1979 Emma Louise DeSilets, Miss Washington Teen USA 1997 1978 Caroline Hunt, born in Chicago, Illinois, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96 1977 Alexei Morozov, NHL forward, Team Russia, Pittsburgh, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics 1977 Trina Jackson, 4X200m freestyle swimmer, 1996 Olympics gold 1975 Casey Barrett, born in Montreal, Quebec, 200m Butterfly 1996 Olympics 1975 Marty Murray, Deloraine, NHL center for the Calgary Flames 1974 Jevon Langford, defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals 1974 Kathy McCormack, ice hockey forward, Canada, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics 1974 Kimberly Dawn Whipany, Oklahoma, rocker, PC Quest-Can You See 1973 Cathy Freeman, born in Mackay, Australia, 100m/200m/400m, Olympics-silver-92, 96 1973 James Young, Australian water polo player 1996 Olympics 1972 Jerome Bettis, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1972 Bo Bennett, American Businessman 1971 Anthony Abrams, NFL defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs 1971 Chi Kredell, born in Long Beach, California, water polo driver 1996 Olympics 1971 Larry Jones, NFL running back for the Washington Redskins 1971 Marco Sas, Dutch soccer player, NAC 1971 Mike Hubbard, Lynchburg, Virginia, catcher for the Chicago Cubs 1971 Shivanthini Dharmasiri, Miss Universe-Sri Lanka 1996 1971 Van Tuinei, defensive end for the San Diego Chargers 1971 Amanda Holden, born in Bishop's Waltham, England, actress, judge on television show, 'Britain's Got Talent' 1970 Saskia Linssen, Venlo Holland, playmate, Jun, 1991 1969 Claude Lambert, born in Montreal, Quebec, boxer 1996 Olympics 1969 Fermin Cacho, Barcelona Spain, 1500m, Olympics-2 gold-92, 96 1969 Tim Costo, U.S. baseball infielder, Cincinnati Reds 1968 Cecil Gray, NFL tackle for the Arizona Cardinals 1968 Erik Regtop, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen 1968 Warren Ellis, British Author 1967 Robert Massey, NFL cornerback, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions 1966 Eric Uptagrafft, Spokane, Washington prone rifle 1996 Olympics 1964 Christopher Eccleston, English Actor 1962 Alexa Kenin, New York City, actress, Mousie-Coed Fever 1962 Tony Kiley, rocker, Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways 1961 Andy Taylor, England, rock guitarist, Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf 1959 Kelly Tripuka, Glenn Ridge, New Jersey, NBA forward, Det Pistons, Utah Jazz 1959 John McEnroe, tennis player, U.S. Open 1979-81, 84 Wimb 1981, 83, 84 1958 Herb Williams, NBA center, Toronto Raptors, New York Knicks 1958 Ice-T, born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow, musician, pioneer of gangsta rap, songwriter, actor, Grammy Award winner, author 1958 John Paul Morse, Marshall, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1995 United Airlines 1958 Lisa Loring, actress, As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family 1957 LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, Roots, Star Trek Next Generation 1956 James Ingram, vocalist, On the Wings of Love 1955 Guy Gallo, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, writer, Under the Volcano 1955 Jeff Clayton, U.S. jazz saxophonist/composer, Groove Shop 1954 Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory 1954 Michael Holding, cricket fast bowler, Whispering Death-Awesome for WI 1954 Iain Banks, Scottish Writer 1953 Mike Ford, New York City, Canadian Tour golfer, 1976 Port Jefferson Open 1953 Roberta Williams, American Designer 1950 Peter Hain, born in Nairobi, Kenya, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Cabinet member for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Neath 1950 William Katt, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Greatest American Hero, 1st Love 1949 Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet, Otobanda; the Other Bank 1946 Aleksandr Shaparenko, U.S.S.R., 1K kayak, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1946 Ian Lavender, British actor, Stupid Boy in Dad's Army 1946 J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon 1944 Richard Ford, U.S. author, Sportswriter 1943 Anthony Dowell, London, ballet dancer, Royal Ballet 1943 J D Moore, headmaster, St. Dunstan's College 1943 James Wallace Beaton, born in Britain, Chief Superintendent, The Queen's Police Officer 1983 - 1992, saved Princess Anne from kidnapper 1974 1942 Kim Chong-Il, Yura, president of North-Korea, 1994- 1942 Kim Jong Il, North Korean Statesman 1941 Vitali Kuznetsov, U.S.S.R., judo 1972 Olympics silver 1940 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter 1939 David Griffiths, portrait painter 1939 Harold Kalin, born in Port Jervis, New York, singer, member of pop music duo with brother Herbert 'Herbie' Kalin 1938 Barry Primus, New York City, actor, Sergeant McKenna-Cagney and Lacey, Boxcar Bertha 1938 John Corigliano, born in New York City, composer, Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles 1937 Paul Bailey, born in England, novelist, George Orewell prize-winner, lecturer at North Dakota State University, writer in residence, Kingston University, wrote At The Jerusalem, radio and television plays, and non-fiction books 1937 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut 1935 Brian Bedford, England, actor, Anthony-Coronet Blue 1935 Robin Clark, chemist, FRS 1935 Sonny Bono, born in Detroit, Michigan, Representative-R-California 1995 - 1998, vocalist, Sonny and Cher 1934 Austin "Ted" Taylor, U.S. gospel/R&B-singer, Be Ever Wonderful 1934 Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka, South Dakota, LPGA golfer, 1950 Woman Athlete 1932 Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style 1932 Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Oklahoma, actress, Silk Stockings 1932 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/TV-host 1932 Otis Blackwell, composer/singer 1931 Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner, all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts 1931 George E. Sangmeister, born in Frankfort, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1989 - 1995 1931 Ken Takakura, Goichi Oda, Kita Japan, actor, Story of Antarctic 1930 Peggy King, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, vocalist/actress, George Gobel Show 1930 Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor, Thunderball 1929 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel 1926 Jack Levy, mechanical engineer 1926 John Schlesinger, born in