Historical Births Today: 10 October

Births

• 1344 - Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362)


• 1567 - Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)


• 1678 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (d. 1743)


• 1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)


• 1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)


• 1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)


• 1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)


• 1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)


• 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)


• 1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)


• 1825 - Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)


• 1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)


• 1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)


• 1834 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)


• 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)


• 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)


• 1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)


• 1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)


• 1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)


• 1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)


• 1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)


• 1889 - Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forgers (d. 1947)


• 1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)


• 1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)


• 1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)


• 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)


• 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)


• 1903 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)


• 1903 - Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)


• 1906 - Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)


• 1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)


• 1908 - Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)


• 1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)


• 1909 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director


• 1913 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)


• 1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)


• 1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)


• 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)


• 1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor


• 1924 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)


• 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)


• 1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)


• 1925 - Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)


• 1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)


• 1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)


• 1930 - Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)


• 1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate


• 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate


• 1930 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)


• 1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer


• 1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)


• 1935 - Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)


• 1935 - André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive


• 1936 - Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.


• 1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer


• 1939 - Joseph Pitts, American politician


• 1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor


• 1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister


• 1943 - Frederick Barthelme, American author


• 1946 - Charles Dance, English actor


• 1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician


• 1946 - John Prine, American singer


• 1946 - Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter


• 1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor


• 1946 - Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player


• 1946 - Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer


• 1947 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)


• 1948 - Séverine, French singer


• 1948 - Ed Volker, American musician


• 1950 - Nora Roberts, American novelist


• 1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman


• 1953 - Midge Ure, Scottish musician


• 1953 - Gus Williams, American basketball player


• 1954 - Rekha, Bollywood actress


• 1954 - David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen)


• 1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress


• 1956 - Mark Gordon, American film producer


• 1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist


• 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer


• 1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)


• 1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor


• 1960 - Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)


• 1960 - Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player


• 1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress


• 1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner


• 1961 - Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian


• 1961 - Martin Kemp (actor), British musician (Spandau Ballet) and actor


• 1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)


• 1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)


• 1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer


• 1963 - Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.


• 1964 - Sarah Lancashire, English actress


• 1964 - Quinton Flynn, American voice actor


• 1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)


• 1965 - Clive Jones, British engineer


• 1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress


• 1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)


• 1965 - Steve Scalise, American politician


• 1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer


• 1967 - Jonathan Littell, French-American writer


• 1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker


• 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player


• 1969 - Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress


• 1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer


• 1970 - Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger


• 1970 - Bai Ling, Chinese American actress


• 1970 - Corinna May, German singer


• 1970 - Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete


• 1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower


• 1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer


• 1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist


• 1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player


• 1972 - Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter


• 1973 - Mario López, American actor


• 1973 - Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer


• 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver


• 1974 - Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor


• 1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer


• 1974 - Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player


• 1975 - Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer


• 1975 - Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player


• 1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder


• 1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player


• 1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress


• 1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer


• 1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player


• 1979 - Wu Chun, Brunei born Taiwanese actor


• 1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.


• 1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer


• 1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)


• 1980 - Sherine, Egyptian singer


• 1981 - Michael Oliver, American actor


• 1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer


• 1982 - Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver


• 1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer


• 1984 - Rod Benson, American basketball player


• 1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer


• 1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress


• 1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player


• 1984 - Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player


• 1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist


• 1985 - Aaron Himelstein, American actor


• 1986 - Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player


• 1991 - Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer

Historical Births Today: 09 October

Births

• 1201 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)


• 1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler


• 1261 - King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)


• 1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)


• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes (d. 1616)


• 1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)


• 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)


• 1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)


• 1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)


• 1757 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)


• 1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)


• 1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)


• 1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)


• 1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)


• 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)


• 1871 - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)


• 1871 - Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.


