| 1980 | Timothy Goebel, born in Evanston, Illinois, figure skater, 1996 National, Jr. champ |
| 1976 | Gregory Robert Henderson, Dunedin New Zealand, 4k pursuit cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah, 1997, top 6 |
| 1974 | Ben Wallace, NBA forward, Washington Wizards |
| 1974 | Jill Chartier, Miss Oregon USA 1996 |
| 1974 | Sandra Cacic, born in Joliet, Illinois, tennis star |
| 1974 | Ryan Phillippe, born in New Castle, Delaware, actor, appeared in 'One Life to Live' soap opera, films include, 'Cruel Intentions', 'Crash' |
| 1973 | Ghada Shouaa, Syria, heptatlete, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1972 | Mariano Bombarda, Italian, soccer player, ACV, FC Groningen |
| 1971 | Brandon Harrison, NFL wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1971 | Brian Earley, born in Fresno, California, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Chris Oeding, born in Santa Ana, California, water polo driver 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Dean Gorre, Suriname/Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord |
| 1970 | Julie Halard, born in Versailles, France, tennis star, 1995 Prague |
| 1970 | Robert Green, NFL running back for the Chicago Bears |
| 1970 | Ulrika Ericsson, born in Gavle, Sweden, playmate, Nov, 1996 |
| 1969 | Bob Spitulski, NFL linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1969 | Matt Geiger, NBA center, Charlotte Hornets |
| 1968 | Guy Ritchie, born in Hatfield, England, filmmaker, screenwriter, music video director, directed 'Snatch', 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' |
| 1966 | Joe Nieuwendyk, NHL forward, Dallas Stars, Team Canada 1998 |
| 1966 | Kimble Anders, NFL fullback for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1966 | Ted Popson, NFL tight end for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1965 | Allison Daughtry, actress, Guilding Light |
| 1965 | Brian Washington, NFL safety for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1964 | Karl Wilson, NFL defensive end for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1964 | Peter Vogler, Australian baseball outfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1964 | Tim Harris, NFL defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1964 | John Sununu, born in Boston, Massachusetts, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire 2003 - 2009, sits on Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP |
| 1963 | Carol Decker, rocker, T'Pau-Heart and Soul |
| 1963 | David Titlow, rocker, Blue Mercedes-Rich and Famous |
| 1963 | Randy Johnson, American Athlete |
| 1962 | Esteban Toledo, Mexicali, Mexico, Nike golfer, 1991 Ben Hogan Reno-2nd |
| 1960 | Colin Firth, born in Hampshire, England, actor, Femme Fatale, Hostages |
| 1960 | Miranda Wilson, Nebraska, actress, Sandra-Santa Barbara |
| 1960 | Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist |
| 1958 | Chris Columbus, writer and director, Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months |
| 1958 | Dan Castellaneta, American Actor |
| 1957 | Brian Fitzpatrick, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, actor, Rick Alden-Loving |
| 1957 | Kate Burton, born in Geneva, Switzerland, actress, Ice Storm, August |
| 1957 | Siobhan Fahey, born in Dublin, rocker, Bananarama-Venus, Shakespear's Sister |
| 1956 | Johnny Fingers, rocker, Boomtown Rats |
| 1955 | Charlotte Lewis, born in Chicago, Illinois, basketball player 1976 Olympics silver |
| 1955 | Giannina Facio Franco, Mrs. Phillipe Junot |
| 1955 | Pat Mastelotto, rock drummer, Mr Mister |
| 1954 | Martha Nause, Sheboygan WI, LPGA golfer, 1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic |
| 1953 | Amy Irving, Palo Alto, California, actress, Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy |
| 1952 | Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer, Punisher |
| 1951 | Albert R. Wynn, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Maryland 1993 - 2008 |
| 1951 | Albert Wynn, American Politician |
| 1950 | Don Powell, England, rock drummer, Slade |
| 1950 | Joe Perry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock guitarist, Aerosmith-Walk this Way |
| 1949 | Barriemore Barlow, rocker, Jethro Tull |
| 1949 | Stephanie Tubbs Jones, born in Ohio, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio |
| 1948 | Bob Lanier, NBA center, Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1948 | Judy Geeson, Arundei Sussex England, actress, To Sir With Love, Berserk |
| 1948 | Margaret Trudeau, Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady |
| 1948 | Ted Poe, American Politician |
| 1947 | Larry Gene Nelson, Ft. Payne AL, PGA golfer, 1980 Atlanta Classic |
| 1946 | James R. Hines, Dumas, Arkansas, 4X100m relayer, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1945 | Jose Feliciano, born in Lares, Puerto Rico, singer, blind due to congenital glaucoma, guitarist, composer, wrote international hits |
| 1945 | Rein van den Broek, Dutch trumpeteer, Ekseption |
| 1945 | Richard M. Mullane, born in Texas, USAF/astronaut, STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36 |
| 1945 | Tom Ligon, New Orleans, actor, Joyride |
| 1944 | Thomas Allen, British opera singer |
| 1944 | Thomas E. Mann, American Sociologist |
| 1943 | Garrett List, born in Phoenix, Arizona, composer, vocalist, trombonist, formed Julliard Ensemble, composed classical, jazz, pop, free jazz music |
| 1943 | Neale Donald Walsch, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, author, wrote series of books titled, 'Conversations With God', which include, 'What God Wants', 'Happier than God', 'Friendship with God', ' Communion with God' |
| 1942 | Danny Hutton, Ireland, rock vocalist, Three Dog Night |
| 1941 | Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut, Soyuz 13, 18B, 30 |
| 1941 | Stephen Jay Gould, American Scientist |
| 1940 | Roy Ayers, Louisiana, disco jazz artist, Fever, You Send Me |
| 1940 | Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1939 | Artie Tripp, rocker, Mothers Of Invention |
| 1939 | Greg Mullavey, Buffalo, New York, actor, Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals |
| 1939 | Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire |
| 1938 | Karl Lagerfeld, German Designer |
| 1937 | Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International |
| 1937 | Paul Martin Palombo, composer |
| 1937 | Jared Diamond, American Author |
| 1935 | John Palmer, Kingsport Tennessee, news anchor, NBC Weekend News |
| 1935 | Paul van Vliet, Dutch cabaret performer |
| 1935 | Mary Oliver, American Poet |
| 1934 | Charles Kuralt, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, newscaster, On the Road |
| 1934 | Jim Oberstar, born in Chisholm, Minnesota, Representative-D-Minnesota 1975 - |
| 1934 | Larry Sitsky, born in Tianjin, China, pianist, Australian composer, educator, musicologist, studied with Winifred Burston, awarded Centenary Medal, 2000 |
| 1934 | Roger Maris, Yankee, home run champ, 61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961 |
| 1934 | Vasil Kazandzhiev, composer |
| 1933 | David Rowland, English real estate developer/broker/multi-millionaire |
| 1933 | Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 5 |
| 1930 | Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat |
| 1929 | Akio Yashiro, born in Tokyo, Japanese composer, studied under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Leonid Kreutzer, String Quartet composition won the Eighth Mainichi Music prize in 1957 |
| 1929 | Arnold Daniel Palmer, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, PGA golfer, 1964 Masters |
| 1929 | Pentti Siimes, Pentti Kalevi Siimes, Helsinki Finland |
| 1929 | Arnold Palmer, American Athlete |
| 1928 | Leo P[atrick] Kelley, U.S., sci-fi author, Dead Moon, Vacation in Space |
| 1928 | Walter Martin, American Clergyman |
| 1928 | Jean Vanier, Swiss Clergyman |
| 1927 | Gwen Watford, British actress, Body in the Library, Ghoul |
| 1927 | Yma Sumac, Chavarri, Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano, Omar Khayyam |
| 1926 | Beryl Cook, British painter |
| 1925 | Roy James Brown, New Orleans, boxer/soul singer, Good Rockin' Tonight |
| 1921 | Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter |
| 1920 | Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor and director, Assault |
| 1919 | John Noorda, resistance fighter |
| 1919 | Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer |
| 1917 | Franfo Fortini, poet |
| 1917 | Miguel Serrano, Chilean Diplomat |
| 1916 | Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician |
| 1915 | Edmond O'Brien, New York City, actor, Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight |
| 1914 | Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story |
| 1913 | Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, President South Afr Pan-African Congress, 1986- |
| 1912 | Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet |
| 1908 | Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Your Hit Parade |
| 1906 | Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer and conductor, Hooglied |
| 1903 | Cyril Connolly, English Journalist |
| 1902 | Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer, Wegwerkers |
| 1898 | Adele Marie Astaire, born in Omaha, Nebraska, sister of Fred Astaire, entertainer |
| 1898 | Bessie Love, born in Midland, Texas, actress, Broadway Melody, Children of Damned |
| 1897 | Nancy Keene Lancaster, designer/Collector |
| 1896 | Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer |
| 1893 | Al "Fuzzy" St. John, born in Santa Ana California, actor, Lash of the West |
| 1892 | Arthur H Compton, U.S. physicist, X-rays |
| 1892 | Arthur H. Compton, American Scientist |
| 1892 | Arthur Holly Compton, American Scientist |
| 1890 | Franz Werfel, Austria, author, 40 Days of Musa Dagh |
| 1889 | Vilem Petrzelka, composer |
| 1887 | Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy |
| 1886 | Hilda Doolittle, U.S., poet, imagisten |
| 1885 | Berthold Altaner, German church historian, Patrologie |
| 1885 | Carl Clinton Van Doren, U.S. literary, 9th Wave |
| 1885 | Johannes de Jong, cardinal and archbishop of Utrecht, Handbook |
| 1883 | Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist |
| 1882 | Paul Harvey, Illinois, actor, Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree |
| 1877 | Georgia B D Camp Johnson, U.S., poet/playwright, Autumn Love Cycle |
| 1875 | Paul Scheinpflug, composer |
| 1872 | Josephina "Frieda" Herberich, actress, Verdoold Sheep |
| 1872 | Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician |
| 1866 | Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet, Vredens Born |
| 1866 | Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer |
| 1857 | James E Keeler, U.S., astronomer, rings of Saturn |
| 1854 | Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Netherlands manufacturer, Vroom and Dreesman |
| 1852 | Alice Brown Davis, American Statesman |
| 1848 | William M Harnett, U.S. painter, Old Violin |
| 1839 | Isaac Kauffman Funk, U.S., publisher, Funk and Wagnalls |
| 1836 | Joseph Wheeler II, Major General, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee |
| 1834 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist |
| 1832 | Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1830 | Chauncey Wright, American Philosopher |
| 1823 | Adolf von Doss, composer |
| 1815 | Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1810 | Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1787 | John Jordan Crittenden, MC, Union |
| 1779 | Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer |
| 1753 | John Soane, English architect, Bank of England, Soane Museum |
| 1751 | Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist, composer and conductor |
| 1736 | Carter Braxton, U.S. farmer/signer, Declaration of Independence |
| 1714 | Niccolo Jommelli, Italy, composer |
| 1645 | Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem, Netherlands, painter/goldsmith |
| 1624 | Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist |
| 1588 | Nicholas Lanier, composer |
| 1585 | Ercole Porta, composer |
| 1487 | Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope, 1550-55 |
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