User:Habst/Athletics birthday list
- Yohann Diniz, French race walker
- Kinue Hitomi, Japanese all-rounder
- Adil Kaouch, Moroccan middle-distance runner
- Vladimir Kiselyov, Soviet shot putter
- Alain Mimoun, French distance runner
- Dick Quax, New Zealand middle- and long-distance runner
- Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, Gambian-Norwegian sprinter
- Andrew Valmon, American sprinter
- Melaine Walker, Jamaican hurdler | 2 = 2 January:
- István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter
- Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian discus thrower
- Cristieana Cojocaru, Romanian hurdler
- Sheryf El-Sheryf, Ukrainian triple jumper
- Ludmila Formanová, Czech middle-distance runner
- Paweł Januszewski, Polish hurdler
- Bianca Knight, American sprinter
- Martin Lauer, German hurdler, sprinter and decathlete
- Ines Müller, German shot putter
- Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
- Yevgeniy Yevsyukov, Soviet race walker | 3 = 3 January:
- Alessandro Andrei, Italian shot putter
- Eşref Apak, Turkish hammer thrower
- Bryan Clay, American decathlete
- Duncan Gillis, Canadian hammer thrower
- Eeles Landström, Finnish pole vaulter
- Lisa Misipeka, American Samoan hammer thrower | 4 = 4 January:
- Igor Astapkovich, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Nataliya Bochina, Soviet sprinter
- Andrei Krauchanka, Belarusian decathlete
- Marla Runyan, American middle- and long-distance runner
- Pat Ryan, Irish-American hammer thrower
- Eddie Southern, American hurdler and sprinter
- Toru Terasawa, Japanese distance runner
- Marianne Werner, German shot putter | 5 = 5 January:
- Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
- Adolfo Consolini, Italian discus thrower
- Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italian pole vaulter
- Derek Johnson, British middle-distance runner
- Veikko Karvonen, Finnish distance runner
- Jack Lovelock, New Zealand middle-distance runner
- Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
- Iwan Thomas, British sprinter
- Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvian javelin thrower | 6 = 6 January:
- Ajayi Agbebaku, Nigerian triple jumper
- Mike Boit, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Roy Cochran, American hurdler and sprinter
- Ibolya Csák, Hungarian high jumper
- Ludvík Daněk, Czechoslovakian discus thrower
- Vladimir Kazantsev, Soviet steeplechase runner
- Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan distance runner
- Irina Mushailova, Russian long jumper
- Christine Wachtel, German middle-distance runner | 7 = 7 January:
- Vladimir Dubrovshchik, Belarusian discus thrower
- Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter
- Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian steeplechase runner
- Robert LeGendre, American long jumper and pentathlete
- Caster Semenya, South African middle-distance runner | 8 = 8 January:
- Hollis Conway, American high jumper
- Giovanni De Benedictis, Italian race walker
- Jos Hermens, Dutch distance runner and maanger
- Antti Kalliomäki, Finnish pole vaulter
- Mór Kóczán, Hungarian javelin thrower
- Calvin Smith, American sprinter | 9 = 9 January:
- Charles Bacon, American hurdler
- James Beckford, Jamaican long jumper
- Tom Curtis, American hurdler and sprinter
- Tom Evenson, British steeplechase runner
- Lucyna Langer, Polish hurdler
- Sandra Myers, American-Spanish sprinter
- Shigeru So, Japanese distance runner
- Wang Junxia, Chinese distance runner | 10 = 10 January:
- Mohammed Aman, Ethiopian middle-distance runner
- Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter
- Jerome Drayton, Canadian distance runner
- Ariane Friedrich, German high jumper
- Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Guido Kratschmer, German decathlete
- Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan distance runner
- Claudia Losch, German shot putter
- George Orton, Canadian steeplechase runner
- Francesco Panetta, Italian distance runner
- Aleksandr Pogorelov, Russian decathlete
- Bill Toomey, American decathlete | 11 = 11 January:
- Thomas Hicks, American distance runner
- Luise Krüger, German javelin thrower
- Oleksiy Lukashevych, Ukrainian long jumper
- Madeline Manning, American middle-distance runner
- Luis Miguel Martín, Spanish steeplechase runner
- Charles Porter, Australian high jumper | 12 = 12 January:
- Brendan Foster, British distance runner
- Chaunté Howard-Lowe, American high jumper
- Spyridon Louis, Greek distance runner
- John Walker, New Zealand middle-distance runner
- Grigoriy Yegorov, Kazakhstani pole vaulter | 13 = 13 January:
- Nathaniel Cartmell, American sprinter
- Jack London, British sprinter
- Julio Rey, Spanish distance runner
- Gloria Siebert, German hurdler
- Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch middle- and long-distance runner
- Alan Webb, American middle-distance runner | 14 = 14 January:
- James Corson, American discus thrower
- Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
- Al Feuerbach, American shot putter
- Hyleas Fountain, American heptathlete
- Vasiliy Khmelevskiy, Soviet hammer thrower
- Thomas Longosiwa, Kenyan distance runner
- Olive Loughnane, Irish race walker
- Fiţa Lovin, Romanian middle-distance runner
- Concepción Montaner, Spanish long jumper
- Vasilka Stoyeva, Bulgarian discus thrower | 15 = 15 January:
- Mariya Abakumova, Russian javelin thrower
- Dylan Armstrong, Canadian shot putter
- Tom Burke, American sprinter
- Shelia Burrell, American heptathlete
- Erik Byléhn, Swedish 400/800 runner
- Lou Jones, American sprinter
- Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian distance runner
- Darya Klishina, Russian long jumper
- Janusz Kusociński, Polish distance runner
- Iryna Lishchynska, Ukrainian middle-distance runner
- Vita Pavlysh, Ukrainian shot putter
- Urho Peltonen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Mexican race walker
- Ian Stewart, British distance runner | 16 = 16 January:
- Adalberts Bubenko, Latvian race walker
- Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, Bahamian sprinter
- Salah Hissou, Moroccan distance runner
- Sam Jones, American high jumper
- Eric Liddell, British sprinter
- Vyacheslav Lykho, Russian shot putter
- Ileana Salvador, Italian race walker
- Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower
- Anthony Washington, American discus thrower | 17 = 17 January:
- Lidiya Alfeyeva, Soviet long jumper
- Tonje Angelsen, Norwegian high jumper
- Glenn Graham, American pole vaulter
- Jaime Jefferson, Cuban long jumper
- Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
- Joan Lino Martínez, Cuban-Spanish long jumper
- Svetlana Masterkova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Tonique Williams-Darling, Bahamian sprinter | 18 = 18 January:
- Mary Jepkosgei Keitany, Kenyan distance runner
- Kjersti Plätzer, Norwegian race walker
- Ville Ritola, Finnish distance runner | 19 = 19 January:
- Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
- Yordanka Blagoeva, Bulgarian high jumper
- Mercedes Chilla, Spanish javelin thrower
- Jürgen Haase, German distance runner
- Ralph Hills, American shot putter
- Al Joyner, American triple jumper
- Olga Kaniskina, Russian race walker
- Elmer Niklander, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter
- Sun Yingjie, Chinese distance runner
- Eshetu Tura, Ethiopian steeplechase runner
- Bernard Williams, American sprinter | 20 = 20 January:
- Andre Cason, American sprinter
- Lyudmila Galkina, Russian long jumper
- Ehsan Hadadi, Iranian discus thrower
- Alvin Harrison, American sprinter
- Ute Hommola, German javelin thrower
- Germaine Mason, Jamaican-British high jumper
- Laban Rotich, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Armas Toivonen, Finnish distance runner | 21 = 21 January:
- Marion Becker, German-Romanian javelin thrower
- Ashton Eaton, American decathlete
- Ernst Fast, Swedish distance runner
- Bill Graber, American pole vaulter
- Lidiya Grigoryeva, Russian distance runner
- Arthémon Hatungimana, Burundian middle-distance runner
- Eduard Hämäläinen, Belarusian-Finnish decathlete
- Ulrike Maisch, German distance runner
- José Marín, Spanish race walker
- Kirsten Münchow, German hammer thrower
- Bill Sefton, American pole vaulter
- Nikolina Shtereva, Bulgarian middle-distance runner | 22 = 22 January:
- Franka Dietzsch, German discus thrower
- Dennis Kipruto Kimetto, Kenyan distance runner
- Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler
- Norberto Téllez, Cuban middle-distance runner
- Kalervo Toivonen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Harold Wilson, British middle-distance runner
- Galina Zybina, Soviet thrower | 23 = 23 January:
- Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter
- Horace Ashenfelter, American steeplechase runner
- Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower
- Gelete Burka, Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner
- Constantina Diţă, Romanian distance runner
- Henry Eriksson, Swedish middle-distance runner
- Yevgeny Lukyanenko, Russian pole vaulter
- Sergey Litvinov, Soviet hammer thrower
- Aselefech Mergia, Ethiopian distance runner
- Andrew Rock, American sprinter
- Oleg Sakirkin, Kazakhstani triple jumper
- Irving Saladino, Panamanian long jumper | 24 = 24 January:
- Andrea Blackett, Barbadian hurdler
- Louise Currey, Australian javelin thrower
- Renate Garisch-Culmberger, German shot putter
- Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
- Marcel Hansenne, French middle-distance runner | 25 = 25 January:
- Leroy Brown, American high jumper
- Lidia Chojecka, Polish middle-distance runner
- Charles Hefferon, South African distance runner
- Jürgen Hingsen, German decathlete
- Mike McLeod, British distance runner
- Christian Olsson, Swedish triple jumper
- Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner | 26 = 26 January:
- Percy Beard, American hurdler
- Jeanette Bolden, American sprinter
- Arturo Casado, Spanish middle-distance runner
- Robert Cloughen, American sprinter
- Jarmila Kratochvílová, Czechoslovakian 400/800 runner
- Wanda Panfil, Polish distance runner | 27 = 27 January:
- Svetla Dimitrova, Bulgarian hurdler and heptathlete
- Jim Doehring, American shot putter
- Khristo Markov, Bulgarian triple jumper
- Jules Noël, French discus thrower
- Denys Yurchenko, Ukrainian pole vaulter | 28 = 28 January:
- Erik Abrahamsson, Swedish long jumper
- Vasyl Arkhypenko, Soviet hurdler
- Bob Clark, American decathlete and long jumper
- Jessica Ennis, British heptathlete
- Susana Feitor, Portuguese race walker
- John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower
- Karl Honz, German sprinter
- Leonid Lytvynenko, Soviet decathlete
- Tim Montgomery, American sprinter
- Parry O'Brien, American shot putter | 29 = 29 January:
- Alejandro Casañas, Cuban hurdler
- Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete
- John Cregan, American middle-distance runner
- Heike Meißner, German hurdler
- Venanzio Ortis, Italian distance runner
- Sileshi Sihine, Ethiopian distance runner
- Khalid Skah, Moroccan distance runner
- Bronwyn Thompson, Australian long jumper | 30 = 30 January:
- Taisiya Chenchik, Soviet high jumper
- Encarna Granados, Spanish race walker
- James Mitchel, Irish-American thrower
- Jadwiga Wajs, Polish discus thrower | 31 = 31 January:
- George Bonhag, American middle-distance runner and race walker
- Chris Chataway, British middle- and long-distance runner
- Walter Dix, American sprinter
- Torri Edwards, American sprinter
- Arto Härkönen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Håkan Lidman, Swedish hurdler
- Arthur Newton, American distance runner
- Edmund Piątkowski, Polish discus thrower
- Klaus Ploghaus, German hammer thrower
- Atanas Tarev, Bulgarian pole vaulter
- Emil Voigt, British distance runner
- Jeremy Wariner, American sprinter
- John Zander, Swedish middle-distance runner | 51 = 1 February:
- Feyisa Lilesa, Ethiopian distance runner
- Yelena Nikolayeva, Russian race walker
- Ekateríni Thánou, Greek sprinter
- Oksana Udmurtova, Russian long jumper | 52 = 2 February:
- Fani Chalkia, Greek hurdler
- Dorcus Inzikuru, Ugandan steeplechase runner
- Carolina Klüft, Swedish heptathlete
- Knut Lindberg, Swedish sprinter and javelin thrower
- Eino Purje, Finnish middle-distance runner
- Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
- Lawrence Whitney, American shot putter | 53 = 3 February:
- Markus Esser, German hammer thrower
- George Horine, American high jumper
- Mariya Itkina, Soviet sprinter
- Erik Kynard, American high jumper
- Stefano Mei, Italian distance runner
- Jack Metcalfe, Australian triple jumper
- Mary Onyali, Nigerian sprinter
- Michael Rimmer, British middle-distance runner
- Helen Stephens, American sprinter | 54 = 4 February:
- Julie Brown, American distance runner
- Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower
- Gary Kikaya, Congolese sprinter
- Jüri Lossman, Estonian distance runner
- Arne Åhman, Swedish triple- and high jumper | 55 = 5 February:
- Astrid Kumbernuss, German shot putter
- Gaston Roelants, Belgian distance runner
- Markus Ryffel, Swiss distance runner
- Jenn Suhr, American pole vaulter
- Jüri Tamm, Estonian hammer thrower | 56 = 6 February:
- Joe Deakin, British middle- and long-distance runner
- Barry Magee, New Zealand distance runner
- Ira Murchison, American sprinter
- Forrest Towns, American hurdler
- Paul Winter, French discus thrower | 57 = 7 February:
- Salvatore Antibo, Italian distance runner
- Trey Hardee, American decathlete
- Vladimir Kuts, Soviet distance runner
- Vasily Kuznetsov, Soviet decathlete
- Daniel Sangouma, French sprinter
- Song Aimin, Chinese discus thrower
- Luketz Swartbooi, Namibian distance runner | 58 = 8 February:
- Ivan Belyayev, Soviet steeplechase runner
- Galina Bystrova, Soviet pentathlete
- Genzebe Dibaba, Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner
- Steinar Hoen, Norwegian high jumper
- Uno Palu, Soviet decathlete
- Zersenay Tadese, Eritrean distance runner
- Albie Thomas, Australian middle- and long-distance runner | 59 = 9 February:
- Yevgeniy Arzhanov, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Dieter Baumann, German distance runner
- David, Lord Burghley, British hurdler and IAAF president
- Antonio McKay, American sprinter
- Terje Pedersen, Norwegian javelin thrower
- Mariya Pinigina, Soviet sprinter
- Christian Schenk, German decathlete
- Ionela Târlea, Romanian hurdler
- Ellen van Langen, Dutch middle-distance runner | 60 = 10 February:
- Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
- Sam Graddy, American sprinter
- Tapio Korjus, Finnish javelin thrower
- Magdelín Martínez, Cuban-Italian triple jumper
- Ken McArthur, South African distance runner
- Gordon Pirie, British distance runner
- Mary Rand, British long jumper and pentathlete
- Larry Young, American race walker | 61 = 11 February:
- George Avery, Australian triple jumper
- Yumileidi Cumbá, Cuban shot putter
- Ralph Doubell, Australian middle-distance runner
- Olga Dvirna, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian distance runner
- Gunnar Lindström, Swedish javelin thrower
- Aleksandr Makarov, Soviet javelin thrower
- Roberto Moya, Cuban discus thrower
- Bernardo Segura, Mexican race walker
- George Woods, American shot putter | 62 = 12 February:
- Steve Backley, British javelin thrower
- Charles Dumas, American high jumper
- Gunnar Höckert, Finnish distance runner
- Christoph Höhne, German race walker
- Caterine Ibargüen, Colombian triple jumper
- Henry Rono, Kenyan distance runner | 63 = 13 February:
- Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuanian discus thrower
- Mika Halvari, Finnish shot putter
- Kenny Harrison, American triple jumper
- Leamon King, American sprinter
- Suleiman Nyambui, Tanzanian distance runner
- Demetrius Pinder, Bahamian sprinter | 64 = 14 February:
- József Csermák, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Deena Kastor, American distance runner
- Du'aine Ladejo, British sprinter
- Jon Ridgeon, British hurdler
- Heide Rosendahl, German pentathlete and long jumper
- Thierry Toutain, French race walker | 65 = 15 February:
- Yoandri Betanzos, Cuban triple jumper
- A. C. Gilbert, American pole vaulter
- Voitto Hellstén, Finnish sprinter
- Beverly McDonald, Jamaican sprinter
- Iva Prandzheva, Bulgarian long- and triple jumper
- Semyon Rzhishchin, Soviet steeplechase runner
- Earl Thomson, Canadian-American hurdler
- Allen Woodring, American sprinter | 66 = 16 February:
- Grit Breuer, German sprinter
- Fermín Cacho, Spasnish middle-distance runner
- Robert Emmiyan, Soviet long jumper
- Vala Flosadóttir, Icelandic pole vaulter
- Tia Hellebaut, Belgian high jumper
- Cathy Freeman, Australian sprinter
- Susanna Kallur, Swedish hurdler
- Lon Myers, American sprinter and middle-distance runner
- Yekaterina Volkova, Russian steeplechase runner
- Zamira Zaytseva, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Dong Yanmei, Chinese distance runner
- Valentina Yegorova, Russian distance runner | 67 = 17 February:
- Joe Greene, American long jumper
- Willi Holdorf, German decathlete
- Eunice Jepkorir, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Bengt Nilsson, Swedish high jumper
- Hayley Tullett, British middle-distance runner | 68 = 18 February:
- Colin Jackson, British hurdler
- Matti Järvinen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Antonio David Jiménez, Spanish steeplechase runner
- Marita Koch, German sprinter
- Peter Koech, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Carlos Lopes, Portuguese distance runner
- Angéla Németh, Hungarian javelin thrower
- Krisztián Pars, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Fritz Pollard, American hurdler
- Lambert Redd, American long jumper
- Louise Ritter, American high jumper
- Hans Woellke, German shot putter | 69 = 19 February:
- Andrew Osagie, British middle-distance runner
- Valentina Tsybulskaya, Belarusian race walker
- Darold Williamson, American sprinter | 70 = 20 February:
- Ismael Kirui, Kenyan distance runner
- Dennis Mitchell, American sprinter
- Pierre Quinon, French pole vaulter
- Alma Richards, American high jumper
- Bob Richards, American pole vaulter
- Bram Som, Dutch middle-distance runner
- João Vieira, Portuguese race walker
- Zhu Xiaolin, Chinese distance runner | 71 = 21 February:
- Ralf Bartels, German shot putter
- Sandro Bellucci, Italian race walker
- Godfrey Brown, British sprinter
- Leroy Burrell, American sprinter
- Ron Clarke, Australian distance runner
- Matthias de Zordo, German javelin thrower
- Sari Essayah, Finnish race walker
- Pierre Lewden, French high jumper
- Yobes Ondieki, Kenyan distance runner
- Antti Ruuskanen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Vita Styopina, Ukrainian high jumper
- Ivo van Damme, Belgian middle-distance runner | 72 = 22 February:
- Erica Alfridi, Italian race walker
- Kevin Borlée, Belgian sprinter
- Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter
- John Daly, Irish distance runner
- Eric Lemming, Swedish javelin thrower
- Bill Miller, American javelin thrower
- William Tanui, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Pavel Tarnavetskiy, Soviet decathlete
- Thomas Wessinghage, German middle- and long-distance runner
- Edvin Wide, Swedish middle- and long-distance runner | 73 = 23 February:
- Lee Calhoun, American hurdler
- Viktor Markin, Soviet sprinter
- Pedro Pérez, Cuban triple jumper | 74 = 24 February:
- Milcah Chemos Cheywa, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Maria Golubnichaya, Soviet hurdler
- Lajos Gönczy, Hungarian high jumper
- Henrik Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian middle-distance runner
- Antanas Mikėnas, Soviet race walker
- Tyke Peacock, American high jumper
- Gaston Reiff, Belgian distance runner
- Albin Stenroos, Finnish distance runner | 75 = 25 February:
- Herb Elliott, Australian middle-distance runner
- Lee Evans, American sprinter
- Barney Ewell, American sprinter
- Samson Kitur, Kenyan sprinter
- Marek Plawgo, Polish hurdler
- Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
- Vira Rebryk, Ukrainian javelin thrower
- Xing Huina, Chinese distance runner
- Svetla Zlateva, Bulgarian middle-distance runner
- Gyula Zsivótzky, Hungarian hammer thrower | 76 = 26 February:
- Nigel Barker, Australian sprinter
- Irina Beglyakova, Soviet discus thrower
- Frank Busemann, German decathlete
- Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower
- Heli Rantanen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Sanya Richards-Ross, American sprinter | 77 = 27 February:
- Rob de Castella, Australian distance runner
- Florence Kiplagat, Kenyan distance runner
- Stephen Kiprotich, Ugandan distance runner
- Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
- Rhys Williams, British hurdler | 78 = 28 February:
- Tariku Bekele, Ethiopian distance runner
- Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Moroccan distance runner
- Larisa Berezhnaya, Ukrainian long jumper
- Robert Heffernan, Irish race walker
- Kjell Isaksson, Swedish pole vaulter
- George Jefferson, American pole vaulter
- Christina Lathan, German sprinter
- Noureddine Morceli, Algerian middle-distance runner
- Jozef Plachý, Czechoslovakian middle-distance runner
- Yelena Slesarenko, Russian high jumper
- Reinhard Theimer, German hammer thrower
- Konstantin Volkov, Russian pole vaulter | 79 = 29 February:
- Iván García, Cuban sprinter
- Raúl González, Mexican race walker
- Larisa Peleshenko, Russian shot putter | 101 = 1 March:
- Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian middle-distance runner
- Rens Blom, Dutch pole vaulter
- Rolf Danneberg, German discus thrower
- Jim Delaney, American shot putter
- Daniele Greco, Italian triple jumper
- Viljo Heino, Finnish distance runner
- Ben Jipcho, Kenyan runner
- Allen Johnson, American hurdler
- Oleksandr Krykun, Ukrainian hammer thrower
- Ekaterina Poistogova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Duncan White, Sri Lankan hurdler | 102 = 2 March:
- Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan distance runner
- Onni Rajasaari, Finnish triple jumper
- Joel Shankle, American hurdler | 103 = 3 March:
- Simon Biwott, Kenyan distance runner
- Sol Butler, American long jumper
- Craig Dixon, American hurdler
- Martín Fiz, Spanish distance runner
- Vyacheslav Ivanenko, Soviet race walker
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American heptathlete and long jumper
- József Kovács, Hungarian distance runner
- Elliott Quow, American sprinter
- Edwin Soi, Kenyan distance runner
- John Thomas, American high jumper
- Fatima Whitbread, British javelin thrower
- Zhang Lirong, Chinese middle- and long-distance runner | 104 = 4 March:
- Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
- Sabine Everts, German heptathlete
- Ana Guevara, Mexican sprinter
- Yuliya Gushchina, Russian sprinter
- Verner Järvinen, Finnish thrower | 105 = 5 March:
- Gennaro Di Napoli, Italian middle- and long-distance runner
- Delloreen Ennis-London, Jamaican hurdler
- Ervin Hall, American hurdler
- Randy Matson, American shot putter and discus thrower
- Bob McMillen, American middle-distance runner
- Yuriy Kutsenko, Soviet decathlete
- İlham Tanui Özbilen, Kenyan-Turkish middle-distance runner
- Larry Shields, American middle-distance runner
- Roland Steuk, German hammer thrower
- Olga Turchak, Soviet high jumper | 106 = 6 March:
- Hiwot Ayalew, Ethiopian distance runner
- Ron Delany, Irish middle-distance runner
- Derek Drouin, Canadian high jumper
- Hannah England, British middle-distance runner
- Francisco Javier Fernández, Spanish race walker
- Dick Fosbury, American high jumper
- Dietmar Haaf, German long jumper
- Wolfgang Hanisch, German javelin thrower
- Roberto Hernández, Cuban sprinter
- Godfrey Mokoena, South African long jumper
- Brigitte Wujak, German long jumper
- Zhang Linli, Chinese middle-distance runner | 107 = 7 March:
- Olli-Pekka Karjalainen, Finnish hammer thrower
- Valentin Kononen, Finnish race walker
- George Larner, British race walker
- Mark Rowland, British steeplechase runner
- Jim Spivey, American middle-distance runner
- Nenad Stekić, Yugoslavian long jumper
- Siegfried Wentz, German decathlete | 108 = 8 March:
- Pyotr Bolotnikov, Soviet distance runner
- Karel Lismont, Belgian distance runner
- Ann Packer, British 400/800 runner
- Otto Peltzer, German middle-distance runner
- Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower
- Erwin Skamrahl, German sprinter
- Daniela Yordanova, Bulgarian middle-distance runner | 109 = 9 March:
- Aleksandras Antipovas, Soviet distance runner
- Yuriy Bilonoh, Ukrainian shot putter
- Herb Douglas, American long jumper
- Anier García, Cuban hurdler
- Franjo Mihalić, Yugoslavian distance runner
- Svetlana Shkolina, Russian high jumper
- Andriy Skvaruk, Ukrainian hammer thrower
- Thierry Vigneron, French pole vaulter
- Anatoliy Yulin, Soviet hurdler | 110 = 10 March:
- Arthur Barnard, American hurdler
- Antonio Corgos, Spanish long jumper
- Lashinda Demus, American hurdler
- Manfred Germar, German sprinter
- Sándor Iharos, Hungarian middle- and long-distance runner
- Earle Johnson, American distance runner
- Ebba Jungmark, Swedish high jumper
- Gergely Kulcsár, Hungarian javelin thrower
- Johanna Lüttge, German shot putter
- Larry Myricks, American long jumper and sprinter
- Irina Press, Soviet pentathlete and hurdler
- Domingo Ramón, Spanish steeplechase runner | 111 = 11 March:
- Willie Banks, American triple jumper
- Ingrid Lotz, German discus thrower
- Ngonidzashe Makusha, Zimbabwean long jumper and sprinter
- Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower and pentathlete | 112 = 12 March:
- Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian middle-distance runner
- Andreas Erm, German race walker
- Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower
- Aleksandr Potashov, Soviet race walker
- Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper | 113 = 13 March:
- Ellery Clark, American all-rounder
- Rodica Mateescu, Romanian triple jumper
- Yevgeniy Misyulya, Belarusian race walker
- Claude Piquemal, French sprinter
- Olga Rukavishnikova, Soviet pentathlete
- Arthur Russell, British steeplechase runner | 114 = 14 March:
- Sydney Atkinson, South African hurdler
- Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian discus thrower
- Ilya Konovalov, Russian hammer thrower
- Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish distance runner
- Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter
- Gheorghe Megelea, Romanian javelin thrower
- Tessa Sanderson, British javelin thrower
- Dorothy Tyler-Odam, British high jumper | 115 = 15 March:
- Nijel Amos, Botswanan middle-distance runner
- Chi Cheng, Taiwanese hurdler and sprinter
- Noé Hernández, Mexican race walker
- Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, Kenyan distance runner
- Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad, French steeplechase runner
- Juan Manuel Molina, Spanish race walker
- Tom Richards, British distance runner
- Ali Saïdi-Sief, Algerian middle- and long-distance runner
- Jackson Scholz, American sprinter | 116 = 16 March:
- Thelma Hopkins, British high jumper
- John Kipkurgat, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- James Lightbody, American middle-distance runner
- Emilio Lunghi, Italian middle-distance runner
- Fabiana Murer, Brazilian pole vaulter
- Ismaïl Sghyr, Moroccan-French distance runner
- Reggie Walker, South African sprinter | 117 = 17 March:
- José Manuel Abascal, Spanish middle-distance runner
- Hartmut Briesenick, German shot putter
- Juliet Campbell, Jamaican sprinter
- Hilda Kibet, Kenyan-Dutch distance runner
- Min Chunfeng, Chinese discus thrower
- Manuel Plaza, Chilean distance runner
- Ralph Rose, American shot putter
- Silke Spiegelburg, German pole vaulter
- Million Wolde, Ethiopian distance runner | 118 = 18 March:
- Leslie Djhone, French sprinter
- Arsi Harju, Finnish shot putter
- Aleksandr Kharlov, Soviet hurdler
- Hannu Siitonen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Ray Stewart, Jamaican sprinter and coach | 119 = 19 March:
- Christine Laser, German pentathlete
- Sergey Makarov, Russian javelin thrower
- Cydonie Mothersille, Caymanian sprinter
- Arnold Viiding, Estonian shot putter | 120 = 20 March:
- Jerome Biffle, American long jumper
- Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower
- Vadim Devyatovskiy, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Lacena Golding-Clarke, Jamaican hurdler
- Natalya Khrushchelyova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Yelena Romanova, Russian middle- and long-distance runner | 121 = 21 March:
- Sally Barsosio, Kenyan distance runner
- Ejegayehu Dibaba, Ethiopian sprinter
- Hauke Fuhlbrügge, German middle-distance runner
- Charlie Greene, American sprinter
- Marlies Göhr, German sprinter
- Martina Hrašnová, Slovakian hammer thrower
- Vladimir Kanaykin, Russian race walker
- Balázs Kiss, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Ingrid Kristiansen, Norwegian distance runner
- Shuhei Nishida, Japanese pole vaulter
- Walter Tewksbury, American sprinter and hurdler
- Derartu Tulu, Ethiopian distance runner
- Alfred Tysoe, British middle-distance runner
- Bärbel Wöckel, German sprinter | 122 = 22 March:
- Armin Hary, German sprinter
- Hwang Young-cho, Korean distance runner
- Staņislavs Olijars, Latvian hurdler
- António Pinto, Portuguese distance runner
- Michel Théato, Luxembourgish-French distance runner
- Zhang Wenxiu, Chinese hammer thrower | 123 = 23 March:
- Platt Adams, American standing jumper
- Roger Bannister, British middle-distance runner
- Jerry Cornes, British middle-distance runner
- Mo Farah, British distance runner
- Frank Irons, American long jumper
- Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban middle-distance runner | 124 = 24 March:
- Floyd Heard, American sprinter
- Albert Hill, British middle-distance runner
- Periklís Iakovákis, Greek hurdler
- Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan distance runner
- Emmit King, American sprinter
- Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper
- Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler
- William Porter, American hurdler
- Torsten Voss, German decathlete | 125 = 25 March:
- Irving Baxter, American jumper
- Christina Cahill, British middle-distance runner
- María Caridad Colón, Cuban javelin thrower
- Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter
- Muriel Hurtis-Houairi, French sprinter
- Abdalaati Iguider, Moroccan middle-distance runner
- Carl Kaufmann, German sprinter
- Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper
- Gunnar Nielsen, Danish middle-distance runner
- Aleksandr Puchkov, Soviet hurdler
- Irina Stankina, Russian race walker
- Mitchell Watt, Australian long jumper | 126 = 26 March:
- Lennart Atterwall, Swedish javelin thrower
- Barbara Jones, American sprinter
- Stig Pettersson, Swedish high jumper
- Tatyana Providokhina, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Violeta Szekely, Romanian middle-distance runner
- Vilho Tuulos, Finnish triple jumper | 127 = 27 March:
- Nunu Abashidze, Soviet shot putter
- Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
- Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
- Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish steeplechase runner
- Aleksandr Klimenko, Ukrainian shot putter
- Antonina Lazareva, Soviet high jumper
- Mihaela Melinte, Romanian hammer thrower
- Dean Starkey, American pole vaulter | 128 = 28 March:
- Ladji Doucouré, French hurdler
- Harvey Glance, American sprinter
- Evelin Jahl, German discus thrower
- Sylvia Kibet, Kenyan distance runner
- Aksana Miankova, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Martin Sheridan, Irish-American thrower and standing jumper
- Józef Szmidt, Polish triple jumper
- Ilke Wyludda, German discus thrower
- Olga Yegorova, Russian middle- and long-distance runner | 129 = 29 March:
- Ed Archibald, Canadian pole vaulter
- Kim Batten, American hurdler
- Jim Bausch, American decathlete
- Yusuf Saad Kamel, Kenyan-Bahraini middle-distance runner
- Sigrid Kirchmann, Austrian high jumper
- Voula Patoulidou, Greek hurdler
- Djabir Saïd-Guerni, Algerian middle-distance runner
- Steve Smith, British high jumper
- Ivan Ukhov, Russian high jumper | 130 = 30 March:
- Paweł Czapiewski, Polish middle-distance runner
- Tommy Green, British race walker
- Josiah McCracken, American thrower
- Mikio Oda, Japanese triple jumper
- István Rózsavölgyi, Hungarian middle-distance runner
- Kareem Streete-Thompson, Caymanian-American long jumper
- Obadele Thompson, Barbadian sprinter
- Leonid Voloshin, Russian triple jumper | 131 = 31 March:
- Roger Black, British sprinter
- Kimmo Kinnunen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Tamara Tyshkevich, Soviet shot putter
- Klaus Wolfermann, German javelin thrower | 151 = 1 April:
- Ruth Beitia, Spanish high jumper
- Sonia Bisset, Cuban javelin thrower
- Lev Lobodin, Ukrainian-Russian decathlete
- Harlow Rothert, American shot putter
- Robert Shavlakadze, Soviet high jumper
- Andreas Thorkildsen, Norwegian javelin thrower
- Bob Van Osdel, American high jumper | 152 = 2 April:
- Harald Andersson, Swedish discus thrower
- Gelindo Bordin, Italian distance runner
- Delfo Cabrera, Argentinian distance runner
- Linford Christie, British sprinter
- Calvin Davis, American hurdler
- Monica Iagăr, Romanian high jumper
- Maksym Mazuryk, Ukrainian pole vaulter
- Marc Raquil, French sprinter
- Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower | 153 = 3 April:
- Yevhen Bulanchyk, Soviet hurdler
- Martyn Rooney, British sprinter
- Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish sprinter | 154 = 4 April:
- Rosemarie Ackermann, German high jumper
- Brian Hewson, British middle-distance runner
- Edith Masai, Kenyan distance runner
- Nélson Prudêncio, Brazilian triple jumper
- Anna Pyatykh, Russian triple jumper
- Jason Richardson, American hurdler
- Yelena Yelesina, Russian high jumper | 155 = 5 April:
- Dwain Chambers, British sprinter
- Kim Collins, Kittitian sprinter
- Yevgeny Gavrilenko, Soviet hurdler
- Arnold Jackson, British middle-distance runner
- Bill Roberts, British sprinter
- Karin Roßley, German hurdler
- Hiromi Taniguchi, Japanese distance runner
- Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper | 156 = 6 April:
- Maurizio Damilano, Italian race walker
- Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper
- Colin Reitz, British steeplechase runner
- Wilbur Thompson, American shot putter | 157 = 7 April:
- Colette Besson, French sprinter
- Martin Buß, German high jumper
- Jane Frederick, American heptathlete
- Dave Johnson, American decathlete
- Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, British race walker
- Fay Moulton, American sprinter
- Arnie Robinson, American long jumper
- Leonid Shcherbakov, Soviet triple jumper
- Eelco Sintnicolaas, Dutch decathlete
- Peter Zaremba, American hammer thrower | 158 = 8 April:
- Yemane Adhane, Ethiopian distance runner
- Joachim Büchner, German sprinter
- Patricia Girard, French hurdler
- Dalton Grant, British high jumper
- Tom Petranoff, American javelin thrower
- Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova, Russian distance runner
- Evans Rutto, Kenyan distance runner | 159 = 9 April:
- Juliet Cuthbert, Jamaican sprinter
- Habiba Ghribi, Tunisian steeplechase runner
- Naman Keïta, French hurdler
- Yelena Lashmanova, Russian race walker
- Mariya Pisareva, Soviet high jumper
- Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg, German shot putter | 160 = 10 April:
- Steve Anderson, American hurdler
- Johnny Hayes, American distance runner
- Zoltán Kővágó, Hungarian discus thrower
- David Moorcroft, British middle- and long-distance runner
- Floyd Simmons, American decathlete | 161 = 11 April:
- Dai Greene, British hurdler
- Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter
- Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Soviet sprinter
- Walter Krüger, German javelin thrower
- Yuriy Lituyev, Soviet hurdler
- Patrick Sang, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Svetlana Zakharova, Russian distance runner | 162 = 12 April:
- Dan Ahearn, Irish-American triple jumper
- Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Russian middle-distance runner
- Aleksey Dmitrik, Russian high jumper
- Luke Kibet, Kenyan distance runner
- Olga Kotlyarova, Russian 400/800 runner
- John Landy, Australian middle-distance runner
- Svetlana Lapina, Russian high jumper
- Klaus Tafelmeier, German javelin thrower
- Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian hurdler | 163 = 13 April:
- Dave Albritton, American high jumper
- Franco Arese, Italian middle-distance runner
- Michael Bingham, American-British sprinter
- Ed Caruthers, American high jumper
- Ed Hamm, American long jumper
- Klaus Lehnertz, German pole vaulter
- Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova, Belarusian long jumper
- Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete | 164 = 14 April:
- Ana Ambrazienė, Soviet hurdler
- Uwe Beyer, German hammer thrower
- Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper
- Imrich Bugár, Czechoslovakian discus thrower
- Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan distance runner
- Simona La Mantia, Italian triple jumper
- Georg Lammers, German sprinter
- Guillaume LeBlanc, Canadian race walker
- Josanne Lucas, Trinidadian hurdler
- Françoise Mbango Etone, Cameroonian triple jumper | 165 = 15 April:
- Evelyn Ashford, American sprinter
- Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter
- Harry Edward, British sprinter
- Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan hurdler
- Chris Huffins, American decathlete
- Antero Kivi, Finnish discus thrower
- Vera Krepkina, Soviet sprinter and long jumper
- Brahim Lahlafi, Moroccan distance runner
- Tiina Lillak, Finnish javelin thrower
- Lars Arvid Nilsen, Norwegian shot putter
- Josia Thugwane, South African distance runner | 166 = 16 April:
- Lars Börgeling, German pole vaulter
- Gordon Dunn, American discus thrower
- John Norton, American hurdler
- Yelena Prokhorova, Russian heptathlete
- Jiří Skobla, Czechoslovakian shot putter
- Kerron Stewart, Jamaican sprinter | 167 = 17 April:
- Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach
- Li Meisu, Chinese shot putter
- Jenny Meadows, British middle-distance runner
- Vladimir Polyakov, Soviet pole vaulter
- Morgan Taylor, American hurdler
- Chris Thompson, British distance runner
- Pekka Vasala, Finnish middle-distance runner | 168 = 18 April:
- Ian Campbell, Australian triple jumper
- Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian distance runner
- Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
- Tatyana Shchelkanova, Soviet long jumper and pentathlete
- Staffan Strand, Swedish high jumper
- Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, Soviet distance runner
- Robert Změlík, Czech decathlete | 169 = 19 April:
- Anju Bobby George, Indian long jumper
- Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower
- Kelly Holmes, British middle-distance runner
- Arthur Robertson, British distance runner
- Sara Simeoni, Italian high jumper | 170 = 20 April:
- Brahim Boulami, Moroccan steeplechase runner
- Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter
- Nelson Évora, Portuguese triple jumper
- Debbie Flintoff-King, Australian hurdler
- Manfred Kinder, German sprinter
- Tatyana Polnova, Russian pole vaulter
- Naftali Temu, Kenyan distance runner
- Roman Virastyuk, Ukrainian shot putter | 171 = 21 April:
- Romeo Bertini, Italian distance runner
- Richard Chelimo, Kenyan distance runner
- Ludmila Engquist, Russian-Swedish hurdler
- Dieter Fromm, German middle-distance runner
- John Kibowen, Kenyan distance runner
- Julius Korir, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Olga Kuragina, Soviet pentathlete
- Yuliya Pechonkina, Russian hurdler
- Michael Tinsley, American hurdler
- Marc Wright, American pole vaulter | 172 = 22 April:
- Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan distance runner | 173 = 23 April:
- Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopian distance runner
- Folke Jansson, Swedish triple jumper
- Alysia Montaño, American middle-distance runner | 174 = 24 April:
- Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish middle-distance runner
- Al Bates, American long jumper
- Eddie Hart, American sprinter
- Tatyana Lesovaya, Soviet discus thrower
- Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
- David Oliver, American hurdler
- Ruth Osburn, American discus thrower
- Mike Rodgers, American sprinter
- Con Walsh, Irish-Canadian hammer thrower | 175 = 25 April:
- Bob Gutowski, American pole vaulter
- Duncan Kibet, Kenyan distance runner
- Valentyna Kozyr, Soviet high jumper
- Vitaliy Kyrylenko, Ukrainian long jumper
- Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower
- Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler
- Isaac Kiprono Songok, Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
- Ernest Webb, British race walker
- Yvette Williams, New Zealand long jumper
- Nick Willis, New Zealand middle-distance runner | 176 = 26 April:
- Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch all-rounder
- Stephanie Graf, Austrian middle-distance runner
- Roger Moens, Belgian middle-distance runner
- Cornelia Ullrich, German hurdler
- Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter
- Yuliya Zaripova, Russian steeplechase runner | 177 = 27 April:
- Gudrun Berend, German hurdler
- Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter
- Johnny Kuck, American shot putter
- Con Leahy, Irish jumper
- Luz Long, German long jumper
- Meselech Melkamu, Ethiopian distance runner
- Ron Morris, American pole vaulter
- Nina Ponomaryova, Soviet discus thrower
- John Rimmer, British steeplechase runner
- Seppo Räty, Finnish javelin thrower | 178 = 28 April:
- Ethel Catherwood, Canadian high jumper
- Dainis Kūla, Soviet javelin thrower
- Roman Rasskazov, Russian race walker
- Art Shaw, American hurdler
- Henry Stallard, British middle-distance runner | 179 = 29 April:
- Rob Druppers, Dutch middle-distance runner
- Taoufik Makhloufi, Algerian middle-distance runner
- Dorothy Manley, British sprinter
- Jim Ryun, American middle-distance runner
- Sofia Sakorafa, Greek javelin thrower
- Larisa Turchinskaya, Russian heptathlete
- Attila Zsivóczky, Hungarian decathlete | 180 = 30 April:
- Daniela Costian, Romanian-Australian discus thrower
- Margit Papp, Hungarian pentathlete | 201 = 1 May:
- Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish distance runner
- Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch distance runner
- Mikhail Krivonosov, Soviet hammer thrower
- Ollie Matson, American sprinter
- Bryshon Nellum, American sprinter
- Michelle Perry, American hurdler
- Vasiliy Sidorenko, Russian hammer thrower
- Marina Stepanova, Soviet hurdler
- John Svanberg, Swedish distance runner
- Archie Williams, American sprinter | 202 = 2 May:
- Tim Benjamin, British sprinter
- James Dillion, American discus thrower
- Bill Horr, American discus thrower
- Taťána Kocembová, Czechoslovakian sprinter
- Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter | 203 = 3 May:
- Jamie Baulch, British sprinter
- Edmund Black, American hammer thrower
- Mary Cain, American middle-distance runner
- Kathy Cook, British sprinter
- Jörg Drehmel, German triple jumper
- Vasily Rudenkov, Soviet hammer thrower
- Anastasiya Shvedova, Belarusian pole vaulter
- Dai Tamesue, Japanese hurdler
- Allan Wells, British sprinter | 204 = 4 May':
- Silvia Costa, Cuban high jumper
- Wolrad Eberle, German decathlete
- Ulrike Meyfarth, German high jumper
- Pekka Päivärinta, Finnish distance runner | 205 = 5 May:
- Mabel Gay, Cuban triple jumper
- Heike Henkel, German high jumper
- Igor Kashkarov, Soviet high jumper
- Meb Keflezighi, American distance runner
- Jorge Llopart, Spanish race walker
- Francine Niyonsaba, Burundian middle-distance runner
- Steve Scott, American middle-distance runner | 206 = 6 May:
- Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
- Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter
- Andreas Busse, German middle-distance runner
- Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower
- Wolfgang Reinhardt, German pole vaulter
- Kaliese Spencer, Jamaican hurdler
- Naoko Takahashi, Japanese distance runner
- Roland Wieser, German race walker | 207 = 7 May':
- Jimmy Ball, Canadian sprinter
- James Carter, American hurdler
- Florența Crăciunescu, Romanian discus thrower
- Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter
- Huang Zhihong, Chinese shot putter
- Lawrence Johnson, American pole vaulter
- Georgiy Kolnootchenko, Soviet discus thrower
- Eric Krenz, American discus thrower
