Famous Births on 7 Oct

Famous Births on 7 Oct

1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1573 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1589 - Maria Magdalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631)
1713 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784)
1744 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1769 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1786 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
1835 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
1866 - Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1884 - Major Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
1888 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1892 - Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
1894 - Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1897 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
1898 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (d. 1956)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
1905 - Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
1907 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
1909 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
1909 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
1911 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987)
1914 - Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
1914 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
1917 - June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
1921 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
1922 - Grady Hatton, American baseball player
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002)
1923 - Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
1926 - Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
1927 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist (d. 1989)
1927 - Al Martino, American singer and actor
1928 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1929 - Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
1931 - Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
1934 - Amiri Baraka, American writer
1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (d. 1976)
1935 - Thomas Keneally, Australian author
1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937 - Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1939 - Bill Snyder, American football coach
1939 - Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Clive James, Australian TV presenter and writer
1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1940 - Bruce Vento, U.S. Congressman from Minnesota (d. 2000)
1943 - Oliver North, U.S. Marine, staff officer, television personality and author
1943 - José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1943 - Joy Behar, American co-host of The View
1944 - Judee Sill, American musician (d. 1979)
1944 - Donald Tsang, current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1945 - Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc)
1946 - Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1946 - Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
1948 - Diane Ackerman, American poet and essayist
1949 - Dave Hope, American musician (Kansas)
1950 - Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
1951 - John Mellencamp, American singer
1951 - David J. Halberstam, American radio executive
1952 - Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
1952 - Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d.2002)
1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian politician
1952 - Mary Badham, American actress
1953 - Tico Torres, Drummer (Bon Jovi)
1954 - Kenneth Atchley, American composer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
1955 - Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1957 - Michael W. Smith, American singer
1957 - Jayne Torvill, British figure skater
1958 - Judy Landers, American actress
1959 - Dylan Baker, American character actor
1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive
1959 - Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
1959 - Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
1960 - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1961 - Matthew Roloff, American actor and reality star
1961 - Brian Mannix, Australian singer and actor
1962 - Dave Bronconnier, Canadian politician
1964 - Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter
1964 - Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author
1964 - Paul Stewart, English footballer
1965 - Genji Hashimoto, Japanese racing driver
1966 - Marco Beltrami, Italian-American film composer
1966 - Toni Braxton, American singer
1967 - Luke Haines, English musician (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder)
1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead)
1969 - Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor and singer
1969 - Maria Whittaker, English model
1969 - Malia Hosaka, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 - Javier Álvarez, Spanish singer-songwriter
1970 - Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
1971 - Daniel Boucher, Québécois musician
1972 - Ben Younger, American screenwriter and film director
1973 - Priest Holmes, American Football Running Back
1973 - Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer
1973 - Dida, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Allison Munn, American actress
1974 - Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
1974 - Alexander Polinsky, American actor
1975 - Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
1975 - Damian Kulash, American musician (OK Go)
1976 - Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
1976 - Charles Woodson, American football player
1976 - Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer
1976 - Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
1976 - Taylor Hicks, American musician
1977 - Brandon Quinn, American actor
1977 - Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
1978 - Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
1978 - Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
1979 - Tang Wei, Chinese actress
1979 - Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 - Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 - Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
1980 - Edison Chen, Canadian-born actor
1982 - Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 - Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 - Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1982 - Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist
1984 - Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1984 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese Singer/Actor
1985 - Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 - Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
1986 - Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1986 - Bree Olson, American adult film actress
1987 - Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer
1988 - Stacy DuPree, American musician (Eisley)
2001 - Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho