| 1981 | Serena Williams, born in Saginaw, Michigan, professional tennis player, winner, top earning female athlete of all time, 5th Australian title at 2010 Australian Open |
| 1981 | Christina Milian, American Musician |
| 1979 | Jaycie Phelps, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, gymnast, Bronze Medal 1995 World/Gold Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Alison Davies, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Gary Hall, Jr., U.S., 50m/100m/400m free relay, Olympic-gold/2 silver-96 |
| 1974 | Katie Kauffman, West Lawn, Pennsylvania, field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Martin Muursepp, NBA forward, Dallas Mavericks |
| 1973 | David Richie, NFL nost tackle, Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32 |
| 1972 | Mark Haslam, cricketer, New Zealand slow left-armer 1992 |
| 1972 | Shawn Stockman, Slim, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, rapper, Boyz II Men |
| 1971 | Elva Dryer, Durango Colorado, 1.5K/5K runner |
| 1971 | Patterson Thompson, cricketer, WI Test fast bowler vs. New Zealand 1996 |
| 1970 | Paul Laus, Beamsville, NHL defenseman for the Florida Panthers |
| 1970 | Rachel Jacobs, Ririe Idaho, actress, It's Not Easy |
| 1970 | Trevor Ruffin, NBA guard for the Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1968 | Scott Schorer, Burke, Virginia, rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1968 | Jim Caviezel, American Celebrity |
| 1968 | James Caviezel, American Actor |
| 1967 | Craig Janney, Hartford, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets |
| 1967 | Martha Nix, Orange County California, actress, Serena-Waltons |
| 1966 | Craig Heyward, NFL running back for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1966 | Francisco Andreu, Dearborn, Michigan, road cyclist, Olympics-4th-88, 96 |
| 1964 | Bobby Joe Edmonds, NFL running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1964 | Dave Martinez, Manhattan, New York, outfielder, Chicago White Sox |
| 1964 | Gerrie Slagboom, Dutch soccer player: Dordrecht '90 |
| 1964 | Robin Hood, Mishawaka, Indiana, LPGA golfer, 1989 Planters Pat Bradley |
| 1964 | Ty Miller, Granada Hills California, actor, The Kid-Young Riders |
| 1963 | Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenyan marathon runner 1988 Olympics silver |
| 1963 | Lysette Anthony, London, actress, Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch |
| 1962 | Melissa Sue Anderson, Cal, actress, Little House on the Prairie |
| 1962 | Steve Moneghetti, Australian marathoner, Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96 |
| 1962 | Tracey Thorn, rock vocalist, Everything But The Girl |
| 1962 | Mark Haddon, born in Northampton, England, novelist, poet, wrote, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time', written from perspective of boy with Asperger syndrome |
| 1960 | Bret Erickson, Bennington Nebraska, U.S. trap 1996 Olympics |
| 1956 | Linda Hamilton, born in Salisbury, Maryland, actress, Catherine-Beauty and the Beast |
| 1955 | Carlene Carter, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, I Fell in Love |
| 1954 | Craig Chaquico, rock guitarist, Jefferson Starship |
| 1952 | James Keane, Buffalo, New York, actor, Willis Bell-Paper Chase |
| 1949 | Leonide F M "Leonie" Triesschijn, Dutch actress/mime |
| 1949 | Martin Delray, Texarkana Ar, country singer, Get Rhythm, |
| 1948 | Olivia Newton-John, born in Cambridge, England, singer, Lets Get Physical |
| 1948 | Vladimir Remek, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 28 |
| 1947 | Dick Roth, U.S. swimmer, Gold Medal 1964 Olympics |
| 1947 | Graham Faulkner, London, actor, Brother Sun Sister Moon |
| 1947 | Lynn Anderson, ND, country singer, I Never Promised you a Rose Garden |
| 1947 | Richard Roth, U.S., 400m swim medley 1964 Olympic gold |
| 1946 | Mary Beth Hurt, Mary Supinger, Iowa, actress, Garp, Interiors |
| 1946 | Andrea Dworkin, American Critic |
| 1946 | Christine Todd Whitman, American Politician |
| 1946 | Christie Todd Whitman, American Politician |
| 1945 | Brian Ferry, England, rocker, Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together |
| 1945 | Bryan Ferry, British Musician |
| 1944 | Angela Dorian, Victoria Vetri, SF, playmate, Sep 1967, Year-1968 |
| 1944 | Anne Robinson, British Celebrity |
| 1943 | Georgie Fame, Clive Powell, rocker, Georgie Fame and Blue Flames |
| 1943 | Ian Chappell, Australian cricket player, batsman 1964-80 |
| 1942 | Ingrid Becker, born in West Germany, long jumper/relayer, Gold Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics |
| 1942 | Kent McCord, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12 |
| 1941 | Joe Bauer, born in Memphis, Tennessee, rock drummer, Youngbloods |
| 1941 | Martine Beswicke, Jamacia, actress, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde |
| 1939 | Judith P Appelbaum, magazine and newspaper editor, educator |
| 1938 | Andrei Lukanov, politician |
| 1938 | Michael V. Love, U.S. test pilot, X-24 |
| 1937 | Joop Admiral, Dutch actor and director, You Are My Mother |
| 1936 | Sue Kelly, American Politician |
