| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0236 | Pope Anterus | Pope and succeeded Pope Pontian who had been deported from Rome |  Italy |
| 1098 | Walkelin | First Norman bishop of Winchester | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1322 | Philip V of France | King of France and Navarre and Count of Champagne |  France |
| 1437 | Catherine of Valois | Queen consort of England | France |
| 1543 | Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo | Portuguese explorer |  Portugal |
| 1571 | Joachim II Hector | Elector of Brandenburg |  Germany |
| 1641 | Jeremiah Horrocks | English astronomer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1656 | Mathieu Mole | French statesman | France |
| 1670 | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle | English soldier | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1690 | Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi | Lithuanian rabbi |  Lithuania |
| 1701 | Louis I, Prince of Monaco | Prince of Monaco |  Monaco |
| 1705 | Luca Giordano | Italian artist | Italy |
| 1743 | Ferdinando Galli Bibiena | Italian architect and designer | Italy |
| 1779 | Claude Bourgelat | French veterinary surgeon | France |
| 1785 | Baldassare Galuppi | Italian composer | Italy |
| 1795 | Josiah Wedgwood | English potter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1813 | Woollarawarre Bennelong | Senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal (Koori) people of the Port Jackson area |  Australia |
| 1826 | Louis Gabriel Suchet | French Marshal | France |
| 1858 | Henry Darcy | French scientist | France |
| 1871 | Thomas William Robertson | English playwright | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1871 | Kuriakose Elias Chavara | Co-founder and first prior general of the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) and of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Mother of Carmel |  India |
| 1875 | Pierre Athanase Larousse | French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist | France |
| 1882 | William Harrison Ainsworth | English historical novelist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1895 | James Merritt Ives | U.S. lithographer, bookkeeper and businessman | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1898 | Lawrence Sullivan Ross | 19th Governor of Texas | United States(USA) |
| 1903 | Alois Hitler | Father of Adolf Hitler |  Austria |
| 1911 | Alexandros Papadiamantis | Greek author |  Greece |
| 1912 | Felix Dahn | German author | Germany |
| 1915 | James Flecker | English writer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1916 | Grenville M. Dodge | Union army officer | United States(USA) |
| 1920 | Zygmunt Janiszewski | Polish mathematician |  Poland |
| 1923 | Jaroslav Hasek | Czech novelist |  Czech Republic |
| 1924 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate | United States(USA) |
| 1925 | William Bruce (cricketer) | Australian cricketer | Australia |
| 1927 | Carle David Tolme Runge | German physicist | Germany |
| 1931 | Joseph Joffre | French general | France |
| 1933 | Jack Pickford | Canadian born actor |  Canada |
| 1943 | F. M. Cornford | English classical scholar and poet | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1943 | Walter James | Fifth Premier of Western Australia | Australia |
| 1944 | Jurgis Baltrusaitis | Lithuanian poet | Lithuania |
| 1945 | Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski | Polish writer | Poland |
| 1945 | Edgar Cayce | American psychic | United States(USA) |
| 1946 | William Joyce | Irish fascist |  Ireland |
| 1956 | Alexander Gretchaninov | Russian composer |  Russia |
| 1956 | Joseph Wirth | Chancellor of Germany | Germany |
| 1959 | Edwin Muir | Orcadian poet, novelist and translator | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1962 | Hermann Lux | German footballer | Germany |
| 1965 | Milton Avery | American artist | United States(USA) |
| 1966 | Marguerite Higgins | American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer prize winner | United States(USA) |
| 1967 | Jack Ruby | American nightclub operator | United States(USA) |
| 1967 | Reginald Punnett | British geneticist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1967 | Mary Garden | Scottish operatic soprano | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1969 | Jean Focas | Greco-French astronomer | France |
| 1969 | Howard McNear | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 1969 | Tzavalas Karousos | Greek actor | Greece |
| 1970 | Gladys Aylward | British missionary | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1974 | Gino Cervi | Italian actor of international fame | Italy |
| 1979 | Conrad Hilton | American hotelier | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | Lucien Buysse | Belgian cyclist |  Belgium |
| 1980 | Joy Adamson | Austrian naturalist and writer | Austria |
| 1980 | Amos Milburn | American rhythm and blues singer, and pianist | United States(USA) |
| 1980 | George Sutherland Fraser | Scottish poet, literary critic and academic | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1981 | Princess Alice of Albany | Princess of Albany and Countess of Athlone | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1982 | Tommy Bryant | American jazz double-bassist | United States(USA) |
| 1988 | Rose Auslander | German poet | Germany |
| 1988 | Joie Chitwood | American race car driver and businessman | United States(USA) |
| 1988 | Gaston Eyskens | Belgian economist | Belgium |
| 1989 | Eddie Heywood | Jazz pianist |  Georgia |
| 1989 | Sergei Sobolev | Soviet mathematician | Russia |
| 1990 | Arthur Gold | American two piano ensemble | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | Luke Appling | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1992 | Judith Anderson | Australian actress | Australia |
| 1993 | Johnny Most | American sports announcer | United States(USA) |
| 1994 | Heather Searsc | British stage and screen actress | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2002 | Freddy Heineken | Dutch businessman |  Netherlands |
| 2002 | Juan Garcia Esquivel | Mexican bandleader |  Mexico |
| 2002 | Satish Dhawan | Indian aerospace engineer | India |
| 2003 | Sid Gilman | American football player | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Leon Wagner | American left fielder in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Des Corcoran | Australian politician | Australia |
| 2005 | Will Eisner | American illustrator and cartoonist | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Koo Chen-fu | Chinese negotiator |  China |
| 2005 | Jan Gangelhoff | American whistleblower | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Jyotindra Nath Dixit | Indian diplomat and former Indian Foreign Secretary | India |
| 2006 | Steve Rogers (rugby league) | Australian rugby league footballer | Australia |
| 2006 | Bill Skate | Papua New Guinea politician and statesman |  Papua New Guinea |
| 2007 | Earl Reibel | Canadian ice hockey forward | Canada |
| 2007 | William Verity, Jr. | U.S. administrator and steel industrialist | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Cecil Walker | Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2007 | Michael Yeats | Irish barrister and Fianna Fail politician | Ireland |
| 2008 | Aleksandr Abdulov | Soviet-Russian actor | Russia |
| 2008 | Natasha Collins | English actress and model | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2008 | Yo-Sam Choi | Korean world boxing champion |  South Korea |
| 2008 | Werner Dollinger | German politician and economist | Germany |
| 2009 | Olga San Juan | Brooklyn-born dancer and comedian | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Pat Hingle | American actor | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Ulf G. Linden | Swedish entrepreneur |  Sweden |
| 2009 | Betty Freeman | American philanthropist and photographer | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Hisayasu Nagata | Japanese politician |  Japan |
| 2009 | Charles Camilleri | Maltese composer |  Malta |
| 2010 | Mary Daly | Radical feminist philosopher and theologian | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Ian Brownlie | British practising barrister | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2010 | Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt | Chilean composer |  Chile |
| 2012 | Josef Skvorecky | Czech writer and publisher | Czech Republic |
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