| 1900 April 5 | Birth | Spencer Tracy | Actor |
| 1900 July 17 | Birth | James Cagney | Actor |
| 1900 July 4 | Birth | Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong | Musician. |
| 1900 June 25 | Birth | Louis, Earl Mountbatten | of Burma. |
| 1900 June 6 | Birth | Arther Askey | English Actor/Comedian. |
| 1903 June 25 | Birth | George Orwell | Author (Animal Farm, 1984) |
| 1903 May 29 | Birth | Bob Hope | Actor (Born Leslie Townes) |
| 1903 May 3 | Birth | Bing Crosby | Actor/Singer |
| 1904 April 14 | Birth | John Gielgud | British actor
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| 1904 May 11 | Birth | Salvadore Dali | Surreal Artist. |
| 1904 May 2 | Birth | Bing Crosby | Actor, Born as Harry Lillis Crosby. |
| 1904 May 24 | Birth | George Formby | Singer (William Booth) |
| 1905 June 21 | Birth | Jean-Paul Satre | Philosopher/Author |
| 1905 May 16 | Birth | Henry Fonda | Actor |
| 1905 October 23 | Birth | Felix Bloch | US Physicist (Nobel 1952) |
| 1905 October 23 | Birth | Karl Janski | discovered cosmic radiation emissions in 1932. |
| 1905 September 18 | Birth | Greta Garbo | Actress |
| 1906 April 6 | Birth | John Betjeman | English Poet Laureate 1972-1984 |
| 1906 April 9 | Birth | Hugh Gaitskell | Politician who introduced NHS Charges in 1950 and caused the resignation of Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health. |
| 1907 May 13 | Birth | Daphne du Maurier | Author |
| 1907 May 22 | Birth | Laurence Olivier | Actor (Hamlet) |
| 1907 May 26 | Birth | John Wayne | Actor |
| 1908 April 5 | Birth | Herbert von Karajan | Australian musical conductor |
| 1908 April 6 | Birth | Bette Davis | Actress |
| 1908 May 28 | Birth | Ian Fleming | Author (James Bond books) |
| 1908 May 5 | Birth | Rex Harrison | English Actor. |
| 1908 November 20 | Birth | Alfred (Alistair) Cooke | British born but US bsaed journalist and broadcaster. For many years presented "Letter from America" on BBC's Radio 4 |
| 1908 November 26 | Birth | Charles Forte (Lord Forte) | British business magnate, chairman of Trusthouse Forte, one of the largest hotel and restaurant groups in the world. |
| 1909 June 20 | Birth | Errol Flynn | Film Actor |
| 1910 June 11 | Birth | Jaques-Yves Cousteau | French Oceanographer and diver. |
| 1910 June 11 | Birth | Jaques-Yves Cousteau | Underwater explorer and captain of the calypso. |
| 1910 June 4 | Birth | Christopher Cockerell | Inventor of the Hovercraft. |
| 1910 May 9 | Birth | Barbara Woodhouse | Dog Trainer |
| 1911 August 6 | Birth | Lucille Ball | Comedian and actress. |
| 1911 July 16 | Birth | Ginger Rogers | Film Actress and Dancer. |
| 1911 May 27 | Birth | Vincent Price | Actor |
| 1912 April 5 | Birth | John le Mesurier, British Actor | Most famous for the Comedy "Dads Army" which portrayed the English Home Guard during the Second World War in which he played Sgt. Wilson. |
| 1912 April 8 | Birth | Sonja Henie | Norwegian Ice Skater |
| 1912 January 1 | Birth | Kim Philby | English Spy
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| 1912 November 5 | Birth | Roy Rogers | Actor of Cowboy fame. |
| 1912 October 21 | Birth | Sir George Solti | Conductor. |
| 1913 September 3 | Birth | Alan Ladd | Actor |
| 1914 April 2 | Birth | Sir Alec Guiness | Actor |
| 1914 April 2 | Birth | Alec Guinness | British actor
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| 1914 September 16 | Birth | Allen Funt | Creator of "Candid Camera" |
| 1915 June 24 | Birth | Fred Hoyle | Cosmologist and proposer of steady state universe theory. |
| 1915 June 4 | Birth | Lancelot Ware | founder of MENSA. |
| 1915 May 7 | Birth | Orson Wells | Film Director and Actor. |
| 1915 October 14 | Birth | Alfreda Winifred Hensler | |
| 1915 October 17 | Birth | Arthur Miller | Playwrite. |
| 1916 April 21 | Birth | Anthony Quinn | Film actor
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| 1916 April 5 | Birth | Gregory Peck | Actor |
| 1916 July 1 | Birth | Olivia de Haviland | Actress. |
| 1917 August 6 | Birth | Robert Mitchum | Film Actor |
| 1917 October 21 | Birth | Dizzy Gillespie | Trumpeter and Jazz musician. |
| 1918 April 16 | Birth | Spike Milligan | |
| 1918 June 11 | Birth | Nelson Mandella | President of South Africa. |
| 1919 April 9 | Birth | John Presper Eckert | Co-inventer of the first electronic computer (ENIAC) |
| 1919 July 20 | Birth | Edmund Hillary | Mountaineer |
| 1919 March 17 | Birth | Nat "King" Cole | Crooner and Singer. |
| 1919 October 17 | Birth | Rita Hayworth | Actress. |
| 1920 August 22 | Birth | Ray Bradbury | Science Fiction Author. |
