| 1980 | Jessica Deglau, Vancouver BC, 200m butterfly 1996 Olympics |
| 1976 | Richard Park, Seoul Kor, NHL center for the Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 1975 | Jamie Oliver, born in Clavering, England, known as 'The Naked Chef', check, media personality, television series include, 'Jamie's Ministry of Food' |
| 1975 | Denise Van Outen, British Actress |
| 1975 | Andre Benjamin, American Musician |
| 1974 | Danny Wuerffel, NFL quarterback for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1972 | Antonio Freeman, NFL wide reciever, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1972 | Troy Sienkiewicz, NFL tackle and guard for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1971 | Corey Beck, NBA guard, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1971 | Ferdino Hernandez, soccer player for the FC Utrecht |
| 1971 | Monika Schnarre, U.S. actress, Bold and Beautiful |
| 1971 | Scott Szeredy, NFL/WLAF kicker/punter, Chiefs, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1971 | Lisa Lopes, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, singer, songwriter, known as 'Left Eye', member of group, TLC, famous songs include, 'Waterfalls', 'Girl Talk' |
| 1971 | Paul Bettany, born in Shepherd's Bush, England, actor, films include, 'A Beautiful Mind', 'The Heart of Me' |
| 1970 | Liz Earley, St. Catharines Ontario, LPGA golfer, 1995 Thailand Open |
| 1970 | Michael Blackburn, Australian laser yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Todd Collins, linebacker for the New England Patriots |
| 1970 | Joseph Fiennes, British Actor |
| 1969 | Chip Beake, WLAF administrative assistant, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1969 | Dondre T Whitfield, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Another World, All My Children |
| 1969 | Francois Letourneau, St. Jerome Quebec, canoeist 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Lesley Tashlin, born in Toronto, Ontario, 100m hurdler 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Todd Hundley, Martinsville, Virginia, catcher for the New York Mets |
| 1969 | Travis Williams, NBA forward, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1968 | Cedric Smith, NFL running back, Washington Redskins, Arizona Cardinals |
| 1968 | Frank Thomas, "Big Hurt", 1st baseman, Chicago White Sox, 1993 MVP |
| 1968 | Jeff Bagwell, born in Boston, Massachusetts, infielder for the Houston Astros |
| 1968 | John Connelly, born in Toledo, Ohio, Nike golfer, 1991 New Hampshire Open |
| 1967 | Doug West, NBA guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1967 | George McCloud, NBA forward and guard, Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns |
| 1967 | Paul Gascoigne, born in Dunston, England, professional soccer player, nicknamed Gazza, midfielder, capped 57 times for the England national soccer team |
| 1967 | Ruthie Bolton Holifield, WNBA guard, Sac Monarchs/Olympics-gold-96 |
| 1966 | Eric Leckner, NBA center, Detroit Pistons |
| 1966 | John Jaha, born in Portland, Oregon, infielder for the Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1966 | Ray Sheppard, Pembroke, NHL right wing for the Florida Panthers |
| 1966 | Sean Kinney, U.S. rock drummer, Alice in Chains-We Die Young |
| 1965 | Jacob Brumfield, Bogalusa, Louisiana, outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1965 | Pat Cash, Australia, tennis player, Wimbledon 1987 |
| 1965 | Todd Bridges, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Different Strokes, Fish |
| 1962 | Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Naples Italy, TV actress, Passioni |
| 1962 | Meg Parsont, personality, David Letterman Show |
| 1962 | Ravi Shastri, cricketer, Indian SLA all-rounder 1981-92 |
| 1962 | Ray Borner, Australian basketball center, Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96 |
| 1961 | Cathy Silvers, New York City, actress, Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square |
| 1961 | Jill Sterkel, U.S. swimmer, Olympics-bronze-1976, 84, 88 |
| 1961 | John Lugbill, Wauseon Ohio, U.S. canoist/kayaker 1992 Olympics |
| 1961 | Peri Gilpin, Waco, Texas, actor, Roz Doyle-Frasier |
| 1960 | Ray Armsetad, Kirksville, Missouri, 4X400 runner 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1960 | Vinodhan John, cricket pace bowler, Sri Lankan in 6 Tests 1983-84 |
| 1958 | Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress, Night of Demons, Virgin High |
| 1958 | Neil Finn, rocker, Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House |
| 1957 | Bruce Furniss, U.S. swimmer, Olympics-2 gold-1976 |
| 1957 | Duncan Goodhew, born in England, Olympic gold medalist, most famous swimmer in the UK, author, motivational speaker |
| 1957 | Siouxsie Sioux, Susan Ballion, Kent England, Siouxsie and Banshees |
| 1956 | Lisa Niemi, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies |
| 1956 | Nick Lowery, NFL kicker for the New York Jets |
| 1955 | Bill Malley, born in Oakland California, Nike golfer, 1991 El Paso Open-30th |
| 1955 | Graeme "Jock" Edwards, cricketer, beefy New Zealand lefty batsman late 70's |
| 1954 | Catherine Carr, U.S. breaststroke swimmer, Olympics-2 gold-1972 |
| 1951 | John Conteh, born in Liverpool, England, athlete, former British boxer, world light-heavyweight boxing champion |
| 1951 | Norma Jean Almodovar, Binghampton, auto-biographer, Cop to Call Girl |
| 1949 | Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican Journalist |
| 1948 | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-8, T-14, TM-7 |
| 1948 | Anna E "Annelies" Balhan, Dutch revue-artist/actress, Sweet Chairty |
| 1948 | Pete Sears, bassist, Jefferson Starship |
| 1947 | Liana Alexandra, composer |
| 1947 | Peter DeFazio, born in Needham, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Oregon 1987 |
| 1947 | Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist |
| 1945 | Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa, Canada, folk rock vocalist, Waterwalker |
| 1944 | Christopher Dodd, born in Willimantic, Connecticut, Senator-D-Connecticut 1981- |
| 1944 | Christopher Dodd, American Politician |
| 1943 | Bruce Weitz, Norwalk, Connecticut, actor, Hill St. Blues, Death of a Centerfold |
| 1943 | Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist, You're My World |
| 1943 | Sue Simmons, American Journalist |
| 1942 | Kent Bede Bernard, Trinidad, 4X400 runner 1964 Olympics bronze |
| 1942 | Priscilla Anne McLean, composer |
| 1942 | Roger Freeman, British minister of transport |
| 1941 | Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/author, Mussert |
| 1941 | Allan Carr, Illinois, director, Grease, Happiest Millionaire |
| 1941 | Lisa Davina Phillip, born in Britain, actress, singer, voice actor, played role of teenage prostitute Macy in film 'Laters' |
| 1939 | Don Williams, Floydada Texas, country singer, I Believe in You |
| 1939 | Earl Cairns, CEO, S G Warburg and Co |
| 1939 | Jerry Mercer, rock drummer, April Wine Montreal Montreal |
| 1936 | Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff |
| 1936 | Eric Anderson, headmaster, Eton |
| 1936 | Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party |
| 1936 | Louis Gossett, Jr., born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Officer and Gentleman, Deep |
| 1935 | Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer |
| 1935 | Lee Meriwether, born in Los Angeles, California, Miss America, Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones |
| 1935 | Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist, Hang on Sloopy |
| 1934 | Harlan [Jay] Ellison, U.S., sci-fi author, 7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5 |
| 1934 | Harlan Ellison, American Writer |
| 1932 | Jeffrey Bernard, born in London, England, journalist, wrote column, 'Low Life', for The Spectator magazine |
| 1931 | Florence Sharples, director, British YWCA |
| 1931 | John Chapple, British chief of General Staff |
| 1931 | Kenny Price, Florence, Kentucky, country singer, Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw |
| 1931 | Veroslav Neumann, composer |
| 1931 | James Q. Wilson, American Politician |
| 1930 | Eino Tamberg, born in Estonia, composer, neoclassical Estonian music, teacher, Estonian Academy of Music, wrote ballet, 'Johanna tentate' |
| 1930 | John Barth, novelist, Sot-Weed Factor |
| 1930 | Simon Barrington-Ward, born in England, educated at Eton College, Cambridge, 7th Bishop of Coventry in the Church of England, 1985 - 1997, Bishop with pastoral care, University of Cambridge |
| 1930 | William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI |
| 1929 | Donald Howard Keats, composer |
| 1928 | Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer, Mary Queen of Scots |
| 1927 | Bryan Cowgill, deputy chairman, Mirror Group |
| 1927 | Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist, VPRO, People's Newspaper |
| 1927 | Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant |
| 1926 | Gordon Leggat, cricketer, open batsman for New Zealand in 9 Tests 1953-56 |
| 1925 | John Moberly, diplomat |
| 1925 | Tony Hillerman, American Author |
| 1923 | Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973 |
| 1923 | Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff |
| 1923 | Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman |
| 1923 | Sumner Redstone, American Businessman |
| 1922 | Christopher Lee, born in London, England, actor, Hound of Baskervilles |
| 1922 | Sidney AK Keyes, English poet, Iron Laurel |
| 1921 | Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty, 1960 |
| 1921 | Redd Stewart, Ashland City, Tennessee, guitarist/pianist, Pee Wee King Show |
| 1920 | Michael Webster, CEO, DRG |
| 1920 | William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent |
| 1919 | Kam Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actor, Hawaii Five-0 |
| 1918 | Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan, 1982-87 |
| 1916 | Norman Griggs, Vice President, Building Society Association |
| 1915 | Herman Wouk, New York City, novelist, Caine Mutiny, Winds of War |
| 1915 | Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer, Verdi/Puccini |
| 1914 | Hugh Le Caine, composer |
| 1914 | Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister |
| 1914 | Rose Stainton, CEO, British Airways |
| 1913 | Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop |
| 1913 | Mervyn Stockwood, bishop, Southwark England |
| 1913 | Wolfgang Schulze, Wols, German cartoonist/painter |
| 1912 | John Cheever, writer, Wapshot Chronicle |
| 1912 | Sam Snead, Hot Springs, Virginia, PGA golfer, PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73 |
| 1911 | Torolf Elster, Norwegian journalist and writer, Frihet och demokrati |
| 1911 | Vincent Price, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura |
| 1911 | Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician |
| 1911 | Hubert Humphrey, born in Wallace, South Dakota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969 |
| 1910 | Daniel Greenway, CEO, Daniel Greenway and Sons |
| 1909 | Isador Goodman, composer |
| 1908 | Alex Brown, snooker player |
| 1908 | Harold Rome, composer, Fanny, Pins and Needles |
| 1908 | Melle J Oldeboerrigter, Melle, Dutch painter/cartoonist |
| 1907 | Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader |
| 1907 | Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer, Silent Spring |
| 1906 | Robert Shone, director-general, NEDC |
| 1902 | Celius Dougherty, composer |
| 1897 | John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951 |
| 1895 | Marij Kogoj, composer |
| 1894 | Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author, Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon |
| 1894 | Louis-Ferdinand Celine, born in Courbevoie, France, novelist, 'Journey to End of Night' |
| 1892 | Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress, Pygmalion, Fietsen naar de Maan |
| 1891 | Claude Adonai Champagne, composer |
| 1888 | Louis Durey, composer |
| 1887 | Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright, Sudanese legends |
| 1887 | Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian, Vorwarts |
| 1887 | Frank Woolley, cricketer, long-running England left-arm all-rounder |
| 1881 | Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer |
| 1879 | Lucile Watson, actress, Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance |
| 1876 | John Gilmour, Scottish Politician |
| 1874 | Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet and writer, Eros Thanatos |
| 1871 | Georges-Henri Rouault, French expressionist painter, Miserere et Guerre |
| 1870 | Lionel Palairet, cricketer, elegant England bat in the Golden Age |
| 1867 | Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic, Great Babylon |
| 1861 | Victoria E Matthews, educator |
| 1854 | Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer, Jeune Belgium |
| 1852 | Billy Barnes, cricketer, England all-rounder 1880-90 |
| 1849 | "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer |
| 1839 | Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic, Roccaverdina |
| 1837 | "Wild Bill" Hickok, cowboy/scout |
| 1837 | Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1836 | Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1836 | Jay Gould, U.S. railroad executive, financier |
| 1823 | John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1822 | Henry Wylde, composer |
| 1822 | Josef Joachim Raff, composer |
| 1819 | Julia Ward Howe, U.S., author/lecturer, Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| 1818 | Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons |
| 1815 | Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia |
| 1806 | Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer |
| 1799 | Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, Elie Levy, composer |
| 1794 | Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire, B and O railroad |
| 1774 | Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer, Beaufort wind force scale |
| 1756 | Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria |
| 1738 | Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer |
| 1652 | Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans |
| 1626 | William II, prince of Orange/stadholder |
| 1595 | Benedictus Carpzovius, Benedikt Carpzov, German lawyer |
| 1332 | Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist, Muqaddimah |
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