| 1981 | Natalie Lacuesta, born in Chicago, Illinois, rhythmic gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne |
| 1976 | Jessica Amey, born in Montreal, Quebec, 100m butterfly/4 x 100 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Fred Brock, wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals |
| 1973 | Jason Dunn, tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1973 | Jorge Diaz, guard for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1973 | Rachel Kathleen English, Thomaston, Georgia, Miss America-Georgia 1996 |
| 1972 | Christian van der Weerden, Dutch soccer player, NEC, Vitesse |
| 1972 | Greg Bloedorn, NFL center for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1972 | Jonny Lee Miller, British Actor |
| 1971 | Natalia Medvedeva, born in Kiev, Ukraine, tennis star, 1993 Prague Essen |
| 1971 | Rohan Robinson, Australian hurdler 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Sandra Kim, Caldarone, French singer, J'aime la Vie |
| 1970 | Cecil Doggette, WLAF cornerback for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1970 | Karin van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate, Sept, 1989 |
| 1970 | Lesley Reddon, ice hockey goalie, Canada, 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Mirjam van Breeschoten, Rotterdam Holland, playmate, Sept, 1989 |
| 1969 | Helen Kelesi, born in Victoria, Canada, professional tennis player, dubbed 'Hurricane Helen', ranked 13th in the World, November 1989 |
| 1969 | Peter Martin, cricketer, Lancashire and England pace bowler 1995 |
| 1968 | Brenda Alyce Bassett, Kokomo Indiana, Miss Indiana-America 1991 |
| 1968 | James Brady, born in Brooklyn, New York, columnist, New York Post |
| 1967 | Greg Anthony, NBA guard, Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle Supersonics |
| 1967 | Harvey Franklin, WLAF WR for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1967 | Laura Garrone, born in Milan, Italy, professional tennis player, won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, ranked 32nd in the World, January 1987 |
| 1967 | Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler, WAR/NJPW |
| 1967 | Pedro Borbon, Mao, Dominican Republic, pitcher, Atlanta Braves |
| 1967 | Scott Schrader, California, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Golden State |
| 1966 | Rachel True, American Actress |
| 1963 | Gideon Joe Ng, born in Toronto, Ontario, table tennis player 1996 Olympics |
| 1963 | Michele McAnany, born in Los Angeles, California, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets |
| 1960 | Tilda Swinton, born in London, England, actress, Orlando |
| 1958 | Marty Davis, San Jose Cat, tennis star |
| 1957 | Kevin Eubanks, bandleader, Tonight Show |
| 1956 | Ashley Cox, Dallas Texas, playmate, December, 1977 |
| 1955 | Oliver Conant, New York City, actor, Summer of '42 |
| 1955 | Joe Leeway, born in Islington, England, musician, songwriter for the Thompson Twins, played bongos, congas for album, 'A Product of ... (Participation)' |
| 1954 | Ab Bryant, rock bassist/vocalist, Chilliwack |
| 1954 | Beverly D'Angelo, Columbus Ohio, actress, Vacation, European Vacation |
| 1954 | Aleksander Kwasniewski, born in Bialogard, Poland, served as President of Poland 1995 - 2005, post-communist socialist politician, independent party, Chairman European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation 2008 |
| 1953 | Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1952 | "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Poffo, Sarasota, Florida, wrestler, WWF/SMW/ICW |
| 1950 | Mac Maurice Wilkins, discus thrower, 1st to break 70m |
| 1948 | Roy Dyson, born in Great Mills, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1981 - 1991 |
| 1947 | Bill Richardson, Representative-D-New Mexico 1983 - 1997, Governor of New Mexico 2003 - |
| 1947 | Bill Richardson, American Politician |
| 1946 | Carmine Appice, New York City, rock drummer, Vanilla Fudge |
| 1946 | Janet Lennon, Culver City California, singer, Lennon Sisters |
| 1946 | Jodi Rell, American Politician |
| 1945 | Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad, Fryeda Anderson, Sweden, rocker, ABBA |
| 1943 | Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands |
| 1942 | Daniel Barenboim, Buenos Aires Argentinia, pianist/conductor |
| 1941 | Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday |
| 1940 | Sam Waterson, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate |
| 1940 | Sam Waterston, American Actor |
| 1939 | Erik Hansen, Denmark, 1K kayak 1960 Olympics gold |
| 1939 | Thalmus Rasulala, Jack Crowder, born in Miami, Florida, actor, Blacula, Roots |
| 1937 | William E "Little Willie" John, Woods, U.S. R&B singer, Fever |
| 1937 | Yaphet Kotto, New York City, actor, Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe, Homicide |
| 1936 | Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin |
| 1935 | Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman |
| 1935 | Peter John Welding, record producer |
| 1934 | Joanna Barnes, Boston, actress, Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye Charlie |
| 1934 | Peter Dickinson, composer |
| 1933 | Barbara Carson, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Comedy Tonight, Carter Country |
| 1933 | Jack Burns, born in Boston, Massachusetts, comedian, Burns and Schreiber |
| 1932 | Clyde McPhatter, born in Durham, North Carolina, rhythm and blues singer, member, Billy Ward & the Dominoes, founded, The Drifters |