| 1920 October 8 | Birth | Frank Herbert | Sci-Fi Author. |
| 1920 September 23 | Birth | Mickey Rooney | Actor |
| 1921 April 16 | Birth | Peter Ustinov | Actor & writer
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| 1921 April 16 | Birth | Peter Ustinov | Actor & writer
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| 1921 June 10 | Birth | Phillip Mountbatten, in Greece | Duke of Edinburgh and Prince, Husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain. |
| 1921 June 21 | Birth | Jane Russell | Actress |
| 1921 September 30 | Birth | Deborah Kerr | Actress |
| 1922 April 5 | Birth | Elmer Bernstein | Movie music Composer |
| 1922 January 1 | Birth | Rocky Graziano | Boxer
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| 1922 June 10 | Birth | Judy Garland | Actress and Singer. |
| 1922 June 14 | Birth | Earnest "Che" Guevara | Revolutionary |
| 1922 May 27 | Birth | Christopher Lee | Actor |
| 1922 May 31 | Birth | Denholm Elliott | English Actor |
| 1922 October 18 | Birth | Chuck Berry | Rock and Roller! |
| 1923 August 8 | Birth | Esther William | English actress. |
| 1923 November 18 | Birth | Alan Sheppard | First American in Space on Fredom 7. Also part of the crew of Apollo 14. |
| 1924 April 2 | Birth | Doris Day | Actress |
| 1924 April 20 | Birth | Leslie Phillips | British actor
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| 1924 May 22 | Birth | Charles Aznavour | Singer |
| 1924 October 1 | Birth | Jimmy Carter | 39th President of the USA (1976-1980 |
| 1925 April 14 | Birth | Rod Steiger | American film actor
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| 1925 June 3 | Birth | Tony Curtis | Actor (born Bernard Schwartz) |
| 1925 May 12 | Birth | Tony Hancock | Actor and Comedian. |
| 1925 October 3 | Birth | Gore Vidal | Author |
| 1926 April 6 | Birth | Ian Paisley | Northern Irish Minister and Politician |
| 1927 May 1 | Birth | Harry Belafonte | Calypso Singer (Banana Boat Song) |
| 1927 October 16 | Birth | Gunter Grass | Author. |
| 1928 April 14 | Birth | Robert Mugabe | president Zimbabwe (1988-?) |
| 1928 April 6 | Birth | James Dewey Watson | Chamist who discovered DNA along with Criek |
| 1928 July 26 | Birth | Stanley Kubrick | Film Director (2001, A Clockwork Orange) |
| 1928 May 24 | Birth | Stanley Baxter | English Commedian |
| 1928 November 18 | Birth | Mickey Mouse | Disney Cartoon Character. |
| 1928 September 17 | Birth | Roddy McDowall | Actor |
| 1929 April 17 | Birth | James Last | Orchestra leader/composer/arranger |
| 1929 April 5 | Birth | Nigel Hawthorne | British Actor |
| 1929 April 6 | Birth | Andre Previn | German Conductor and pianist. |
| 1929 February 15 | Birth | Graham Hill | British F1 World Champion (1962 1968)
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| 1929 June 12 | Birth | Anne Frank | Diarist. |
| 1929 September 17 | Birth | Stirling Moss | British F1 driver (knighted 2000)
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| 1930 April 23 | Birth | Michael Bowen | RC Archbishop of Southwark, UK. |
| 1930 April 31 | Birth | Clint Eastwood | Actor and Mayor of Carmel California. |
| 1930 August 5 | Birth | Neil Armstrong born today | and went on to be the first man to stand on the moon. |
| 1930 August 8 | Birth | Andy Warhol | Artist and Film Maker. |
| 1930 August 9 | Birth | Betty Boop | Cartoon Sirene! |
| 1930 September 24 | Birth | John W Young | Astronaut Gemini 3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, STS 1 and 9. |
| 1930 September 24 | Birth | Jim Henson | Creator of the Muppets. (Kermit, Miss Piggy et al) |
| 1932 April 10 | Birth | Omar Sharif, Actor | Real name Michael Shalhoub. |
| 1933 April 19 | Birth | Harold "Dickie" Bird | Noted English Cricket Umpire |
| 1933 April 20 | Birth | Jayne Mansfield | Film actress
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| 1933 January 1 | Birth | Joe Orton | Writer
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| 1934 July 17 | Birth | Donald Sutherland | Actor (M*A*S*H*) |
| 1934 September 20 | Birth | Sophia Loren | Actress |
| 1935 April 19 | Birth | Dudley Moore | British actor
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| 1935 October 1 | Birth | Julie Andrews | Actress and Film Star. |
| 1936 April 23 | Birth | Roy Orbison | American singer/songwriter
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| 1936 May 17 | Birth | Dennis Hopper | Actor |
| 1936 September 7 | Birth | Buddy Holly | Singer. |
| 1937 April 22 | Birth | Jack Nicholson | American film actor