| 1935 | Bob Barber, cricketer, dashing England lefty bat in 28 Tests 1960-68 |
| 1934 | Dick Heckstall-Smith, rocker, Alexis Korner Band |
| 1934 | Raphael Samuel, historian |
| 1934 | Winnie Mandela-Madikizela, South African anti-apartheid protestor |
| 1933 | Clari Baruch, Clara C de Lieme, actress, Man With White Flower |
| 1933 | Donna Douglas, born in Pride, Louisiana, actress, 'Beverly Hillbillies' |
| 1932 | Clifton C Williams, Jr., Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut |
| 1932 | Giuacomo Manzoni, composer |
| 1932 | Joyce Jameson, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedienne, Spike Jones Show |
| 1932 | Manmohan Singh, Indian Statesman |
| 1931 | Don Pease, born in Toledo, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1977 - 1993 |
| 1931 | George Chambers, MS, rock bassist/vocalist, Chambers Brothers |
| 1931 | Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer, father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman |
| 1930 | Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor, Stuttgart 1955-58 |
| 1930 | Philip Bosco, Jersey City, actor, Trading Places |
| 1929 | Meredith C Gourdine, Newark, New Jersey, long jumper 1952 Olympics silver |
| 1927 | Patrick O'Neal, Ocala, Florida, actor, Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat |
| 1926 | Buland Al Haidary, poet |
| 1926 | Giuseppi Chiari, composer |
| 1926 | Julie London, born in Santa Rosa, California, actress, Nurse McCall-Emergency |
| 1925 | Bobby Shantz, baseball player, 1952 AL MVP |
| 1925 | Marty Robbins, born in Glendale, Arizona, singer, Devil Woman, I Walk Alone |
| 1919 | Barbara Britton, born in Long Beach, California, actress, Young and Willing |
| 1918 | Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director, ANP/Reuter |
| 1914 | Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul, Juice Tiger |
| 1913 | Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist, Anne Frank |
| 1911 | Jan F Hampe, pathologist-anatomy, Fabric and Stoflongen |
| 1909 | Helen Giuliani, mother of Rudy, Mayor-R-NYC, 1994-2002 |
| 1908 | Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker |
| 1907 | Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for U.S.S.R. |
| 1907 | Bep van Klaveren, European Boxing Champ, Gold Medal 1928 Olympics |
| 1907 | Ralph Michael, born in London, England, actor, Quest, Doctor in the House |
| 1902 | Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster, Murder Inc |
| 1901 | Donald Cook, Portland, Oregon, actor, Too Young To Go Steady |
| 1898 | George Gershwin, Jacob Gershvin, Brooklyn, composer, Rhapsody in Blue |
| 1897 | Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Montini, 262nd Roman Catholic pope, 1963-78 |
| 1897 | Victor O Stomps, writer |
| 1897 | Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher, Goethe/Brecht |
| 1895 | Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress, Mother-Andy Hardy films |
| 1895 | George Raft, American Actor |
| 1894 | Gladys Brockwell, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Long Pants, Oliver Twist |
| 1893 | Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet, Seobe |
| 1891 | Alfred Plane, U.S. sharp shooter, Gold Medal 1912, 1920 Olympics |
| 1891 | Charles Munch, Strasbourg Alsatian conductor, French Legion D'Honeur |
| 1889 | Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist, Being and Time |
| 1888 | T. S. Eliot, St. Louis poet/dramatist/critic, Waste Land-Nobel 1948 |
| 1887 | Antonio Moreno, born in Madrid, Spain, actor and director, It, Careers |
| 1879 | Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria, writer, Fairy, Samodiva Fee |
| 1877 | Alfred Cortot, French pianist |
| 1876 | C B "Buck" Llewellyn, cricketer, South Africa lefty all-rounder 1896-1912 |
| 1876 | Edith Abbott, dean, University of Chicago Social Sciences |
| 1875 | Edmund Gwenn, Wales, actor, Miracle on 34th Street |
| 1873 | Amilcare Zanella, composer |
| 1872 | Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian Foreign min, 1916-18 |
| 1870 | Christian X, king of Denmark, 1912-47 |
| 1868 | Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer |
| 1867 | Maggie L Walker, black business and civic leader |
| 1841 | Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer |
| 1832 | Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer |
| 1823 | Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist, Denj, Moskvitsh |
| 1821 | Alvin Peterson Hovey, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1820 | Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose, Exile of Sita |
| 1791 | J L A Theodore Gericault, French painter, Easy-Going of Medusa |
| 1774 | John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed, frontier nurseryman |
| 1767 | Wenzel Muller, composer |
| 1759 | Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian Field Marshal/Governor-General |
| 1729 | Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher/critic/Bible translator |
| 1688 | Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist |
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