| 1975 | Van Hiles, NFL safety for the Chicago Bears |
| 1975 | Bo Bice, American Musician |
| 1974 | V V S Laxman, cricketer, Indian Test batsman vs. South Africa 1996- |
| 1973 | Aishwarya Rai, born in Mangalore, India, actress, model, former Miss World 1994, appeared in movie, 'Dhoom 2', 'Guru', 'Jodhaa Akbar' |
| 1972 | Glen Murray, Halifax, NHL right wing for the Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 1972 | Jenny McCarthy, born in Chicago, Illinois, playmate, Oct, 1993, host, Singled Out |
| 1971 | Keith Whitecotton, Camrose Alberta, golfer, Alberta Jr-1989, 90 |
| 1971 | Laura Moss, Kings Mountain, Ohio, actress, Amanda Cory-Another World |
| 1971 | Rob Waldrop, CFL defensive tackle for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1971 | Terry Dean, WLAF quarterback for the Rhein Fire |
| 1971 | Toni Collette, Australian Actress |
| 1970 | Alla Korot, Odessa U.S.S.R., actress, Jenna Norris-Another World |
| 1970 | Dawn Marple, born in Salem, Ohio, team handball wing/back 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Sherwin Campbell, cricketer, WI opening batsman 1995 |
| 1969 | Barron Wortham, NFL linebacker, Houston/Tennessee Oilers |
| 1969 | Darryl Ashmore, NFL tackle for the Washington Redskins |
| 1969 | Jill Reeve, Hoosick Falls, New York, field hockey defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Tie Domi, Windsor, NHL right wing for the Toronto Maple Leafs |
| 1968 | Bernard Dafney, NFL tackle, Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens |
| 1968 | Kent Graham, NFL quarterback, Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals |
| 1967 | Steve Fritz, Salina Kansas, decathlete |
| 1966 | Bob Wells, born in Yakima, Washington, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1966 | Danny Everett, 4x400m runner 1988 Olympics gold |
| 1966 | Paul Lewis, Australian field hockey forward, Olympics-silver-92, 96 |
| 1966 | Ruud Cabbage, soccer player, FC Twente |
| 1966 | Mary Hansen, Australian Musician |
| 1965 | Richard Stephens, NFL guard and tackle for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1964 | Eddie Williams, born in Sheveport, Louisiana, infielder for the Detroit Tigers |
| 1964 | Joe LeSte, born in San Diego, California, rock vocalist, Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals |
| 1964 | Kosala Kuruppuarachchi, cricketer, bowls 2 Tests for Sri Lanka 86-87 |
| 1964 | Richard Cooper, NFL tackle, NO Saints, Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1963 | Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer |
| 1963 | Brian Forde, WLAF linebacker for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1963 | Rick Allen, rock drummer, Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages |
| 1962 | Anthony Kiedis, rock vocalist, Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| 1962 | Kelly Kelland, London Ontario, softball 1st baseman 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Michelle Estill, born in Scottsdale, Arizona, LPGA golfer, 1991 PING-Cellular One |
| 1962 | Robert Willis, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer |
| 1961 | Anne Donovan, born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, basketball player 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1961 | Kim Krizan, California, writer/actress, Slacker, Dazed and Confused |
| 1961 | Magne Furuholmen, born in Oslo, Norway, keyboardist/vocalist, Aha-Take on Me |
| 1961 | Paul Jackson, cricketer, slow lefty bowler for Victoria and Queensland |
| 1960 | Damon Green, Pensacola, Florida, Nike golfer, 1990 Pensacola Open-49th |
| 1960 | Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres |
| 1960 | Said Aquita, runner, Olympic-gold/bronze-1984 |
| 1959 | Eddie MacDonald, rocker, The Alarm-Knocking on Heaven's Door |
| 1958 | Rachel Ticotin, New York City, actress, Grace-For Love and Honor, Total Recall |
| 1958 | Charlie Kaufman, American Screenwriter |
| 1956 | Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief, Sunday Telegraph |
| 1956 | Lyle Lovett, born in Klein, Texas, country singer, God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth |
| 1954 | Ruben Guerrero, Mexico, relay swimmer, Olympic-1968 |
| 1953 | Jackie Zeman, actress, Bobbie Spencer-General Hospital |
| 1953 | Michael Zaslow, Inglewood California, actor, One Life to Live, Guiding Light |
| 1953 | N Jan Davis, Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut, STS-47, 60, 85 |
| 1951 | Craig Serjeant, cricketer, Australian batsman late seventies |
| 1951 | Ronald Bell, Youngstown, Ohio, rock sax, Kool and The Gang |
| 1950 | Dan Peck, Panama City, Florida, rock vocalist and guitarist, America |
| 1950 | Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist |
| 1949 | Jeannie Berlin, LA Cal, actress, Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy's Complaint |
| 1948 | Jim Steinman, American Musician |
| 1947 | Anna Stuart, actress, Donna Love-Another World |
| 1947 | Rolando Garbey, Oriente Cuba, light MW boxer, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1945 | Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist, Blind Faith, Traffic |
| 1944 | Keith Emerson, born in England, Emerson, Lake and Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery |
| 1944 | Kinky Friedman, American Musician |
| 1944 | Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Statesman |
| 1942 | John M. Spratt, Jr., born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Representative-D-South Carolina 1983 - |
| 1942 | Marcia Wallace, Creston Iowa, actress, Carol-Bob Newhart Show |
| 1942 | Michael Zaslow, Inglewood California, actor, Roger Thorpe-Guiding Light |
| 1942 | Shere Hite, author/sex therapist |
| 1942 | John Spratt, American Politician |
| 1941 | Joe Louis Caldwell, born in Texas City, basketball player 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1941 | Johnny Kendall, Johan Donkerkaat, Dutch blues singer |
| 1941 | Robert Foxworth, born in Houston, Texas, actor, Chase-Falcon Crest, Frankenstein |
| 1939 | Barbara Bosson, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, actress, Fay-Hill St. Blues, Hooperman |
| 1938 | Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician, Crossfire |
