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1977     Jere Michael, Aspen, Colorado, figure skater, 1994 National, Jr. champ
1976     Anna Windsor, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics
1976     Daniel Komen, Nyaru Kenya, 5k runner
1976     Peter Devine, New York City, fencer-foil 1996 Olympics
1974     Marcia Turner, Cambridge Massachusetts, Miss America, Mass-Top 10-1996
1974     Andrea Corr, Irish Musician
1973     Jay Riemersma, tight end for the Buffalo Bills
1973     Joshua Homme, American Musician
1972     Elena Wagner, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star, 1996 ITF/Redbridge-GBR
1972     John Burrough, NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons
1971     Bill Lindsay, Big Fork, NHL left wing for the Florida Panthers
1971     Mark Williams, NFL linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars
1970     Sebastien Britten, Brossard Que, figure skater, 1995 Canadian Champ
1970     Alan Wetmore, CFL fullback, Montreal Alouettes
1970     Derrick Deese, NFL guard for the San Francisco 49ers
1970     Hubert Davis, NBA guard, Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks
1970     Jim Cummins, Dearborn, NHL right wing, Chicago Blackhawks
1970     Jodie Rogers, Melbourne Victoria Australia, diver 1996 Olympics
1970     John Karelse, born in Wemeldinge, Zeeland, professional soccer player, goalkeeper, goalkeeping coach for NACE
1970     Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Massachusetts, rocker, New Kids-Hangin' Tough
1970     Renzo Furlan, born in Conegliano, Italy, professional tennis player, represented Italy at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 1996
1970     Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer, 95 State Farm Rail Classic-11
1970     Todd Mundt, NBA center for the Atlanta Hawks
1970     Jordan Knight, American Musician
1969     Aaron Ruffin, CFL defensive back for the Hamilton Tiger Cats
1969     Craig Erickson, NFL quarterback, Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins
1969     Paige Turco, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Melanie-Guiding Light
1969     Ujesh Ranchod, cricketer, Zimbabwe off-spinner 1993
1968     Tim Grunhard, NFL center for the Kansas City Chiefs
1967     Cameron Bancroft, actor, Beverly Hills 90210
1967     Debbie Dutch, Titusville, New Jersey, actress, Hell's Paradox
1966     Danny Manning, NBA forward and center for the Phoenix Suns
1966     Mark Kratzmann, Australia, tennis star
1966     Mark Schmocker, born in Interlaken, Switzerland, U.S. team handball goalie 1996 Olympics
1966     Heston Blumenthal, English Celebrity
1965     Trent Reznor, musician, 9 Inch Nails
1963     Jon Koncak, NBA center, Orlando Magic
1963     Page McConnell, American Musician
1962     Scott Case, NFL safety for the Dallas Cowboys
1962     Tracey Bryn, rocker, Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee
1962     Craig Ferguson, Scottish Comedian
1961     Enya, Eithne Ni Bhraonain, Gweedore, Ireland, vocalist, Watermark
1960     Fiona Hutchison, born in Miami, Florida, actress, One Life to Live, Guiding Light
1959     Paul Di'anno, rocker, Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist
1958     Vincent Henar, Surinam, bassist, Fra Fra Sound
1956     Bob Saget, Philadelphia, comedian, Full House, America's Funniest Home Video
1956     Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist
1956     Sugar Ray Leonard, American Athlete
1956     Dave Sim, Canadian Cartoonist
1955     Bill Paxton, actor, Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies
1954     John Iles, dolby supervisor, Elephant Man, Richard III
1953     George Johnson, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, Brothers Johnson
1953     Kathleen Sullivan, born in Pasadena, California, newscaster, ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show
1953     Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
1953     Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author, Kir Royal, actress, Shogun
1952     Jody Pijper, Dutch, background, singer
1951     Simon Hughes, born in Cheshire, England, British politician, Liberal Member of Parliament of North Southwark and Bermondsey
1950     Christian Lacroix, French couturier, Chic Frills
1950     Keith Bradley, born in Birmingham, England, British politician, life peer, Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington
1950     Janez Drnovsek, born in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, liberal politician, second President of Slovenia
1949     Timothy Cordy, British director, Town and Country Planning Association
1948     Bill Bruford, English pop drummer, Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis
1947     John Traicos, cricketer, in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93
1946     Sinaida Turchina, U.S.S.R., team handball 1976 Olympics gold
1945     D A S Pennefather, Major-General/Commandant, General Royal Marines
1945     George Miller, born in Richmond, California, Representative-D-California 1975 -
1944     Arif Butt, cricketer, pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65
1944     Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG
1944     Jesse Winchester, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, singer and songwriter, Learn to Love it
1944     Paul Crossley, concert pianist
1942     Caroline Charles, fashion designer
1942     Taj Mahal, New York City, singer and songwriter, Real Thing
1941     David Howell Cope, composer
1941     Miriam Margolyes, actress, Will Be


1941     Ben Nelson, American Politician
1940     Alan Kay, American Scientist
1939     Hugh Dykes, born in England, served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East, member of the European Parliament
1939     Wim de Bie, CEO, Simplistic Covenant
1938     Don Dolan, Staten Island, New York, actor, Guy Lewis- General Hospital
1938     Jason Bernard, actor, Judge-Liar Liar
1938     Pervis Jackson, rocker, Spinners
1938     Trinus Riemersma, Dutch-Frisian writer, Conquest of Leeuwarden
1936     Dennis Hopper, born in Kansas, actor, True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider
1936     Lars Gustafsson, born in Vasteras, Sweden, professor, University of Texas at Austin, author, wrote 'The Death of a Beekeeper'
1936     Philippe Boesmans, composer
1935     Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright, Karaoke, Midnight Movie
1935     Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker
1934     Earl Morrall, NFL quarterback, Lions, Giants, Colts
1932     Arthur Jones, principal, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester
1932     Peter Burge, cricketer, dashing Australian batsman of 50's and 60's
1932     Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to U.S.S.R.
