| 1987 | 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins |
| 1976 | Jennifer Capriati, born in Long Island, New York, tennis pro, 1992 Olympics gold |
| 1975 | Christopher Yule, hockey forward, Team Japan 1998 |
| 1973 | Brad Bridgewater, U.S., 200m backstroke, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | John Oppio, Sparks Nevada, double trap 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Marc Overmars, Dutch soccer player, Ajax |
| 1973 | Mark Platt, born in Peterborough, Ontario, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Alex Ochoa, born in Miami, Florida, outfielder for the New York Mets |
| 1972 | John Rothell, Titusville Florida, 400m hurdler |
| 1972 | Paul Michael Kent, born in Australia, New Zealand breastroker 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Trevor Kidd, Dugald, NHL goalie for the Calgary Flames |
| 1971 | Lara Logan, South African Journalist |
| 1969 | Darren Chandler, WLAF receiver, Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1969 | James Atkin, rocker, EMF-Unbelievable |
| 1969 | Jeff Blackshear, guard for the Baltimore Ravens |
| 1969 | Jimmy Spencer, NFL cornerback, New Orleans Saints, Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1969 | Kai Nurminen, Turku FIN, hockey forward, Team Finland |
| 1969 | Kim Batten, McRae Georgia, 400m hurdler, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Chris Calloway, NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants |
| 1968 | James Williams, NFL tackle for the Chicago Bears |
| 1968 | Lucy Lawless, New Zealander Actress |
| 1967 | Brian Jordan, born in Baltimore, Maryland, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1967 | Jerry Olsavsky, NFL linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1966 | Dwayne Harper, NFL cornerback for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1966 | Eric Gunderson, born in Portland, Oregon, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox |
| 1966 | Robb Thomas, NFL receiver, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1965 | Jill Goodacre, American Model |
| 1964 | Elle MacPherson, born in Sydney, Austrailia, model, SI, actress, Sirens |
| 1964 | Jill Goodacre Connick, Lubbock, Texas, model, Victoria Secrets |
| 1962 | Kirk Alan Triplett, born in Moses Lake, Washington, PGA golfer, 1992 Shell Houston-2nd |
| 1961 | Ane-Marie Sanches, newscaster, Suriname TV/Radio |
| 1961 | Mike Kingery, born in St. James, Minnesota, outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1961 | Amy Sedaris, American Actress |
| 1961 | Michael Winterbottom, British Director |
| 1959 | Brad McCrimmon, Dodsland, NHL defenseman, Hartford Whalers |
| 1959 | Marina Sirtis, born in London, actress, Troi-Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| 1958 | Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England |
| 1957 | Christopher Lambert, actor, Highlander, Subway, Greystoke, Why Me |
| 1956 | Kurt Thomas, U.S., gymnast, Olympics, actor, Gymkata |
| 1956 | LaToya Jackson, singer, If You Feel the Funk |
| 1956 | Lisa J. Allen, TV reporter and lawyer |
| 1956 | Sue Fogleman, LPGA golfer |
| 1955 | Christopher Lawford, actor, Charlie Brent-All My Children |
| 1955 | Dianne Kay, born in Phoenix, Arizona, actress, Nancy-8 is Enough, Reggie, Glitter |
| 1955 | Earl Campbell, NFL running back, Houston, New Orleans, 1977 Heisman |
| 1955 | Henry Bellingham, born in Cheltenham, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for North West Norfolk |
| 1954 | Karen Anne Quinlan, born in New Jersey, famous comatose patient, right to die case |
| 1952 | Teofilo Stevenson, born in Cuba, heavyweight boxer, Gold Medal 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1951 | Barry Goudreau, born in America, guitarist, vocalist, original guitarist for Boston, the rock band, recorded his first solo LP using Brad Delp and Fran Cosmo, and Sib Hashian |
| 1951 | Geoff Howarth, cricketer, New Zealand captain early 80's |
| 1949 | Michael Brecker, rocker, Brecker Brothers |
| 1949 | Uton Dowe, cricketer, WI pace bowler 1972-73 "Dowe shall not bowl" |
| 1949 | Rob Walton, Canadian Athlete |
| 1948 | Bud Cort, New Rochelle, New York, actor and director, Electric Dreams, M*A*S*H |
| 1947 | Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20 |
| 1947 | Bobby Kimball, Robert Toteaux, Vinton, Louisiana, rocker, Toto-Roseann |
| 1947 | Peter Hinchcliffe, co-founder, Iceland Frozen Foods |
| 1946 | Bruce Weber, director, Broken Noses |
| 1946 | Ronald Farrow, radio producer and priest |
| 1945 | Julie Goodyear, British actress, Bet Lynch-Coronation Street |
| 1945 | Walt "Clyde" Frazier, NBA guard for the New York Knicks |
| 1945 | Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host, Willem Ruis Show |
| 1944 | James Diggle, FBA, classicist |
| 1944 | John Suchet, British TV journalist, Independent TV News |
| 1943 | Eric Idle, born in England, comedian and actor, Monty Python |
| 1943 | John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97 |
| 1943 | Vangelis, Papathanasiou, composer/keyboardist, Chariots of Fire |
| 1942 | Larry Pressler, born in Humboldt, South Dakota, Senator-R-South Dakota 1979 - 1997 |
| 1941 | Terence Hill, born in Venice, Italy, actor, Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity |
| 1940 | Raymond Davis, U.S. rock vocalist, Funkadelic-Knee Deep |
| 1939 | Hanumant Singh, cricketer, 14 Tests for India-century on debut |
| 1939 | Nancy Kwan, born in Hong Kong, actress, Flower Drum Song, Night Creature |
| 1938 | Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs, CDA |
| 1938 | Margaret Howard, British broadcaster |
| 1937 | Billy Carter, Plains Georgia, brother of President Carter |
| 1936 | Richard Rodney Bennett, Broadstairs Kent England, composer |
| 1936 | Judith Guest, American Novelist |
| 1935 | Ruby Murray, Irish pop singer, Softly Softly |
