1978 Cristina Teuscher, born in New Rochelle, New York, 4X200m freestyle, 1996 Olympic gold 1978 Tara Mounsey, ice hockey defenseman, USA, 1988 Olympics 1974 Chris Carr, NBA guard for the Phoenix Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves 1973 Antonio Banks, cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings 1973 Gabriel Mendez, Australian soccer midfielder, Olyroos, 1996 Olympics 1973 Keif Bryant, NFL defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks 1973 Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player, Willem II, Vitesse 1972 Alisa Castillo, Miss Nevada USA, 1996 1971 Greg Hansell, born in Bellflower, California, pitcher for the Minnesota Twins 1971 Isaiah Rider, NBA guard and forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Port Trailblazers 1971 Raul Mondesi, born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers 1970 Michael Bankston, NFL defensive end for the Arizona Cardinals 1970 Rex Walters, NBA guard for the Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat 1970 Rod Smith, NFL cornerback for the Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers 1969 Graham Coxon, born in Rintein, West Germany, musician, instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, painter, lead guitarist and singer for Blur 1969 J. P. Izquierdo, CFL slot back for the Calgary Stampeders 1969 Karen Snelgrove, London Ontario, softball pitcher 1996 Olympics 1969 Muhammad Oliver, NFL cornerback and safety for the Washington Redskins 1968 Merton Hanks, NFL safety for the San Francisco 49ers 1968 Aaron Eckhart, American Actor 1967 Irvin Smith, CFL cornerback, for the Montreal Alouettes 1967 Rowelle Blenman, WLAF cornerback and safety, London Monarchs 1966 Alecia Stephenson, born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, softball, 1996 Olympics 1966 Erich Fischer, born in Dinuba, California, U.S. water polo, 1992 Olympics 1966 Grant Long, NBA forward for the Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks 1965 Fran Harris, WNBA guard for the Houston Comets 1965 Molly Van Nostrand, born in West lslip, New York, tennis star 1965 Randy Dixon, NFL guard for the Indianapolis Colts 1965 Steve Finley, born in Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres 1964 Tony Terry, rock producer, Tony Terry 1963 Candy Costie, born in Seattle, Washington synchronized swimmer, 1984 Olympic gold 1963 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner 1984 Olympics gold 1963 John Andretti, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, race car driver 1963 Julia Campbell, born in Huntsville, Alabama, actress, Opportunity Knocks 1962 Darryl Strawberry, born in Los Angeles, California, right fielder for the Mets, Dodgers, Yankees 1962 Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper 1984,1988 Olympics gold 1960 Courtney B. Vance, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Hamburger Hill 1960 Eldine Baptiste, cricketer, WI all-rounder early 80's 1958 Debra Jensen, born in Orange County, California, playmate, January, 1978 1957 Jerry Levine, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, actor, Born on 4th of July 1957 Marlon D. Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana, singer, Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow 1957 Steve Harris, born in London, hard rock bassist, Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss 1956 Dale Murphy, born in Portland, Oregon, slugger, Atlanta Braves, 2 time NL MVP 1953 Labamba, Richard Rosenberg, rocker, Asbury Jukes 1953 Carl Hiaasen, American Writer 1951 Caren Kaye, born in New York City, actress, My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties 1951 Jack Green, musician, guitar, played with T. Rex, The Pretty Things, member of Rainbow, launched solo album Humanesque 1950 Jon Provost, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, known for childhood role as Timmy Martin on television series, Lassie 1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player 1949 Bill Payne, born in Waco, Texas, rock keyboardist, Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero 1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury and MP 1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter, NBC-TV 1949 Mike Gibbons, born in Swansea, Wales, rock drummer, Badfinger 1949 Sara Lane, born in New York City, actress, Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian 1948 Dana Walden, rock keyboardist, Champaign 1948 James Taylor, born in Boston, Massachusetts, vocalist and guitarist, Up on the Roof 1948 Kent Conrad, Sen-D North Dakota 1948 Les Holroyd, born in Oldham, England, rocker, Barclay James Harvest 1948 Virginia Bottomley, secretary, Heritage 1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health 1947 Jill O'Hara, born in Warren, Pennsylvania, Broadway actress, Promises! Promises! 1947 Mitt Romney, American Politician 1946 Liza Minnelli, born in Hollywood, California, singer and actress, Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret 1945 Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist, Les Baroques 1942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player for the Oakland A's 1942 Paul Kantner, born in San Francisco, California, rock singer/guitarist, Jefferson Airplane 1942 Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster, testified against Gotti 1940 Al Jarreau, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, jazz singer, Moonlighting 1940 Albert Johanneson, soccer star 1939 Barbara Feldon, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actress, Agent 99-Get Smart 1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director 1938 Dimitri Terzakis, composer 1938 Johnny Rutherford, auto racer, 26 championship races 1938 Karl Soderlund, born in Duluth, Minnesota, Mr. Sally Jesse Raphael 1938 Millie Perkins, actress, Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting 1938 Norman Hogg, born in Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997 1938 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer 1938 Vijay Mehra, cricketer, Indian Test batsman from age 17 1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano, Victor-Victoria 1936 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman, S G Warburg and Co 1936 Keith Slater, cricketer, one Test for Australia 1958-59 series 1936 Lloyd Dobbins, born in Newport News, Virginia, newscaster, NBC News Overnight 1936 Patrick Procktor, painter 1935 Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano, Salome, Lulu 1935 John Gross, author, Age of Kipling, Dickens and 20th Century 1934 Rudolph Agner, CEO, Consolidated Gold Fields 1932 Andrew Young, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, 1977 - 1979, Mayor-D-Atlanta 1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director, Royal Collection 1931 William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor, Little Rascals 1931 Herb Kelleher, American Businessman 1930 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador, to U.S. 1930 Robin Cavendish, disabled