birmingham, England, musician, singer, songwriter, bass guitar player, member of The Moody Blues rock band, created songs 'Candle of Life', 'Eyes of a Child', 'Send Me No Wine' |
| 1945 | Larry Craig, born in Council, Idaho, Representative-R-Idaho 1981 - 1991, Senator-R-Idaho 1991 - 2009 |
| 1945 | Viscount Petersham, English large landowner |
| 1945 | Larry Craig, American Politician |
| 1944 | Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy |
| 1943 | Chris Amon, Grand Prix racer |
| 1943 | John Lodge, Birmingham, bassist, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin |
| 1942 | T G Sheppard, William Browder, Humbolt, Tennessee, singer, Devil in Bottle |
| 1941 | Vladimir Afanasiyevich Lyakhov, cosmonaut, Soyuz 32/34, T-9, TM-6 |
| 1940 | Tony Oliva, ball player, batting champ, AL Rookie of Year 1964 |
| 1939 | Judy Chicago, Cohen, Chicago, artist, Dinner Party |
| 1938 | Diana Rigg, born in Doncaster, England, actress, Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital |
| 1938 | Jo Ann Campbell, born in Jacksonville, Florida, Lawrence Welk's champagne lady |
| 1938 | Harry McGowan, born in England, born Harry Duncan Cory McGowan, Lord McGowan, 3rd Baron McGowan |
| 1938 | Natalie Wood, Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause |
| 1936 | Barbara Mikulski, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1977 - 1986, Senator-D-Maryland, 1987 - |
| 1936 | Butch Baird, born in Chicago, Illinois, PGA golfer, 1961 Waco Turner Open |
| 1936 | Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina |
| 1935 | Lord Peter Palumbo, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire |
| 1935 | Ted Rogers, Kennington London, comedian, Aladdin, Cinderella |
| 1934 | Doug Padgett, cricketer, England batsman twice in 1960 |
| 1934 | Ralph C RInzler, folklorist, Greenbriar Boys |
| 1934 | Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize |
| 1933 | Aliki Vouyouklaki, actress, Madalena |
| 1933 | Jose Vicente Asuar, composer |
| 1933 | Nelson Doubleday, publisher, Doubleday, owner for the New York Mets |
| 1932 | Nam June Paik, born in Seoul, Korea, video artist, Medium is the Medium |
| 1932 | Otto Schily, German Public Servant |
| 1930 | Arthur U Spronken, sculptor |
| 1930 | Sally Ann Howes, born in London, England, actress, Dead of Night |
| 1930 | Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 14 |
| 1930 | Chuck Daly, born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, basketball coach, head coach, successful 14-year NBA career included leading Detroit Pistons to two NBA Championships, led Dream Team to win gold at 1992 Summer Olympics |
| 1928 | Jan Meyers, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Representative-R-Kansas 1985 - 1997 |
| 1928 | Pavel Kohout, writer |
| 1928 | Peter, Indiana, jazz musician |
| 1927 | Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker |
| 1927 | Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer |
| 1925 | Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee, 1985-95 |
| 1924 | Hans Lodeizen, Johannes A Frederik, Dutch poet, Inner Self |
| 1924 | Lola Albright, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, Delta Country, Kid Galahad |
| 1924 | Thomas Berger, U.S., novelist, Vital Parts, Little Big Man |
| 1922 | Miroslav "Standa" Bares, Czechoslovakian/Dutch actor and director, Billy Budd |
| 1921 | Frederick Schroeder, Jr., tennis champ, U.S. Open-1942 |
| 1920 | Elliot L. Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, Secretary of Defense, 1973 |
| 1920 | Jack Harman, British general |
| 1920 | Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat |
| 1920 | Lev Aronin, U.S.S.R., International Chess Grandmaster, 1950 |
| 1920 | Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist |
| 1919 | Edmund Hillary, born in Auckland, New Zealand, mountaineer, explorer, first climber to summit Mount Everest |
| 1914 | William John Phillips, actor, Nothing but a Man |
| 1913 | Lucien Goldmann, Romania/French sociologist/philosopher, Le dieu cache |
| 1912 | Andrew Long, Scottish author, Blue Book of Fairy Tales |
| 1912 | Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member |
| 1912 | John Dacie, hematologist |
| 1912 | Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper, The Typhoon |
| 1911 | Baqa Jilani, Indian cricket fast bowler, Test 1936 |
| 1911 | William Dillard, trumpeter/singer |
| 1910 | Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian, William the Silent |
| 1909 | Eric Rowan, South African cricketer, prolific batsman pre- and post-WWII |
| 1908 | Gunnar de Frumerie, composer |
| 1905 | Molly Mary Nesta Keane, writer |
| 1903 | Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician |
| 1902 | Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Bicycle Thiefs |
| 1902 | Dilys Powell, English writer, Descent from Parnassus |
| 1901 | Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist |
| 1900 | Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist |
| 1900 | Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist, Maria's Life |
| 1900 | Maurice Leyland, prolific cricket left-handed batsman, England |
| 1897 | Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1950 |
| 1893 | Alexander, king of Greece, 1917-20 |
| 1893 | Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer, From Where I Came |
| 1890 | Verna Felton, born in Salinas, California, actress, Hilda-December Bride |
| 1889 | John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st director-general BBC, 1927-38 |
| 1887 | Willem H Drucker, Dutch lawyer |
| 1885 | Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic |
| 1881 | Leon de Smet, Flemish painter |
| 1880 | Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher and writer |
| 1873 | Witold Maliszewski, composer |
| 1873 | Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian Aviator |
| 1872 | Alick Maclean, composer |
| 1872 | Deodat de Severac, composer |
| 1870 | Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice, 1918-19 |
| 1864 | Erik Karlfeldt, born in Sweden, poet, Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous |
| 1860 | Johannes Walter, German geologist, Denudation of the Wilderness |
| 1853 | Geo Poggenbeek, Dutch water colors painter |
| 1847 | Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter |
| 1837 | Hans Sommer, composer |
| 1836 | Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, Diseases of the Heart |
| 1824 | Alexander Schimmelfennig, born in Prussia, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | Paul Henrion, composer |
| 1816 | William Bowman, English anatomist |
| 1814 | Ivan S Gagarin, Russian theologist |
| 1811 | James Bruce, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, governor, Jamaica |
| 1806 | John Sterling, writer, Representative Victorian |
| 1804 | Richard Owen, British zoologist |
| 1803 | Jakob Zeugheer, composer |
| 1803 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet |
| 1796 | Edward Hodges, composer |
| 1793 | Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer, Pan Jowiolski |
| 1785 | Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey, 1808 - 1839, Westernizer/reformer |
| 1779 | Ignaz Schuster, composer |
| 1766 | Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat |
| 1762 | Jakob Haibel, composer |
| 1761 | Joseph Lefebvre, composer |
| 1744 | Henri Hamal, composer |
| 1726 | William Jones, composer |
| 1720 | Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer |
| 1709 | James Harris, philosopher |
| 1663 | Pierre Drevet, French engraver |
| 1600 | Simon Ives, composer |
| 1519 | Innocent IX, Giovanni A Facchinetti, 230th Catholic pope, 1591 |
| 1513 | Gaspar Schetz, Dutch treasurer-general |
| 1304 | Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet, Italia Mia |
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