| 1991 | Beau Grayson, son of country singer Tanya Tucker |
| 1986 | Camilla Belle, American Actress |
| 1978 | Ayumi Hamasaki, also known as "Ayu" by her fans, Japanese Musician |
| 1974 | Anthony Johnson, NBA guard for the Sacramento Kings |
| 1974 | Ricky Bell, cornerback for the Chicago Bears |
| 1973 | Bret Hudson, NSW Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Dalida Chammai, Miss Lebanon Universe 1997 |
| 1972 | Aaron McKie, NBA guard, Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1972 | Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler, Somerset and Holland |
| 1972 | Patricia Gauani, Miss USA-Delaware 1997 |
| 1972 | Rafael Carmona, Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1972 | Tara Dawn Holland, Overland Park Kansas, Miss America 1997 |
| 1972 | Torey Hunter, CFL defensive back, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1971 | Jair Lynch, Amherst Massachusetts, gymnast, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1971 | Steve McLaughlin, NFL kicker for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1971 | Tiffany [Renee Darwich], Norwalk Cal, singer, I Think We're Alone Now |
| 1970 | Eddie Guardado, Stockton California, pitcher for the Minnesota Twins |
| 1970 | Kelly Ripa, actress, Hayley Vaughan-All My Children |
| 1969 | Marcus Robertson, NFL safety/cornerback, Houston/Tenn Oilers |
| 1969 | Matthew Walbeck, Sacramento California, catcher for the Minnesota Twins |
| 1968 | Craig Kanada, born in Portland, Oregon, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE South Carolina Classic-3rd |
| 1968 | Glen Wesley, Red Deer, NHL defenseman, Hartford Whalers |
| 1968 | Jana Novotna, Czechoslovakia, tennis star, 1995 Australia/Wimbledon doubles |
| 1968 | Mark James Crear, SF, 110m hurdler, 1996 Olympics silver |
| 1967 | Thomas Muster, born in Leibnitz, Austria, tennis star, 1995 French Open |
| 1966 | Yokozuna, Rodney Anoia, wrestler, WWF/NJPW/AWA, Wild Samoan Kokina |
| 1965 | Darren Cahill, Australia, tennis star |
| 1965 | Francesca Dellera, Cervellera, Rome, Italy, actress, Capriccio |
| 1965 | Jill Powell, born in Jacksonville, Florida, actress, Marcy-As The World Turns |
| 1965 | Robert Goff, NFL defensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1965 | Roger Dube, hockey forward, Team France 1998 |
| 1965 | Tom Moody, cricket batsman, Australian 1989-92 Ton in 26 minutes |
| 1964 | Michael Brooks, NFL linebacker for the New York Giants |
| 1964 | Sheila Echols, born in Memphis, Tennessee, 4x100m runner 1988 Olympics gold |
| 1964 | Sherry Arnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, playmate, Jan, 1986 |
| 1963 | Libby Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer, 1988 - Singapore Open |
| 1962 | Esai Morales, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Bad Boys, La Bamba |
| 1962 | Mark Rypien, quarterback for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1961 | Alan Wells, cricketer, England Test batsman vs. WI in one Test 1995 |
| 1961 | Pablo Arraya, Argentina, tennis star |
| 1961 | Robbie Nevil, rocker, A Place Like This |
| 1960 | Django Bates, born in Beckenham, England, jazz musician, founder, Human Chain, plays tenor horn, keyboards, piano |
| 1960 | Glenn Anderson, Vancouver, NHL right wing for the Edmonton Oilers |
| 1957 | John Neuman Cook, born in Toledo, Ohio, PGA golfer, 1981 Bing Crosby |
| 1957 | Kimberly Herrin, born in Santa Barbara, California, playmate, March, 1981 |
| 1956 | Freddie Jackson, U.S. R&B singer and songwriter, Rock Me Tonight |
| 1956 | Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader, spent 3 years in Robbeneiland Jail |
| 1955 | Gary Streeter, born in Hampshire, England, educated at King's College London, Member of Parliament for South West Devon |
| 1955 | Kathryn Morrison Long Beach, California, playmate, May, 1978 |
| 1955 | Philip Oakey, Sheffield, rock vocalist, Human Leauge-Only Human |
| 1954 | Greg Jennings, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, country singer, Restless Heart-Wheels |
| 1954 | Lani O'Grady, Walnut Creek California, actress, Mary-8 is Enough |
| 1954 | Lorraine Bracco, Brooklyn, actress, Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team |
| 1952 | George Meegen, England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska |
| 1952 | John Otway, born in Buckinghamshire, England, unsuccessful singer, built large cult following based on underdog persona |
| 1951 | Romina Power, born in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress, Justine |