• 1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)


• 1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)


• 1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)


• 1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)


• 1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)


• 1886 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)


• 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)


• 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)


• 1892 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)


• 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)


• 1893 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)


• 1900 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)


• 1902 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)


• 1903 - Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)


• 1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)


• 1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)


• 1907 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)


• 1908 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)


• 1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)


• 1909 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)


• 1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)


• 1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture


• 1918 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)


• 1918 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)


• 1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)


• 1921 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)


• 1922 - Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)


• 1923 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor


• 1925 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)


• 1926 - Danièle Delorme, French actress


• 1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer


• 1931 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair


• 1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate


• 1934 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author


• 1935 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family


• 1936 - Brian Blessed, English actor


• 1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician


• 1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)


• 1940 - Joe Pepitone, American baseball player


• 1941 - Trent Lott, American politician


• 1941 - Brian Lamb, Founder of c-span


• 1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician


• 1943 - Mike Peters, American cartoonist


• 1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)


• 1944 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle)


• 1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)


• 1946 - Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey


• 1947 - France Gall, French singer


• 1947 - William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)


• 1947 - Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer


• 1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician


• 1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize


• 1950 - Brian Downing, former baseball player


• 1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne


• 1953 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor


• 1954 - Scott Bakula, American actor


• 1954 - James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)


• 1954 - Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician


• 1954 - John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host


• 1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner


• 1958 - Michael Pare, American actor


• 1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)


• 1960 - Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist


• 1961 - Julian Bailey, British racing driver


• 1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer


• 1964 - Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur


• 1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director


• 1966 - Christopher Östlund, Swedish Publisher and entrepreneur


• 1966 - David Cameron, British politician


• 1967 - Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)


• 1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician


• 1970 - Kenny Anderson, American basketball player


• 1970 - Park Sang-min, South Korean actor


• 1970 - Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)


• 1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer


• 1970 - Jason Butler Harner, American actor


• 1971 - Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)


• 1971 - Michael Manna, American professional wrestler


• 1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor


• 1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist


• 1973 - Steven Burns, American actor and musician


• 1973 - Erin Daniels, American actress


• 1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)


• 1973 - Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer


• 1974 - Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor


• 1975 - Sean Lennon, American musician & son of ex-Beatle John Lennon


• 1975 - Mark Viduka, Australian footballer


• 1976 - Nick Swardson American Actor


• 1977 - Brian Roberts, American baseball player


• 1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)


• 1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player


• 1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer


• 1979 - Brandon Routh, American actor


• 1979 - Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver


• 1980 - Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian Footballer


• 1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player


• 1981 - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer


• 1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor


• 1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player


• 1982 - António Mendonça, Angolan footballer


• 1982 - Shi Jun, Chinese footballer


• 1983 - Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver


• 1983 - Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player


• 1984 - Ghetto, British musician


• 1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer


• 1992 - Tyler James Williams, American actor


• 1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

Historical Births Today: 08 October

Births

• 1515 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)


• 1676 - Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764)


• 1713 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793)


• 1715 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774)


• 1720 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766)


• 1747 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)


• 1765 - Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831)


• 1789 - John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874)


• 1789 - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)


• 1818 - John Henninger Reagan, American politician (d. 1905)


• 1834 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)


• 1850 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)


• 1863 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)


• 1864 - Ozias Leduc, Québécois painter (d. 1955)


• 1870 - Louis Vierne, French organist (d. 1937)


• 1877 - Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968)


• 1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)


• 1883 - Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)


• 1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942)


• 1887 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956)


• 1888 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)


• 1889 - C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966)


• 1890 - Edward Rickenbacker, American pilot (d. 1973)


• 1890 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)


• 1895 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)


• 1895 - Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961)


• 1896 - Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967)


• 1897 - Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (d. 1987)


• 1901 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer (d. 1977)


• 1910 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)


• 1910 - Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)


• 1910 - Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d. 2003)


• 1917 - Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)


• 1917 - Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002)


• 1917 - Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player (d. 1976)


• 1917 - Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)


