Famous Births on 6 Nov

Famous Births on 6 Nov

1391 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 - Joanna I of Castile, queen of Spain (d. 1555)
1494 - Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)
1550 - Karin MÃ¥nsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1661 - King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
1692 - Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
1753 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d. 1894)
1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1841 - Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d.1902)
1854 - John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
1855 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1860 - Ignace Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and President of Poland (d. 1941)
1861 - James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1882 - Thomas Ince, American movie actor, director, producer. (d. 1924)
1887 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1906 - James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Black Hawks) (d. 1966)
1914 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
1916 - Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d. 2002)
1921 - James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
1924 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1926 - Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian
1931 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1931 - Mike Nichols, American film director
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
1937 - Joe Warfield, American actor
1938 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 - P.J. Proby, American-born singer and actor
1938 - Diana E. H. Russell, South African feminist writer and activist
1938 - Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
1939 - Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1939 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1940 - Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
1946 - Sally Field, American actress
1946 - Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer
1947 - Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
1947 - George Young, Australian musician (AC/DC)
1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
1949 - Joseph C. Wilson, Vice Chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC
1949 - Nigel Havers, English actor
1951 - John Falsey, American television writer and producer
1951 - Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 - Catherine Crier, American television personality
1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist
1957 - Lori Singer, American actress
1957 - Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
1957 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
1958 - Trace Beaulieu, American actor
1960 - Michael Cerveris, American actor
1961 - Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
1961 - Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator
1961 - Craig Goldy, guitarist for the band Dio
1962 - Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
1963 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 - Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
1964 - Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1966 - Peter DeLuise, American actor and director
1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
1968 - Alfred Williams, American football player
1968 - Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
1968 - Kelly Rutherford, American actress
1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
1972 - Deivi Cruz, American baseball player
1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress
1972 - Thandie Newton, English actress
1972 - Garry Flitcroft, English footballer
1973 - Nell McAndrew, British model
1974 - Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist
1975 - Anastasia Blue, American former pornographic actress
1976 - Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
1976 - Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
1976 - Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1977 - Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
1978 - Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
1978 - Taryn Manning, American actress
1978 - Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
1978 - Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
1978 - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1979 - Lamar Odom, American basketball player
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981 - Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1982 - Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
1983 - Janette McBride, Filipino actress
1987 - Ana Ivanović, Serbian tennis player
1988 - Erik Lund, Swedish football player
1988 - Emma Stone, American actress
1989 - Jozy Altidore, American soccer player

Famous Births on 5 Nov

Famous Births on 5 Nov

1271 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 - Hans Sachs, German mastersinger (d. 1576)
1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1648)
1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
1715 - John Brown, English writer (d. 1766)
1722 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English duelist (d. 1798)
1742 - Richard Cosway, English artist (d. 1821)
1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
1835 - Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
1846 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
1850 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
1851 - Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923)
1854 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)
1854 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
1857 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
1873 - Teddy Flack, Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896. (d. 1935)
1881 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (d. 1961)
1884 - James Flecker, English writer (d. 1915)
1885 - Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
1890 - Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
1895 - Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956)
1895 - Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
1904 - Cooney Weiland, Canadian hockey player (d. 1985)
1905 - Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
1906 - Endre Kabos, Hungarian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1944))
1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
1911 - Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1914 - Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
1917 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000)
1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1919 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978)
1919 - Myron Floren, American accordianist The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2005)
1920 - Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 1994)
1921 - Fawzia of Egypt, Queen of Iran
1922 - Violet Barclay, American illustrator
1931 - Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
1935 - Lester Piggott, British jockey
1935 - Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist
1936 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (d. 2001)
1937 - Harris Yulin, American actor
1938 - Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980)
1938 - César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
1938 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, publisher, and film production illustrator
1940 - Elke Sommer, German actress
1941 - Art Garfunkel, American musician
1943 - Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor
1943 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007)
1945 - Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1945 - Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
1946 - Herman Brood, Dutch musician and artist (d. 2001)
1946 - Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973)
1947 - Peter Noone, English musician (Herman's Hermits)
1948 - William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
1948 - Hridayananda dasa Goswami, ISKCON guru
1948 - Peter Hammill, British musician
1948 - Mel Ab-Owain, Welsh politician
1949 - Armin Shimerman, American actor
1949 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1950 - Thorbjørn Jagland, former Norwegian prime minister
1952 - Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist
1952 - Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player and commentator
1953 - Florentino V. Floro, Filipino dwarf judge
1953 - Joyce Maynard, American writer
1955 - Karan Thapar, Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
1955 - Nestor Serrano, American actor
1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984)
1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
1960 - Tilda Swinton, English actress
1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)
1961 - David Bryson, American guitarist and vocalist (Counting Crows)
1962 - Abédi Pelé, Ghanaian footballer
1962 - Marcus J. Ranum, American computer/network security innovator
1963 - Tatum O'Neal, American actress
1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress
1964 - Tim Blake Nelson, American actor
1965 - Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
1965 - Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte, titular Bulgarian royal family
1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
1968 - Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress
1968 - Judy Reyes, Dominican American actress
1968 - Sam Rockwell, American film actor
1970 - Javy López, baseball player
1970 - Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
1971 - Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer
1971 - Sergei Berezin, National Hockey League player
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead)
1971 - Corin Nemec, American actor
1971 - Rob Jones, English footballer
1971 - Dana Jacobson, ESPN's First Take hostess
1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1973 - Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Daniella Westbrook, English actress
1974 - Ryan Adams, American musician
1974 - Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
1974 - Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
1974 - Angela Gossow, German vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1977 - Brittney Skye, American porn star
1977 - Richard Wright, English footballer
1978 - Mihalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
1980 - Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 - Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
1980 - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
1983 - Mike Hanke, German footballer
1984 - Nick Folk, American football player
1984 - Tobias Enstrom, Swedish hockey player
1985 - Kate DeAraugo, Australian Idol 2005
1985 - Tanaka Koki, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
1986 - BoA, Korean singer
1986 - Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1987 - Kevin Jonas, American singer