campaigner 1930 Scoey Mitchill, born in Newburgh, New York, comedian, Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda 1929 Bernard Costello, U.S., double sculls, Olympics silver 1956 1929 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist 1928 Edward Albee, born in Washington, D.C., playwright, Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story 1928 Phil Jones, principal, Trinity College of Music 1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman, Police Complaints Authority 1927 Raul Alfonsin, president, Argentina 1926 David Oliver Williams, trade unionist, COHSE 1926 George R. Ariyoshi, Gov-D-Hawaii 1926 Gudrun Ure, British actress, Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer 1926 Hildy Park, born in Washington D.C., actress, To Tell the Truth 1926 John C. Holmes, U.S. writer, Horn 1926 Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer 1926 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager, Tate Gallery 1926 John Clellon Holmes, American Writer 1925 Georges Delerue, composer 1925 Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author, Deathworld Trilogy 1925 Leo Esaki, Esaki Reona, Japan, physicist, Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973 1925 Louison Bobet, French cyclist, Tour de France 1953-55 1925 G. William Whitehurst, born in Norfolk, Virginia, Representative-R-Virginia 1969 - 1987 1925 Harry Harrison, American Author 1923 Hjalmar Andersen, born in Norway, 1500, 5K, 10K speed skater, 1952 Olympics gold 1923 Norbert Brainin, violinist 1923 Wally Schirra, born in New Jersey, astronaut, flew in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, America's first three space programs 1922 Helen Parrish, born in Columbus Georgia, actress, Hour Glass, Show Business 1922 Jack Kerouac, Beat writer, On the Road, Mexico Blues 1922 Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO 1922 Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer 1921 Giovanni Agnelli, CEO, Fiat Automakers 1921 Gordon MacRae, born in East Orange, New Jersey, singer and actor, Oklahoma, Carousel 1921 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator 1921 Ralph Shapey, born in Philadelphia, composer, Fantasy, Rituals 1921 Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman 1921 Earl Nightingale, born in Los Angeles, California, author, motivational speaker, radio program 'Our Changing World' 1917 Googie Withers, born in Karachi, India, actress, 1 of Our Aircraft is Missing 1917 Tom Normanton, British MP 1917 Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman 1915 Alberto Burri, Italian physician, sculptor and abstract painter 1914 Jan Kapr, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, pupil of Jaroslav Ridky, second half of the 20th century's most prolific Czech composer 1914 Tommy Farr, Welsh Athlete 1913 Harold Butler, cricketer, England pace bowler late 40's 1912 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh 1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist, Battlers, Lost Haven 1912 Paul Weston, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, orchestra leader, Jim Nabors Hour 1912 Irving Layton, Canadian Poet 1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico 1910 Roger L. Stevens, producer, Giant 1910 Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, born in Orange, New Jersey, boxer/actor, On the Waterfront 1910 Wilhelmus L. Reijers, sculptor 1908 David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer and politician 1908 Inez Courtney, born in New York City, actress, 13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven 1907 Margaret Peggy McCrorie Herbison, politician 1904 Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper, New Zealand's 1st Test, later Northants 1900 David Croll, QC senator 1900 Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer 1898 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker, Jr., Dutch actor, Sold Grandpa 1896 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great 1891 Michael Polany, Hungarian and English,chemist, economist and sociologist 1890 A Evert Taube, Swedish writer and troubadour 1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian and U.S. ballet dancer, Petroesjka 1889 Philip Guedalla, historian 1888 Hall Johnson, composer 1885 Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect and urban developer 1883 Judge Jackson, composer 1881 Daniel Webster Hoan, born in Wisconsin, Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee 1881 Kemal Ataturk, 1st President of Rep of Turkey 1881 Vaino A. Tanner, premier of Finland, 1926-27 1880 House Peters, England, silent film actor, Kansas Territory 1878 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint 1878 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer 1877 Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia 1875 Julio Garreta, composer 1874 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer 1863 Adolf A. Wolfschoon, Curaeao, poet 1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio, born in Italy, writer and military hero, Intruder 1862 Jane Delano, U.S., nurse, teacher and founder, Red Cross 1860 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer 1859 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer 1855 John White, composer 1848 Cyrill Kistler, composer 1838 William Perkin, inventor, 1st artificial dye 1837 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer 1835 Simon Newcomb, U.S., scientist, mathematician and astronomer 1832 Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager 1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer, Studebaker 1830 William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 John Robert Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 William Richard Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Gustav R. Kirchoff, born in Prussia, physicist, spectral analysis 1823 William Flank Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 John Abbott, born in Quebec, Canada, C, 3rd Canadian PM, 1891-92 1821 Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern 1816 David Stuart, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet 1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady, 1853-57 1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian 1795 William Lyon MacKenzie, Canadian Journalist 1793 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer 1788 Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor 1768 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer 1755 Georges Couthon, French politician 1710 Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, Alfred, Rule Britannia 1685 George Berkeley, born in Ireland, philosopher and bishop of Cloyne 1626 John Aubrey, born in Percy, England, English writer, wrote 'Brief Lives' 1515 Caspar Othmayr, composer 1479 Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence 1336 Eduard, Duke of Gelre, 1361-71, husband of Catharina of Bayern Famous Birthdays, Celebrity Birthdays
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