| 1992 | Taylor Maine Pearl Brooks, daughter of country singer Garth Brooks |
| 1982 | Sophia Bush, American Actress |
| 1980 | Robbie Keane, Irish Athlete |
| 1976 | Michael Renfurm, Surinam/Dutch soccer player, Sparta |
| 1976 | Staci Wilson, born in Livingston, New Jersey, soccer defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Demetrius Allen, NFL wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1973 | Kathleen Robertson, actress, Beverly Hills 90210 |
| 1972 | Brandon Rock, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, 800m runner |
| 1972 | Jay Bellamy, NFL safety for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1972 | Karl Dykhuis, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman for the Philadelphia Flyers |
| 1972 | Saurav Ganguly, cricketer, centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996 |
| 1972 | Tom Hutton, NFL punter/kicker for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1971 | Jeff Kopp, NFL linebacker for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1971 | John Achterberg, soccer player, NAC |
| 1971 | Wendy Benson, born in New York City, actress, Meredith-As the World Turns |
| 1970 | Lisa Powell, born in Sydney, NSW Australia, field hockey forward 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Marlies Askamp, WNBA forward, Phoenix Mercury |
| 1970 | Todd Martin, born in Hinsdale, Illinois, tennis star, 1988 USTA Boys' 18 |
| 1970 | Beck, born in Los Angeles, California, born Bek David Campbell, guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist, popular recordings include 'Odelay', 'Sea Change' |
| 1969 | Bobby Ayala, born in Oxnard, California, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1969 | Dana Hall, NFL safety for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1969 | Ernie Young, born in Chicago, Illinois, outfielder for the Oakland A's |
| 1969 | Lisa Arce, born in Manhattan Beach, California, WPVA volleyballer, National-4th-1995 |
| 1969 | Lori Hallier, Victoria BC Canada, actress, Shannon-Santa Barbara |
| 1968 | C B Washington, NFLer for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1968 | Glen Featherstone, born in Toronto, NHL defenseman, Hartford Whalers |
| 1968 | Michael Weatherly, born in New York City, actor, Cooper Alden-The City/Loving |
| 1968 | Michel Langerak, soccer player, Dordrecht '90 |
| 1968 | Billy Crudup, born in Manhattan, New York, actor, appeared in film, 'Dedication', 'Watchmen', 'Public Enemies', 'Almost Famous', 'Big Fish' |
| 1967 | Mikhail Borodulin, hockey forward, Team Kazakhstan 1998 |
| 1965 | Corey Parker, born in New York City, actor, How I Got into College, Roger-Eddie Dodd |
| 1964 | Alexei Gusarov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche |
| 1964 | Maryalice Demler, born in New York, Miss NY-America 1991 |
| 1963 | Bob Ctvrtlik, born in Long Beach, California, volleyball outsider, Gold Meda 1988 Olympics, Bronze Medal 1992 Olympics |
| 1963 | Mike Ridley, born in Winnipeg, NHL center, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1962 | Martin Pavlu, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998 |
| 1962 | Rob Burnett, born in North Caldwell, New Jersey, head writer, David Letterman |
| 1961 | Graham Jones, rock guitarist, Haircut 100 |
| 1961 | Toby Keith, born in Clinton, Oklahoma, country singer, hit singles include, 'Should've Been a Cowboy', 'How Do You Like Me Now?', toured with the USO |
| 1960 | Jeff Stork, born in Longview, Washington, volleyball setter, Olympics-G-88,B-92, 96 |
| 1960 | Valerie Pettiford, New York City, actress, Sheila Price-One Life to Live |
| 1958 | Carlos Cavazo, rocker, Quiet Riot-We're Not Gonna Take It |
| 1958 | Fred Young, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, singer, Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett |
| 1958 | Kevin Bacon, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, Diner, Footloose, She's Having a Baby |
| 1957 | Clyde Butts, cricketer, West Indies off-spinner late eighties |
| 1956 | Millard Frank Hampton, born in Fresno, California, 4x100m runner 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1956 | Russell Christian, rocker, Christians-Harvest the World |
| 1953 | Jonathan Segal, born in New York City, actor, Jonathan-Paper Chase |
| 1953 | Anna Quindlen, American author, journalist, and New York Times columnist |
| 1952 | Ulrich Wehling, born in East Germany, cross country, Gold Medal 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1952 | A. Whitney Brown, American Comedian |
| 1952 | Marianne Williamson, born in Houston, Texas, spiritual activist, author, speaker, lecturer, wrote, 'A Course in Miracles', a program about choosing love over fear, 'A Return to Love', breakthrough success attributed to appearance on Oprah Winfrey |
| 1951 | Andy Fletcher, rocker, Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough |
| 1951 | Anjelica Huston, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Prizzi's Honor, Alien |
| 1951 | Greg T. Walker, rock bassist, Blackfoot |
| 1951 | Ned Sublette, born in Lubbock, Texas, composer, musician, musicologist, producer, guitarist, studied classical guitar with Emilio Pujol, composition with Kenneth Gaburo, Cuban music scholar, known for mixing country-western, afro-Caribbean salsa, cumbia, rumba music styles |
| 1949 | Wolfgang Puck, Austrian Celebrity |
| 1948 | Kim Darby, N Hollywood, actress, True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man |
| 1948 | Raffi, children's singer, Baby Beluga |
| 1946 | Cynthia Gregory, born in Louisiana, ballerina, New York Ballet Co |
| 1944 | Jaimoe "Johnny" Johanson, U.S. rock drummer, Allman Brothers |
| 1944 | Jeffrey Tambor, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders |
| 1943 | Faye Wattleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri, sociologist/president, Planned Parenthood |
| 1942 | Chuck Negron, born in Bronx, New York, rock vocalist, 3 Dog Night-Joy to the World |
| 1942 | Janice Pennington, born in Kansas, playmate, May 1971, model, Price is Right |
| 1942 | Phil Gramm, Sen-R Texas, 1985- |
| 1940 | Marcia Rodd, actress, Little Murders, T R Baskins |