• 1918 - Ron Randell, film character actor (d.2005)


• 1918 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel laureate


• 1919 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)


• 1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)


• 1921 - Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist


• 1922 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish football midfielder and coach (d. 2007)


• 1924 - Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council


• 1927 - Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956)


• 1927 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)


• 1928 - Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer


• 1928 - Bill Maynard, British actor


• 1929 - Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001)


• 1930 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)


• 1932 - Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player


• 1936 - Rona Barrett, American gossip columnist


• 1938 - Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player


• 1938 - Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky


• 1939 - Paul Hogan, Australian actor


• 1939 - Harvey Pekar, American author


• 1939 - Lynne Stewart, American civil liberties lawyer


• 1940 - Fred Cash, American singer (The Impressions)


• 1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist


• 1943 - Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor


• 1943 - R. L. Stine, American author


• 1944 - Susan Raye, American singer


• 1946 - Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director


• 1946 - Dennis Kucinich, American politician


• 1947 - Emiel Puttemans, Belgian athlete


• 1948 - Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor


• 1948 - Sarah Purcell, American television host


• 1948 - Johnny Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2004)


• 1948 - Pedro López, Colombian serial killer


• 1948 - Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)


• 1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress


• 1950 - Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang)


• 1951 - Jack O'Connell, American politician


• 1952 - Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician


• 1952 - Edward Zwick, American film director


• 1954 - Michael Dudikoff, American actor


• 1954 - Huub Rothengatter, Dutch racecar driver


• 1955 - Bill Elliott, American racecar driver


• 1955 - Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician


• 1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress


• 1956 - Jeff Lahti, American baseball player


• 1957 - Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer


• 1957 - Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director


• 1958 - Steve Coll, American journalist


• 1959 - Nick Bakay, American actor


• 1959 - Mike Morgan, American baseball player


• 1960 - Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster


• 1960 - François Pérusse, Quebec humorist


• 1960 - Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur


• 1962 - Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver


• 1964 - CeCe Winans, American singer


• 1965 - Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor


• 1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)


• 1966 - Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)


• 1967 - Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress


• 1968 - Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer


• 1968 - Zvonimir Boban, Croatian football player


• 1968 - Emily Procter, American actress


• 1968 - Karyn Parsons, American actress


• 1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)


• 1969 - Julia Ann, American pornographic actress


• 1969 - Jeremy Davies, American actor


• 1969 - Dylan Neal, Canadian actor


• 1970 - Matt Damon, American actor


• 1970 - Gauri Khan, wife of Indian actor Shahrukh Khan


• 1970 - Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer


• 1970 - Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress


• 1972 - Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer


• 1974 - Fredrik Modin, Swedish hockey player


• 1974 - DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)


• 1974 - Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower


• 1976 - Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player


• 1976 - Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater


• 1977 - Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider


• 1977 - Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Deathlike Silence)


• 1978 - Mick O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player


• 1978 - Antonino D'Agostino, Italian football player


• 1979 - Kristanna Loken, American actress


• 1979 - Paul Burchill, English professional wrestler


• 1979 - Gregori Chad Petree, American musician (Shiny Toy Guns)


• 1980 - Mike Mizanin, American wrestler


• 1980 - Nick Cannon, American actor


• 1981 - Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player


• 1981 - Ruby (Egyptian Singer), Egyptian singer


• 1983 - Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper


• 1983 - Travis Pastrana, American motorsports competitor


• 1985 - Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer


• 1987 - Aya Hirano, Japanese Seiyuu


• 1993 - Angus T. Jones, American actor (Two and a Half Men)

Historical Births Today: 07 October

Births

• 1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)


• 1573 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)


• 1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)


• 1589 - Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)


• 1713 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)


• 1728 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784)


• 1744 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)


• 1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)


• 1769 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)


• 1786 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)


• 1835 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)


• 1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)


• 1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)


• 1866 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)


• 1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)


• 1884 - Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)


• 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)


• 1888 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)


• 1892 - Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)