| 1932 | Petula Clark, Surrey England, rock vocalist, Downtown, My Love |
| 1931 | Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP, D-66, author, Winters in Wartime |
| 1931 | John Kerr, New York City, actor, South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit and Pendulum |
| 1931 | Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan Statesman |
| 1930 | J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author, Drowned World |
| 1930 | Whitman Mayo, New York City, actor, Grady-Sanford and Son |
| 1929 | Edward Asner, Kansas City Kansas, actor, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant |
| 1929 | Ed Asner, American Actor |
| 1925 | Howard Baker, born in Huntsville, Tennessee, Senator-R-Tennessee 1967 - 1985 |
| 1925 | Jurriaan Andriessen, Leslie Cool, Dutch pianist/composer |
| 1925 | Howard H. Baker, Jr., American Politician |
| 1923 | Peter Hammond, born in London, England, actor, Buccaneers |
| 1922 | Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director, Lucky Luciano |
| 1922 | Giorgio Manganelli, writer |
| 1922 | Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer, Music Express, North Sea Jazz |
| 1920 | Jerome Richardson, American Musician |
| 1919 | Carol Bruce, Shirley Levy, Great Neck, New York, actress, Lillian-WKRP |
| 1919 | Joseph Albert Wapner, Louisiana, judge, People's Court |
| 1917 | Gerardus H de Bold, bishop of Breda, 1962-67 |
| 1916 | Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados |
| 1914 | Gheorghe Dumitrescu, composer |
| 1914 | Jorge Bolet, Havana Cuba, pianist, C'eurties Instituka |
| 1913 | Rick Schagen, Dutch actress, Saartje-Swiebertje |
| 1909 | Don Large, Canada, choral director, Wayne King |
| 1907 | Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier |
| 1906 | Curtis E Le May, air force general/Vice Presidential candidate |
| 1906 | Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations |
| 1904 | Tilly Losch, Vienna Austria, actress, Garden of Allah |
| 1903 | Stewie Dempster, cricketer, 1st great New Zealand Test batsman |
| 1902 | Frederico Freitas, composer |
| 1902 | Jack Ingram, Illinois, actor, 2 Stars, Law of the West, Roaring Westward |
| 1898 | Willy Alfredo, Willem Jue, Dutch entertainer/poet, Fish-Trap |
| 1897 | Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet and author, People's Palace |
| 1897 | Aneurin Bevan, English Politician |
| 1895 | Ina Claire, actress, Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound |
| 1891 | Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal, WW II-African campaign |
| 1891 | W Averell Harriman, U.S., Gov-D-NY, ambassador to U.S.S.R., 1943-46 |
| 1891 | W. Averell Harriman, Diplomat |
| 1888 | James Morrison, Mattoon, Illinois, actor, Little Detectives |
| 1887 | Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie Wisconsin, sculptor/painter, Cow's Skull |
| 1887 | Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician |
| 1887 | Marianne Moore, St. Louis, poet, Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems |
| 1887 | Rene Maran, Martinique, author, Batouala, Prix Goncourt |
| 1887 | Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist |
| 1886 | Pedro Sanjuan, San Sebastian, Spain, composer, Castilla |
| 1882 | Felix Frankfurter, born in Vienna, Austria, 80th Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 |
| 1881 | Franklin P Adams, born in Chicago, Illinois, columnist, Information Please |
| 1881 | Franklin P. Adams, American Journalist |
| 1879 | Lewis Stone, Worcester Massachusetts, actor, Prisoner of Zenda |
| 1878 | Bela Reinitz, composer |
| 1876 | Anna de Noailles, Romanian Writer |
| 1874 | Schack August Steenberg Krogh, Denmark, physiologist, Nobel-1920 |
| 1872 | Robert marquess of Flers, French author, Habit Vert |
| 1862 | Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer |
| 1862 | Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author, Before Dawn-Nobel 1912 |
| 1840 | Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet/friend of Tsjaikovski |
| 1836 | Pierce Manning Butler Young, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1829 | Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP/critic, Akbar |
| 1816 | Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1815 | John Banvard, New York City, painted worlds largest painting, 3 mile canvas |
| 1814 | Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1800 | George Rodwell, composer |
| 1793 | Michel Chasles, French mathematician, geometry |
| 1775 | Georges-Julien Sieber, composer |
| 1774 | William Horsley, composer |
| 1755 | Jan Blanken, Dutch hydraulic engineer |
| 1746 | Joseph Quesne, composer |
| 1741 | Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher |
| 1741 | Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian |
| 1738 | F William Herschel, German/English astronomer, discovered Uranus |
| 1731 | William Cowper, English lawyer/poet, John Gilpin, |
| 1708 | William Pitt the Elder, Whig, U.K. PM, 1756-61, 66-68, 'Great Commoner' |
| 1705 | Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer |
| 1696 | Gerhardus Havingha, composer |
| 1640 | Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer |
| 1619 | Philips Koninck, Amsterdams painter/etcher |
| 1604 | Davis Mell, composer |
| 1559 | Albrecht, arch duke of Austrian/cardinal-archbishop of Toledo |
| 1397 | Nicholas V, Tommaso Parentucelli, Italy, Pope, 1447-55 |
| 1316 | Jean I, king of France, Nov 15-19, 1316, he lived only 4 days |
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