London, England, director, Midnight Cowboy, Darling 1926 Vera-Ellen, Westmeyr Rohe, Cincinnati, actress/dancer, Wonder Man 1925 David Emms, director, London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates 1925 PER Bailey, director, Gatwick and Stansted Airports 1924 James Swaffield, director-general, Swaffield and Clerk to the GLC 1924 Peter Webster, British High Court Judge 1922 Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist, Knaben Wunderhorn 1922 Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist and writer, Het Vrije Volk 1921 Jean Behra, auto racer 1920 Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist 1920 Lee Russell, born in Cleveland, Ohio, vocalist, Vincent Lopez 1920 Patty Andrews, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, vocalist, Andrews Sisters 1918 Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Hungarian governor/premier, 1910-12 1916 William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician 1914 J Tobin, British anaesthetist 1914 Jimmy Wakely, Mineola, Arkansas, country vocalist, 5 Star Jubilee 1912 Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement 1912 Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch, female, author 1912 Del Sharbutt, Cleburne, Texas, TV announcer, Your Hit Parade 1912 Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader, created salsa music 1912 Maitland Mackie, Lord Lt, Aberdeenshire 1911 Hal Porter, Australia, writer, Tilted Cross, Paper Chase 1910 Michael Milne-Watson, CEO, BUPA 1910 Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer 1909 Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence, Kansas, actor, Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver 1909 Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Massachusetts, actor, My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties 1907 Anghelos Terzakis, Greece, writer, Without God 1907 Fernando Previtali, composer 1907 Henri van Albada, Belgian sculptor, Charles V 1907 Ralph F. Marston, born in Malden, Massachusetts, Ralph Fulsom Marston, professional football player, played with National Football League's Boston Bulldogs, 1929 1906 Jeffrey Lynn, actor, Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front 1906 Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ, 1927 1905 Jose Munoz Molleda, composer 1905 Lord Franks, British ambassador, to U.S. 1905 Oliver Franks, English Public Servant 1904 Ellis Achong, cricketer, West Indian SLA, 8 wickets in 6 Tests 1904 George F. Kennan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. ambassador, to Moscow 1903 Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy 1901 Chester Morris, New York City, actor, Diagnosis: Unknown 1901 Wayne King, Savannah, Illinois, saxophonist/bandleader, Waltz King 1900 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter 1898 Katharine Cornell, actress, Barretts of Wimpole St 1896 Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist, Chopin 1896 Charles A. L. Panzera, French baritone, L'horizon Chimerique 1893 Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic 1890 Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer 1886 Andrew Ducat, cricketer, Test for England 1921, 3 and 2, Soccer International 1886 Van Wyck Brooks, New Jersey, literary historian and writer, Ordeal of Mark Twain 1884 Robert Flaherty, Michigan, father of documentary film, Nanook of North 1884 Robert J. Flaherty, Director 1881 Maurits H. E. Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer, Youth of a Poet 1878 Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/ composer and conductor, Peter Schlemihl 1876 George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian, Giuseppi Garibaldi 1871 Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician 1868 Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist, Anthropos 1866 Johann Strauss, Austria, composer, Waltz King 1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet 1866 William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, New Jersey, hall of fame baseball player 1858 Laurence "Lon" Myers, U.S., track star, top U.S. miler 1856 Willem Kes, Dutch violinist, composer and conductor, Parkorkest Amsterdam 1854 Oscar Fetras, composer 1852 Charles Taze Russell, religion founder, Jehovah's Witnesses 1852 William Scarborough, Macon, Georgia, linguist/author, Birds of Aristophanes 1848 Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, How species emerge 1848 Octave Mirbeau, France, writer, Journal of a Lady's Maid 1847 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer, Album polonaise 1838 Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist 1838 Henry B. Adams, born in Boston, Massachusetts, historian, writer, Education of Henry Adams 1836 Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer 1834 Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist, Causes of Evolution 1832 Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Major General Confederate Army 1831 Nikolai Leskow, writer 1826 Franz von Holstein, composer 1826 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer, Gaudeamus 1823 John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist and geneticist 1822 James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army 1821 Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer, Central Africa 1813 Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1813 Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer 1812 Henry Wilson, R, 18th Vice President, 1873-75 1807 Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers 1790 Chretien Urhan, composer 1788 Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer 1787 Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer 1774 Pierre Rode, composer 1746 Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic 1740 Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer, Bodoni 1709 Charles Avison, composer 1698 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer 1684 Bohuslav M Czernohorsky, Czechoslovakian monk/composer 1684 Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czechoslovakian monk/composer 1669 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter 1620 Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia 1519 Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral 1514 Rhaticus, Rheticus, Austrian astronomer/mathematician 1497 Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer, Augsburgse Confessie 1497 Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian 1075 Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet
