1|1|1735|Paul Revere, US patriot
1|1|1919|Jerome David Salinger, US author
1|1|1938|Caroline Jones, Australian radio,TV personality
2|1|1920|Isaac Asimov, author
3|1|-106|Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator & writer (+43 BC)
3|1|1892|JRR Tolkien, author ("Lord of the Rings")
3|1|1909|Victor Borge, musical comedian
3|1|1956|Mel (Columcille Gerard) Gibson, Australian actor
4|1|1581|James Usher, Irish churchman,scholar (+1656)
4|1|1710|Giovanni Pergolesi, Italian composer
4|1|1785|Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, elder of the Brothers Grimm (+1863)
4|1|1809|Louis Braille, French inventor
4|1|1813|Isaac Pitman, shorthand inventor (+1897)
4|1|1914|Jane Wyman, US actress
4|1|1930|Don Shula, US football coach
4|1|1935|Floyd Patterson, US heavyweight boxer
5|1|1921|Friedrich Drrenmatt, Swiss playwright
5|1|1931|Alvin Ailey, dancer & choreographer
5|1|1943|Peter Luck, Australian TV journalist
5|1|1945|Diane Keaton, US actress
6|1|1412|Joan of Arc, French leader & saint (+1431)
6|1|1838|Max Bruch, German composer (+1920)
6|1|1854|Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective
6|1|1934|Harry M Miller, Australian impresario
6|1|1939|Murray Rose, Australian olympic champion swimmer
6|1|1954|Malcom Young, rock singer (AC,DC)
6|1|1955|Rowan Atkinson, British comedian
7|1|1502|Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Buoncompagno) (+1585)
7|1|1611|James Harrington, English political author (+1677)
7|1|1750|Robert Anderson, Scottish author (+1830)
7|1|1800|Millard Fillmore, 13th US president
7|1|1844|St Bernadette of Lourdes (Marie-Bernard Soubiros) (+1879)
7|1|1895|Sir Hudson Fysh, QANTAS founder (+1974)
7|1|1912|Charles Adams, US caroonist (+1988)
7|1|1942|Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
7|1|1964|Nicolas Cage, US actor
8|1|1885|John Curtin, Australian wartime prime minister (+1945)
8|1|1912|Jose Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor,director (+1992)
8|1|1914|Thomas Watson Jr, CEO of IBM 1956-71, in Dayton, Ohio
8|1|1935|Elvis Presley, US singer (+1977)
8|1|1937|Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
8|1|1942|Stephen Hawking, British astrophysicist
8|1|1947|David Bowie, English singer
9|1|1554|Pope Gregory XV (Allesandro Ludovisi) (+1623)
9|1|1890|Kurt Tucholsky, German author (+1935)
9|1|1908|Simone de Beauvoir, French writer
9|1|1913|Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th US president (+1994)
9|1|1914|Gyspy Rose Lee, US entertainer (+1970)
9|1|1941|Joan Baez, US folk singer
9|1|1942|Susannah York, English actress
9|1|1944|Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin guitar player
10|1|1729|Lazaro Spallanzani, Italian scientist (+1799)
10|1|1834|John Dalberg Acton, English historian (+1902)
10|1|1872|Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (+1915)
10|1|1883|Francis X Bushman, silent screen actor
10|1|1945|Rod Stewart, British pop singer
10|1|1949|George Foreman, US boxer
11|1|1504|Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist (+1540)
11|1|1842|William James, US philosopher (+1910)
11|1|1903|Alan Paton, South African author
11|1|1930|Rod Taylor, Australian actor
11|1|1949|Daryl Braithwaite, Australian singer
12|1|1729|Edmund Burke, Irish-born statesman (+1797)
12|1|1737|John Hancock, US patriot
12|1|1876|Jack London, US author (+1916)
12|1|1876|Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer
12|1|1893|Hermann Gring, German Nazi leader (+1946)
12|1|1899|Paul Mller, Swiss chemist, inventor of DDT
12|1|1916|PW Botha, South African president
12|1|1934|Frankie Davidson, Australian singer
12|1|1941|Rush Limbaugh, US political commentator
12|1|1944|Howard Stern, US radio,TV personality
12|1|1946|Joe Frazier, US boxer
12|1|1955|Kirstie Alley, US actress (Wichita, Kan)
13|1|1674|Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French dramatist (+1762)
13|1|1885|Alfred Carl Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush Co
13|1|1911|Sir Jo[hannes] Bjelke-Petersen, former Qld premier [+2005]
13|1|1919|Robert Stack, US actor
13|1|1961|Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, US actress
14|1|1741|Benedict Arnold, US general & traitor (+1801)
14|1|1875|Albert Schweitzer, French missionary,surgeon,musician (+1965)
14|1|1941|Faye Dunaway, US actress
14|1|1944|Graham Marsh, Australian golfer
14|1|1963|Steven Soderbergh, US film writer,director
15|1|1622|Molire (Jean Bapiste Poquelin), French poet (+1673)
15|1|1791|Franz Grillparzer, Austrian author (+1872)
15|1|1809|Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French political philosopher (+1865)
15|1|1815|Warren de la Rue, English astronomer, inventor of the heliograph
15|1|1906|Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (+1975)
15|1|1913|Lloyd Bridges, US actor
15|1|1926|Chuck Berry, US singer
15|1|1929|Rev Martin Luther King, US civil rights leader (+1968)
16|1|1697|Richard Savage, English author (+1743)
16|1|1728|Niccola Piccinni, Italian musician (+1800)
16|1|1909|Ethel Merman, US musical comedy star (+1984)
16|1|1944|Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
17|1|1501|Leonard Fuchs, German physician (+1566)
17|1|1600|Pedro Caldern de la Barca, Spanish poet (+1681)
17|1|1706|Benjamin Franklin, US statesman, scientist, & author (+1790)
17|1|1860|Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist (+1904)
17|1|1876|May Gibbs, English-born author (+1969)
17|1|1899|Al Capone, US gangster (+1947)
17|1|1931|James Earl Jones, US actor
17|1|1942|Ita Buttrose, Australian editor,publisher
17|1|1942|Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali), US boxer
18|1|1782|Daniel Webster, US orator & statesman (+1852)
18|1|1849|Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's 1st prime minister
18|1|1904|Cary Grant (Alexander Archibald Leach), British actor (+1986)
18|1|1913|Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky), US actor,comedian (+1987)
18|1|1944|Paul Keating, Australian prime minister
18|1|1955|Kevin Costner, US actor,director
19|1|1736|James Watt, Scottish engineer & inventor, in Greenock (+1819)
19|1|1807|Robert Edward Lee, Confederate general (+1870)
19|1|1813|Sir Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist & inventor, in Charlton
19|1|1809|Edgar Allan Poe, US writer (+1849)
19|1|1839|Paul Cezanne, French artist (+1906)
19|1|1882|James Joyce, Irish author (+1941)
19|1|1912|Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (+1981)
19|1|1935|Johnny O'Keefe, Australian rock singer (+1978)
19|1|1946|Dolly Parton, US singer,actress
19|1|1966|Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
20|1|1896|George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), US comedian (+1996)
20|1|1920|Frederico Fellini, Italian film director
20|1|1926|Patricia Neal, US actress
20|1|1929|Dawn Lake, Australian entertainer
20|1|1930|Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, US astronaut, in Glen Ridge, NJ
21|1|1836|Leo Delibes, French composer (+1891)
21|1|1905|Christian Dior, French fashion designer (+1957)
21|1|1924|Telly Savalas, US actor
21|1|1925|Benny Hill, British comedian (+1992)
21|1|1937|Rin Clarke, Australian champion runner
21|1|1940|Jack Nicklaus, US golfer
21|1|1941|Placido Domingo, Spanish tenor
21|1|1957|Geena Davis, US actress
22|1|1440|Ivan "the Great" III, Russian Czar
22|1|1561|Sir Francis Bacon, English statesman,essayist (+1626)
22|1|1729|Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German poet (+1781)
22|1|1775|Andr Ampre, French mathematician & physicist (+1836)
22|1|1788|George Gordon Noel Lord Byron, English poet (+1824)
22|1|1849|August Strindberg, Swedish author (+1912)
22|1|1940|John Hurt, English actor
22|1|1960|Michael Hutchence, Australian pop star
23|1|1783|Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French author (+1842)
23|1|1832|Edouard Manet, French artist (+1883)
23|1|1899|Humphrey Bogart, US actor (+1957)
23|1|1903|George Orwell, English writer (+1950)
23|1|1903|Randolph Scott, actor
23|1|1917|Yehudi Menuhin, US violinist
23|1|1928|Jeanne Moreau, French actress
23|1|1933|Bill Hayden, former Australian Governor General
24|1|  76|Hadrian, Roman emperor
24|1|1776|ETA Hoffmann, German author (+1822)
24|1|1872|Ethel Sibyl Turner, English author (+1958)
24|1|1872|Morris William Travers, English chemist, in London
24|1|1888|Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (+1960)
24|1|1917|Ernest Borgnine, US actor
24|1|1941|Neil Diamond, US singer
24|1|1946|Helen Morse, Australian actress
25|1|1540|Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (+1581)
25|1|1627|Robert Boyle, Irish chemist & physicist, Lismore Castle, Munster
25|1|1736|Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician
25|1|1759|Robert Burns, Scottish poet (+1796)
25|1|1874|William Somerset Maugham, English writer, in Paris (+1965)
25|1|1882|Virginia Woolf (Stephen), English author (+1941)
25|1|1919|Edwin Newman, journalist
26|1|1880|Douglas Macarthur, US general (+1964)
26|1|1925|Paul Newman, US actor
26|1|1928|Eartha Kitt, US singer,entertainer
26|1|1954|Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer
26|1|1957|Eddie van Halen, Dutch guitarist
27|1|1756|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (+1791)
27|1|1823|Edouard Lalo, French composer (+1892)
27|1|1832|Lewis Carroll, English writer,mathematician (+1898)
27|1|1834|Dmitri Mendeleyev, Russian chemist (+1907)
27|1|1885|Jerome Kern, US composer (+1945)
27|1|1903|Sir John Eccles, Australian physiologist [Nobel-P,1963]
27|1|1948|Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian ballet dancer
28|1|1582|John Barclay, Scottish satirist (+1621)
28|1|1716|John Baskerville, English typographer (+1775)
28|1|1841|Sir Henry Morton Stanley, British explorer (+1904)
28|1|1855|William Seward Burroughs, US inventor (Adding Machine)
28|1|1873|Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, French writer (+1954)
28|1|1887|Artur Rubinstein, Polish born US pianist
28|1|1936|Alan Alda, US actor (New York, NY)
28|1|1948|Mikhail Baryshnikov, Latvian dancer
29|1|1700|Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
29|1|1860|Anton Tchekhov, Russian author (+1904)
29|1|1862|Frederick Delius, English composer (+1934)
29|1|1879|WC Fields, US actor (+1946)
29|1|1918|John Forsythe, US actor
29|1|1939|Germaine Greer, Australian author
29|1|1945|Tom Sellick, US actor
29|1|1946|Ian "Molly" Meldrum, Australian TV personality
29|1|1954|Oprah Winfrey, US TV personality
30|1|1882|Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd US president (+1945)
30|1|1930|Gene Hackman, US actor
30|1|1937|Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
30|1|1951|Phil Collins, English singer,actor
31|1|1797|Franz Schubert, German composer (+1828)
31|1|1885|Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (+1931)
31|1|1905|John O'Hara, US writer (+1970)
31|1|1919|Jack Roosevelt ("Jackie") Robinson, baseball player
31|1|1921|Mario Lanza, US singer (+1959)
31|1|1923|Norman Mailer, US writer
1|2|1552|Sir Edward Coke, English politician (+1634)
1|2|1644|Antonio Stradivari, Italian string instrument builder (+1737)
1|2|1859|Victor Herbert, US composer (+1924)
1|2|1873|Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (+1938)
1|2|1874|Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer [Rosenkavalier] (+1929)
1|2|1884|The Oxford English Dictionary
1|2|1901|Clark Gable, US actor (+1960)
1|2|1937|Don Everly, US singer
1|2|1947|Normie Rowe, Australian pop singer
2|2|1522|Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician
2|2|1651|Eleanor (Nell) Gwyn, English actress (+1687)
2|2|1875|Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist & composer (+1962)
2|2|1882|James Joyce, Irish author (+1941)
2|2|1912|Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (+1981)
2|2|1901|Jascha Heifetz, Russian-American violin player (+1987)
2|2|1942|Graham Nash, English pop singer
2|2|1947|Farah Fawcett, US actress
3|2|1894|Norman Rockwell, US artist & illustrator
3|2|1809|Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (+1847)
3|2|1907|James A Michener, US writer
4|2|1746|Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish patriot (+1817)
4|2|1902|Charles A Lindbergh, US aviator, in Detroit (+1974)
4|2|1912|Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor
4|2|1931|Isabel Peron, former Argentine president
4|2|1945|Patti Newton, Australian entertainer
4|2|1947|Dan Quayle, former US vice president
4|2|1948|Alice Cooper, US singer
5|2|1827|Peter Lalor, Eureka Stockade fighter (+1889)
5|2|1840|Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, US inventor of the machine gun
5|2|1840|John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish vet & inventor of pneumatic bike tyre
5|2|1848|Belle Starr, outlaw
5|2|1900|Adlai Stevenson, US statesman (+1965)
5|2|1945|Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer (+1981)
5|2|1948|Barbara Hershey, US actress
6|2|1665|Queen Anne (+1714)
6|2|1802|Sir Charles Wheatstone, English physicist
6|2|1895|George Herman "Babe" Ruth, baseball great
6|2|1911|Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th US president
6|2|1939|John Farrell, US actor
6|2|1950|Natalie Cole, US singer
6|2|1968|Molly Ringwald, US actress
7|2|1478|Sir Thomas More, English Lord Chancellor & writer (+1535)
7|2|1804|John Deere, farm equipment manufacturer
7|2|1811|Charles Dickens, English writer (+1870)
7|2|1870|Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist
7|2|1885|Sinclair Lewis, US writer (+1951)
7|2|1912|Sir Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (+1981)
8|2|1577|Robert Burton, English author (+1640)
8|2|1819|John Ruskin, English author/artist (+1900)
8|2|1828|Jules Verne, French author (+1905)
8|2|1920|Lana (Julia) Turner, US actress
8|2|1925|Jack Lemmon, US actor
8|2|1931|James Dean (James Byron), US actor (+1956)
8|2|1934|Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
8|2|1940|Nick Nolte, US actor
9|2|1895|Alban Berg, Austrian composer (+1935)
9|2|1897|Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australian aviator (+1935)
9|2|1914|Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick), exotic dancer
9|2|1942|Carole King, US pop singer
9|2|1944|Derryn Hinch, NZ-born Australian TV personality
9|2|1945|Mia Farrow, US actress
10|2|1890|Boris Pasternak, Russian author (+1960)
10|2|1893|James Francis "Jimmy" Durante, US entertainer (+1980)
10|2|1898|Bertolt Brecht, German writer (+1956)
10|2|1927|Leontyne (Mary) Price (b. Laurel), US soprano
10|2|1939|Roberta Flack, US singer
10|2|1933|Peter Allen, Australian entertainer (+1991)
10|2|1950|Mark Spitz, US olympic swimmer
10|2|1955|Greg Norman, Australian golfer
11|2|1847|Thomas Alva Edison, US inventor (+1931)
11|2|1905|Joy Packer, South African writer
11|2|1926|Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor
11|2|1936|Burt Reynolds, US actor
11|2|1937|Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
11|2|1941|Sergio Mendes, Brazilian singer
12|2|1809|Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (+1865)
12|2|1809|Charles Darwin, English scientist (+1882)
12|2|1898|Roy Harris, American composer (+1979)
12|2|1903|Georges Simenon, Belgian author
12|2|1923|Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director
12|2|1959|Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress
13|2|1754|Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord, French statesman (+1838)
13|2|1909|Reginald Ansett, Australian airline chief (+1981)
13|2|1923|Charles "Chuck" Yeager, former test pilot
13|2|1925|Stuart Wagstaff, British-born actor
13|2|1933|Kim Novak, US Actress
13|2|1936|George Segal, US actor
13|2|1938|Oliver Reed, British actor
13|2|1939|Andrew Peacock, Australian politician
14|2|1894|Jack Benny, US comedian (+1975)
14|2|1968|Molly Ringwald, US actress
15|2|1564|Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (+1642)
15|2|1571|Michael Praetorius, German composer
15|2|1861|A Whitehead, English philosopher (+1947)
15|2|1874|Sir Ernest Shackleton, British explorer
15|2|1934|Graham Kennedy, Australian TV personality
15|2|1945|Ray Brown, US pop singer
16|2|1740|Giambattista Bodoni, Italian printer and type designer
16|2|1802|Victor Hugo, French writer (+1885)
16|2|1926|John Schlesinger, English film director
16|2|1935|Sonny (born Salvatore) Bono, singer (+1998)
16|2|1959|John McEnrow, US tennis player
17|2|1653|Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist & composer (+1713)
17|2|1766|T R Malthus, English economist (+1834)
17|2|1781|Ren Laennec, French physician [invented stethoscope]
17|2|1877|Andr Maginot, French military expert (+1932)
17|2|1864|Banjo Paterson, Australian bush poet (+1941)
17|2|1934|Barry Humphries, Australian comedian & satirist
17|2|1941|Gene Pitney, US singer/songwriter
17|2|1963|Michael Jordan, US basketball player
18|2|1516|Queen Mary I (+1558)
18|2|1745|Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (+1827)
18|2|1784|Nicolo Paganini, Italian composer/violinist (+1840)
18|2|1882|Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer [Alexis Sorbas] (+1957)
18|2|1893|Andre Segovia, Spanish composer/guitarist (+1987)
18|2|1919|Jack Palance, US actor
18|2|1925|George Kennedy, US actor
18|2|1934|Yoko Ono
18|2|1950|Cybill Shepherd, US actress
18|2|1954|John Travolta, US actor
18|2|1964|Matt Dillon, US actor
19|2|1473|Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (+1543)
19|2|1743|Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (+1805)
19|2|1843|Adelina Patti, Spanish-Italian-American soprano (+1919)
19|2|1911|Merle Oberon, Tasmanian-born actress (1979)
19|2|1924|Lee Marvin, US actor
19|2|1940|Smokey Robinson, US pop singer
19|2|1960|Andrew Windsor, English prince
20|2|1694|Voltaire, French philosopher
20|2|1791|Karl Czerny, Austrian pianist & piano teacher (+1857)
20|2|1898|Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer
20|2|1902|Ansel Adams, photographer
20|2|1925|Robert Altman, US director (Kansas City, Mo)
21|2|1801|John Henry Newman, English cardinal (+1890)
21|2|1836|Leo Delibes, French composer (+1891)
21|2|1855|Fred McCubbin, Australian artist (+1917)
21|2|1893|Andrs Segovia, Spanish guitarist (+1987)
21|2|1907|W H Auden, English poet (+1973)
21|2|1915|Ann Sheridan, US actress
21|2|1927|Erna Bombeck, US author/columnist
21|2|1937|Ron Clarke, Australian athlete
21|2|1958|Alan Trammel, baseball player
22|2|1732|George Washington, 1st US president (+1799)
22|2|1788|Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (+1860)
22|2|1810|Frederick Chopin, Polish composer (+1849)
22|2|1857|Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scout movement (+1941)
22|2|1879|Norman Lindsay, Australian artist (+1969)
22|2|1888|Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (+1976)
22|2|1908|Sir John Mills, British actor
22|2|1932|Edward M Kennedy, US politician
22|2|1962|Steve Irwin, Australian wildlife expert (+2006)
23|2|1633|Samual Pepys, English writer
23|2|1685|Georg Friedrich Hndel, German-English composer (+1759)
23|2|1817|Sir George Frederick Watts, English artist (+1904)
23|2|1899|Erich Kstner, German writer
23|2|1908|Sir William McMahon, former Australian PM (+1982)
23|2|1939|Peter Fonda, US actor
24|2|1786|Wilhelm Karl Grimm, younger of the Brothers Grimm (+1859)
24|2|1842|Arrigo Boito, Italian composer & librettist (+1918)
24|2|1852|George Augustus Moore, English novelist (+1933)
24|2|1874|Honus Wagner (born John Peter Wagner), baseball great
24|2|1942|David Williamson, Australian playwright
24|2|1955|Alain Prost, French motor racing champion
25|2|1707|Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright
25|2|1841|Pierre Auguste Renoir, French artist (+1919)
25|2|1842|Karl May, German author (+1912)
25|2|1873|Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer (+1921)
25|2|1918|Bobby Riggs (born Robert Larimore Riggs), tennis player
25|2|1943|George Harrison, English singer
26|2|1802|Victor Hugo, French author (+1885)
26|2|1846|William F Cody (Buffalo Bill), US frontier scout (+1917)
26|2|1920|Tony Randall (Leonard Rosenberg), actor ("The Odd Couple")
26|2|1932|Johnny Cash, US singer
26|2|1945|Peter Brock, Australian racing-car driver (+2006)
26|2|1964|Guy Leech, Australian iron-man
27|2|1807|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet
27|2|1873|Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (+1921)
27|2|1902|John Steinbeck, US author (+1968)
27|2|1932|Elizabeth Taylor, US actress (in London, England)
27|2|1934|Ralph Nader, US consumer activist
28|2|1483|Raphael, Italian artist (+1520)
28|2|1890|Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer (+1950)
28|2|1895|Marcel Pagnol, French playwright
28|2|1901|Linus Pauling, US chemist
28|2|1915|Zero Mostel, actor
28|2|1940|Mario Andretti, Italian racing-car driver
28|2|1942|Brian Jones, British rock musician
29|2|1792|Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
29|2|1860|Herman Hollerith, inventor of the punched card
1|3|1880|Giles Lytton Strachey, English author (+1932)
1|3|1904|Glenn Miller, US band leader (+1944)
1|3|1927|Harry Belafonte, US singer
2|3|1824|Bedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (+1884)
2|3|1904|Theodor Suess Giesel ("Dr Suess"), children's author
2|3|1931|Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian politician
2|3|1950|Karen Carpenter, US singer (+1983)
2|3|1962|Jon Bon Jovi
3|3|1652|Thomas Otway, English dramatist (+1685)
3|3|1847|Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US telephone inventor (+1922)
3|3|1911|Jean Harlow, US actress (+1937)
4|3|1756|Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish artist (+1823)
4|3|1888|Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach
4|3|1932|Miriam Makeba, South African singer
4|3|1944|Mary Wilson, US singer [The Supremes]
5|3|1512|Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer/mathematician (+1594)
5|3|1908|Rex Harrison, British actor (+1990)
5|3|1936|Dean Stockwell, US actor
6|3|1475|Michelangelo de Lodovico Buonarroti-Simoni (+ 18-Feb-1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet
6|3|1620|Cyrano de Bergerac, French author (+1655)
6|3|1806|Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (+1861)
6|3|1906|Lou Costello, US comedian (+1959)
6|3|1930|Lorin Maazel, French conductor
6|3|1944|Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
7|3|1849|Luther Burbank, American horticulturist
7|3|1875|Maurice Ravel, French composer (+1937)
7|3|1934|Willard Scott, TV weatherman
7|3|1960|Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakian tennis player
7|3|1965|Cameron Daddo
8|3|1714|Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer (+1788)
8|3|1809|Oliver Wendell Holmes, US Supreme Court Justice (+1894)
8|3|1859|Kenneth Grahame, English author [Wind in the Willows] (+1932)
8|3|1865|Frederick Goudy, typographer
8|3|1943|Lynn Redgrave, English actress
9|3|1451|Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (+1512)
9|3|1910|Samuel Barber, US composer (+1981)
9|3|1918|Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison), US writer
9|3|1934|Yuri A Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut & 1st man in space (1968)
9|3|1940|Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (+1994)
10|3|1772|Friedrich Schlegel, German poet (+1829)
10|3|1788|Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet
10|3|1916|James Herriot, English writer & country vet
10|3|1964|Edward Windsor, English prince
11|3|1544|Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (+1595)
11|3|1903|Lawrence Welk, US bandleader (+1992)
11|3|1930|Geoffrey Blainey, Australian historian
11|3|1931|Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born media magnate
12|3|1832|Charles Boycott, English estate agent
12|3|1922|Jack Kerouac, US poet
12|3|1928|Edward Albee, US playwright
12|3|1946|Liza Minnelli, actress-singer
13|3|1733|Joseph Priestley, English scientist, in Leeds
13|3|1913|William Casey, CIA director
14|3|1804|Johann Strauss Snr, Austrian composer/conductor (+1849)
14|3|1820|Victor Emmanuel II, 1st king of a united Italy (+1878)
14|3|1820|Umbert I, King of Italy (+1900)
14|3|1868|Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist (+1936)
14|3|1879|Albert Einstein, German physicist (+1955)
14|3|1933|Michael Caine, English actor
14|3|1933|Quincy Jones, US composer
14|3|1942|Rita Tushingham, British actress
14|3|1947|Billy Crystal, US actor/comedian
14|3|1958|Albert Garibaldi, Prince (Monaco)
14|3|1983|Taylor Hanson, US musiscian
15|3|1767|Andrew Jackson, US president (+1845)
15|3|1916|Henry James, US band leader (+1983)
15|3|1935|Judd Hirsch, actor
16|3|1751|James Madison, former US president (+1836)
16|3|1774|Matthew Flinders, Australian explorer (+1814)
16|3|1787|Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (+1854)
16|3|1839|Modest Moussorgsky, Russian composer (+1881)
16|3|1920|Leo McKern, Australian actor
16|3|1926|Jerry Lewis, US comedian
17|3|1834|Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer
17|3|1894|Lloyd Rees, Australian artist (+1988)
17|3|1895|Shemp Howard, US comedian
17|3|1926|Siegfried Lenz, German author
17|3|1938|Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (+1993)
17|3|1941|Gene Pitney, US singer
17|3|1951|Kurt Russell, US actor
17|3|1964|Rob Lowe, US actor
18|3|1858|Rudolf Diesel, German engineer
18|3|1961|Poppin' Fresh (The Pillsbury Dough Boy)
19|3|1813|David Livingston, English explorer/missionary (1873)
19|3|1848|Wyatt Earp, US marshall (+1929)
19|3|1936|Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
19|3|1947|Glenn Close, US actress
19|3|1955|Bruce Willis, US actor
20|3| -43|Ovid, Roman poet (+18 AD)
20|3|1828|Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (+1906)
20|3|1904|Burrhus Frederic Skinner, psychologist
20|3|1908|Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor
20|3|1923|Carl Reiner, US actor/director
20|3|1950|William Hurt, US actor
20|3|1957|Spike Lee, US film director
21|3|1685|Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (+1750)
21|3|1763|Jean Paul (Friedrich Richter), German author (+1825)
21|3|1806|Benito Juarez, Mexican president (+1872)
21|3|1917|Frank Hardy, Australian author (+1994)
21|3|1925|Peter Brook, English theatre/film director
21|3|1941|Keith Potger, founder-member of AUS group The Seekers
21|3|1944|Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
21|3|1960|Ayrton Senna da Silva, Brazilian F1 racing driver (+1994)
22|3|1599|Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter
22|3|1923|Marcel Marceau, French mime
22|3|1930|Stephen Sondheim, US composer & lyricist
22|3|1931|William Shatner, US actor
22|3|1948|Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer
23|3|1891|Leonard "Chico" Marx, US comic
23|3|1900|Erich Fromm, American psychologist
23|3|1908|Joan Crawford, US actress (+1977)
23|3|1910|Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
23|3|1912|Wernher von Braun, German-born engineer (+1977)
23|3|1929|Roger Bannister, British athlete
23|3|1936|Glen Campbell, US singer
23|3|1947|Bernadette Devlin, Irish civil rights leader
24|3|1874|Harry Houdini (born Ehrich Weiss), magician & escape artist (+1926)
24|3|1909|Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie & Clyde), in Teleco, Texas
24|3|1961|Dean Jones, Australian cricketer
24|3|1930|Steve McQueen, US actor (+1980)
25|3|1867|Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor
25|3|1881|Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer
25|3|1908|David Lean, British film director
25|3|1920|Howard Cosell (born Howard William Cohen), sports commentator
25|3|1928|James Lovell, US astronaut, in Cleveland, Ohio
25|3|1935|Gloria Steinem, US journalist/author
25|3|1942|Aretha Franklin, US singer/songwriter
25|3|1947|Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight), English musician
26|3|1859|AE Housman, English poet
26|3|1874|Robert Frost, US poet
26|3|1914|Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, US playwright
26|3|1931|Leonard Nimoy, US actor
26|3|1934|Alan Arkin, US actor & author
26|3|1944|Diana Ross, US singer
27|3|1845|Wilhelm von Rntgen, German physicist (discovered X-Rays)
27|3|1871|Heinrich Mann, German writer (+1950)
27|3|1924|Sarah Vaughan, US jazz singer
27|3|1940|Cale Yarborough, auto racer
27|3|1959|Andrew Farriss, Australian singer (INXS)
28|3|1483|Raphael, Italian artist (+1520)
28|3|1836|Frederick Pabst, brewer
28|3|1862|Aristide Briand, French statesman (+1932)
28|3|1868|Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (+1936)
28|3|1921|Dirk Bogarde, British actor
28|3|1922|Neville Bonner, 1st Aboriginal Australian federal MP (+1999)
28|3|1935|Michael Parkinson, British TV personality
28|3|1936|Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist
28|3|1940|Tony Barber, Australian TV personality
28|3|1942|Neil Kinnock, British politician
28|3|1943|John Major, former British prime minister
28|3|1969|Peter van Eerten, author of BaCon and GTK-Server
29|3|1867|Cy Young, baseball pitcher
29|3|1943|Eric Idle, British actor
29|3|1964|Elle Macpherson, Australian model/actress
30|3|1746|Francisco Goya, Spanish artist (+1828)
30|3|1853|Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (+1890)
30|3|1880|Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist
30|3|1927|Wally Grout, Australian cricketer (+1968)
30|3|1933|Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer
30|3|1937|Warren Beattie, US actor
30|3|1945|Eric Clapton, English guitarist/singer
30|3|1957|Debbie Byrne, Australian singer/actress
30|3|1962|MC Hammer
31|3|1596|Rene Descartes, French mathematician & philosopher (+1650)
31|3|1732|Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (+1809)
31|3|1809|Nicolai Gogol, Russian author (+1852)
