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- 0432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
- 0455 - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
- 1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
- 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
- 1521 - Magelhaes lands on Homohon
- 1526 - French king Fran‡ois I freed from Spain
- 1537 - French troops invade Flanders
- 1580 - Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
- 1658 - Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
- 1672 - England declares war on Netherlands
- 1722 - Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
- 1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
- 1755 - Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
- 1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern
- 1757 - Prince Mas Sa‹d of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
- 1762 - 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
- 1766 - Britain repeals Stamp Act
- 1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
- 1800 - English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
- 1804 - Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres
- 1824 - England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
- 1833 - Phoenix Society forms (NY)
- 1836 - Texas abolishes slavery
- 1842 - Indians land in Ohio, a 12ý-mile area in Upper Sandusky
- 1845 - Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
- 1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
- 1847 - "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
- 1854 - 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
- 1860 - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh [sic]
- 1861 - Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
- 1863 - Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities)
- 1868 - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
- 1870 - Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
- 1871 - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
- 1876 - 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
- 1876 - Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
- 1877 - Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng
- 1884 - John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, Calif
- 1886 - Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
- 1891 - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
- 1894 - US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
- 1897 - Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1898 - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
- 1899 - Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
- 1900 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2
- 1901 - Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
- 1902 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
- 1905 - Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY
- 1906 - Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake"
- 1906 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10
- 1908 - Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds)
- 1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1910 - DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
- 1912 - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
- 1917 - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis
- 1917 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS]
- 1918 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
- 1918 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
- 1919 - Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
- 1921 - Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
- 1921 - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
- 1921 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
- 1924 - Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC
- 1924 - Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
- 1924 - Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
- 1926 - Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
- 1926 - Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC
- 1926 - Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
- 1927 - US govt doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
- 1929 - General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
- 1929 - Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
- 1931 - Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
- 1932 - German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
- 1934 - Dollfuss, Mussolini & G”mb”s sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
- 1935 - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
- 1941 - National Gallery of Art, Wash DC opens
- 1942 - Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
- 1942 - Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
- 1943 - Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
- 1943 - F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell," premieres in NYC
- 1944 - Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
- 1945 - Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
- 1950 - Belgian govt of Eyskens resigns
- 1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced
- 1951 - Govt of Drees takes power
- 1951 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch
- 1953 - Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
- 1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1953 - WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 - WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montr‚al
- 1956 - 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball
- 1957 - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
- 1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
- 1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
- 1959 - Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
- 1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
- 1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
- 1960 - WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 - NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
- 1961 - South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
- 1963 - Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
- 1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
- 1963 - Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
- 1965 - Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
- 1966 - South Africa govt bans Defense & Aid Fund
- 1966 - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
- 1968 - 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Wash DC by US & 6 European nations
- 1968 - Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
- 1969 - Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM
- 1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open
- 1970 - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
- 1970 - US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
- 1972 - Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
- 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
- 1973 - St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
- 1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
- 1975 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
- 1976 - Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
- 1976 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1977 - Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
- 1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
- 1978 - Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm
- 1978 - Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
- 1979 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
- 1979 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA
- 1979 - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
- 1979 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
- 1981 - FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
- 1982 - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
- 1983 - 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
- 1983 - 9th People's Choice Awards
- 1985 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
- 1985 - Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
- 1986 - Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
- 1987 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
- 1987 - Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
- 1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
- 1988 - Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
- 1988 - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
- 1989 - "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
- 1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
- 1990 - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
- 1991 - 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
- 1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
- 1991 - John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in NYC
- 1991 - NJ raises turnpike tolls 70%
- 1991 - Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
- 1992 - "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs
- 1992 - 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks & Reba McEntire
- 1992 - 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg
- 1992 - De Klerk wins a white only referendum
- 1992 - Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29
- 1992 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
- 1993 - 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
- 1994 - "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
- 1994 - Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
- 1994 - It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark
- 1995 - British œ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
- 1995 - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
- 1995 - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
- 1996 - "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
- 1996 - "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 perfs
- 1996 - Aravinda De Silva gets 107* & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
- 1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
- 1996 - Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
- 1996 - Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena
- 1996 - Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
- 1997 - CNN begins spanish broadcasts