- Florian Schwarthoff, German hurdler | 208 = 8 May:
- Päivi Alafrantti, Finnish javelin thrower
- Wesley Coe, American shot putter
- Paul Drayton, American sprinter
- Bershawn Jackson, American hurdler
- Aleksandr Kovalenko, Soviet triple jumper
- Galen Rupp, American distance runner | 209 = 9 May:
- Ralph Boston, American long jumper
- James Butts, American triple jumper
- Frank Foss, American pole vaulter
- Dorothy Hyman, British sprinter
- Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan distance runner
- Marie-José Pérec, French sprinter
- Fred Warngård, Swedish hammer thrower | 210 = 10 May:
- Audun Boysen, Norwegian middle-distance runner
- Jonathan Edwards, British triple jumper
- Des Koch, American discus thrower
- John Ngugi, Kenyan distance runner
- Merlene Ottey, Jamaican sprinter
- Tamara Press, Soviet thrower
- Tatyana Shikolenko, Russian javelin thrower | 211 = 11 May:
- Willie Applegarth, British sprinter
- Lydia Cheromei, Kenyan distance runner
- Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete
- Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian distance runner
- Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete
- Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese distance runner
- Jürgen Schult, German discus thrower
- Simon Vroemen, Dutch steeplechase runner | 212 = 12 May:
- Andrew Howe, Italian long jumper
- Henry Jonsson, Swedish distance runner
- Igor Kováč, Slovakian hurdler
- Liu Hong, Chinese race walker
- Lisa Martin, Australian distance runner
- Renate Stecher, German sprinter | 213 = 13 May:
- Hildrun Claus, German long jumper
- Peter Frenkel, German race walker
- Dawn Harper, American hurdler
- Amine Laâlou, Moroccan middle-distance runner
- Dmitriy Shevchenko, Russian discus thrower
- Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese distance runner | 214 = 14 May:
- Kenth Eldebrink, Swedish javelin thrower
- Fred Englehardt, American triple jumper
- Natasha Kaiser-Brown, American sprinter
- Godfrey Rampling, British sprinter
- Alina Talay, Belarusian hurdler | 215 = 15 May:
- Don Bragg, American pole vaulter
- Daniel Caines, British sprinter
- Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
- Valentina Gerasimova, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Li Yanfeng, Chinese discus thrower
- Fred Murray, American hurdler
- Justine Robbeson, South African javelin thrower
- Miruts Yifter, Ethiopian distance runner | 216 = 16 May:
- Joan Benoit Samuelson, American distance runner
- Irina Korzhanenko, Russian shot putter
- Steve Lewis, American sprinter
- Albina Mayorova, Russian distance runner
- Helga Radtke, German long jumper
- Bob Tisdall, Irish hurdler and decathlete | 217 = 17 May:
- Yelena Gorchakova, Russian javelin thrower
- Daniel Komen, Kenyan distance runner
- Mayte Martínez, Spanish middle-distance runner
- Christine Ohuruogu, British sprinter
- Gilles Quénéhervé, French sprinter
- William Yiampoy, Kenyan middle-distance runner | 218 = 18 May:
- Eric Backman, Swedish distance runner
- Denis Horgan, Irish thrower
- Charles Kamathi, Kenyan distance runner
- Ivet Lalova, Bulgarian sprinter
- Renata Nielsen, Danish long jumper
- Volha Tsander, Belarusian hammer thrower
- Angela Voigt, German long jumper | 219 = 19 May:
- Livio Berruti, Italian sprinter
- Herman Brix, American shot putter
- Jānis Lūsis, Soviet javelin thrower
- Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter
- Charlie Spedding, British distance runner
- Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Soviet long jumper
- Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter | 220 = 20 May:
- Lynn Davies, British long jumper
- Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper
- Pat Leahy, Irish jumper
- Nils Schumann, German middle-distance runner
- Jiřina Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter | 221 = 21 May:
- Brigita Bukovec, Slovenian hurdler
- Inese Jaunzeme, Soviet javelin thrower
- Carl Johnson, American long jumper
- Tatyana Ledovskaya, Soviet hurdler
- Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter
- Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter
- Eder Sánchez, Mexican race walker | 222 = 22 May:
- Kurt Bendlin, German decathlete
- Jaouad Gharib, Moroccan distance runner
- Frantz Kruger, South African-Finnish discus thrower
- Frank Nelson, American pole vaulter | 223 = 23 May:
- José Telles da Conceição, Brazilian high jumper
- Nina Dumbadze, Soviet discus thrower
- Carlos Mercenario, Mexican race walker
- Nina Otkalenko, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Xu Demei, Chinese javelin thrower | 224 = 24 May:
- Maryvonne Dupureur, French middle-distance runner
- Lázár Lovász, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Liz McColgan, British distance runner
- Chūhei Nambu, Japanese long- and triple jumper
- Irena Szewińska, Polish sprinter | 225 = 25 May:
- Stefano Baldini, Italian distance runner
- Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
- Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Romuald Klim, Soviet hammer thrower
- Massa Lind, Swedish hammer thrower
- Natallia Mikhnevich, Belarusian shot putter
- Irina Simagina, Russian long jumper
- Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower
- Arthur Wint, Jamaican 400/800 runner | 226 = 26 May:
- Arto Bryggare, Finnish hurdler
- Zola Budd, British-South African runner
- Dani Samuels, Australian discus thrower
- Michel Tornéus, Swedish long jumper
- Romas Ubartas, Lithuanian discus thrower | 227 = 27 May:
- Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian distance runner
- José Luiz Barbosa, Brazilian middle-distance runner
- Don Finlay, British hurdler
- Lon Spurrier, American middle-distance runner
- Dink Templeton, American coach
- Christa Vahlensieck, German distance runner | 228 = 28 May:
- Bill Baillie, New Zealand distance runner
- Mike Musyoki, Kenyan distance runner
- João Carlos de Oliveira, Brazilian triple jumper
- Derval O'Rourke, Irish hurdler
- Jim Thorpe, American decathlete | 229 = 29 May:
- Frank Baumgartl, German steeplechase runner
- Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete
- Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter
- Zhu Jianhua, Chinese high jumper | 230 = 30 May:
- Wyndham Halswelle, British sprinter
- Margaret Okayo, Kenyan distance runner
- Kyle Vander-Kuyp, Australian hurdler | 231 = 31 May:
- Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Soviet hammer thrower and coach
- Stéphane Caristan, French hurdler
- John Godina, American shot putter
- Gabriele Hinzmann, German discus thrower
- Tapio Kantanen, Finnish steeplechase runner
- Karin Melis Mey, South African-Turkish long jumper
- Joachim Olsen, Danish shot putter
- Karl-Hans Riehm, German hammer thrower
- Aleksey Zagorniy, Russian hammer thrower | 251 = 1 June:
- Hasna Benhassi, Moroccan middle-distance runner
- Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high jumper
- Werner Günthör, Swiss shot putter
- Mihaela Loghin, Romanian shot putter
- Moses Masai, Kenyan distance runner
- Lorraine Moller, New Zealand distance runner
- David Neville, American sprinter
- Olga Nazarova, Soviet sprinter
- Brian Oldfield, American shot putter
- Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter | 252 = 2 June:
- Olga Bondarenko, Soviet distance runner
- Cliff Cushman, American hurdler
- Hec Dyer, American sprinter
- Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet race walker
- Joe McCluskey, American steeplechase runner
- Remigija Nazarovienė, Lithuanian heptathlete
- Mark Plaatjes, South African-American distance runner
- Natalia Rodríguez, Spanish middle-distance runner | 253 = 3 June:
- Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
- Micah Kogo, Kenyan distance runner
- Luis Fernando López, Colombian race walker
- Edith McGuire, American sprinter
- Dagmar Neubauer, German sprinter
- Eddy Ottoz, Italian hurdler
- Lindy Remigino, American sprinter | 254 = 4 June:
- Oleg Fedoseyev, Soviet triple jumper
- Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, Russian hammer thrower
- Abel Kirui, Kenyan distance runner
- Tom Longboat, Canadian distance runner
- Bronisław Malinowski, Polish steeplechase runner
- Niurka Montalvo, Cuban-Spanish long jumper
- Olha Saladuha, Ukrainian triple jumper
- John Treacy, Irish distance runner | 255 = 5 June:
- Karin Balzer, German hurdler
- Anke Behmer, German heptathlete
- John Carlos, American sprinter
- Joe DeLoach, American sprinter
- Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Icelandic triple jumper
- Fred Lorz, American distance runner
- Werner Schildhauer, German distance runner | 256 = 6 June:
- Ryan Brathwaite, Barbadian hurdler
- Hans-Peter Ferner, German middle-distance runner
- Marian Oprea, Romanian triple jumper
- Andrey Prokofyev, Soviet hurdler
- Tommie Smith, American sprinter
- Paweł Wojciechowski, Polish pole vaulter | 257 = 7 June:
- Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper
- Clarence DeMar, American distance runner
- Alleyne Francique, Grenadian sprinter
- Hatem Ghoula, Tunisian race walker
- Piotr Małachowski, Polish discus thrower
- Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter | 258 = 8 June:
- Willie Davenport, American hurdler
- Hildegard Falck, German middle-distance runner
- Butch Reynolds, American sprinter
- Antoaneta Todorova, Bulgarian javelin thrower | 259 = 9 June:
- Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
- Al Cantello, American javelin thrower
- Jean Galfione, French pole vaulter
- Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter
- Faina Melnik, Soviet discus thrower | 260 = 10 June:
- Laimutė Baikauskaitė, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Damian Kallabis, German steeplechase runner
- Burglinde Pollak, German pentathlete
- Vilmos Varjú, Hungarian shot putter
- Andrey Yepishin, Russian sprinter | 261 = 11 June:
- Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper
- Jacques Freitag, South African high jumper
- Kim Gallagher, American middle-distance runner
- Karl Hein, German hammer thrower
- Vera Komisova, Soviet hurdler
- Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter
- Yekaterina Podkopayeva, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet hammer thrower
- Reiko Tosa, Japanese distance runner | 262 = 12 June:
- Ajayi Agbebaku, Nigerian triple jumper
- Ray Barbuti, American sprinter
- Ron Freeman, American sprinter
- Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter
- Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian distance runner
- Julius Kariuki, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Inger Miller, American sprinter
- Jérôme Romain, Dominican triple jumper
- Gwen Torrence, American sprinter
- Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian any-distance runner | 263 = 13 June:
- Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian distance runner
- Will Claye, American triple jumper
- Michel Jazy, French middle- and long-distance runner
- Joseph Keter, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter
- Dallas Long, American shot putter
- Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter
- Paavo Nurmi, Finnish middle- and long-distance runner
- Rudolf Povarnitsyn, Soviet high jumper
- Lennart Strand, Swedish middle-distance runner
- Venelina Veneva, Bulgarian high jumper | 264 = 14 June:
- Erick Barrondo, Guatemalan race walker
- Trevor Barry, Bahamian high jumper
- Tonie Campbell, American hurdler
- Arthur Duffey, American sprinter
- Ivan Gubijan, Yugoslavian hammer thrower
- Danny McFarlane, Jamaican sprinter and hurdler
- Richard Stebbins, American sprinter | 265 = 15 June:
- Marina Azyabina, Russian hurdler
- Vilma Bardauskienė, Soviet long jumper
- Yuliya Nesterenko, Belarusian sprinter
- Peter Norman, Australian sprinter
- Igor Paklin, Soviet high jumper
- Zdeňka Šilhavá, Czechoslovakian discus thrower | 266 = 16 June:
- Randy Barnes, American shot putter
- Ralph Mann, American hurdler
- Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower | 267 = 17 June:
- Derek Ibbotson, British middle- and long-distance runner
- Michael Mathieu, Bahamian sprinter
- Hansle Parchment, Jamaican hurdler
- Elisa Rigaudo, Italian race walker
- Si Tianfeng, Chinese race walker
- Paul Tergat, Kenyan distance runner | 268 = 18 June:
- Annelie Ehrhardt, German hurdler
- Troy Kemp, Bahamian high jumper
- Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker
- Martti Marttelin, Finnish distance runner
- Glenn Morris, American decathlete
- Craig Mottram, Australian distance runner
- Christian Taylor, American triple jumper
- Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete | 269 = 19 June:
- Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi-Arabian long jumper
- Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
- Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
- Johnny Gray, American middle-distance runner
- Erkki Kataja, Finnish pole vaulter
- Ilya Markov, Russian race walker
- Assefa Mezegebu, Ethiopian distance runner
- Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler
- Janusz Sidło, Polish javelin thrower
- Quincy Watts, American sprinter | 270 = 20 June:
- Kirk Baptiste, American sprinter
- Silke Gladisch-Möller, German sprinter
- Bob King, American high jumper
- Jack Torrance, American shot putter | 271 = 21 June:
- Ralph Craig, American sprinter
- Sentayehu Ejigu, Ethiopian distance runner
- Hermann Engelhard, German 400/800 runner
- Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese middle-distance runner
- Heino Lipp, Estonian-Soviet decathlete and shot putter
- Ken Matthews, British race walker
- Sandra Perković, Croatian discus thrower
- Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Finnish sprinter
- Brad Walker, American pole vaulter | 272 = 22 June:
- Elias Katz, Finnish distance runner
- Margrit Klinger, German middle-distance runner
- James Rector, American sprinter
- Ossian Skiöld, Swedish hammer thrower
- Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter | 273 = 23 June:
- Filbert Bayi, Tanzanian runner
- Oliver-Sven Buder, German shot putter
- Dick Cochran, American discus thrower
- Abel Kiviat, American middle-distance runner
- Norman Pritchard, Indian sprinter
- Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese distance runner
- Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter
- Nicola Sanders, British sprinter | 274 = 24 June:
- Mutaz Essa Barshim, Qatari high jumper
- Raelene Boyle, Australian sprinter
- Frank Waller, American sprinter and hurdler | 275 = 25 June:
- Lutz Dombrowski, German long jumper
- Sébastien Levicq, French decathlete
- Maurren Maggi, Brazilian long jumper
- Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
- Frank Paschek, German long jumper
- John Powell, American discus thrower | 276 = 26 June:
- Natalya Antyukh, Russian sprinter and hurdler
- Inga Babakova, Ukrainian high jumper
- Paul Bitok, Kenyan distance runner
- Babe Didrikson, American all-rounder
- Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan distance runner
- Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
- Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper | 277 = 27 June:
- Gabriella Dorio, Italian middle-distance runner
- Vasiliy Kaptyukh, Belarusian discus thrower
- LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
- Gene Venzke, American middle-distance runner | 278 = 28 June:
- Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper
- Anişoara Cuşmir, Romanian long jumper
- Belayneh Dinsamo, Ethiopian distance runner
- Howard Drew, American sprinter
- Lloyd LaBeach, Panamanian sprinter
- Guillermo Martínez, Cuban javelin thrower
- Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter
- Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler
- Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
- Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete
- Zhong Huandi, Chinese distance runner | 279 = 29 June:
- Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
- Henry Hawtrey, British distance runner
- Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower
- Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter
- Rosa Mota, Portuguese distance runner
- Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper | 280 = 30 June:
- Andrey Abduvaliyev, Tajikistani hammer thrower
- Volker Beck, German hurdler
- Olga Bryzgina, Soviet sprinter
- Otis Harris, American sprinter
- Patrick Ivuti, Kenyan distance runner
- Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Billy Mills, American distance runner
- Silke Renk, German javelin thrower
- Hezekiél Sepeng, South African middle-distance runner
- Barbora Špotáková, Czech javelin thrower | 301 = 1 July:
- Ödön Földessy, Hungarian long jumper
- Ed Gordon, American long jumper
- Glenn Hardin, American hurdler
- Lynn Jennings, American distance runner
- Carl Lewis, American sprinter and long jumper
- Steffi Nerius, German javelin thrower
- Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
- Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
- Tatyana Tomashova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower | 302 = 2 July:
- Derrick Adkins, American hurdler
- Ricky Bruch, Swedish discus thrower
- Walter Davis, American triple jumper
- Daphne Hasenjager, South African sprinter
- Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner
- Wendell Mottley, Trinidadian sprinter | 303 = 3 July:
- Johnny Gibson, American hurdler
- Remigius Machura, Czechoslovakian shot putter
- Churandy Martina, Dutch sprinter
- Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese distance runner
- Daniel Plaza, Spanish race walker | 304 = 4 July:
- John Anderson, American discus thrower
- Wude Ayalew, Ethiopian distance runner
- Amantle Montsho, Botswanan sprinter
- Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian distance runner | 305 = 5 July:
- Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish middle-distance runner
- Matthew Birir, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Valentí Massana, Spanish race walker
- Wim Peters, Dutch triple jumper
- Carlo Thränhardt, German high jumper
- John Woodruff, American middle-distance runner | 306 = 6 July:
- Valerie Brisco-Hooks, American sprinter
- Rex Cawley, American hurdler
- Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, American hurdler
- Gunhild Hoffmeister, German middle-distance runner
- Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand coach
- Mary Peters, British pentathlete
- Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukrainian sprinter
- Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakian race walker
- László Tábori, Hungarian middle-distance runner | 307 = 7 July:
- Murray Halberg, New Zealand distance runner
- Kerstin Knabe, German hurdler
- Adam Nelson, American shot putter
- Tina Paulino, Mozambican middle-distance runner | 308 = 8 July:
- Harrison Dillard, American hurdler and sprinter
- Shalane Flanagan, American distance runner
- Olesya Krasnomovets, Russian sprinter
- Wang Liping, Chinese race walker | 309 = 9 July:
- Pauline Davis-Thompson, Bahamian sprinter
- Ben Eastman, American 400/800 runner
- Olusoji Fasuba, Nigerian sprinter
- Kara Goucher, American distance runner
- Sim Iness, American discus thrower
- Derek Mills, American sprinter
- Gulnara Samitova-Galkina, Russian steeplechase runner
- Richard Sheldon, American shot putter and discus thrower
- Rutger Smith, Dutch shot putter and discus thrower | 310 = 10 July:
- Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian middle-distance runner
- Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter
- Rashid Sharafetdinov, Soviet distance runner
- C.K. Yang, Taiwanese decathlete | 311 = 11 July:
- Earlene Brown, American shot putter and discus thrower
- Monique Éwanjé-Épée, French hurdler
- Kostas Kenteris, Greek sprinter
- Lynn Williams, Canadian middle- and long-distance runner | 312 = 12 July:
- Yarelis Barrios, Cuban discus thrower
- Otis Davis, American sprinter
- Andrey Mikhnevich, Belarusian shot putter
- Bruny Surin, Canadian sprinter
- Juha Väätäinen, Finnish distance runner
- Andrae Williams, Bahamian sprinter | 313 = 13 July:
- Hjalmar Andersson, Swedish distance runner
- Rod Dixon, New Zealand middle- and long-distance runner
- Helena Fibingerová, Czechoslovakian shot putter
- Lien Gisolf, Dutch high jumper
- Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler
- Jonni Myyrä, Finnish javelin thrower
- Ineta Radēviča, Latvian long jumper
- Raúl Spank, German high jumper
- Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter
- Viktor Tsybulenko, Soviet javelin thrower | 314 = 14 July:
- Amy Acuff, American high jumper
- Judi Brown, American hurdler
- Yvonne Buschbaum, German pole vaulter
- Marlene Mathews, Australian sprinter
- Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukrainian javelin thrower
- Willie Steele, American long jumper
- Mike Stulce, American shot putter
- Heinz Weis, German hammer thrower | 315 = 15 July:
- Enrique Figuerola, Cuban sprinter
- Hector Hogan, Australian sprinter
- Serhiy Lebid, Ukrainian distance runner
- Éloyse Lesueur, French long jumper
- Natalya Sadova, Russian discus thrower
- Toshihiko Seko, Japanese distance runner
- Erik Wilén, Finnish sprinter and hurdler | 316 = 16 July:
- Lee Barnes, American pole vaulter
- Tatyana Biryulina, Soviet javelin thrower
- Svetlana Feofanova, Russian pole vaulter
- Uwe Hohn, German javelin thrower
- Steve Hooker, Australian pole vaulter
- Natalya Lisovskaya, Soviet shot putter
- Kellie Wells, American hurdler
- Gerd Wessig, German high jumper | 317 = 17 July:
- Davis Kamoga, Ugandan sprinter
- Moses Mosop, Kenyan distance runner
- Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan-Bahraini middle-distance runner | 318 = 18 July:
- David Hemery, British hurdler
- Ernst Larsen, Norwegian steeplechase runner
- Alvah Meyer, American sprinter
- Kathrin Neimke, German shot putter
- Dan O'Brien, American decathlete
- Mack Robinson, American sprinter
- Petra Schersing, German sprinter
- Shirley Strickland, Australian sprinter and hurdler | 319 = 19 July:
- Brutus Hamilton, American decathlete and coach
- Juma Ikangaa, Tanzanian distance runner
- Argentina Menis, Romanian discus thrower
- Darya Pishchalnikova, Russian discus thrower | 320 = 20 July:
- Larry Black, American sprinter
- Ignisious Gaisah, Ghanaian long jumper
- Paula Ivan, Romanian middle-distance runner
- LJ van Zyl, South African hurdler | 321 = 21 July:
- Berhane Adere, Ethiopian distance runner
- Danny Ecker, German pole vaulter
- Llewellyn Herbert, South African hurdler
- Antonina Krivoshapka, Russian sprinter
- Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian long- and triple jumper
- Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan distance runner
- Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower
- Jüri Tarmak, Soviet high jumper | 322 = 22 July:
- Anna Chicherova, Russian high jumper
- Yevgeniya Kolodko, Russian shot putter
- António Leitão, Portuguese distance runner
- Mihaela Peneș, Romanian javelin thrower
- Miloslava Rezková, Czechoslovakian high jumper
- Lasse Virén, Finnish distance runner | 323 = 23 July:
- Stéphane Diagana, French hurdler
- Maurice Greene, American sprinter
- Natasha Hastings, American sprinter
- Dmitriy Karpov, Kazakh decathlete
- Bo Roberson, American long jumper
- Dave Roberts, American pole vaulter
- Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper
- Cy Young, American javelin thrower | 324 = 24 July:
- Lyudmila Bragina, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Mikhail Khmelnitskiy, Belarusian race walker
- Yago Lamela, Spanish long jumper
- Aries Merritt, American hurdler
- Malte Mohr, German pole vaulter
- David Payne, American hurdler
- George Saling, American hurdler
- Ivan Tikhon, Belarusian hammer thrower
- George Young, American distance runner | 325 = 25 July:
- George Brown, American long jumper
- Javier Culson, Puerto Rican hurdler
- Artur Partyka, Polish high jumper
- John Pennel, American pole vaulter
- Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker
- Dave Sime, American sprinter | 326 = 26 July:
- Iolanda Chen, Russian triple jumper
- Galina Chistyakova, Soviet long jumper
- Valentin Gavrilov, Soviet high jumper
- Gary Honey, Australian long jumper
- Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
- Pat McDonald, American shot putter and weight thrower
- Miesha McKelvy-Jones, American hurdler
- Ramona Neubert, German heptathlete
- Denis Nizhegorodov, Russian race walker
- Pyotr Pochinchuk, Soviet race walker
- Ingo Schultz, German sprinter | 327 = 27 July:
- Eduard Gushchin, Soviet shot putter
- Samuel Matete, Zambian hurdler
- Paul Meier, German decathlete
- David Storl, German shot putter
- Ellen Streidt, German sprinter
- Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower
- Stanislav Tarasenko, Russian long jumper | 328 = 28 July:
- Mark Boswell, Canadian high jumper
- Barbara Ferrell, American sprinter
- Karl-Friedrich Haas, German sprinter
- Attila Horváth, Hungarian discus thrower
- Gerhard Stöck, German javelin thrower and shot putter
- Eva Wilms, German shot putter and pentathlete | 329 = 29 July:
- Sally Gunnell, British hurdler
- Mikaela Ingberg, Finnish javelin thrower
- Maricica Puică, Romanian middle-distance runner | 330 = 30 July:
- Petra Felke, German javelin thrower
- Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker
- Abdoulaye Seye, Senegalese sprinter
- Shin Geum-Dan, North Korean 400/800 runner
- Daley Thompson, British decathlete | 331 = 31 July:
- Emil Hirschfeld, German shot putter
- Brimin Kipruto, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Irina Nazarova, Soviet sprinter
- Peter Rono, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Tore Sjöstrand, Swedish steeplechase runner | 351 = 1 August:
- Romain Barras, French decathlete
- Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower
- Liliana Năstase, Romanian heptathlete
- Sidney Robinson, British distance runner
- Natalya Shikolenko, Belarusian javelin thrower
- Igor Spasovkhodskiy, Russian triple jumper | 352 = 2 August:
- Jillian Camarena-Williams, American shot putter
- Reyes Estévez, Spanish middle-distance runner
- Ernie Harper, British distance runner
- Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Antoinette Nana Djimou, French heptathlete
- Sueo Ōe, Japanese pole vaulter
- Mariya Ryemyen, Ukrainian sprinter
- Craig Virgin, American distance runner | 353 = 3 August:
- Gamze Bulut, Turkish middle-distance runner
- Waldemar Cierpinski, German distance runner
- Juan Carlos Higuero, Spanish middle-distance runner
- Bettine Jahn, German hurdler
- Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak, Polish steeplechase runner
- Thomas Munkelt, German hurdler
- Rui Silva, Portuguese middle-distance runner
- Yelena Soboleva, Russian middle-distance runner
- Lasse Virtanen, Finnish distance runner | 354 = 4 August:
- Daniel Bautista, Mexican race walker
- Olaf Beyer, German middle-distance runner
- Glenn Cunningham, American middle-distance runner
- Mary Decker, American middle- and long-distance runner
- Greg Foster, American hurdler
- Hayes Jones, American hurdler
- Steve Jones, British distance runner
- Rich Kenah, American middle-distance runner
- Michael Marsh, American sprinter
- Yoelbi Quesada, Cuban triple jumper | 355 = 5 August:
- Chen Ding, Chinese race walker
- Yuriy Dumchev, Soviet discus thrower
- Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter
- Lolo Jones, American hurdler
- David Ottley, British javelin thrower
- John Smith, American sprinter and coach | 356 = 6 August:
- Mykola Avilov, Soviet decathlete
- Tony Dees, American hurdler
- Lyubov Gurina, Russian middle-distance runner
- Thomas Schönlebe, German sprinter | 357 = 7 August:
- Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian distance runner
- Khalid Boulami, Moroccan distance runner
- Douglas Lowe, British middle-distance runner
- Alberto Salazar, American distance runner and coach
- Dave Wottle, American middle-distance runner | 358 = 8 August:
- Suzy Favor-Hamilton, American middle-distance runner
- Yekaterina Fesenko, Soviet hurdler
- Igor Lapshin, Soviet triple jumper
- Carol Lewis, American long jumper
- Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romanian long jumper
- Ronald Weigel, German race walker
- Anita Włodarczyk, Polish hammer thrower | 359 = 9 August:
- Udo Beyer, German shot putter
- Ivan Fuqua, American sprinter
- Tyson Gay, American sprinter
- Manuela Machado, Portuguese distance runner
- John Rambo, American high jumper
- Lilyana Tomova, Bulgarian middle-distance runner
- Aleksey Voyevodin, Russian race walker | 360 = 10 August:
- Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, Kenyan marathon runner
- Edward Gourdin, American long jumper
- Kalevi Kotkas, Finnish high jumper and discus thrower
- Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish distance runner
- Bill Nieder, American shot putter
- Arthur Porritt, New Zealand sprinter | 361 = 11 August:
- Andy Bloom, American shot putter and discus thrower
- Yuriy Krymarenko, Ukrainian high jumper
- Vanderlei de Lima, Brazilian distance runner
- Paul Martin, Swiss middle-distance runner
- Charley Paddock, American sprinter
- Oleg Protsenko, Soviet triple jumper
- Monika Pyrek, Polish pole vaulter | 362 = 12 August:
- Alexis Copello, Cuban triple jumper
- Pam Kilborn, Australian hurdler and long jumper
- Brigitte Kraus, German middle-distance runner
- Charles Moore, American hurdler
- Tetyana Samolenko, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Nijolė Sabaitė, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Sherone Simpson, Jamaican sprinter
- Austra Skujytė, Lithuanian heptathlete | 363 = 13 August:
- Tomoe Abe, Japanese distance runner
- Géo André, French hurdler and high jumper
- Tony Jarrett, British hurdler
- Mariya Savinova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Marian Woronin, Polish sprinter | 364 = 14 August:
- Yamilé Aldama, Cuban-Sudanese-British triple jumper
- Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
- Christopher Koskei, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Igor Nikulin, Soviet hammer thrower | 365 = 15 August:
- Brahim Boutayeb, Moroccan distance runner
- Stanislav Jungwirth, Czechoslovakian middle-distance runner
- Dietmar Mögenburg, German high jumper
- Georgios Roubanis, Greek pole vaulter
- Natallia Sazanovich, Belarusian heptathlete
- Naoto Tajima, Japanese long- and triple jumper | 366 = 16 August:
- Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian sprinter
- Nuría Fernández, Spanish middle-distance runner
- Leevan Sands, Bahamian triple jumper
- Wang Hao, Chinese race walker | 367 = 17 August:
- Mehdi Baala, French middle-distance runner
- Tom Courtney, American middle-distance runner
- Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker
- Tim Forsyth, Australian high jumper
- Olena Krasovska, Ukrainian hurdler
- Maritza Martén, Cuban discus thrower
- Igor Trandenkov, Russian pole vaulter | 368 = 18 August:
- Tim Ahearne, Irish triple jumper
- Christine Amertil, Bahamian sprinter
- Sandra Farmer-Patrick, Jamaican-American hurdler
- Róbert Fazekas, Hungarian discus thrower
- Ralf Haber, German hammer thrower
- Rafer Johnson, American decathlete
- Gerard Nijboer, Dutch distance runner
- Jong Song-ok, North Korean distance runner
- Tatyana Skachko, Soviet long jumper | 369 = 19 August:
- Ivan Heshko, Ukrainian middle-distance runner
- Vilho Niittymaa, Finnish discus thrower | 370 = 20 August:
- Aslı Çakır Alptekin, Turkish middle-distance runner
- Merritt Giffin, American discus thrower
- Bernd Kannenberg, German race walker
- Silas Kiplagat, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Leonid Spirin, Soviet race walker
- Moses Tanui, Kenyan distance runner
- Sachiko Yamashita, Japanese distance runner | 371 = 21 August:
- Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
- Chris Brasher, British steeplechase runner
- Lance Deal, American hammer thrower
- Cornelius Johnson, American high jumper
- Gillian O'Sullivan, Irish race walker
- Ferenc Paragi, Hungarian javelin thrower
- Denisa Rosolová, Czech hurdler, sprinter and long jumper
- Karl Storch, German hammer thrower | 372 = 22 August:
- Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
- Kutre Dulecha, Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner
- Paul Ereng, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Dick Howard, American hurdler
- Nancy Langat, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Felix Limo, Kenyan distance runner
- Frank Loomis, American hurdler
- Harald Norpoth, German middle- and long-distance runner
- Christina Obergföll, German javelin thrower
- Valeriy Podluzhniy, Soviet long jumper
- Nikolay Smaga, Soviet race walker | 373 = 23 August:
- Murielle Ahouré, Ivorian sprinter
- Albert Gutterson, American long jumper
- Benjamin Limo, Kenyan distance runner
- Irina Mikitenko, Kazakhstani-German distance runner
- Betty Robinson, American sprinter
- Jenny Simpson, American middle-distance and steeplechase runner
- Randy Williams, American long jumper | 374 = 24 August:
- Ivory Crockett, American sprinter
- Natalya Lebedeva, Soviet hurdler
- Wang Zhen, Chinese race walker
- Elfi Zinn, German middle-distance runner | 375 = 25 August:
- Earl Bell, American pole vaulter
- Guy Butler, British sprinter
- Tom Kiely, Irish all-rounder
- Renny Quow, Trinidadian sprinter
- Nick Winter, Australian triple jumper | 376 = 26 August:
- Hestrie Cloete, South African high jumper
- Charles Friedek, German triple jumper
- Arnie David Giralt, Cuban triple jumper
- Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian race walker
- Roger Kingdom, American hurdler
- Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, Canadian hurdler | 377 = 27 August:
- Yelisaveta Bagriantseva, Soviet discus thrower
- Zdzisław Hoffmann, Polish triple jumper
- Denise Lewis, British heptathlete
- Wolfgang Nordwig, German pole vaulter
- Eino Penttilä, Finnish javelin thrower
- Leo Sexton, American shot putter
- Jay Silvester, American discus thrower | 378 = 28 August:
- Anders Gärderud, Swedish steeplechase runner
- Regina Jacobs, American middle-distance runner
- Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete | 379 = 29 August:
- Bob Beamon, American long jumper
- Michael Blackwood, Jamaican sprinter
- Perdita Felicien, Canadian hurdler
- Sam Ferris, British distance runner
- Aliuska López, Cuban-Spanish hurdler
- Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter
- Michael Wessing, German javelin thrower | 380 = 30 August:
- Yuliya Fomenko, Russian middle-distance runner
- Saida Gunba, Soviet javelin thrower
- Tianna Madison, American sprinter and long jumper
- Tomasz Majewski, Polish shot putter
- Félix Sánchez, Dominican hurdler
- Sydney Wooderson, British middle- and long-distance runner | 381 = 31 August:
- Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
- Frank Jarvis, American sprinter
- Edwin Moses, American hurdler
- Harry Porter, American high jumper | 401 = 1 September:
- Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
- Dudley Dorival, American-Haitian hurdler
- Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
- Dan Kelly, American sprinter and long jumper
- Olga Mineyeva, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete | 402 = 2 September:
- Ingrid Auerswald, German sprinter
- Jaroslav Bába, Czech high jumper
- Mark Everett, American middle-distance runner
- Moses Kipsiro, Ugandan distance runner
- Adam Kszczot, Polish middle-distance runner
- Manfred Matuschewski, German middle-distance runner | 403 = 3 September:
- Ali Ezzine, Moroccan steeplechase runner
- David Fiegen, Luxembourgish middle-distance runner
- Tim Lobinger, German pole vaulter
- Derek Redmond, British sprinter
- Norman Taber, American middle-distance runner
- Simeon Toribio, Filipino high jumper
- Jaak Uudmäe, Estonian triple jumper | 404 = 4 September:
- Sabin Carr, American pole vaulter
- Giuseppe Gentile, Italian triple jumper
- Mark Lewis-Francis, British sprinter
- Jearl Miles-Clark, American 400/800 runner
- Robson da Silva, Brazilian sprinter
- Lidia Șimon, Romanian distance runner | 405 = 5 September:
- Addis Abebe, Ethiopian distance runner
- Willie Gault, American sprinter and hurdler
- Mihály Iglói, Hungarian coach
- Tereza Marinova, Bulgarian triple jumper
- Koichi Morishita, Japanese distance runner
- Paul Nihill, British race walker
- André Phillips, American hurdler
- Mel Sheppard, American middle-distance runner
- Béla Szepes, Hungarian javelin thrower | 406 = 6 September:
- Süreyya Ayhan, Turkish middle-distance runner
- Darren Clark, Australian sprinter
- Tom Pappas, American decathlete
- Igor Potapovich, Kazakh pole vaulter | 407 = 7 Septembe:
- Kebede Balcha, Ethiopian distance runner
- Danny Harris, American hurdler
- Heino Puuste, Soviet javelin thrower
- József Várszegi, Hungarian javelin thrower | 408 = 8 September:
- Amos Biwott, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Lorraine Fenton, Jamaican sprinter
- Harry Hillman, American hurdler and sprinter
- Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African middle-distance runner
- Ioamnet Quintero, Cuban high jumper
- Brian Wellman, Bermudian triple jumper | 409 = 9 September:
- Daniel Bailey, Antiguan sprinter
- Jon Drummond, American sprinter
- Walter George, British middle- and long-distance runner
- Fortune Gordien, American discus thrower
- Russ Hodge, American decathlete
- Harri Larva, Finnish middle-distance runenr
- John Ljunggren, Swedish race walker
- Sydney Maree, South African-American middle-distance runner
- Brittney Reese, American long jumper
- Andrey Silnov, Russian high jumper
- Fred Tootell, American hammer thrower | 410 = 10 September:
- Jörg Freimuth, German high jumper
- Uwe Freimuth, German decathlete
- Gebregziabher Gebremariam, Ethiopian distance runner
- Jason Grimes, American long jumper
- Evelyne Hall, American hurdler
- Jim Hines, American sprinter
- Ismail Ahmed Ismail, Sudanese middle-distance runner
- Margitta Pufe, German shot putter and discus thrower
- Ghada Shouaa, Syrian heptathlete
- Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivorian sprinter | 411 = 11 September:
- Elvan Abeylegesse, Ethiopian-Turkish middle- and long-distance runner
- Valeriy Borchin, Russian race walker
- Libor Charfreitag, Slovakian hammer thrower
- Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan distance runner
- Jack Davis, American hurdler
- Giovanni Evangelisti, Italian long jumper
- Nicoleta Grasu, Romanian discus thrower
- Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand, German distance runner
- Henri LaBorde, American discus thrower
- Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter
- Lauryn Williams, American sprinter | 412 = 12 September:
- Jolanda Čeplak, Slovenian middle-distance runner
- Kamila Chudzik, Polish heptathlete
- Glenn Davis, American hurdler and sprinter
- Fred Kelly, American hurdler
- Helmut Körnig, German sprinter
- Leonel Manzano, American middle-distance runner
- Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper
- Chandra Sturrup, Bahamian sprinter | 413 = 13 September:
- Christine Arron, French sprinter
- Marjorie Jackson, Australian sprinter
- Michael Johnson, American sprinter
- Morris Kirksey, American sprinter
- LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter
- Johanna Schaller, German hurdler | 414 = 14 September:
- Josh Culbreath, American hurdler
- Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan middle- and long-distance runner
- Archie Hahn, American sprinter
- Vladimir Sasimovich, Belarusian javelin thrower
- Robert Taylor, American sprinter | 415 = 15 September:
- Giuseppe D'Urso, Italian middle-distance runner
- Tim Mack, American pole vaulter
- Pat O'Callaghan, Irish hammer thrower
- Chris Tomlinson, British long jumper | 416 = 16 September:
- Keith Connor, British triple jumper
- Ugo Frigerio, Italian race walker
- Jadel Gregório, Brazilian triple jumper
- Ilona Gusenbauer, Austrian high jumper
- Jutta Heine, German sprinter
- Maryam Yusuf Jamal, Ethiopian-Bahraini middle-distance runner
- Karsten Kobs, German hammer thrower
- Werner Lueg, German middle-distance runner
- Vebjørn Rodal, Norwegian middle-distance runner
- Mike Smith, Canadian decathlete
- Kevin Young, American hurdler | 417 = 17 September:
- Olga Chernyavskaya, Russian discus thrower
- Satymkul Dzhumanazarov, Soviet distance runner
- Jason Gardener, British sprinter
- Oana Pantelimon, Romanian high jumper
- Shericka Williams, Jamaican sprinter | 418 = 18 September:
- Nezha Bidouane, Moroccan hurdler
- Olena Hovorova, Ukrainian triple jumper
- Mohamed Kedir, Ethiopian distance runner
- Renaud Lavillenie, French pole vaulter
- Billy Sherring, Canadian distance runner | 419 = 19 September:
- Marianne Adam, German shot putter
- Tasha Danvers, British hurdler
- Aki Järvinen, Finnish decathlete and hurdler
- Al Oerter, American discus thrower
- Sally Pearson, Australian hurdler
- José Pedraza, Mexican race walker
- Shannon Rowbury, American middle-distance runner
- Mike Shine, American hurdler
- Nadezhda Tkachenko, Soviet pentathlete
- Andy Turner, British hurdler
- Emil Zátopek, Czechoslovakian distance runner
- Dana Zátopková, Czechoslovakian javelin thrower | 420 = 20 September:
- Alice Brown, American sprinter
- Silvio Leonard, Cuban sprinter
- Grazyna Rabsztyn, Polish hurdler
- Charles Reidpath, American sprinter
- Willy Schärer, Swiss middle-distance runner | 421 = 21 September:
- Harry Liversedge, American shot putter
- Katharine Merry, British sprinter
- Gary Oakes, British hurdler
- Sergei Popov, Soviet distance runner
- Ilmari Salminen, Finnish distance runner
- George Simpson, American sprinter | 422 = 22 September:
- Junko Asari, Japanese distance runner
- Amadou Dia Bâ, Senegalese hurdler
- Buddy Edelen, American distance runner
- Tibor Gécsek, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Masao Harada, Japanese triple jumper
- Ragnar Lundberg, Swedish pole vaulter
- Aliecer Urrutia, Cuban triple jumper | 423 = 23 September:
- Rink Babka, American discus thrower
- Frank Cuhel, American hurdler
- Phil Edwards, Canadian middle-distance runner
- Gerhard Hennige, German hurdler
- Gösta Holmér, Swedish decathlete and coach
- Paul Jessup, American discus thrower
- Imre Németh, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Vera Nikolić, Yugoslavian middle-distance runner
- Jack Pierce, American hurdler
- Dwight Thomas, Jamaican sprinter and hurdler | 424 = 24 September:
- Karen Forkel, German javelin thrower
- Lawson Robertson, American jumper and coach
- Ilona Slupianek, German shot putter
- Lyudmyla Yosypenko, Ukrainian heptathlete | 425 = 25 September:
- Nery Brenes, Costa Rican sprinter
- Jim Duncan, American discus thrower
- Jeff Hartwig, American pole vaulter
- Ron Hill, British distance runner
- Bud Houser, American shot putter and discus thrower
- Natalya Shubenkova, Soviet heptathlete | 426 = 26 September:
- Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan distance runner
- John Collier, American hurdler
- Marius Corbett, South African javelin thrower
- Meredith Gourdine, American long jumper
- Darnell Hall, American sprinter
- Chuck Hornbostel, American middle-distance runner
- Steve Moneghetti, Australian distance runner
- Forrest Smithson, American hurdler
- Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenyan distance runner | 427 = 27 September:
- Anna Biryukova, Russian triple jumper
- Stephan Freigang, German distance runner
- Tom Nyariki, Kenyan distance runner
- Jack Parker, American decathlete
- Audrey Patterson, American sprinter
- Lisa Ryzih, German pole vaulter
- Fred Schule, American hurdler
- Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower | 428 = 28 September:
- Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian hurdler
- Raphael Holzdeppe, German pole vaulter
- Bob Schul, American distance runner
- Maurice Smith, Jamaican decathlete
- Audrey Williamson, British sprinter | 429 = 29 September:
- Esther Brand, South African high jumper
- Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
- Nadezhda Chizhova, Soviet shot putter
- Sebastian Coe, British middle-distance runner
- Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazilian triple jumper
- Bo Gustafsson, Swedish race walker
- Harald Schmid, German hurdler
- Eddie Tolan, American sprinter
- Monika Zehrt, German sprinter | 430 = 30 September:
- Christian Cantwell, American shot putter
- Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter
- Bob Kiesel, American sprinter
- Primož Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower
- Sverre Strandli, Norwegian hammer thrower | 451 = 1 October:
- Aleksandr Averbukh, Israeli pole vaulter
- Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian distance runner
- Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Australian sprinter
- Joseph Guillemot, French distance runner
- Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Ewa Kłobukowska, Polish sprinter
- Lyudmila Kolchanova, Russian long jumper
- Dwight Phillips, American long jumper
- Sheena Tosta, American hurdler
- Grete Waitz, Norwegian sprinter | 452 = 2 October:
- Mark Crear, American hurdler
- Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper
- Tilly Fleischer, German javelin thrower
- Frankie Fredericks, Namibian sprinter
- Toivo Loukola, Finnish steeplechase runner
- Linda Stahl, German javelin thrower | 453 = 3 October:
- Tyler Christopher, Canadian sprinter
- Robbie Grabarz, British high jumper
- Abdon Pamich, Italian race walker
- Viktor Saneyev, Soviet triple jumper
- Ralph Spearow, American pole vaulter
- Janeene Vickers, American hurdler | 454 = 4 October:
- Thane Baker, American sprinter
- Olga Kuzenkova, Russian hammer thrower
- Charles McGinnis, American pole vaulter and high jumper
- Steve Seymour, American javelin thrower
- Sergey Shubenkov, Russian hurdler
- Jorma Valkama, Finnish long jumper | 455 = 5 October:
- Rein Aun, Soviet decathlete
- Mike Conley, American long- and triple jumper
- Olga Gyarmati, Hungarian long jumper
- Philippe Houvion, French pole vaulter
- Denis Kapustin, Russian triple jumper
- Nadezhda Konyayeva, Soviet javelin thrower
- Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian long- and triple jumper
- Letitia Vriesde, Surinamese middle-distance runner | 456 = 6 October:
- Valerie Adams, New Zealand shot putter
- Katrin Dörre-Heinig, German distance runner
- Michael Frater, Jamaican sprinter
- Wilson Boit Kipketer, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- William Petersson, Swedish long jumper
- Bevil Rudd, South African 400/800 runner
- Sunette Viljoen, South African javelin thrower
- Viktor Yevsyukov, Soviet javelin thrower | 457 = 7 October:
- Valeria Bufanu, Romanian hurdler
- William Droegemueller, American pole vaulter
- Erik Elmsäter, Swedish steeplechase runner
- Daniele Meucci, Italian distance runner
- Sanderlei Parrela, Brazilian sprinter
- Olesya Zykina, Russian sprinter | 458 = 8 October:
- Ira Davenport, American middle-distance runner
- Tatiana Grigorieva, Russian-Australian pole vaulter
- Reese Hoffa, American shot putter
- Lennox Miller, Jamaican sprinter
- Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
- Elvira Ozolina, Soviet javelin thrower
- Emiel Puttemans, Belgian distance runner
- Geoff Vanderstock, American hurdler | 459 = 9 October:
- Sylvio Cator, Haitian long jumper
- Dionicio Cerón, Mexican distance runner
- Peter Elliott, British middle-distance runner
- Deon Hemmings, Jamaican hurdler
- Tatyana Lysenko, Russian hammer thrower
- Blessing Okagbare, Nigerian sprinter
- Steve Ovett, British middle-distance runner | 460 = 10 October:
- Brian Diemer, American steeplechase runner
- Tatyana Firova, Russian sprinter
- Mario Lanzi, Italian middle-distance runner
- Elana Meyer, South African distance runner
- Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian distance runner | 461 = 11 October:
- Yelena Belevskaya, Soviet long jumper
- Darrel Brown, Trinidadian sprinter
- Nesta Carter, Jamaican sprinter
- Lee Bong-Ju, Korean distance runner
- Mekonnen Gebremedhin, Ethiopian middle-distance runner
- Hans Liesche, German high jumper
- Alan Pascoe, British hurdler
- Tadeusz Rut, Polish hammer thrower
- Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova, Ukrainian hurdler
- Mal Whitfield, American 400/800 runner
- Níki Xánthou, Greek long jumper
- Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentinian distance runner | 462 = 12 October:
- Kajsa Bergqvist, Swedish high jumper
- Fons Brijdenbach, Belgian sprinter
- Janay DeLoach, American long jumper
- Truxtun Hare, American thrower
- Marion Jones, American sprinter
- Vitold Kreyer, Soviet triple jumper
- Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai, Kenyan distance runner
- Vita Palamar, Ukrainian high jumper
- Adriaan Paulen, Dutch 400/800 runner and IAAF president | 463 = 13 October:
- Dwayne Evans, American sprinter
- Detlef Michel, German javelin thrower
- John Regis, British sprinter
- Annegret Richter, German sprinter
- Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper | 464 = 14 October:
- Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Trinidadian sprinter
- Steve Cram, British middle-distance runner
- Ray Ewry, American standing jumper
- Heinz Fütterer, German sprinter
- Benn Harradine, Australian discus thrower
- Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
- Richard Mateelong, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Viktor Röthlin, Swiss distance runner
- Ileana Silai, Romanian middle-distance runner
- Emerson Spencer, American sprinter | 465 = 15 October:
- Chris Brown, Bahamian sprinter
- Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French distance runner
- Chris Gitsham, South African distance runner
- Bobby Morrow, American sprinter
- Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Kenyan-Qatari steeplechase runner
- Tatyana Talysheva, Soviet long jumper | 466 = 16 October:
- Sabine John, German heptathlete
- George Kerr, Jamaican 400/800 runner
- Maxey Long, American sprinter
- István Mudin, Hungarian pentathlete
- Björn Otto, German pole vaulter
- Dorando Pietri, Italian distance runner
- Viktor Rashchupkin, Soviet discus thrower
- Riitta Salin, Finnish sprinter
- Verena Sailer, German sprinter | 467 = 17 October:
- Savatheda Fynes, Bahamian sprinter
- Jesús Ángel García, Spanish race walker
- Fabrice Lapierre, Australian long jumper
- Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter
- Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler
- Jared Tallent, Australian race walker | 468 = 18 October:
- Ernesto Canto, Mexican race walker
- Matthew Centrowitz, Jr., American middle-distance runner
- Robert Harting, German discus thrower
- Tatyana Kolpakova, Soviet long jumper
- Olesya Povh, Ukrainian sprinter | 469 = 19 October:
- Tatyana Anisimova, Soviet hurdler
- André Bucher, Swiss middle-distance runner
- Teresa Ciepły, Polish hurdler and sprinter
- Breaux Greer, American javelin thrower
- Charles Simpkins, American triple jumper
- Tesfaye Tola, Ethiopian distance runner | 470 = 20 October:
- Valeriy Borzov, Soviet sprinter
- Wayne Collett, American sprinter
- Arne Halse, Norwegian javelin thrower
- Nadine Kleinert, German shot putter
- Billy Konchellah, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Driss Maazouzi, Moroccan-French middle-distance runner
- Deresse Mekonnen, Ethiopian middle-distance runner | 471 = 21 October:
- Paavo Jaale, Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete
- Leonid Moseyev, Soviet distance runner
- Mike Tully, American pole vaulter | 472 = 22 October:
- Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian distance runner
- Mick Hill, British javelin thrower
- Henry Lauterbach, German long- and high jumper
- José Manuel Martínez, Spanish distance runner
- László Szalma, Hungarian long jumper | 473 = 23 October:
- František Douda, Czech shot putter
- Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand discus thrower
- Jack Keller, American hurdler
- Charles Kilpatrick, American middle-distance runner
- Anisya Kirdyapkina, Russian race walker
- Miklós Németh, Hungarian javelin thrower
- Frank Schaffer, German sprinter
- Stanislav Yemelyanov, Russian race walker | 474 = 24 October:
- Abel Antón, Spanish distance runner
- Bill Carr, American sprinter
- Matt Hemingway, American high jumper
- Stephen Kipkorir, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Victor Moya, Cuban high jumper
- Peter O'Connor, Irish long- and triple jumper
- Jim Peters, British distance runner
- Christian Reif, German long jumper | 475 = 25 October:
- Bud Held, American javelin thrower
- Gary Reed, Canadian middle-distance runner
- Dave Weill, American discus thrower | 476 = 26 October:
- Hanns Braun, German 400/800 runner
- Deriba Merga, Ethiopian distance runner
- Aki Parviainen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Paul Pilgrim, American 400/800 runner
- Joyce Smith, British middle- and long-distance runner | 477 = 27 October:
- Robbie Brightwell, British sprinter
- Luis Brunetto, Argentinian triple jumper
- John Capel, American sprinter
- Michèle Chardonnet, French hurdler
- Edvard Larsen, Norwegian triple jumper
- Atlee Mahorn, Canadian sprinter
- Tom McKean, British middle-distance runner
- Maria Mutola, Mozambican middle-distance runner
- Christiane Wartenberg, German middle-distance runner | 478 = 28 October:
- James B. Connolly, American jumper
- Daniel García, Mexican race walker
- Tommy Hampson, British middle-distance runner
- Bruce Jenner, American decathlete
- Tom Lieb, American discus thrower
- Isabella Ochichi, Kenyan distance runner
- Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Belarusian shot putter
- Bruno Söderström, Swedish pole vaulter | 479 = 29 October:
- Mike Carter, American shot putter
- John DeWitt, American hammer thrower
- Herman Frazier, American sprinter
- Martin Lel, Kenyan distance runner
- Cornelia Oschkenat, German hurdler
- Sigrun Siegl, German pentathlete and long jumper
- Myriam Soumaré, French sprinter
- Frank Wykoff, American sprinter | 480 = 30 October:
- Muna Lee, American sprinter
- Lyudmila Rogachova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek standing jumper
- Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower | 481 = 31 October:
- Alonzo Babers, American sprinter
- Kerron Clement, American hurdler and sprinter
- Frank Shorter, American distance runner
- Warren Weir, Jamaican sprinter
- Iryna Yatchenko, Belarusian discus thrower | 501 = 1 November:
- Philip Baker, British middle-distance runner
- Bill Bonthron, American middle-distance runner
- Danny Everett, American sprinter
- Emma George, Australian pole vaulter
- Fernando Mamede, Portuguese distance runner
- Bill Miller, American pole vaulter
- Klaus Richtzenhain, German middle-distance runner
- Kirill Sosunov, Russian long jumper
- Ulf Timmermann, German shot putter | 502 = 2 November:
- Saïd Aouita, Moroccan middle- and long-distance runner
- Bärbel Broschat, German hurdler
- Yunaika Crawford, Cuban hammer thrower
- Avard Moncur, Bahamian sprinter
- Noah Ngeny, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Karin Ruckstuhl, Dutch heptathlete
- Liesel Westermann, German discus thrower
- Johan Wissman, Swedish sprinter | 503 = 3 November:
- Calvin Bricker, Canadian long- and triple-jumper
- Marta Domínguez, Spanish distance runner
- Mariya Petkova, Bulgarian discus thrower
- Antonio Pettigrew, American sprinter
- Paul Ruto, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Jürgen Straub, German middle-distance runner
- John Taylor, American sprinter
- Oleh Tverdokhlib, Ukrainian hurdler | 504 = 4 November:
- Gennadiy Avdeyenko, Soviet high jumper
- Nils Engdahl, Swedish sprinter
- Mildred McDaniel, American high jumper
- Salvatore Morale, Italian hurdler
- Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower
- Martina Strutz, German pole vaulter
- Nicola Vizzoni, Italian hammer thrower | 505 = 5 November:
- Jānis Daliņš, Latvian race walker
- Edwin Flack, Australian middle-distance runner
- Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan distance runner
- Eliseo Martín, Spanish steeplechase runner
- Jane Saville, Australian race walker
- Wendy Sly, British middle-distance runner
- Trecia Smith, Jamaican triple jumper | 506 = 6 November:
- Joyce Chepchumba, Kenyan distance runner
- Aleksandra Chudina, Soviet all-rounder
- Marjorie Clark, South African hurdler
- Sabine Günther, German sprinter
- Larry James, American sprinter
- Zdzisław Kwaśny, Polish hammer thrower
- Eddie Owen, British distance runner
- George Poage, American hurdler
- Sandie Richards, Jamaican sprinter
- Savanté Stringfellow, American long jumper | 507 = 7 November:
- Greg Bell, American long jumper
- Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican hurdler
- Kathy McMillan, American long jumper
- Sigrun Wodars, German middle-distance runner | 508 = 8 November:
- Jéssica Augusto, Portuguese distance runner
- Rudolf Harbig, German 400/800 runner
- Lothar Milde, German discus thrower
- Fred Newhouse, American sprinter
- Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper | 509 = 9 November:
- Lyudmyla Blonska, Ukrainian heptathlete
- Zulia Calatayud, Cuban middle-distance runner
- Alice Coachman, American high jumper
- Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower
- Edward Lindberg, American sprinter
- Zsolt Németh, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler | 510 = 10 November:
- Hartwig Gauder, German race walker
- Greg Haughton, Jamaican sprinter
- Jutta Kirst, German high jumper
- Paul Kipsiele Koech, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- James LuValle, American sprinter
- Kenkichi Oshima, Japanese triple jumper
- Mike Powell, American long jumper
- Luciano Sušanj, Yugoslavian middle-distance runner
- Amy Mbacké Thiam, Senegalese sprinter
- Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan distance runner | 511 = 11 November:
- Aleksandr Baryshnikov, Soviet shot putter
- Raymond Hecht, German javelin thrower
- Jan Johnson, American pole vaulter
- Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish long jumper
- Willie May, American hurdler
- Josef Odložil, Czechoslovakian middle-distance runner
- Qieyang Shenjie, Chinese race walker | 512 = 12 November:
- Maureen Gardner, British hurdler
- Sverre Hansen, Norwegian long jumper
- Toivo Hyytiäinen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Luguelín Santos, Dominican sprinter | 513 = 13 November:
- Sergey Bakulin, Russian race walker
- Olga Fikotová, Czechoslovakian-American discus thrower
- Manuela Montebrun, French hammer thrower
- Tiffany Porter, American-British hurdler
- Yargelis Savigne, Cuban triple jumper
- Liliya Shobukhova, Russian distance runner
- Kelly Sotherton, British heptathlete
- Anna Verouli, Greek javelin thrower
- Steve Williams, American sprinter | 514 = 14 November:
- Klaus Beer, German long jumper
- John Bennett, American long jumper
- Marianne Dickerson, American distance runner
- Osleidys Menéndez, Cuban javelin thrower
- Ted Meredith, American 400/800 runner
- Anatoly Mikhailov, Soviet hurdler
- Judy Simpson, British heptathlete
- Gabriela Szabo, Romanian middle- and long-distance runner | 515 = 15 November:
- Edna Kiplagat, Kenyan distance runner
- Kęstutis Šapka, Soviet high jumper and coach
- Mac Wilkins, American discus thrower
- Zhou Chunxiu, Chinese distance runner | 516 = 16 November:
- Bert Cameron, Jamaican sprinter
- Tanja Damaske, German javelin thrower
- Donald Lippincott, American sprinter
- Marilyn Neufville, Jamaican-British sprinter
- Emerson Norton, American decathlete
- Mel Patton, American sprinter
- Edward Sarul, Polish shot putter
- Ellina Zvereva, Belarusian discus thrower | 517 = 17 November:
- Eunice Barber, French heptathlete and long jumper
- Ulrike Bruns, German middle-distance runner