31|3|1811|RW von Bunsen, German chemist (+1899)
31|3|1884|Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (+1964)
31|3|1926|John Fowles, English novelist
31|3|1935|Herb Alpert, US musician (Los Angeles, Cal)
31|3|1935|Richard Chamberlain, US actor
31|3|1959|Angus Young (AC/DC)
1|4|1815|Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (+1898)
1|4|1865|Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian inventor of ultra-microscope
1|4|1873|Sergey Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (+1943)
1|4|1875|Edgar Wallace, English author (+1932)
1|4|1932|Debbie Reynolds, US singer/actress
1|4|1967|Julia Roberts, US actress
2|4|1725|Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer (+1798)
2|4|1805|Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (+1875)
2|4|1840|Emile Zola, French author (+1902)
2|4|1914|Sir Alec Guinness, actor
2|4|1926|Sir Jack Brabham, Australian racing car driver
3|4|1367|Henry IV, 1st Lancastrian king of England (+1413)
3|4|1783|Washington Irving, US writer (+1859)
3|4|1845|William Farrer, Australian wheat developer (+1906)
3|4|1924|Marlon Brando, US actor
3|4|1924|Doris Day, US actress/singer
3|4|1930|Helmut Kohl, former German chancellor
3|4|1958|Alec Baldwin, US actor
3|4|1961|Eddie Murphy, US actor
4|4|1821|Linus Yale, developer of the cylinder lock
4|4|1965|Robert Downey Jr
5|4|1588|Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (+1679)
5|4|1827|Joseph Lister, English surgeon (+1912)
5|4|1837|Algernon C Swinburne, English poet (+1909)
5|4|1900|Spencer Tracy, US actor (+1967)
5|4|1908|Bette Davis, US actress (+1989)
5|4|1916|(Eldred) Gregory Peck, US actor (+2003)
5|4|1950|Agnetha "Anna" Ulvaeus, Swedish pop singer
6|4|1826|Gustave Moreau, French artist (+1898)
6|4|1890|Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft designer (+1939)
6|4|1870|Oscar Strauss, Austrian composer (+1954)
6|4|1870|Harry Houdini, Hungarian magician and escapist (+1936)
6|4|1922|Gordon Chater, Australian actor
6|4|1929|Andre Previn, German pianist/conductor/composer
6|4|1972|Jason Hervey, US actor ("The Wonder Years")
6|4|1973|JD Watson, discoverer (with F Crick) of the DNA double-helix
7|4|1770|William Wordsworth, English poet (+1850)
7|4|1915|Billie Holiday, singer
7|4|1924|Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian author
7|4|1938|Brett Whiteley, Australian artist
7|4|1939|Francis Ford Coppola, US film director
7|4|1939|David Frost, British TV personality
8|4|1912|Sonja Henie, Olympic figure skater
8|4|1929|Jaques Brel, Belgian singer/songwriter (+1978)
8|4|1963|Julian Lennon, English pop singer
9|4|1821|Charles Pierre Baudelaire, French author
9|4|1898|Paul Robeson, US singer (+1976)
9|4|1909|Sir Robert Helpmann, Australian ballet dancer/actor (+1986)
9|4|1918|Jrn Utzon, Danish architect
9|4|1919|JP Eckert, US co-developer of ENIAC, the 1st all-purpose computer
9|4|1926|Hugh Hefner, US publisher ("Playboy")
9|4|1933|Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
9|4|1954|Dennis Quaid, US actor
9|4|1957|Jana Wendt, Australian TV journalist
9|4|1957|Sevvy Ballasteros, Spanish golfer
10|4|1778|William Hazlitt, English essayist (+1830)
10|4|1829|William Booth, English founder of Salvation Army (+1912)
10|4|1847|Joseph Pulitzer, US journalist (+1911)
10|4|1915|Harry Morgan, actor
10|4|1929|Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
10|4|1932|Omar Sharif, Egyptian-born actor
11|4|1770|George Canning, English statesman (+1827)
11|4|1772|Manuel Quintana, Spanish poet (+1857)
11|4|1913|Oleg Cassini, fashion designer
11|4|1932|Joel Gray, US actor/singer/dancer
12|4|1722|Christopher Smart, English poet (+1771)
12|4|1908|Lionel Hampton, US jazz musician
12|4|1922|Tiny Tim (Herbert Buckingham Khaury), singer
12|4|1933|Montserrat Caballe, Spanish opera singer
12|4|1939|Alan Ayckbourn, English playwright
12|4|1939|Neil Sedaka, US singer
12|4|1940|Herbie Hancock, US jazz musician
12|4|1947|David Michael Letterman, US talkshow host
12|4|1950|David Cassidy, US actor/singer
13|4|1743|Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president (+1826)
13|4|1748|Joseph Brahmah, British inventor (safety lock)
13|4|1771|Richard Trevithick, British engineer & mechanic (1st locomotive)
13|4|1852|FW Woolworth, US retailer (+1919)
13|4|1892|Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish scientist (radar)
13|4|1892|Gladys Moncreif, Australian singer (+1976)
13|4|1906|Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
13|4|1924|Stanley Donen, US film director
13|4|1927|Don Adams, US actor
13|4|1939|Col Joye, Australian singer
13|4|1963|Garry Kasparov, Russian chess champion
14|4|1527|Abraham Oertel, cartographer & engraver
14|4|1629|Christian Huygens, Dutch mathematician & physicist
14|4|1904|Sir John Gielgud, English actor
14|4|1907|Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator
14|4|1925|Rod Steiger, US actor
14|4|1941|Julie Christie, English actress
15|4|1452|Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, inventor (+1519)
15|4|1707|Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (+1783)
15|4|1832|Wilhelm Busch, German poet & painter (+1908)
15|4|1843|Henry James, US author (+1926)
15|4|1912|Kim Il Sung, North Korean dictator (+1994)
15|4|1933|Roy Clark, US country singer
15|4|1938|Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
15|4|1959|Emma Thompson, English actress
15|4|1966|Samantha Fox, English pin-up girl
16|4|1844|Jacques Thibaut (Anatole France), French novelist (+1924)
16|4|1867|Wilbur Wright, US engineer
16|4|1871|JM Synge, Irish dramatist
16|4|1889|Charles Chaplin, actor/director, in Lambeth, London (+1977)
16|4|1918|Spike Milligan, British comedian
16|4|1921|Peter Ustinov, British actor/director
16|4|1924|Henry Mancini, US composer/conductor (+1994)
16|4|1939|Dusty Springfield, British singer (+1999)
16|4|1947|Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, US basketball player
16|4|1950|Colleen Hewitt, Australian singer
17|4|1885|Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke), Danish author
17|4|1894|Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet statesman (+1971)
17|4|1897|Thornton Wilder, US author (+1975)
17|4|1918|William Holden, US actor (+1981)
17|4|1974|Victoria Adams Beckham ("Posh Spice")
18|4|1819|Franz von Supp, Austrian composer (+1895)
18|4|1882|Leopold Stokowski, English-born conductor (+1977)
18|4|1966|Paul Reiffel, Australian cricketer
19|4|1759|August Wilhelm Iffland, German dramatist (+1814)
19|4|1903|Eliot Ness, FBI agent
19|4|1933|Jayne Mansfield, US actress (+1967)
19|4|1935|Dudley Moore, British actor/comedian/pianist
19|4|1943|Mark Day, Australian broadcaster/columnist
20|4|1808|Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) (+1873)
20|4|1889|Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator, in Braunau on Inn, Austria (+1945)
20|4|1893|Joan Miro, Spanish painter (+1983)
20|4|1914|Lionel Hampton, US jazz musician
20|4|1920|Arthur Hailey, English/US writer
20|4|1938|Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete
20|4|1941|Ryan O'Neal, US actor
20|4|1949|Jessica Lange, US actress
21|4|1729|Catherine the Great, Russian Empress
21|4|1782|Friedrich Froebel, German educator
21|4|1816|Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (+1855)
21|4|1915|Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor
21|4|1926|Elizabeth Windsor, English Queen (Elizabeth II)
22|4|1707|Henry Fielding, English writer [Tom Jones] (+1754)
22|4|1724|Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (+1804)
22|4|1870|Vladimir Lenin, Russian statesman (+1924)
22|4|1904|Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist
22|4|1916|Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
22|4|1917|Sir Sidney Nolan, Australian painter
22|4|1923|Aaron Spelling, US TV producer
22|4|1938|Alan Bond, Australian businessman
23|4|1564|William Shakespeare, English playwright/poet (+1616)
23|4|1858|Max Planck, German physicist
23|4|1891|Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (+1953)
23|4|1899|Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/US writer
23|4|1928|Shirley Temple, US actress/diplomat
23|4|1936|Roy Orbison, singer (+1988)
23|4|1940|Lee Majors, US actor
23|4|1949|Meryl Streep, US actress
24|4|1576|Saint Vincent de Paul (+1600)
24|4|1743|Edmund Cartwright, English inventor (+1823)
24|4|1814|Anthony Trollope, English novelist (+1882)
24|4|1905|Robert Penn Warren, US poet and novelist
24|4|1936|Jill Ireland, British actress (+1990)
24|4|1941|John Williams, Australian classical guitarist
24|4|1934|Shirley MacLaine, US actress
24|4|1942|Barbra Streisand, US singer/actress/director
24|4|1970|Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer
25|4|1599|Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (+1658)
25|4|1874|Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and radio pioneer (+1937)
25|4|1916|Morris West, Australian author
25|4|1918|Ella Fitzgerald, US singer
25|4|1924|BB King, US blues musician
25|4|1932|Meadowlark Lemon, basketball player
25|4|1940|Al Pacino, US actor
25|4|1943|Prue Acton, Australian fashion designer
25|4|1945|Bjorn Ulvaeus, Swedish pop writer/singer
26|4| 121|Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher
26|4|1711|David Hume, Scottish philosopher/historian/economist (+1776)
26|4|1812|Alfred Krupp, German metallurgist/industrialist (+1887)
26|4|1893|Anita Loos, American author ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes")
26|4|1916|Morris West, Australian author
26|4|1934|Carol Burnett, US actress
27|4|1791|Samuel FB Morse, US inventor (+1872)
27|4|1822|Ulysses S Grant, US president & general (+1885)
27|4|1896|Wallace Hume Carothers, US inventor of nylon, in Iowa
27|4|1922|Jack Klugman, US actor
27|4|1932|Anouk Aime, French actress (Paris, France)
27|4|1947|Nick Greiner, former premier of NSW
27|4|1959|Sheena Shirley Orr (Easton), Scottish singer
28|4|1457|King Henry VII of England (+1509)
28|4|1758|James Monroe, former US president (+1831)
28|4|1795|Charles Sturt, Australian explorer (+1869)
28|4|1874|Karl Kraus, Austrian author (+1936)
28|4|1889|Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese dictator (+1970)
28|4|1935|Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator
28|4|1937|Jack Nicholson, US actor
28|4|1941|Ann-Margret (Olsson), US actress
28|4|1956|Jimmy Barnes, Australian pop singer
29|4|1667|John Arbuthnot, English physicist/satirist (+1745)
29|4|1863|William Randolph Hearst, US publisher (+1951)
29|4|1899|Duke Ellington, bandleader and composer (+1974)
29|4|1901|Emperor Hirohito of Japan (+1989)
29|4|1929|Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer, in Launceston, TAS
29|4|1931|Lonnie Donegan, Scottish entertainer
29|4|1936|Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor
29|4|1957|Michelle Pfeiffer, US actress
29|4|1970|Andre Agassi, US tennis player
30|4|1723|Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist (+1806)
30|4|1748|Jacques Louis David, French artist (+1825)
30|4|1777|Carl Friedrich Gauss, German astronomer
30|4|1909|Juliana, former Queen of The Netherlands
30|4|1933|Willie Nelson, US country singer
30|4|1944|Jill Clayburgh, US actress
30|4|1946|King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
30|4|1964|Ian Healy, Australian cricketer
1|5|1672|Joseph Addison, English poet/politician (+1719)
1|5|1769|Arthur Wellesley, English soldier/statesman (+1852)
1|5|1907|Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith, US singer (+1986)
1|5|1908|Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer [Don Camillo] (+1969)
1|5|1916|Glenn Ford, canadian actor
1|5|1923|Joseph Heller, US writer
1|5|1934|John Meillon, Australian actor (+1989)
1|5|1944|Rita Coolidge, US singer
2|5|1729|Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (+1796)
2|5|1886|Gottfried Benn, German writer (+1956)
2|5|1892|Manfred von Richthofen, WWI flying ace (+1918)
2|5|1904|Bing Crosby, US actor/singer (+1977)
3|5|1469|Nicolo Machiavelli, Italian political philosopher (+1527)
3|5|1890|B Traven, US author (+1969)
3|5|1898|Golda Meir, Israeli politician (+1978)
3|5|1919|Pete Seeger, US folk singer
3|5|1920|Sugar Ray Robinson, US boxer (+1989)
3|5|1936|Engelbert Humperdinck, British pop singer
3|5|1947|Doug Henning, magician
4|5|1769|Sir Thomas Lawrence, English artist (+1830)
4|5|1825|Thomas Huxley, English biolog., grandfather of Aldous & Julian H.
4|5|1929|Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (+1993)
4|5|1930|Roberta Peters, US opera singer
4|5|1944|Steve Liebman, Australian TV personality
4|5|1952|Belinda Green, Australian former Miss World"
5|5|1813|Soeren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (+1855)
5|5|1818|Karl Marx (+1883)
5|5|1846|Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist [Quo Vadis] (+1916)
5|5|1882|Sir Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer (+1958)
5|5|1900|Spencer Tracy
5|5|1913|Tyrone Power, US actor (+1958)
6|5|1856|Robert E Peary, US explorer (+1920)
6|5|1856|Siegmund Freud, Austrian psychologist (+1939)
6|5|1861|Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet (+1941)
6|5|1895|Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglielmi Di Valentina D'Antonguolla (aka Rudolph Valentino), actor (+1926)
6|5|1915|Orson Welles, US actor/director (+1985)
7|5|1812|Robert Browning, English poet (+1899)
7|5|1833|Johannes Brahms, German composer (+1897)
7|5|1840|Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (+1893)
7|5|1909|Edwin Land, US inventor (Polaroid lens, instant camera)
7|5|1934|Willard Herman Scott, weatherman
8|5|1828|Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of Red Cross (+1910)
8|5|1884|Harry S Truman, 33rd US president (+1972)
9|5|1936|Albert Finney, English actor
9|5|1936|Glenda Jackson, English actress
9|5|1946|Candice Bergen, US actress
9|5|1949|Billy Joel, US singer/songwriter
10|5|1850|Sir Thomas Lipton, English merchant/sportsman (+1931)
10|5|1899|Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), dancer/actor (+1987)
10|5|1943|Donovan, Scottish pop singer
10|5|1957|Sid Vicious, pop singer
11|5|1888|Irving Berlin, US songwriter (+1989)
11|5|1904|Salvador Dali, Spanish artist (+1989)
11|5|1911|Frank Thring, Australian actor
11|5|1931|Rupert Murdoch, Australian/US media magnate
12|5|1820|Florence Nightingale, English nursing pioneer (+1910)
12|5|1842|Jules Massenet, French composer (+1912)
12|5|1907|Leslie Charteris, British author [S Templar] in Singapore (+1993)
12|5|1907|Katharine Hepburn, US actress
12|5|1924|Tony Hancock, English comedian (+1968)
12|5|1928|Burt Bacharach, US musician/composer
12|5|1950|Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
12|5|1960|Lisa Ondieki, Australian marathon runner
12|5|1962|Emilio Estevez, US actor
12|5|1966|Stephen Baldwin, US actor
13|5|1842|Sir Arthur Sullivan, English composer (+1900)
13|5|1907|Daphne Du Maurier, English writer
