| 1982 | Natalie Vlandis, Northridge California, pairs skater, & Jered Guzman |
| 1977 | Lia Rousset, Alhambra California, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Kate Winslet, born in Reading, England, actress, Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back |
| 1975 | Scott E Weinger, New York City, actor, Steve Taylor-Family Man, Full House |
| 1974 | Douglas Emerson, born in Glendale California, actor, Robbie-Herbie the Love Bug |
| 1972 | Derek Sholdice, CFL offensive linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1972 | Grant Hill, born in Dallas, Texas, NBA forward and guard, Detroit Pistons, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Chad Lewis, tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1971 | Chris Whitney, NBA guard, Washington Wizards |
| 1971 | Coni Lyn Hull, Jackson Michigan, Miss America-Michigan 1996 |
| 1971 | Dan Plante, Hayward, NHL right wing for the New York Islanders |
| 1970 | Anthony Phillips, NFL cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1970 | Josie Bissett, born in Seattle, Washington actress, Jane Mancini-Melrose Place |
| 1970 | Mark Luijpers, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC |
| 1970 | Thomas Randolph, NFL cornerback for the New York Giants |
| 1970 | Tina Poitras, Thompson Manitoba, 10k walker 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Martin Driever, WLAF tight end for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1968 | Sally Smith, Orange NSW, golfer, 1993 T67 Alpine Australia Ladies Masters |
| 1968 | Wayne Holdsworth, cricketer, NSW fast bowler, Australian tourist 1993 |
| 1967 | Ellie Gibson, born in Corpus Christi, Texas, golfer, 1994 PING-Cellular One-5th |
| 1967 | Rex Chapman, NBA guard, Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns |
| 1967 | Guy Pearce, English Actor |
| 1966 | Fredrik Olausson, Vaxsjo Swe, NHL defenseman, Anaheim Mighty Ducks |
| 1966 | Inessa Kravets, Ukraine, long/triple jumper, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Peter Fonseca, Lisbon Portugal, Canadian marathoner 1996 Olympics |
| 1966 | Therese Brisson, ice hockey defenseman, Canada, 1998 Olympics |
| 1965 | John Keller, Jr., Toledo Ohio, team handball back court 1996 Olympics |
| 1965 | Mario Lemieux, Montreal, NHL high scoring center, Pittsburgh Penguin |
| 1965 | Patrick Roy, Quebec, NHL goalie, Mont Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche |
| 1965 | Paul Moloney, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer |
| 1965 | Penny Baker, Buffalo, New York, playmate, January, 1984 |
| 1965 | Richey Reneberg, born in Phoenix, Arizona, tennis star, 1995 Australian doubles |
| 1965 | Theo Bos, Dutch soccer player: Vitesse |
| 1965 | Trace Armstrong, NFL defensive end for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1964 | Denean Howard, Sherman, Texas, 4X400m relayer 1988 Olympics silver |
| 1964 | Terry Mathews, Alexandria, Louisiana, pitcher for the Florida Marlins |
| 1963 | Hugh Morris, cricketer, England lefty opening batsman 1991 |
| 1963 | Laura Davies, Coventry England, LPGA golfer, 1989 Lady Keystone Open |
| 1963 | Sophie Favier, Lyon France, actress, Sans Interdits |
| 1963 | Tony Dodemaide, cricketer, Victorian, Sussex and Australian all-rounder |
| 1962 | Johnny Huang, Canton China, table tennis player 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Ken Noda, New York City, pianist, Rivalry |
| 1962 | Michael Alexander Conley, Chic, triple jumper, Olympics gold 92, 96 |
| 1962 | Michael Andretti, Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame, elected 1986 |
| 1962 | Mike Conley, born in Chicago, Illinois, triple jumper 1984 Olympics silver |
| 1961 | Shell Kepler, actress, Amy Vining-General Hospital |
| 1961 | David Kirk, New Zealander Athlete |
| 1959 | Troy Luccketta, rock drummer, Tesla-Psychotic Supper |
| 1959 | Maya Lin, born in Athens, Ohio, artist, architect of Chinese descent, known for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., sculpture, landscape art |
| 1958 | Brent W. Jett, Jr., Pontiac, Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-72, sk:81 |
| 1957 | Jeanne Evert, tennis player, Chris' sister |
| 1957 | Lee "Kix" Thompson, saxophonist, Madness-Baggy Trousers |
