| Year | People / Celebrity Name | People / Celebrity Profession | Country |
|---|
| 1034 | Romanos III Argyros | Byzantine emperor from 15 November 1028 until his death |  Greece |
| 1079 | Stanislaus of Szczepanow | St. Stanislaw |  Poland |
| 1165 | Stephen IV of Hungary | King of Hungary |  Hungary |
| 1240 | Llywelyn the Great | Prince of Gwynedd in north Wales and eventually de facto ruler over most of Wales | -flag.jpg) United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1554 | Thomas Wyatt the younger | Rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I of England | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1612 | Emanuel van Meteren | Flemish historian |  Belgium |
| 1626 | Marin Getaldic | Scientist, mathematician and physicist |  Italy |
| 1712 | Richard Simon | French Biblical critic |  France |
| 1723 | John Robinson (bishop of London) | English diplomat | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1783 | Nikita Ivanovich Panin | Russian statesman |  Russia |
| 1798 | Karl Wilhelm Ramler | German poet |  Germany |
| 1834 | John Mad Jack Fuller | English philanthropist | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1842 | Sandor Korosi Csoma | Hungarian philologist and orientalist, author of the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar book | Hungary |
| 1856 | Juan Santamaria | National hero of the Republic of Costa Rica |  Costa Rica |
| 1861 | Francisco Gonzalez Bocanegra | Mexican poet |  Mexico |
| 1873 | Edward Canby | United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War | -flag.jpg) United States(USA) |
| 1890 | Joseph Merrick | The Elephant Man | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1894 | Constantin Lipsius | German architect | Germany |
| 1902 | Wade Hampton III | American soldier and politician | United States(USA) |
| 1903 | Gemma Galgani | Italian mystic | Italy |
| 1906 | James Anthony Bailey | American circus impresario | United States(USA) |
| 1906 | Francis Pharcellus Church | American editor and publisher | United States(USA) |
| 1908 | Henry Bird (chess player) | English chess player and chess writer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1916 | Richard Harding Davis | American author | United States(USA) |
| 1918 | Otto Wagner | Austrian architect |  Austria |
| 1921 | German Empress Augusta Victoria | The last German Empress and Queen of Prussia | Germany |
| 1926 | Luther Burbank | American botanist | United States(USA) |
| 1934 | John Collier (artist) | Leading English artist and an author | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 1953 | Kid Nichols | American baseball player | United States(USA) |
| 1953 | Boris Kidric | Leading Slovenian Communist |  Slovenia |
| 1958 | Konstantin Yuon | Russian painter | Russia |
| 1958 | Paul A. Dever | Democratic politician | United States(USA) |
| 1962 | Ukichiro Nakaya | Japanese physicist and science essayist |  Japan |
| 1962 | George Coleman Poage | First African American athlete | United States(USA) |
| 1967 | Donald Sangster | Jamaican politician and the second Prime Minister of Jamaica |  Jamaica |
| 1970 | John O Hara | American writer | United States(USA) |
| 1970 | Cathy O Donnell | American actress | United States(USA) |
| 1977 | Jacques Prevert | French poet and lyricist | France |
| 1981 | Caroline Gordon | American writer and critic | United States(USA) |
| 1983 | Dolores del Rio | Mexican born actress | Mexico |
| 1985 | Bunny Ahearne | Promoter for ice hockey |  Ireland |
| 1985 | Enver Halil Hoxha | Albanian dictator |  Albania |
| 1987 | Erskine Caldwell | American author | United States(USA) |
| 1987 | Primo Levi | Jewish-Italian chemist and writer | Italy |
| 1990 | Harold Ballard | Owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) |  Canada |
| 1991 | Walker Cooper | American catcher in Major League Baseball | United States(USA) |
| 1991 | Bruno Hoffmann | German player | Germany |
| 1992 | Eve Merriam | American poet | United States(USA) |
| 1992 | Alejandro Obregon | Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver |  Colombia |
| 1996 | Jessica Dubroff | 7-year-old pilot trainee | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Darrett B. Rutman | Noted historian of early America | United States(USA) |
| 1997 | Muriel McQueen Fergusson | Canadian senator | Canada |
| 2000 | Diana Darvey | British actress, singer and dancer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2001 | Harry Secombe | Welsh entertainer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2001 | Sandy Bull | American folk musician | United States(USA) |
| 2001 | Robert Moon (postal inspector) | Father of the ZIP Code or Zone Improvement Plan | United States(USA) |
| 2003 | Cecil H. Green | American geophysicist | United States(USA) |
| 2005 | Lucien Laurent | French footballer | France |
| 2005 | Andre Francois | French cartoonist | France |
| 2005 | James Doug Peden | Canadian basketball player | Canada |
| 2006 | June Pointer | American Pop and R&B singer | United States(USA) |
| 2006 | Proof (rapper) | American rapper (D12) | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Kurt Vonnegut | Prolific and genre bending American author | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Ronald Speirs | United States Army officer | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Roscoe Lee Browne | American actor and director | United States(USA) |
| 2007 | Janet McDonald | African American writer of novels for young adults as well as a memoir | United States(USA) |
| 2008 | Merlin German | United States Marine sergeant stationed in Iraq who survived a roadside bomb blast in 2005 | United States(USA) |
| 2009 | Gerda Gilboe | Danish actress and singer |  Denmark |
| 2009 | Corin Tellado | Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels |  Spain |
| 2010 | Julia Tsenova | Award winning Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue |  Bulgaria |
| 2011 | Billy Bang | American free jazz violinist and composer | United States(USA) |
| 2011 | Jean S. MacLeod | British writer | United Kingdom(UK) |
| 2011 | La Esterella | Flemish singer | Belgium |
| 2013 | Angela Voigt | East German long jumper | Germany |
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