1900 - Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950)
1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, US ambassador (to Vatican)
1903 - Nick Stuart, Romania, bandleader
1905 - Jan H van Roijen, diplomat/Netherland foreign minister
1906 - Fud Livingston, composer
1906 - Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
1906 - Lili Darvas, Budapest Hungary, actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron)
1907 - Pete Desjardins, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
1908 - Aidan Crawley, CEO (London Weekend TV)
1910 - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
1910 - David Gilroy Bevan, politician
1911 - Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu)
1912 - Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
1912 - Martin Denny, rocker/actor (Forbidden Island)
1912 - Roy Hofheinz, engineer (Houston Astrodome)
1913 - Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda)
1914 - E A V "Foffie" Williams, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1939-48)
1914 - Jack Badcock, cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's)
1915 - Harry Morgan, Detroit Mich, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet)
1915 - Leo Vroman, Dutch/US poet/biologist
1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
1921 - Chuck Connors, Bkln NY, actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa)
1921 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest
1921 - Sheb Wooley, Erick Okla, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
1923 - Floyd M Simmons, actor/decathlete (Olympic-bronze-1948, 52)
1923 - John Watkins, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57)
1924 - Johanna M van de Berg, actress (What See I?)
1926 - "Alvin" Junior Samples, Cummings Ga, country singer (Hee Haw)
1926 - Jacques Casterede, composer
1926 - Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (Natl Welfare Rights Assn)
1929 - Dusan Radic, composer
1929 - Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape)
1930 - Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
1930 - Shuja-ud-Din, cricketer (batted in 19 Tests for Pakistan 1954-62)
1931 - Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet
1932 - Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
1932 - Delphine Seyrig, Beirut Lebanon, actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages)
1932 - Hari Rhodes, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Mike-Daktari, Roots)
1932 - Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr, NJ, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 - Nathaniel Nelson, rocker (Flamingos)
1932 - Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secret)
1933 - Philip Corner, composer
1933 - Poncie Ponce, actor (Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye)
1933 - Robert Rhodes James, historian (Gallipoli)
1934 - David Halberstam, intl correspondent (NY Times/Pulitzer 1964)
1934 - Zsolt Durko, composer