13|5|1914|Joe Louis, US heavyweight boxing champion (+1981)
13|5|1950|Peter Gabriel, English pop singer
13|5|1950|Stevie Wonder, US pop singer
14|5|1686|Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist (+1736)
14|5|1885|Otto Klemperer, German coductor (+1973)
14|5|1952|David Byrne, Scottish pop singer
14|5|1959|David Reyne, Australian singer/actor
15|5|1856|Lyman Frank Baum, writer ("Wizard of Oz")
15|5|1859|Pierre Curie, French physicist (+1906)
15|5|1905|Joseph Cotten, US actor (+1994)
15|5|1909|James Mason, English-born actor (+1984)
15|5|1911|Max Frisch, Swiss writer
16|5|1718|Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (+1799)
16|5|1831|Inventor David Hughes [teleprinter, microphone]
16|5|1905|Henry Fonda, US actor (+1982)
16|5|1919|Richard Mason, English novelist
16|5|1919|Wladziu Valentino Liberace, US entertainer (+1987)
16|5|1955|Debra Winger, US actress
16|5|1966|Janet Jackson, US pop singer
16|5|1970|Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian tennis player
17|5|1717|Maria Theresia, Queen of Hungary and Romania (+1780)
17|5|1749|Edward Jenner, English physician (+1823)
17|5|1900|Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader (+1989)
17|5|1922|Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer
17|5|1936|Dennis Hopper, US actor/director
17|5|1945|Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
18|5|1872|Bertrand Russell, English philosopher (+1970)
18|5|1913|Perry Como, US singer
18|5|1919|Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina (+1991)
18|5|1920|Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II
18|5|1946|Reggie Jackson, baseball player
19|5|1762|Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (+1814)
19|5|1861|Nellie Melba (Helen Porter Mitchell), AUS opera singer (+1931)
19|5|1879|Nancy Witcher Langhorne, 1st woman to sit in House of Commons
19|5|1925|Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), Black Muslim leader
19|5|1940|Carla Zampatti, Australian fashion designer
19|5|1945|Pete Townsend, UK pop singer
19|5|1952|Grace Jones, Jamaican-born singer/actress
19|5|1957|James Reyne, Australian singer
20|5|1799|Honor de Balzac, French novelist (+1850)
20|5|1806|John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (+1873)
20|5|1882|Sigrid Undset, Norwegian novelist (+1949)
20|5|1908|James (Jimmy) Stewart, US actor
20|5|1944|Joe Cocker, British singer
20|5|1946|Cher, US singer/actress
21|5|-427|Plato (Aristocles)
21|5|1686|Alexander Pope, English poet (+1744)
21|5|1916|Harold Robbins, US novelist
21|5|1917|Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (+1994)
21|5|1930|John Malcom Fraser, former Australian Prime Minister
22|5|1813|Richard Wagner, German composer (+1883)
22|5|1859|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, English writer (+1930)
22|5|1907|Laurence Olivier, English actor (+1989)
22|5|1940|Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor
22|5|1947|George Best, Nth Irish soccer player
23|5|1707|Carl von Linne (Linnaeus), Swedish botanist (+1778)
23|5|1753|Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician (+1815)
23|5|1810|Margaret Fuller, US author
23|5|1883|Douglas Fairbanks, US actor (+1939)
23|5|1932|Joan Collins, English actress
23|5|1934|Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer
23|5|1944|John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
24|5|1743|Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary (+1793)
24|5|1819|Queen Victoria (+1901)
24|5|1883|Elsa Maxwell, introducer of the "scavenger hunt"
24|5|1905|Mikhail Sholokov, Russian author, Nobel Prize 1965 (+1984)
24|5|1941|Bob Dylan (Zimmermann), US singer/songwriter
24|5|1945|Priscilla Presley, US actress
25|5|1803|Ralph Waldo Emerson, US writer (+1882)
25|5|1878|Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dance maestro
25|5|1879|Lord Beaverbrook, British statesman and newspaper magnate (+1964)
25|5|1889|Igor Sikorsky, aeronautical engineer, in Kiev, Russia (+1972)
25|5|1892|Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's president (+1980)
25|5|1926|Miles Davis, US jazz musician (+1991)
25|5|1927|Robert Ludlum, US author
25|5|1947|Jackie Weaver, Australian actress
26|5|1623|Sir William Petty, English economist (+1687)
26|5|1799|Alexander Pushkin, Russian author (+1837)
26|5|1859|AE Housman, English poet (+1936)
26|5|1886|Al Jolson, US (Russian-born) entertainer (1950)
26|5|1907|John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison), US actor (+1979)
26|5|1913|Peter Cushing, English actor (+1994)
26|5|1920|Peggy Lee, US singer
26|5|1938|Volkswagen (VW) Beetle in Wolfsburg, Germany
26|5|1960|Dean Lukin, Australian weight lifter
26|5|1966|Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
27|5|1818|Amelia Bloomer, US feminist (+1894)
27|5|1837|(Wild) Bill Hickok, US frontiersman (+1876)
27|5|1878|Isadora Duncan, US dancer (+1927)
27|5|1907|Rachel (Louise) Carson, US author ("Silent Spring")
27|5|1911|Vincent Price, US actor (+1993)
27|5|1915|Herman Wouk, US author
27|5|1922|Christopher Lee, English actor
27|5|1923|Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State
27|5|1936|Lou Gossett Jnr, US actor
27|5|1940|Mike Gibson, Australian journalist
27|5|1943|Cilla Black, English pop singer
27|5|1958|Neil Finn, NZ singer
27|5|1965|Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
28|5|1660|George I, British monarch (+1727)
28|5|1738|Dr Joseph Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the Guillotine (+1814)
28|5|1759|William Pitt (the Younger), English statesman (+1806)
28|5|1908|Ian Fleming, English novelist (+1964)
28|5|1912|Patrick White, Australian author (+1990), Nobel Prize 1973
28|5|1926|Carroll Baker, US actress
28|5|1944|Gladys Knight, US singer
28|5|1945|John Fogarty, US singer
28|5|1947|Sondra Locke, US actress
28|5|1964|Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
28|5|1968|Kylie Minogue, Australian actress/pop singer
29|5|1736|Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary leader
29|5|1874|Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English writer (+1936)
29|5|1903|Bob Hope (Leslie Townes), US comedian, in Eltham, England (+2003)
29|5|1917|John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th US president (+1963)
30|5|1672|Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (+1725)
30|5|1871|Sir Ernest Rutherford, NZ Nobel Prize winner
30|5|1908|Melvin Jerome Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, et al
30|5|1909|Benny Goodman, US musician (+1986)
30|5|1928|Pro Hart, Australian artist
31|5|1819|Walt Whitman, US poet (+1892)
31|5|1915|Judith Wright, Australian poet
31|5|1923|Rainier Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco
31|5|1930|Clint Eastwood, US actor
31|5|1965|Brooke Shields, US actress
1|6|1780|Karl Maria von Clausewitz, Prussian army general (+1831)
1|6|1801|Brigham Young, US mormon leader (+1877)
1|6|1878|John Masefield, English poet (+1967)
1|6|1907|Sir Frank Whittle, British inventor & aviator
1|6|1926|Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson), US actress (+1962)
1|6|1930|Edward Woodward, British actor
1|6|1934|Pat Boone, US singer
1|6|1937|Colleen McCullough, Australian author
1|6|1937|Morgan Freeman, US actor
1|6|1950|Jason Donovan, Australian actor
1|6|1974|Alanis Morrissette, Canadian singer
2|6|1740|Donatien-Alphonse-Franois Marquis de Sade, French author (+1814)
2|6|1840|Thomas Hardy, English writer (+1928)
2|6|1857|Edward Elgar, English composer
2|6|1904|Johnny Weismller, US swimmer/actor (+1984)
2|6|1930|Charles Conrad, US astronaut
2|6|1941|Stacey Keach, US actor
2|6|1941|Charlie Watts, English rock musician
3|6|1761|Henry Scrapnel, English inventor of the shrapnel shell
3|6|1808|Jefferson Davis, 1st & only president of US Confederacy (+1889)
3|6|1853|Sir William F Petrie, English archaeologist (1942)
3|6|1906|Josephine Baker, US entertainer (+1975)
3|6|1925|Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), US actor
3|6|1926|Allen Ginsberg, US poet (+1997)
3|6|1950|Suzi Quattro, US singer
4|6|1738|King George III (+1820)
4|6|1910|Christopher Cockerell, English engineer/inventor (hovercraft)
4|6|1912|Rosalind Russell, US actress (+1976)
4|6|1925|Dennis Weaver, US actor
4|6|1936|Bruce Dern, US actor
4|6|1971|Noah Wylie, US actor
5|6|1723|Adam Smith, Scottish economist (+1790)
5|6|1877|Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Mexican Revolutionary (+1923)
5|6|1883|John Maynard Keynes, English economist (+1946)
5|6|1898|Frederico Garca Lorca, Spanish writer (+1936)
5|6|1925|Bill Haley, US singer (+1981)
5|6|1931|Martin Vaughan, Australian actor
5|6|1938|Roy Higins, Australian jockey
5|6|1949|Ken Follett, Welsh author
5|6|1956|Kenny G, US musician
6|6|1599|Diego de Velasquez, Spanish painter
6|6|1606|Pierre Corneille, French playwright (+1684)
6|6|1799|Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (+1837)
6|6|1875|Thomas Mann, German novelist (+1955)
6|6|1903|Aram Katchachurian, Soviet composer (+1978)
6|6|1935|The Dalai Lama
6|6|1955|Dana Carvey, The Church Lady"
7|6|1848|Paul Gauguin, French painter & sculptor (+1903)
7|6|1899|Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist
7|6|1901|Gary Cooper, US actor (+1961)
7|6|1909|Jessica Tandy, US actress (+1994)
7|6|1917|Dean Martin, US actor/singer/entertainer
7|6|1922|Rocky Graziano (Thomas Rocco Barbella), heavyweight boxing champ
7|6|1940|Tom Jones, Welsh pop singer
7|6|1958|Prince, US pop singer
8|6|1810|Robert Schumann, German composer (+1856)
8|6|1869|Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (+1959)
8|6|1903|Marguerite Yourcenar, French author
8|6|1933|Joan Rivers (born Molinsky), US comedienne
8|6|1940|Nancy Sinatra, US singer
8|6|1951|Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins), US singer
9|6|1762|Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia from 1689-1725
9|6|1781|George Stephenson, English railway engineer
9|6|1810|Otto Nikolai, German composer (+1849)
9|6|1836|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (+1917)
9|6|1893|Cole Porter, US songwriter (+1964)
9|6|1898|Curzio Malaparte, Italian writer (+1957)
9|6|1934|Donald Duck
9|6|1961|Michael J Fox, Canadian-born actor
10|6|1832|Nikolaus Otto, German inventor of the 4-stroke engine
10|6|1840|Sir HM Stanley, English explorer of Africa (+1904)
10|6|1909|Lang Hancock, Australian mining tycoon (+1992)
10|6|1915|Saul Bellow, US writer, Nobel Prize 1976, Pulitzer Prize 1975
10|6|1921|Prince Philip, E Windsor's husband
10|6|1922|Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm), actress-singer (+1969)
11|6|1572|Ben Johnson, English poet/dramatist (+1637)
11|6|1776|John Constable, English artist (+1837)
11|6|1847|Millicent G Fawcett, English suffragette (+1929)
11|6|1864|Richard Strauss, German composer (+1949)
11|6|1899|Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner
11|6|1910|Jacques Cousteau, French undersea explorer (+1997)
11|6|1925|William Styron, US novelist
11|6|1935|Gene Wilder, US actor
11|6|1939|Jackie Stewart, motor racing champion
12|6|1819|Charles Kingsley, English author/social reformer (+1875)
12|6|1827|Johanna Spyri, Swiss author
12|6|1897|Sir Anthony Eden, English statesman (+1977)
12|6|1924|George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st US president
12|6|1929|Anne Frank, Dutch fugitive from the NAZIs
13|6|1854|Sir Charles Parsons, English engineer (steam engine)
13|6|1865|William B Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel prize winner (+1939)
13|6|1893|Dorothy Sayers, English author
13|6|1927|Slim Dusty, Australian country singer
13|6|1935|Christo Javacheff, Bulgarian "wrapping" artist
13|6|1953|Tim Allen, US comedian
14|6|1811|Harriet Beecher Stowe, US writer (+1896)
14|6|1820|John Bartlett, compiler of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
14|6|1906|Margaret Bourke-White, 1st accredited woman war correspondent
14|6|1937|Brian Bury, Australian TV personality
14|6|1946|Donald Trump
14|6|1961|Boy George, English pop singer
14|6|1969|Steffi Graf, German tennis player
15|6|1479|Lisa Gherardini - La Gioconda (Mona Lisa)
15|6|1605|Thomas Randolph, English poet (+1635)
15|6|1843|Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (+1907)
15|6|1932|Mario Cuomo, New York Governor
15|6|1947|Demis Roussos, Greek singer
15|6|1954|James Belushi, US actor
15|6|1963|Helen Hunt, US actress
15|6|1969|Ice Cube, US rapper/actor
16|6|1239|King Edward I of England (+1307)
16|6|1890|Stan Laurel, US film comedian (+1965)
16|6|1936|Charles Perkins, Aboriginal rights advocate
16|6|1937|Erich Segal, US author
16|6|1938|Joyce Carol Oates, US novelist
17|6|1703|John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (+1791)
17|6|1818|Charles Gounod, French composer (+1893)
17|6|1867|Henry Lawson, Australian writer (+1922)
17|6|1914|John Hersey, US author (+1993)
17|6|1917|Dean Martin, US entertainer (+1995)
17|6|1928|James Brown, US singer
17|6|1946|Barry Manilow, US singer
17|6|1951|Joe Piscopo, comedian
18|6|1797|Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer (+1873)
18|6|1882|Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (+1971)
18|6|1898|MC Escher, German artist
18|6|1942|Paul McCartney, English singer/song writer
18|6|1942|Isabella Rosselini, Italian actress
19|6|1566|King James I of England (+1625)
19|6|1623|Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, philosopher (+1662)
19|6|1919|Russ Hinze, former QLD minister (+1991)
19|6|1919|Pauline Kael, US film critic
19|6|1920|Louis Jourdan, French actor
19|6|1945|Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate
19|6|1947|Salman Rushdie, Indian author
19|6|1954|Kathleen Turner, US actress
19|6|1962|Paula Abdul, US singer/choreographer
19|6|1978|Garfield
20|6|1819|Jacques Offenbach, German composer (+1880)
20|6|1905|Lillian Hellman, US writer (+1984)
20|6|1909|Errol Flynn, actor, in Hobart, Tasmania (+1959)
20|6|1930|Martin Landau, US actor
20|6|1931|Olympia Dukakis, US actress
20|6|1942|Brian Wilson, singer & songwriter
20|6|1945|Anne Murray, Canadian pop singer
20|6|1949|Lionel Ritchie, US singer
20|6|1952|John Goodman, US actor
20|6|1953|Cyndi Lauper, US singer
20|6|1967|Nicole Kidman, Australian actress
21|6|1882|Rockwell Kent, American artist
21|6|1905|Jean-Paul Sarte, French author/philosopher (+1980)
21|6|1912|Mary McCarthy, US writer
21|6|1921|Jane Russell, US actress
21|6|1933|Franoise Sagan (Quoirez), French novelist
21|6|1948|Lionel Rose, Australian boxer
21|6|1950|John Paul Young, Australian singer
21|6|1982|William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor
22|6|1898|Erich Maria Remarque, German author (+1970)
22|6|1906|Billy Wilder, Austrian-born US motion picture director
22|6|1906|Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer, wife of Charles L.
22|6|1907|Julian Huxley, English biologist, brother of Aldous H.