1931     Dewey Redman, jazz musician
1929     Raymond Hide, geophysicist
1928     Donald Cameron Watt, historian
1928     Ian Griggs, bishop, Ludlow
1928     Vivian Moses, biotechnologist
1927     Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO, British Steel
1926     David Ogilvy, born in London, England, 13th Earl of Airlie, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, judge
1926     Cicely Berry, voice director, Royal Shakespeare Company
1926     David Young, Lieutenant-General/CEO, Cairn Tech
1926     Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor, University of South Pacific
1926     Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet
1926     Tenniel Evans, rev/actor, 10 Rillington Place, My Brother's Keeper
1925     Idi Amin, born in Uganda, military dictator, president of Uganda, assumed role of Chairman of the Organization of African Unity
1924     Frantisek Kovaricek, composer
1924     Lord Tombs, CEO, Rolls Royce
1924     Thomas Baird, Vice-Admiral
1923     Michael Beetham, Marshal, RAF
1923     Miles Wingate, deputy master, Trinity House
1923     Peter Mennini, Erie Pennsylvania, composer, Moby Dick
1921     Dennis Brain, born in London, England, french-hornist, Serenade
1921     John Garlick, British senior civil servant
1920     Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse, New York, columnist/panelist, Leave it to Girls
1920     Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier 1952 Olympics gold
1918     Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano, Elektra, Salome
1916     Cornelis A Eman, Aruban politician
1916     John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter
1916     Richard Bolling, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-Missouri 1949 - 1983, U.S. civil-rights leader
1915     Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer
1914     Guido Masanetz, composer
1914     Stewart Alsop, born in Avon, Connecticut, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek
1913     Alec Ogilvie, CEO, Powell Duffryn
1913     Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant
1912     Archibald Cox, special prosecutor, Watergate
1912     Clarence "Ace" Parker, NFL quarterback, Brooklyn, Boston Yankees
1912     Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor
1911     Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative
1911     Maureen O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress, Tarzan, Pride and Prejudice
1911     Clark Kerr, American Economist
1909     Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
1909     Magda Schneider, actress, Eva, Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight
1909     Ted Rall, American Cartoonist
1908     Sigismund Toduta, composer
1908     Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano, Ljublama Opera 1927
1907     Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power
1907     Horace McMahon, South Norwalk, Connecticut, actor, Martin Kane Private Eye
1907     Ilona Schacherer Elek, born in Budapest, Hungary, fencer, Gold Medal Olympics 1936, 1948
1906     Eric Mensforth, president, Westland Aircraft
1905     John Patrick, screenwriter
1905     John Minor Wisdom, American Judge
1904     Jean Gabin, Alexis Moncorge, actor, Stormy Waters, French Can Can
1903     Douglas Packard, British Lt General
1903     Cool Papa Bell, American Athlete
1902     John Vincent, composer
1901     Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer, Die Zaubergeige
1900     Nicolai Berezowsky, composer
1900     Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader
1899     Ralf Harolde, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off
1896     Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
1896     Hannah Tillich, writer
1890     Philip James, composer
1889     Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, Higenia Cruel
1889     Marcel Moyse, Saint-Amour, France, flutist, 20 Exercises et etudes
1888     A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner, legend for Kent and England
1888     Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor, Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1886     Alfonso XIII, Borbon King of Spain, 1902-31
1878     Conway Tearle, U.S. actor, Klondike Annie, Should Ladies Behave?
1876     Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
1873     Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist
1873     Henri Barbusse, Asnieres, France, novelist, Le Feu
1871     Henricus P Bremmer, art historian, Modern Kunstwerken
1867     Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1866     Erik Alfred Satie, Honfleur France, composer, Memoirs d'un Ambesique
1855     Timothy Healy, Irish Politician
1850     Antonio Scontrino, composer
1846     Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle
1844     Julius Wellhausen, German Educator
1836     Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine
1823     Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer
1819     Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer
1817     Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist
1812     Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers
1808     Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer
1804     Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer, Heldring Institutions
1803     Robert Smith Surtees, novelist
1800     Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer
1796     Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao, christen slaves
1794     Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer
1794     Anna Jameson, British Writer
1768     Caroline, Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV
1749     Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
1741     John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence
1732     Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
1691     Antoine Court, French reformed theologist
1673     Jozef LD von Konigsegg, Austria, military minister of Austrian Netherlands
1576     Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized
1568     Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer
1551     Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Netherlands lawyer/historian/theologist
1490     Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia
1451     Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg
1444     Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter, Birth of Venus





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