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1585 Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)
1609 Michael Franck, composer
1634 Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist
1651 Zaccaria Tevo, composer
1663 Nicholas Siret, composer
1729 Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)
1739 George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)
1745 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1751 James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)
1757 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)
1774 Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)
1776 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1802 George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1806 Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)
1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1814 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
1821 Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau)
1822 John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
1823 William Henry Monk, composer
1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)
1836 Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
1839 Ren‚ F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1868 Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) [3/28 NS]
1873 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
1876 Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1878 Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
1878 Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
1878 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
1884 Harrison Ford, Kansas City MO, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires)
1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
1885 Sydney Chaplin, S Afr, actor (Limelight)
1892 C‚sar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
1892 Harrison Ford, actor (Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
1893 Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
1896 Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
1901 Walter E Sch„fer, German playwright
1902 Lucie Rie, potter
1903 Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1903 Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy)
1903 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1904 Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1906 Francisco Ayala, writer
1906 Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)
1908 Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)
1910 Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1910 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910 Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1910 Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
1912 Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)
1916 Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1918 Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1918 Howard Boatwright, composer
1919 Erno Kiraly, composer
1920 John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)
1920 Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)
1920 Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1922 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
1922 Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)
1923 George Bean, cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng v Aust)
1925 Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
1926 Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France
1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )
1927 Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
1927 Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)
1927 Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1928 Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
1928 Ramon Barce, composer
1929 Edwin London, composer
1930 Minoru Miky, composer
1931 Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
1931 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1932 Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
1936 Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
1937 Constanca Capdeville, composer
1937 David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)
1940 Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1940 Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1940 Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
1945 B”rries von Mnchhausen, writer, dies
1946 Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1948 Michael Bruce, rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive)
1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare & tenament rights for urban women
1949 Elliott Murphy, US singer/songwriter
1949 Victor Garber, Montr‚al Qu‚bec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1951 Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
1951 Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1951 Ritchie Teeter, rocker
1954 Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1954 Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 78)
1954 Jimmy Nail, singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)
1955 Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1956 Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end (Cleve Browns)
1957 Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1959 Michael J Bloomfield, Flint Mich, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1959 Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1961 Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1962 Marcel Brands, soccer player (RKC)
1963 Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1965 Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
1966 Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1966 David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
1966 Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback (Phila Eagles)
1967 Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions)
1967 John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1968 Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Ottis Gibson, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995)
1969 Pat Harlow, NFL tackle (NE Patriots, Oakland Raiders)
1969 Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 Tammi Terrell, rocker (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)
1971 Brett Carolan, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1971 Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)
1973 Bert Zuurman, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1974 Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)
1976 Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)
1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli
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