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Birthdays 1 - 68 of 68

1st - Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren Coolidge-St Elsewhere)
2nd - David Rhodes, English guitarist
3rd - Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician
4th - Jackie Bertsch, LPGA golfer
4th - Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield OH, astronaut (STS 69, 83, 94, sk 100)
4th - Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt West Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
4th - David Guterson, American author
4th - Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player
4th - Sharon Jones, Augusta Georgia, soul/funk singer (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings)
5th - Dick Kemper, Amsterdam Neth, rock vocalist/bassist (Vandenberg)
7th - Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
7th - Anne Dudley, British composer
7th - Jean Lapierre, Canadian politician and television host
8th - Jeff Madrigali, Walnut Creek California, soling yachter (Olymp-bronze-96)
9th - Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
10th - Vladislav Listyev, Russian television anchor and journalist (d. 1995)
11th - Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
11th - Alex Lester, British broadcaster
12th - Homer Simpson, fictional character from the long running television show "The Simpsons"
Fictional TV Character Homer Simpson (12th) 12th - Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player
12th - Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian
13th - Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kaleri, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
13th - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
14th - Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
14th - Steve Hogarth, Kendal England, vocals (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
15th - Alice Miller, Marysville CA, LPGA golfer (1985 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
15th - Dan Patrick, American sportscaster
17th - Bob Saget, Phila, comedian (Full House, America's Funniest Home Video)
17th - Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist
17th - Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, Rocky Mount North Carolina, boxer (Olympics-gold-76)
17th - Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist
18th - Joe [Naomichi] Ozaki, Tekushima Japan, golfer (1995 Phoenix Open-8th)
19th - Althea Gwyn, WBL center (NY Stars)
19th - Martyn Ware, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
19th - Steve Ford, actor (Young & Restless)/son of Pres Gerald Ford
20th - Andrew Hilditch, cricketer (Australian opening bat 1979-85)
20th - Tomas Smid, Czech, tennis star
20th - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
20th - Dean Butler, American actor
20th - William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
22nd - Douglas Heyes Jr, LA California, actor (Captains & Kings, Aspen)
22nd - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician
23rd - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
23rd - Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer
23rd - Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager
24th - Helen Terry, rocker (Now You're Mine)
24th - Michael Jackson, Northern Irish clergyman
25th - Tatsutoshi Goto, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
25th - Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
25th - David P. Sartor, American music composer
26th - Frédéric Dutoit, French politician
27th - Lisa Niemi, Houston Tx, actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies)
27th - Nick Lowery, NFL kicker (NY Jets)
27th - Steve Pagano, horse trainer
27th - Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
28th - Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
28th - Jeff Dujon, cricket wicket-keeper (WI 1981-91, their most successful)
28th - Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach
28th - Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate (March, 1988)
28th - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
29th - LaToya Jackson, singer (If You Feel the Funk)/posed for Playboy
29th - Greg R, rocker (Bad)
29th - La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede)
29th - Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
30th - Jonathan Idema, Poughkeepsie, New York, torturer, kidnapper and con artist (d. 2012)
31st - Bart van Poppel, Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
31st - Yoshiko Sakakibara, Chiba Japan, actress (Sailor Moon, Vampire Hunter)
31st - Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)

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