| 1991 | Owen Joseph Kline, son of Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline |
| 1979 | Mahana Ka'ahumanu Walters, Miss Hawaii Teen USA, 3rd-1997 |
| 1978 | Cheryl Crowe, Miss Delaware Teen USA 1997 |
| 1978 | Devon Gummersall, born in Colorado, actor, 'Relativity', Brian in 'My So Called Life' |
| 1973 | Susannah Kate Pryde, Auckland New Zealand, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Fred Hoiberg, NBA guard for the Indiana Pacers |
| 1971 | Angelia Savage, Miss USA-Florida, 1997, top 6 |
| 1971 | Bernardo Harris, NFL linebacker, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1971 | Roland McGhee, Flint Michigan, long jumper |
| 1970 | Cooper Harris, CFL linebacker for the Hamilton Tiger Cats |
| 1970 | Lonnie Palelei, guard for the New York Jets |
| 1969 | Curtis Cotton, NFL/WLAF cornerback, Oak Raiders, Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1969 | Paige Davis, American Actress |
| 1968 | George Koonce, NFL linebacker, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1968 | Meredith Rainey, born in Brooklyn, New York, 800m runner |
| 1968 | Vanessa Marcil, born in Indio, California, actress, appeared in television series, 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'General Hospital' soap opera |
| 1967 | Carlos Garcia, Venezuela, infielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1966 | Douglas Vipond, British pop drummer, Deacon Blue-Raintown |
| 1966 | Jeffrey Jacquet, Bay City Texas, actor, Mork and Mindy, Whiz Kids |
| 1965 | Daniel Held, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 10k runner |
| 1963 | Angela Rock, Lakewood California, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-1992 |
| 1963 | Stanley Menzo, Suriname/Dutch soccer goaltender, Ajax/PSV |
| 1962 | Susan DeMattei, born in San Francisco, California, cyclist 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1959 | Sarah Magaret Fergusson, Fergie, born in London, England, Duchess of York |
| 1959 | Emeril Lagasse, American Celebrity |
| 1958 | Jayne Modean, Hartford, Connecticut, actress, Nurse Hooter-Trauma Center |
| 1957 | Mira Nair, Indian Director |
| 1955 | Cathy Ladman, comedienne, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead |
| 1955 | Kristine Winder, Vancouver BC, playmate, Oct, 1977 |
| 1955 | Tanya Roberts, Leigh, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Charlie's Angels, Sheena |
| 1955 | Victor Pecci, Paraguay, tennis star |
| 1954 | Jere Burns, Cambridge MS, actor, Something So Right, Kirk-Dear John |
| 1954 | Kip Byrne, born in Detroit, Michigan, Canadian Tour golfer, Michigan State Jr. 1970, 1971 |
| 1953 | Larry Miller, New York City, comedian/actor, Larry-Pursuit Of Happiness |
| 1953 | [Toriano] Tito Jackson, singer, Jackson 5-ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye |
| 1953 | Tito Jackson, American Musician |
| 1951 | Frank Dimino, Washington D.C., rock vocalist, Angel |
| 1951 | Roscoe Tanner, tennis player, Wimbledon Finals 1979 |
| 1950 | Chris De Burgh, Davidson, Argent/Irish rock vocalist, Lady in Red |
| 1948 | Aleksandr S Puchkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut |
| 1947 | Lynn Lowry, E St. Louis, Illinois, actress, Cat People, Crazies |
| 1946 | Richard Carpenter, New Haven, Connecticut, vocalist, Carpenters-Close to You |
| 1946 | Victor Banerjee, Calcutta India, actor, A Passage to India |
| 1945 | Jim Palmer, New York City, Oriole pitcher/sportscaster/jockey underwear salesman |
| 1945 | Steven Camacho, cricketer, WI batsman early seventies |
| 1945 | Tom McMillan, Canadian Politician |
| 1944 | Mac Collins, born in Jackson, Georgia, Representative-R-Georgia 1993 - 2005 |
| 1944 | Steve Crocker, American Businessman |
| 1944 | David Trimble, Irish Politician |
| 1942 | Don Stevenson, born in Seattle, Washington rock drummer, Moby Grape |
| 1942 | Jim Leach, born in Davenport, Iowa, Representative-R-Iowa 1977 - 2007 |
| 1942 | Penny Marshall, born in Bronx, New York, actress, Odd Couple, Laverne and Shirley |
| 1942 | James A. Leach, American Politician |
| 1939 | Carmelo Bossi, Italy, light middleweight boxer 1960 Olympics silver |
| 1938 | Marvin E "Marv" Johnson, U.S. gospel/R&B singer, Move 2 mountains |
| 1938 | Rafael Aponte-Ledee, composer |
| 1937 | Anthony Hopkins, clinical neurologist |
| 1937 | Barry McGuire, Oklahoma City, singer, Eve of Destruction |
| 1937 | Linda Lavin, Portland Maine, actress, Alice, Barney Miller |
| 1935 | Bobby Joe Morrow, Brownsville, Texas, sprinter, Olympic-3 gold-1956 |
| 1935 | Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director/actor, Witte Waan |
| 1935 | Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister |
| 1934 | Peter Haskell, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Bracken's World, Rituals |
| 1932 | Jaan Raats, born in Tartu, Estonia, composer, composed Estonian language films, wrote 'Aeg elada aeg armastada' |
| 1931 | Abdul Kalam, Indian Statesman |
| 1930 | Fela Ransome/Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian singer/saxophonist |
| 1930 | Phillipe Leroy, Paris, France, actor, Night Porter, Leonardo da Vinci |
| 1928 | Mark Lenard, actor, Mr Spock's dad Sarek-Star Trek |
| 1927 | Mary Perot Nichols, journalist |
| 1927 | Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat |
| 1926 | Evan Hunter, Ed McBain, American writer, Blackboard Jungle |
| 1926 | Jean Peters, born in Canton, Ohio, actress, Viva Zapata!, Apache, Deep Waters |
