| 1984 | Emil Coleman, orchestra leader, Arthur Murray Party |
| 1979 | Soni Meduna, born in Omaha, Nebraska, gymnast alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1978 | Mia Maestro, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, actress, known for playing Nadia Santos in 'Alias' television series |
| 1976 | Darnell Autry, running back for the Chicago Bears |
| 1975 | Anna Valle, Miss Universe-Italy 1996 |
| 1975 | Anthony Parker, NBA guard for the Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1975 | Brandon Mitchell, defensive end for the New England Patriots |
| 1973 | Arne van de Berg, soccer player, Willem II |
| 1973 | Jahine Arnold, wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1972 | Andre Strode, CFL defensive back for the BC Lions |
| 1972 | Anna Van der Kamp, Abbotsford BC, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Millard Coleman, CFL receiver, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1972 | Brian McBride, American Athlete |
| 1972 | Robin Tunney, American Actress |
| 1970 | Chris Gray, NFL guard, Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears |
| 1970 | Claire Mitchell-Taverner, Australian field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Leonard Humphries, CFL cornerback for the BC Lions |
| 1970 | Quincy Dushawn Watts, born in Detroit, Michigan, 400m runner |
| 1970 | Scott Brumfield, guard for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1968 | Jud Buechler, NBA guard and forward, Chicago Bulls |
| 1967 | Eric Schweig, born in Inuvik, Canada, actor, Dead Man's Walk |
| 1967 | Mia Sara, American Actress |
| 1966 | Samuel West, born in England, actor, theater director, appeared in 'Howards End', 'Jane Eyre', Van Helsing', 'Notting Hill' , 'Complicity' films, among others |
| 1966 | Joichi Ito, Japanese Businessman |
| 1965 | Karen Davies, Wrexham N Wales, golfer, 1991 PING-Cellular One-6th |
| 1965 | Sadie Frost, English Actress |
| 1964 | David Freedman, cricketer, NSW left-arm Chinese bowler since 1990 |
| 1964 | Boris Johnson, New York City, New York, politician, journalist, Mayor of London, formerly served as a Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames |
| 1962 | Paula Abdul, born in Van Nuys, California, singer and choreographer, Straight Up |
| 1962 | Phillip Hatchett, born in Russellville, Kentucky, Canadian Tour golfer, 1991 Quebec |
| 1960 | Johnny Lee Gray, Jr., born in Los Angeles, California, 800m runner, Olympics-7th-1996 |
| 1960 | Patti Rizzo, born in Hollywood, Florida, golfer, Mexican Amateur champion 1980 |
| 1960 | Simon Wright, heavy metal drummer, AC/DC |
| 1959 | Mark DeBarge, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, rock vocalist, DeBarge-Who's Johnny |
| 1957 | David Gleeson, Norfolk England, U.S., rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1957 | Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 1954 | Jim Cooper, born in Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1983 - 1995, 2003 - |
| 1954 | Michael O'Brien, born in Worcester, England, Mike O'Brien, politician, Labor Party, since 1992, serves as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire, served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, became Minister of State for Health Services, 2009 |
| 1953 | Larry Dunn, Dunhill, U.S. keyboardist, Earth Wind and Fire |
| 1952 | Robert Ainsworth, born in Coventry, England, Robert William Ainsworth, politician, Labor Party, 2009, assumed roles of Secretary of State for Defense, since 1992, serves as a Member of Parliament for Coventry North East |
| 1951 | Ann Wilson, born in San Diego, California, rock vocalist, Heart-What About Love |
| 1951 | Daria Nicolodi, Florence Italy, actress, Terror, Shock |
| 1950 | Constance Forslund, born in San Diego, California, actress, Shining Season |
| 1949 | [Mary] Kathleen Turner, born in Springfield, Missouri, actress, Romancing The Stone |
| 1948 | Phylicia Rashad, American Actress |
| 1947 | James T. Walsh, born in Syracuse, New York, Representative-R-New York 1989 - 2009 |
| 1947 | Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad, Houston, actress, Clair-Bill Cosby |
| 1947 | Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist, Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses |
| 1947 | Jim Walsh, Irish Politician |
| 1945 | Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel |
| 1945 | Tim Hovey, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid |
| 1945 | Tobias Wolff, U.S. writer, This Boy's Life |
| 1945 | Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist |
| 1942 | Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, rocker, Spanky and Our Gang-Lazy Day |
| 1942 | Jos Brink, Dutch TV host, Op Zoek |
| 1942 | Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London |
| 1942 | Bob Kasten, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Senator-R-Wisconsin 1981 - 1993 |
| 1941 | Marlene Warfield, born in Queens, New York, actress, Victoria-Maude |
| 1941 | Vaclav Klaus, Czechoslovakian Statesman |
| 1940 | Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, drag racer, 1st woman Top Fuel champ |
| 1939 | Peter Duffell, Brits Lieutenant-General/minister of Defense |
| 1938 | Charles Gwathmey, architect, 5 Architects |
| 1938 | John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge |
| 1936 | Shirley Goodman, U.S. R&B singers, Shirley and Lee-Feels so Good |
| 1935 | Tommy Devito, born in Montclair, New Jersey, rock vocalist, Four Seasons-Sherry |
| 1934 | Gena Rowlands, born in Cambria, Wisconsin, actress, Gloria, Tempest, Brinks Job |
| 1934 | Hammond Furlonge, cricketer, WI batsman in 3 Tests 1955-56 |
| 1934 | Terence Clark, British diplomat |
| 1933 | Thelma Barlow, English actress, Mavis-Coronation Street |
| 1933 | Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 11 |
| 1932 | Marisa Pavan, born in Cagliari, Italy, actress, Solomon and Sheba, Rose Tattoo |
| 1932 | Pier Angeli, born in Italy, Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge |
| 1931 | "Against Iain" duke of Atholl, English large landowner |
| 1930 | Bryan Kneale, British sculptor |
