| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
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| 1992 | Giorgio Cantarini | Italian child actor |  Italy |
| 1989 | Gregory Tyree Boyce | American actor | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1989 | Kwon Yuri | South Korean singer, actress, model and dancer |  South Korea |
| 1988 | Ross Bagley | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1987 | Tommy Fraser | Professional footballer | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1985 | Josh Smith | American professional basketball player | United States(USA) |
| 1985 | Nico Verdonck | Belgian racing driver |  Belgium |
| 1984 | Chris Solinsky | American distance runner | United States(USA) |
| 1984 | Frankie Muniz | American actor and racing driver | United States(USA) |
| 1983 | Tiffany Weimer | American soccer forward | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Eddy Curry | American professional basketball player in the NBA currently with the New York Knicks | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Trai Essex | Offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Keri Hilson | American R&B singer, songwriter | United States(USA) |
| 1981 | Leila Tong | Hong Kong actress |  Hong Kong |
| 1980 | Shizuka Ito | Japanese seiyu and singer |  Japan |
| 1980 | Ibrahim Maalouf | Trumpeter who is also a composer and arranger for trumpet |  Lebanon |
| 1979 | Matteo Ferrari | Italian football player | Italy |
| 1979 | Niklas Hagman | Finnish professional hockey player currently playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League |  Finland |
| 1979 | Evonne Hsu | Golden Melody Award winning, American born Taiwanese pop singer |  Taiwan |
| 1979 | Gareth McAuley | Northern Irish footballer currently playing for Ipswich Town | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1979 | Nick Stahl | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1978 | Olli Jokinen | Professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League | Finland |
| 1978 | Marcelo Zalayeta | Uruguayan football player who currently plays, as a striker, with Serie A side Napoli and for the Uruguayan national team |  Uruguay |
| 1976 | Amy Ackerc | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1976 | Xavier Garbajosa | French rugby player |  France |
| 1976 | Rachel Komisarz | American swimmer | United States(USA) |
| 1975 | Ronnie O Sullivan | English professional snooker player | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1975 | Paula Patton | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1974 | Charlie Batch | American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League | United States(USA) |
| 1973 | Shalom Harlow | Canadian model and actress |  Canada |
| 1973 | Lubos Motl | Czech theoretical physicist |  Czech Republic |
| 1973 | Danielle Winits | Brazilian actress |  Brazil |
| 1973 | Mikelangelo Loconte | Italian singer, author, composer, musician, performer and artistic director | Italy |
| 1972 | Cliff Floyd | Major League Baseball designated hitter and outfielder who is currently a free agent | United States(USA) |
| 1972 | Mike Mahoney | Major League baseball catcher, formerly with the St. Louis Cardinals | United States(USA) |
| 1972 | Angela Shelton | American screenwriter, actress, and documentary film producer | United States(USA) |
| 1971 | Kali Rocha | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Kevin Haller | Retired professional ice hockey player | Canada |
| 1969 | Morgan J. Freeman | American film director | United States(USA) |
| 1969 | Lewis Gordon Pugh | British environmentalist, swimmer, maritime lawyer and explorer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1968 | Margaret Cho | U.S. comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and as of 2008, recording artist | United States(USA) |
| 1968 | Lisa Marie (actress) | American model and actress | United States(USA) |
| 1968 | Lydia Millet | American novelist | United States(USA) |
| 1967 | Gary Allan | American country music artist | United States(USA) |
| 1967 | Konstantin-Assen | Prince of Bulgaria, Prince of Vidin |  Bulgaria |
| 1966 | Patricia Kaas | French singer and actress | France |
| 1966 | Lee Seung-Cheol | South Korean pop singer | South Korea |
| 1965 | Johnny Rzeznik | American songwriter, lead guitarist, vocalist and sometime producer | United States(USA) |
| 1965 | Wayne Smith (musician) | Jamaican reggae musician |  Jamaica |
| 1964 | Pablo Morales | American former swimmer | United States(USA) |
| 1963 | Doctor Dre | African American radio personality and former MTV VJ | United States(USA) |
| 1963 | Eddie the Eagle Edwards | The first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1963 | Carrie Hamilton | American actress, singer, and playwright | United States(USA) |
| 1962 | Jose Cura | Prominent operatic tenor |  Argentina |
| 1960 | Osvaldo Golijov | Grammy award winning composer of classical music | Argentina |
| 1960 | Jack Russell (musician) | American rock vocalist | United States(USA) |
| 1960 | Frans Adelaar | Former Dutch football player and manager |  Netherlands |
| 1959 | Lee Chapman | English former footballer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1958 | Dean Erickson | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1958 | Dynamite Kid | Retired English professional wrestler | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1957 | Art Monk | American footballer | United States(USA) |
| 1957 | Raquel Argandona | Chilean former beauty pageant contestant, TV presenter, actress and mayor of Pelarco |  Chile |
| 1957 | Marcelino Sanchez | Puerto Rican-American film and television actor | United States(USA) |
| 1956 | Klaus Allofs | German footballer |  Germany |
| 1956 | Brian Backer | American actor who has starred in film and on television | United States(USA) |
| 1956 | Krystian Zimerman | Polish classical pianist |  Poland |
| 1955 | Redford White | Filipino actor and comedian |  Philippines |
| 1953 | Larry Zbyszko | Professional wrestler | United States(USA) |
| 1952 | Andy Kim | Canadian pop singer and songwriter | Canada |
| 1951 | Morgan Brittany | American film and television actress | United States(USA) |
| 1951 | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven | Belgian artist whose work involves painting, drawing, computer art and video art | Belgium |
| 1950 | Camaron de la Isla | Spanish flamenco singer |  Spain |
| 1950 | James Knaggs | Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army, USA Western Territory | United States(USA) |
| 1949 | Ray Comfort | New Zealand evangelist |  New Zealand |
| 1949 | John Altman (composer) | British film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1947 | Bruce Golding | The Prime Minister of Jamaica and leader of the Jamaica Labour Party | Jamaica |
| 1947 | Tony Gregory | Irish Independent politician |  Ireland |
| 1947 | Jim Messina (musician) | American musician (Buffalo Springfield, Loggins and Messina) | United States(USA) |
| 1947 | Jim Plunkett | Former American football quarterback | United States(USA) |
| 1946 | Jose Carreras | Spanish tenor | Spain |
| 1946 | Sarel van der Merwe | South African former rally driver, who was a multiple South African Rally Drivers Champion |  South Africa |
| 1945 | Serge Chapleau | Quebec caricaturist | Canada |
| 1944 | Jeroen Krabbe | Dutch actor and film director who has appeared in many Dutch and international films | Netherlands |
| 1944 | Loukas Sideras | Drummer of the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodites Child |  Greece |
| 1943 | Eva Joly | French-Norwegian born magistrate |  Norway |
| 1940 | Boris Ignatyev | Russian football manager and former player |  Russia |
| 1940 | Peter Pohl | Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films |  Sweden |
| 1940 | Adrian Street | Popular professional wrestler from Wales | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1939 | Minita Chico-Nazario | Incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines | Philippines |
| 1938 | J. J. Cale | Grammy Award-winning American songwriter and musician | United States(USA) |
| 1938 | J. D. McDuffie | Former Winston Cup driver | United States(USA) |
| 1936 | James Lee Burke | American author of mysteries | United States(USA) |
| 1935 | Calvin Trillin | American journalist, humorist, and novelist | United States(USA) |
| 1935 | Yury Vlasov | Former Olympic heavyweight weightlifter for the Soviet Union, a writer and a politician | Russia |
| 1934 | Joan Didion | American journalist, essayist, and novelist | United States(USA) |
| 1934 | Nikos Kourkoulos | Highly respected Greek theatrical and film performer, one of the most talented and recognizable actors in Greece of modern times | Greece |
| 1932 | Sheldon Lee Glashow | American physicist | United States(USA) |
| 1932 | Little Richard | American singer, songwriter and pianist, who also became a born again Christian and evangelist | United States(USA) |
| 1932 | Nadira (actress) | Nadira was an actress in Indian cinema |  India |
| 1931 | Marilyn Waltz | American actress and model | United States(USA) |
| 1927 | Bhumibol Adulyadej | The current King of Thailand |  Thailand |
| 1927 | Shoji Nishio | Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan shihan from the Aikikai | Japan |
| 1925 | Anastasio Somoza | Officially the 73rd and 76th President of Nicaragua |  Nicaragua |
| 1921 | Alvy Moore | American light comic actor | United States(USA) |
| 1917 | Ken Downing | Racing driver | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1916 | Hilary Koprowski | Polish virologist and immunologist and inventor of the worlds first effective live polio vaccine | Poland |
| 1914 | Hans Hellmut Kirst | Distinguished German author from Osterode, East Prussia | Germany |
| 1911 | Wladyslaw Szpilman | Polish pianist, composer, and memoirist | Poland |
| 1910 | Abraham Polonsky | American screenwriter blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios | United States(USA) |
| 1909 | Musashiyama Takeshi | Sumo wrestler | Japan |
| 1907 | Giuseppe Occhialini | Italian physicist | Italy |
| 1907 | Lin Biao | Chinese Communist military leader |  China |
| 1906 | Otto Preminger | Austrian-born film director |  Austria |
| 1906 | Ahn Eak-tai | Korean classical composer and conductor | South Korea |
| 1905 | Gus Mancuso | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1903 | Johannes Heesters | Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer | Netherlands |
| 1903 | Cecil Frank Powell | British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1902 | Strom Thurmond | American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator | United States(USA) |
| 1901 | Walt Disney | Multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist | United States(USA) |
| 1901 | Milton H. Erickson | American psychiatrist | United States(USA) |
| 1901 | Werner Heisenberg | German theoretical physicist | Germany |
| 1898 | Josh Malihabadi | Urdu poet of India and Pakistan | India |
| 1898 | Grace Moore | American operatic soprano and Academy Award-nominated actress in musical theatre and film | United States(USA) |
| 1897 | Nunnally Johnson | American screenwriter and producer | United States(USA) |
| 1897 | Gershom Scholem | Jewish philosopher and historian raised in germany | Germany |
| 1896 | Carl Ferdinand Cori | Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate | Austria |
| 1895 | Elbert Frank Cox | American mathematician | United States(USA) |
| 1894 | C.R. Swart | South African politician who served as justice minister under D.F. Malan, and later served as the last Governor-General and first State President of South Africa | South Africa |
| 1894 | Philip K. Wrigley | American chewing gum manufacturer and executive in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 1894 | Charles Robberts Swart | Last Governor General of Union of South Africa | South Africa |
| 1890 | David Bomberg | English painter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1890 | Fritz Lang | Austrian-born film director | Austria |
| 1886 | Rose Wilder Lane | American writer and reporter, daughter of Little House books writer Laura Ingalls Wilder | United States(USA) |
| 1879 | Clyde Cessna | American airplane manufacturer | United States(USA) |
| 1875 | Sir Arthur Currie | Canadian soldier | Canada |
| 1872 | Harry Nelson Pillsbury | American chess player | United States(USA) |
| 1870 | Vitezslav Novak | Czech composer | Czech Republic |
| 1869 | Ellis Parker Butler | American author | United States(USA) |
| 1868 | Arnold Sommerfeld | German theoretical physicist | Germany |
| 1867 | Bill Pickett | American rodeo performer | United States(USA) |
| 1867 | Jozef Pilsudski | Chief of State, First Marshal, authoritarian leader of the Second Polish Republic | Poland |
| 1867 | Antti Aarne | Finnish folklorist | Finland |
| 1863 | Paul Painleve | French mathematician | France |
| 1862 | William Walker Atkinson | Attorney, merchant, publisher and author as well as an occultist and an American pioneer | United States(USA) |
| 1859 | John JelJohn Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | British admiral | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1855 | Clinton Hart Merriam | American ornithologist | United States(USA) |
| 1841 | Marcus Daly | American mining tycoon | United States(USA) |
| 1839 | George Armstrong Custer | American general | United States(USA) |
| 1830 | Christina Rossetti | English poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1829 | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere | French Canadian politician | Canada |
| 1822 | Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz | American college president | United States(USA) |
| 1820 | Afanasy Fet | Russian poet | Russia |
| 1803 | Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev | Russian poet | Russia |
| 1782 | Martin Van Buren | 8th President of the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1687 | Francesco Geminiani | Italian violinist and composer | Italy |
| 1661 | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer | English statesman | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1595 | Henry Lawes | English composer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1547 | Ubbo Emmius | Dutch historian and geographer | Netherlands |
| 1539 | Fausto Paolo Sozzini | Italian theologian | Italy |
| 1537 | Ashikaga Yoshiaki | Japanese shogun | Japan |
| 1495 | Nicolas Cleynaerts | Flemish grammarian | Belgium |
| 1443 | Pope Julius II | Pope | Italy |
| 1377 | Jianwen Emperor | Emperor of China | China |
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