| 1934 | Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, composer |
| 1931 | Evelyn de Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire |
| 1931 | James Weatherhead, moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland |
| 1931 | Norman Tebbit, born in Southgate, England, politician, Member of Parliament |
| 1931 | Sylvia Law, British town planner |
| 1930 | Donny Conn, rocker, Playmates |
| 1930 | G R Sunderam, cricket pace bowler, 2 Tests India vs. New Zealand 1955-56 |
| 1930 | Hugh Seymour, born in Britain, 8th Marquess of Hertford, Peerage of Great Britain |
| 1929 | Ronald Clive Williams, actor and comedian |
| 1929 | Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator |
| 1928 | Vaclav Felix, composer |
| 1927 | John McLaughlin, commentator, McLaughlin Report |
| 1927 | Arthur Ravenel, Jr., born in Charleston, South Carolina, Representative-R-South Carolina 1987 - 1995 |
| 1927 | John McLaughlin, TV commentator, McLaughlin Group |
| 1927 | John Vane, FRS/pharmacologist |
| 1925 | Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety, Giants, Packers |
| 1924 | Jules de Corte, blind Dutch ballad singer |
| 1923 | Julia Montgomery Walsh, political consultant/writer |
| 1921 | Hugh Neill, Lord-Lieutenant, South Yorkshire |
| 1921 | Sam Loxton, cricketer, flamboyant Australian batsman of late 40's |
| 1919 | Eileen Heckart, born in Columbus, Ohio, actress, Doll's House, Trauma Center |
| 1918 | John Read, CEO, TSB Group |
| 1918 | Pearl Bailey, born in Newport News, Virginia, singer, Hello Dolly |
| 1918 | Sam Walton, billionaire CEO, Wal-Mart |
| 1917 | Arthur Knight, CEO, Courtaulds |
| 1917 | Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465 |
| 1916 | Eugene J. McCarthy, born in Watkins, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota, President candidate 1968 |
| 1916 | John Paul, Governor-General, Bahamas |
| 1915 | George Chisholm, Scottish jazz trombonist |
| 1914 | Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service |
| 1913 | Jack Jones, British trade unionist, CH |
| 1913 | Niall MacGinnis, born in Dublin, Ireland, actor, Curse of the Demon |
| 1913 | Phil Foster, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian, Frank De Fazio-Laverne and Shirley |
| 1911 | Philip Ahn, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Master Kan-Kung Fu |
| 1909 | Moon Mullican, hillbilly pianist, 7 Nights of Rock |
| 1909 | Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer, Gnome Patjoepelke |
| 1908 | Arthur O'Connell, born in New York City, actor, Mr Peepers, Second Hundred Years |
| 1908 | Dennis O'Keefe, born in Fort Madison, Iowa, actor/dir, T-Men, Fighting Seabees |
| 1906 | E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer, CBS |
| 1905 | Annunzio Mantovani, born in Venice, Italy, orchestra leader, Mantovani |
| 1902 | Marcel Ayme, French writer, Jument Verte |
| 1902 | Onslow Stevens, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Mr Fisher-This is the Life |
| 1902 | William Walton, born in England, composer, Troilus and Cressida, Wise Virgins |
| 1901 | Frans U Kailas, Finnish poet |
| 1898 | Cecil Lewis, airman and writer |
| 1895 | Ernest Junger, German philosopher, Anschwellender Bocksgesang |
| 1892 | Jozsef Mindszenty, Joseph Prehm, Hungarian cardinal |
| 1891 | Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe' |
| 1889 | Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union |
| 1889 | Warner Baxter, born in Columbus, Ohio, actor, In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid |
| 1888 | Adrianus M de Jong, Dutch writer, World Tour of Bulletje and Bonestaak |
| 1888 | James E. Casey, founder, United Parcel Service |
| 1886 | Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer |
| 1883 | Donald Dexter Van Slyke, U.S. chemist, Micromanometric analysis |
| 1876 | Jan Ingenhoven, composer |
| 1876 | Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist |
| 1875 | Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady, 1929-33 |
| 1875 | Paul Rubens, composer |
| 1871 | Tom Hayward, cricketer, great England batsman of the Golden Age |
| 1869 | Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum |
| 1869 | Edwin Lutyens, architect, London |
| 1867 | Cy Young, born in Gilmore, Ohio, pitcher, 511 wins, 1890 - 1911 |
| 1848 | Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War |
| 1831 | Amelia Barr, born in Ulverston, England, writer, novelist, wrote for religious periodicals, novels include 'The Lone House', 'Shela Vedder' |
| 1829 | Ritta and Christina, Siamese twins, in Sardinia |
| 1829 | Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1826 | Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP, social-democratic |
| 1822 | Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter |
| 1821 | Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive U.S. oil well |
| 1819 | Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi and founder American Hebrew Congregations |
| 1817 | Constantine S. Aksakov, Russian historian and poet |
| 1816 | James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1813 | John Letcher, Gov, Confederacy |
| 1799 | Edward Stanley, Earl Derby, C, British Prime Minister, 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68 |
| 1790 | John Tyler, born in Virginia, 10th President, 1841-1845 |
| 1752 | Edward Jones, composer |
| 1725 | Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer |
| 1636 | Esaias Reusner, composer |
| 1616 | Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer |
| 1602 | John Lightfoot, English theologist and literary, Horae Hebraicae |
| 1561 | Santorio Sanctorius, born in Italy, physician |
| 1519 | Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal |
| 1484 | Johann Spangenberg, composer |
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