| 1980 | Cheri Wheeler, Miss Georgia Teen USA 1997 |
| 1979 | Monica Keena, American Actress |
| 1977 | Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, born in Miami, Florida, singer, Menudo-Cannonball |
| 1975 | Caresa Winters, Miss South Dakota USA 1996 |
| 1975 | Mike Fisher, Naperville, Illinois, soccer midfielder, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | Pat Peake, Rochester, NHL center for the Washington Capitals |
| 1973 | Todd Sweeris, Grand Rapids, Michigan, table tennis player 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Cheryl Demkowski, Syracuse, New York, dance skater, & Gregory Maddalone |
| 1972 | Denise Booker, Liverpool, golfer, S Australian, Jr. champ 1990 |
| 1971 | Jeff Gove, born in Seattle, Washington, Nike golfer, 1991 Ralphs Senior Classic |
| 1971 | Nick Bravin, New York City, fencer-foil 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Athlete |
| 1970 | Ben Williams, WLAF defensive end for the London Monarchs |
| 1970 | David Roberts, Alameda, California, U.S. hockey forward 1994 Olympics |
| 1970 | Jason Belser, NFL cornerback for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1970 | Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate, Dec, 1990 |
| 1969 | Bob Meeks, WLAF corner, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1969 | Damian Rhodes, St. Paul, NHL goalie, Ottawa Senators |
| 1969 | Frank McCormack, Leicester Massachusetts, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Char Thompson, WLAF running back, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1968 | Kylie Minogue, Melbourne, Australia, rock vocalist, Locomotion |
| 1968 | Sandra Bacher, Long Island, New York, half-heavyweight judoka, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Tomas P Pukstys, born in Chicago, Illinois, javelin thrower, Olympics-8th-96 |
| 1967 | Glen Rice, NBA guard and forward, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1967 | Kari Wuhrer, Brookfield, Connecticut, MTV/actress, Beverly Hills 90210 |
| 1967 | Tory Epps, NFL defensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1966 | Gavin Robertson, NSW cricket off-spin all-rounder, Australia ODI-Pak 1994 |
| 1965 | Catherine Tanvier, France, tennis star |
| 1965 | Chantal Bailey, Champaign, Illinois, speed skater 1994 Olympics |
| 1965 | Christa Miller, New York City, actress, Kate-Drew Carey Show |
| 1965 | Michael Charles Brisky, Brownsville, Texas, PGA golfer, 1995 Buick-2nd |
| 1964 | Armon Gilliam, NBA forward, Milwaukee Bucks, New Jersey Nets |
| 1964 | Beth Herr, Middletown Ohio, tennis star |
| 1964 | Leisa Sheridan, born in Omaha, Nebraska, playmate, Jul, 1993 |
| 1964 | Mark MacKay, Brandon GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998 |
| 1964 | Jeff Fenech, born in Marrickville, Australia, professional boxer, boxing trainer, world champion, represented Australia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles |
| 1963 | Eugene Robinson, NFL safety, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1962 | Brandon Cruz, actor, Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father |
| 1961 | Roland Gift, UK, rocker, Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy |
| 1960 | Mark Sanford, born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, politician, Republican, 115th Governor of South Carolina, U.S. Air Force Reserve medical administration officer |
| 1959 | Leon "The Bop" Klaasse, rock drummer/singer, The Pilgrims-Red |
| 1957 | Kirk Gibson, Michigan, outfield, Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP |
| 1957 | Walter R. Tucker, born in Compton, California, Representative-D-California 1993 - 1995 |
| 1956 | Jeff Dujon, cricket wicket-keeper, WI 1981-91, their most successful |
| 1956 | Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate, March, 1988 |
| 1954 | George E. Mahlberg, Astrophysicist, Mount Palomar/Mount Wilson California, 1974 - 1978 |
| 1954 | Joao Carlos De Oliveira, Brazil, triple jumper, Olympic-bronze-1976, 80 |
| 1953 | Arto Lindsay, rocker/actor, Cookie, Desperately Seeking Susan |
| 1949 | Shelley Hamlin, born in San Mateo, California, LPGA golfer, 1978 Patty Berg Classic |
| 1949 | Sue Holderness, actress, Marlene-Only Fools and Horses, Sandbaggers |
| 1949 | Steve King, American Politician |
| 1948 | Bob Shearer, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer |
| 1948 | Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer, Jack the Lad |
| 1947 | Faith Brown, impressionist |
| 1947 | Patti Reynolds, born in Chicago, Illinois, playmate, Sept, 1965 |
| 1947 | Sondra Locke, Shelbyville Tennessee, actress, Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| 1946 | Madeleine Le Roux, Wyoming, Broadway actress, Cry Uncle |
| 1945 | Gary Stewart, Latcher County, Kentucky, country singer, She's Actin' Single |
| 1945 | John Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rock vocals, Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1944 | Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet and critic, On the Droge |
| 1944 | Billy Vera, musician, & Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night |
| 1944 | Gladys Knight, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, leader of Pips, Last Train |
| 1944 | Rudy Giuliani, Mayor-R/L-NYC, 1994- |
| 1943 | Liz Edgar, horse show jumper |
| 1943 | Ray Mitchell, governor, Albany Prison, England |
| 1943 | Tony Mansfield, Anthony Bookbinder, rock drummer, Billy J Kramer |
| 1941 | Beth Howland, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Vera-Alice, Company |
| 1940 | Betty Shabazz, educator/talk show hostess/widow, Malcolm X |
| 1940 | Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director, Paradiso |
| 1940 | Tom Petri, born in Marinette, Wisconsin, Representative-R-Wisconsin 1979 - |
| 1940 | Maeve Binchy, Irish Novelist |
| 1938 | Jerry West, born in Cheylan, West Virginia, NBA superstar, Los Angeles Lakers, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics |
| 1938 | Prince Buster, Jamaican reggae musician/producer, Madness |
| 1936 | Maki Ishii, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, contemporary classical music |
| 1935 | Kenneth Kleinwort, English banker/multi-millionaire |
| 1934 | Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show |
| 1933 | John Karlen, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Harvey Lacey-Cagney and Lacey |
| 1933 | Philip Otton, high court judge |
| 1932 | Henning Christiansen, composer |
| 1932 | Lord Renton, MP, Conservative |
| 1932 | Timothy Renton, born in England, born Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, politician, Conservative Party, Minister of State, Margaret Thatcher's Chief Whip, Member of Parliament for Mid-Sussex |
| 1931 | Carroll Baker, Penn, actress, Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow |
| 1931 | Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer |
| 1931 | Raymond Miquel, chairman, Scottish Sports Council |
| 1931 | Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author, Real Lace: America's Irish Rich |
| 1930 | Edward Seaga, PM, Jamaica |
| 1930 | Julian Slade, born in London, England, writer, best-known work 'Salad Days', UK's longest running musical |
| 1929 | Leslie Wight, cricketer, one Test WI vs. India 1953, scored 21 |
| 1929 | Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP |
| 1928 | Albert Booth, British government minister |
| 1928 | Jacob R Druckman, composer |
| 1928 | Jack Kevorkian, American Activist |
| 1927 | Bernhard Lewkovitch, composer |
| 1927 | Francois Nourissier, French writer, Un petit bourgeois |
| 1927 | Gyorgy Ligeti, composer |
| 1927 | Norman Ireland, CEO, Bowater |
| 1927 | Robert Evans, CEO, British Gas |
| 1925 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone, Doktor Faust |
| 1925 | Martha Vickers, Ann Arbor, Michigan, actress, Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless |
| 1924 | Edward du Cann, CEO, Lonrho |
| 1924 | Lord Rippon, British MP |
| 1924 | Reginald Eyre, solicitor/MP |
| 1923 | Gyorgy Ligeti, Dicsoszentmartin Transylvania Hungary composer |
| 1923 | Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star, Patala Bhairavi |
| 1922 | John Alderson, chief constable, Devon and Cornwall UK |
| 1922 | Lou Duva, American Coach |
| 1919 | Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire |
| 1919 | Frank Middlemass, actor, Island, Oliver Twist |
| 1919 | John Eldridge, CEO, Matthews Wrightmson |
| 1917 | "Papa" John Creach, violinist |
| 1917 | Barry Commoner, born in Brooklyn, New York, biologist, Science and Survival |
| 1917 | Gerald Cash, Governor-General, Bahamas |
| 1917 | Marshall Reed, Englewood California, actor, Fred Asher-Lineup |
| 1917 | Pape John Creech, rocker, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane |
| 1916 | Gerald McArthur, detective |
| 1916 | Thora Hird, actress, Nightcomers, Kind of Loving |
| 1916 | Walker Percy, Birmingham, Alabama, writer, Adventures of a Bad Catholic |
| 1916 | C. Wright Mills, American Sociologist |
| 1915 | Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor, Stage Door |
| 1915 | Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist |
| 1915 | Joseph Greenberg, American Writer |
| 1914 | W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot |
| 1913 | Gordon Wolstenholme, physician |
| 1912 | Leslie Monson, diplomat |
| 1912 | Patrick White, Australia, novelist, Happy Valley, Nobel 1973 |
| 1911 | William Berry, born in England, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph |
| 1911 | Bob Crisp, cricketer, South African pace bowler of 30's |
| 1911 | Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader |
| 1911 | Randolph Churchill, British Journalist |
| 1910 | Rachel Kempson, actress, Captive Heart |
| 1910 | Stuart Piggott, archaeologist |
| 1910 | T-Bone Walker, Linden, Texas, blues guitarist, Funky Town, Well Done |
| 1909 | John Schepens, Jean Baudoux, Flemish journalist and writer, Polyfoto |
| 1908 | Ian Lancaster Fleming, born in London, England, author, James Bond |
| 1907 | Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian |
| 1907 | Henry Ritz, comedian/dancer, Ritz Brothers |
| 1907 | Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal |
| 1906 | Mary Ralton, director, British WRAC |
| 1906 | Phil Regan, singer, My Wild Irish Rose |
| 1904 | Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer |
| 1903 | Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer, Golden Sail |
| 1900 | Owen Aisher, president, Marley |
| 1898 | Andy Kirk, jazz musician |
| 1897 | Henry Kendall, London, actor, Amazing Quest, Shadow, Rich and Strange |
| 1896 | Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer |
| 1896 | Warren Giles, baseball's National League president |
| 1894 | Sammy White, Rhode Island, actor, 711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off |
| 1892 | Minna Gombell, Baltimore, actress, Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister |
| 1889 | Jose Padilla, composer |
| 1888 | Jim Thorpe, born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, decathelete, Gold Medal 1912 Olympics |
| 1887 | Hank Mann, New York City, actor, City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road |
| 1886 | Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor, Seattle Symph |
| 1884 | Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1921-22, 35-48 |
| 1884 | Theo, door, van Reijn, Dutch sculptor/lithographer |
| 1883 | George Dyson, composer |
| 1883 | Luigi Perrachio, composer |
| 1879 | Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist |
| 1874 | G K Chesterton, writer |
| 1868 | Claude Anet, Jean Schopfer, French writer, Fille Perdue |
| 1865 | Gerrit Grijns, Dutch physiologist, Vitamin E |
| 1863 | Georg Adler, German state economist |
| 1862 | Henry W. Slocum, Jr., tennis champ, U.S. Open-1888 |
| 1851 | Dick Barlow, cricketer, immortal England all-rounder of 1880's |
| 1844 | Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer |
| 1841 | Giovanni Sgambati, composer |
| 1838 | Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1831 | Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor |
| 1830 | George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1830 | Karoly Filtsch, composer |
| 1828 | Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1828 | Bartel Wilton, machinefabrikant/ship builder |
| 1820 | Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic |
| 1819 | William Birney, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1818 | Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, U.S. Confederate gen, Hero of Sumter |
| 1810 | Alexandre Calamo, born in Switzerland, painter, etcher and lithographer |
| 1807 | Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra |
| 1807 | Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher |
| 1798 | Josef Dessauer, composer |
| 1789 | Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author, Tomorrow- og Aftensange |
| 1782 | Wouter J van Troostwijk, Dutch painter |
| 1780 | Joseph Frohlich, composer |
| 1779 | Thomas Moore, Irish Poet |
| 1778 | Friedrich Westenholz, composer |
| 1777 | Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer |
| 1765 | Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer |
| 1759 | William Pitt, the Younger, C, English PM, 1783-1801, 1804-06 |
| 1738 | Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor, guillotine |
| 1660 | George I, King of England, 1714-27 |
| 1577 | Floris II van Pallandt, Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician |
| 1371 | John, the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior |
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