| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0030 | Cleopatra VII | Queen of Egypt |  Egypt |
| 0875 | Louis II the Younger | Holy Roman Emperor and King of Italy |  Italy |
| 1295 | Charles Martel d Anjou | Son of Charles II of Naples |  France |
| 1424 | Yongle | Emperor of China |  China |
| 1484 | Sixtus IV | Pope | Italy |
| 1577 | Thomas Smith (diplomat) | English diplomat and scholar | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1588 | Alfonso Ferrabosco I | Italian composer | Italy |
| 1612 | Giovanni Gabrieli | Italian composer and organist | Italy |
| 1633 | Jacopo Peri | Italian composer | Italy |
| 1638 | Johannes Althusius | Calvinist philosopher and theologian |  Germany |
| 1648 | Ibrahim I | Ottoman Sultan |  Turkey |
| 1654 | Cornelius Haga | First ambassador of the Dutch Republic to the Ottoman Empire | Italy |
| 1674 | Philippe de Champaigne | French painter | France |
| 1689 | Pope Innocent XI | Pope | Italy |
| 1778 | Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteve | Son of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1809 | Mikhail Kamensky | Russian general |  Russia |
| 1810 | Etienne Louis Geoffroy | French pharmacist and entomologist | France |
| 1813 | Samuel Osgood | American patriot | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1816 | Adam SmithMary Katharine Goddard | American printer and publisher | United States(USA) |
| 1822 | Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh | Irish and British statesman | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1827 | William Blake | British poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1829 | Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie | French soldier and Vendeen general during the war in the Vendee | France |
| 1848 | George Stephenson | English mechanical engineer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1849 | Albert Gallatin | Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, Congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury | United States(USA) |
| 1861 | Eliphalet Remington | American firearms manufacturer | United States(USA) |
| 1864 | Sakuma Shozan | Japanese politician |  Japan |
| 1865 | William Jackson Hooker | English botanist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1891 | James Russell Lowell | American poet and essayist | United States(USA) |
| 1896 | Thomas Chamberlain | Officer in the 20th Maine Infantry | United States(USA) |
| 1900 | Wilhelm Steinitz | Austrian chess player |  Austria |
| 1901 | Adolf Erik Nordenskiold | Swedish explorer |  Sweden |
| 1904 | William Renshaw | British champion tennis player | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1918 | Anna Held | Polish-born actress and singer |  Poland |
| 1920 | Louisa Lawson | Australian suffragist and writer |  Australia |
| 1922 | Arthur Griffith | President of Ireland |  Ireland |
| 1928 | Leos Janacek | Czech composer |  Czech Republic |
| 1934 | Hendrik Petrus Berlage | Prominent Dutch architect |  Netherlands |
| 1935 | Friedrich Schottky | German mathematician | Germany |
| 1941 | Bobby Peel | English cricketer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1941 | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | British liberal politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1943 | Vittorio Sella | Italian photographer and mountaineer | Italy |
| 1944 | Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. | American bomber pilot during World War II | United States(USA) |
| 1948 | Harry Brearley | English inventor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1952 | David Bergelson | Yiddish language writer | Russia |
| 1955 | James B. Sumner | American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate | United States(USA) |
| 1955 | Thomas Mann | German writer, Nobel Prize laureate | Germany |
| 1959 | Max Nonne | German neurologist | Germany |
| 1959 | Mike O Neill | Irish baseball player | Ireland |
| 1964 | Ian Fleming | English author | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1967 | Esther Forbes | American writer | United States(USA) |
| 1969 | Larkin I. Smith | American politician | United States(USA) |
| 1973 | Walter Rudolf Hess | Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate |  Switzerland |
| 1973 | Karl Ziegler | German chemist, Nobel Prize laurete | Germany |
| 1979 | Ernst Boris Chain | German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate | Germany |
| 1982 | Henry Fonda | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Salvador Sanchez | Mexican boxer |  Mexico |
| 1984 | Lenny Breau | Musician, guitar player and music educator | United States(USA) |
| 1985 | Kyu Sakamoto | Japanese singer and actor | Japan |
| 1985 | Manfred Winkelhock | German racing driver | Germany |
| 1985 | Kyu Sakamoto | Japanese singer and actor | Japan |
| 1988 | Jean-Michel Basquiat | American artist | United States(USA) |
| 1989 | William Shockley | American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Laureate | United States(USA) |
| 1989 | Samuel Okwaraji | Professional footballer |  Nigeria |
| 1990 | B. Kliban | American cartoonist | United States(USA) |
| 1990 | Dorothy Mackaill | British-born American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | Jack Ryan (designer) | American designer noted for creating the popular image of the Barbie doll | United States(USA) |
| 1992 | John Cage | American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist and artist | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Robert Gravel | Actor, dramatist, theatrical director and teacher |  Canada |
| 1996 | Mark Gruenwald | American comic book writer, editor and occasional penciler | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Viktor Hambardzumyan | Soviet Armenian scientist, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics |  Armenia |
| 1997 | Luther Allison | American blues guitarist | United States(USA) |
| 1999 | Jean Drapeau | Canadian lawyer and politician | Canada |
| 2000 | Loretta Young | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | Gennady Petrovich Lyachin | Commanding officer of the Russian submarine | Russia |
| 2002 | Enos Slaughter | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Godfrey Hounsfield | English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2004 | Peter Woodthorpe | English film, television and voice actor | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2005 | Lakshman Kadirgamar | Sri Lankan diplomat, politician and lawyer |  Sri Lanka |
| 2005 | John Loder | English sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2007 | Merv Griffin | American television show host | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Mike Wieringo | American comic book artist | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Murray | American painter, printmaker and draughtsman | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Christie Allen | English born pop singer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2010 | Isaac Bonewits | Neopagan leader, author, liturgist, speaker, journalist, Neo-druid priest, and a singer, songwriter, and independent recording artist | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Richie Hayward | Drummer | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Guido de Marco | Maltese politician and sixth President of Malta |  Malta |
| 2010 | Tahir Wattar | Algerian writer |  Algeria |
| 2011 | Francisco Solano Lopez (comics) | Comics artist |  Argentina |
| 2012 | Joseph Kubert | American comic book artist | United States(USA) |
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