| 1938 | Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator |
| 1937 | Barbara Ann Loden, actress, Ernie Kovac's Show |
| 1936 | Rudolf W de Korte, Dutch Unilever-director/minister EA, L |
| 1935 | John David Crow, football player, Heisman Trophy 1957 |
| 1935 | Steve Lawrence, born in Brooklyn, singer and actor, Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy |
| 1935 | Vitali Ivanovich Sevastiyanov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 9, 18B |
| 1933 | Marty Feldman, born in London, England, comedian, Young Frankenstein |
| 1931 | Jerry Vale, born in New York City, singer, Arriverderci Roma |
| 1931 | Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee' |
| 1931 | Roone Arledge, born in Forest Hills, New York, head of sports broadcasting, ABC |
| 1930 | Valeri Aleksandrovich Yazdovsky, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1929 | Shirley Ann Grau, author, Keepers of the House |
| 1928 | Carol Henry, born in Newark, New Jersey, choreographer, Garry Moore Show |
| 1928 | Norma Donaldson, singer and actress, Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats |
| 1927 | John Ashbery, American Poet |
| 1926 | John Dingell, born Colorado Springs, Colorado, Representative-D-Michigan 1955 - |
| 1926 | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American |
| 1926 | John Dingell, American Politician |
| 1926 | Ian Gilmour, English Politician |
| 1923 | Harrison Dillard, Cleveland, 100m runner, 4 Gold Medals 1948, 1952 Olympics |
| 1921 | John Money, New Zealander Psychologist |
| 1920 | Dolph Sweet, born in New York City, actor, Gimme a Break, Which Way is Up |
| 1919 | Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president |
| 1918 | Craig Stevens, born in Liberty, Missouri, actor, Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn |
| 1917 | Faye Emerson, born in Elizabeth, Louisiana, actress, I've Got a Secret |
| 1917 | Glenn Langan, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Amazing Colossal Man, Margie |
| 1917 | Pamela Brown, born in London, England, actress, Cleopatra, Beckett |
| 1917 | J. F. Powers, American Novelist |
| 1915 | Charles Hard Townes, born in Greenville, South Carolina, physicist, developed lasers |
| 1914 | Billy Eckstine, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, jazz singer, Tenderly, A Fool in Love |
| 1913 | Walter Kerr, New York drama critic, Sad Clowns |
| 1912 | Jacques Stehman, composer |
| 1911 | Gertrude Niesen, born in New York, actress, Start Cheering |
| 1911 | Ken Farnes, cricket bowler, fast England in pre-WW II years |
| 1910 | Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader, ANC/SACP |
| 1909 | Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist, Holy Devil |
| 1908 | Louis Jordan, born in Arkansas, alto saxman, Caldonia |
| 1908 | Nelson Rockefeller, American Vice President |
| 1907 | George W. Romney, Gov-R-Michigan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1969 - 1973 |
| 1907 | Kishio Hirao, composer |
| 1906 | Philip Johnson, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cortalyou architect |
| 1904 | Bill Challis, arranger/pianist |
| 1901 | Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist |
| 1900 | George Antheil, Trenton, New Jersey, composer, Airplane Sonata |
| 1899 | David Eli Lilienthal, U.S. government organizer, Wisconsin |
| 1898 | Alec Waugh, London, novelist, Island in the Sun, brother of Evelyn |
| 1898 | Melville Ruick, Boise Idaho, actor, Barton-City Hospital |
| 1895 | Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer and director, God and the Worms |
| 1894 | Clemens VI Trefois, Flemish architect/sociologist |
| 1893 | Fritz Perls, father of Gestalt therapy |
| 1892 | Richard Aldington, writer |
| 1891 | Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer, Poor Part, Bruidstijd |
| 1891 | Josef Hora, Czechoslovakian writer/poet, Working Day |
| 1890 | W Hasenvlever, writer |
| 1890 | Hanns Johst, German Playwright |
| 1889 | Eugene Pallette, born in Winfield, Kansas, actor, Adv of Robin Hood, Mark of Zorro |
| 1885 | Ann Jemima Flower, oldest resident of Netherlands |
| 1885 | Emil Bloch, German philosopher |
| 1882 | Percy Grainger, Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor, Hill Songs |
| 1882 | Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount/governor of Bengal |
| 1871 | Clement Harris, composer |
| 1871 | Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor, Zaandam |
| 1870 | Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist, Koloniaaltje |
| 1869 | William V Moody, U.S. poet, Death of Eve, Faith Healer |
| 1867 | Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor, Bauernkrieg |
| 1857 | Rudolf Dellinger, composer |
| 1851 | Arthur J Evans, English archaeologist, Crete |
| 1844 | Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator, Boston Cooking School |
| 1839 | John D. Rockefeller, U.S. capitalist and founder of Standard Oil |
| 1838 | Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor, rigid dirigibles |
| 1836 | Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies |
| 1829 | Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer |
| 1826 | Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1826 | Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1824 | Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1821 | William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | Alexander Hays, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | Vatroslav Lisinski, composer |
| 1809 | Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet, Pjesma iz Zagorja |
| 1757 | Richard Wainwright, composer |
| 1638 | Matteo Coferati, composer |
| 1637 | Johann Georg Ebeling, composer |
| 1621 | Jean de la Fontaine, French poet, Fables |
| 1604 | Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer, Arien oder Melodien |
| 1574 | Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer |
| 1545 | Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II |
| 1528 | Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherland |
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