| 1975 | Vitaliy Yeremeyev, hockey goalie, Team Kazkhstan 1998 |
| 1974 | Doris Glenn Easterly, Richmond, Virginia, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Grant McDonald, Australian baseball outfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Michelle Tolson, Manchester, New Hampshire, Miss America - New Hampshire 1997 |
| 1973 | Trick Daddy, born in Miami, Florida, rapper, popular hits 'Let's Go', 'Shut Up', 'Thugs are Us' |
| 1971 | Eric Montross, NBA center, Detroit Pistons |
| 1971 | Marcel Boudesteyn, soccer player, Excelsior/FC Groningen |
| 1971 | Taunya Harris, Miss USA-New Mexico 1997 |
| 1971 | Willie Greene, Milledgville Georgia, infielder for the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1970 | Brian Wells, Carmel California, pairs skater, & Lyons-1995 Midwest champ |
| 1970 | Ani Difranco, born in Buffalo, New York, singer, musician, guitarist, songwriter, considered a feminist icon, released over twenty albums |
| 1969 | Jeff Cirillo, born in Pasadena, California, infielder for the Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1967 | Harry Connick, Jr., New Orleans Louisiana, singer, We Are in Love |
| 1966 | Doug Widell, NFL guard, Detroit Lions |
| 1966 | Pete Harnisch, Commack, New York, pitcher for the New York Mets |
| 1965 | Ian Leggatt, Cambridge Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, 1990 Canadian Tour |
| 1965 | Mark Woodforde, Adelaide Australia, tennis star, 1993 Wimbledon mixed |
| 1964 | Diane Dixon, born in Brooklyn, New York, 4x400m runner 1988 Olympics silver |
| 1964 | Leon Meijs, soccer player, Willem II |
| 1963 | Gabriele Reinsch, born in East Germany, discus thrower, world record 1988 |
| 1962 | Jack Warren Pierce, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, hurdler |
| 1961 | Elizabeth Pena, Havana Cuba, actress, La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder |
| 1961 | Phyllis Hines, born in Nashville, Tennessee, cyclist 1996 Olympics |
| 1961 | William C McCool, born in San Diego, California, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut |
| 1960 | John Rocca, English funk singer, Southern Freeze |
| 1959 | Heather Drew, born in St. Louis, Missouri, LPGA golfer, 1987 Henredon Classic-5th |
| 1959 | Jason Alexander, Greenspan, Newark, New Jersey, actor, George-Seinfeld |
| 1958 | Larry Hogan Mize, Augusta Georgia, PGA golfer, 1987 Masters |
| 1958 | Danielle Dax, English Musician |
| 1957 | Sylvie Garant, Montmagny Quebec, playmate, Nov, 1979 |
| 1957 | Tony Fossas, Cuba, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1956 | June Forester, Chattanooga, Tennessee, country singer, Forester Sister-Men |
| 1956 | Lili Carati, Varese Italy, Miss Italy, 1975, actress, Alcove |
| 1956 | Maren Jensen, Arcadia California, actress, Athena-Battlestar Galactica |
| 1955 | Patti Weaver, West Virginia, actress, Days of our Life, Gina-Young and Restless |
| 1951 | Ron Klink, born in Canton, Ohio, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1993 - 2001 |
| 1949 | Bruce Springsteen, born in Asbury, New Jersey, rock musician, 'Born in the USA' |
| 1949 | Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist |
| 1948 | Rob van Koningsbruggen, sculptor |
| 1947 | Don Grolnick, jazz musician |
| 1947 | Mary Kay Place, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress/country singer, Mary Hartman! |
| 1945 | Paul Petersen, born in Glendale California, actor, Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show |
| 1945 | Ronald Bushy, Washington D.C., rock drummer, Iron Butterfly |
| 1944 | Loren J. Shriver, Iowa, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46 |
| 1943 | Bob Clement, born in Nashville, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1988 - 2003 |
| 1943 | Julio Iglesias, Spain, singer, Of All the Girls I Loved Before |
| 1943 | Walter Scott, rock vocalist, Whispers |
| 1943 | Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer |
| 1940 | Tim Rose, born in Washington, D.C., born Timothy Alan Patrick Rose, singer, songwriter, guitarist, voice compared to Ray Charles, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker |
| 1939 | Roy Buchanan, Ozark, Arkansas, rocker |
| 1938 | Clifford Ann Creed, LPGA golfer |
| 1938 | Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress, Bloodline, Death Watch |
| 1936 | Sylvain Saudan, skiier, 60 degrees descent |
| 1935 | Pierre Marietan, composer |
| 1934 | Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer, Hour of the Lynx |
| 1931 | Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter |
| 1930 | Colin Blakely, Bangor N Ireland, actor, Shattered, Equus, King Lear |
| 1930 | Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin, cosmonaut, Soyuyz 7, 10, 11 backup |
| 1930 | Ray Charles, born in Albany, Georgia, singer/pianist |
| 1929 | Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster |
| 1928 | Robert Helps, composer |
| 1926 | John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist, Round Midnight |
| 1925 | Barry Linehan, actor, Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft |
| 1922 | Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator |
| 1920 | Alexander Arutiunian, composer |
| 1920 | Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon |
| 1920 | Mickey Rooney, American Actor |
| 1917 | Imry Nemeth, Hungary, hammer thrower 1948 Olympics gold |
| 1915 | Finn Arnestad, composer |
| 1915 | Ian Dawson-Shepherd, campaigner |
| 1914 | Norman Cazden, composer |
| 1913 | Alexey Davidovich Machavariani, composer |
| 1913 | Stanley Kramer, Argentinian Director |
| 1910 | Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer, Murder in the Oval Office |
| 1910 | Soulima Stravinsky, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Russian pianist, Igor's son |
| 1909 | Marianne Straub, weaver |
| 1907 | Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68 |
| 1906 | Willard F McMurry, musician |
| 1905 | Jeno Kenessey, composer |
| 1904 | Meyer Schapiro, art historian |
| 1904 | Wallace "Scotty" Scott, rock vocalist, Whispers |
| 1901 | Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet, Nobel 1984 |
| 1900 | Louise Nevelson, U.S., sculptor, Sky Cathedral |
| 1899 | Louise Nevelson, sculptor |
| 1899 | Marcel Dalio, Israel Blauschild, Paris, France, actor, China Gate |
| 1899 | William Levi Dawson, composer |
| 1899 | Tom C. Clark, American Politician |
| 1897 | Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter, surrealist |
| 1897 | Walter Pidgeon, New Brunswick Can, actor, Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie |
| 1894 | Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist, Edda and Thora |
| 1890 | Arthur Walter Kramer, composer |
| 1890 | Friedrich von Paul, German General-Field Marshal, Netherlands |
| 1889 | Walter Lippmann, New York City, journalist/political writer, Men of Dystany |
| 1888 | Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist, Die Oden Salomons |
| 1880 | John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949 |
| 1871 | Frantisek Kupka, Czechoslovakian writer |
| 1870 | John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist |
| 1866 | Edouard Combe, composer |
| 1865 | Marie-Clementine"Suzanne" Valadon, French acrobat/model |
| 1865 | Baroness Orczy, British Novelist |
| 1863 | Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist, bacteria plague |
| 1863 | Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist |
| 1861 | Edmond H H Allenby, English Field Marshal/high director, Egypt |
| 1856 | William Archer, Scotland, writer, Green Goddess |
| 1854 | Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch engineer and Governor of Suriname, 1902 - 1905 |
| 1853 | Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar |
| 1852 | William Stewart Halsted, established 1st U.S. surgical school |
| 1849 | Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer |
| 1842 | Karl Munzinger, composer |
| 1820 | Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1817 | Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer |
| 1816 | Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC, Union |
| 1816 | Julius White, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1805 | Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Massachusetts, numismatist |
| 1804 | David Van de Kellen, coin engraver |
| 1800 | William H McGuffey, educator, McGuffey Readers |
| 1791 | Johann F Encke, German astronomer, Encke Comet |
| 1791 | Karl T Korner, German poet, Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt |
| 1782 | Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer |
| 1768 | William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace |
| 1745 | John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter, Gov/Rep-Tn |
| 1712 | Ferdinand VI, the wise, King of Spain, 1746-59 |
| 1703 | Jean-Marie Leclair, composer |
| 1684 | Johann Theodor Romhild, composer |
| 1642 | Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer |
| 1641 | Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, theologist, against jansenisme |
| 1605 | Daniel von Czepko, German poet |
| 1596 | Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher |
| 1591 | Michael Lohr, composer |
| 1555 | Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange |
| 1215 | Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman |
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