Famous Births on 4 Nov

Famous Births on 4 Nov

1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
1575 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1631 - Mary of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England (d. 1660)
1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1740 - Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1809 - Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
1816 - Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
1836 - Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman (d. 1912)
1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, The First Indian Revolutionary (d. 1883)
1868 - Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953)
1884 - Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1890 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer and poet (d. 1928)
1899 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985)
1900 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1901 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
1904 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
1908 - Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1908 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
1909 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1909 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
1912 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
1913 - Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
1916 - Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster
1918 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1918 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (d. 1994)
1919 - Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
1922 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1924 - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1929 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
1930 - Dick Groat, American baseball player
1930 - Doris Roberts, American actress
1932 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1933 - Tito Francona, American baseball player
1936 - C. K. Williams, American poet
1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
1937 - Michael Wilson, Canadian politician
1940 - Delbert McClinton, American musician
1943 - Marlène Jobert, French actress
1943 - Clark Graebner, American tennis player
1943 - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (d. 2001)
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
1944 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1946 - Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
1950 - Charles Frazier, American author
1950 - Markie Post, American actress
1951 - Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
1951 - Cosey Fanni Tutti, English performance artist (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey)
1953 - Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator
1953 - Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1954 - Chris Difford, English musician and songwriter
1955 - Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
1956 - Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
1958 - Anne Sweeney, American television executive
1960 - Marc Awodey, American artist and writer
1960 - Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
1961 - Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
1961 - Les Sampou, American musician
1961 - Ralph Macchio, American actor
1961 - Edward Knight, American composer
1961 - Daron Hagen, American composer
1961 - Kathy Griffin, American comedian
1962 - Jeff Probst, American television host
1963 - Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1963 - Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey coach
1965 - Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X)
1965 - Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen Journey)
1965 - Tomoaki Ishizuka "Pata", Japanese musician
1965 - Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1966 - H. John Heinz IV, American medieval armor craftsman; son of Teresa Heinz
1967 - Eric Karros, American baseball player
1968 - Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player
1969 - Sean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper
1969 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
1970 - Tim DeBoom, American triathlete
1972 - Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 - Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
1974 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 - Heather Tom, American actress
1975 - Curtis Stone, Australian chef and television personality
1975 - Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player
1975 - Eric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian racing driver
1976 - Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1977 - Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
1977 - So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
1977 - Tonicha Jeronimo, British actress
1978 - John Grabow, American baseball player
1978 - Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1979 - Jesse Camp, former MTV veejay
1979 - Trishelle Cannatella, American reality tv castmember and model
1979 - Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
1980 - Marcy Rylan, American actress
1980 - Richard Owens, American football player
1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1980 - Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
1981 - Vince Wilfork, American football player
1982 - Devin Hester, American football player
1985 - Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress
1986 - Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver

Famous Births on 3 Nov

Famous Births on 3 Nov

1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
1558 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (d. 1594)
1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1718 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)
1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
1794 - William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
1799 - William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)
1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
1801 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
1815 - John Mitchel, Fenian
1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
1816 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)
1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
1856 - Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918)
1857 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)
1862 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)
1871 - Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1876 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
1877 - Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960)
1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer, translator and children's poet (d. 1964)
1890 - Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest (d. 1943)
1893 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
1901 - Leopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1903 - Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
1908 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
1909 - James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1912 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
1918 - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
1918 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
1918 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
1918 - Bob Feller, baseball player
1919 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1923 - Tomás Cardinal Ã" Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
1924 - Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
1926 - Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
1926 - Maurice Couture, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop
1928 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
1930 - Lois Smith, American actress
1930 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1930 - D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1931 - Monica Vitti, Italian actress
1931 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (d. 2007)
1933 - Michael Dukakis, American politician
1933 - Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
1933 - John Barry, English composer
1933 - Ken Berry, American actor
1934 - Ruma Guha Thakurta, Singer, Actress, Dancer, Founder of Calcutta Youth Choir
1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis champion
1938 - Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
1938 - Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
1941 - Brian Poole, English musician (The Tremeloes)
1943 - Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician
1945 - Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
1945 - Gerd Müller, German footballer
1945 - J. D. Souther, American country-rock singer/songwriter & actor
1946 - Tom Savini, American actor
1947 - Mazie Hirono, American politician
1948 - Lulu, British actress and singer
1948 - Helmut Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 - Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
1949 - Anna Wintour, English-American editor
1949 - Larry Holmes, American boxer
1950 - Joe Queenan, American writer
1950 - Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
1951 - Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News
1952 - Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian
1952 - Jim Cummings, American voice actor
1952 - David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher
1953 - Dennis Miller, American comedian
1953 - Larry Herndon, baseball player
1953 - Helios Creed, American musician (Chrome)
1953 - Kate Capshaw, American actress
1954 - Adam Ant, English singer
1955 - Phil Simms, American football player
1956 - Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
1956 - Gary Ross, American film director
1957 - Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
1959 - Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
1960 - Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
1962 - Jacqui Smith UK Home Secretary
1963 - Ian Wright, English footballer
1963 - Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1966 - Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
1967 - Steven Wilson, English musician and producer (Porcupine Tree)
1967 - John Tomac, American MTB Hall of Fame cyclist
1969 - Robert Miles, Swiss record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music.
1971 - Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1971 - Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
1973 - Nemone, athlete and broadcaster
1973 - Kirk Jones (Sticky Fingaz), American musician
1973 - Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1974 - Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player
1975 - Darren Sharper, American football player
1976 - Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
1977 - Aria Giovanni, American model
1979 - Beau McDonald, Australian Rules Footballer
1979 - Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1979 - Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)
1981 - Sten Pentus, Estonian racing car driver
1982 - Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1983 - Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
1984 - Ryo Nishikido, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band) and Kanjani8)
1984 - Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
1987 - Colin Kaepernick, American football player
1987 - Gemma Ward, Australian model
1987 - Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
1987 - Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist
1988 - Angus McLaren, Australian Actor
1989 - Paula DeAnda, American singer
39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)

