| 1985 | Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7 |
| 1981 | Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1978 | Kandy Marshall, Miss Virginia Teen USA 1996 |
| 1977 | Ricky Williams, American Athlete |
| 1974 | Fairuza Balk, The Craft, Gas Food Lodging |
| 1972 | Alesha Oreskovich, born in Tampa, Florida, playmate, Jun, 1993 |
| 1972 | Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood, New Jersey, middleweight judoka 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Eric Nies, actor, MTV Real World, Grind |
| 1971 | Jeff Stavroff, Columbus, Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Space Coast-4 |
| 1970 | Dorsey Levens, NFL running back, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1970 | Roman Turek, Strakonice, Czech Republic, hockey goalie, Team Czech Republic, 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur California, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Veronica Sanchez, born in Michoan, Mexico, WPVA volleyballer, Hermosa-17-1994 |
| 1969 | Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing for the New Jersey Devils |
| 1967 | Cindy Haley, Tyler, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1987 Texas Amateur-2nd |
| 1967 | Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump, 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, Western Ont Amateur-92 |
| 1967 | Tracy Simien, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1966 | Manon Kelley, Quebec City Canada, actress, Red Lips 2 |
| 1964 | Annabel Schofield, Llanelli, Wales, actress, Laurel Ellis-Dallas |
| 1964 | Tom Harding, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Canadian Tour golfer, 1991 Transamerica |
| 1964 | Tommy Albelin, Stockholm, Sweden, NHL defenseman for the Calgary Flames |
| 1963 | Yelena Vodorezova, U.S.S.R., figure skater, Olympic-1976 |
| 1963 | Kevin Shields, Irish Musician |
| 1961 | Tim Lever, keyboard/sax, Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round |
| 1960 | Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis, Maryland, PGA golfer, 1992 Chattanooga |
| 1959 | Nick Cassavetes, actor, Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool |
| 1958 | Mike Barson, rock keyboardist, Madness |
| 1958 | Monte Lynch, cricketer, Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player |
| 1958 | Tom Feeney, American Athlete |
| 1957 | Judge Reinhold, Wilmington, Delaware, actor, Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| 1957 | Sue Woodstra, Colton California, volleyball player 1984 Olympics silver |
| 1956 | Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans, singer/cabaretiere, School Desk |
| 1955 | John Glavin, rock keyboardist, Molly Hatchet |
| 1955 | Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler, Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79 |
| 1955 | Stan Lynch, Gainesville, Florida, rock drummer, Tommy Petty and Heartbreakers |
| 1954 | Bill Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1954 | Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up, 1975 |
| 1952 | Mr T, Lawrence Tero, Chicago, actor, A-Team, Rocky III, T and T |
| 1951 | Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor, SNL, Stuart Saves His Family |
| 1950 | Roger Hodgson, London, rocker, Supertramp |
| 1949 | Andrew Nell, editor, Sunday Times |
| 1949 | Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer, T C Matic |
| 1949 | Rosalind Plowright, British soprano, Aida, Senta |
| 1948 | Carol Potter, actress, Beverly Hills 90210 |
| 1948 | Leo Sayer, Gerard, England, singer, When I Need Love |
| 1947 | Bill Champlin, born in Oakland California, rocker |
| 1947 | Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer |
| 1947 | Richard Hatch, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, Battlestar Galactica |
| 1946 | David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner, Fox Sports |
| 1946 | Ronald Bear, actor and director, Havana, Make-up |
| 1945 | Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut, STS-22 |
| 1944 | Janet Dailey, U.S., author |
| 1944 | Manual Pina, fashion designer |
| 1944 | Marcie Blane, born in Brooklyn, New York, given name, Marcia Blank, singer, pop music, known for hit song 'Bobby's Girl' |
| 1944 | Mary Robinson, President of Republic of Ireland, Labour, 1990- |
| 1943 | Hilton Valentine, rock guitarist, Animals-House of the Rising Sun |
| 1942 | David Hunt, Wales Secretary of State |
| 1942 | Robert C Springer, St. Louis, Col USMC/astronaut, STS-29, STS-38 |
| 1941 | Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, TM-4 |
| 1941 | Ronald Isley, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, singer, Isley Brothers-Twist and Shout |
| 1939 | Peter Phillips, born in Birmingham, England, artist, painter, sculpture, screenprint, lithography, pioneer, Pop Art Movement |
| 1939 | Heinz Holliger, born in Langenthal, Switzerland, studied with Pierre Boulez, composer, world's most famous oboe player |
| 1938 | David Groh, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day |
| 1936 | Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun |
| 1936 | Dipak Nandy, founder, Runnymead Trust |
| 1935 | Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader, New Orleans Jazzmen |
| 1934 | Phillip King, British sculptor |
| 1933 | Barry Norman, Britain, film critic, Film Greats |
| 1932 | John Armitage, principal, College of St. Hilda and St. Bede Durham |
| 1932 | Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer |
| 1931 | Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster |
| 1931 | George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus, 1988-93 |
| 1930 | David Smith, principal/vice chancellor, Edinburgh University |
| 1930 | Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, Liberal, 1975 - 1983 |
| 1930 | Stanley Wells, director, Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham |
| 1929 | Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist, Lincoln Center |
