| 1974 | Jason Ferguson, defensive tackle for the New York Jets |
| 1974 | Joerg Heckenbach, WLAF receiver for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1971 | Karin Taylor, Kingston Jamacia, playmate, June, 1996 |
| 1971 | William Simas, Jr., Hanford California, pitcher, Chicago White Sox |
| 1970 | Arshad Laiq, cricket all-rounder, United Arab Emirates World Cup 1996 |
| 1970 | Evan Droop, Yarrawonga VIC, Australasia golfer |
| 1970 | Jason Day, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Todd Perry, NFL guard for the Chicago Bears |
| 1969 | Dale Carter, NFL cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1969 | Doug Petersen, CFL defensive end, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1969 | Marc Spindler, NFL defensive tackle/end, New York Jets, Detroit Lions |
| 1969 | Nick Knight, cricketer, England opening batsman 1995- |
| 1969 | Pedro Astacio, Hato Mayor, Dominican Republic, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1969 | Pio Sagapolutele, NFL defensive tackle, NO Saints, Cleveland Browns |
| 1969 | Robb Nen, San Pedro California, pitcher for the Florida Marlins |
| 1969 | Sonia O'Sullivan, Ireland, 5k runner, Olympics-4th-92, 96 |
| 1968 | Dawn Robinson, born in New London, Connecticut, singer, rhythm and blues, member, En Vogue, an urban dance-pop group |
| 1968 | Jonathan Brown, New York City, rower, Olympics-5th-1996 |
| 1967 | Anna Nicole Smith, born in Texas, model, actress, spokeswoman, sex symbol |
| 1965 | David Ecob, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer |
| 1965 | Matt Williams, infielder for the San Francisco Giants |
| 1964 | Cornelia Guest, debutante, Debutante's Guide to Life |
| 1964 | John Burkett, New Brighton, Pennsylvania, pitcher for the Florida Marlins |
| 1963 | Johnny Newman, NBA guard/foward, Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1963 | Walt Weiss, Tuxedo, New York, shortstop, Oakland A's, Colorado Rockies |
| 1962 | Karen Marsden, born in Perth, Australia, field hockey goalie 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Matt Cameron, musician, Soundgarden |
| 1962 | Jon Stewart, born in New York City, New York, entertainer, political satirist, fake news reporter, host of 'The Daily Show' |
| 1961 | Jane Sibbett, actress, Teddy Z, Heddy Newman-Herman's Head |
| 1961 | Patty Zomer, Dutch singer, Dolly Dots |
| 1960 | Deneice Lewis, Lynchburg, Virginia, model |
| 1960 | Ken Howell, born in Detroit, Michigan, professional baseball player, bullpen coach, Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1959 | Judd Nelson, Portland ME, actor, Breakfast Club, Jack-Suddenly Susan |
| 1959 | R Glynn Holt, Plainveiw Texas, PhD/astronaut, STS-73 alt |
| 1959 | Stephen Roche, born in Dundrum, Ireland, racing cyclist, second ever to win Triple Crown victories, 58 professional career wins |
| 1958 | Dave Righetti, baseball pitcher, Yankees, Giants |
| 1958 | David Van Day, rocker, Dollar-Loves Gotta Hold on Me |
| 1958 | Kriss Akabusi, Great Britain, 4X400 runner 1984 Olympics silver |
| 1958 | Tim Mullens, Dutch singer/guitarist, Ivy green |
| 1956 | Kristine Arnold, Torrance, singer, Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl |
| 1956 | Lucy Gutteridge, actress, Top Secret, Trouble With Spies |
| 1953 | Nadezhda Olizarenko, U.S.S.R., 800m/1500m runner, 1980 Olympics gold |
| 1953 | Sixto Lezcano, born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, professional baseball player, outfielder, played for Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres |
| 1952 | Jeff Fahey, actor, Darkman III, Crossover, Serpent's Lair |
| 1952 | S. Epatha Merkerson, Saginaw, Michigan, actress, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2 |
| 1950 | Ed Harris, Tenafly, New Jersey, actor, Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma |
| 1949 | Alexander Godunov, Russia, composer/dancer, Bolshoi, defected 1979 |
| 1949 | Hugh McKenna, rocker, Alex Harvey Band |
| 1949 | Paul Shaffer, Thunder Bay Ont, orchestra leader, SNL, David Letterman |
| 1949 | Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian/Israel, Mossad agent, By Way of Deception |
| 1948 | Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director, Europa Europa |
| 1948 | Beeb Birtles, Gerard Birtlekamp, rock guitarist, Little River Band |
| 1948 | Dick Morris, American Author |
| 1946 | Joe Dante, director, Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins |
| 1946 | Susan Spencer, New York, correspondent, 48 Hours, 1946 approx] |
| 1944 | Rita Mae Brown, actress, Long Hot Summer, Slumber Party Massacre |
| 1943 | Chas Hodges, born in Edmonton, London, rocker, pianist, guitarist, vocalist, member of English duo Chas & Dave, worked with producer Joe Meek, backed Jerry Lee Lewis |
| 1943 | Randy Newman, New Orleans, vocalist, Short People, Love, Louisiana, Raindrops |
| 1942 | Paul Warfield, NFL/WFL wide receiver, Cleveland, Miami, Memphis |
| 1942 | Eric Shinseki, American Soldier |
| 1941 | Laura Antonelli, Pola Yugoslavia, actress, Wifemistress, Divine Nymph |
| 1940 | Bruce Channel, born in Jacksonville, Bruce McMeans, Texas, singer, rocker, known for hit song, 'Hey! Baby', rock and roll, pop music, recorded with Smash Records, Mercury Records |
| 1940 | Clem Curtis, born in Trinidad, singer, lead vocalist for The Foundations, a British soul group, including hits, 'Baby Now That I've Found You', 'Back On My Feet Again', 'Any Old Time' |
| 1938 | Michael Ritchie, American Director |
| 1936 | Gary Hart, born in Ottawa, Kansas, Senator-D-Colorado, 1975 - 1986 |
| 1935 | Randolph Stow, author and poet, Suburbs of Hell |
| 1934 | Dick Rhyan, Columbus, Ohio, PGA golfer, 1994 GTE-5th |
| 1933 | Joe Knollenberg, born in Mattoon, Illinois, Representative-R-Michigan 1993 - 2009 |
| 1932 | Ben[jamin William] Bova, U.S., sci-fi author, Exiled from Earth |
| 1932 | Ethel L Ennis, U.S. orchestra leader/jazz singer, Once Again |
| 1932 | Terence Frisby, poet/screenwriter, There's a Girl in My Soup |
| 1931 | Dervla Murphy, travel author, Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule |
| 1931 | Hope Lange, Redding Ridge, Connecticut, actress, Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
| 1931 | Ian Skipper, English businessman/multi-millionaire, Heritage Projects |
| 1931 | Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author, Nude on Fence |
| 1929 | Berry Gordy, Jr., Detroit, record company owner, Motown |
| 1929 | Berry Gordy, American Businessman |
| 1928 | Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng |
| 1925 | Aurelio de la Vega, composer |
| 1925 | Virginia Hewitt, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, actress, Carol-Space Patrol |
| 1924 | Kees Otten, Dutch flutist |
| 1923 | Helen Delich Bentley, born in Ruth, Nevada, Representative-R-Maryland 1985 - 1995 |
| 1923 | Phyllis Jenkins, literary and theatrical agent community activist |
| 1923 | Ted Stevens, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Senator-R-Alaska 1968 - 2009 |
| 1922 | Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher |
| 1920 | Cecilia Colledge, England, figure skater 1936 Olympics silver |
| 1919 | Keith Miller, cricketer, one of Australia's best ever all-rounders |
| 1917 | Kees Schilperoort, Dutch radio/TV host |
| 1916 | Guy Lapebie, France, 100K cyclist 1936 Olympics silver |
| 1916 | Lilian Baels, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III |
| 1915 | Pamela Harrison, composer |
| 1913 | Hugo Pos, Suriname/Netherlands WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo |
| 1912 | Heinz Galinski, President, Central council for Jews in Germany |
| 1912 | Morris Louis, U.S. painter, post abstract |
| 1909 | Aleksandar Rankovic, Yugoslavic partisan/vice-premier |
| 1908 | Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina, 1958-62 |
| 1908 | Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist, Structure Anthro |
| 1908 | Roberto Lupi, composer |
| 1907 | Alberto Moravia, Pincherle, Italian author, Indifferent Ones |
| 1904 | James Eastland, born in Doddsville, Mississippi, Senator-D-Mississippi 1941 - 1941 and 1943 - 1978 |
| 1904 | Nancy Mitford, English author, Love in a cold climate |
| 1902 | Victor Jory, Dawson City Canada, actor, Kings Row, Manhunt |
| 1900 | Lester Vail, actor, Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage |
| 1898 | Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer, Birth of Hero, |
| 1896 | Lilia Skala, Vienna, actress, House of Games, Flashdance, Charly |
| 1896 | Dawn Powell, American Writer |
| 1895 | Jose Iturbi, Valencia Spain, pianist, Pequena danza Espanola |
| 1894 | Brooks Atkinson, drama critic, Broadway theater namesake |
| 1894 | Henry Hazlitt, American Philosopher |
| 1892 | Thomas Wood, composer |
| 1887 | Bobby Watson, born in Springfield, Illinois, comedian |
| 1887 | Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA |
| 1887 | Jacobo Palm, Curacaos pianist/organist |
| 1883 | Paul Hastings Allen, composer |
| 1881 | Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity |
| 1880 | Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat |
| 1880 | Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator |
| 1878 | Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary, Hadewych |
| 1876 | Bert Vogler, cricketer, early South African googly bowler |
| 1868 | Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer |
| 1866 | Arthur Frederick Augustus "Dick" Lilley, cricket keeper, England |
| 1866 | Henry Bacon, architect, Lincoln Memorial |
| 1866 | Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor/husband of Truus Soete |
| 1864 | Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver |
| 1857 | Alfonso XII, king of Spain, 1874-85 |
| 1856 | Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer |
| 1854 | Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist |
| 1849 | Albert J-BJ Thos, Belgian colonial pioneer, Congo |
| 1843 | Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer |
| 1841 | E. M. Grace, cricketer, brother of W G |
| 1837 | John Wesley Hyatt, inventor, celluloid |
| 1829 | Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer, Omitri Doskoy, |
| 1821 | Nikolai Nekrasov, Russ, poet/journalist, Who Can be Happy in Russia? |
| 1820 | Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator |
| 1820 | Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1812 | Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer |
| 1811 | Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern, 1848-64 |
| 1810 | William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect |
| 1805 | John Stephens, U.S. archaeologist; founded study of Central America |
| 1795 | Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer |
| 1793 | Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer, Tornrosens Buck |
| 1792 | Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education |
| 1785 | Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM, 1835-36 |
| 1784 | Ferdinand Reis, composer |
| 1777 | Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat |
| 1770 | F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V and Wilhelmina of Prussia |
| 1763 | Matthaus Fischer, composer |
| 1757 | William Blake, English poet/painter, Songs of Innocence and Experience |
| 1704 | Jacob Mossel, governor-general, Dutch East Indies |
| 1632 | Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer, Bellerophen |
| 1628 | John Bunyan, England, cleric/author, Pilgrim's Progress |
| 1607 | Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento |
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