22|6|1910|Konrad Zuse, German computer pioneer (+1996)
22|6|1921|Joseph Papp (Papirosfksy), US theatre director
22|6|1932|June Salter, Australian actress
22|6|1936|Kris Kristoffersen, US singer, songwriter, actor
22|6|1944|Klaus Maria Brandauer, German actor
22|6|1949|Meryl Streep, US actress
22|6|1949|Lindsay Wagner, US actor
22|6|1963|Cindy Lauper, US singer
23|6|1763|Josephine, French empress & wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (+1814)
23|6|1894|Edward, Duke of Windsor (+1972)
23|6|1894|Alfred Kinsey, pioneer sex researcher (+1956)
23|6|1910|Jean Anouilh, French playwright
23|6|1927|Bob Fosse, US choreographer/director (+1987)
23|6|1947|Bryan Brown, Australian actor
24|6|1542|St John of the Cross, Spanish poet, founder of the Carmelites
24|6|1819|Abner Doubleday, US baseball pioneer
24|6|1842|Ambrose Bierce, US writer (+? disappeared in Mexico)
24|6|1850|Horatio Lord Kitchener, English soldier (+1916)
24|6|1895|Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, US boxer (+1983)
24|6|1899|Bruce Marshall, Scottish writer
24|6|1911|Juan Fangio, Argentine motor racing champion (+1995)
24|6|1930|Claude Chabrol, French film director
24|6|1951|Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete
25|6|1796|Tsar Nicholas I (+1855)
25|6|1900|Lord Louis Mountbatten, English statesman (+1979)
25|6|1903|George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), English author (+1950)
25|6|1924|Sidney Lumet, US film director
25|6|1945|Carly Simon, US singer
25|6|1945|Tim Finn, NZ singer
25|6|1963|George Michael, English pop singer
26|6|1763|George Morland, English artist (+1804)
26|6|1824|Lord Kelvin (W Thomson), British physicist/mathematician (+1907)
26|6|1892|Pearl S Buck, US writer (+1973)
26|6|1898|Wilhelm Messerschmitt, German aviation engineer (+1978)
26|6|1904|Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (+1964)
26|6|1933|Claudio Abbado, Italian musician (Milan, Italy)
26|6|1956|Chris Isaak, US singer
26|6|1961|Greg LeMond, US cyclist, Tour le France winner, in LA
27|6|1846|Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Nationalist leader (+1891)
27|6|1880|Helen Keller, US deaf and blind author (+1968)
27|6|1934|Anna Moffo, US soprano
28|6|-356|Alexander the Great
28|6|1491|Henry Tudor, later Henry VIII of England (+1547)
28|6|1712|Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French author/philosopher (+1778)
28|6|1867|Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (+1936)
28|6|1902|John Dillinger, bank robber
28|6|1902|Richard Rodgers, US composer (+1979)
28|6|1926|Mel Brooks, US actor/director
29|6|1577|Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish artist (+1649)
29|6|1858|George Washington Goethals, builder of Panama Canal (+1928)
29|6|1861|William James Mayo, US surgeon, in Le Sueur, Minnesota
29|6|1900|Antoine de Saint-Exupry, French author/aviator (+1944)
29|6|1911|Prince Bernard of the Netherlands
29|6|1936|Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
29|6|1942|Mike Willesee, Australian journalist
29|6|1953|Colin Hay, Australian pop star (Men At Work)
30|6|1911|Czelaw Milosz, Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner
30|6|1917|Lena Horne, US singer
30|6|1919|Susan Hayward, US actress (+1975)
30|6|1944|Glen Shorrock, Australian rock musician
30|6|1966|Mike Tyson, US boxer
1|7|1646|Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, German philosopher & mathematician
1|7|1804|George Sand (Armandine Dudevant) French author (+1876)
1|7|1899|Charles Laughton, British actor (+1965)
1|7|1903|Amy Johnson, English aviation pioneer
1|7|1904|James Cagney, US actor (+1986)
1|7|1908|Este Lauder, cosmetics executive, in New York City
1|7|1916|Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo-born actress
1|7|1931|Leslie Caron, French actress
1|7|1942|Karen Black, US actress
1|7|1942|Genevive Bujold, Canadian actress
1|7|1945|Deborah Harry, US rock singer/actress
1|7|1949|John Farnham, Australian singer
1|7|1952|Dan Ackroyd, US actor
1|7|1961|Diana Spencer, English princess (+1997)
1|7|1961|Carl Lewis, US track athlete
1|7|1968|Pamela Anderson, US actress
2|7|1714|Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (+1787)
2|7|1862|Sir William Bragg, English scientist (+1942)
2|7|1877|Hermann Hesse, German writer & Nobel Prize winner (+1962)
2|7|1903|King Olaf V of Norway (+1991)
2|7|1903|Sir Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister (+1955)
2|7|1929|Imelda Marcos, former Philippines First Lady
3|7|1793|John Clare, English poet (+1864)
3|7|1883|Franz Kafka, Austrian poet (+1924)
3|7|1909|Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping mangnate (+1996)
3|7|1927|Ken Russell, English actor
3|7|1939|Tom Stoppard, US playwright
3|7|1943|Judith Durham, Australian pop singer (The Seekers)
3|7|1951|Sir Richard Hadlee, NZ cricketer
3|7|1951|Jean-Claude Duvalier, exiled dictator of Haiti
3|7|1962|Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, US actor
4|7|1804|Nathaniel Hawthorne, US author (+1882)
4|7|1807|Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian soldier/statesman (+1882)
4|7|1921|Gerard Debreu, Nobel Prize (1983) winning economist (+31-Dec-2004)
4|7|1924|Eva Marie Saint, US actress
4|7|1927|Neil Simon, US playwright
4|7|1928|Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
4|7|1952|Anne Kirkpatrick, Australian country music singer
5|7|1709|Etienne de Silhouette, French minister (+1767)
5|7|1810|Phineas Taylor Barnum, US circus pioneer (+1891)
5|7|1853|Cecil Rhodes, English statesman (+1902)
5|7|1879|Dwight F Davis, US politician [Davis Cup] (+1945)
5|7|1889|Jean Cocteau, French artist (+1963)
5|7|1929|Jimmy Carruthers, Australian world boxing champion (+1990)
5|7|1963|Mark Stockwell, Australian swimmer
6|7|1747|John Paul Jones, founder of the US Navy
6|7|1755|John Flaxman, English sculptor (+1826)
6|7|1923|Nancy Reagan, former US first lady
6|7|1925|Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress
6|7|1927|Janet Leigh, US actress
6|7|1935|The 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual & political leader of Tibet
6|7|1936|Dave Allen, Irish comedian
6|7|1946|Sylvester Stallone, US actor
6|7|1956|Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis player
6|7|1957|Mike Gatting, English cricketer
7|7|1860|Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (+1911)
7|7|1884|Lion Feuchtwanger, German artist (+1958)
7|7|1887|Marc Chagall, Russian painter, in Vitebsk, Russia (+1985)
7|7|1911|Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian composer
7|7|1907|Robert Heinlein, US science fiction writer
7|7|1922|Pierre Cardin, fashion designer, in Venice, Italy
7|7|1940|Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr)
8|7|1838|Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, German dirigible inventor (+1917)
8|7|1839|John D Rockefeller, US financier (+1937)
8|7|1882|Percy Grainger, Australian eccentric & composer (+1961)
8|7|1929|Bruce Gyngell, Australian TV executive
8|7|1935|Steve Lawrence, US singer
8|7|1939|Paul Cronin, Australian actor
8|7|1946|Cynthia Gregory, US ballerina
8|7|1951|Anjelica Huston, US actress
8|7|1958|Kevin Bacon, US actor
9|7|1901|Dame Barbara Cartland, British author
9|7|1916|Edward Heath, former British prime minister
9|7|1929|Lee Hazlewood, US singer
9|7|1947|O(renthal) J(ames) Simpson, US football player
9|7|1955|Jimmy Smits, US actor
9|7|1956|Tom Hanks, US actor
9|7|1964|Courtney Love, US singer
10|7|1509|John Calvin, French religious reformer (+1564)
10|7|1830|Camille Pissaro, French artist (+1903)
10|7|1834|James Whistler, English artist (+1903)
10|7|1856|Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor
10|7|1871|Marcel Proust, French writer (+1922)
10|7|1882|Ima Hogg, founder of the Houston Symphony
10|7|1888|Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese writer (+1960)
10|7|1895|Carl Orff, German composer
10|7|1915|Saul Bellow, Canadian/US writer & Nobel Prize winner
10|7|1935|Wilson Tuckey, WA politician
10|7|1940|Keith Stackpole, Australian cricketer
10|7|1943|Arthur Ashe, US tennis player (only black man to win Wimbledon)
10|7|1945|Virginia Wade, English tennis player
10|7|1947|Arlo Guthrie, US folk singer
11|7|1754|Thomas Bowdler, English editor of Shakespeare works (+1825)
11|7|1767|John Quincy Adams, 6th US president (his father was pres., too)
11|7|1916|E Gough Whitlam, Australian politician
11|7|1920|Yul Brynner, actor (+1985)
11|7|1925|Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
11|7|1934|Giorgio Armani, Italian fasion designer
11|7|1953|Leon Spinks, US boxer
12|7|-100|Julius Caesar, Roman emperor (+44BC)
12|7|1730|Elijah Wedgewood, English pottery maker (+1795)
12|7|1817|Henry David Thoreau, US author (+1862)
12|7|1854|George Eastman, US photography pioneer (+1932)
12|7|1895|Buckminster Fuller, US inventor and designer (+1983)
12|7|1904|Pablo Neruda, Chilenian poet
12|7|1908|Milton Berle, US comedian
12|7|1926|Al Grassby, Australian politician
12|7|1934|Van Cliburn, US pianist
12|7|1937|Bill Cosby, US actor
12|7|1939|Phillip Adams, Australian broadcaster & writer
13|7|1608|Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (+1657)
13|7|1793|John Clare, English poet (+1864)
13|7|1816|Gustav Freytag, German novelist (+1895)
13|7|1928|Bob Crane, actor ("Hogan's Heroes")
13|7|1940|Patrick Stewart, British actor
13|7|1942|Harrison Ford, US actor
13|7|1944|Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor
14|7|1602|Cardinal Jules Mazarin, French statesman (+1661)
14|7|1858|Emmeline Pankhurst, British feminist (+1928)
14|7|1912|Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer
14|7|1913|Gerald Rudolph Ford, 38th US president
14|7|1918|Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director
14|7|1942|Julie Christie, English actress
14|7|1947|John Blackman, Australian TV & radio personality
15|7|1606|Rembrandt (Harmes van Rijn), Dutch artist (+1669)
15|7|1850|St Frances Xavier Cabrini, 1st US saint
15|7|1946|Linda Ronstadt, US singer
15|7|1960|Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
16|7|1871|Marcel Proust, French writer (+1922)
16|7|1872|Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (+1928)
16|7|1723|Sir Joshua Reynolds, English artist (+1792)
16|7|1907|Barbara Stanwyck, US actress (+1990)
16|7|1911|Ginger Rogers (Virg. Kath. McNath), US actress/dancer (+1995)
16|7|1942|Margaret Court, Australian 4-time Wimbledon champion
17|7|1674|Isaac Watts, English churchman (+1748)
17|7|1863|David Lloyd George, English statesman (+1945)
17|7|1899|James Francis Cagney, actor
17|7|1935|Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
18|7|1635|Robert Hooke, English physicist, on the Isle of Wight
18|7|1811|William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (+1863)
18|7|1913|Red Skelton, US comedian
18|7|1918|Nelson Mandela, South African black leader
18|7|1921|John Glenn, 1st to orbit the earth, in Cambridge, Ohio
18|7|1933|Jevgeni Jevtushenko, Russian poet
18|7|1949|Dennis Lillie, Australian cricketer
19|7|1814|Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver
19|7|1819|Gottfried Keller, Swiss poet (+1890)
19|7|1834|Edgar Degas, French artist (+1917)
19|7|1860|Lizzie Borden, accused axe murderess
19|7|1865|Charles Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
19|7|1896|Archibald Joseph Cronin, Scottish writer
20|7|1304|Francesco Petrarca, Italian poet (+1374)
20|7|1919|Sir Edmond Hillary, New Zealand explorer
20|7|1938|Diana Rigg, English actress
20|7|1938|Natalie Wood, US actress (+1981)
20|7|1947|Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
20|7|1953|Marcia Hines, US-born Australian singer
21|7|1816|Paul von Reuter, founder of Reuters news service, in Kassel as Israel Beer Josaphat
21|7|1899|Ernest Hemingway, US writer (+1961)
21|7|1911|Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer
21|7|1920|Isaac Stern, Russian violinist
21|7|1952|Robin Williams, US actor
22|7|1822|Gregor Mendel, genetics pioneer, in Heinzendorf, Silesia
22|7|1844|Rev William Archibald Spooner, coined phrases like  swell foop"
22|7|1890|Mrs Joseph P ("Rose") Kennedy, mother of John F Kennedy (+1995)
22|7|1898|Alexander Calder, US sculptor (+1976)
22|7|1949|Danny Glover, US actor
22|7|1955|Willem Dafoe, US actor
23|7|1884|Albert Warner, movie producer ("Warner Bros")
23|7|1888|Raymond Chandler, US writer (+1959)
23|7|1892|Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (+1975)
23|7|1931|Victor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster
23|7|1938|Bert Newton, Australian TV personality
23|7|1947|David Essex, English singer
23|7|1961|Woody Harrelson, US actor
24|7|1783|Simon Bolivar, leader of South American independence (+1830)
24|7|1802|Alexandre Dumas (father), French writer (+1870)
24|7|1880|Ernst Bloch, Swiss composer (+1959)
24|7|1898|Amelia Earhart, US aviation pioneer (+1937)
24|7|1920|Arthur Boyd, Australian painter & sculptor
24|7|1935|Pat Oliphant, Australian cartoonist
24|7|1982|Anna Paquin, NZ actress
25|7|1905|Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist
25|7|1924|Estelle Getty, actress
25|7|1935|Adnan Khashoggi, arms dealer
26|7|1856|George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (+1950)
26|7|1894|Aldous Huxley, English author (+1963)
26|7|1895|Robert Graves, English poet and writer 
26|7|1922|Blake Edwards, US film director
26|7|1928|Stanley Kubrick, US film director
26|7|1939|John Howard, Australian politician
26|7|1943|Mick Jagger
26|7|1954|Vitas Gerulaitis, US Tennis player (+1994)
26|7|1956|Mark Seymour, Australian musician ("Hunters & Collectors")
27|7|1824|Alexandre Dumas (son), French writer (+1895)
27|7|1882|Sir Geoffery de Havilland, English aircraft designer
27|7|1926|Danny La Rue, British entertainer
27|7|1937|Robert Holmes  Court, Australian businessman (+1990)
27|7|1944|Bobby Gentry, US singer
27|7|1955|Allan Border, Australian cricketer
27|7|1958|Christopher Dean, British ice-skater
28|7|1866|Beatrix Potter, English author (+1943)
28|7|1902|Albert Namatjira, Australian artist (+1959)
28|7|1922|Jacques Picard, French deep sea explorer
28|7|1929|Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former 1st lady (+1994)
28|7|1936|Garfield Sobers, West Indies cricketer
29|7|1883|Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (+1945)
29|7|1905|Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish UN secretary-general (+1961)
29|7|1925|Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
29|7|1950|Wendy Hughes, Australian actress
30|7|1818|Emily Bronte, English writer (+1848)
30|7|1863|Henry Ford, US automotive pioneer (+1947)
30|7|1898|Henry Moore, English sculptor (+1986)
30|7|1909|Prof C Northcote Parkinson ("P's Law")
30|7|1939|Peter Bogdanovich, US film director
30|7|1940|Sir Clive Sinclair, English microelectronic pioneer
30|7|1941|Paul Anka, Canadian singer
30|7|1946|Linda Ronstadt, US singer
30|7|1947|Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian actor
30|7|1958|Kate Bush, English singer/song writer
30|7|1961|Laurence Fishburne, US actor
31|7|1803|John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (+1889)
31|7|1912|Milton Friedman, US economist, in Brooklyn, New York
31|7|1929|Don Murray, US actor
31|7|1941|Heather McKay, Australian squash champion
31|7|1944|Geraldine Chaplin, US actress
31|7|1948|Russell Morris, Australian singer
31|7|1951|Evonne Cawley, Australian tennis star
31|7|1962|Wesley Snipes, US actor
1|8|    |Every horse
1|8| -10|Claudius, Roman Emperor (+54)
1|8|1779|Francis Scott Key, "Star-Spangled Banner" composer
1|8|1819|Herman Melville, US author [Moby Dick] (+1891)
1|8|1933|Dom Deluise, US actor
1|8|1936|Yves St Laurent, French fashion designer
1|8|1942|Jerry (Jerome John) Garcia, US musician (+1995)
2|8|1892|Jack Warner, movie studio chief (Warner Bros)
2|8|1924|James Baldwin, US writer
2|8|1933|Peter O'Toole, Irish actor
3|8|1746|James Wyatt, English architect (+1813)
3|8|1856|Alfred Deakin, Australian Prime Minister (+1919)
3|8|1920|PD James, English Novelist
3|8|1924|Leon Uris, author ("Exodus")
3|8|1926|Tony Bennett, US singer
3|8|1940|Martin Sheen, US actor
3|8|1941|Martha Stewart, US lifestyle guru
3|8|1950|John Landis, US film director
4|8|1792|Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (+1822)
4|8|1805|Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author (+1875)
4|8|1859|Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer (+1952)
4|8|1901|Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, American jazz musician
