| 1992 | Adam Robert Worton, Newark DE, twin actor, Baby's Day Out |
| 1992 | Jacob Joseph Worton, Newark DE, twin actor, Baby's Day Out |
| 1979 | Michael Faustino, actor, brother of David |
| 1979 | Salli Wills, Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1977 | Oksana Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater 1994 Olympics gold |
| 1977 | Maggie Gyllenhaal, American Actress |
| 1973 | Howard Smothers, NFL guard for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1973 | Joe Hudepohl, U.S., 800m freestyle relay, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | Sedrick Shaw, running back for the New England Patriots |
| 1971 | Waqar Younis, cricketer, brilliant Pakistani fast/swing bowler |
| 1970 | Jason Carthen, WLAF linebacker for the Rhein Fire |
| 1970 | Martha Plimpton, New York City, actress, Goonies, Mosquito Coast |
| 1969 | Mike Devlin, NFL guard/center, Buffalo Bills, Cardinals |
| 1969 | Thomas Ingalsbe, 238+ lbs, 108+ kg, U.S. weightlifter 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Chris Haney, born in Baltimore, Maryland, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals |
| 1968 | Ebrahim Essop-Adam, cricketer, one ODI for Zimbabwe 1992 |
| 1968 | Melvin Stewart, U.S. butterfly swimmer, 200m record |
| 1968 | Suzi Simpson, Athens Greece, playmate, Jan, 1992 |
| 1967 | Gabriel Jongejans, Dutch drummer, Lois Lane |
| 1967 | Lawrence Dawsey, NFL wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1967 | Lisa Bonet, SF, actress, Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart |
| 1966 | Dan Nowosielski, born in Montreal, Quebec, fencing epee 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Lisa Brown Miller, ice hockey forward, USA, 1998 Olympics |
| 1966 | Tammy Lauren, SD California, actress, Angie, Out of the Blue |
| 1966 | Tim Scott, Hanford California, pitcher for the Montreal Expos |
| 1966 | Tricia Cast, Medford, New York, actress, Amanda-Bad News Bear, Young and Restless |
| 1965 | Glen Edward Day, Mobile AL, PGA golfer, 1994 Anheuser-Busch-2nd |
| 1965 | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Turin Italy, actress, Normal People |
| 1964 | Dwight Gooden, born in Tampa, Florida, pitcher, New York Yankees, New York Mets |
| 1964 | Diana Krall, Canadian Musician |
| 1963 | Gay "Mani" Mournfield, English pop bassist, Stone Roses |
| 1963 | Zina Garrison Jackson, born in Houston, Texas, tennis star, 1988/90 Wimbledon |
| 1962 | Josh Silver, born in America, keyboardist, producer for band Type O Negative, viewed as a gothic metal band, played with Peter Steele, founding member of rock group Fallout |
| 1961 | Chris Pitman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, singer, record producer, audio programmer, multi-instrumentalist, member of Guns N' Roses, performed with ZAUM, Tool, Lusk |
| 1961 | Frank Bruno, British boxer, European champ |
| 1959 | Bert Cameron, Spanish Town Jamaica, 4X400m relayer, Olympic-silv-1988 |
| 1959 | Corey Allen Pavin, Oxnard California, PGA golfer, 1995 U.S. Open |
| 1958 | Harry Rushakoff, rocker, Concrete Blonde |
| 1958 | Marg Helgenberger, North Bend Nebraska, actress, China Beach |
| 1958 | Roberto Guerrero, Medelin Colombia, Indy racer, Rookie of Year 1984 |
| 1957 | Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, Vice President, Microsoft Desktop |
| 1955 | Kevin Shelley, American Politician |
| 1953 | Griff Rhys Jones, British humorist/actor, Morons From Outer Space |
| 1952 | Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese Designer |
| 1952 | Robin McKinley, American Writer |
| 1950 | Carl J Meade, Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-38, STS-50, 64 |
| 1950 | David Leisure, actor, Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest |
| 1950 | Harvey Martin, American Athlete |
| 1949 | William Ackerman, composer |
| 1948 | Aline Issermann, director, Amant Magnifiquew |
| 1948 | Chi Coltrane, U.S. pianist/singer |
| 1948 | Steve Railsback, actor, Blue Monkey, Green Monkey, Escape 2000 |
| 1946 | Barbara Leigh, Ringgold, Georgia, actress, Vampirella |
| 1945 | Martine van Hamel, Brussels Belgium, ballerina, New York City Ballet Co |
| 1944 | Charles Jay Hammer, actor, Fletcher Reade-Guiding Light |
| 1944 | David O'Sullivan, New Zealand cricket left-arm spinner, in 11 Tests 1973-76 |
| 1944 | Joanna Pettit, London, actress, Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent |
| 1943 | Winfred "Blue" Lovett, U.S. singer, Manhattans-One Life to Live |
| 1942 | Donna McKechnie, Pontiac Michigan, actress/dancer, Company |
| 1941 | Ann Dore McLaughlin, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1987 - 1989 |
| 1941 | Dan Penn, U.S. songwriter/producer/gospel singer, Out in Left Field |
| 1940 | Chris Balderstone, cricket batsman, England, belated faced WI in 1976 |
| 1938 | Toni Brown, U.S. guitarist/singer/keyboardist, Joy of Cooking |
| 1938 | Robert Nozick, American Philosopher |
| 1936 | Shirvani Chalayev, composer |
| 1935 | Elizabeth Drew, journalist, Politics and Money: The Road to Corruption |
| 1935 | France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles, 1977- |
| 1933 | Guy Stockwell, New York City, actor, Chris-Adventures in Paradise |
| 1933 | Garnett Mimms, born in Ashland, West Virginia, singer, songwriter, record producer, worked with Bert Berns, Jimi Hendrix, recorded on MGM, Verve Records, funk, rhythm and blues music |
| 1932 | Barbara Romack, LPGA golfer |
| 1930 | Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author, Christmas in Biafra |
| 1929 | Renate Rubinstein, Tamar, German/Ned's author/columnist, Tamar |
| 1928 | Clu Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor, Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man |
| 1927 | Barbara Payton, Cloquet, Minnesota, actress, Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde |
| 1926 | Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer |
| 1924 | Joep J P de Boer, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1922 | Royal Dano, New York City, actor, Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II |
| 1920 | Betty Hicks, LPGA golfer |
| 1919 | Udo Kasemets, composer |
| 1917 | John Whiting, British dramatist/actor, Saint's Day |
| 1916 | Daws Butler, born in Toledo, Ohio, animation voice, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound |
| 1912 | Anton Koolhaas, author, Weird White |
| 1912 | George Petrie, actor, Honeymooners |
| 1908 | Burgess Meredith, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Mr Novak, Penguin-Batman, Rocky |
| 1905 | Astrid SLT Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden |
| 1904 | Eddie Condon, Goodland, Indiana, jazz guitarist, Eddie Condon's Floor Show |
| 1904 | Frederik van der Meer, Dutch archaeologist/art historian |
| 1904 | Nnamdi Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe, politician |
| 1902 | Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist |
| 1899 | Mary Margaret McBride, Paris, Missouri, radio personality, WOR-AM, New York City |
| 1897 | Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon England, actor, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| 1896 | Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield California, baritone, Metropolitan 1923-50 |
| 1896 | Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi |
| 1895 | Eduard Bagritsky, Dzhubin, Russian poet/journalist, South-West |
| 1895 | Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author, An American Verdict |
| 1895 | Paul Hindemith, Hanau Germany, composer, Tutti Fantchen |
| 1894 | Count Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, Austrian politician |
| 1894 | Mabel Normand, Muriel Fortescue, born in Boston, Massachusetts, comedienne, Mickey |
| 1893 | Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist |
| 1890 | Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer |
| 1890 | Elpidio Quirino, president of Philippines, 1949-53 |
| 1890 | George Seldes, journalist |
| 1889 | August Croegaert, Flemish liturgist |
| 1889 | Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer |
| 1889 | George S. Kaufman, American Dramatist |
| 1888 | Burnet Corwin Tuthill, New York City, composer, Laurentia |
| 1888 | Clinton Golden, Penn, founder, United Steelworkers of America |
| 1888 | Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol |
| 1887 | Philip Frohman, U.S. architect |
| 1883 | Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/composer, In Tempore Belli |
| 1880 | Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat |
| 1874 | Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress, Dumb August, wife of Henri Dons |
| 1873 | W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star, St. Louis Blues |
| 1870 | Alfred Hill, composer |
| 1862 | Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer, the "Terror" |
| 1861 | Vaclav Suk, composer |
| 1860 | Edmund Schuecker, composer |
| 1857 | Henry Potonie, German paleo-botanist/geologist, sapropelium |
| 1854 | Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician |
| 1840 | Frederick Scotson Clark, composer |
| 1835 | Elliott Warren Rice, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1829 | Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer |
| 1827 | James Southerton, cricketer, Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49 |
| 1827 | Charles Eliot Norton, American Writer |
| 1822 | Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1811 | John Bright, British Politician |
| 1810 | Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer |
| 1807 | Francois Hainl, composer |
| 1793 | Francis Danby, Irish painter |
| 1780 | Robert Archibald Smith, composer |
| 1766 | Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist, Paris Conserv |
| 1762 | Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet |
| 1757 | Daniel Read, composer |
| 1753 | James McHenry, American Politician |
| 1730 | Gualtherius "Wouter" van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician |
| 1720 | Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer |
| 1717 | Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician |
| 1715 | Girolamo Abos, composer |
| 1684 | Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright, Puiterveense Helleveeg |
| 1653 | Joan van Hoorn, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies, 1707-09 |
| 1642 | Cornelis Evertsen the Younger, Dutch buccaneer/lt Admiral of Zeeland |
| 1615 | Guillaume Dumanoir, composer |
| 1587 | Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist, Jephtha |
| 1569 | Paul Sartorius, composer |
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