| 1957 | Bernie Mac, born in Chicago, American actor, comedian, sketch writer |
| 1955 | Adair Ferguson, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1955 | Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist, Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry, Don't Go |
| 1954 | Duncan Regehr, born in Alberta, Canada, actor, Wizards and Warriors |
| 1953 | James E Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary |
| 1953 | Russell Mael, Dwight Russel Day, California, rock vocalist, Sparks |
| 1953 | Sandra "Puma" Jones, Kingston Jamaica, rocker, Black Uhuru |
| 1952 | Clive Barker, producer, Hell Raiser |
| 1951 | Karen Allen, Illinois, actress, Cruising, Starman, Wanderers |
| 1951 | Leah Poulis Mueller, Berwyn, Illinois, speed skater, 1980 Olympics gold |
| 1951 | Bob Geldof, born in Dublin, Ireland, rocker, member of The Boomtown Rats, singer, songwriter, actor, played Pink in "The Wall" |
| 1950 | Jeff Conaway, New York City, actor, Bobby-Taxi, Loving |
| 1949 | Brian McManus Connolly, musician |
| 1949 | Peter Ackroyd, British Author |
| 1948 | Brian Connolly, Scotland, rocker, Sweet |
| 1948 | Delroy George Wilson, singer |
| 1948 | Lucius Ross, U.S. pop guitarist, Funkadelic-One Nation Under a Groove |
| 1948 | Sal Viscuso, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Soap, Montefuscos |
| 1947 | Brian Johnson, Australia, hard rocker, AC/DC-Whole Lotta Rosie |
| 1944 | Ben Korthals, advocate/Dutch MP, VVD |
| 1943 | Ben Cardin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1987 - 2007, Senator-D-Maryland 2007 - |
| 1943 | Inna Churikova, Russia, actress, Theme |
| 1943 | Steve Miller, Milwaukee, rocker, Abracadabra, Space Cowboy |
| 1942 | Richard Street, born in Detroit, Michigan, rocker, Temptations |
| 1941 | Ricardo Hoffmann, marathon swimmer, 299 miles |
| 1940 | Bob Cowper, cricketer, Australia LHB, 307 vs. England MCG 1966 Very rich |
| 1938 | Carlo Mastrangelo, born in Bronx, New York, rocker, Dion and The Belmonts |
| 1938 | Teresa Heinz Kerry, American |
| 1937 | Barry Switzer, football coach, Oklahoma |
| 1936 | Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist |
| 1936 | Vaclav Havel, writer/president Czechoslovakia, 1989-92 |
| 1935 | Jimmy Binks, cricket wicket-keeper, England twice vs. India 1964 |
| 1935 | Peter Brown, New York City, actor, Lawman, Laredo, Bold and Beautiful |
| 1934 | David Smith, cricketer, England opening bowler vs. India 1961-62 |
| 1933 | Diane Cilento, born in Australia, actress, Agony and Ecstasy, Wicker Man |
| 1932 | Madhav Apte, cricketer, bro of Arvind 7 Tests for India, 1 century |
| 1932 | Yvonne Braitwaite Burke, lawyer, Rep |
| 1930 | Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut, Vostok IV, Soyuz 14 |
| 1929 | Autherine Lucy, 1st black to enroll in University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa |
| 1929 | Richard F. Gordon, Jr., born in in Seattle, Washington, Captain USN and astronaut, Gemini 11, Apollo 12 |
| 1929 | Skip Homeier, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Beachhead, Dan Raven, Interns |
| 1928 | Willem de Kwaadsteniet, lawyer/Dutch MP, CDA |
| 1927 | Al Hansen, born in New York City, New York, Norwegian American artist, member of the 1960's Flexus art movement that blended different artistic media and disciplines |
| 1927 | John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum |
| 1926 | Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant |
| 1926 | Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer |
| 1925 | Gail Davis, Little Rock, Arkansas, actress, Annie Oakley |
| 1925 | Bill Dixon, American Musician |
| 1924 | Bill Dana, Quincy Massachusetts, comedian/actor, Jose Jimenez |
| 1924 | Jose Donoso, born in Chile, writer, born Jose Donoso Yanez, part of Latin American literary boom, Magical Realism literary movement, wrote Coronacion, El lugar sin limites (The Place Without Limits) |
| 1924 | Frederic Morton, American Writer |
| 1923 | Glynis Johns, Pretoria South Africa, actress, Mary Poppins |
| 1923 | Philip Berrigan, militant priest, Chicago 7 |
| 1923 | Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer, Burned Child |
| 1922 | Jock Stein, Scottish Celebrity |
| 1921 | Bill Willis, AAFC, NFL guard for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1920 | Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian |
| 1919 | Allen Ludden, Mineral Point Wisconsin, TV host, Password |
| 1919 | Donald Pleasence, Worksop England, actor, Fantastic Voyage, Halloween |
| 1919 | Luis H P Daal, Antillean literary |
| 1919 | Robin Bailey, Hucknall England, actor, See No Evil, Screamtime |
| 1917 | Magda Szabo, Hungary, author, Az oz, Abigel |
| 1917 | Robert Adams, English sculptor |
| 1916 | Douglas Ranger, surgeon |
| 1913 | William Lehman, born in Selma, Alabama, Representative-D-Florida 1973 - 1993 |
| 1911 | Flann O'Brien, Irish Writer |
| 1908 | Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, South Pacific |
| 1906 | Leopold Kohr, writer/mentor of Fritz Schumacher |
| 1906 | Louise Brown, dancer/teacher |
| 1904 | George Chesterman Phillips, naval officer |
| 1904 | John Hoyt, Bronxville, New York, actor, Gimme a Break, Tom Dick and Mary |
| 1903 | Jimmy Ritz, U.S. comic, Ritz Brothers-Blazing Stewardesses |
| 1902 | Larry Fine, Pennsylvania, comedian, 3 Stooges |
| 1902 | Michael Kondracki, composer |
| 1902 | Ray Kroc, born in Illinois, founder of McDonalds and owner for the San Diego Padres |
| 1901 | Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor and director |
| 1901 | John Alton, cinematographer |
| 1901 | Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam |
| 1899 | Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer |
| 1899 | Georges Bidault, French Politician |
| 1895 | Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general, WW II, head of CIA, 1950 - 1952 |
| 1890 | Kasimir Edschmid, German writer |
| 1887 | Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter |
| 1887 | Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968 |
| 1886 | Carter De Haven, born in Woodland Hills, California, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin |
| 1884 | Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright, Cafe Tabac |
| 1884 | Hendrik W. Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer/politcian, CHU 1939-63 |
| 1883 | Charles Maduro, Antillean composer |
| 1882 | Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer, Solar physics |
| 1882 | Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Massachusetts, rocket pioneer |
| 1881 | Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56 |
| 1879 | Halfdan Cleve, composer |
| 1879 | John Erskine, U.S., poet/pianist, Private Life of Helen of Troy |
| 1878 | Louise Dresser, Kerlin, Evansville, Indiana, actress, Maid of Salem |
| 1875 | Cyril Rootham, composer |
| 1864 | Louis Lumiere, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895 |
| 1864 | Arthur Zimmermann, German Statesman |
| 1863 | Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist |
| 1860 | Lucien Laberthonniere, French philosopher |
| 1858 | Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria |
| 1840 | Fran Gerbic, composer |
| 1840 | John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer, Probs in Greek Ethics |
| 1836 | George Washington Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1833 | Cyrus Bussey, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1830 | Chester Alan Arthur, Fairfield Vt, R, 21st President, 1881-85 |
| 1830 | Chester A. Arthur, American President |
| 1823 | Feliks Jaronski, composer |
| 1822 | Hans Hampel, composer |
| 1817 | Eduard Franck, composer |
| 1808 | Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1808 | Winand C H Staring, geologist, Geology of Netherlands |
| 1804 | Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor |
| 1799 | Anthony G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch Minister of Reformed Worship |
| 1758 | Thomas Greatorex, composer |
| 1743 | Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer |
| 1722 | Gregorio Sciroli, composer |
| 1713 | Denis Diderot, France, encyclopedist, Dictionnaire Encyclopedique |
| 1712 | Francesco Guardi, Italian painter |
| 1703 | Jonathan Edwards, U.S., theologian/philosopher, Original Sin |
| 1684 | Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer |
| 1626 | Johann Schop, composer |
| 1609 | Paul Fleming, writer |
| 1458 | Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint |
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