1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta physicist/inventor (battery)
1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany glassmaker (stained glass windows)
1890 Boris L Pasternak Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago)
1929 Len Deighton, writer of airport blockbusters that I never read, but also (and producer of) Oh! What A Lovely War!
1931 Toni Morrison,novelist
1931 Ned Sherrin, Loose Ends
1932 Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus
1933 Yoko Ono. Hmmm...
1933 Bobby Robson, football coach extraordinaire
1943 Graeme Garden, Goody
1946 Michael Buerk, the coolest newsreader
1948 Sinead Cusack, actress
1949 Cybill Shepherd, actress
1954 John Travolta, actor
1963 Rob Andrew, goal kicker extraordinaire
1967 Colin Jackson 100 meter hurdler
1967 Roberto Baggio, great footballer
1975 Gary Neville, even greater footballer 
1983 Jermaine Jenas - as the lovely Londonmark once comemnted - in the days when Bobby Robson rather than that total tosser Souness was Newcastle manager - that made Jermaine Jenas exactly 50 years younger than Bobby. I repeated that fact to many people, some of whom said "Wow"...
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