- 1880 Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
- 1888 Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1889 John Kilbane, American featherweight boxing champ (world title held 1912-23), born in Cleveland, Ohio (. 1957)
- 1893 Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
- 1914 C S Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
- 1917 Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
- 1918 Robert Zimonyi, Hungarian cox (Olympic-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64)
- 1926 Doug Insole, cricketer (England batsman of the 50's, nine Tests)
- 1927 Jim De Courcy, cricketer (in Newcastle Australian batsman 1953)
- 1931 Klas Lestander, Swedish 20K biathlon (Olympic gold 1960)
- 1937 Tatyana Shchelkanova, USSR, long jumper (Olympic bronze 1964)
- 1939 Von McDaniel, baseball player
- 1940 Ed Garvey, American labor leader (NFL Players Association), born in Burlington, Wisconsin (d. 2017)
- 1941 Walter Francis Sweeney, Cohasset, Massachusetts, NFL Guard (San Diego Chargers), (d. 2013)
- 1942 Jochen Rindt, German race car driver
- 1942 Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
- 1944 Irvine Shillingford, West Indian cricketer (cousin of Grayson, 4 Tests for WI), born in Dublanc, Dominica
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1948 "Tiny" Nate Archibald, NBA guard (Cincinnati), born in NYC, New York
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- 1949 Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
- 1951 Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
- 1955 Anne-Marie Palli, Ciboure France, LPGA golfer (1992 ShopRite)
- 1956 David Wayne Edwards, Neosho MO, PGA golfer (1980 Walt Disney)
- 1958 Bernadette Robi, model/ex-wife of football player Lynn Swann
- 1958 Malcolm Marshall, cricketer (WI quickie 1978-91, WI top wicket-taker)
- 1959 Jim Eisenreich, American MLB outfielder (Tourette syndrome, Florida Marlins WS 1997), born in St. Cloud, Minnesota
- 1961 Ian Doig, Seaforth Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 Florida Classic)
- 1961 Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
- 1962 Wilber Marshall, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
- 1963 Phil Simmons, cricketer (West Indian opening batsman)
- 1966 Chuck Wade, Menomonee Falls Wisc, diver (Olympics 1996)
- 1966 Michelle Chryst, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-17th-1994)
- 1966 Valeri Kamensky, Voskresensk Russia, NHL left wing (Avalanche, Olympic silver 1998)
- 1966 Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
- 1967 Kenneth Gant, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
- 1967 Marcel Valk, soccer player (RKC, Go Ahead Eagles)
- 1969 Vladimir Tsyplakov, Inta Russia, NHL left wing (LA Kings, Belarus 1998)
- 1970 Carl Simpson, NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
- 1970 Francois Leroux, Ste-adele, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
- 1970 Heike Friedrich, East Germany swimmer (world record 200m)
- 1970 Peter Giles, kayaker (Olympics 1996), born in London, Ontario
- 1970 William Roaf, NFL tackle (New Orleans Saints)
- 1970 Rico Brogna, American baseball player
- 1971 Dan Kordic, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Philadelphia Flyers)
- 1971 Oleg Petrov, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens), born in Moscow, Russia
- 1972 Jeff Traversy, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
- 1973 Derrick Brooks, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
- 1973 Haile Gebrselassie, Asella, Arsi Province, Ethiopian 10k runner (Olympic gold 1996)
- 1973 James "Jamie" Koven, rower (Olympic 5th 1996), born in Morristown, New Jersey
- 1977 Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
- 1979 Michael Bradley, American basketball player
- 1979 Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
- 1979 Matthew Upson, English footballer
- 1980 Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 Brian Buscher, American baseball player
- 1982 Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
- 1983 Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1983 Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
- 1985 Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
- 1985 Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
- 1986 Maurice Edu, American soccer player
- 1986 Billy Butler, American baseball player
- 1987 Danny Guthrie, English footballer