Famous Births on 2 Nov

Famous Births on 2 Nov

1082 - Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1475 - Princess Anne of York (d. 1511)
1636 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
1667 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
1692 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
1696 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
1709 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1739 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
1741 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1777 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
1777 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1808 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
1815 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
1821 - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
1833 - Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
1837 - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1877 - Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
1877 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
1877 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
1883 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
1885 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
1886 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
1892 - Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1939)
1893 - Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
1894 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
1903 - Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1905 - James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
1906 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
1908 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
1910 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
1911 - Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1911 - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
1914 - Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
1915 - Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1920 - Ann Rutherford, American actress
1921 - Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
1921 - Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
1924 - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
1924 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
1927 - Steve Ditko, American artist
1928 - Paul Johnson, British historian
1929 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
1929 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Bill Gothard, American speaker
1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
1936 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1936 - Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)
1936 - Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
1937 - Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs
1938 - Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
1938 - Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
1939 - Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
1940 - Jim Bakken, American football player
1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
1942 - Shere Hite, American author
1942 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
1944 - Patrice Chéreau, French director, actor and producer
1944 - Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1946 - Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion
1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
1949 - Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
1951 - Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
1951 - Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1952 - Maxine Nightingale, English singer
1954 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1955 - Chris Burnett, American musician
1956 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
1957 - Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
1957 - Rita Crockett, American Olympic volleyball player
1958 - Willie McGee, American baseball player
1960 - Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
1961 - K.D. Lang, Canadian musician
1961 - Jeff Tedford, head coach of the California Golden Bears
1962 - David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
1962 - Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
1962 - Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator
1963 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
1963 - Bobby Dall American Musician Poison (band)
1964 - Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1966 - Sean Kanan, American actor
1966 - Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
1966 - Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1966 - David Schwimmer, American actor
1967 - Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
1967 - Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist
1968 - Ultra Naté, American musician
1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1970 - Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
1972 - Samantha Janus, British entertainer
1972 - Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
1972 - Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
1974 - Nelly, American rapper
1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1974 - Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
1975 - Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
1976 - Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor
1977 - Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
1978 - Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
1979 - Julie Lund, Danish actress
1980 - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1981 - Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Avy Scott, American actress
1982 - Charles Itandje, French footballer
1982 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
1984 - Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
1984 - Julia Stegner, German supermodel
1986 - Erika Jo, American musician
1986 - Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1987 - Danny Cipriani English rugby union player.
1988 - Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer

Famous Births on 1 Nov

Famous Births on 1 Nov

1339 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
1351 - Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
1526 - Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
1530 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1549 - Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1567 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1629 - St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1636 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1704 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
1720 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1727 - Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
1762 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1782 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
1808 - John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1847 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1860 - Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1871 - Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
1877 - Roger Quilter, British composer (d. 1953)
1878 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
1880 - Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
1880 - Sholom Asch, Polish-born American writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Grantland Rice, American sports writer (d. 1954)
1881 - Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
1886 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
1887 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
1889 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982)
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian-born chess player (d. 1946)
1898 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
1902 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
1903 - Max Adrian, Irish actor (d. 1973)
1903 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1905 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
1911 - Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
1914 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)
1920 - James Kilpatrick, American journalist
1920 - Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
1921 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
1923 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
1924 - Jean-Luc Pépin, French Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1924 - Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
1926 - Lou Donaldson, American jazz alto saxophonist
1929 - Betsy Palmer, American actress
1929 - Nicholas Mavroules, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (d. 2003)
1930 - A. R. Gurney, American playwright
1932 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1932 - John Clark, English-born actor/director
1934 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
1934 - Gillian Knight, English mezzo-soprano
1934 - William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
1935 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1935 - Gary Player, South African golfer
1936 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 - Bill Anderson, American country music singer and songwriter
1939 - Barbara Bosson, American actress
1940 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1940 - Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
1941 - Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
1942 - Marcia Wallace, American actress
1942 - Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta
1942 - Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
1943 - Salvatore Adamo, popular singer
1943 - John McEnery, English actor
1944 - Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
1946 - Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990)
1946 - Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
1946 - Lynne Russell, ex-CNN news anchor
1947 - Jim Steinman, American songwriter
1948 - Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
1950 - Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 - Dan Peek, American guitarist (America)
1951 - Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
1951 - Fabrice Luchini, French actor
1953 - Jan Davis, American astronaut
1955 - Mike Mendoza, British radio personality
1955 - Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress
1957 - Lyle Lovett, American singer
1957 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
1958 - Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
1958 - Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator
1958 - Rachel Ticotin, American actress
1960 - Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player
1961 - Calvin Johnson, American musician (Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System)
1961 - Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)
1963 - Kenny Alphin, American guitarist (Big & Rich)
1963 - Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
1963 - Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
1963 - Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
1964 - Daran Norris, American actor
1966 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (d. 2002)
1966 - Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
1966 - Barbara Becker, German actress; ex-wife of Boris Becker
1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
1967 - Tina Arena, Australian singer
1967 - Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
1968 - Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
1969 - Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
1972 - Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
1972 - Toni Collette, Australian actress
1972 - Jenny McCarthy, American "Playmate of the Year" and TV actress
1973 - Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
1973 - Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
1974 - V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
1975 - Bo Bice, American singer
1975 - Scott "Skippy" Chapman, American singer/musician/songwriter
1976 - Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
1976 - Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor
1978 - Manju Warrier, Indian actress
1978 - Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
1979 - Coco Crisp, American baseball player
1979 - Delgado, Angolan footballer
1979 - Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
1979 - Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
1982 - Michael Copon, American actor
1983 - Josh Wicks, American soccer player
1983 - Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
1983 - Jon Wilkin, rugby league player
1984 - Natalia Tena, English actress
1985 - Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
1986 - Penn Badgley, American actor
1987 - Caitlin McCarthy, Victoria's secret model
1988 - Ross Montague, English footballer
846 - Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)

Famous Births on 31 Oct

Famous Births on 31 Oct

1291 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361)
1345 - King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
1391 - King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
1424 - King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)
1538 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (d. 1607)
1599 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
1620 - John Evelyn, English diarist (d. 1706)
1622 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
1632 - (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
1636 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679)
1692 - Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)
1705 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1711 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (d. 1778)
1724 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
1737 - James Lovell, American educator (d. 1789)
1795 - John Keats, British poet (d. 1821)
1815 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)
1825 - Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892)
1827 - Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895)
1831 - Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
1835 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923)
1835 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1838 - King Louis of Portugal (d. 1889)
1848 - Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1851 - Lovisa of Sweden, queen of Denmark (d. 1926)
1860 - Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927)
1875 - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
1875 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (d. 1954)
1879 - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (d. 1950)
1883 - Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956)
1887 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970)
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, former Republic of China president (d. 1975)
1888 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (d. 1944)
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946)
1895 - Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (d. 1970)
1896 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)
1902 - Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1950)
1912 - Dale Evans, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1912 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008)
1914 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (d. 1988)
1914 - John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (d. 1995)
1916 - Carl Johan Bernadotte, formerly Prince of Sweden
1917 - Thomas Hill, Canadian actor
1918 - Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
1919 - Magnus Wenninger, American priest, author of Polyhedron models
1920 - Dick Francis, Welsh novelist
1920 - Joseph Gelineau French composer
1920 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (d. 1957)
1920 - Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
1920 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
1922 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
1922 - Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)
1922 - Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
1925 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1926 - Jimmy Savile, English entertainer
1927 - Lee Grant, American actress
1928 - Cleo Moore, American actress (d. 1973)
1929 - Bud Spencer, Italian actor
1929 - Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 2004)
1930 - Michael Collins, American astronaut
1931 - Dan Rather, American television journalist
1933 - Phil Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
1937 - Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter
1939 - Ron Rifkin, American actor
1939 - Tom O'Connor, British comedian
1939 - Alui Farka Touré, Malian musician
1941 - Derek Bell, British racing driver
1941 - Dan Alderson, American scientist
1942 - David Ogden Stiers, American actor
1942 - Dave McNally, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1943 - Paul Frampton, English physicist
1943 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (d. 1970)
1944 - Sally Kirkland, American actress
1944 - Kinky Friedman, American musician and novelist
1945 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor
1945 - Russ Ballard, English rock singer/songwriter, guitarist (Argent)
1946 - Stephen Rea, Irish actor
1946 - Norman Lovett, British actor
1947 - Frank Shorter, American runner
1947 - Deidre Hall, American actress
1949 - Bob Siebenberg, American drummer (Supertramp)
1950 - Antonio Taguba, US Army Major General
1950 - Zaha Hadid, British architect
1950 - Jane Pauley, American news anchor
1950 - Jozef Stolorz, polish art painter
1950 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
1951 - Nick Saban, American college football coach
1952 - Bernard Edwards, American bass guitarist (Chic) (d. 1996)
1953 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor
1953 - John Lucas II, American basketball player and coach
1954 - Ken Wahl, American actor
1956 - Anders Lago, Swedish Social Democratic politician
1957 - Robert Pollard, American rocker
1957 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, American singer and actor
1958 - Jeannie Longo, French cyclist
1959 - Mats Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
1959 - Neal Stephenson, American author
1960 - Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rican delegate to Congress
1960 - Arnaud Desplechin, French film director
1960 - Mike Gallego, American baseball player
1960 - Reza Pahlavi, former crown prince of Iran
1961 - Kate Campbell, American musician
1961 - Alonzo Babers, American runner
1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2)
1961 - Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
1963 - Rob Schneider, American actor
1963 - Dermot Mulroney, American actor
1963 - Fred McGriff, American baseball player
1963 - Johnny Marr, English guitarist and songwriter (The Smiths)
1963 - Dunga, Brazilian footballer
1963 - Mikkey Dee, Swedish musician, drummer for Motörhead
1964 - Darryl Worley, American country singer
1964 - Marty Wright, American professional wrestler
1964 - Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer
1964 - Colm Ã" Cíosóig, Irish drummer (My Bloody Valentine, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)
1965 - Annabella Lwin, British singer (Bow Wow Wow)
1965 - Rob Rackstraw, voice actor
1966 - Mike O'Malley, American actor
1966 - Joseph Boyden, Canadian novelist
1966 - Koji Kanemoto, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 - Adam Horovitz (Adrock), American rapper (Beastie Boys)
1967 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper
1968 - Antonio Davis, American basketball player
1969 - David Coburn, American actor/voice actor
1970 - Steve Trachsel, American baseball player
1970 - Johnny Moeller, American blues guitarist
1970 - Mitch Harris, American guitarist (Napalm Death, among others)
1970 - Rogers Stevens, American guitarist (Blind Melon)
1970 - Linn Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1970 - Nicky Wu, Taiwanese actor and martial arts expert
1971 - Toby Anstis, British radio presenter
1971 - Ian Walker, English footballer
1971 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (d. 2004)
1972 - Shaun Bartlett, South African footballer
1972 - Matt Dawson, English rugby union footballer
1972 - Eugene Hutz, lead singer of gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello
1973 - Beverly Lynne, American erotic film actress
1973 - Grigorios Georgatos, Greek footballer
1973 - David Dellucci, American baseball player
1973 - Tim Byrdak, American baseball player
1974 - Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer
1974 - Natasja Saad, Danish hip hop and reggae artist (d. 2007)
1975 - Fabio Celestini, Swiss footballer
1976 - Piper Perabo, American actress
1976 - Guti, Spanish footballer
1977 - Sylviane Félix, French athlete
1977 - Séverine Ferrer, French singer
1978 - Martin Verkerk, Dutch tennis player
1978 - Zachary Knighton, American actor
1978 - Emmanuel Izonritei, Nigerian boxer
1979 - Saaphyri Windsor, American reality tv figure
1979 - Simão Sabrosa, Portuguese footballer
1979 - Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican Footballer
1980 - Alondra de la Parra, Mexican founder and artistic director of the New York-based Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas
1980 - Samaire Armstrong, American actress
1980 - Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor,
1981 - Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
1981 - Frank Iero, American musician (My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, Pencey Prep; founder of Skeleton Crew)
1981 - Selina (Jiaxuan) Ren, member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
1981 - Jon Crocker, American songwriter
1982 - Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor
1982 - The Cheeky Girls, British-Romanian singers
1982 - Tomáš Plekanec, Czech ice hockey player
1983 - Katy French, Irish model (d. 2007)
1986 - Christie Hayes, Australian actress
1986 - Chris Alajajian, Australian racing driver
1986 - Brent Corrigan, American gay porn star
1988 - Sébastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver
1990 - James Charles Lewis aka Lil' JJ, American actor/singer
1991 - Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
2000 - Willow Smith, American actress
2005 - Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and Letizia, Princess of Asturias