- 1998 - USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal
| Famous birthdays for this day .. |
- 1473 - James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513)
- 1578 - Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
- 1628 - Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
- 1664 - Georg Osterreich, composer
- 1675 - Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
- 1685 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
- 1746 - Jan David Holland, composer
- 1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
- 1780 - Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47)
- 1781 - Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
- 1787 - George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
- 1789 - Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
- 1804 - James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
- 1820 - Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 1825 - Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
- 1826 - Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (V”lkerkunder)
- 1828 - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
- 1832 - Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
- 1832 - Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
- 1839 - Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
- 1846 - Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
- 1848 - Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
- 1872 - Billy Quaife, cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
- 1873 - Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
- 1873 - Margaret Bondfield, Brit Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
- 1874 - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
- 1874 - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
- 1876 - Frederic Ayers, composer
- 1877 - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
- 1880 - Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
- 1881 - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
- 1887 - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
- 1888 - Frank Buck, actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs)
- 1890 - Harold Morris, composer
- 1892 - Sayed Darwish, composer
- 1894 - Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
- 1895 - Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
- 1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago IL, actress (Sadie Thompson, Killer Bees) [OS]
- 1900 - Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
- 1901 - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
- 1902 - Bobby Jones Jr, Atlanta Georgia, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930)
- 1906 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], Berlin, actr (Gloria, Gold)
- 1906 - Michael O'Shea, Hartford Ct, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
- 1906 - Tamara Geva, dancer
- 1907 - Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
- 1908 - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS=Mar 4]
- 1908 - Radie Britain, composer
- 1909 - Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
- 1910 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
- 1911 - Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer
- 1914 - Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
- 1915 - Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
- 1915 - William Roycroft, Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympic-bronze-1976)
- 1917 - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist
- 1917 - Brian Boydell, composer
- 1918 - D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
- 1918 - Mercedes McCambridge, Joliet Ill, actress (All the King's Men)
- 1918 - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
- 1919 - Hank Sauer, baseball player (NL MVP 1952)
- 1919 - Nat "King" Cole, Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)
- 1920 - John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
- 1921 - Mick Harvey, cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire)
- 1922 - Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
- 1923 - Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)
- 1924 - Stephen Dodgson, composer
- 1925 - G M Hughes, British zoologist
- 1925 - Jerome Lejeune, physiologist
- 1926 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
- 1927 - Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist
- 1927 - Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
- 1927 - Nancy Sheehan, writer
- 1927 - Patrick Allen, Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
- 1927 - Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
- 1928 - Edino Krieger, composer
- 1930 - James Benson Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
- 1931 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
- 1932 - Dick Curless, singer/songwriter
- 1934 - Erhard Grosskopf, composer
- 1934 - Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar
- 1935 - Adam Wade, Pitts Pa, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
- 1935 - H Wollschl„ger, writer
- 1936 - Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
- 1936 - Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
- 1937 - Adam Wade, actor (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
- 1937 - Galina Samsova, ballerina
- 1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
- 1939 - Shahid Mahmoud, cricketer (opener scored 16 & 9 in only Pak Test)
- 1940 - Vito Picone, rocker (Elegants)
- 1941 - Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
- 1941 - Edward Harper, composer
- 1942 - John Wayne Gacy, Chicago Ill, serial killer (32 boys)
- 1942 - Sidney K Barthelmy, US politician(?)
- 1943 - Don Mitchell, Houston Tx, actor (Mark-Ironside)
- 1944 - Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
- 1944 - Danny DeVito, Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins)
- 1944 - John Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
- 1944 - Pat McCauley, N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
- 1944 - Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
- 1945 - Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
- 1946 - Harold Brown, Long Beach Ca, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
- 1946 - Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
- 1947 - Ian Gomm, rock guitarist
- 1948 - Fran Byrne, rocker
- 1948 - Pat Lloyd, rocker
- 1948 - Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
- 1948 - William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
- 1949 - Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
- 1951 - Kurt Russell, Springfeild Mass, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
- 1951 - Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
- 1954 - Lesley-Anne Down, London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
- 1954 - Rena Jones, rock vocalist
- 1954 - Wally Stocker, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
- 1955 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
- 1955 - Cynthia McKinney, (Rep-D-Georgia)
- 1955 - Gary Sinise, actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
- 1955 - Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
- 1956 - Will Rigby, rock percussionist (Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife)
- 1957 - Robin Cousins, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
- 1959 - Brian Douglas Jones, Auckland NZ, tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
- 1959 - Danny Ainge, NBA coach (Phoenix Suns)
- 1959 - Mike Lindup, British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
- 1959 - Terry Hall (Specials, Fun Boy 3)
- 1960 - Lee Ann Michelle, Surrey England, playmate (Feb, 1979)
- 1960 - Vicki Lewis, Cincinnati, actress (Beth-Newsradio)
- 1961 - Casey Siemaszko, Chicago IL, actor (Biloxi Blues, 3 O'Clock High)
- 1962 - Clare Grogan, rocker (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
- 1962 - Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
- 1962 - Patrick Thomas Burke, Hollywood FL, PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th)
- 1962 - Roxy Dora Petrucci, Rochester Minn, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
- 1963 - Rebeca Arthur, actress (Mary Anne-Perf Strangers, Opposites Attract)
- 1963 - Roger Harper, cricketer (Guyana & WI off-spinner Extraordinary field)
- 1964 - Alex Shoumidoub, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
- 1964 - Don Griffin, NFL cornerback (Cleve Browns)
- 1964 - Rob Lowe, Charlottesville Va, actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class)
- 1964 - Ron Warren Jr, jockey (Bay Meadows)
- 1965 - Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player
- 1965 - Caitlin Bilodeaux, Boston Mass, US fencer (Olympic-92)
- 1965 - John Smiley, Phoenixville PA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
- 1966 - Andrew Hudson, cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs WI 1992)
- 1967 - Chris Luongo, Detroit, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
- 1967 - Kim Cathrein, Salinas CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester Intl-24th)
- 1967 - Melissa Allen, Port OR, WPVA volleyballer (Reebok National-13th-1994)
- 1967 - Van Conner, rocker (Screaming Trees)
- 1968 - Judy Mosley McAfee, WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
- 1968 - Tyrone Hill, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
- 1969 - Andrew McMarlin, Vienna VA, rower (Olympics-1996)
- 1969 - Domenic "Filane" Figliomeni, Terrace Bay Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
- 1969 - Gilbert Schaller, Bruck Austria, tennis star
- 1970 - Shannan Mitchem, Decatur GA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
- 1971 - Katrina Colleton, WNBA guard/forward (LA Sparks)
- 1971 - Tommy Thigpen, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
- 1972 - Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
- 1973 - Amelia Weatherly, actress (Stephanie Brewster-Loving/The City)
- 1973 - Jerome Woods, safety (KC Chiefs)
- 1974 - Eric Lane, running back (NY Giants)
- 1974 - John Hall, kicker (NY Jets)
- 1976 - Stephen Gately, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
- 1977 - Hadeel Abol-Naga, Miss Universe-Egypt (1996)
- 1977 - Iveta Jankularova, Miss Universe-Slovak Republic (1996)
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