| 1982 | Jessica Joseph, born in Royal Oak, Michigan, dance skater, Butler-1997 National |
| 1980 | Jenny Smith, born in Western Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Amanda Moody, born in Orem, Utah, Miss America-Utah, 1996 |
| 1976 | Josh Saviano, actor, Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years |
| 1974 | Anthony Hicks, NFL linebacker, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1974 | Carol Ann Plante, actress, Sara Henderson-Harry and the Hendersons |
| 1974 | James Burgess, linebacker for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1974 | Jason Odom, tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1974 | Nina Georgala, Miss Universe-Greece, 1996 |
| 1973 | Vanessa Mambi, Miss Universe-Curacao, 1996 |
| 1972 | John Godina, born in Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1972 | Kelly O'Leary, born in Halifax Nova, Scotia, kayaker 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director |
| 1971 | Ewan McGregor, born in Scottish, actor, Trainspotting |
| 1971 | Pavel Bure, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL left wing, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1971 | Pavel Bure, NHL forward, Team Russia, Vancouver, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Derek Brown, NFL tight end for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1970 | Oleg Romanov, NHL defenseman, Belarus, 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Stuart Carruthers, Australian field hockey fullback 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Kevin Sargent, NFL tackle and guard for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1969 | Steve Smith, NBA guard for the Atlanta Hawks |
| 1968 | J R Reid, NBA forward, New York Knicks, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1967 | Glenn Montgomery, NFL defensive tackle, Seattle Seahawks, Oilers |
| 1967 | Nanci Bowen, born in Tifton, Georgia, LPGA golfer, 1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore |
| 1966 | Natalie Gosselin, Levis Quebec, 52kg judoka 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Thomas Fitzgerald, born in Brooklyn, New York, team handball left wing 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Marlon Vonhagt, cricketer, 1 ODI Sri Lanka 1984-85 World Series Cup |
| 1965 | Patty Fendick, born in Sacramento, California, tennis star, 1989 Auckland |
| 1965 | Tom Barrasso, born in Boston, NHL goalie for the Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 1965 | William McNamara, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, Texasville, Beat, Stealing Home |
| 1964 | Dave Wyman, NFL linebacker for the Denver Broncos |
| 1964 | David Diaz-Infante, NFL guard, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1964 | Erik Turner, born in Omaha, Nebraska, rock guitarist, Warrant-Cherry Pie |
| 1964 | Isabelle Ferrari, born in Italy, Italy's Miss Teenager |
| 1964 | Rod Jones, NFL cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1962 | John Taylor, NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1961 | Ron Brown, born in Los Angeles, California, 4x100m runner 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1960 | Anne Howard, born in San Diego, California, actress, Nicole Love-Another World |
| 1960 | Mark Tuinei, NFL tackle for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1959 | Angus Young, born in Glascow, Scotland, rock guitarist, AC/DC-Highway to Hell |
| 1958 | Jay Feenan, born in Windham, New Hampshire, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1958 | Pat McGlynn, born in Edinburgh, rock guitarist, Bay City Rollers |
| 1957 | Marc McClure, born in San Mateo, California, actor, Ross-California Fever |
| 1957 | Mary Cadorette, born in East Hartford, Connecticut, actress, Vicky-3's a Crowd |
| 1957 | Patrick G. Forrester, born in El Paso, Texas, Lieutenant Colonel Army/astronaut |
| 1955 | Svetozar Marovic, Yugoslavian Politician |
| 1955 | Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician |
| 1954 | Tony Brock, born in England, rock drummer, Babys-Missing You |
| 1953 | Greg Martin, born in Louisville, Kentucky, singer, Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett |
| 1953 | Sean Hopper, born in California, rock keyboardist, Huey Lewis and The News |
| 1951 | Ed Marinaro, born in New York City, actor, Joe-Hill St. Blues, Sonny-Laverne and Shirley |
| 1950 | Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner |
| 1950 | Richard Hughes, rocker, Johnny Winter Band |
| 1948 | Al Gore, born in Washington D.C., Senator-D-Tennessee, 1985 - 1992, 45th Vice President 1993 - 2000 |
| 1948 | David Eisenhower, Eisenhower's grandson, married Julie Nixon |
| 1948 | Rhea Perlman, born in Brooklyn, actress, Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers |
| 1948 | Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist, Focus, Introspection |
| 1947 | Al Goodman, rock vocalist, Ray, Goodman, Brown |
| 1947 | Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, president, Colombia, 1990-94 |
| 1947 | Jon-Jon Poulos, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker, Buckinghams |
| 1946 | Aftab Gul, cricketer, Pakistani opening batsman in six Tests 1969-71 |
| 1946 | Al Nichol, born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, rock guitarist and vocalist, Turtles |
| 1946 | Gabe Kaplan, born in Brooklyn, New York, comedian/actor, Welcome Back Kotter |
| 1944 | Rod Allen, B Rodney Bainbridge, rock bassist/vocalist, Fortunes |
| 1943 | Christopher Walken, born in Astoria Queens, actor, Deer Hunter, Brainstorm |
| 1940 | Barney Frank, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1981 - |
| 1940 | Jim Criner, WLAF head coach for the Scottish Claymores |
| 1940 | Patrick Leahy, born in Montpelier, Vermont, Senator-D-Vermont 1975 - |
| 1939 | Liz Claiborne, Brussels Belgium, fashion designer, women |
| 1938 | Nathaniel Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Rollo-Sanford and Sons |
| 1938 | David Steel, British Politician |
| 1937 | Willem Duyn, Mouth, Dutch singer, Mouth and MacNeal |
| 1936 | Marge Piercy, author, Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers |
| 1935 | Herb Alpert, bandleader/trumpeteer, Tijuana Brass, CEO, A&M |
| 1935 | Judith Rossner, U.S., writer, August |
| 1934 | Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russia, cosmonaut, Vostok 1 backup |
| 1934 | John D. Loudermilk, rock drummer/vocalist, Language of Love, Norman |
| 1934 | Wim H. Sinnige, Dutch alderman of finance, social democratic |
| 1934 | Richard Chamberlain, born in Beverly Hills, California, actor, Dr. Kildare |
| 1933 | Bob Simmons, born in Fulham, England, stuntman, double for James Bond |
| 1933 | Shirley Jones, born in Smithton, Pennsylvania, actress, Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry |
| 1932 | Godfrey Lawrence, cricketer, South African fast bowler, 8-53 vs. New Zealand 1961 |
| 1932 | John Jakes, born in Chicago, writer, Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters |
| 1932 | Nagisa Oshima, born in Kyoto, Japan, director, Town of Love and Hope |
| 1931 | Miller Barber, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, PGA golfer, 1968 Byron Nelson Classic |
| 1929 | Lee Patterson, born in Vancouver, BC, actor, Dave-Surfside Six, Another World |
| 1929 | Liz Claiborne, fashion designer |
| 1928 | Gordie Howe, born in Floral, Saskatchewan, NHL right wing, Detroit Redwings |
| 1927 | Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers |
| 1927 | William Daniels, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dr. Mark Craig-St. Elsewhere, 1776 |
| 1926 | John Fowles, born in England, novelist, Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman |
| 1926 | Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie/actor, Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters |
| 1924 | Leo Buscaglia, born in Los Angeles, California, "Dr. Hug", psycholigist, Love |
| 1924 | Charles Guggenheim, American Director |
| 1923 | Donald Argee Barksdale, born in Berkley, California, basketballer 1948 Olympics gold |
| 1923 | Lawrie Miller, New Zealand cricketer, opening bat in 13 Tests |
| 1922 | Patrick J G McGee, born in North Ireland, actor, Clockwork Orange |
| 1922 | Richard Kiley, born in Chicago, actor, Man of La Mancha, Endless Love |
| 1920 | Marga [Sara Voeten-] Minco, Dutch writer, Bitter Herb |
| 1918 | Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes |
| 1916 | John Vivyan, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Imitation of Life, Mr. Lucky |
| 1915 | Eliseo Morales Pajaro, composer |
| 1915 | Henry Morgan, born in New York City, comedian/TV panelist, I've Got a Secret, Arena |
| 1915 | Jack Perry, businessman |
| 1914 | Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat, Salamandra, Topoemas |
| 1912 | Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter |
| 1911 | Robert Hamer, British Director |
| 1909 | Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP, GVP, editor, Netherlands Daily |
| 1909 | Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator |
| 1907 | Eddie Quillan, Philadelphia, actor, Julia, Hell Town |
| 1906 | Lauri Saikkola, composer |
| 1900 | Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters |
| 1900 | Lorinc Szabo, Hungary, poet, Huszonhatodik ev |
| 1895 | John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man |
| 1895 | Vardis A Fisher, U.S. author, Darkness and Deep |
| 1895 | John J. McCloy, American Lawyer |
| 1893 | Clemens Krauss, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, Berlin State Orchestra 1937 |
| 1892 | Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant |
| 1891 | Erich Walter Sternberg, composer |
| 1891 | Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator, Umbra timpului |
| 1891 | Victor Varconi, born in Hungary, actor, Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City |
| 1887 | Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer |
| 1885 | Jules Pascin, Julius Pincas, Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist |
| 1878 | Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight boxing champ, 1908 - 1915 |
| 1872 | Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Fein |
| 1872 | Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, born in Russia, dance master, Imperial Ballet |
| 1868 | Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist |
| 1854 | Dugald Clerk, inventor, engine operating the 2-stroke cycle |
| 1848 | John Henry Roberts, composer |
| 1847 | Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer |
| 1844 | Andrew Lang, born in Scotland, author, The Blue Fairy Book |
| 1840 | John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1839 | Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia, OS |
| 1838 | Leon Dierx, French poet |
| 1837 | Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA |
| 1837 | Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1835 | John La Farge, U.S. painter |
| 1835 | John LaFarge, American Artist |
| 1831 | Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist |
| 1824 | William Morris Hunt, American Artist |
| 1822 | Rafael Hernando, composer |
| 1812 | Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist |
| 1811 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist, Bunsen Burner |
| 1809 | Edward FitzGerald, born in England, writer, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
| 1809 | Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism, Dead Souls |
| 1809 | Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer |
| 1791 | Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer |
| 1747 | Johann A P Schulz, German composer |
| 1747 | Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, Moon has Risen |
| 1732 | Franz Joseph Haydn, born in Austria, composer, help develop classical style |
| 1723 | Frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway, 1746-66 |
| 1717 | Florian Wrastill, composer |
| 1684 | Francesco Durante, composer |
| 1675 | Benedict XIV, Prospero L Lambertini, Italy, Pope, 1740-58 |
| 1621 | Andrew Marvell, born in England, poet, To His Coy Mistress |
| 1596 | Rene Descartes, born in France, philosopher, he thought, therefore he was |
| 1570 | Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau |
| 1519 | Henry II, King of Germany, 1547 - 1559 |
| 1499 | Pius IV, Gianangelo de' Medici, Italian lawyer/pope, 1559-65 |
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