Famous Births on 30 Oct

Famous Births on 30 Oct

1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1513 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (d. 1593)
1624 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693)
1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen in Prussia (d. 1705)
1735 - John Adams, President of the United States (d. 1826)
1751 - Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
1762 - André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794)
1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871)
1799 - Ignace Bourget, bishop of Montreal (d. 1885)
1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
1839 - Alfred Sisley, French artist (d. 1899)
1844 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1847 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
1861 - Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929)
1871 - Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
1871 - Paul Valery, French poet (d. 1945)
1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
1882 - William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (d. 1959)
1882 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1885 - Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
1886 - Zoe Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
1893 - Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
1893 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (d. 1972)
1894 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
1895 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964)
1895 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
1896 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
1897 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
1898 - Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989)
1900 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1906 - Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
1906 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
1907 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
1908 - Patsy Montana, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1909 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
1911 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
1914 - Anna Wing, English actress
1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer
1915 - Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
1916 - Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1917 - Bobby Bragan, American baseball player
1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
1917 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
1922 - Jane White, American actress and singer
1926 - Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
1927 - Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1928 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1930 - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
1930 - Clifford Brown, American musician (d. 1956)
1931 - Vince Callahan, American politician
1932 - Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
1932 - Barun De, Indian historian
1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1935 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
1935 - Michael Winner, British film director
1935 - Jim Perry, American baseball player
1935 - Robert Caro, American biographer
1936 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1937 - Claude Lelouch, French film director
1939 - Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane)
1939 - Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Ed Lauter, American actor
1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Otis Williams, American singer
1943 - Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles)
1948 - Rusty Goffe, British actor
1951 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
1953 - Charles Martin Smith, American actor
1954 - Mario Testino, Peruvian-born English fashion photographer
1956 - Juliet Stevenson, English actress
1957 - Kevin Pollak, American actor
1957 - Andy Archer, Scottish dramatist
1958 - Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
1958 - Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
1958 - Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
1960 - Diego Armando Maradona, Argentine footballer
1961 - Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
1962 - Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer
1963 - Michael Beach, American actor
1963 - Kristina Wagner, American actress
1964 - Howard Lederer, American poker player
1966 - Scott Innes, American voice actor
1967 - Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician
1968 - Jack Plotnick, American actor
1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 - Ben Bailey, American host of the game show Cash Cab
1970 - Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
1970 - Nia Long, American actress
1970 - Tory Belleci, American TV Mythbuster
1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
1971 - Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and singer
1973 - Adam "Edge" Copeland, Canadian wrestler
1973 - Silvia Corzo, Colombian newscaster
1973 - Michael Oakes, English footballer
1975 - Maria Thayer, American actress
1975 - Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
1976 - Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
1976 - Maurice Taylor, American Basketball Player
1977 - Jason Adelman, American actor
1977 - Charmian Faulkner, Australian crime victim
1978 - Martin Dossett, American football player
1978 - Amanda Swafford, American model
1979 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
1979 - Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
1980 - Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
1980 - Choi Hong-man, South Korean kickboxer
1981 - Ivanka Trump, American model
1981 - Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
1981 - Ian Snell, American baseball player
1982 - Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
1982 - Manny Parra, American baseball player
1983 - Trent Edwards, American Football Player
1983 - Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
1984 - Eva Pigford, American model
1986 - Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
1987 - Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 - Janel Parrish, American actress
1989 - Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
1989 - Seth Adkins, American actor

Famous Births on 29 Oct

Famous Births on 29 Oct

1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1682 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761)
1690 - Martin Folkes, English antiquarian (d. 1754)
1704 - John Byng, British admiral (d. 1757)
1735 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
1740 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
1815 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
1815 - Daniel Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
1822 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (d. 1902)
1827 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1855 - Paul Bruchési, archbishop of Montreal (d. 1939)
1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1875 - Marie of Edinburgh, queen of Romania (d. 1938)
1877 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (d. 1966)
1877 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (d. 1973)
1879 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (d. 1941)
1879 - Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969)
1880 - Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
1882 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944)
1891 - Fanny Brice, American singer (d. 1951)
1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)
1899 - Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (d. 1972)
1906 - Fredric Brown, American science fiction and mystery writer (d. 1972)
1907 - Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998)
1910 - Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (d. 1989)
1915 - William Berenberg, American physician (d. 2005)
1917 - Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
1918 - Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
1920 - Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I, Indian Catholic
1921 - Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1922 - Neil Hefti, American jazz musician
1923 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
1925 - Robert Hardy, English actor
1925 - Dominick Dunne, American author
1926 - Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor
1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
1930 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
1930 - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
1931 - Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor
1935 - Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director
1936 - Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
1938 - Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist
1938 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
1940 - Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
1940 - Connie Mack, U.S. Senator from Florida
1940 - José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Catholic bishop
1942 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995)
1943 - Don Simpson, American film producer (d. 1996)
1944 - Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Wings)
1944 - Otto Wiesheu, German minister
1944 - Claude Brochu, Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
1946 - Peter Green, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1946 - Lynn Carey, US-American actress and singer (Mama Lion)
1947 - Helen Coonan, Australian politician
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
1948 - Kate Jackson, American actress
1949 - James Williamson, American guitarist
1949 - Paul Orndorff, American professional wrestler
1953 - Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007)
1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure)
1956 - Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican boxer
1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson
1958 - David Remnick, American writer and editor of The New Yorker
1959 - Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Finola Hughes, British actress
1961 - Randy Jackson, American musician
1961 - Joel Otto, National Hockey League player
1964 - Yasmin Le Bon, British model
1967 - Joely Fisher, American actress
1967 - Beth Chapman, Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter
1967 - Rufus Sewell, English actor
1968 - Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater
1968 - Tsunku, Japanese music producer
1969 - Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter
1969 - Giorgos Donis, Greek footballer
1970 - Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
1970 - Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
1971 - Daniel J. Bernstein, American professor
1971 - Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
1972 - Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
1972 - Gabrielle Union, American actress
1972 - Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur
1973 - Robert Pirès, French footballer
1973 - Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
1975 - Kelly Lin, Chinese actress
1976 - Mohsen Emadi, Iranian Poet
1976 - Milena Govich, American actress
1976 - Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
1978 - Travis Henry, American football player
1979 - Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan politician
1980 - Ben Foster, American actor
1980 - B.J. Sams, American football player
1981 - Reema Sen, Indian actress
1981 - Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer
1981 - Amanda Beard, American swimmer
1982 - Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
1982 - Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1983 - Jason Tahincioglu, Turkish racing driver
1983 - Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
1983 - Dana Eveland, American baseball player
1983 - Maurice Clarett, American football player
1984 - Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Severino Jefferson, Brazilian football player
1987 - Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
1990 - Carlson Young,American actress

