| 1996 | Cheyenne Pyle, California, youngest heart transplant patient, 90 minutes old |
| 1984 | Delta Goodrem, Australian Actress |
| 1977 | Patricia Campbell, Pennsylvania, Miss Teen USA, 1996-2nd place |
| 1976 | Laura Csortan, Miss Universe-Congeniality, Australia, 1997 |
| 1974 | Dah-ve Chodan, actress, Tia-Uncle Buck |
| 1974 | Traci Toguchi, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Miss America-Hawaii 1996 |
| 1974 | Alessandro Del Piero, Italian Athlete |
| 1973 | Fred Lindberg, Australian baseball pitcher 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Nick Lachey, American Musician |
| 1972 | Laxmi Poruri, Guntur India, tennis star, 1994 Futures-College Park |
| 1972 | Mark Fields, NFL linebacker for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1972 | Ron Rice, NFL cornerback and safety, Detroit Lions |
| 1972 | Victoria Keil, Miss Universe-Cook Islands 1996 |
| 1971 | David Robert Duval, born in Jacksonville, Florida, PGA golfer, 1995 Bob Hope |
| 1971 | Jimmy Hitchcock, NFL cornerback for the New England Patriots |
| 1971 | Michael Barber, NFL linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1971 | Steve Rhem, NFL wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1971 | Big Punisher, also known as Big Pun and Christopher Rios, American Musician |
| 1970 | Bill Guerin, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, NHL right wing, New Jersey Devils, Oilers |
| 1970 | Chad Ogea, Lake Charles, Louisiana, pitcher, Cleveland Indians |
| 1970 | Chantal Brunner, Wellington, New Zealand, long jumper 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Melanie Roche, Australian softball pitcher 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1969 | Angel Miranda, Arecieo Puerto Rico, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1969 | Pepa, rocker, Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang |
| 1968 | David Jones, WLAF tight end for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1968 | Jeff Brady, NFL linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1967 | Scott Bianco, Kamloops BC, 90 kg freestyle wrestler 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Stefan Edberg, born in Vastervik, Sweden, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in singles and doubles tennis |
| 1966 | Virgil Robertson, CFL defensive end for the BC Lions |
| 1965 | Todd Gill, Cardinal, NHL defenseman for the Toronto Maple Leafs |
| 1965 | Bryn Terfel, Welsh Musician |
| 1964 | John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor, Young Dan'l Boone |
| 1964 | Leah Pells, Vancouver BC, 1.5k runner 1996 Olympics |
| 1963 | Anthony Bowie, NBA guard, New York Knicks, Orlando Magic |
| 1961 | Jill Dando, British Journalist |
| 1959 | Karin Mundinger, born in Toronto, Canada, LPGA golfer, 1985 Singapore Open-2nd |
| 1959 | Tony Phillips, born in Atlanta, Georgia, outfielder, Chicago White Sox |
| 1954 | Dennis Stratton, born in London, England, rock guitarist, Iron Maiden |
| 1952 | Sherrod Brown, born in Mansfield, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1993 - 2007, Senator-D-Ohio 2007 - |
| 1951 | Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder, Vakvereniging Medical Astrology |
| 1951 | Lou Ferrigno, born in Brooklyn, New York, body builder/actor, Incredible Hulk |
| 1948 | Alan Gratzer, Syracuse, New York, rock drummer, Reo Speedwagon |
| 1948 | Bille August, director, Best Intentions, Twist and Shout |
| 1948 | Sharon Stouder, U.S., 100m butterfly swimmer 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1945 | Roger Lee Jones, West Virginia, child molester, FBI Most Wanted List |
| 1944 | Bill Hendon, born in Asheville, North Carolina, Representative-R-North Carolina 1981 - 1983 and 1985 - 1987 |
| 1944 | Phil May, born in Wortley, England, artist, caricaturist, drawings published in The Bulletin, St. Stephens Review, The Graphic, regular staff member of Punch |
| 1943 | John Shepherd, cricketer, WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa |
| 1943 | Lee Graziano, born in Chicago, Illinois, rock drummer, American Breed |
| 1942 | Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire |
| 1942 | Thomas Daniel Weiskopf, Massillon, Ohio, PGA golfer, British Open 1973 |
| 1942 | Jack Carroll, Canadian Politician |
| 1941 | Tom Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 1940 | Sergio Cervetti, composer |
| 1937 | Roger McCough, British poet |
| 1937 | Roger McGough, British Poet |
| 1936 | Bob Graham, Sen-D Florida |
| 1936 | Mary Travers, born in Louisville, Kentucky, folk singer, Peter Paul and Mary |
| 1935 | Bob Gibson, Cardinal pitcher, Cy Young/NL MVP 1968 |
| 1934 | Carl Sagan, Brooklyn, astronomer/author/professor, Cosmos, Broca's Brain |
| 1934 | Ingvar Carlsson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1986 - 1991, 1994 - 1996 |
| 1934 | Ronald Harwood, Horwitz, South African playwright, Dresser |
| 1932 | Carl Perkins, singer, Blue Suede Shoes |
| 1932 | Marian Christy, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author, Invasions of Privacy |
| 1931 | Tommy Greenhough, cricketer, English leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1959-60 |
| 1931 | Whitey Herzog, baseball manager for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1930 | Charlie Jones, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, sportscaster, Almost Anything Goes |
| 1929 | Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, composer |
| 1929 | Severn Darden, actor, Luv, President's Analyst, Saturday the 14th |
| 1928 | Anne Sexton, Newton Massachusetts, poet, Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967 |
| 1928 | Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/TV host |
| 1927 | Carel W. H. Boshoff, South African head, Broederbond/Volkswag |
| 1926 | Hugh Leonard, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, winner, Jacob's Award, for 'Wuthering Heights', wrote Sunday Independent column 'The Curmudgeon' |
| 1924 | Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer |
| 1924 | Joy Page, American Actress |
| 1923 | Alice [Davis] Coachman, born in Albany, Georgia, high jumper, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics |
| 1923 | Dorothy Dandridge, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress/singer/dancer, Porgy and Bess |
| 1921 | Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor |
| 1921 | Silvio O. Conte, born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1959 - 1991 |
| 1921 | Viktor Chukarin, U.S.S.R., gymnast, Gold Medals 1952, 1956 Olympics |
| 1918 | Florence Chadwick, born in San Diego, California, swimmer, Hall of Fame 1970 |
| 1918 | Howard Shanet, born in Brooklyn, New York, conductor, Night of the Tropics |
| 1918 | Spiro Theodore Agnew, R, 39th Vice President, 1968-75, crook |
| 1918 | Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician |
| 1915 | Sargent Shriver, Maryland, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, 1972, directed Peace Corp |
| 1914 | Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front |
| 1913 | Hedy Lamarr, born in Vienna, Austria, actress, Ecstacy, Samson and Delilah |
| 1913 | Thelma Hulbert, English painter, Le Sacre du Printemps |
| 1911 | Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author |
| 1910 | Carroll Quigley, American Writer |
| 1909 | Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder, Vrij Netherland |
| 1909 | Robert Douglas, Finlayson, Bletchley England, actor, Adv of Don Juan |
| 1908 | Kay Thompson, American Author |
| 1907 | Burrill Phillips, Omaha Nebraska, composer, Play Ball |
| 1907 | Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, prince |
| 1906 | Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer |
| 1905 | Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann |
| 1903 | Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/Cardinal |
| 1902 | Anthony Asquith, British director, Carrington V C, Court martial, |
| 1901 | John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist |
| 1898 | Owen Barfield, philosopher of language |
| 1897 | Ronald G. W. Norrish, British chemist, Nobel 1967 |
| 1895 | Mae Marsh, Madrid, New Mexico, silent film actress, Birth of a Nation |
| 1892 | Erich Auerbach, born in Berlin, Germany, German writer and educator |
| 1891 | Clifton Webb, Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck, Indianapolis, actor, Laura |
| 1889 | Snub Pollard, Melbourne Australi, actor, Don't Shove, Arizona Days |
| 1888 | Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman, EGKS |
| 1887 | Gertrude Astor, Lakewood, Ohio, actress, Carnival Lady |
| 1887 | Muriel Aked, Bingley England actress, Happiest Days of Your Life |
| 1886 | Ed Wynn, Isaiah Edwin Leopold, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, comedian, Ed Wynn Show |
| 1885 | Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician |
| 1884 | Hector Abbas, actor and director, Rosa Lynd Company |
| 1883 | Edna May Oliver, Nutter, Malden, Massachusetts, actress, Little Women |
| 1882 | Joe Hardstaff Sr, cricketer, "Hotstuff" in 1907-08 MCC tour of Australia |
| 1880 | Rudolph Karel, composer |
| 1877 | Allama Iqbal, Pakistani poet/philosopher |
| 1877 | Jesus Castillo, composer |
| 1877 | Sergei U.S. Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church |
| 1871 | Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins |
| 1869 | Marie Dressler, Leila M Koerber, Ontario, actress, Caught Short |
| 1868 | Andrea d' Angeli, composer |
| 1868 | Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author, Wrakken |
| 1854 | Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer |
| 1850 | Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist |
| 1841 | Edward VII, king of England, 1901 - 1910 |
| 1837 | Alfred Holmes, composer |
| 1837 | Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician |
| 1835 | Davorin Jenko, composer |
| 1835 | Emile Gaboriau, author, father of French detective novels |
| 1835 | Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer |
| 1825 | Ambrose Powell Hill, Lieutenant General, Confederate 3rd Army Corp |
| 1823 | William Henry Forney, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1821 | Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer |
| 1820 | Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist, spelling |
| 1818 | Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, |
| 1817 | Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1812 | Paul Abadie, French master builder, renovated Notre Dame |
| 1810 | Thomas Bragg, Attorney General, Confederacy |
| 1809 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy |
| 1802 | Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist |
| 1795 | Walter Geikie, Scottish painter |
| 1760 | Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer |
| 1732 | Julie de Lespinasse, French Author |
| 1731 | Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott, Maryland, black mathematician/surveyor, Washington D.C. |
| 1721 | Mark Akenside, English Poet |
| 1710 | Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized |
| 1697 | Claudio Casciolini, composer |
| 1664 | Johannes Speth, composer |
| 1656 | Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet, Gradus ad Parnassum |
| 1541 | Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist |
| 1414 | Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg |
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