1900 - Antoine Saint-Exupry, France, aviator/writer (Wind, Sand & Stars)
1901 - Frieda Inescort, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1901 - Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor
1901 - Nelson Eddy, Providence RI, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
1902 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, Innsbruck, director (Reaching for the Stars)
1902 - Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Horror Hospital)
1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (La lenta libertad)
1907 - Joan Davis, St Paul Minn, actress (I Married Joan)
1907 - Paul O'Dwyer, pres of City Council (D-NYC)
1908 - Paul Lebeau, Flemish writer (Last Rose, Xanthippe)
1908 - Rene Gerber, composer
1909 - Leroy Anderson, US, composer (Syncopated Clock)
1910 - Franc Henry Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Most Happy Fella)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
1911 - Bernhard, Germany, Prince (Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands)
1911 - Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
1912 - John Toland, US, political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971)
1912 - Jos Pablo Moncayo Garcia, Guadalajara Mxico, composer (Huapango)
1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Bychory Czechoslovakia, conductor (Cornelia Farooli)
1916 - David Donaldson, painter
1916 - Ruth Warwick, St Joseph Mo, actress (Citizen Kane, All My Children)
1918 - Jack Harkness, rose grower
1919 - Slim Pickens, Kingsburg Calif, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist (Clash of Titans)
1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia/Serbian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue)
1923 - Chou Wen-Chung, Cheefoo China, composer (Mode of Shang)
1924 - Ezra Laderman, NYC, composer (Jacob & the Indians)
1925 - Cara Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Pete & Gladys, Cara Williams Show)
1925 - Hale Smith, composer
1928 - Ian Bannen, Airdrie Scotland, actor (Eye of the Needle, Gorky Park)
1929 - Johnny Ace, rocker
1929 - Michio Mamaia, composer
1929 - Peter George, Akron Ohio, weightlifter (Oly-gold/2 silver-48, 52)
1930 - Robert Evans, NYC, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
1934 - Carl Levin, (Sen-D-MI)
1934 - Henning Kronstam, dancer
1936 - David Jenkins, US, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1960)
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
1936 - Leonard Lee, US vocalist (Shirley & Lee-Let the Good Times Roll)
1938 - Billy Storm, singer (Valiants-This is the Night)
1938 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer
1939 - Alan Connolly, cricketer (Australian pace bowler through 60s)
1939 - Ron Headley, cricketer (son of George, 2 Tests WI v England 1973)
1940 - Louise S Groenman, Dutch MP (D66)
1940 - Viacheslav Artyomov, composer
1941 - Margritta Gummel, German DR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist
1942 - Bas J van der Vlies, Dutch MP (SGP)