- Derek Clayton, Australian distance runner
- Winthrop Graham, Jamaican hurdler
- Tom Hill, American hurdler
- Brenda Jones, Australian middle-distance runner
- Bob Mathias, American decathlete
- Greg Rutherford, British long jumper
- Klavdiya Tochonova, Soviet shot putter | 518 = 18 November:
- Earl Eby, American middle-distance runner
- Allyson Felix, American sprinter
- John Garrels, American hurdler and thrower
- Richard Limo, Kenyan distance runner
- LaVonna Martin, American hurdler
- Shirley Strong, British hurdler | 519 = 19 November:
- Luigi Beccali, Italian middle-distance runner
- Claudinei Quirino da Silva, Brazilian sprinter
- Meseret Defar, Ethiopian distance runner
- Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler
- Ivanka Khristova, Bulgarian shot putter
- Yipsi Moreno, Cuban hammer thrower
- Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower
- Dayron Robles, Cuban hurdler
- Reima Salonen, Finnish race walker
- Toby Stevenson, American pole vaulter | 520 = 20 November:
- Naide Gomes, São Toméan-Portuguese long jumper
- Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Richmond Landon, American high jumper
- Dora Ratjen, German high jumper
- Jean Shiley, American high jumper
- Aleksey Spiridonov, Soviet hammer thrower | 521 = 21 November:
- Oleksandr Bagach, Ukrainian shot putter
- Sabine Busch, German sprinter and hurdler
- Sebastian Chmara, Polish decathlete
- Henri Deloge, French middle-distance runner
- Alberto Juantorena, Cuban 400/800 runner
- Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprinter
- Werknesh Kidane, Ethiopian distance runner
- Ainārs Kovals, Latvian javelin thrower
- Nadine Müller, German discus thrower
- Niklas Wallenlind, Swedish hurdler | 522 = 22 November:
- Roger Bambuck, French sprinter
- Dionísio Castro, Portuguese distance runner
- Domingos Castro, Portuguese distance runner
- Nikolai Kirov, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Katrin Krabbe, German sprinter
- Francis Obikwelu, Nigerian-Portuguese sprinter
- Irina Privalova, Russian sprinter and hurdler
- Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
- Nataliya Tobias, Ukrainian middle-distance runner | 523 = 23 November:
- Rodion Gataullin, Russian pole vaulter
- Svetlana Krachevskaya, Soviet shot putter
- Nam Sung-yong, Korean distance runner
- Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
- Delos Thurber, American high jumper
- Terrence Trammell, American hurdler | 524 = 24 November:
- Eamonn Coghlan, Irish middle- and long-distance runner
- Dejen Gebremeskel, Ethiopian distance runner
- Carmelita Jeter, American sprinter
- Gisela Mauermayer, German discus thrower
- Sándor Rozsnyói, Hungarian steeplechase runner
- Ryan Whiting, American shot putter | 525 = 25 November:
- Lillian Copeland, American discus and javelin thrower
- Yoel García, Cuban triple jumper
- Lalonde Gordon, Trinidadian sprinter
- DeHart Hubbard, American long jumper and sprinter
- Christos Papanikolaou, Greek pole vaulter
- Gerhard Sperling, German race walker | 526 = 26 November:
- Ellen Fiedler, German hurdler
- Étienne Gailly, Belgian distance runner
- Lyudmila Shevtsova, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Roman Šebrle, Czech decathlete | 527 = 27 November:
- Henry Carr, American sprinter
- Edward Cook, American pole vaulter
- Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter
- Anatoliy Samotsvetov, Soviet hammer thrower | 528 = 28 November:
- Kriss Akabusi, British hurdler
- Yelizaveta Bryzghina, Ukrainian sprinter
- Anastasía Kelesídou, Greek discus thrower
- Nadezhda Olizarenko, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Sonia O'Sullivan, Irish middle-distance runner
- Vania Stambolova, Bulgarian sprinter and hurdler
- Alfred Kirwa Yego, Kenyan middle-distance runner | 529 = 29 November:
- Nikolay Chernetskiy, Soviet sprinter
- Käthe Krauß, German sprinter
- Hugo Lahtinen, Finnish pentathlete and long jumper
- Jennifer Oeser, German heptathlete
- Gus Pope, American discus thrower | 530 = 30 November:
- Basil Bennett, American hammer thrower
- Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter
- Kipkemboi Kimeli, Kenyan distance runner
- Ian Morris, Trinidadian sprinter
- Pauli Nevala, Finnish javelin thrower
- Olga Rypakova, Kazakh triple jumper | 551 = 1 December:
- Stephanie Brown-Trafton, American discus thrower
- Alberto Cova, Italian distance runner
- Mubarak Hassan Shami, Kenyan-Qatari distance runner
- Hans-Heinrich Sievert, German decathlete
- Alex Wilson, Canadian 400/800 runner | 552 = 2 December:
- Arvo Askola, Finnish distance runner
- Mike Larrabee, American sprinter
- Taisto Mäki, Finnish distance runner
- Sunder Nix, American sprinter
- Maksim Tarasov, Russian pole vaulter | 553 = 3 December:
- John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler
- Aleksey Drozdov, Russian decathlete
- Danilo Goffi, Italian distance runner
- Nataliya Grigoryeva, Ukrainian hurdler
- Glenn Hartranft, American shot putter and discus thrower
- Pentti Kahma, Finnish discus thrower
- Kaisa Parviainen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Yelena Zadorozhnaya, Russian distance runner | 554 = 4 December:
- Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
- Nathan Douglas, British triple jumper
- Tim Hutchings, British distance runner
- Nixon Kiprotich, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Glynis Nunn, Australian heptathlete and hurdler
- Darvis Patton, American sprinter | 555 = 5 December:
- Marise Chamberlain, New Zealand middle-distance runner
- Ashia Hansen, British triple jumper
- Patriz Ilg, German steeplechase runner
- Pamela Jelimo, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Linet Masai, Kenyan distance runner
- Falilat Ogunkoya, Nigerian sprinter
- Duane Ross, American hurdler
- Valeriy Spitsyn, Russian race walker
- Juha Tiainen, Finnish hammer thrower | 556 = 6 December:
- Luis Delís, Cuban discus thrower
- Guy Drut, French hurdler
- Jim Fuchs, American shot putter
- Viktor Lipsnis, Soviet shot putter
- John Mikaelsson, Swedish race walker
- Dwight Stones, American high jumper
- Miklós Szabó, Hungarian middle-distance runner | 557 = 7 December:
- Alain Blondel, French decathlete
- John Carpenter, American sprinter
- Manuel Martínez, Spanish shot putter
- Duncan McNaughton, Canadian high jumper
- Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper | 558 = 8 December:
- McDonald Bailey, Trinidadian sprinter
- Alonso Edward, Panamanian sprinter
- José Luis González, Spanish middle-distance runner
- Emma Green Tregaro, Swedish high jumper
- Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Władysław Kozakiewicz, Polish pole vaulter
- DeeDee Trotter, American sprinter
- Bodo Tümmler, German middle-distance runner
- Anita Weyermann, Swiss middle- and long-distance runner | 559 = 9 December:
- Milt Campbell, American decathlete and hurdler
- Nick Hysong, American pole vaulter
- Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish distance runner
- Vénuste Niyongabo, Burundian middle- and long-distance runner
- Diana Yorgova, Bulgarian long jumper | 560 = 10 December:
- Tatyana Andrianova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Anna Jesień, Polish hurdler
- Jules Ladoumègue, French middle-distance runner
- Mark McKoy, Canadian hurdler
- Carla Sacramento, Portuguese middle-distance runner | 561 = 11 December:
- Tatyana Kotova, Russian long jumper
- Ella Kovacs, Romanian middle-distance runner
- Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower
- Gete Wami, Ethiopian distance runner | 562 = 12 December:
- Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper
- Arturo Barrios, Mexican distance runner
- Gus Desch, American hurdler
- Josef Doležal, Czechoslovakian walker
- Martina Hellmann, German discus thrower
- Wilson Kipketer, Kenyan-Danish middle-distance runner
- Wilfred Kirochi, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Alvin Kraenzlein, American all-rounder
- Bernard Lagat, Kenyan-American middle- and long-distance runner
- Dean Macey, British decathlete
- Fiona May, British-Italian long jumper
- John Moffitt, American long jumper
- Michael Möllenbeck, German discus thrower
- Andrey Perlov, Russian race walker
- Christa Stubnick, German sprinter | 563 = 13 December:
- Lillian Board, British 400/800 runner
- Tonja Buford-Bailey, American hurdler
- Janeth Jepkosgei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Joseph Mahmoud, French steeplechase runner
- Hellen Obiri, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- George Rhoden, Jamaican sprinter | 564 = 14 December:
- Falk Balzer, German hurdler
- Ruth Fuchs, German javelin thrower
- Diana Gansky, German discus thrower
- Hanne Haugland, Norwegian high jumper
- Boris Henry, German javelin thrower
- C. J. Hunter, American shot putter
- Shedrack Korir, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Walter Rangeley, British sprinter
- Howard Valentine, American middle-distance runner
- Diane Williams, American sprinter | 565 = 15 December:
- Harold Abrahams, British sprinter
- Harry Babcock, American pole vaulter
- Bai Xue, Chinese distance runner
- Fita Bayissa, Ethiopian distance runner
- Jehue Gordon, Trinidadian hurdler
- Jorma Kinnunen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Véronique Mang, French sprinter
- Liliya Nurutdinova, Soviet middle-distance runner | 566 = 16 December:
- Donovan Bailey, Canadian sprinter
- Heike Drechsler, German long jumper and sprinter
- Horatio Fitch, American sprinter
- Vince Matthews, American sprinter
- Harold Whitlock, British race walker | 567 = 17 December:
- Yuko Arimori, Japanese distance runner
- Pat Flynn, American steeplechase runner
- Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
- Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan sprinter
- Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet middle-distance runner
- Inna Lasovskaya, Russian triple jumper
- Galina Malchugina, Russian sprinter
- Iván Pedroso, Cuban long jumper
- Paula Radcliffe, British distance runner
- David Rudisha, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Peter Snell, New Zealand middle-distance runner | 568 = 18 December:
- Anzhela Balakhonova, Ukrainian pole vaulter
- John Cooper, British hurdler
- Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian distance runner
- Bogusław Mamiński, Polish steeplechase runner
- Matt McGrath, American hammer thrower
- Willi Wülbeck, German middle-distance runner | 569 = 19 December:
- Charles Austin, American high jumper
- Michael Bates, American sprinter
- Zuzana Hejnová, Czech hurdler
- LaTasha Jenkins, American sprinter
- Sally Kipyego, Kenyan distance runner
- Isiah Koech, Kenyan distance runner
- Claudia Testoni, Italian hurdler
- Tero Pitkämäki, Finnish javelin thrower
- Erick Wainaina, Kenyan distance runner | 570 = 20 December:
- Erik Almlöf, Swedish triple jumper
- Jacko Gill, New Zealand shot putter
- Bob Hayes, American sprinter
- Zahra Ouaziz, Moroccan middle- and long-distance runner
- Anja Rücker, German sprinter
- Bouabdellah Tahri, French steeplechase runner
- Hildegard Ullrich, German middle-distance runner | 571 = 21 December:
- Jean Bouin, French distance runner
- Tamara Bykova, Soviet high jumper
- Florence Griffith-Joyner, American sprinter
- Dave Laut, American shot putter
- Giuseppina Leone, Italian sprinter
- Mirela Maniani, Greek javelin thrower
- Perri Shakes-Drayton, British hurdler | 572 = 22 December:
- Gisela Birkemeyer, German hurdler
- Garfield Darien, French hurdler
- George Hutson, British distance runner
- Ardalion Ignatyev, Soviet sprinter
- Marina Kuptsova, Russian high jumper
- Galina Murašova, Soviet discus thrower
- Giorgio Oberweger, Italian discus thrower
- Marcus O'Sullivan, Irish middle-distance runner
- Myer Prinstein, American long- and triple jumper
- Urszula Włodarczyk, Polish heptathlete | 573 = 23 December:
- Lisa Dobriskey, British middle-distance runner
- Joanna Hayes, American hurdler
- Yukifumi Murakami, Japanese javelin thrower
- Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter and discus thrower
- Bill Rodgers, American distance runner
- Olga Shishigina, Kazakh hurdler
- Rick Wohlhuter, American middle-distance runner | 574 = 24 December:
- Brigetta Barrett, American high jumper
- Ellen Braumüller, German javelin thrower
- Chen Yueling, Chinese race walker
- Alfred Dompert, German steeplechase runner
- Liu Dong, Chinese middle-distance runner
- Adam Gunn, American all-arounder
- Svetlana Pospelova, Russian sprinter
- Ville Pörhölä, Finnish shot putter and hammer thrower
- Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker
- Wallace Spearmon, American sprinter | 575 = 25 December:
- Chioma Ajunwa, Nigerian long jumper and sprinter
- Basil Heatley, British distance runner
- Kaarlo Maaninka, Finnish distance runner
- Martin Mathathi, Kenyan distance runner
- Fred Onyancha, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Qu Yunxia, Chinese middle-distance runner | 576 = 26 December:
- Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
- Ralph Hill, American distance runner
- Percy Hodge, British steeplechase runner
- Janina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya, Belarusian shot putter
- Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
- María Vasco, Spanish race walker
- Isaac Viciosa, Spanish middle- and long-distance runner | 577 = 27 December:
- Aigars Fadejevs, Latvian race walker
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaican sprinter
- Doina Melinte, Romanian middle-distance runner
- Daimí Pernía, Cuban hurdler
- Claus Schiprowski, German pole vaulter
- Jesse Williams, American high jumper | 578 = 28 December:
- Charles Bennett, British middle-distance runner
- Abdi Bile, Somali middle-distance runner
- Derrick Brew, American sprinter
- Hansjörg Kunze, German distance runner
- Trond Nymark, Norwegian race walker
- Ryta Turava, Belarusian race walker | 579 = 29 December:
- Norman Hallows, British middle-distance runner
- Fred Hansen, American pole vaulter
- Kate Schmidt, American javelin thrower
- Andy Stanfield, American sprinter
- Angelo Taylor, American hurdler and sprinter | 580 = 30 December:
- Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily, Saudi Arabian hurdler
- Glory Alozie, Nigerian-Spanish hurdler
- Dave Bedford, British distance runner
- Ato Boldon, Trinidadian sprinter
- Sandra Glover, American hurdler
- Phillips Idowu, British triple jumper
- Ben Johnson, Canadian sprinter
- Antal Kiss, Hungarian race walker
- Paola Pigni, Italian middle-distance runner
- Martti Vainio, Finnish distance runner
- Jacek Wszoła, Polish high jumper | 581 = 31 December:
- Inge Helten, German sprinter
- Helma Knorscheidt, German shot putter
- Yrjö Nikkanen, Finnish javelin thrower
- Ivan Riley, American hurdler
- Ahmed Salah, Djiboutian distance runner
- Fritz Schwab, Swiss race walker
- Margaret Simpson, Ghanaian heptathlete
- Willye White, American long jumper
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