| 1973 | Dominique Monami, Verviers Belgium, tennis star |
| 1973 | Michel Traveller, soccer player, Ajax |
| 1972 | Brett Hayman, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Josh Taves, defensive end for the New England Patriots |
| 1972 | Vyacheslav Kozlov, Voskresensk, Russia, NHL forward, Detroit Red Wings |
| 1971 | James Roberson, defensive end for the Tennessee Oilers |
| 1970 | Alexia Dechaume-Ballert, La Rochelle, France, tennis star, 1992 Australia |
| 1970 | Ted Crowley, Concord Massachusetts, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics |
| 1969 | Karen Kraft, San Mateo, California, rower, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1968 | Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre, Italy, actress, Big Game Hunter |
| 1968 | Jay Darlington, born in London, England, keyboardist, Kula Shaker |
| 1966 | Paul Stevenson, Victoria, Australia, badminton player 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | John Jensen, Danish Athlete |
| 1964 | Ron Hextall, Winnipeg, NHL goalie, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders |
| 1963 | Jeff Hornacek, NBA guard, Utah Jazz |
| 1962 | Anthony Gilligan, Penrith NSW, Australasia golfer |
| 1961 | David Vitter, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, politician, Republican party, member, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Louisiana |
| 1960 | Jaron Lanier, born in New York City, New York, visual artist, author, computer scientist, popularized the term, 'virtual reality' |
| 1959 | Ben Elton, London, UK, actor, Stark, Friday Night Live |
| 1959 | David Ball, Blackpool, rock keyboardist, Soft Cell |
| 1958 | Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist |
| 1957 | Cactus Moser, Montrose, Colorado, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry |
| 1957 | Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman, Mont Canadiens, Washington Caps |
| 1957 | Jo Brand, born in Hastings, England, stage name, 'The Sea Monster', stand up comedian, embraced alternative comedy movement, employing use of monotone delivery, pauses, image inspired by radicalized feminism |
| 1955 | David Hookes, cricketer, dashing Australian LHB, S Aussie stalwart |
| 1955 | Steve Jones, English pop guitarist, Sex Pistols-Mercy |
| 1953 | Bruce Hall, Champaign, Illinois, rock bassist, Reo Speedwagon |
| 1952 | Allen Wells, England, 100m dash, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics |
| 1950 | Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer, Those Were the Days |
| 1949 | Albert Sacco, Jr., born in Boston, Massachusetts, PhD/astronaut, STS-73 |
| 1949 | Ron Wyden, born in Wichita, Kansas, Representative-D-Oregon 1981 - 1996, Senator-D-Oregon 1996 - |
| 1947 | Doug Henning, Ft. Garry Manitoba, magician, Broadway play-Magic |
| 1946 | Greg Gumbel, sportscaster, CBS TV, WFAN |
| 1945 | Sadiq Mohammad, cricketer, attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81 |
| 1944 | Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist |
| 1944 | Peter Staples, rocker, Troggs-Wild Thing |
| 1942 | Lynn Farleigh, Bristol England, actress, Lovers of Their Time |
| 1942 | Vera C slavsk -Odlozilova, Czechoslovakia, gymnast, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics |
| 1941 | Nona Gaprindasvili, U.S.S.R., world women's chess champ, 1962-78 |
| 1939 | Jonathan David Harvey, English composer, Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen |
| 1939 | Samantha Eggar, born in London, England, actress, Collector |
| 1937 | Frankie Valli, Castelluccio, Newark, New Jersey, singer, Four Seasons-Sherry |
| 1936 | Engelbert Humperdinck, Arnolde Dorsey, India, singer, EH Show |
| 1936 | Jose Torres, U.S., boxer, Olympics |
| 1935 | Donald P Hodel, Portland, Oregon, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1985 - 1989 |
| 1933 | Collie Smith, cricketer, exciting WI all-rounder all too briefly |
| 1931 | Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer |
| 1930 | David Evatt Tunley, composer |
| 1929 | Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch Vice-Admiral |
| 1929 | Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist |
| 1928 | James Brown, born in Barnwell, South Carolina, soul singer, 'Hot Pants', 'Living in America' |
| 1928 | Jeanne Bal, born in Santa Monica, California, actress, Pat-Love and Marriage |
| 1925 | Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress, Tonga-Space Patrol |
| 1924 | Mary Carver, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Cecilia-Simon and Simon |
| 1923 | Ralph Hall, born in Fate, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1981 - |
| 1922 | Marina Svetlova, ballerina/choreographer, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo |
| 1921 | Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel |
| 1920 | Sugar Ray Robinson, Walter Smith, middle/welterweight boxer, champ |
| 1919 | Betty Comden, Brooklyn, song writer, Comden and Green-Bells are Ringing |
| 1919 | Pete Seeger, New York City, folk singer, Weaver, Goodnight Irene |
| 1917 | James Penberthy, composer |
| 1916 | Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, born in San Antonio, Texas, Representative-D-Texas, 1961- |
| 1916 | Pierre Emmanuel, French poet, Sodome |
| 1915 | Evencio Castellanos, composer |
| 1913 | Earl Blackwell, born in Atlanta, Georgia, author, Celebrity Register |
| 1913 | William M Inge, U.S. playwright, Picnic-Pulitzer 1953 |
| 1912 | May Sarton, American Poet |
| 1911 | John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter |
| 1910 | Alceo Galliera, composer |
| 1909 | Lee Scott, American Businessman |
| 1909 | Tom Joyner, American Celebrity |
| 1907 | Earl Wilson, Rockford, Ohio, columnist, Midnight Earl |
| 1906 | Mary Astor, Quincy, Illinois, actress, Maltese Falcon, Dinky |
| 1905 | Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria |
| 1905 | Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor, High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste |
| 1904 | Charles "Red" Ruffing, New York Yankee pitcher, hitter, 1930-46 |
| 1904 | John Breeden, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street |
| 1904 | Bill Brandt, British Photographer |
| 1903 | Bing Crosby, born in Tacoma, Washington, singer, White Christmas, Going My Way |
| 1902 | Hugo Friedhofer, composer |
| 1902 | Jack Larue, New York City, actor, Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette |
| 1902 | Seton I Miller, Chehalis, Washington, writer, Pete's Dragon, Istanbul |
| 1902 | Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General |
| 1901 | Gino Cervi, Bologna Italy, actor, Les Miserables, Naked Maja |
| 1899 | Aline MacMahon, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, actress, Backdoor to Heaven |
| 1898 | Golda Meir, Meyerson, Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74 |
| 1898 | Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator |
| 1897 | V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense |
| 1895 | Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian, Laudes regiae |
| 1895 | Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general |
| 1895 | Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director, Jungle Book, 4 Feathers |
| 1893 | Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN |
| 1892 | Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress, It's a Wonderful Life |
| 1892 | George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction, Nobel 1937 |
| 1890 | B. Traven, born in Chicago, writer, wrote, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' |
| 1886 | Marcel Dupre, French organist/composer |
| 1877 | Karl Abraham, German Psychologist |
| 1876 | Bert Hopkins, cricketer, Australian pace bowler of the 1900's |
| 1876 | John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer, cricketer, Sussex |
| 1876 | James Edward Murray, born in St. Thomas, Canada, Senator-D-Montana 1934 - 1961 |
| 1874 | Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker |
| 1873 | Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs |
| 1873 | [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author, Kvinnen og Den |
| 1867 | Jack Hearne, cricketer, cousin of George and Alec 12 Tests for Eng |
| 1867 | Valere-Gille, Belgian playwright, La Corbeille d'Octobre |
| 1859 | Andy Adams, U.S. writer, Log of a Cowboy |
| 1849 | Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter, New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun |
| 1849 | Jacob August Riis, Danish Journalist |
| 1844 | Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist |
| 1844 | Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario, Ivanhoe |
| 1843 | Edward Dowden, Irish Critic |
| 1826 | Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway, 1859 - 1872, poet |
| 1819 | Nicola De Giosa, composer |
| 1816 | Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army |
| 1815 | Hermanus W. Witteveen, Dutch theologist |
| 1773 | Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat |
| 1764 | Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI |
| 1752 | Braz Francisco de Lima, composer |
| 1744 | Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer |
| 1742 | Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer |
| 1737 | Friedrich Schwindl, composer |
| 1729 | Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer |
| 1708 | Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer |
| 1692 | Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname, 1742-51 |
| 1691 | Carolus van der Abeele, Flemish jesuit/author, Introduction l'amour |
| 1649 | Johann Valentin Meder, composer |
| 1647 | John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet, Bellone aen bant |
| 1535 | Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer |
| 1514 | Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, Fernandez, primate of Portugal |
| 1469 | Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer, Prince |
| 1455 | Joao II, the perfect, King of Portugal, 1481 - 1495, took in Spanish Jews |
| 1446 | Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie |
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