4|8|1924|Reg Grundy, Australian TV quiz producer
4|8|1942|David Lange, NZ politician
5|8|1820|Guy de Maupassant, French author
5|8|1906|John Huston, US film director (+1987)
5|8|1908|Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (+1967)
5|8|1930|Neil Alden Armstrong, astronaut, in Wapakoneta, Ohio
5|8|1948|Angry Anderson, Australian singer
6|8|1809|Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (+1892)
6|8|1868|Paul Claudel, French writer (+1955)
6|8|1881|Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist (+1955)
6|8|1911|Lucille Ball, US comedienne (+1989)
6|8|1916|Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician
6|8|1917|Robert Mitchum, US actor (+1997)
6|8|1922|Freddie Laker, British entrepreneur
6|8|1928|Andy Warhol, US artist (+1987)
6|8|1951|Daryl Somers, Australian entertainer
7|8|1876|Mata Hari (Margaret Gertrude Zeller), WW I spy (+1917)
7|8|1942|Garrison Keillor, US author
7|8|1948|Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer
7|8|1960|David Duchovny, US actor
8|8|1879|Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader (+1919)
8|8|1919|Dino de Laurentis, Italian film maker
8|8|1923|Esther Williams, aquatic actress
8|8|1928|Don Burrows, Australian jazz musician
8|8|1935|John Laws, Australian radio announcer
8|8|1937|Dustin Hoffman, US actor
8|8|1944|Peter Weir, Australian film director
9|8|1938|Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
9|8|1944|Sam Elliott, US actor
9|8|1957|Melanie Griffith, US actress
9|8|1963|Whitney Houston, US singer
10|8|1874|Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st president (+1964)
10|8|1887|Jack Warner, US film magnate
10|8|1947|Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Scottish pop singer
10|8|1960|Antonio Banderas, US actor
11|8|1807|David R Atchison, president of US for 1 day (3/4/1849)
11|8|1897|Enid Blyton, English author (+1968)
11|8|1903|Joseph Seagram, Canadian liquor magnate
11|8|1920|Flo Bjelke-Petersen, former Australian senator
11|8|1921|Alex Haley, US author & Pulitzer Prize winner
11|8|1958|Megan Williams, Australian actress
12|8|1881|Cecil B de Mille, US film director (+1959)
12|8|1906|Harry Hopman, Australian tennis coach (+1985)
12|8|1939|George Hamilton, actor
12|8|1949|Mark Knopfler, British musician
13|8|1422|William Caxton, English printer
13|8|1860|Annie Oakley, sharpshooter (+1926)
13|8|1882|John Logie Baird, TV pioneer, in Helensburgh, Scotland (+1946)
13|8|1899|Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (+1980)
13|8|1913|Archbishop Makarios, 1st president of Cyprus (+1977)
13|8|1926|Fidel Castro, Cuban president
14|8|1840|Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German physician (+1902)
14|8|1867|John Galsworthy, English writer (+1933)
14|8|1913|Hector Crawford, Australian TV producer (+1991)
14|8|1930|Earl Weaver
14|8|1941|David Crosby, US singer (+1996)
14|8|1945|Steven Martin, US actor/comedian
14|8|1947|Danielle Steel, US author
14|8|1959|Earwin "Magic" Johnson, US basketball player
15|8|1769|Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor (+1821)
15|8|1771|Sir Walter Scott, Scottish poet (+1832)
15|8|1785|Thomas de Quincey, English author (+1859)
15|8|1875|Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet
15|8|1888|TE Lawrence, British adventurer & soldier
15|8|1925|Oscar Peterson, US jazz musician
15|8|1960|Anne Windsor, English princess
16|8|1897|Robert Ringling, circus master
16|8|1913|Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister
16|8|1940|Bruce Beresford, Australian film director
16|8|1950|Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
16|8|1957|Tim Farriss, Australian rock musician
16|8|1958|Madonna, US pop singer
17|8|1786|David Crockett, US western pioneer (+1836)
17|8|1882|Samuel Goldfish (Goldwyn), US film producer
17|8|1892|Mae West, US actress (+1980)
17|8|1921|Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress
17|8|1930|Ted Hughes, English poet
17|8|1942|Shane Porteous, Australian actor
17|8|1943|Robert DeNiro, US actor
17|8|1952|Nelson Piquet, Brazilian motor racing driver
17|8|1958|Belinda Carlisle, US singer
17|8|1960|Sean Penn, US actor
17|8|1970|Jim Courier, US tennis player
18|8|1774|Merriwether Lewis, American explorer (+1809)
18|8|1935|Roman Polanski, Polish film director
18|8|1937|Robert Redford, US film actor & director
18|8|1954|Patrick Swayze, US dancer & actor
19|8|1746|Maria Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, French adventuress (+1793)
19|8|1871|Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer (+1948)
19|8|1902|Ogden Nash, US author
19|8|1921|Gene Roddenberry, US author ("Star Trek")
19|8|1940|Jill St John, US actress
19|8|1946|Bill Clinton, US president
20|8|1818|Emily Bront, English writer (+1848)
20|8|1833|Benjamin Harrison, 23rd US president
20|8|1860|Raymond Poincar, French statesman (+1934)
20|8|1923|Shimon Peres, Israli politician
20|8|1926|Jacqueline Suzanne, US author
20|8|1953|John Embury, English cricketer
21|8|1872|Aubrey Beardsley, English artist
21|8|1904|William "Count" Basie, American jazz pianist and bandleader
21|8|1920|Christopher Robin Milne, son of AA Milne
21|8|1930|Margaret Windsor, English princess
21|8|1944|Peter Weir, Australian film director
22|8|1862|Claude Debussy, French composer
22|8|1893|Dorothy Parker, US author
22|8|1915|John Lee Hooker, American blues musician
22|8|1920|Dr Denton Cooley, heart surgeon
22|8|1928|Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and musician
23|8|1754|Louis XVI of France
23|8|1912|Gene Kelly, US dancer and actor
24|8|1759|William Wilberforce, British statesman (+1833)
24|8|1880|Joshua Lionel Cowen, electric toy train inventor
24|8|1899|Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet (+1986)
24|8|1929|Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
24|8|1951|Julie Anthony, Australian singer
25|8|1530|Ivan IV ("The Terrible"), Russian Tsar (+1584)
25|8|1819|Allan Pinkerton, founder of detective agency (+1884)
25|8|1862|William Proctor, co-founder of Proctor and Gamble in 1907
25|8|1873|John Willis who developed the first four wheel drive Jeep"
25|8|1912|Erich Honnecker, East German politician (+1994)
25|8|1917|Mel Ferrer, US actor
25|8|1918|Leonard Bernstein, US conductor/composer (+1990)
25|8|1930|Sean Connery, Scottish actor
25|8|1931|Tom Skerritt, US actor
25|8|1937|Jimmy Hannan, Australian entertainer
25|8|1938|Frederick Forsyth, British author
25|8|1947|Anne Archer, US actress
25|8|1954|Elvis Costello, English pop singer
25|8|1962|Billy Ray Cyrus, US singer
25|8|1964|Blair Underwood, US actor
25|8|1970|Claudia Schiffer, German model
26|8|1740|Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French aviator (+1810)
26|8|1743|Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (+1794)
26|8|1819|Albert, English prince consort (+1861)
26|8|1838|John Wilkes Booth, presidential assassin (+1865)
26|8|1880|Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet
26|8|1951|Delvene Delaney, Australian TV quiz hostess
26|8|1980|Macauley Culkin, US actor
27|8|-551|Confucius, Chinese philosopher
27|8|1770|Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (+1831)
27|8|1796|Sophia Smith, US founder of Smith College in 1875
27|8|1877|Charles Stewart Rolls, English car maker/aviator (+1910)
27|8|1882|Samuel Goldwyn, US film producer (+1974)
27|8|1899|C(ecil) S(cott) Forester, English novelist (+1966)
27|8|1908|Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US president (+1973)
27|8|1908|Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer
27|8|1910|Mother Theresa, Albanian nun & Nobel Peace Prize winner (+1997)
27|8|1928|Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu leader
27|8|1947|Barbara Bach, US actress
27|8|1957|Bernard Langer, German golfer
28|8|1749|Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet (+1832)
28|8|1774|Elizabeth Ann "Mother" Seton, 1st US Catholic saint
28|8|1828|Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (+1910)
28|8|1899|Charles Boyer, French actor (+1978)
28|8|1896|Arthur Calwell, former ALP minister and opposition leader (+1973)
28|8|1930|Ben Gazzara, US actor
28|8|1943|Lou Piniella, baseball manager
29|8|1619|Jean Baptiste Colbert, French statesman (+1683)
29|8|1809|Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and poet (+1894)
29|8|1862|Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian author (+1949)
29|8|1917|Ingrid Bergmann, Swedish actress (+1982)
29|8|1923|Sir Richard Attenborough, British actor/director
29|8|1938|Elliott Gould, Canadian actor
29|8|1939|Sir Julius Chan, PNG politician
29|8|1958|Michael Jackson, US entertainer
29|8|1962|Rebecca De Mornay, US actress
30|8|1494|Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Italian painter
30|8|1797|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English author ("Frankenstein")
30|8|1871|Lord Rutherford, atomic physicist, in New Zealand
31|8|1870|Maria Montessori, Italian educator and physician
31|8|1908|William Saroyan, US author (+1981)
31|8|1913|Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer
31|8|1928|James Coburn, US actor
31|8|1940|Jack Thompson, Australian actor
31|8|1944|Clive Lloyd, West Indian cricketer
31|8|1945|Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
31|8|1945|Van Morrison, US musician
1|9|1854|Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (+1921)
1|9|1875|Edgar Rice Burroughs, US author [Tarzan] (+1950)
1|9|1924|Rocky Marciano, US boxer (+1969)
1|9|1939|Lily Tomlin, US actress
1|9|1946|Barry Gibb, pop singer
1|9|1957|Gloria Estefan, pop singer
2|9|1869|Hiram Maxim, inventor of the auto muffler & firearm silencer
2|9|1923|Marge Champion, US dancer/choreographer
2|9|1934|Wolf Blass, German-born Australian wine maker
2|9|1938|Ernie Sigley, Australian TV personality
2|9|1952|Jimmy Connors, US tennis player
3|9|1596|Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker
3|9|1860|Edward Albert Filene, credit union founder
3|9|1900|Urho Kekkonen, Finnish president from 1956-82 (+1986)
3|9|1926|Irene Pappas, Greek actress
3|9|1942|Al Jardine, US musician
3|9|1965|Charlie Sheen, US actor
4|9|1768|Franois Chateaubriand, French author (+1848)
4|9|1824|Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (+1896)
4|9|1918|Paul Harvey, radio news commentator
4|9|1934|Clive William John Granger, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economics
4|9|1937|Dawn Fraser, Australian swimming champion
4|9|1941|Tom Watson, US golfer
5|9|1638|King Louis XIV of France (+1715)
5|9|1791|Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (+1864)
5|9|1847|Jesse James, US outlaw (+1882)
5|9|1902|Daryl F Zanuck, US film producer (+1979)
5|9|1905|Arthur Koestler, Hungarian author
5|9|1912|John Cage, US composer
5|9|1942|Racquel Welch, US actress
5|9|1946|Freddie Mercury, British pop singer (+1991)
6|9|1757|Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and general
6|9|1766|John Dalton, English chemist and physician
6|9|1947|Jane Curtin, actress
7|9|1533|Queen Elizabeth I (+1603)
7|9|1860|Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses, primitive painter
7|9|1876|C J Dennis, Australian writer (+1938)
7|9|1914|Graeme Bell, Australian jazz musician
7|9|1930|King Baudouin of Belgium
7|9|1936|Buddy Holly, US rock singer (+1959)
8|9|1767|August Schlegel, German author (+1845)
8|9|1841|Antonin Dvorak, Bohemian composer (+1904)
8|9|1921|Sir Harry Secombe, Welsh comedian/singer
8|9|1925|Peter (Richard Henry) Sellers, British actor (+1980)
9|9|1585|Cardinal Richelieu, French churchman/statesman (+1642)
9|9|1737|Luigi Galvani, inventor of galvanized steel, in Bologna (+1798)
9|9|1754|William Bligh in Plymouth, England (+1817)
9|9|1828|Leo N Tolstoi, Russian author (+1910)
9|9|1890|Col Harland David (Kentucky Fried Chicken) Sanders
9|9|1911|John Gorton, former Australian prime minister
9|9|1951|Michael Keaton, US actor
9|9|1960|Hugh Grant, British actor
10|9|1839|Isaac Funk, publisher
10|9|1890|Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (+1945)
10|9|1929|Arnold Palmer, US golfer
10|9|1945|Jose Feliciano, US singer
10|9|1953|Steven Spielberg, US film director/producer
10|9|1960|Colin Firth, British actor
11|9|1862|O'Henry (William Sydney Porter), US writer (+1910)
11|9|1885|David Herbert Lawrence, English author (+1930)
11|9|1940|Brian de Palma, US film director
11|9|1950|Barry Sheen, British motorcycle driver
11|9|1967|Harry Connick, Jr, US jazz musician
12|9|1818|Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun
12|9|1852|Herbert Henry Asquith, English statesman (+1928)
12|9|1880|H L Mencken, US journalist/author (+1956)
12|9|1888|Maurice Chevalier, French actor/entertainer (+1971)
12|9|1892|Alfred A Knopf, US publisher
12|9|1913|Jesse Owens, US athlete
12|9|1940|Linda Gray, US actress
12|9|1948|Max Walker, Australian cricketer
13|9|1766|Samuel Wilson ("Uncle Sam")
13|9|1819|Clara Schumann, German pianist (+1896)
13|9|1852|Walter Reed, US bacteriologist (+1901)
13|9|1874|Arnold Schnberg, Austrian composer (+1951)
13|9|1894|J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley, British dramatist
13|9|1905|Claudette Colbert, French actress
13|9|1916|Roald Dahl, Welsh author
13|9|1955|Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
13|9|1971|Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian tennis player
14|9|1760|Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (+1842)
14|9|1769|Alexander von Humboldt, German astronomer/explorer (+1859)
14|9|1914|Clayton Moore, actor ("The Lone Ranger")
14|9|1934|Kate Millett, US feminist
14|9|1957|Kepler Wessels, SA cricketer
15|9|1583|Albrecht von Wallenstein, German soldier (+1634)
16|9|1613|La Rochefoucauld, French author
15|9|1789|James Fenimore Cooper, US writer (+1851)
15|9|1857|William Howard Taft, US president (+1930)
15|9|1879|Joseph Lyons, Australian Prime Minister (+1939)
15|9|1890|Agatha Christie, English writer (+1976)
15|9|1927|Norm Crosby, comedian
15|9|1931|Brian Henderson, Australian TV newsreader
15|9|1984|Harry Windsor, English prince
16|9|1638|Louis XIV, French king (+1715)
16|9|1685|John Gay, English poet (+1732)
16|9|1892|Werner Bergengruen, German writer (+1964)
16|9|1903|Gwen Bristow, US writer
16|9|1903|Queenie Ashton, Australian actress
16|9|1924|Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske), US actress
16|9|1925|B B  King, US jazz musician
16|9|1927|Peter Falk, US actor
17|9|1743|Marie Jean Caritat, French mathematician/revolutionary (+1794)
17|9|1907|Warren Earl Burger, former US Chief Justice
17|9|1916|Mary Stewart, English author
17|9|1931|Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano), US actress
18|9|1709|Samuel Johnson, English poet/critic (+1784)
18|9|1905|Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustaffson), Swedish actress (+1990)
18|9|1909|Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanian statesman (+1972)
18|9|1940|Frankie Avalon, US singer
19|9|1551|Henri III, French king (+1589)
19|9|1894|John Boynton Priestley, English writer
19|9|1908|Mika Waltari, Finnish author
19|9|1909|Ferdinand Porsche, German engineer
19|9|1911|William Golding, English author [Lord of the Flies]
19|9|1934|Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (+1967)
19|9|1948|Jeremy Irons, British actor
19|9|1949|Twiggy, English actress
20|9|-365|Alexander the Great, King of Macedon
20|9|1878|Upton Sinclair, US author
20|9|1885|Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, US jazz musician
20|9|1902|Stevie Smith, English poet [Not Waving But Drowning]
20|9|1924|Sophia Loren, Italian actress
21|9|1866|Herbert George Wells, English author (+1946)
21|9|1874|Gustav von Holst, English composer (+1934)
21|9|1926|Don Dunstan, former South Australian Premier
21|9|1947|Stephen King, US author
22|9|1515|Anne of Cleves, Queen Consort of Henry VIII (+1557)
22|9|1791|Michael Faraday, English physicist
22|9|1862|Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman (+1919)
22|9|1884|Erich von Stroheim, German film director
22|9|1885|Ben Chifley, former Australian Prime Minister (+1951)
22|9|1930|Ray Charles, US jazz musician
23|9|-480|Euripides, Greek author
23|9|-63|Gaius Julius Augustus Caesar, 1st Roman emperor (+14)
23|9|1920|Mickey Rooney, US actor
23|9|1926|John Coltrane, US jazz musician
23|9|1938|Romy Schneider, actress (+29-May-1982)
23|9|1943|Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
23|9|1949|Bruce Springsteen, US singer
24|9|1762|William Lisle Bowles, English poet (+1850)
24|9|1838|Victoria Woodhull, 1st woman candidate for US Presidency
24|9|1896|Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, US novelist (+1940)
24|9|1899|Sir William Dobell, Australian artist (+1970)
24|9|1930|John Young, US astronaut, in San Francisco
24|9|1936|Jim Henson, Muppets creator (+1991)
24|9|1942|Linda McCartney, British singer
25|9|1897|William Faulkner, US writer (+1962)
25|9|1906|Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (+1975)
25|9|1929|Ronnie Barker, British comedian
25|9|1932|Glenn Gould, US pianist
25|9|1944|Michael Douglas, US actor/producer
25|9|1946|Felicity Kendall, British actress
25|9|1951|Mark Hamill, US actor
25|9|1952|Christopher Reeve, US actor
26|9|1774|John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed), frontier nurseryman
26|9|1888|Thomas Stearns Eliot, US/English poet (+1965)
26|9|1897|Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Montini) (+1978)
26|9|1898|George Gershwin, US composer
26|9|1922|Leonard Teale, Australian actor (+1994)
26|9|1948|Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer
27|9|1389|Cosimo de Medici, Italian banker, merchant, arts patron
27|9|1601|Louis XIII, King of France (+1643)
27|9|1722|Samuel Adams, US patriot & brewer (+1803)
27|9|1947|Marvin Lee Aday, US singer (Meatloaf)
28|9|1803|Prosper Merime, French author (+1870)
28|9|-551|Confuzius, Chinese philosopher
28|9|1841|Georges Clemenceau, French statesman (+1929)
28|9|1909|Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist [Li'l Abner]
28|9|1916|Peter Finch, Australian actor (+1977)
28|9|1924|Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor
28|9|1934|Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), French actress
28|9|1935|Bruce Crampton, Australian golfer
29|9|1518|Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian artist (+1594)
29|9|1547|Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish poet (+1616)
29|9|1758|Horatio Nelson, English admiral (+1805)
29|9|1901|Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist (+1954)
29|9|1912|Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
29|9|1916|Trevor Howard, British actor (+1988)
29|9|1930|Richard Bonynge, Australian conductor
29|9|1931|Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
29|9|1935|Jerry Lee Lewis, US singer
29|9|1943|Lech Walesa, Polish politician
29|9|1948|Bryant Gumble, US TV personality
29|9|1956|Sebastian Coe, British athlete
30|9|1882|Hans Wilhelm Geiger, German physicist (+1947)
30|9|1921|Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress
30|9|1925|Truman Capote, US writer (+1984)
30|9|1931|Angie Dickinson (Angeline Brown), US actress
30|9|1935|Johnny Mathis, US singer
30|9|1957|Fran Drescher, US actress
1|10|1865|Paul Dukas, French composer (+1935)
1|10|1904|Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist
1|10|1920|Walter Matthau, US actor
1|10|1924|James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, 39th US president (1977-81)
1|10|1928|George Peppard, US actor (+1994)
1|10|1930|Richard Harris, British actor
1|10|1935|Julie Andrews, English actress
1|10|1938|Stella Stevens, US actress
2|10|1452|Richard III of England
2|10|1847|Paul von Hindenburg, German statesman (+1934)
2|10|1869|Mahatma Gandhi, Indian statesman (+1948)
2|10|1895|Groucho Marx, US comedian (+1977)
2|10|1904|Graham Greene, English novelist (+1991)
2|10|1945|Don McLean, US singer
2|10|1951|Gordon "Sting" Sumner, British singer
3|10|1900|Thomas Wolfe, US author (+1938)
3|10|1925|Gore Vidal, US novelist
3|10|1941|Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans), US singer
4|10|1895|Buster Keaton, pioneer movie comedian
4|10|1922|Charlton Heston, US actor
4|10|1946|Susan Sarandon, US actress
5|10|1864|Louis Lumire, French photographer
5|10|1881|Pablo Picasso
5|10|1902|Ray Kroc [founder of McDonalds]
5|10|1919|Donald Pleasance, English actor
5|10|1923|Glynnis Johns, British actress
5|10|1933|Diane Cilento, Australian actress
5|10|1936|Vaclav Havel, Czech dramatist
5|10|1954|Bob Geldof, Irish singer
5|10|1957|Brian Johnson, Australian singer [AC/DC]
6|10|1809|Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
6|10|1846|George Westinghouse, US inventor (+1914)
6|10|1887|Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss architect
6|10|1914|Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist & adventurer
6|10|1930|Richie Benaud, former Australian cricket captain
6|10|1942|Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
7|10|1552|Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer/poet (+1618)
7|10|1885|Neils Bohr, Danish physicist
7|10|1931|Desmond Tutu, South African bishop
7|10|1935|Thomas Keneally, Australian author
7|10|1939|Clive James, Australian author
7|10|1943|Oliver Laurence North, US Marine Corps Lt Colonel
7|10|1951|John Cougar Mellencamp
7|10|1957|Jane Torvill, British ice skater
8|10|1585|Heinrich Schtz, German composer
8|10|1713|Allison Cockburn, Scottish poet (+1794)
8|10|1895|Juan Peron, Argentine president (+1974)
8|10|1928|Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer
8|10|1940|Paul Hogan, Australian comedian/actor
8|10|1940|David Carradine, US actor
8|10|1941|Rev Jesse Jackson, US politician/civil rights activist
8|10|1943|Chevy Chase, US comedian/actor
8|10|1949|Sigourney Weaver, US actress
8|10|1956|Stephanie Zimbalist, US actress
9|10|1547|Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (+1616)
9|10|1940|John Lennon, English pop singer/composer (+1980)
9|10|1981|Zachery Ty Bryan, US actor
10|10|1813|Giuseppe Verdi, Italian coposer (+1901)
10|10|1917|Thelonious Monk, US jazz musician
10|10|1924|James Clavell, Australian author
10|10|1930|Harold Pinter, English playwright
10|10|1937|Bruce Devlin, Australian golfing champion
10|10|1946|Ben Vereen, singer-dancer
10|10|1955|David Lee Roth, pop singer
11|10|1844|Henry John Heinz, food industry pioneer
11|10|1884|Friedrich Bergius, German chemist
11|10|1884|Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of US president FD Roosevelt
11|10|1918|Jerome Robbins, US choreographer/director
12|10|1537|Eward VI, King of England (1553)
12|10|1860|Elmer A Sperry, inventor of the gyrocompass
12|10|1935|Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor
13|10|1921|Yves Montand, Italian-born French singer/actor (+1991)
13|10|1925|Lenny Bruce, US satirist
13|10|1925|Lady Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister
13|10|1934|Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer
13|10|1941|Paul Simon, US singer/composer
13|10|1959|Marie Osmond, US singer
13|10|1969|Nancy Kerrigan, US ice skater
14|10|1644|William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
14|10|1882|Eamon de Valera, Irish statesman (+1975)
14|10|1890|Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th US president (+1969)
14|10|1896|Lilian Gish, US actress (+1993)
14|10|1927|Roger Moore, English actor
14|10|1940|Cliff Richard, English pop singer
15|10| -70|Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet (+19 BC)
15|10|1608|Evangelista Toricelli, Italian physicist & mathematician (+1647)
15|10|1844|Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher (+1900)
15|10|1881|P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, English writer & humorist (+1975)
15|10|1908|John Kenneth Galbraith, US economist
15|10|1917|Arthur M Schlesinger Jr., US historian and statesman
15|10|1921|Mario Puzo, US author
15|10|1923|Italo Calvino, Italian novelist
15|10|1924|Lee Iacocca, US engineer
15|10|1959|Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
16|10|1731|Henry Cavendish, English scientist (+1810)
16|10|1854|Oscar Wilde (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills), Irish author (+1900)
16|10|1886|David Ben-Gurion, former Israeli prime minister (+1973)
16|10|1888|Eugene O'Neill, US playwright (+1953)
16|10|1925|Angela Lansbury, English actress
16|10|1927|Gnter Grass, German writer [Tin Drum]
16|10|1962|Manute Bol, basketball player
17|10|1885|Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Danish author, [Out of Africa]
17|10|1915|Arthur Miller, US playwright
17|10|1917|Sumner Locke Elliot, Australian playwright
17|10|1918|Rita Hayworth, Us actress (+1987)
17|10|1920|Montgomery Clift, US actor
17|10|1925|Rock Hudson, US actor (+1989)
17|10|1938|Evel Knievel (Robert Craig), US motorcycle stunt performer
18|10|1777|Heinrich von Kleist, German poet (+1811)
18|10|1919|Pierre Trudeau, former Canadian prime minister
18|10|1925|Melina Mercouri, Greek actress/politician (+1994)
18|18|1926|Chuck Berry, US rock singer
18|10|1927|George C Scott, US actor
18|10|1938|Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of JF Kennedy (+1963)
18|10|1956|Martina Navratilova, tennis player
18|10|1960|Jean-Claude Van Damme, US actor
19|10|1599|Sir Thomas Browne, English physician/author (+1680)
19|10|1833|Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet (+1870)
19|10|1931|John LeCarre (David John Moore Cornwell), English spy novelist
19|10|1945|John Lithgow, US actor
19|10|1946|Jeannie C Riley, US country singer
19|10|1953|Tom Petty, US singer
20|10|1632|Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (+1723)
20|10|1792|John Pascoe Fawkner, one of Melbourne's founders (+1869)
20|10|1854|Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (+1891)
20|10|1859|John Dewey, US philosopher (+1952)
20|10|1874|Charles Ives, US composer
20|10|1882|Bela Lugosi, Dracula actor (+1956)
20|10|1971|Danii Minogue, Australian pop singer
21|10|1772|Samuel T Coleridge, English poet/philosopher (+1834)
21|10|1833|Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite (+1896)
21|10|1866|HG Wells, English writer (1946)
21|10|1912|Sir Georg Solti, British conductor, in Budapest
21|10|1917|John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, US jazz trumpeter
21|10|1931|Larry Hagman, US actor
21|10|1935|Ian Finlay, Australian TV journalist
21|10|1940|Manfred Mann, UK pop star
21|10|1940|Geoff Boycott, English cricketer
21|10|1944|Goldie Hawn, US actress
21|10|1950|Bill Murray, US actor/comedian
21|10|1956|Carrie Fisher, US actress/writer
22|10|1811|Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (+1886)
22|10|1913|Benjamin Britten, English composer (+1976)
22|10|1919|Doris Lessing, US author
22|10|1920|Timothy Leary, US psychology professor
22|10|1938|Christopher Lloyd, actor
22|10|1943|Catherine Deneuve, French actress
22|10|1952|Jeff Goldblum, US actor
23|10|1813|Ludwig Leichhardt, German-born explorer of Australia (+1848)
23|10|1844|Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (+1923)
23|10|1900|Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (+1958)
23|10|1925|Johnny Carson, TV personality
23|10|1925|Johnny Cash, US singer
23|10|1931|Diana Dors, English actress (+1984)
23|10|1940|Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento), Brazilian soccer star
24|10|1926|Y(elberton) A(braham) Tittle, football player
24|10|1936|Bill Wyman, British pop bass player
24|10|1947|Kevin Kline, British actor
25|10|1800|Thomas B Macauley, British historian (+1859)
25|10|1825|Johann Strauss, Austrian composer (+1899)
25|10|1838|Georges Bizet, French composer (+1875)
25|10|1881|Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
25|10|1941|Helen Reddy, Australian pop singer
26|10|1466|Erasmusof Rotterdam, Dutch scholar and philosopher
26|10|1685|Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (+1757)
26|10|1759|Georges Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader (+1794)
26|10|1790|William Charles Wentworth, Australian explorer (+1872)
26|10|1880|Leon Trotsky, Russian bolshevik leader (+1940)
26|10|1911|Mahalia Jackson, US singer (+1996)
26|10|1916|Franois Mitterand, French politician
26|10|1919|Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, deposed Shah of Iran (+1980)
26|10|1942|Bob Hoskins, British actor
26|10|1948|Jaclyn Smith, US actress
27|10|1728|Captain James Cook, English explorer (+1779)
27|10|1782|Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist/composer (+1840)
27|10|1811|Isaac Singer, US inventor, in Pittsdown, NY
27|10|1858|Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president (+1919)
27|10|1914|Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (+1953)
27|10|1932|Sylvia Plath, US poet and novelist
27|10|1939|John Cleese, English comedian/actor
28|10|1636|1st US uni, Harvard University, Cambridge, founded
28|10|1793|Eliphalet Remington, riflemaker
28|10|1846|Georges Escoffier, French chef
28|10|1903|Evelyn Waugh, English author (+1966)
28|10|1914|Dr Jonas Salk, US discoverer of the anti-poliomyelitis vaccine
28|10|1941|Hank Marvin, British pop guitarist
29|10|1656|Edmund Halley, English astronomer (+1742)
29|10|1740|James Boswell, Scottish lawyer/biographer (+1795)
29|10|1882|Jean Giraudoux, French writer (+1944)
29|10|1897|Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister (+1945)
29|10|1929|Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player
29|10|1947|Richard Dreyfuss, US actor
30|10|1735|John Adams, 2nd US President
30|10|1821|Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoievsky, Russian novelist (+1881)
30|10|1885|Ezra Pound, US poet
30|10|1932|Louis Malle, French film director (+1995)
30|10|1939|Grace Slick, US pop singer
30|10|1948|Gary McDonald, Australian actor
31|10|1632|Jan Vermeer, Dutch artist (+1675)
31|10|1795|John Keats, English poet (+1821)
31|10|1857|Axel Munthe, Swedish writer (+1949)
31|10|1860|Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts founder
31|10|1887|Chiang Kai-shek, President of Nationalist China (+1975)
31|10|1922|Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
31|10|1929|Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player
31|10|1931|Dan Rather, US TV newsman
31|10|1937|Michael Landon US actor (+1990)
31|10|1950|John Candy, US actor (+1994)
1|11|1500|Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (+1571)
1|11|1924|Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano
1|11|1945|John Williamson, Australian folk singer
1|11|1960|Fernando Valenzuela, professional baseball pitcher
2|11|1734|Daniel Boone, US pioneer (+1820)
2|11|1755|Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI (+16-Oct-1793)
2|11|1906|Luchino Visconi, Italian film director (+1976)
2|11|1913|Burt Lancaster, US actor (+1994)
2|11|1929|Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
2|11|1942|Stephanie Powers, US actress
2|11|1942|Shere Hite, US author
2|11|1942|Keith Emerson, US rock musician
2|11|1947|Alan Jones, Australian F-1 car-racing champion
2|11|1947|KD Lang, US singer
3|11|1801|Karl Baedecker, German compiler/publisher of travel guides (+1859)
3|11|1922|Charles Bronson, US actor
3|11|1932|Andy Williams, US singer
3|11|1933|Michael S Dukakis, Massachusetts Governor
3|11|1936|Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
3|11|1954|Adam Ant, British pop singer
4|11|1879|Will Rogers, US humorist (+1935)
4|11|1916|Walter Cronkite, US TV newsman
4|11|1919|Martin Balsam, US actor (+1996)
4|11|1935|Barry Crocker, Australian singer/actor
4|11|1940|Loretta Swit, US actress
4|11|1947|Rodney Marsh, Australian cricketer
4|11|1963|Tatum O'Neal, US actress
5|11|1549|Philippe de Plessis-Mornay, French author (+1623)
5|11|1885|Will Durant, US historian/philosopher (+1981)
5|11|1912|Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye), US movie cowboy
5|11|1913|Vivien Leigh, British actress (+1967)
5|11|1935|Lester Piggott, English jockey
5|11|1940|Elke Sommer, German actress
5|11|1941|Art Garfunkel, US musician
5|11|1959|Bryan Adams, Canadian musician (Vancouver, BC)
5|11|1963|Tatum O'Neal, US actress
6|11|1854|John Philip Sousa, US composer (+1937)
6|11|1860|Ignace Jan Panderewski, Polish pianist/statesman (+1941)
6|11|1880|Robert Musil, Austrian writer (+1942)
6|11|1892|Sir John Alcock, aviator (1st Atlantic crossing), in Manchester,UK
6|11|1921|James Jones, US writer [Damned In All Eternity] (+1977)
6|11|1942|Jean Shrimpton, British model
6|11|1946|Sally Field, US actress
6|11|1956|Graeme Wood, Australian cricketer
7|11|1867|Marie Curie, nee Sklodowska, in Warsaw (+1934)
7|11|1913|Albert Camus, French writer
7|11|1918|Billy Graham, US evangelist
7|11|1926|Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano
7|11|1942|Johnny Rivers, US rock singer
7|11|1943|Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), US folk singer
8|11|1608|John Milton, English poet (+1674)
8|11|1656|Edmund Halley, British astronomer (+1742)
8|11|1866|Herbert Austin, English motor mechanic, in Little Missenden
8|11|1884|Hermann Rohrschach, Swiss psychiatrist (+1922)
8|11|1900|Margaret Mitchell, US novelist [Gone With The Wind] (+1949)
8|11|1909|Katharine Hepburn, US actress (+2003)
8|11|1922|Dr Christian Barnard, South African surgeon
8|11|1935|Alain Delon, French actor
9|11|1818|Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (+1883)
9|11|1918|Spiro Theodore Agnew, former US Vicepresident
9|11|1934|Carl Sagan, US physicist
9|11|1935|John Singleton, Australian advertising man
9|11|1941|Tom Fogerty, US rock singer
10|11|1493|Paracelsus, Swiss physician
10|11|1483|Martin Luther, German reformist/tranlator/author (+1546)
10|11|1668|Franois Couperin, French composer (+1733)
10|11|1759|Friedrich Schiller, German poet (+1805)
10|11|1925|Richard Burton (Richard Jenkins), Welsh actor (+1984)
10|11|1932|Roy Scheider, US actor
10|11|1944|Tim Rice, British songwriter
11|11|1729|Louis Antoine Bougainville, French navigator (+1811)
11|11|1821|Fjodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevski, Russian writer (+1881)
11|11|1885|George S Patton, US General (+1945)
11|11|1922|Kurt Vonnegut Jr, US author
11|11|1925|Jonathan Winters, US comedian
11|11|1962|Demi Moore, US actress
12|11|1929|Princess Grace of Monaco (Grace Patricia Kelley) (+1982)
12|11|1945|Neil Young, Canadian pop singer
12|11|1954|Paul MacNamee, Australian tennis player
12|11|1961|Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
13|11|1850|Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (+1894)
13|11|1922|Oskar Werner, Austrian actor/director (+1984)
13|11|1933|Don Lane, US-born entertainer
13|11|1937|Kamahl, Australian singer
13|11|1937|Peter Cook, English comedian/satirist
13|11|1949|Whoopi Goldberg, US actress and comedian
14|11|1765|Robert Fulton, US engineer
14|11|1863|Leo Baekeland, US inventor of Bakelite, in Ghent, Belgium
14|11|1910|Eric Malpass, English author
14|11|1935|King Hussein of Jordan
15|11|-2349,Methuselah|d5|-2349,Methuselah
15|11|1708|William Pitt, English statesman (+1779)
15|11|1738|Sir William Herschel, English astronomer, in Hanover, Germany
15|11|1862|Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (+1946)
15|11|1934|Petula Clark, English pop singer
15|11|1945|Frieda Lyngstad, Swedish pop singer [ABBA]
16|11|-42 |Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor
16|11|1895|Paul Hindemith, German composer (+1963)
16|11|1953|Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian
16|11|1961|Frank Bruno, English heavyweight boxer
17|11|-3  |Jesus Christ (according to Clement of Alexandria)
17|11|1925|Rock Hudson, US actor (+1985)
17|11|1937|Peter Cook, English actor (+1995)
17|11|1943|Lauren Hutton, US model/actress
17|11|1944|Danny de Vito, US actor
17|11|1966|Kate Ceberano, Australian singer
18|11|1836|Sir WS Gilbert, English playwright (+1911)
18|11|1901|George Gallup, US pollster (+1984)
18|11|1916|Peter Weiss, German author (+1982) 
18|11|1942|Linda Evans, US actress
18|11|1947|Ross Wilson, Australian rock artist
19|11|1805|Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal (+1894)
19|11|1917|Indira Gandhi, Indian stateswoman (+1984)
19|11|1919|Margaret Whitlam, wife of former Australian PM Gough W
19|11|1942|Calvin Klein, US clothing designer
19|11|1952|Eddie Rayner, keyboard player (Crowded House)
19|11|1962|Jodie Foster, US actress
20|11|1858|Selma Lagerlf, Swedish writer [Nils Holgersson] (+1940)
20|11|1889|Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer
20|11|1908|Alistair Cooke, English journalist/TV personality
20|11|1920|Gene Tierney, US actress (+1991)
20|11|1921|Ray Price, Australian jazz musician
20|11|1925|Robert Kennedy, US politician (+1968)
20|11|1956|Bo Derek, US actress
21|11|1694|Voltaire (Franois Marie Arouet), French author (+1778)
21|11|1787|Samuel Cunard, Canadian shipowner (+1865)
21|11|1898|Rene Magritte, Belgian painter
21|11|1940|Natalia Makarova, Russian ballerina
21|11|1941|Juliet Mills, British actress
21|11|1945|Goldie Hawn, US actress
21|11|1950|Bruce Laird, Australian cricketer
22|11|1808|Thomas Cook, English travel agent (+1892)
22|11|1819|Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot), English writer
22|11|1869|Andr Gide, French writer (+1951)
22|11|1890|Charles de Gaulle, French general/statesman (+1970)
22|11|1898|Wiley Post, 1st pilot to fly solo around the world
22|11|1913|Benjamin Britten, English composer (+1976)
22|11|1943|Billy Jean King, US tennis player
22|11|1961|Mariel Hemingway, US actress
22|11|1967|Boris Becker, German tennis player
23|11|1705|Thomas Birch, English historian (+1766)
23|11|1859|William H "Billy The Kid" Bonney (born Henry McCarty), outlaw
23|11|1876|Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (+1946)
23|11|1887|Boris Karloff, British actor (+1969)
23|11|1888|Harpo Marx, US actor/comedian (+1964)
23|11|1934|Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (+1994)
23|11|1956|Shane Gould, Australian swimmer
24|11|1632|Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (+1677)
24|11|1713|Laurence Sterne, English novelist (+1768)
24|11|1853|William "Bat" Masterson, gambler, frontier lawman, sportswriter
24|11|1925|William F Buckley, US publisher
24|11|1942|Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian/actor
24|11|1955|Ian Botham, English cricketer
24|11|1963|Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer
25|11|1562|Lope Felix de Vega, Spanish poet (+1635)
25|11|1844|Karl Benz, German automobile designer (+1929)
25|11|1880|Dr John Flynn, Royal Flying Doctor Service founder (+1951)
25|11|1914|Joe DiMaggio, US baseball player
25|11|1947|John Laroquette, US actor
25|11|1952|Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer
26|11|1912|Eugne Ionesco, Romanian/French playwright
26|11|1938|Richard Caruthers Little, impressionist
26|11|1938|Tina Turner, US pop singer
26|11|1945|John McVie, US pop singer (Fleetwood Mac)
26|11|1951|Illona Staller (La Cicciolina), Italian member of parliament
26|11|1955|Jackie McDonald, Australian TV personality
27|11|1917|"Buffalo" Bob Smith, children's entertainer
27|11|1921|Alexander Dubcek, Czech political leader
27|11|1940|Bruce Lee, film star (+1970)
27|11|1942|Jimi Hendrix, US musician (1970)
27|11|1945|Simon Townsend, Australian TV personality
28|11|1907|Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist
28|11|1919|Keith Miller, Australian cricketer
28|11|1929|Berry Gordy Jr, Motown Records founder
28|11|1937|Gary Hart, former US senator & presidential candidate
28|11|1943|Randy Newman, US singer/songwriter
28|11|1945|John Hargreaves, Australian actor (+1996)
28|11|1948|Beeb Birtles, Australian musician (Little River Band)
28|11|1949|Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer
29|11|1426|Giovanni Bellini, Italian artist (+1516)
29|11|1803|Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist
29|11|1832|Louisa May Alcott, US writer (+1888)
29|11|1949|Garry Shandling, US comedian
30|11|1667|Jonathan Swift, Irish author (+1745)
30|11|1835|Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), US author (+1910)
30|11|1874|Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman (+1965)
30|11|1923|Effrem Zimbalist Jr, US actor
30|11|1956|Billy Idol, British pop star
1|12|1928|Keith Mitchell, Australian actor
1|12|1935|Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg), US comedian/filmmaker
1|12|1940|Richard Pryor, US comedian
1|12|1945|Bette Midler, US actress/singer
1|12|1959|Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league player
2|12|1859|Georges Seurat, French artist (+1891)
2|12|1924|Alexander Meigs Haig Jr, former Secretary of State
2|12|1934|Maggie Smith, English actress
3|12|1857|Joseph Conrad (Theodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski), English writer (+1924)
3|12|1906|Sir Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor (+1974)
3|12|1924|John Warner Backus, computing pioneer, inventor of FORTRAN (+2007)
3|12|1930|Jean Luc Godard, French film director
3|12|1948|Ozzy Osbourne, English singer and songwriter
4|12|1795|Thomas Carlyle, English essayist/historian (+1881)
4|12|1815|Samual Butler, English author (+1902)
4|12|1865|Edith Cavell, English nurse/patriot (+1915)
4|12|1875|Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet
4|12|1892|General Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (+1975)
4|12|1930|Ronnie Corbett, English comedian
4|12|1937|Bill Collins, Australian movie buff
4|12|1944|Dennis Wilson, Beach Boys drummer
4|12|1949|Jeff Bridges, US actor
5|12|1839|General George Custer
5|12|1867|Jozef Pilsudski, Polish statesman (+1935)
5|12|1901|Walt Disney, US cartoonist/film producer (+15-Dec-1966)
5|12|1920|Dave Brubeck, US jazz musician
5|12|1932|Little Richard, US rock singer
5|12|1948|Denise Drysdale, Australian TV personality
6|12|1924|Wally Cox, comedian
6|12|1942|Peter Handke, German poet
6|12|1955|Steven Wright, US comedian
7|12|1542|Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (+1587)
7|12|1863|Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (+1945)
7|12|1915|Eli Wallach, US actor
7|12|1932|Ellen Burstyn, US actress
7|12|1947|Gregg Allman, US musician (Nashville, Tenn)
7|12|1952|Geoff Lawson, Australian cricketer
7|12|1956|Larry Bird, US basketball player
8|12| -65|Flaccus Quintus Horatius, Roman poet (+8 BC)
8|12|1765|Eli Whitney, US inventor (cotton gin) (+1825)
8|12|1865|Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (+1957)
8|12|1894|James Thurber, US humourist (+1965)
8|12|1925|Sammy Davis Jr, US entertainer (+1990)
8|12|1930|Maximilan Schell, Austrian actor/director
8|12|1939|James Galway, Irish musician
8|12|1945|John Waters, Australian actor
8|12|1953|Kim Basinger, US actress
8|12|1964|James Blundell, Australian singer
8|12|1964|James Morrison, Australian musician
8|12|1967|Sinead O'Connor, Irish singer
9|12|1608|John Milton, English poet (+1674)
9|12|1886|Clarence Birdseye, industrialist-inventor
9|12|1909|Douglas Fairbanks Jr, US actor
9|12|1916|Kirk Douglas, US actor
9|12|1929|Bob Hawke, former Australian PM
9|12|1957|Donny Osmond, US singer
10|12|1822|Cesar Franck, Belgian composer (+1890)
10|12|1830|Emily Dickinson, US poet (+1886)
10|12|1952|Susan Dey, actress
11|12|1803|Hector Berlioz, French composer (+1869)
11|12|1913|Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer
11|12|1918|Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian author
11|12|1931|Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress/entertainer
11|12|1938|Reg Livermore, Australian entertainer
11|12|1949|Teri Garr, US actress
12|12|1821|Gustave Flaubert, French writer (+1880)
12|12|1893|Edward G Robinson, actor (+1973)
12|12|1915|Frank Sinatra, US singer/actor (+1998)
12|12|1929|John Osborne, English playwright (+1995)
12|12|1938|Connie Francis, US singer
12|12|1941|Dionne Warwick, US singer
12|12|1959|Sheila E., US singer
13|12|1797|Heinrich Heine, German writer (+1856)
13|12|1816|Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer (+1892)
13|12|1818|Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham
13|12|1925|Dick van Dyke, US actor
13|12|1929|Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
14|12|1503|Nostradamus (born Michel de Notredame), French prophet
14|12|1866|Roger Fry, English artist (+1934)
14|12|1927|Roger Moore, British actor
14|12|1935|Lee Remmick, US actress (+1991)
14|12|1940|Cliff Richard, British pop singer
14|12|1946|Patty Duke, US actress
14|12|1947|Steven Spielberg, US film director/producer
15|12|  37|Nero, Roman emperor (+68)
15|12|1852|Henri Becquerel, French chemist (+1908)
15|12|1832|Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (+1923)
15|12|1888|Maxwell Anderson, US playwright (+1959)
15|12|1933|Tim Conway, US actor/comedian
15|12|1949|Don Johnson, US actor
16|12|1770|Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (+1827)
16|12|1775|Jane Austen, English novelist (+1817)
16|12|1899|Noel Coward, English dramatist/composer (+1973)
16|12|1917|Arthur C Clarke, British author
16|12|1939|Liv Ullman, Swedish actress
16|12|1943|Steven Bochco, US TV producer
16|12|1946|Benny Anderson, Swedish pop singer [ABBA]
17|12|1749|Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (+1801)
17|12|1903|Erskine Caldwell, US writer
17|12|1924|Clifton Pugh, Australian artist
17|12|1930|Bob Guccione (Robert Charles Joseph Edwa), Penthouse Publisher
17|12|1937|Kerry Packer, Australian businessman
17|12|1943|Michael Edgley, Australian impresario
18|12|1786|Carl Maria von Weber, German  composer (+1826)
18|12|1913|Willy Brandt, German statesman (+1992)
18|12|1943|Keith Richards, English rock musician
18|12|1956|Martina Navratilova, Czech-born tennis player
18|12|1963|Brad Pitt, US actor
18|12|1971|A Sanchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
19|12|1742|Karl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (+1786)
19|12|1902|Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (+1983)
19|12|1906|Leonid I Brezhnev, General Secretary of CPSU (+1982)
19|12|1910|Jean Genet, French writer
19|12|1915|Edith Piaf, French singer (+1963)
19|12|1921|Anne Golon, French author [Anglique]
19|12|1923|Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (+1990)
19|12|1933|Cicely Tyson, US actress
20|12|1795|Leopold von Ranke, German historian (+1886)
20|12|1868|Harvey Samuel Firestone, US industrialist
20|12|1894|Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Australian politician (+1978)
20|12|1905|Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (+1992)
20|12|1944|Ray Martin, Australian TV personality
20|12|1946|Uri Geller, Israeli psychic
20|12|1948|Stevie Wright, US musician
21|12|1639|Jean Baptiste Racine, French playwright (+1699)
21|12|1804|Benjamin Disraeli, English statesman (+1881)
21|12|1879|Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator (+1953)
21|12|1916|Harold Robbins, US author
21|12|1917|Heinrich Bll, German writer
21|12|1937|Jane Fonda, US actress
21|12|1940|Frank Zappa, US musician (+1993)
21|12|1945|Doug Walters, Australian cricketer
21|12|1954|Chris Evert, US tennis player
21|12|1959|Florence Griffith-Joyner, US athlete (+1998)
22|12|1639|Jean Racine, French dramatist (+1699)
22|12|1858|Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (+1924)
22|12|1912|Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson, wife of Lyndon Baines
22|12|1949|Robin & Maurice Gibb, English pop singers
23|12|1732|Sir Richard Arkwright, English inventor (+1792)
23|12|1805|Joseph Smith, founder of Mormon movement (+1844)
23|12|1918|Jose Greco, Spanish dancer/choreographer
23|12|1955|Grace Knight, US singer
24|12|1491|St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the (Jesuits)
24|12|1791|Augustin Eugene Scribe, French dramatist/librettist
24|12|1809|Christopher "Kit" Carson, US frontiersman (+1868)
24|12|1818|James Joule, English physicist, in Manchester
24|12|1822|Matthew Arnold, English author (+1888)
24|12|1905|Howard Hughes, US billionaire (+1976)
24|12|1922|Ava Gardner, US actress (+1990)
25|12|1642|Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and scientist (+1727)
26|12|1891|Henry Miller, US author
26|12|1907|Cab Calloway, singer
27|12|1571|Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (+1639)
27|12|1822|Louis Pasteur, French scientist (+1895)
27|12|1901|Marlene Dietrich, actress (+1992)
28|12|1763|John Molson, patriarch of Molson brewery family
28|12|1856|Woodrow Wilson, US president (+1924)
28|12|1860|Philip Wilson Steer, English artist (+1942)
28|12|1882|Sir Arthur Eddington, English scientist (+1944)
28|12|1934|Maggie Smith, English actress
28|12|1960|John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player
29|12|1721|Jeanne d'Etoiles, Marquise de Pompadour (+1764)
29|12|1800|Charles Goodyear
29|12|1876|Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist (+1973)
29|12|1937|Mary Tyler Moore, US actress
29|12|1946|Marianne Faithful, British singer
29|12|1953|Gelsey Kirkland, US ballet dancer
29|12|1960|David Boon, Australian cricketer
30|12|1819|Theodor Fontane, German writer (+1898)
30|12|1865|Rudyard Kipling, English writer (+1936)
30|12|1906|Sir Carol Reed, English film director (+1976)
30|12|1942|Mike Nesmith, UK pop singer [The Monkees]
30|12|1947|Jeff Lynne, British singer
31|12|1869|Henri Matisse, French artist (+1954)
31|12|1904|Nathan Milstein, Russian violinist
31|12|1937|Sir Anthony Hopkins, British actor
31|12|1943|Ben Kingsley (Krishna Bhanji), British actor
31|12|1943|John Denver, US singer
31|12|1948|Donna Summer, US singer