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| 1937 April 9 | Birth | Valerie Singleton Actress | Presenter of Blue Peter, british childrens TV programme. |
| 1938 April 6 | Birth | Paul Daniels | British Magician |
| 1938 May 12 | Birth | Susan Hampshire | English Actress. |
| 1938 November 26 | Birth | Tina Turner | Actress and Singer. |
| 1938 October 17 | Birth | Robert "Evil" Knievel | Stuntman. |
| 1939 April 12 | Birth | Alan Aycbourn | Playwrite |
| 1939 April 12 | Birth | Alan Ayckbourn | British writer
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| 1939 April 17 | Birth | Robin Knox-Johnson | Yachtsman. |
| 1939 April 7 | Birth | David Frost | British broadcaster
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| 1939 June 11 | Birth | John Young (Jackie) Stewart | British F1 World Champion (1969, 1971, 1973) |
| 1940 April 10 | Birth | Gloria Hunniford | British TV Presenter. |
| 1940 April 12 | Birth | Herbie Hancock | Musician. |
| 1940 April 23 | Birth | Lee Majors | American actor
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| 1940 June 7 | Birth | Tom Jones (Woodward) | Singer at Pontypridd, Wales. |
| 1940 October 23 | Birth | Edison Pele | Football player. |
| 1941 April 12 | Birth | Bobby Moore | England football captain
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| 1941 April 5 | Birth | Eric Burdon, Rock Musician | Amimals of the Rising Sun |
| 1941 April 5 | Birth | Dave Swarbrick, Rock Musician | Fairport Convention |
| 1941 January 21 | Birth | Placido Domingo | Operatic Tenor. |
| 1941 May 24 | Birth | Bob Dylan (Zimmerman) | Singer/Song writer. |
| 1941 October 3 | Birth | Chubby Checker | Singer/Rocker. |
| 1942 April 23 | Birth | Barbra Streisand | Actress/Singer |
| 1942 June 18 | Birth | Paul McCartney | of Beatles fame. |
| 1942 May 12 | Birth | Ian Dury | Essex rocker (Ian Dury and the Blockheads). |
| 1943 July 26 | Birth | Mick Jagger | Lead singer of The Rolling Stones. |
| 1943 May 27 | Birth | Cilla Black | English Singer |
| 1945 April 6 | Birth | Bob Marley | Reggae musician and singer |
| 1945 June 4 | Birth | Daniel Topolski | Rowing Coach. |
| 1945 May 19 | Birth | Peter Townsend | Musician (The Who) |
| 1945 May 25 | Birth | Dave Lee Travis | English DJ. |
| 1946 March 12 | Birth | Liza Minnelli | Singer and Actress. |
| 1946 May 1 | Birth | Joanna Lumley | Actress. |
| 1947 August 29 | Birth | James Hunt | British F1 World Champion (1976)
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| 1947 July 10 | Birth | Arlo Guthrie | Comedian and Singer (Alice's Restaurant). |
| 1947 June 5 | Birth | Laurie Anderson | Singer/Performance Artist. |
| 1950 April 12 | Birth | David Cassidy | Singer/Actor - Partridge Family TV Series. |
| 1951 April 13 | Birth | Peter Davison | British actor (Dr Who 1982-84)
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| 1952 September 02 | Birth | Jimmy Connors | Tennis Champion. |
| 1953 April 10 | Birth | David Moorcroft | British Athlete. |
| 1953 August 8 | Birth | Nigel Mansell | British F1 World Champion (1992)
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| 1953 May 15 | Birth | Mike Oldfield | English Composer (Tubular Bells) |
| 1954 April 9 | Birth | Ian Duncan Smith | British MP
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| 1956 October 18 | Birth | Martina Navratilova | Tennis player. |
| 1957 April 29 | Birth | Michelle Pfeiffer | American film actress
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| 1957 May 10 | Birth | Sid Vicious (John Simon Richie) | Basist (Sex Pistols) |
| 1958 April 17 | Birth | Sean Bean | British actor
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| 1959 April 15 | Birth | Emma Thompson | English Actress. |
| 1960 March 21 | Birth | Ayrton Senna | F1 driver
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| 1960 March 30 | Birth | David Debono | Internet author of The Historical Reenactment Web Site - Histrenact. |
| 1961 April 3 | Birth | Eddie Murphy | American film actor
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| 1961 April 6 | Birth | Rory Bremner | English Impressionist and comic |
| 1964 April 7 | Birth | Russell Crowe | Film actor
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| 1965 June 10 | Birth | Elizabeth Hurley | English Actress. |
| 1969 January 3 | Birth | Michael Schumacher | German F1 World Champion
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| 1978 July 25 | Birth | Louise Brown | First Test Tube baby born today. |
| 1978 June 19 | Birth | Garfield the cat | |
