| 1981 | Nicole Kantek, NSW Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1979 | Nicolas Daniel Maricio, Prince of Netherlands |
| 1978 | Rachel Rochelli, born in Houston, Texas, gymnast alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1978 | Tamera Mowry, twin actress, Sisters |
| 1978 | Tia Mowry, born in Gelhausen, West Germany, also known as Tia Mowry Hardrict, actress, winner of NAACP Image Award, breakout role in sitcom, Sister, Sister |
| 1978 | Mario Vazquez, born in The Bronx, New York, singer, competitor on television show, 'American Idol', released album, 'Mario Vazquez' with Arista Records in 2005 |
| 1976 | Michelle Stanley, born in Littleton, Colorado, Miss America-Colorado 1997 |
| 1976 | Nikki Mott, Australian field hockey forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Curtis Jackson, American Musician |
| 1974 | Steve Sullivan, Timmins, NHL center for the New Jersey Devils |
| 1973 | Karl Ballard, WLAF linebacker for the London Monarchs |
| 1972 | Billy Davis, NFL wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1971 | Adam Laurent, born in Santa Cruz, California, pursuit cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Kari Kupcinet, born in Chicago, actress, Julie Sanderson-Young and Restless |
| 1971 | Owen Lance Bill Hughes, born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, kayaker 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Antonio Harvey, NBA center and forward for the Los Angeles Clippers |
| 1969 | Michael Grant, vocalist, Musical Youth |
| 1969 | Sophia Witherspoon, WNBA guard, New York Liberty |
| 1968 | Alvin Harper, NFL wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1968 | Anthony Kershler, cricketer, NSW left-arm spinner 1994-95 |
| 1967 | David Whitmore, NFL strong safety for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1967 | Omar Olivares, born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1965 | Glenn Scarpelli, born in Staten Island, New York, actor, Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy |
| 1964 | Lillie Leatherwood, born in Northport, Alabama, 4X400m relayer 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1963 | Edwin Gorter, soccer player, Lommel/FC Utrecht |
| 1961 | Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, 100m hurdler 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1961 | Kimberly Foster, actress, It Takes Two |
| 1960 | Caroll-Ann Alie, born in Ottawa, Ontario, yachter, Olympics-14-92, 96 |
| 1960 | Jozef/Josef Pribilinec, born in Czechoslovakia, speed walker, world record 10K |
| 1960 | Lauri Merten, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, LPGA golfer, 1993 U.S. Women's Open |
| 1960 | Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner, Olympics gold 84 |
| 1959 | John Keeble, London, rock drummer, Spandau Ballet-True |
| 1959 | Tahir Naqqash, cricketer, Pakistani pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1982-85 |
| 1958 | Jennifer Saunders, born in Sleaford, England, actress, Absolutely Fabulous |
| 1958 | Mark Benson, cricketer, played Test England vs. India 1986, 30 and 21 |
| 1958 | Ossie Moore, Murwillumbah NSW, Australasia golfer |
| 1957 | Mario Martinez, born in Salinas, California, U.S. Olympic weightlifter, Olympic-4th-1988 |
| 1957 | Ron Duguay, born in Canada, hockey player, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings |
| 1956 | John Jorgenson, born in Madison, Wisconsin, singer, Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited |
| 1956 | Matt Bahr, NFL kicker, New England Patriots, New York Giants |
| 1954 | Allyce Beasley, born in Brooklyn, actress, Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting |
| 1954 | James Kiberd, actor, Trevor Dillon-Loving, All My Children |
| 1953 | Nanci Griffith, U.S. singer and songwriter, Poet in My Window |
| 1952 | Grant Goodeve, Middlebury CT, actor, Northern Exposure |
| 1952 | Jesse Harms, musician, of REO Speedwagon |
| 1951 | Geoffrey Rush, Australian Actor |
| 1950 | Phyllis Hyman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Phyllis Linda Hyman, soul singer, songwriter, actress, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, disco genres, first solo Top Ten Hit, 'Can't We Fall In Love Again', received Tony-nomination for Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies |
| 1950 | Sultan Rakhmanov, Super heavyweight, 1980 Olympics gold |
| 1949 | Shelley Hack, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Tiffany Welles-Charlie's Angel |
| 1948 | Brad Park, born in Toronto, NHL defenseman, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins |
| 1948 | Nathalie Baye, born in Mainneville, France, actress, Beau Pere, Honeymoon |
| 1947 | Richard Beckinsale, born in Nottingham, England, actor, Porridge, Doing Time |
| 1946 | Fred Dryer, born in Hawthone, California, NFLer, New York Giants, Los Angeles Rams, actor, Hunter |
| 1946 | George W. Bush, two-term American president 2000-2008 |
| 1946 | Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist, An American Vision-Boston |
| 1946 | Sylvester Stallone, born in New York City, actor and director, Rocky, Rambo, Cobra |
| 1945 | Burt Ward, Gervis, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Robin-Batman |
| 1945 | Rik Elswit, rocker, Dr. Hook and Medicine Show-In the Right Place |
| 1944 | Byron Berline, born in Caldwell, Kansas, musician, fiddle, mandolin player, famous for contemporary bluegrass music, played with The Flying Burrito Brothers, worked with Manassas, founded Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival |
| 1944 | Gunhild Hoffmeister, born in West Germany, 800m/1500m runner, Silver Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1940 | Viktor Kuzkin, U.S.S.R., ice hockey player, Gold Medals 1964, 1968, 1972 Olympics |
| 1939 | Helena Dupont, U.S., equestrian 3-day even, Olympic-33rd place-1964 |
| 1939 | Jet Harris, born in London, rock bassist, Drifters |
| 1939 | Man Mohan Sood, cricketer, scored 0 and 3 in his only Test for India |
| 1939 | Mary Peters, born in England, pentathlete, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1938 | Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader, Masumbuku |
| 1937 | Gene Chandler, Eugene Dixon, Chicago, rocker, Duke of Earl |
| 1937 | Ned Beatty, Lexington, Kentucky, actor, Deliverance, Repossed, Network |
| 1937 | Tony Lewis, cricketer, England batsman, captain 1972-73 |
| 1937 | Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gorki Rus, pianist/conductor, Tchakowsky-1961 |
| 1935 | Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader |
| 1932 | Della Reese, Detroit, singer and actress, Della Reese Show, Royal Family |
| 1931 | Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor, Dead |
| 1931 | Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader |
| 1930 | Francoise Mallet-Joris, F Lilar, Belgian writer, Signs and Wonders |
| 1929 | Gerd Zacher, born in Meppen, Germany, composer, organist, writer, contemporary compositions, written in graphic or verbal scores, include extended techniques, known as interpreter of works by Johann Sebastian Bach |
| 1927 | Charles Whittenberg, composer |
| 1927 | Janet Leigh, born in Merced, California, actress, Psycho |
| 1927 | Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/president candidate, Smothers Bros Show |
| 1927 | Susan Cabot, Boston, actress, Carnival Rock |
| 1927 | Hein Donner, Dutch chess master |
| 1926 | Nicky Hilton, 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor |
| 1926 | Neal A. Maxwell, American Clergyman |
| 1925 | Bill Haley, Highland Park, Michigan, rock vocalist, Rock Around the Clock |
| 1925 | Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber, Liberal |
| 1925 | Merv Griffin, San Mateo California, TV host, Merv Griffin Show |
| 1924 | Robert Michael White, New York City, test pilot, X-15 |
| 1924 | Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983 |
| 1923 | Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress, Miniver Story, Man from Laramie |
| 1923 | Marie McDonald, Burgin, Kentucky, singer and actress, Promises Promises |
| 1923 | Nancy Reagan, New York City, 1st Lady, 1981-89 |
| 1923 | Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90 |
| 1922 | Francisco Moncion, dancer |
| 1922 | William Schallert, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Patty Duke Show, Get Smart |
| 1919 | Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist |
| 1919 | Earnest Haefliger, Swiss tenor, Stadtische Oper Berlin |
| 1918 | Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet, Crossing |
| 1918 | Eugene List, Philadelphia Penn, pianist and professor, Eastman School of Music |
| 1918 | Sebastian Cabot, London, actor, Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine |
| 1917 | Hugo Yarnold, cricketer, Worcestershire keeper and Test umpire |
| 1917 | Arthur Lydiard, New Zealander Athlete |
| 1916 | Unica Zurn, born in Berlin, Germany, author, painter, wrote anagram poems and held automatic drawing exhibitions |
| 1915 | Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair, New Jersey, soprano, Time to Sing, Chevy Show |
| 1915 | Laverne Andrews, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, singer, Andrews Sisters |
| 1915 | Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer, Vague et Sillon |
| 1914 | Jens Rohiner, composer |
| 1908 | Leonce Grass, Flemish singer/conductor |
| 1907 | Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera |
| 1906 | Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, composer |
| 1906 | Kate A ter Horst-Arriens, Dutch nurse, Battle of Arnhem |
| 1904 | Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor, Sospiro do Roma |
| 1903 | Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes, Nobel 1955 |
| 1898 | Hanns Eisler, German/U.S. composer/East German minister for propaganda |
| 1897 | Richard Krautheimer, art Historian |
| 1896 | Thomas W. McKnew, president, National Geographic Society |
| 1893 | Wilton St. Hill, WI cricketer, 3 Tests 1928-30 |
| 1892 | Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot |
| 1890 | Andrew Sandham, cricketer, Test cricket's 1st triple centurion |
| 1888 | Annette Kellerman, Sydney Australia, swimmer, Million Dollar Mermaid |
| 1886 | Marc Bloch, French Historian |
| 1884 | Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist |
| 1884 | Harold Vanderbilt, New York, America Cup, 1930,34,37, invented contract bridge |
| 1884 | Willem Dudok, Dutch architect, town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam |
| 1882 | Ralph Morgan, Wupperman, New York City, actor, Creeper, Imposter, Jack London |
| 1881 | Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer, Quadriga, Pumpernickel |
| 1878 | Eino Leino, Finland, poet/playwright/novelist, Elaman Koreus |
| 1877 | David Stanley Smith, composer |
| 1877 | Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain, 1931-36 |
| 1875 | Roger Babson, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S. |
| 1873 | Paul Keller, German writer, Ferien vom Ich |
| 1868 | Petrus A. Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor, Amigoe di Curaeao |
| 1864 | Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer and conductor, Artemis |
| 1859 | Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916 |
| 1856 | Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT |
| 1852 | John Albert Delany, composer |
| 1837 | Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer |
| 1832 | Maximilian F J, archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico |
| 1821 | Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1818 | Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion, 1851-66 |
| 1814 | Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1800 | Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer |
| 1796 | Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia, 1825-55 |
| 1793 | Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/Minister of Internal Affairs, 1848-49 |
| 1785 | William J Hooker, English botanist/director, Kew Gardens |
| 1782 | Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet |
| 1773 | Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer |
| 1759 | Joshua Barney, American Soldier |
| 1753 | John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized |
| 1747 | Coelestin Jungbauer, composer |
| 1747 | John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight" |
| 1739 | Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer |
| 1736 | Daniel Morgan, American Soldier |
| 1702 | Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer |
| 1678 | Nicola Francesco Haym, composer |
| 1668 | Peter Burmannus, Pieter Burman, Dutch attorney/classicist |
| 1638 | Gerrit A. Berckheyde, Dutch painter |
| 1632 | Albert Schop, composer |
| 1632 | Pietro Reggio, composer |
| 1580 | Johann Stobaeus, composer |
| 1542 | Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Willem/Juliana van Stolberg |
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