| 1928 | Nancy Marchand, born in Buffalo, New York, actress, Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant |
| 1928 | Raymond Powell, British MP |
| 1928 | Barry Took, born in Muswell Hill, North London, England, comedian, writer, television presenter on BBC program Points of View and BBC Radio 4 program The News Quiz, wrote comedy with Mary Feldman |
| 1925 | Alfred B Nzo, South African Secretary-General ANC, 1969- |
| 1925 | Charlie Drake, British comic, Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Splish Splash |
| 1924 | Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1924 | Wassil Bykau, writer |
| 1922 | Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975 |
| 1921 | Allan Davis, mayor-London |
| 1921 | Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist |
| 1921 | Howell Heflin, born in Poulan, Georgia, Senator-D-Alabama 1979 - 1997 |
| 1921 | Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist |
| 1921 | Howell Heflin, American Politician |
| 1919 | Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor, Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary |
| 1919 | Pauline Kael, movie critic, New York Times, For Keeps |
| 1918 | Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor, Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan |
| 1917 | Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister, ZAPUA |
| 1916 | Pat Buttram, actor, Mr Haney-Green Acres |
| 1914 | Alan Cranston, born in Palo Alto, California, Senator-D-California, 1969 - 1993 |
| 1914 | Harry Lauter, born in White Plains, New York, actor, Waterfront |
| 1914 | Lester Flatt, Earl Scrugg's partner, Beverly Hillbillies theme |
| 1914 | Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP |
| 1912 | Jerry Jerome, born in Brooklyn, New York, saxophonist, Words and Music |
| 1912 | Martin Gabel, born in Philadelphia, TV host, With this Ring |
| 1910 | Frederick Harry Baines, painter |
| 1910 | Abe Fortas, American Judge |
| 1909 | Edwin Gerschefski, composer |
| 1909 | Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human |
| 1908 | Mildred Natwick, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon |
| 1908 | Quentin N. Burdick, born in Munich, North Dakota, Senator-D-North Dakota 1960 - 1992 |
| 1905 | George Voskovec, Czechoslovakia, actor, Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag |
| 1905 | Taneli Kuusisto, composer |
| 1904 | Balis Dvarionas, composer |
| 1903 | Walter Hammond, cricketer, one of the greatest of English batsman |
| 1903 | Lou Gehrig, American Athlete, 1st baseman, New York Yankees |
| 1902 | Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader, Auld Lang Syne |
| 1901 | Edward Lambert, British diplomat |
| 1900 | Laura Hobson, New York City, TV writer/panelist, I've Got a Secret |
| 1899 | George Calinescu, Romania, literature, Enigma Otilei |
| 1898 | Paul Muller-Zurich, composer |
| 1897 | Moe Howard, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian, 3 Stooges |
| 1896 | Wallis Simpson, British Royalty, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee |
| 1893 | Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano |
| 1890 | Barbara Everest, born in London, England, actress, Fatal Witness, Inquest |
| 1889 | Enrico Celio, president, born in Switzerland |
| 1886 | Duchess of Windsor, divorcee |
| 1886 | Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer, Hiawatha's Song |
| 1885 | Stevan Hristic, composer |
| 1880 | Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer, Dr. Rung |
| 1878 | James M. Kilroe, priest of St. Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx |
| 1877 | Charles Coburn, Macon, Georgia, actor, Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 1868 | Heinrich Schenker, A Niloff, Austrian musicologist, Urlinie |
| 1867 | Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist |
| 1867 | Frank Iredale, cricketer, Australian batsman 1894-99 |
| 1865 | Alfred Hugenberg, German RC president-director of Krupp/media magnate |
| 1865 | May Whitty, born in Liverpool, England, actress, Mrs Minerva, Suspicion |
| 1861 | Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, WW I |
| 1861 | Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist |
| 1859 | Elbert Hubbard, American Writer |
| 1858 | Charles Haddon George Alexander, George Samson, British actor |
| 1858 | Dirk Fock, governor-general of Netherlands Indies, 1921-26 |
| 1858 | Sam Walter Foss, American Poet |
| 1856 | Elbert Hubbard, U.S., editor/publisher/author, Message to Garcia |
| 1854 | Alfredo Catalani, composer |
| 1843 | Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer |
| 1842 | Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer |
| 1834 | Edgar Degas, French painter, ballerina |
| 1834 | Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman |
| 1815 | John William Glover, composer |
| 1814 | Johannes H. Weissenbruch, landscape painter |
| 1811 | Henry Prince, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1810 | Ferdinand David, violist/compser, Hohe Schule des Violinspiels |
| 1792 | Gustav Schwab, writer |
| 1790 | John Gibson, British sculptor |
| 1783 | Thomas Sully, U.S. portrait painter, Queen Victoria |
| 1782 | Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, L'avenir |
| 1766 | Edmund Weber, composer |
| 1764 | John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society |
| 1764 | Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay |
| 1749 | Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman, National Convention |
| 1741 | Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector |
| 1717 | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer |
| 1708 | Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer |
| 1633 | Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar |
| 1623 | Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer, Pascal |
| 1613 | Christian de Placker, composer |
| 1608 | Thomas Fuller, England, literary, History of the Holy War |
| 1595 | Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland, 1632-48 |
| 1566 | James I Stuart, king of Scotland, James VI, England, 1567/1603-25 |
| 1566 | King James I, Royalty |
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