• 1894 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)


• 1897 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)


• 1898 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)


• 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official (d. 1945)


• 1905 - Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)


• 1907 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)


• 1909 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)


• 1909 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72^nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)


• 1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)


• 1911 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)


• 1911 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)


• 1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)


• 1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987)


• 1914 - Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)


• 1914 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)


• 1917 - June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)


• 1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician


• 1921 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)


• 1922 - Grady Hatton, American baseball player


• 1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)


• 1923 - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps


• 1926 - Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)


• 1927 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist (d. 1989)


• 1927 - Al Martino, American singer and actor


• 1928 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)


• 1929 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)


• 1931 - Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)


• 1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate


• 1934 - Amiri Baraka, American writer


• 1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (d. 1976)


• 1935 - Thomas Keneally, Australian author


• 1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor


• 1937 - Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician


• 1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist


• 1939 - Clive James, Australian TV presenter and writer


• 1939 - Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate


• 1939 - Bill Snyder, American football coach


• 1940 - Bruce Vento, U.S. Congressman from Minnesota (d. 2000)


• 1943 - Joy Behar, American co-host of The View


• 1943 - José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player


• 1943 - Oliver North, U.S. Marine, staff officer, television personality and author


• 1944 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)


• 1944 - Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong


• 1945 - Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc)


• 1946 - Bernard Lavilliers, French singer


• 1946 - Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei


• 1948 - Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist


• 1949 - Dave Hope, American musician (Kansas)


• 1950 - Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician


• 1951 - John Mellencamp, American singer


• 1951 - David J. Halberstam, American radio executive


• 1952 - Mary Badham, American actress


• 1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian politician


• 1952 - Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d.2002)


• 1952 - Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer


• 1953 - Tico Torres, Drummer (Bon Jovi)


• 1954 - Kenneth Atchley, American composer


• 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist


• 1955 - Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist


• 1957 - Michael W. Smith, American singer


• 1957 - Jayne Torvill, British figure skater


• 1958 - Judy Landers, American actress


• 1959 - Dylan Baker, American character actor


• 1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive


• 1959 - Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician


• 1959 - Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician


• 1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer


• 1960 - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer


• 1961 - Matthew Roloff, American actor and reality star


• 1961 - Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor


• 1962 - Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician


• 1964 - Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter


• 1964 - Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author


• 1964 - Paul Stewart, English footballer


• 1965 - Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver


• 1966 - Toni Braxton, American singer


• 1966 - Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer


• 1967 - Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)


• 1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)


• 1969 - Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter


• 1969 - Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler


• 1969 - Maria Whittaker, English model


• 1969 - Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor and singer


• 1970 - Nicole Ari Parker, American actress


• 1971 - Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician


• 1972 - Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director


• 1973 - Dida, Brazilian footballer


• 1973 - Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer


• 1973 - Priest Holmes, American Football Running Back


• 1974 - Allison Munn, American actress


• 1974 - Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer


• 1974 - Alexander Polinsky, American actor


• 1975 - Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler


• 1975 - Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)


• 1976 - Taylor Hicks, American musician


• 1976 - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress


• 1976 - Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer


• 1976 - Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer


• 1976 - Charles Woodson, American football player


• 1976 - Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer


• 1977 - Brandon Quinn, American actor


• 1977 - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress


• 1978 - Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)


• 1978 - Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer


• 1979 - Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast


• 1979 - Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor


• 1979 - Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor


• 1979 - Tang Wei, Chinese actress


• 1980 - Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor


• 1982 - Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer


• 1982 - Jermain Defoe, English footballer


• 1982 - Robby Ginepri, American tennis player


• 1982 - Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist


• 1984 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor


• 1984 - Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer


• 1985 - Evan Longoria, American baseball player


• 1986 - Lee Nguyen, American soccer player


• 1986 - Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer


• 1986 - Bree Olson, American adult film actress


• 1987 - Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer


• 1988 - Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)


• 2001 - Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho