| 1978 | Joselina Garcia, Miss Honduras Universe 1997 |
| 1976 | Piper Perabo, born in Dallas, Texas, actress, films include, 'George and the Dragon', 'The Cave', 'The Prestige' |
| 1975 | Carla Boyd, Wynyard Tasmania, basketball player 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1975 | Jagan Hames, Australian decathlete 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Jeff Gooch, linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1974 | Julie Minta Gleneck, Miss New Hampshire USA 1996 |
| 1974 | Serge Heuveling, soccer player, NEC |
| 1973 | Fiona Smith, ice hockey defenseman, Canada, 1998 Olympics |
| 1973 | Ross Verba, NFL tackle, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 |
| 1972 | Clifford Rozier, NBA center and forward, Golden State Warriors |
| 1972 | Jamie Asher, NFL tight end for the Washington Redskins |
| 1971 | Phillip Tataurangi, Auckland New Zealand, Australasia golfer |
| 1971 | Ian Walker, English Athlete |
| 1970 | Steve Trachsel, Oxnard California, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs |
| 1969 | Damon Mashore, Ponce Puerto Rico, outfielder for the Oakland A's |
| 1969 | Henry John Mills, NFL tight end for the Houston Oilers |
| 1969 | Lee Woodall, NFL linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1968 | Antonio Davis, NBA forward and center for the Indiana Pacers |
| 1968 | Eddie Taubensee, Beeville, Texas, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1968 | Russ McCullough, WLAF offensive linebacker for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1968 | Vanilla Ice, Robert Van Winkle, rapper, Ice Ice Baby |
| 1967 | Vanilla Ice, rap singer, Ice Ice Baby, actor, Cool as Ice |
| 1966 | Ad-Rock, Adam Horowitz, rocker, Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight |
| 1966 | Brian Keyser, Castro Valley California, pitcher, Chicago White Sox |
| 1966 | Koji Kanemoto, wrestler, NJPW/AAA/UWA, Tiger Mask, King Lee |
| 1965 | Annabella Lwin, Myant Aye, Rangoon Burma, singer, I Want Candy |
| 1965 | Blue Edwards, NBA guard for the Vancouver Grizzlies |
| 1965 | Ruud Hesp, born in Bussum North Holland, professional soccer goalkeeper, played for Roda JC, FC Barcelona |
| 1964 | Amanda Sandrelli, Rome, Italy, actress, The Key |
| 1964 | Marco van Basten, Dutch soccer star, Ajax, AC Milan |
| 1963 | Dermot Mulroney, Alexandria, Virginia, actor, Samantha, Sunset, Long Gone |
| 1963 | Fred McGriff, born in Tampa, Florida, infielder, Atlanta Braves |
| 1963 | Johnny Marr, rocker, Smiths-Ask, Girl Afraid |
| 1963 | Rob Schneider, actor, SNL, Jamie Coleman-Men Behaving Badly |
| 1961 | Alonzo Babers, born in Montgomery, Alabama, 400m/4X400m relay, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics |
| 1961 | Christine Bridged, Australian European class yachter 1996 Olympics |
| 1961 | Glenn "Doc" Rivers, NBA guard for the San Antonio Spurs |
| 1961 | Larry Mullen, Jr., Dublin Ireland, rock drummer, U2-I Will Follow |
| 1961 | Sterling Hinds, Toronto, 4X100m relayer 1984 Olympics bronze |
| 1961 | Peter Jackson, New Zealander Director |
| 1960 | Janice Harrer, Torrance California, WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-1989, 1996 Senators |
| 1960 | Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran |
| 1959 | Ann Henricksson, St. Paul Minnesota, tennis star |
| 1959 | Val Kilmer, actor, Top Secret, Batman Forever |
| 1959 | Neal Stephenson, born in Fort Meade, Maryland, author books include, 'The System of the World', ''Anathem', 'Quicksilver', 'The Confusion' |
| 1958 | Russell Earl Cochran, Paducah, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1991 Centel Western |
| 1953 | John Lucas, Durham, North Carolina, NBA guard, Houston, Golden State, Milwaukee |
| 1952 | Bernard Edwards, Greenville, North Carolina, bassist, Chicago-Addicted to Love |
| 1950 | Jane Pauley, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, newscaster, Today, NBC Weekend |
| 1950 | John Candy, Ontario Canada, comedian, SCTV, Uncle Buck |
| 1949 | Bob Selbenberg, rocker, Supertramp |
| 1949 | Dumisa B Ntsebeza, South African attorney/anti-apartheid activist |
| 1949 | Mike Parker, born in Laurel, Mississippi, Representative-D-Mississippi 1989 - 1999 |
| 1949 | Odaline de la Martinez, composer |
| 1949 | Terrence W. Wilcutt, Russellville, Kentucky, Major USMC/astronaut, STS-68, 79 |
| 1947 | Frank Shorter, Munich Germany, U.S. marathoner, Olympic-gold/silver-72, 76 |
| 1947 | Russ Ballard, rocker, Argent |
| 1946 | Ramnath Parkar, cricket batsman, Indian in 2 Tests vs. England 1972-73 |
| 1944 | Deidre Hall, Milwaukee, actress, Days of our Lives, Our House |
| 1944 | Kinky Friedman, Palestine, Texas, country rocker |
| 1944 | Sally Kirkland, New York City, actress, Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama |
| 1943 | Stephen Rea, actor, Crying Game, Michael Collins |
| 1942 | Ben M J Hennekam, Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1942 | David Ogden Stiers, Peoria, Illinois, actor, Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc |
| 1941 | Lucas Brown Jackson, San Marcos, Texas, basketballer 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1938 | Rives McBee, Denton, Texas, PGA golfer, 1989 RJR Bank One Classic |
