Joshua Lathrop Carew (1816)
James Pawley Dawes (1843)
James Cagney; actor (1899)
Erle Stanley Gardner; writer (1889)
Vince Guaraldi; jazz pianist (1928)
Peter Schickele; music comedian, composer (1935)
Donald Sutherland; actor (1934)
Berenice Abbott; photographer (1898)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Ukrainian-Israeli writer (1888)
Ron Asheton; guitarist and songwriter (1948)
John Jacob Astor; zillionaire (1763)
Lou Barlow; guitarist and songwriter (1966)
George Barnes; guitarist and songwriter (1921)
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten; German philosopher (1714)
Luc Bondy; Swiss film director (1948)
Tim Brooke-Taylor; English comedian (1940)
Mark Burnett; television producer (1960)
Geezer Butler; English bass player (1949)
Diahann Carroll; actor (1935)
Niccolò Castiglioni; Italian composer (1932)
Elizabeth Cook; singer and guitarist (1972)
John Cooper; English car designer (1923)
Chris Crutcher; writer (1946)
Spencer Davis; rock musician (1942)
Paul Delaroche; French painter (1797)
Phyllis Diller; comedian (1917)
Cory Doctorow, Canadian author (1971)
Lyonel Feininger;, German-American painter (1871)
Lionel Ferbos; trumpeter (1911)
Wolfgang Flür; German musician (1947)
Wendy Freedman; Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer (1957)
Elbridge Gerry; politician (1744)
Sergei K. Godunov; Russian mathematician (1929)
Gordon Gould; laser inventor (1920)
David Hasselhoff; actor (1952)
Hermann Huppen; Belgian author and illustrator (1938)
Bruno Jasieński; Polish poet and author (1901)
Scott Johnson; cartoonist (1969)
Darryl Lamonica; Oakland Raiders QB (1941)
Nicolette Larson; singer-songwriter (1952)
Thé Lau; Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (1952)
Georges Lemaître; Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (1894)
Art Linkletter; humorist (1912)
Pierre Louis Maupertuis; French mathematician and philosopher (1698)
Robert R. McCammon; author (1952)
Angela Merkel; German chemist and politician (1954)
Craig Morgan; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1965)
Luis Munoz-Rivera; Puerto Rican patriot, poet (1859)
Frank Olson; chemist and microbiologist (1910)
Barbara O'Neil; actor (1910)
Mary Osborne; guitarist (1921)
Quino Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (1932)
Christiane Rochefort; French author (1917)
Jason Rullo; rock drummer (1972)
Jimmy Scott; jazz singer (1925)
Ephraim Shay, American engineer (1839)
Phoebe Snow; singer (1952)
Red Sovine; country singer (1917)
Christina Stead; Australian author (1902)
J. Michael Straczynski; writer (1954)
Mick Tucker; English rock drummer (1947)
Isaac Watts; English hymnwriter (1674)
Alex Winter; actor (1965)