| 1926 | Karl Richter, composer |
| 1926 | Michel Foucault, French philosopher, History of Sexuality |
| 1926 | Paul-Michel Foucault, French philosopher, Les Mots et les Choses |
| 1925 | Mickey Baker, rocker |
| 1924 | Colin Romoff, New York City, orchestra leader, Andy Williams Show |
| 1924 | Lee A Iacocca, CEO, Chrysler Corp |
| 1924 | Nigel Green, South Africa, actor, Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File |
| 1924 | Lee Iacocca, American Businessman |
| 1923 | Italo Calvino, born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba, author, Winter's Night a Traveler |
| 1921 | Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player, World Champ 1950-55 |
| 1921 | Gul Mahomed, cricketer, Indian and Pakistani batsman |
| 1921 | Mario Puzo, born in New York City, novelist, Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake |
| 1919 | Edwin C Tubb, Brits sci-fi writer, Earth is Heaven, Earthfall |
| 1919 | Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head, MI5 |
| 1917 | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ohio, historian, 1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson |
| 1917 | Jan Miner, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Crime Photographer |
| 1917 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient |
| 1913 | Klaus Barbie, gestapo chief, Lyon |
| 1911 | James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author, Lion Game |
| 1910 | Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer, South African leg-spinner of 30's |
| 1909 | Robert Trout, Wake County, North Carolina, newscaster, ABC |
| 1908 | John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award |
| 1907 | John "Cardinal" Dearden, U.S. cardinal, 1969 - 1988, archbishop of Detroit |
| 1905 | Alexey Kozlovsky, composer |
| 1905 | Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail |
| 1905 | Dag Ivar Wiren, composer |
| 1905 | Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher |
| 1904 | Julian Hodge, British financier/multi-millionaire, Hodge Group |
| 1902 | Andrey Yakolevich Shtogarenko, composer |
| 1902 | William Edmundson, Spokane, Washington vocalist, Southernaires |
| 1901 | Bernard von Brentano, German writer, Big Cats |
| 1901 | Hermann Abs, director, Deutsche Bank, Hitler's advisor |
| 1901 | Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier |
| 1900 | Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor, Jack Benny Show, At the Circus |
| 1900 | Mervyn LeRoy, movie producer, Devil at 4 O'Clock |
| 1898 | Gunther Ramin, composer |
| 1896 | Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist, I Got a Secret |
| 1895 | Alfred Neumann, German playwright, Devil |
| 1893 | Charles II, King of Romania, 1930-40 |
| 1892 | Ina Claire, Fagan, Washington D.C., actress, Ninotchika |
| 1890 | Arcady Dubensky, composer |
| 1881 | P. G. Wodehouse, British-American writer, Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves |
| 1880 | Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author |
| 1879 | Jane Darwell, Patti Woodward, Palmyra, Missouri, actress, Huckleberry Finn |
| 1879 | Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress, Blackmail, Storm in a Teacup |
| 1878 | Paul Reynaud, premier France, May-June 1940 |
| 1874 | Otallo Morales, composer |
| 1865 | Walther Amelung, German archaeologist |
| 1859 | Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, Salmos do Prisoneiro |
| 1858 | Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer |
| 1858 | John L Sullivan, Massachusetts, heavyweight boxing champ, 1882-92 |
| 1856 | R G Nivelle, French military man |
| 1852 | Wilhelm Posse, composer |
| 1851 | George F Moore, U.S. theologist, Hebrews, Old Testament |
| 1844 | Friedrich Nietzsche, born in Germany, philosopher |
| 1836 | Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1833 | Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader |
| 1832 | Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1831 | Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author, Ramona |
| 1831 | Isabella Bird, English Writer |
| 1829 | Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos |
| 1822 | Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer |
| 1819 | Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliography/literary |
| 1818 | Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1816 | Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1814 | Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet |
| 1799 | August Ferdinand Haeser, composer |
| 1795 | Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia, 1840 - 1861, Germany, 1849 - 1861 |
| 1785 | Jose Miguel Carrera, president of Chile, 1811-14 |
| 1784 | Thomas Hastings, composer |
| 1779 | Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/songwriter/archbishop, Dodens Engel |
| 1775 | Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer |
| 1762 | Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer |
| 1761 | Peter Gronland, composer |
| 1674 | Robert Herrick, Massachusetts, British poet, Together |
| 1608 | Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist |
| 1550 | Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange |
| 1542 | Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India, 1556-1605 |
| 70 | Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman leader/poet, Bucolica, Aeneis |
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