| 1937 | Michael Landon, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, Bonanza, Highway to Heaven |
| 1937 | Tom Paxton, Chicago, folk singer and songwriter, Forest Lawn |
| 1936 | Sergei Nikolayevich Gaidukov, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1935 | Ronald Graham, American Mathematician |
| 1934 | Norman Beaton, actor, Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn |
| 1934 | Walter Steffens, composer |
| 1931 | Dan Rather, born in Wharton, Texas, news anchor, CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes |
| 1931 | David Lumsdaine, composer |
| 1930 | Michael Collins, Rome, Major General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11 |
| 1929 | Bud Spencer, Italian actor, Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It |
| 1928 | Andrew Sarris, movie critic, Village Voice |
| 1928 | Cleo Moore, American Actress |
| 1927 | Lee Grant, Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, New York City, actress, Shampoo, Landlord |
| 1926 | Shirley Dinsdale, born in San Francisco, California, ventriloquist, Judy Splinters |
| 1923 | Hicks B Waldron, Amsterdam, New York, CEO, Avon |
| 1922 | Barbara Bel Geddes, New York City, actress, Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught |
| 1922 | Norodom Sihanouk, king/president/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA |
| 1920 | Dick Francis, Wales, jockey/detective writer, Whip Hand, High Stakes |
| 1920 | Helmut Newton, German Photographer |
| 1917 | Erik Routley, composer |
| 1917 | William Hardy McNeill, historian, Rise of the West |
| 1912 | Dale Evans, Frances Butts, Uvalde, Texas, cowgirl, Roy Rogers Show |
| 1912 | Jean Amery, Johannes Mayer, Austrian writer, At the Minds Limit |
| 1906 | Jo Vis, resistance fighter, Yad Vashem-distinction |
| 1906 | Louise Talma, Arcachon France, composer, Summer Sounds |
| 1902 | Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, Claro Enigma |
| 1902 | Eduard Franz, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, actor, Zorro |
| 1902 | Willie Shaw, race car driver, Indy 500-1937, 39, 40 |
| 1900 | Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball and football Hall of Famer |
| 1898 | Alfred Sauvy, French statistician, Affluence and Population |
| 1897 | Wilbur, Pete, Henry, NFL tackle, Canton, New York Giants, Pottsville |
| 1896 | Ethel Waters, Chester, Pennsylvania, actress, Beulah, singer, Stormy Weather |
| 1895 | C K Nayudu, cricketer, brother of C S, India's 1st Test captain |
| 1895 | B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian |
| 1893 | Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress, Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase |
| 1892 | Ruth Fuller Sasaki, U.S., Zen teacher, 1st Zen Institute of America |
| 1891 | Charlotte "Lotte" Bartschart, German/Dutch operetta singer |
| 1888 | George Hubert Wilkins, born in Australia, polar explorer, Flying the Arctic |
| 1888 | Harold Vincent Milligan, composer |
| 1887 | Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province China, President of Nationalist China |
| 1887 | Edouard Lalonde, Canada, NHLer, Mont Canadiens, lacrosse player |
| 1883 | Marie Laurencin, French Artist |
| 1876 | Eduard van Oort, zoologist, Ornithology of Netherlands |
| 1875 | Seerp Anema, poet and writer, Dutch Coasts |
| 1867 | David Graham Phillips, American Journalist |
| 1860 | Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder, Girl Scouts of America |
| 1854 | Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist, Grammar of Ancient Egypt |
| 1852 | Mary E. W. Freeman, U.S. writer, Revolt of Mother |
| 1847 | Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor |
| 1835 | Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army |
| 1835 | J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel 1905 |
| 1831 | Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1826 | Hugh Boyle Ewing, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1825 | Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1825 | Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author |
| 1815 | Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions |
| 1795 | John Keats, born in London, England, romantic poet, Ode to a Grecian Urn |
| 1791 | Ferdinand Huber, composer |
| 1785 | George F Kersting, German painter |
| 1761 | Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl/Grand Pensionary |
| 1757 | Ignaz Spangler, composer |
| 1755 | Jean Louis van Aelbroeck, Flemish agronomist |
| 1750 | Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet |
| 1740 | William Paca, U.S. judge/signer, Declaration of Independence |
| 1724 | Christopher Anstey, English Poet |
| 1705 | Clemens XIV, Giovanni Ganganelli, Pope, 1769 - 1774 |
| 1638 | Meindert Hobbema, Amsterdams landscape painter, baptised |
| 1632 | Jan Vermeer, Holland, painter, Procuress, Astronomer |
| 1620 | John Evelyn, British diarist, Life of Mrs. Godolphin |
| 1541 | Hendrik van Kinschot, Dutch lawyer |
| 1424 | Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary |
| 1345 | Ferdinand I, the wise one, king of Portugal, built navy |
| 1291 | Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet |
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