Famous Births on 28 Oct

Famous Births on 28 Oct

1510 - Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
1585 - Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop (d. 1638)
1667 - Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)
1691 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
1697 - Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
1703 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
1767 - Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1852)
1793 - Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
1804 - Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
1818 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
1846 - Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
1864 - Adolfo Camarillo, prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher (d. 1958
1875 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
1877 - Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1879 - Channing H. Cox, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
1881 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (d. 1969)
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
1889 - Juliette Béliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975)
1891 - Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)
1892 - Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
1896 - Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
1897 - Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
1901 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (d. 1979)
1902 - Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (d. 1986)
1903 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
1907 - John Harold Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
1908 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (d. 1995)
1909 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (d. 1992)
1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
1914 - Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1914 - Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995)
1917 - Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
1922 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
1922 - Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
1922 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
1924 - Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996)
1925 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006)
1926 - Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
1927 - Dame Cleo Laine, British singer
1928 - Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
1929 - Joan Plowright, British actress
1929 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
1929 - John Hollander, American poet
1930 - Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports impresario (F1)
1932 - Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
1932 - Spyros Kyprianou, a President of Cyprus
1933 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
1935 - Alan Clarke, British film director
1936 - Charlie Daniels, American musician
1936 - Carl Davis, American-born musical conductor and composer
1937 - Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
1938 - David Dimbleby, English television commentator
1938 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist
1939 - Jane Alexander, American actress
1939 - Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast
1940 - Susan Harris, American television writer and producer
1941 - John Hallam, Irish actor
1941 - Hank Marvin, English guitarist
1941 - Curtis Lee, American singer
1942 - Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
1943 - Conny Froboess, German singer
1943 - Charo López, Spanish actress
1944 - Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986)
1944 - Anton Schlecker, German billionaire
1944 - Dennis Franz, American actor
1945 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (d. 2006)
1945 - Wayne Fontana, British singer (The Mindbenders)
1946 - Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
1946 - John Hewson, Australian politician
1948 - Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1949 - Tracy Reed, American actress
1949 - Bruce Jenner, American athlete
1950 - Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
1950 - Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
1952 - Annie Potts, American actress
1953 - Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive
1955 - Bill Gates, American software executive
1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
1956 - Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
1957 - Stephen Morris, British musician (Joy Division and New Order)
1958 - William Reid, Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
1960 - Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times
1962 - Daphne Zuniga, American actress
1962 - Scotty Nguyen, professional poker player
1962 - Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
1963 - Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
1963 - James Miller, the "Fan Man" (d. 2002)
1963 - Lauren Holly, American actress
1965 - Jami Gertz, American actress
1965 - Luigi Miraglia, Italian Latinist
1966 - Steve Atwater, American football player
1966 - Andy Richter, American comedian and actor
1966 - Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
1967 - Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director
1967 - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
1967 - John Romero, American video game designer
1967 - Julia Roberts, American actress
1968 - Marc Lièvremont, French rugby union footballer and coach
1969 - Ben Harper, American musician
1969 - Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
1972 - Brad Paisley, American musician
1972 - Terrell Davis, American football player
1973 - Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler
1974 - Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and beauty queen
1974 - Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer
1974 - Braden Looper, American baseball player
1974 - Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
1974 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
1976 - Karl Tremblay, Canadian singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
1978 - Marta Etura, Spanish actress
1978 - Justin Guarini, American singer
1979 - Martin Å koula, Czech ice hockey player
1979 - Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
1980 - Alan Smith, English footballer
1980 - Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
1980 - Kanzi, Most Literate Non-Human
1980 - Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
1981 - Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
1981 - Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
1982 - Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer
1982 - Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
1983 - Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
1984 - Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
1984 - Amanda Paige, American model
1985 - Richard Smith, American entrepreneur
1996 - Naelee Rae, American actress
1996 - Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress

Famous Births on 27 Oct

Famous Births on 27 Oct

1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
1760 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
1814 - Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
1838 - John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
1844 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
1854 - Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
1877 - George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
1896 - Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
1904 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
1908 - Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
1915 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
1917 - Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
1920 - Nanette Fabray, American actress
1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
1922 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
1924 - Ruby Dee, American actress
1924 - Michel Galabru, French actor
1925 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
1925 - Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State (1993-1997)
1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
1928 - Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
1929 - Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
1933 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
1934 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
1937 - Lara Parker, American actress
1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer
1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer
1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
1945 - John Kane, actor/writer
1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
1946 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
1949 - Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
1950 - Fran Lebowitz, American writer
1951 - Jayne Kennedy, American actress, model, and sportscaster
1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
1951 - K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
1952 - Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
1953 - Peter Firth, British actor
1953 - Robert Picardo, American actor
1954 - Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
1956 - Veronica Hart, American porn actress
1956 - Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
1957 - Jeff East, American actor
1957 - Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
1958 - Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
1964 - Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
1966 - Matt Drudge, American blogger
1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
1968 - Vinny Samways, English footballer
1970 - Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
1972 - Elissa (singer), Lebanese singer
1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
1972 - Brad Radke, American baseball player
1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
1972 - Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
1973 - Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
1977 - Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
1979 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
1980 - Cassia Riley, American model
1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
1981 - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer, songwriter
1983 - Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (Disputed)

Famous Births on 26 Oct

Famous Births on 26 Oct

1427 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (d. 1496)
1473 - Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1609 - William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian prince, linguist, and scholar (d. 1723)
1684 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1694 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
1757 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
1768 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
1794 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1795 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (d. 1872)
1797 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (d. 1865)
1800 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1842 - Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
1849 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
1854 - C. W. Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1914)
1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
1869 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (d. 1957)
1871 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (d. 1941)
1873 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
1874 - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, socialite and philanthropist (d. 1948)
1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1880 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (d. 1934)
1883 - Napoleon Hill, American Writer and Philosopher (Think and Grow Rich)(d. 1970)
1883 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (d. 1958)
1888 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
1899 - Judy Johnson Hall of Fame baseball player in the Negro Leagues (d. 1989)
1902 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer (d. 1994)
1905 - George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal (d. 1989)
1906 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967)
1911 - Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
1911 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (d. 1972)
1911 - Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet (d. 1996)
1912 - Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
1914 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984)
1915 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (d. 1950)
1916 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
1921 - George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (d. 1968)
1925 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch author (d. 2007)
1928 - Francisco Solano López, Argentine comics artists
1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
1934 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1936 - Shelley Morrison, American actress
1941 - Charlie Landsborough, Singer/Songwriter
1942 - Bob Hoskins, British actor
1945 - Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
1945 - Pat Conroy, American writer
1946 - Pat Sajak, American game show host
1946 - Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress
1946 - Keith Hopwood, British musician (Herman's Hermits)
1947 - Ian Ashley, British racing driver
1947 - Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
1947 - Jaclyn Smith, American actress
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
1948 - Toby Harrah, American Major League Baseball player
1949 - Steve Rogers, Major League Baseball pitcher
1949 - Antonio Carpio, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1951 - Bootsy Collins, American musician (P Funk)
1952 - Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
1953 - Keith Strickland, American musician (The B-52's)
1953 - Rosa Monckton, notable charity fundraiser
1954 - Vassilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer
1956 - Stephen Gumley, Australian businessman
1956 - Rita Wilson, American actress
1957 - Bob Golic, American football player
1959 - Brian Bovell, British actor
1959 - François Chau, Cambodian actor
1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
1960 - June Brigman, American comic book artist
1961 - Dylan McDermott, American actor
1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor
1963 - Natalie Merchant, American singer
1963 - Ted Demme, American film and television director (d. 2002)
1964 - Thomas Cavanagh, Canadian actor
1965 - Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer.
1965 - Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer
1966 - Jane Hajduk, American actress
1966 - Steve Valentine, British actor
1966 - Jeanne Zelasko, American sportcaster
1966 - Masaharu Iwata, Japanese composer
1967 - Keith Urban, New Zealand singer
1970 - Raveena Tandon, Indian actress
1970 - Dian Bachar, American actor
1970 - Lisa Ryder, American actress
1971 - Anthony Rapp, American singer and actor
1973 - Seth MacFarlane, American animator
1973 - Taka Michinoku , Japanese professional wrestle
1974 - LISA, Japanese musician
1976 - Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
1977 - Jon Heder, American actor
1978 - Eva Kaili, Greek TV presenter and politician
1978 - CM Punk, American professional wrestler
1978 - Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
1978 - Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer
1979 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant (d. 2002)
1980 - Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
1981 - Sam Brown, American comedian
1981 - Guy Sebastian, Australian singer
1982 - Adam Carroll, British racing driver
1983 - Dmitri Sychev, Russian football player
1983 - Francisco Liriano, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 - Luke Watson, South African rugby player
1984 - Amanda Overmyer, American Singer, American Idol (season 7)
1984 - Adriano Correia Claro, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
1984 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
1985 - Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
1985 - Monta Ellis, American basketball player
1985 - Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
1987 - Elise Estrada, Canadian singer

Famous Births on 25 Oct

Famous Births on 25 Oct

1102 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (d. 1128)
1330 - Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384)
1510 - Renée of France, french princess (d. 1574)
1683 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (d. 1757)
1759 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
1759 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, British politician (d. 1834)
1767 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
1772 - Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
1782 - Levi Lincoln, Jr., 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
1802 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strong man (d. 1864)
1806 - Max Stirner, German philosopher (d. 1856)
1811 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
1825 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
1838 - Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
1856 - Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
1864 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (d. 1920)
1864 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
1867 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1888 - Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
1888 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
1889 - Abel Gance, French film director (d. 1981)
1889 - Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1891 - Father Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and pro-Fascist radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
1892 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
1895 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
1902 - Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
1903 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
1903 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
1908 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (d. 2004)
1910 - William Higinbotham, American physicist (d. 1994)
1912 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
1913 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
1914 - John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
1915 - Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
1917 - Lee MacPhail, American baseball manager and league executive
1921 - King Michael I of Romania
1923 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec actor (d. 1990)
1924 - Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
1926 - Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter
1926 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
1927 - Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
1927 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay
1928 - Marion Ross, American actress
1928 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
1931 - Annie Girardot, French actress
1931 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
1932 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
1933 - Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (d. 2005)
1935 - Russell Schweickart, astronaut
1936 - Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian
1939 - Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (d. 2005)
1940 - Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
1941 - Anne Tyler, American novelist
1941 - Helen Reddy, Australian singer
1944 - Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes)
1944 - James Carville, American political stategist and commentator
1947 - Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
1948 - Dan Issel, American basketball player
1948 - Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
1948 - Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and biographer
1948 - Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
1949 - Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 - Chris Norman, English singer
1951 - Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television)
1952 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1954 - Mike Eruzione, American hockey player
1955 - Matthias Jabs, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1955 - Glynis Barber, English actress
1955 - Robin Eubanks, American jazz trombonist
1957 - Nancy Cartwright, American actress
1958 - Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer
1961 - Ward Burton, American auto racer
1962 - Nick Hancock, British television presenter
1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Darlene Vogel, American actress
1963 - Tracy Nelson, American actress
1964 - Michael Boatman, American actor
1964 - Nicole, German singer
1964 - Kevin Michael Richardson, American actor
1965 - Þorsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
1965 - 2 Cold Scorpio, American professional wrestler
1966 - Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 - Perry Satullo, American professional wrestler
1969 - Oleg Salenko, Russian former footballer
1969 - Josef Beranek, Czech hockey player
1970 - J.A. Adande, American sports columnist
1970 - Peter Aerts, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist
1970 - Adam Goldberg, American actor
1970 - Adam Pascal, American actor
1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1971 - Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
1971 - Midori Goto, Japanese violinist
1971 - Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
1971 - Simon Charlton, English footballer
1972 - Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor
1974 - Lee Byung-Kyu, Korean baseball player
1975 - Ryan Clement, former XFL quarterback
1975 - Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian musician
1976 - Steve Jones, Irish footballer
1977 - Birgit Prinz, German footballer
1978 - Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
1979 - Milena Roucka, Canadian former model current professional wrestler of Czech and Costa Rican descent.
1979 - Rob Hulse, English footballer
1979 - Sarah Thompson, American actress
1979 - Tony Torcato, American baseball player
1980 - Mehcad Brooks, American actor and former model
1981 - Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder)
1981 - Jerome Isaac Jones, American singer
1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1982 - Jerome Carter, American football player
1982 - Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
1983 - Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
1984 - Katy Perry, American singer
1984 - Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1984 - Danny .S., English record producer
1985 - Ciara Harris, American singer
1986 - DJ Webstar, American disc jockey
1986 - Eddie Gaven, American footballer
1987 - Darron Gibson, Irish football player
1995 - Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress
2001 - Princess Elisabeth of Belgium

Famous Births on 24 Oct

Famous Births on 24 Oct

1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
1710 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
1763 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885)
1854 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1857 - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
1872 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1882 - Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976)
1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1887 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
1891 - Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
1894 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
1896 - Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 - Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1904 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)
1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
1909 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
1911 - Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
1911 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (d. 1986)
1913 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
1915 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
1915 - Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1915 - Roger Milliken, American millionaire
1919 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
1920 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
1923 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (d. 1997)
1925 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
1926 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008)
1926 - Y. A. Tittle, American football player
1927 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992)
1927 - Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001)
1929 - George Crumb, American composer
1929 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004)
1929 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
1930 - The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1930 - Johan Galtung, Norwegian peace researcher
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Ronald and Reginald Kray, British gangsters (Ronald d. 1995; Reginald d. 2000)
1933 - Norman Rush, American writer
1935 - Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor
1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1937 - Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1940 - Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1941 - William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukranian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
1945 - Anthony Christian, English artist
1945 - Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (d. 1993) (Steppenwolf)
1947 - Kevin Kline, American actor
1948 - Kweisi Mfume, American politician and activist
1948 - Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
1949 - Robert Pickton, Canadian charged with the first degree murder of twenty-six women
1950 - Steven Greenberg, American composer
1950 - Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
1954 - Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
1954 - Brad Sherman, American politician
1954 - Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician
1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician
1956 - Dale Maharidge, American author
1957 - Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
1957 - John Kassir, American actor and comedian
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
1960 - B.D. Wong, American actor
1960 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
1960 - Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver
1961 - Mary Bono, American politician
1961 - Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
1962 - Dave Blaney, American race car driver
1962 - Jay Novacek, American football player
1963 - John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
1965 - Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
1967 - Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
1968 - Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
1969 - Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
1970 - Rob Leslie-Carter, British Engineer and Project Manager
1971 - Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
1971 - Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
1972 - Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
1972 - Scott Peterson, American murderer
1972 - Pat Williams, American football player
1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
1973 - Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player/Cricketer
1973 - Mike Matthews, American baseball player
1973 - Madlib, American musician and rapper
1973 - Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
1974 - Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
1974 - Corey Dillon, American football player
1974 - Jamal Mayers, Professional Hockey Player
1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
1976 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1977 - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
1978 - Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
1978 - Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 - Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1980 - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Monica, American singer
1980 - James Killian, American football player
1981 - Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
1981 - Tila Tequila, American model
1982 - Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver
1982 - Macay McBride, American baseball player
1983 - Keyshia Cole, American singer
1983 - Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer
1983 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver
1984 - Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
1985 - Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1986 - John Ruddy, English footballer
1986 - Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
1987 - Charlie White, American ice dancer
1987 - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1987 - Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
1989 - Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress
51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)

Famous Births on 23 Oct

Famous Births on 23 Oct

1503 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)
1516 - Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524)
1634 - Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)
1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (d. 1782)
1705 - Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
1715 - Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
1762 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
1766 - Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847)
1771 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
1790 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
1796 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)
1801 - Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
1805 - John Russell Bartlett, American linguist (d. 1886)
1813 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
1815 - João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (d. 1889)
1817 - Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
1835 - Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
1844 - Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
1865 - Neltje Blanchan, American writer (d. 1918)
1869 - John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
1870 - Francis Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma (d. 1948)
1873 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
1875 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1876 - Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
1880 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
1885 - Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
1888 - Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1893 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1894 - Rube Bressler, baseball player (d. 1966)
1896 - André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930)
1900 - Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1904 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
1905 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
1908 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1909 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (d. 1992)
1918 - James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
1919 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (d. 1992)
1920 - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
1922 - Coleen Gray, American actress
1923 - Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar and poet
1923 - Ned Rorem, American composer
1923 - Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
1925 - Fred Shero, Canadian hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
1925 - Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
1927 - Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher
1928 - Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1985)
1928 - Bella Darvi, Polish-born French actress (d. 1971)
1931 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
1931 - Diana Dors, British actress (d. 1984)
1931 - William P. Clark, United States Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan
1935 - Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez, Puerto Rican golfer
1936 - Philip Kaufman, American film director
1940 - Ellie Greenwich, American singer
1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
1940 - Baby Jane Holzer, American art collector, film producer and Andy Warhol "superstar"
1941 - Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician
1941 - Mel Winkler, American actor
1942 - Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop (d. 2007)
1942 - Michael Crichton, American writer
1944 - Mike Harding, English singer and comedian
1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1946 - Mel Martinez, American politician
1948 - Hermann Hauser, Austrian-born entrepreneur
1948 - Brian Ross, American journalist
1948 - Tony Anselmo, American animator and cartoon voice actor
1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer
1949 - Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, British musician (Motörhead)
1951 - Charly García, Argentine singer
1951 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
1952 - Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005)
1954 - Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, American singer
1958 - Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author
1959 - Nancy Grace, American former prosecutor
1959 - Sam Raimi, American film director
1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist
1960 - Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
1960 - Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author
1961 - Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
1961 - Don and Ron Harris, American professional wrestlers
1961 - Laurie Halse Anderson, American writer
1962 - Doug Flutie, American football player
1964 - Robert Trujillo, American bassist (Metallica)
1965 - Augusten Burroughs, American writer
1965 - Al Leiter, American baseball player
1966 - Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
1967 - Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
1969 - Trudi Canavan, Australian writer
1970 - Grant Imahara, American TV Mythbuster
1971 - Christopher Horner, American cyclist
1974 - Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer
1974 - Jasmin St. Claire, Former pornographic actress
1975 - Odalys García, Cuban actress
1975 - Jessicka, American artist
1975 - Keith Van Horn, American basketball player
1976 - Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and comedian
1976 - Cat Deeley, English model and television personality
1978 - Steve Harmison, English cricketer
1978 - Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
1978 - Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
1979 - Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
1979 - Jorge Solís, Mexican professional boxer
1980 - Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
1981 - Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch racing driver
1981 - Ben Francisco, American baseball player
1982 - Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
1983 - Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer
1983 - Josh Strickland, American entertainer
1984 - Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
1985 - James Kotecki, American political blogger
1986 - Jessica Stroup, American Actress
1986 - Jake Robinson, English footballer
1986 - Briana Evigan, American actress
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 - Nicolaj Agger, Danish football player
1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer
1991 - Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan