[YBLalat's Karma Cycle: Happy Birthday Y'all!]

10 BC Claudius (Roman emperor, 41-54 AD)
126 Publius Helvius Pertinax (Roman emperor, 193 AD)
1520 Sigismund II Augustus (1st king of new Poland)
1642 Ahmed II (21st Ottoman Empire sultan)
1744 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (biologist, inheritance of acquired traits)
1756 Pierre-Louis Prieur (member of the Jacobin dictatorship)
1761 Sakai Hoitsu (painter/poet, Tokugawa era)
1770 William Clark (of the Lewis & Clark Expedition)
1776 Baron Worlingham (Canadian governor, alienated English- and French-speaking colonies)
1779 Francis Scott Key (composer, America's 'Star-Spangled Banner')
1817 Henry Gilbert (chemist, nitrogen fertilizers)
1818 Maria Mitchell (1st American woman astronomer)
1819 Herman Melville (author, 'Moby Dick')
1822 Apollon A Grigoryev (critic/poet, theory of organic criticism)
1858 Paul Barth (sociologist, idea of society powered by ideas)
1863 Gaston Doumergue (Premier of France, 1913-34)
1870 Ilya I Ivanov (biologist, artificial insemination)
1885 George C de Hevesy (chemist, isotropic tracer in chemistry)
1889 Walther Gerlach (physicist, deflection of atoms in magnetic field)
1889 Dr John F Mahoney (physician, pencillin treatment of syphillis)
1905 Helen Hogg-Priestly (physicist, variable globular star clusters)
1920 Sammy Lee (US platform diver, Olympic gold 1948 & 1952)
1921 Jack Kramer (US tennis star, Wimbeldon 1947)
1924 Georges Charpak (Physics Nobel Prize, inventor of subatomic particle multi-detector)
1936 Yves Saint-Laurent (fashion designer)
1937 Alfonse D'Amato (Senator of New York, 1980)
1942 Jerry Garcia (guitarist, hippie band Grateful Dead)
1944 Yuri V Romanenko (USSR cosmonaut for Soyuz 26, 38 & TM-2)
1946 Richard O Covey (US Air Force, astronaut for STS 51I, 26, 38)
1953 Robert Cray (blues singer/songwriter, Grammy winner 1987)
1957 Glen Gorbous (record holder, longest throw of a baseball - 445'10")
1958 Robert Buck (guitarist, rock band 10,000 Maniacs)
1959 Joe Elliot (vocalist, rock band Def Leppard)
1960 Chuck D (rapper, Public Enemy)
1960 Suzi Gardner (vocalist, punk band L7)
1961 Bart Conner (US parallel bars gymnist, Olympic gold 1984)
1963 Coolio (rapper, 'Gangsta's Paradise')
1964 Adam Duritz (vocalist, rock band Counting Crows)
1973 Tempestt Bledsoe (actress, 'The Cosby Show')
1976 Nwankwo Kanu (soccer player, Ajax)
1981 Mohamad Mohamad-Sharin (loser, 'Chronic Mass')