| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 0395 | Theodosius I | The Great of Rome |  Spain |
| 1229 | Albert of Riga | German soldier |  Germany |
| 1369 | Peter I of Cyprus | King of Cyprus, Latin King of Armenia |  Cyprus |
| 1468 | George Kastrioti Skanderbeg | 15th-century Albanian lord |  Albania |
| 1654 | Paulus Potter | Dutch painter |  Netherlands |
| 1705 | John Ray | English naturalist | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1718 | Benjamin Church (military officer) | Father of American ranging | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1736 | Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann | German architect | Germany |
| 1738 | Jean-Francois Dandrieu | French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist |  France |
| 1826 | Juan Crisostomo Arriaga | Spanish composer | Spain |
| 1834 | Giovanni Aldini | Italian physicist |  Italy |
| 1861 | Lola Montez | Irish dancer |  Ireland |
| 1863 | Horace Vernet | French painter and graphic artist | France |
| 1869 | Alexander Dargomyzhsky | 19th century Russian composer |  Russia |
| 1870 | Alexander Anderson (illustrator) | American illustrator | United States(USA) |
| 1874 | Chang and Eng Bunker | Famous conjoined twins |  Thailand |
| 1878 | Edward Shepherd Creasy | English historian | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1882 | Alexander H. Bullock | 26th Governor of Massachusetts | United States(USA) |
| 1884 | Hermann Schlegel | German ornithologist | Germany |
| 1887 | William Giblin | Premier of Tasmania |  Australia |
| 1889 | Juan Montalvo | Ecuadorian author and essayist |  Ecuador |
| 1891 | George Bancroft | American historian and Secretary of the Navy | United States(USA) |
| 1893 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 19th President of the United States | United States(USA) |
| 1899 | Loukas Panourgias | Greek footballer |  Greece |
| 1901 | Frederic William Henry Myers | Classical scholar, poet, philosopher and past president of the Society for Psychical Research | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1903 | Ignaz Wechselmann | Hungarian architect and philanthropist |  Hungary |
| 1908 | Ferdinand IV of Tuscany | Grand Duke of Tuscany | Italy |
| 1909 | Francis Smith (Australian politician) | British lawyer, judge and politician | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1910 | Joaquim Nabuco | Brazilian writer, statesman and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country |  Brazil |
| 1911 | Sir Francis Galton | English explorer and biologist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1927 | Juliette Low | American founder of the Girl Scouts | United States(USA) |
| 1931 | Peter Nikolaevich | Grand Duke of Russia | Russia |
| 1931 | Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia | Member of the Russian Imperial Family | Russia |
| 1932 | Albert Jacka | Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner | Australia |
| 1933 | John Hodges | Australian cricketer | Australia |
| 1933 | Louis Comfort Tiffany | American glass artist | United States(USA) |
| 1936 | Mateiu Caragiale | Romanian poet and prose writer |  Romania |
| 1942 | Walther von Reichenau | German military officer | Germany |
| 1947 | Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve | Cardinal and archbishop of Quebec |  Canada |
| 1947 | Pyotr Krasnov | Lieutenant General of the Russian army | Russia |
| 1951 | Jyoti Prasad Agarwala | Playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker from Assam |  India |
| 1952 | Walter Briggs, Sr. | American entrepreneur and sports team owner | United States(USA) |
| 1961 | Patrice Lumumba | 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | -flag.jpg) Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
| 1963 | Arthur Edward Moore | Australian politician | Australia |
| 1964 | T.H. White | British author | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1967 | Evelyn Nesbit | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1969 | Bunchy Carter | African American activist and former gang member | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Billy Stewart | American musical artist | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Simon Kovar | 20th century bassoonist | United States(USA) |
| 1972 | Betty Smith | American author | United States(USA) |
| 1977 | Dougal Haston | Scottish mountaineer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1980 | Barbara Britton | American film and television actress | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Lee Strasberg | Austrian director |  Austria |
| 1982 | Nestor Chylak | American umpire in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 1982 | Varlam Shalamov | Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor | Russia |
| 1983 | Doodles Weaver | American actor and comedian on radio, recordings and television | United States(USA) |
| 1987 | Hugo Fregonese | Argentine film director |  Argentina |
| 1989 | Alfredo Zitarrosa | Uruguayan singer, composer, poet, writer and journalist |  Uruguay |
| 1989 | Georges Schehade | Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French |  Egypt |
| 1990 | Simon Nicholson | Painter | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1991 | Olav V | King of Norway |  Norway |
| 1992 | Frank Pullen | English businessperson and racehorse owner | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1993 | Barbara Buczek | Composer |  Poland |
| 1993 | Albert Hourani | English historian | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1994 | Helen Stephens | American athlete | United States(USA) |
| 1996 | Barbara Jordan | American politician | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Clyde Tombaugh | American astronomer | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Bert Kelly | Australian politician and government minister | Australia |
| 1998 | Junior Kimbrough | American bluesman | United States(USA) |
| 2000 | Philip Jones (musician) | British trumpeter and leader of an internationally famous brass chamber music ensemble | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2001 | Gregory Corso | American poet | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Queenie Leonard | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Camilo Jose Cela | Influential Spanish writer | Spain |
| 2002 | Bishop Karas | First bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church | United States(USA) |
| 2002 | Queenie Leonard | British character actress and singer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2003 | Richard Crenna | American film, television and radio actor | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Balint Vazsonyi | Hungarian pianist, international recitalist, soloist | Hungary |
| 2004 | Ray Stark | American film producer and powerbroker | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Czeslaw Niemen | Polish singer, songwriter and composer | Poland |
| 2004 | Harry David Brecheen | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 2004 | Noble Willingham | American television and film actor | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Virginia Mayo | American film actress | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Neal Knox | Gun writer | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Charlie Bell | Australian business executive | Australia |
| 2005 | Albert Schatz (scientist) | Co-discoverer of streptomycin, first antibiotic remedy used to treat tuberculosis and a number of other diseases | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Pierre Grondin | Canadian cardiac surgeon | Canada |
| 2007 | Art Buchwald | American humorist | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Yevhen Kushnaryov | Prominent Ukrainian politician of the post Soviet era |  Ukraine |
| 2008 | Allan Melvin | American character actor | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Bobby Fischer | American and Icelandic chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Ernie Holmes | American football player | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | John McHale | American first baseman | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Anders Isaksson | Swedish journalist, writer and historian |  Sweden |
| 2010 | Erich Segal | American author, screenwriter and educator | United States(USA) |
| 2010 | Daisuke Gori | Japanese seiyu, narrator and actor |  Japan |
| 2010 | Gaines Adams | American football defensive end in the National Football League | United States(USA) |
| 2011 | Keith Douglas Davey | Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer | Canada |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Sandra Holton | English actress | United Kingdom(UK) |
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