| 1929 | Paul Winslow, cricketer, big-hitter for South Africa, 108 vs. England 1955 |
| 1929 | Robert Welch, designer/silversmith, Robert Welch flatware |
| 1927 | George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner |
| 1927 | Kay Kendall, born in Yorkshire, England, actress, Genevieve, Les Girls |
| 1926 | Joseph Horovitz, composer |
| 1926 | Rick Jason, New York City, actor, Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn |
| 1926 | Robert Creeley, Massachusetts, poet and novelist, Island |
| 1924 | Peggy Cass, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress/TV panelist, To Tell the Truth, Mame |
| 1924 | Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer, Book of Imaginery Beings |
| 1923 | Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer |
| 1923 | Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer and songwriter |
| 1921 | Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75 |
| 1920 | Anthony Steel, London, actor, Malta Story, Wooden Horse |
| 1919 | Lord Maxwell, senator and professor, college of Justice Scotland |
| 1919 | Mark Wood, bishop, Ludlow |
| 1918 | Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist |
| 1917 | Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian, Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy |
| 1917 | Heather Swift, local councillor |
| 1917 | Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer, Just Causes |
| 1917 | Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor, Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla |
| 1917 | Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman |
| 1916 | Harold Robbins, New York City, author, Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy |
| 1916 | Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player, U.S. Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31 |
| 1916 | Joseph Janni, producer |
| 1916 | Leonard Manasseh, architect |
| 1909 | Guy de Rothschild, French banker |
| 1909 | Laura Hillenbrand, American Author |
| 1906 | Keith Rigg, cricketer, Australian Test batsman in the thirties |
| 1905 | Edward Lockspeiser, composer |
| 1904 | Fats Waller, Thomas Wright, jazz singer/composer, Ain't Misbehavin' |
| 1904 | Robert Montgomery, Beacon, New York, actor/dir, Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack |
| 1903 | Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, 1953..7 |
| 1903 | Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author, After Dark, Devil's Planet |
| 1903 | Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina |
| 1901 | Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader, Swift Show Wagon |
| 1901 | Suzanne Lilar, Verbist, France/Belgian writer, Le burlador |
| 1899 | Ralph Sanford, Springfield Massachusetts, actor, Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp |
| 1898 | Armand Hammer, New York City, millionaire industrialist, Occidental Petroleum |
| 1898 | Charles Haba, Czechoslovakian violinist and composer |
| 1898 | Karel Haba, composer |
| 1893 | Arthur Carr, cricket captain, England vs. Australia 1926 |
| 1893 | Simon Delmonte, actor and director, Boemeladvocaat |
| 1892 | John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet, This Side of Paradise |
| 1890 | Albert van Raalte, conductor, AVRO-orchestra |
| 1888 | May Aufderheide, composer |
| 1887 | Mabel Taliaferro, New York City, actress, Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back |
| 1882 | Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel |
| 1880 | Pablo Luna y Carne, composer |
| 1878 | Glenn Hammond Curtiss, U.S., inventor, hydroplane |
| 1878 | Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP, CPN |
| 1873 | Emil Ermatinger, born in Switzerland, literature historian |
| 1873 | Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator, I speak beschaafd Dutch |
| 1873 | Hans Berger, German Scientist |
| 1872 | Henry Warren, born in Boston, Massachusetts, inventor, Telechon electric clock |
| 1870 | William Cameron Forbes, American Diplomat |
| 1867 | John James Ferris, cricketer, mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's |
| 1867 | Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer |
| 1865 | C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages |
| 1860 | Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor, electrocardiograph |
| 1858 | Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician |
| 1855 | Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet and writer, Les Flammes Hautes |
| 1851 | Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist, Nobel 1920 |
| 1844 | Henri Rousseau, French Artist |
| 1843 | Louis Renault, French lawyer |
| 1841 | Joseph Parry, composer |
| 1835 | Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1834 | Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902 |
| 1826 | Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro |
| 1825 | George Lafayette Beal, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1822 | Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1822 | Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1821 | John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. |
| 1808 | Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, Sylvia |
| 1796 | Reverdy Johnson, rep, Union |
| 1780 | Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse |
| 1775 | Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano |
| 1722 | Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer |
| 1720 | Antonio Corbisiero, composer |
| 1680 | Frederich Karl Erbach, composer |
| 1671 | Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer |
| 1633 | Joseph de La Barre, composer |
| 1527 | Philip II, King of Spain, 1556 - 1598, and Portugal, 1580 - 1598 |
| 1471 | Albrecht Durer, Nurnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker |
| 427 | Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy |
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