I can add some looking a bit further back...
1817 Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and pacifist (Walden Pond), born in Concord, Massachusetts (d. 1862)
1854 George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak camera, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company), born in Waterville, New York (d. 1932)
1864 George Washington Carver, botanist (studied the peanut) [or Jan 10]
1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, born in NYC, New York
1895 R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
1917 Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford Pa, painter (Christina's World)
1934 Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)