| 1951 | Sting, Gordon Sumner, rock vocalist, Police-Roxanne, actor, Dune |
| 1950 | Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist, Genesis-Silent Sun |
| 1950 | Persis Khambatta, Bombay India, actress, Star Trek, Megaforce |
| 1949 | Lorraine Bracco, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, actress |
| 1949 | Richard Hell, Richard Myers, Lexington, Kentucky, rock bassist, Television |
| 1948 | Avery Brooks, born in Evansville, Indiana, actor, Spenser for Hire, Deep Space 9 |
| 1948 | Chris LeDoux, Biloxi Mississippi, country singer, Ridin' for a Fall |
| 1948 | Donna Karan, Forest Hills, New York, fashion designer, Coty Award-1977 |
| 1948 | Robert Anderson, cricketer, New Zealand batsman 1976-78 |
| 1948 | Trevor Brooking, English soccer player |
| 1947 | Ward Churchill, American Educator |
| 1946 | Jo-el Sonnier, Rayne, Louisiana, country singer, Louisiana |
| 1946 | Roger Jett, Cumberland Maryland, actor, Smithereens |
| 1945 | Don McLean, New Rochelle, New York, singer and songwriter, American Pie, Vincent |
| 1945 | Frank Tejeda, born in San Antonio, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1993 - 1997 |
| 1945 | Neil Frances Tennant, rocker, Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl |
| 1945 | Vladimir Ivanovich Kozlov, cosmonaut |
| 1944 | Peter Hobson, headmaster, Giggleswick School |
| 1944 | Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, Witling, True Names |
| 1943 | Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress, Secret Policeman's Ball |
| 1943 | Henri Szeps, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, actor, Mother and Son |
| 1940 | Lord Davies, chairman, Welsh National Opera |
| 1939 | B K Kunderan, cricketer, Indian keeper-batsman of 60's |
| 1939 | Yuri Nikolayevich Glazkov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 24 |
| 1938 | Rex Reed, Ft. Worth, Texas, movie critic/actor, Myra Breckinridge |
| 1936 | Ian McLachlan, cricketer, Cambridge and S Australia bat, later Liberal MP |
| 1936 | Johnnie Cochran, attorney, O. J. Simpson defense attorney |
| 1936 | Roger Sainsbury, bishop of Barking |
| 1935 | Peter Frankl, born in Hungary, pianist, performs classical music, Romantic period, early Modern, recorded the complete solo piano music of Debussy, performed with world class orchestras throughout America and Europe |
| 1935 | Robert H Lawrence, born in Chicago, Illinois, USAF/astronaut |
| 1934 | Duncan Thompson, keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery |
| 1934 | Geoff Millman, cricketer, England wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1961-62 |
| 1934 | Richard Scott, British high court judge |
| 1933 | Dimiter Khristov, composer |
| 1933 | Phill Niblock, born in Anderson, Indiana, composer, videographer, filmmaker, director, avente-garde music foundation, Experimental Media |
| 1932 | Maury Wills, baseball shortstop, Los Angeles Dodgers, NL MVP 1962 |
| 1930 | J M Ghorpade, cricketer, 8 Tests for India 1952-59 with little impact |
| 1929 | John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate |
| 1929 | Kenneth Leighton, composer |
| 1929 | Moses Gunn, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft |
| 1928 | Anthony Tippett, British chief of Fleet Support |
| 1928 | Clay Felker, St. Louis, journalist, New York Herald Tribune, Esquire |
| 1928 | George Emmett McFarland, Dallas, act, Spanky-Our Gang/Little Rascals |
| 1928 | James Porter, CEO, Commonwealth Institute |
| 1928 | Robin Duthie, CEO, Britoil |
| 1926 | Jan Morris, travel writer, Among the Cities, Hong Kong, Journeys |
| 1925 | Brian Dilton, British lord justice of appeal |
| 1924 | Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office |
| 1923 | Jack Dellal, English immovables-goedbezitter/multi-millionaire |
| 1922 | Thomas T Nkobi, South Africa ANC-leader, Alexandra-bus boycott 1957 |
| 1922 | Wolfhart U Pannenberg, German theologist, Gingham Girl |
| 1921 | A Scott Crossfield, U.S. Test pilot, XS-1 |
| 1921 | Robert Runcie, Kennedy, Liverpool England, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1920 | William Cramond, psychiatrist/vice-chancellor, Stirling University |
| 1919 | Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord-Lt of Somerset |
| 1919 | Shirley Clarke, film director |
| 1917 | Francis Jackson, organist and master of Music/York minister |
| 1917 | William Marshall III, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Blacula, Honky |
| 1915 | Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician |
| 1914 | Albe Vidakovic, composer |
| 1914 | Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer |
| 1914 | Charles Drake, Bayside New York City, actor, Air Force, Glenn Miller Story |
| 1913 | Vivian Ridler, printer, Oxford University |
| 1912 | Eric Wilson, VC/British Lieutenant Colonel |
| 1911 | Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office |
| 1907 | Alexander Robertus, organic chemist |
| 1907 | Alexander Todd, born in Scotland, born Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, Nobel-Prize for Chemistry for structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, nucleotide coenzymes |
| 1907 | William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer, Blackmail |
| 1906 | John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature |
| 1904 | Dermot Boyle, marshal, RAF |
| 1904 | Godfrey Baseley, radio executive |
| 1904 | Graham Greene, English journalist, 3rd Man |
| 1904 | Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri, India premier, 1964-66 |
| 1904 | [Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist, Brighton Rock |
| 1902 | Dick Ket, Dutch painter/cartoonist |
| 1902 | Leopold Figl, premier of Austria |
| 1901 | Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot |
| 1901 | [Ignatius] Roy [D] Campbell, South African poet, Flowering Rifle |
| 1896 | Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author, Volga |
| 1896 | Fritz Eberhard, Hellmut Rauschenplat, W-German lawyer/resistor, Law |
| 1895 | Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk, New Jersey, comedian, Abbott and Costello |
| 1895 | Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian |
| 1893 | Leroy B Shield, U.S. pianist/producer/composer, Laurel and Hardy |
| 1891 | H V Porter, basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard |
| 1890 | Groucho Marx, born in New York City, comedian, Marx Bros, 'You Bet Your Life' |
| 1886 | Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter |
| 1885 | Ruth Bryan Rohde, U.S., Rep, minister to Denmark |
| 1881 | Fred Barlow, composer |
| 1880 | George Alexander Russell, composer |
| 1879 | Wallace Stevens, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, poet, Ideas of Order |
| 1878 | Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist |
| 1875 | Henry Fevrier, composer |
| 1873 | Pelham Warner, cricketer, England 1898-1912, later notable official |
| 1871 | Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, 1933 - 1944, lowered tariffs, Nobel 1945 |
| 1869 | Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist |
| 1869 | Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader |
| 1866 | Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist |
| 1857 | Marthinus T Steyn, President of Orange-Free state, 1896-1902 |
| 1852 | William Ramsay, chemist |
| 1851 | Ferdinand Foch, France, responsible for Allies winning WW I |
| 1847 | Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president |
| 1847 | Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier |
| 1839 | Hans Thoma, born in Bernau, Germany, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum |
| 1835 | Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian |
| 1832 | Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist |
| 1832 | Julius von Sachs, botanist/naturalist |
| 1827 | Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1822 | Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister, 1877-79 |
| 1821 | Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lieutenant General Confederate Army |
| 1819 | George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army |
| 1817 | Gunnar Wennerberg, composer |
| 1809 | Anton Emil Titl, composer |
| 1800 | Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion, 1831 |
| 1792 | Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer |
| 1756 | Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist |
| 1756 | Josef Jawurek, composer |
| 1752 | Samuel Story, Dutch Admiral, Battle at Kamperduin |
| 1737 | Francis Hopkinson, U.S., writer/lawyer, design Stars and Stripes |
| 1737 | Franz Schneider, composer |
| 1718 | Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer |
| 1715 | Peter II, czar of Russia, 1727-30 |
| 1704 | Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer |
| 1646 | Guillaume Poitevin, composer |
| 1619 | Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux, French author, Historiettes |
| 1595 | Jacob Louys, Flemish engraver |
| 1452 | King Richard III, of England, 1483-85 |
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