| 1981 | Zachery Ty Bryan, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Brad-Home Improvement |
| 1979 | Ashley Anderson, Miss Delaware Teen USA 1996 |
| 1979 | Lydia Jane Lipscombe, Christchurch New Zealand, breastroker 1996 Olympics |
| 1978 | Randy Spelling, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Sean Richards-Sunset Beach |
| 1977 | Lee San San, Miss Hong Kong Universe 1997 |
| 1976 | Rebecca Darrington, Gillette Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming 1997 |
| 1975 | Mahendra Nagamootoo, cricketer, Guyanese leg-spinner |
| 1975 | Mark Viduka, Australian soccer striker, Olyroos, 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Sean Ono Lennon, John and Yoko's Son |
| 1974 | Kavika Pittman, defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1974 | Keith Booth, NBA forward, Chicago Bulls |
| 1973 | A J Ofodile, NFL tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1973 | Alexey Trochshinskiy, hockey defenseman, Team Kazakhstan, 1998 Olympics |
| 1973 | Brandon Pollard, Richmond, Virginia, soccer defender, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1973 | Dexter McCleon, cornerback for the St. Louis Rams |
| 1972 | Maurice Kelly, CFL linebacker for the BC Lions |
| 1972 | Roman Oben, tackle for the New York Giants |
| 1971 | Pete Mitchell, NFL tight end for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1970 | Annika Sorenstam, Stockholm Sweden, LPGA golfer, 1995 U.S. Women's Open |
| 1970 | Kenny Anderson, NBA guard, Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers |
| 1970 | Oleg Kryazhev, hockey forward, Team Kazakhstan, 1998 Olympics |
| 1969 | Charles Jordan, wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1969 | Dwayne Sabb, NFL outside linebacker for the New England Patriots |
| 1969 | P. J. Harvey, also known as Polly Jean Harvey, British Musician |
| 1967 | Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada, tennis player/actress, Spring Fever |
| 1967 | Gheorge Popescu, Romania, soccer player, Barcelona |
| 1967 | Gica Popescu, Romania, soccer player, PSV |
| 1967 | Artur Davis, American Politician |
| 1966 | Mike Williams, NFL wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1964 | Martin Jaite, Argentina, tennis star |
| 1964 | Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director |
| 1961 | Arlene Boxhall, Zimbabwe, field hockey, 1980 Olympics gold |
| 1961 | Jean Sagal, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Kate-Double Trouble, Grease 2 |
| 1961 | Liz Sagal, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Allison-Double Trouble, Grease 2 |
| 1961 | Trevor Matich, NFL center/guard for the Washington Redskins |
| 1959 | Michael Pare, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Greatest American Hero, Houston Knights |
| 1959 | Mike Singletary, NFL middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears |
| 1957 | Yuri Vladimirovich Usachyov, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-18, TM-23 |
| 1955 | Linwood Boomer, Vancouver, actor, Adam-Little House on the Prairie |
| 1955 | Steve Ovett, England, runner, Olympics-800m gold, 1500m bronze-1980 |
| 1954 | Scott Bakula, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown |
| 1953 | Hank Pfister, Bakersfield Cat, tennis star |
| 1953 | Tony Shalhoub, actor, Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Big Night |
| 1952 | Sharon Osbourne, English Entertainer |
| 1951 | Richard Chaves, born in Jacksonville, Florida, actor, Cease Fire, Predator |
| 1951 | Robert Wuhl, Union, New Jersey, actor, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam |
| 1950 | Gary Frank, Spokane, Washington, actor, Enemy Territory, Deadly Weapon |
| 1950 | Mick Malone, cricketer, WA seamer, Test 1977, made 46 took 5-63, 1-14 |
| 1949 | Shep Messing, Israel, soccer goal tender, New York Cosmos |
| 1948 | Dave Samuels, vibraphonist, Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance |
| 1948 | Jackson Browne, U.S. Base in Germany, rock voclaist, Lawyers in Love |
| 1945 | Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer, Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw |
| 1945 | Naftali Bon, Kapsabet Kenya, 4x400m runner, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1944 | John Entwistle, London, rock guitarist and vocalist, Who-Baba O'Riley |
| 1944 | Nona Hendrix, R and B singer, Patti LaBelle and Blue Belles |
| 1941 | Trent Lott, born in Grenada, Mississippi, Representative-R-Mississippi 1973 - 2007 |
| 1941 | Brian Lamb, American Businessman |
| 1940 | Gordon J. Humphrey, born in Bristol, Connecticut, Senator-R-New Hampshire, 1979 - 1990 |
| 1940 | Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer |
| 1940 | Joe Pepitone, baseball 1st baseman, New York Yankee |
| 1940 | John Lennon, English Musician |
| 1939 | O. V. Wright, born in Leno, Tennessee, singer, sang gospel, considered southern soul artist, first pop recording, 'That's How Strong My Love Is' |
| 1939 | Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer, Lettres Clandestines |
| 1939 | John Pilger, Australian Journalist |
| 1938 | Heinz Fischer, Austrian Statesman |
| 1937 | Brian Blessed, English actor, King Arthur, High Road to China |
| 1937 | Pat Burke, rocker, Foundations |
| 1935 | Don McCullin, British photographer |
| 1935 | Edward GNPP, English prince/duke of Kent |
| 1935 | Jules Croiset, Dutch actor, Help, Doctor Verzuipt! |
| 1935 | Paul Barton, cricketer, New Zealand batsman in early 1960's, century vs. South Africa |
| 1935 | Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor, Mother Courage and Her Children |
| 1934 | Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician |
| 1933 | Bill Tidy, English cartoonist, Fosdyke Saga |
| 1930 | David Rounds, Bronxville, New York, actor, Terence-Beacon Hill |
| 1930 | Fjolnir Stefansson, composer |
| 1928 | Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer, Kaivos |
| 1927 | Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest |
| 1926 | Daniele Delorme, Gabrielle Girard, Paris, actress, Pardon My Affair |
| 1925 | Robert Finch, actor, Academy Theater |
| 1924 | Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot, X-15 |
| 1923 | Donald Sinden, England, actor, Doctor at Large, Mogambo, Simba |
| 1923 | Ronald Tremain, composer |
| 1922 | Fyvush Finkel, actor, Middle Ages, Picket Fences |
| 1922 | Raymond Wilding-White, composer |
| 1921 | Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and writer, Utwory dramatyczne |
| 1920 | Jens Bjorneboe, Norway, poet and writer, Dikt, Jonas |
| 1920 | Vivienne Della Chiesa, U.S., actress |
| 1920 | Yusef Lateef, composer |
| 1918 | E. Howard Hunt, born in New York, American author, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy, involved in Watergate |
| 1917 | Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer 1932 Olympics gold |
| 1914 | Edward Andrews, Griffin Georgia, actor, Tea and Sympathy, Glass Bottom Boat |
| 1914 | Roger Goeb, composer |
| 1910 | Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury, Glory of God |
| 1910 | Phil Hanna, River Forest, Illinois, singer, Once Upon a Tune |
| 1908 | Jacques Tatischeff, born in La Pecq, France, director, Traffic, Playtime |
| 1908 | James E Folsom, Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59 |
| 1907 | Klaes Karppinen, Findland, 4 x 10K relay 1936 Olympics gold |
| 1907 | Lord Hailsham, British Politician |
| 1906 | 13th earl of Stair, English Lt-colonel/large landowner |
| 1906 | Janis Ivanovs, composer |
| 1906 | Leopold Sedor Senghor, poet/president of Senegal, 1960-80 |
| 1906 | Wolfgang Staudte, German director, Die Morder sind unter uns |
| 1905 | Euphemia MacDonald, dance producer |
| 1905 | Howard St. John, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Born Yesterday, Li'l Abner |
| 1904 | J Dito, Dutch dominican/broadcast chairman, KRO, 1938-45 |
| 1904 | Wally Brown, Malden, Massachusetts, actor, Zombies on Broadway, Girl Rush |
| 1903 | Walter O'Malley, baseball team owner, Dodgers |
| 1900 | Alastair Sim, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actor, 'Christmas Carol', 'Stage Fright' |
| 1900 | Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper 1928 Olympics silver |
| 1899 | Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War |
| 1893 | Heinrich George, Schulz, German actor, Hitlerjunge Quex |
| 1893 | M de Andrade, writer |
| 1893 | Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian writer/poet/story teller |
| 1892 | Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Poet |
| 1890 | Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, Pentecostal, radio preacher |
| 1890 | Alfred Julius Swan, composer |
| 1890 | Janis Medins, composer |
| 1888 | Hank Patterson, Alabama, actor, Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres |
| 1888 | Irving Cummings Sr, New York City, silent screen star/director, Curly Top |
| 1886 | Frank Newburg, actor, Homemaker |
| 1884 | Helene Deutsch, Rosenbach, psychoanalyst, Boston |
| 1884 | Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer |
| 1878 | Robert Warwick, Bien, Sacramento California, actor, Falcon's Adventure |
| 1875 | Reynaldo Hahn, composer |
| 1873 | Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer, Schwarzschild effect |
| 1871 | Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education, 1939-4- |
| 1869 | Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer |
| 1863 | Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist and professor, Moscow Cons 1888-91 |
| 1859 | Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer, Dreyfus Affair |
| 1858 | Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer, Philips |
| 1847 | Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer, Limburg's coal basin |
| 1847 | Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist, Afr Bond |
| 1835 | Camille Saint-Saens, Paris, France, composer, Ode a Sainte Cecile |
| 1830 | Harriet Hosmer, sculptor |
| 1823 | Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black U.S. newspaper publishers |
| 1822 | George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1819 | Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1813 | Giuseppe Fortunio Francesco Verdi, Italian composer, Traviata, Aida |
| 1813 | John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor, D-Miss, 1859-63 |
| 1782 | Lewis Cass, Gov-Michigan |
| 1771 | Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick, 1813-15 |
| 1766 | Bedrich Divis Weber, composer |
| 1760 | Pierre Gaveaux, composer |
| 1757 | Charles X, reactionary king of France, 1824-30, ; deposed |
| 1727 | Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer |
| 1663 | Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic, Arcadia |
| 1626 | John Ferrabosco, composer |
| 1586 | Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn |
| 1581 | Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist |
| 1547 | Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, Don Quixote |
| 1261 | Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal, 1279-1325 |
| 1201 | Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris |
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