• Muhammad Ali (b. 1942) (suffers from pugilistic Parkinson’s syndrome), American boxer
• Steve Alten (b. 1959), American author
• Lane Evans (b. 1951), Member of the US House of Representatives (D – IL)
• Michael J. Fox (b. 1961), Canadian actor
• Booth Gardner (b. 1936), Washington state governor
• Billy Graham (b. 1918), American evangelist
• Brian Grant (b. 1972), American basketball player
• Janet Reno (b. 1938), Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001)
• Jeremy Thorpe (b. 1929), British politician and leader of the Liberal Party (1967–1976)
• Freddie Roach (b. 1960), Former boxer and a notable Boxing Trainer]

Deceased

• Brockman Adams, American politician (1927–2004)
• Jack Anderson, US newspaper columnist (1922–2005)
• Jim Backus, American actor (1913–1989)
• Sir John Betjeman, CBE, British Poet Laureate (1906–1984)
• Boyi Bhimanna, Telugu poet (1911–2005)
• Whit Bissell (1909–1996) American character actor
• Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer (1904–1971)
• Jack Buck, American sportscaster (1924–2002)
• Owen Chamberlain, American physicist (1920–2006)
• Barney Childs (1909–2000) American composer and teacher
• Prince Claus, (1926–2002), husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Joe Cook, US actor (1890–1959)
• George Coulouris, British actor (1903–1989)
• Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (1904–1989)
• Harry Dalton (1928–2005) American baseball executive
• Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician (1904–1997)
• James Doohan, (Scottie from Star Trek) Canadian actor (1920–2005)
• William Everson (1912–1994), American poet
• Francisco Franco Spanish dictator (1892–1975)
• Carlos Antonio Gomes, Portuguese footballer (1932–2005)
• Jeffrey Hamm (1915–1994) British Fascist
• Nathan Heard, American novelist (1937–2004)
• George Roy Hill, US Oscar winning film director (1921–2002)
• Chester Himes (1909–1984) African-American writer
• Sir Alec Issigonis (1906–1988) British car designer
• Mary Jackson, American actress (1910–2005)
• Ba Jin, Chinese writer (1904–2005)
• Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), Polish cleric, pope of Roman Catholic Church
• Deborah Kerr, British actress (1921–2007)
• Guy Kibbee, American actor (1882–1956)
• Jimmy Knepper, American jazz trombonist (1927–2003)
• Ted Kroll, American golfer (1919–2002)
• John Lindsay, New York City mayor (1921–2000)
• Walter Lord (1917–2002) American author
• Mao Zedong, Chinese Dictator (1893–1976)
• Luis Marden (1913–2003) Italian-American photographer
• Ferdy Mayne, German actor (1916–1998)
• William Masters, American sex researcher (1915–2001)
• Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) American politician
• Kenneth More, English actor (1914–1982)
• Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (1903–1979)
• Anna Neagle, English actress
• Norman Panama, American writer, producer and director (1914–2003)
• Vincent Price, American actor, also suffered from lung cancer (1911–1993)
• Sir Michael Redgrave (1908–1985), British actor
• Bill Reid, Canadian artist (1920-1998)
• Terry-Thomas, British character actor (1911–1990)
• Meldrim Thomson, Jr. (1912–2001) Republican Governor of New Hampshire
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canadian politician (1919–2000)
• Mo Udall, Member of the US House of Representatives (1922–1998)
• Tim Wall, Australian cricketer (1904–1981)
• George Wallace, former governor of Alabama (1919–1998)
• Albert J Whitlock, British motion picture matte artist (1915–1999)
• Edward Winter, American actor (1937–2001)
• Richard Winters American War Hero (1918-2011) WWII Veteran and Basis for the HBO Miniseries and book Band of Brothers