| 1977 | Alejandro Hernandez, born in Tijuana, Mexico, tennis pro |
| 1976 | Kona Cormack, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, playmate, Feb, 1996 |
| 1975 | Eric Morel, PR, U.S. flyweight boxer 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Keith Duffy, born in Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer, Boyzone |
| 1974 | Mats Lindgren, NHL forward, Team Sweden, 1998 Olympics |
| 1972 | Danielle Scott, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, volleyball middle blocker 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Amp Lee, NFL running back, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams |
| 1971 | Melinda Gainsford, Australian 100m/200m, 1992, 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Alexei Zhamnov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Alexei Zhitnik, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Buffalo, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Gaston Taument, soccer player, Feyenoord |
| 1970 | Moses Kiptanui, born in Kenya, steeplechase, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1970 | Ronnie Bradford, NFL cornerback, Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos |
| 1969 | Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza, born in Mexico, murderer, FBI Most Wanted |
| 1969 | Igor Ulanov, Krasnokamsk Rus, NHL defenseman, Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 1968 | Greg Briggs, NFL safety, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings |
| 1968 | Jay Underwood, actor, Boy Who Could Fly |
| 1968 | Malcolm Showell, WLAF defensive end for the London Monarchs |
| 1968 | Matt Elliott, NFL center/guard for the Carolina Panthers |
| 1967 | Chuck McElroy, pitcher for the California Angels |
| 1967 | Geraldine Heaney, ice hockey defenseman, Canada, 1998 Olympics |
| 1967 | Michael Pringle, CFL running back, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1967 | Scott Young, born in Clinton, Massachusetts, NHL right wing for the Colorado Avalanche |
| 1965 | Cliff Ronning, Vancouver, NHL center, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1965 | Cindy Margolis, American Model |
| 1964 | Kristi Atkinson, born in Van Nuys, California, WP volleyballer, Best of Beach-6th-1994 |
| 1964 | Marcia Pankratz, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, field hockey forward, 1988, 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Roberto Kelly, born in Panama, outfielder, New York Yankees, for the Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins |
| 1963 | Beth Chamberlin, Danville Vt, actress, Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light |
| 1963 | Mark McGwire, 1st baseman, AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland A's, Cards |
| 1962 | Trevor Baxter, record holder for high jumping with a skateboard |
| 1961 | Cornelius Johannes Petrus Gerhardus "Corrie" Van Zyl, cricketer, SAf |
| 1959 | Youssou N'dour, Senegalese singer, Shaking the tree |
| 1958 | Alton Lister, NBA forward and center, Portland Trailblazers, Celtics |
| 1958 | Michelle Bauer, California, actress, One Million Heels BC |
| 1956 | Leslie Burr-Howard, equestrian show jumper, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1955 | Howard Hewett, born in Akron, Ohio, rock vocalist, Shalamar |
| 1955 | Phillip Oakey, rocker, Human League |
| 1954 | Richard Schlesinger, born in New York City, news correspondent, CBS, 48 Hours |
| 1953 | Greta Andersen Waitz, born in Oslo, Norway, marathoner, New York City - 1984 |
| 1951 | Brian Greenway, Montreal, rock guitarist and vocalist, April Wine |
| 1950 | Boris Vladimirovich Morukov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1950 | Randy Quaid, born in Houston, Texas, actor, Midnight Express, Vacation, SNL |
| 1949 | Annie Leibovitz, photgrapher, Rolling Stones |
| 1948 | Cub Koda, rocker, Brownsville Station |
| 1948 | Ellen McIlwaine, born in Nashville, blues singer, Honky Tonky Angel |
| 1947 | Mariska Veres, Dutch singer, Shocking Blue |
| 1947 | Martin Turner, rocker, Wishbone |
| 1947 | Rob Davis, born in Carshalton, England, musician, guitarist, songwriter, song 'Tiger Feet' for glam rock band Mud top record of the United Kingdom in 1974 |
| 1947 | Stephen Collins, born in Des Moines, Iowa, actor, Star Trek I, Tattingers |
| 1946 | Alfred Jones, born in Grace, Mississippi, middleweight boxer 1968 Olympics bronze |
| 1946 | Eva Klobukowska, born in Poland, relay sprinter 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1945 | Donny Hathaway, Chicago, singer and songwriter, Where is the Love |
| 1945 | Rod Carew, baseball slugger, AL Rookie of Year 1967 |
| 1944 | Barbara Parritt, U.S. soul singer, Toys-Lover's Concerto |
| 1944 | Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, U.S. singer, Persuasions-Spread the Word |
| 1944 | Scott McKenzie, rock vocalist, If You Come to SF |
| 1943 | Jerry Maitini, U.S. saxophonist, Sly and Family Stone-Sex Machine |
| 1943 | Jim Martini, rocker, Sly and Family Stone-Everyday People |
| 1943 | Naushad Ali, cricketer, Pakistani wicket-keeper in six Tests 1964-65 |
| 1942 | Gunter Wallraff, born in Burscheid, Germany, writer, undercover journalist, wrote on tabloid journalism, lower working class conditions |
| 1940 | Richard F Pieternella, Dutch Antilles' minister plenipotentiary |
| 1939 | George Archer, born in San Francisco, California, PGA golfer, 1969 Masters Bing Crosby |
| 1938 | Les Scheinflug, Australian soccer asst coach, Olyroos, 1996 Olympics |
| 1937 | Hedy d'Ancona, Dutch minister of WVC, PvdA |
| 1937 | Saeed Ahmed, cricketer, Pakistani batsman in 41 Tests 1958-73 |
| 1936 | Charles G Fullerton, born in Rochester, New York, astronaut, STS-3, 51F |
| 1936 | Edward Villella, Bayside Queens, ballet dancer, New York City Ballet |
| 1936 | Stella Stevens, born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, actress, Girls! Girls!, Manitou |
| 1935 | Julie Andrews, England, actress and singer, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins |
| 1933 | Olga Pozzi Escot, composer |
| 1931 | Reginald Hall, endocrinologist |
| 1930 | Philippe Noiret, Lille France, actor, Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino |
| 1930 | Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park |
| 1928 | George Peppard, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max |
| 1928 | Laurence Harvey, actor, Alamo, Romeo and Juliet |
| 1928 | Zhu Rongji, Chinese Statesman |
| 1927 | Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor, Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote |
| 1924 | William Rehnquist, Supreme Court, 1972-86, chief justice, 1987- |
| 1924 | Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia, D, 39th President, 1977-1981 |
| 1922 | Hector Campos-Parsi, composer |
| 1922 | Burke Marshall, American Lawyer |
| 1921 | James Whitmore, born in White Plains, New York, actor, Give 'em Hell Harry |
| 1920 | Lonny Chapman, Tulsa Oklahoma, actor, Investigator, For the People |
| 1920 | Walter Matthau, New York City, actor, Odd Couple, Bad News Bears |
| 1918 | Antonio Iglesias Alvares, composer |
| 1917 | Rene A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet, Juancho Picaflor |
| 1916 | Tibor Reich, textile designer |
| 1915 | Jerome Bruner, American Psychologist |
| 1914 | Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize |
| 1914 | Michael Goodliffe, Cheshire England, actor, 5th Day of Peace |
| 1914 | Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian |
| 1911 | Edward Boland, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1953 - 1989 |
| 1911 | Irwin Kostal, born in Chicago, Illinois, orchestra leader, Garry Moore Show |
| 1911 | Richard Torriani, born in Switzerland, took Olympic oath, 1948 |
| 1909 | Everett Sloane, New York City, actor, Patsy, Citizen Kane, Enforcer |
| 1909 | Samuel Yorty, Lincoln, Nebraska, Mayor-LA |
| 1908 | Herman David Koppel, composer |
| 1907 | Barbara Morrison, Weston-Super-Mare England, actress, Project Moonbase |
| 1907 | Hiram Fong, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, businessman, politician, Harvard law degree, United States Senator from Hawaii, Republican Party |
| 1907 | Oedoen Partos, composer |
| 1906 | John Lorne Campbell, folklorist |
| 1904 | Vladimir Horowitz, born in Kiev, Ukraine, pianist, Carmen |
| 1903 | "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, New York City, light-heavyweight box champ, 1932-34 |
| 1903 | George Coulouris, Manchester England, actor, Runaway Bus |
| 1899 | Lajos Bardos, composer |
| 1898 | Karl Ranki, composer |
| 1895 | Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan, 1947-51 |
| 1894 | Ricardo Castillo, composer |
| 1893 | Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle, New York, author/novelist, They Who Love |
| 1890 | Alice Joyce, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Song O' My Heart |
| 1890 | Constantin Nottara, composer |
| 1890 | Stanley Holloway, born in London, England, actor, Higgins-Our Man Higgins |
| 1889 | Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. |
| 1886 | Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author |
| 1885 | Louis Untermeyer, New York City, poet and critic, Immortal Poems, Story Poems |
| 1881 | Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer |
| 1881 | William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co, Boeing |
| 1878 | Othmar Spann, Austria economist/sociologist, Geschichtsfilosofie |
| 1872 | Israel Querido, Dutch writer, Menschenwee |
| 1870 | Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor, grape-shot shells |
| 1865 | Paul Abraham Dukas, Paris, France, composer, Velleda |
| 1847 | Annie Besant, Wood, England, philosopher, Esoteric christianity |
| 1845 | Adolf Oberlander, German painter |
| 1842 | Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur |
| 1841 | Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer |
| 1835 | Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1835 | William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1834 | Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1832 | Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison |
| 1832 | Henry Clay Work, composer |
| 1831 | Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1830 | Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1820 | Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer |
| 1808 | Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer |
| 1799 | Rufus Choate, U.S., lawyer, Hall of Fame |
| 1791 | Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist, Chronicles of a Russian Family |
| 1781 | James Lawrence, naval hero, War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!" |
| 1771 | Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist and composer |
| 1770 | Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799 |
| 1760 | William Beckford, British writer, Epsiodes of Vathek |
| 1746 | John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor/general/congressman |
| 1735 | Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer |
| 1730 | Richard Stockton, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence |
| 1724 | Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer |
| 1685 | Charles VI, German emperor/king of Spain, 1711-40 |
| 1644 | Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer |
| 1644 | Jean Rousseau, composer |
| 1620 | Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher |
| 1549 | Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery |
| 1207 | Henry III, king of England, 1216-72 |
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