| 1937 | Bill Anderson, country singer, Still, From This Pen |
| 1935 | Gary J. Player, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, PGA golfer, British Open 1959, 1968, 1974 |
| 1934 | Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist |
| 1934 | Hugh Bidwell, mayor, London |
| 1934 | Umberto Agnelli, Vice President, Fiat |
| 1934 | William James Matthias, composer |
| 1932 | Francis Arinze, Nigerian Clergyman |
| 1929 | Betsy Palmer, born in East Chicago, Indiana, actress, Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th |
| 1929 | Nicholas Mavroules, born in Peabody, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1979 - 1993 |
| 1929 | Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary, Leopold the Buch |
| 1928 | James Edward Bradford, HW weightlifer, Silver Medals 1952, 1956 Olympics |
| 1928 | Leon Hart, NFLer, Heisman Trophy |
| 1926 | Gunter de Bruyn, writer |
| 1924 | Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist |
| 1924 | Victoria de los Angeles, Spain, soprano, Mimi-La Boheme |
| 1923 | Bruce Dooland, cricketer, Australian leg-spinner, 3 Tests mid-forties |
| 1923 | Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author, The Arch |
| 1923 | Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author, Genetic General |
| 1923 | Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian Author |
| 1922 | George S Irving, Springfield Massachusetts, singer and actor, Dumplings |
| 1922 | Jeff Richards, born in Portland, Oregon, actor, Don't Go Near the Water |
| 1921 | Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author |
| 1921 | Jan Tausinger, composer |
| 1921 | John Willard Peterson, composer |
| 1920 | James J Kilpatrick, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, columnist, 60 Minutes |
| 1919 | John Secondari, Rome, Italy, newscaster, Open Hearing |
| 1917 | Clarence E. Miller, born in Lancaster, Ohio, Representative-R-Ohio 1967 - 1993 |
| 1917 | Margaret Taylor Burroughs, U.S. author/house painter, Black Queen |
| 1917 | Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, U.S., sci-fi author, Anything Box |
| 1915 | Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet |
| 1915 | Michael Denison, York England, actor, Importance of Being Ernest |
| 1914 | William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz pianist/arranger |
| 1909 | Bruno Bjelinski, composer |
| 1907 | Rio Gebhardt, composer |
| 1907 | Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist |
| 1904 | Laura Laplante, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Cat and Canary |
| 1903 | Don Robey, U.S. gospel singer |
| 1903 | Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/co-founder, NVSH |
| 1903 | Jean Tardieu, author |
| 1903 | Max Adrian, Enniskillen Northern Ireland, actor, Devils, Music Lover |
| 1902 | Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor, Hamburg Orchestra |
| 1902 | Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist, The Defeat |
| 1897 | Naomi Mitchison, author, African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill |
| 1896 | Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War |
| 1892 | Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion, 1927-35, 37-46 |
| 1891 | Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher |
| 1890 | James Barton, New Jersey, Broadway actor, Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh |
| 1889 | Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959 |
| 1887 | Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement |
| 1886 | Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist, Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment |
| 1880 | Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist, continental shift |
| 1880 | Grantland Rice, sportswriter, New York Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37 |
| 1880 | Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director, Rotterdamsche Bank |
| 1880 | Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright, Three Cities |
| 1879 | Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary, 1920-21, 39-41 |
| 1878 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1936 |
| 1877 | Roger Quilter, British composer |
| 1871 | Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer |
| 1871 | Stephen Crane, U.S., novelist/poet, Red Badge of Courage |
| 1865 | Monty Bowden, cricketer, England Test captain vs. South Africa at 23 |
| 1863 | Alfred Reisenauer, composer |
| 1862 | Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and conductor /organist, Cyrano |
| 1859 | Charles Brantley Aycock, Gov-NC |
| 1859 | William Henry Grattan Flood, composer |
| 1857 | John Joly, Irish Scientist |
| 1855 | Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist, Still in the Music |
| 1853 | Jose Santos Zelaya, L, ruler of Nicaragua, 1893-1910 |
| 1847 | Emma Albani, Canadian Musician |
| 1835 | Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general |
| 1832 | Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer |
| 1825 | Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1815 | Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer, use of ether |
| 1815 | Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1805 | Alessandro Nini, composer |
| 1798 | Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor |
| 1782 | Viscount Goderich, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1827-28 |
| 1762 | Spencer Perceval, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1809-12 |
| 1761 | Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer |
| 1757 | Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor |
| 1748 | Christoph Rheineck, composer |
| 1731 | Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer |
| 1666 | James Sherard, composer |
| 1636 | Nicolas Boileau, French Poet |
| 1618 | Johannes Flittner, composer |
| 1607 | Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, Nurnberg Germany, poet, Poetischer Trichter |
| 1500 | Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author, Perseus |
| 846 | Louis II, the Stutterer, King of France, 877-79 |
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