October Birthdays Through History

October Birthdays

10/1/1730 :Richard Stockton, signer of US Declaration of Independence.
10/1/1781 :Captain James Lawrence, naval hero of the War of 1812.
10/1/1832 :Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, wife of Benjamin Harrison.
10/1/1893 :Faith Baldwin, novelist.
10/1/1903 :Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist.
10/1/1914 :Daniel J. Boorstin, former US Librarian of Congress.
10/1/1920 :Walter Matthau, actor.
10/1/1921 :James Whitmore, actor.
10/1/1924 :James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr, 39th US president.
10/1/1924 :William Hubbs Rehnquist, US Chief Justice.
10/1/1927 :Tom Bosley, actor.
10/1/1928 :George Peppard, actor.
10/1/1930 :Richard Harris, actor.
10/1/1935 :Julie Andrews, actress.
10/1/1936 :Stella Stevens, actress.
10/1/1945 :Rod Carew, baseball player.
10/1/1950 :Randy Quaid, actor and comedian.
10/1/1953 :Grete Waitz, track athlete.
10/1/1955 :Jeff Reardon, baseball player.
10/1/1963 :Mark McGwire, baseball player.
10/2/1452 :King Richard 3rd of England.
10/2/1790 :John Ross, Cherokee Chief. (10/3?)
10/2/1800 :Nat Turner, black slave and leader of historic US slave revolt.
10/2/1847 :Paul von Hindenburg, German soldier and statesman.
10/2/1851 :General Ferdinand Foch, French military commander.
10/2/1869 :Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Hindu religious and political leader.
10/2/1871 :Cordell Hull, US statesman.
10/2/1879 :Wallace Stevens.
10/2/1895 :Bud Abbott, comedian.
10/2/1895 :Groucho Marx, comedian.
10/2/1904 :Graham Greene, novelist.
10/2/1926 :Jan Morris (James Morris), travel writer.
10/2/1928 :Clay S. Felker, publisher.
10/2/1928 :George “Spanky” McFarland, actor.
10/2/1929 :Moses Gunn, actor.
10/2/1932 :Maury Wills, baseball player.
10/2/1938 :Rex Reed, movie critic. (1939?)
10/2/1945 :Don McLean, singer and songwriter.
10/2/1948 :Avery Brooks.
10/2/1949 :Annie Leibovitz.
10/2/1951 :Sting (Gordon Sumner), rock ‘n’ roll singer.
10/2/1954 :Lorraine Bracco, actress.
10/2/1971 :Tiffany, singer.
10/3/1790 :John Ross, Cherokee Chief. (10/2?)
10/3/1799 :Francisco Morazan, national hero in Honduras.
10/3/1800 :George Bancroft, US historian.
10/3/1844 :Patrick Manson, “father of tropical medicine.”
10/3/1873 :Emily Post, arbitress of etiquette. (10/27/1872?)
10/3/1900 :Thomas Wolfe, novelist.
10/3/1909 :Herblock (Herbert Block), political cartoonist.
10/3/1925 :Gore Vidal, novelist.
10/3/1934 :Madlyn Rhue, actress.
10/3/1941 :Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans), singer (“The Twist”).
10/3/1943 :Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico Senator.
10/3/1947 :Lindsey Buckingham, musician.
10/3/1951 :David Winfield, baseball player.
10/3/1954 :Dennis Lee Eckersley, baseball player.
10/3/1959 :Fred Couples.
10/3/1959 :Jack Wagner, actor (“General Hospital”).
10/4/1810 :Eliza McCardle Johnson, wife of Andrew Johnson.
10/4/1822 :Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 19th US president.
10/4/1861 :Frederic Remington, painter of the American West.
10/4/1862 :Edward L. Stratemeyer, US author (“The Hardy Boys”).
10/4/1884 :Alfred Damon Runyon, US journalist-author.
10/4/1895 :Buster Keaton, pioneer movie comedian.
10/4/1903 :John V. Atanasoff.
10/4/1914 :Brendan Gill, comedian.
10/4/1917 :Jan Murray (Murry Janofsky), comedian.
10/4/1924 :Charlton Heston, actor. (1923?) [1922?]
10/4/1928 :Alvin Toffler, author.
10/4/1941 :Jackie Collins, novelist.
10/4/1943 :Buddy Roemer, former Louisiana Governor.
10/4/1945 :Clifton Davis, actor and singer.
10/4/1946 :Susan Sarandon (Susan Abigail Tomalin), actress.
10/4/1949 :Armand Assante, actor.
10/4/1949 :Mike Adamle, broadcast journalist.
10/5/1713 :Denis Diderot, French philosopher.
10/5/1830 :Chester Alan Arthur, 21st US president.
10/5/1882 :Robert Hutchings Goddard, rocket pioneer.
10/5/1902 :Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s.
10/5/1908 :Joshua Logan, producer and director.
10/5/1919 :Donald Pleasence, actor and producer.
10/5/1923 :Glynis Johns, actress.
10/5/1923 :Philip Berrigan, political activist and defrocked priest.
10/5/1924 :Bill Dana, actor and comedian.
10/5/1936 :Vaclav Havel, dramatist and former president of Chechosolvakia.
10/5/1943 :Steve Miller, musician.
10/5/1951 :Karen Allen, actress.
10/5/1952 :Clive Barker.
10/5/1954 :Bob Geldof, rock musician.
10/5/1968 :Mario Lemieux, hockey player.
10/6/1820 :Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale,” singer.
10/6/1845 :Charles Stillwell, inventor of the brown, paper, grocery bag.
10/6/1846 :George Westinghouse, US inventor and manufacturer.
10/6/1882 :Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer.
10/6/1905 :Helen Wills Moody, tennis champion.
10/6/1906 :Janet Gaynor, actress.
10/6/1908 :Carol Lombard, actress.
10/6/1914 :Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnologist and archaeologist.
10/6/1925 :Shana Alexander, journalist and author.
10/6/1930 :Hafez Assad, Syrian president.
10/6/1937 :Anna Quayle, comedienne.
10/6/1940 :Wyche Fowler Jr, Georgia Senator.
10/6/1942 :Britt Ekland (Britt Eklund), actress.
10/6/1942 :Fred Travalena, actor and impressionist.
10/6/1956 :Stephanie Zimbalist, actress. (10/8?)
10/6/1959 :Dennis Ray Boyd.
10/6/1965 :Ruben Angel Sierra (Garcia), baseball player.
10/7/1849 :James Whitcomb Riley, poet.
10/7/1857 :Fleetwood Walker, first black major league baseball player.
10/7/1859 :Thomas James Wise, English bibliophile and literary forger.
10/7/1870 :Uncle Dave Macon, Grand Ole Opry star.
10/7/1885 :Niels Bohr, Danish atomic physicist.
10/7/1888 :Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd US vice president.
10/7/1905 :Andy Devine, actor.
10/7/1911 :Vaughn Monroe, singer.
10/7/1917 :June Allyson (Ella Geisman), actress.
10/7/1927 :Al Martino (Alfred Cini), actor and singer.
10/7/1927 :R(onald) D(avid) Laing, psychiatrist and author.
10/7/1931 :Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop.
10/7/1934 :Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), poet and dramatist.
10/7/1935 :Thomas Keneally, Australian novelist.
10/7/1936 :Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor.
10/7/1943 :Oliver Laurence North, US Marine Corps Lt. Colonel.
10/7/1951 :John Cougar Mellencamp, singer.
10/7/1953 :Christopher Norris, actor.
10/7/1955 :Yo-Yo Ma, musician.
10/7/1957 :Michael W. Smith.
10/8/1585 :Heinrich Schutz, “father of German music”.
10/8/1869 :James Frank Duryea, automobile inventor.
10/8/1873 :E. Hertzprung.
10/8/1890 :Edward V. Rickenbacker, WWI flying ace.
10/8/1895 :Juan Peron, Argentine dictator.
10/8/1913 :Temple Hornaday Fielding, travel guide author.
10/8/1916 :Spark Masayuki Matsunaga, Hawaii Senator.
10/8/1936 :Rona Barrett, gossip columnist.
10/8/1937 :Clodagh Aubry, designer.
10/8/1939 :Paul Hogan, actor.
10/8/1940 :David Carradine, actor.
10/8/1941 :Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader.
10/8/1943 :Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane), comic actor.
10/8/1948 :Sarah Purcell, TV personality.
10/8/1949 :Sigourney Weaver, actress.
10/8/1951 :Johnny Ramone, rock singer.
10/8/1956 :Stephanie Zimbalist, actress. (10/6?)
10/9/1835 :Camille Saint-Saens, French composer.
10/9/1879 :Max von Laue, German physicist.
10/9/1890 :Amiee Semple McPherson, US evangelist.
10/9/1899 :Bruce Catton, Civil War historian.
10/9/1906 :Leopold Sedor Senghor.
10/9/1923 :Donald Sinden, actor.
10/9/1933 :Martin Gottfried, drama critic.
10/9/1938 :Russell Myers, cartoonist.
10/9/1940 :Gordon J. Humphrey, former New Hampshire Senator.
10/9/1940 :Joe Pepitone, baseball player.
10/9/1940 :John Winston Lennon, former Beatle.
10/9/1941 :Trent Lott, Mississippi Senator.
10/9/1944 :John Alec Entwistle.
10/9/1944 :Peter Tosh (Winston Hubert MacIntosh).
10/9/1948 :Jackson Browne, singer and songwriter. (1949?) [1950?]
10/9/1951 :Richard Chaves.
10/9/1954 :Scott Bakula.
10/9/1958 :Mike Singletary, football player.
10/9/1959 :Michael Pare.
10/10/1802:Hugh Miller, author and geologist.
10/10/1813:Giuseppi Verdi, Italian operatic composer.
10/10/1825:Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, former president of the South
:African Republic.
10/10/1885:Francois Mauriac, novelist.
10/10/1900:Helen Hayes, actress.
10/10/1918:Thelonious Monk, jazz musician.
10/10/1922:Wilhelmina Holladay, philanthropist.
10/10/1924:James Clavell, author.
10/10/1930:Adlai Stevenson III, former Illinios Senator.
10/10/1930:Harold Pinter, playwright.
10/10/1946:Ben Vereen, singer-dancer.
10/10/1946:John Prine.
10/10/1955:David Lee Roth, singer.
10/10/1956:Martina Navratilova, tennis player. (10/18?)
10/10/1958:Tanya Tucker, singer.
10/10/1975:Sean Lennon.
10/11/1759:Mason Locke Weems, inventor of Washington and the cherry tree
:fable.
10/11/1844:Henry John Heinz, food industry pioneer.
10/11/1872:Harland Fiske Stone, former US Supreme Court Chief Justice.
10/11/1884:Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, former US first lady and author.
10/11/1887:William F. (Willie) Hoppe, American billiards player.
10/11/1910:Joseph Alsop, journalist and author.
10/11/1918:Jerome Robbins, choreographer.
10/11/1919:Art Blakey, musician.
10/11/1925:Elmore Leonard.
10/11/1935:Roy Scheider, actor. (11/10?)
10/11/1945:Robert Gale, physician.
10/11/1948:Daryl Hall, singer.
10/11/1948:Ray Mabus, Mississippi governor.
10/11/1950:Patty Murray, Washington Senator.
10/11/1964:Luke Perry, actor.
10/11/1965:Sean Patrick Flanery.
10/12/1710:Jonathan Trumbull, US patriot.
10/12/1844:George Washington Cable, American author.
10/12/1860:Elmer Sperry, developer of practical uses for the gyroscope.
10/12/1872:Ralph Vaughn-Williams, English composer.
10/12/1896:Eugenio Montale.
10/12/1906:Joe Cronin, baseball player.
10/12/1923:Jean Nidetch, founder of Weight Watchers.
10/12/1932:Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights activist.
10/12/1932:Edwin Jacob (Jake) Garn, former Utah Senator.
10/12/1935:Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer.
10/12/1935:Tony Kubek, sportscaster. (1936?)
10/12/1947:Chris Wallace, ABC reporter.
10/12/1950:Ronald E. McNair, second black US astronaut.
10/12/1950:Susan Anton, singer and actress.
10/12/1962:Sid Fernandez, baseball player.
10/12/1968:Adam Rich, actor.
10/12/1970:Kirk Cameron, actor.
10/13/-70 :Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil). (10/15?)
10/13/1754:Mary Hays McCauley (nee Ludwig) (a.k.a Molly Pitcher), US
:Revolutionary War heroine.
10/13/1821:Rudolf Virchow, founder of cellular pathology.
10/13/1853:Lillie Langtry, actress.
10/13/1890:Conrad Richter.
10/13/1917:Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer.
10/13/1918:Cornel Wilde, actor.
10/13/1921:Yves Montand (Ivo Livi), actor and singer.
10/13/1924:Nipsey Russell, comedian.
10/13/1925:Frank D. Gilroy, playwright.
10/13/1925:Lenny Bruce, comedian. (1926?)
10/13/1925:Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher, former British prime minister.
10/13/1926:Jesse Leroy Brown, first black American naval aviator.
10/13/1929:Richard Howard.
10/13/1942:Arthur Garfunkel, singer.
10/13/1949:Sammy Hagar, singer.
10/13/1957:Reggie Theus, basketball player.
10/13/1959:(Olive) Marie Osmond, singer.
10/13/1961:Glenn Anton (Doc) Rivers, basketball player.
10/13/1962:Jerry Lee Rice, football player.
10/13/1963:Kelly Preston.
10/13/1969:Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater.
10/14/1644:William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania.
10/14/1882:Eamon de Valera, Irish political leader.
10/14/1888:Katherine Mansfield.
10/14/1890:Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th US president.
10/14/1894:Edward Estlin Cummings, US poet, writer, and painter.
10/14/1896:Lillian Gish, actress.
10/14/1906:Hannah Arendt.
10/14/1916:Charles Everett Koop, former US Surgeon General.
10/14/1927:Roger Moore, actor.
10/14/1928:Gary Graffman, musician.
10/14/1938:John W. Dean III, former White House counsel.
10/14/1939:Ralph Lauren (Ralph Lifshitz), fashion designer.
10/14/1940:Cliff Richard, British pop musician and former teen idol.
10/14/1952:Harry Anderson, actor.
10/14/1952:Karyn White. (1964?)
10/14/1953:Greg Evigan, actor.
10/14/1956:Beth Daniel, golfer.
10/14/1958:Thomas Dolby, singer.
10/15/-70 :Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet. (10/13?)
10/15/1844:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher.
10/15/1858:John L. Sullivan, boxing champion.
10/15/1872:Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of Woodrow Wilson.
10/15/1881:Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, English writer and humorist.
10/15/1900:Mervyn Leroy, film producer (“The Wizard of Oz”).
10/15/1903:Otto Bettmann, picture archivist.
10/15/1904:Marty Mann, American social activist and author.
10/15/1905:C.P. Snow.
10/15/1908:John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and diplomat.
10/15/1917:Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr, writer and historian.
10/15/1920:Mario Puzo, author (“The Godfather”).
10/15/1923:Italo Calvino.
10/15/1924:Lido Anthony “Lee” Iacocca, Chrysler Corporation chairman.
10/15/1930:Ned R. McWherter, Tennessee Governor.
10/15/1937:Linda Lavin, actress. (1939?)
10/15/1942:Penny Marshall, actress and director.
10/15/1945:Jim Palmer, sportscaster.
10/15/1946:Richard Carpenter, pop singer.
10/15/1951:Roscoe Tanner, tennis player.
10/15/1955:Tanya Roberts, actress.
10/15/1953:Tito Jackson (Toriano Adaryll Jackson), singer.
10/15/1959:Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York.
10/15/1965:Trace (Raymond Lester) Armstrong, football player.
10/16/1714:Giovanni Arduino, geologist.
10/16/1752:Adolf Knigge.
10/16/1758:Noah Webster, US teacher and journalist.
10/16/1854:Oscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) Wilde, Irish author and
:dramatist.
10/16/1886:David Ben Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister.
10/16/1888:Eugene Gladstone O’Neill, US playwright.
10/16/1898:William Orville Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice.
10/16/1900:Goose Goslin, baseball player.
10/16/1925:Angela Lansbury, actress.
10/16/1925:Daniel Jackson Evans, Washington Senator.
10/16/1927:Gunter Grass, author.
10/16/1931:Charles W. Colson, former US presidential advisor and Watergate
:participant.
10/16/1946:Susanne Somers, actress.
10/16/1947:Bob Weir (Robert Hall).
10/16/1956:Melissa Belote, swimmer.
10/16/1958:Tim Robbins, actor.
10/16/1962:Manute Bol, basketball player.
10/16/1969:Wendy Wilson, singer.
10/17/1711:Jupiter Hammon, first published US black poet.
10/17/1727:John Wilkes, English politician.
10/17/1780:Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th US vice president.
10/17/1893:Spring Byington, actress.
10/17/1903:Irene Ryan, actress.
10/17/1903:Nathanael West, novelist.
10/17/1908:Jean Arthur (Gladys Georgianna Greene), actress.
10/17/1912:Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I), 263rd Catholic Pope.
10/17/1915:Arthur Miller, playwright.
10/17/1918:Rita Hayworth, actress.
10/17/1926:Beverly Garland, actress.
10/17/1927:Tom Poston, actor.
10/17/1930:Jimmy Breslin, newspaper columnist.
10/17/1938:Evel Knievel (Robert Craig Knievel), motorcycle stunt performer.
10/17/1947:Michael McKean, actor.
10/17/1948:George Wendt, actor (“Cheers”).
10/17/1948:Margot Kidder, actress.
10/17/1957:Steve Douglas McMichael, football player.
10/17/1958:Alan Jackson.
10/17/1959:Dolph Lundgren, actor.
10/18/1785:Thomas Love Peacock, novelist and poet.
10/18/1854:Salomon Auguste Andree, Swedish explorer and balloonist.
10/18/1859:Henri Bergson, French philosopher.
10/18/1889:Fannie Hurst, novelist. (10/19?)
10/18/1904:Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist and author.
10/18/1919:Anita O’Day, singer.
10/18/1919:Pierre Elliot Trudeau, former Canadian prime minister.
10/18/1921:Jesse Helms, North Carolina Senator.
10/18/1925:Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and minister of culture.
10/18/1926:Chuck Berry (Charles Edward Anderson), rock ‘n’ roller.
10/18/1927:George C. Scott, actor (“Patton”).
10/18/1927:Katherine Fanning, editor.
10/18/1928:Keith Jackson, sportscaster.
10/18/1929:Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaraguan president.
10/18/1930:Frank Carlucci, former US Defense Secretary.
10/18/1932:Vytautas Lansbergis, Lithuanian president.
10/18/1939:Lee Harvey Oswald, presidential assassin.
10/18/1939:Mike Ditka, football coach.
10/18/1947:Laura Nyro, singer and composer.
10/18/1948:Ntozake Shange (Paulette L. Williams), dramatist and poet.
10/18/1951:Pam Dawber, actress.
10/18/1956:Martina Navratilova, tennis player. (10/10?)
10/18/1958:Tommy Hearns, boxer.
10/18/1961:Erin Moran, actress.
10/18/1961:Wynton Marsalis, jazz and classical trumpeter.
10/19/1605:Thomas Browne, English physician and scholar.
10/19/1748:Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson.
10/19/1784:Leigh Hunt, poet and essayist.
10/19/1810:Cassius Marcellus Clay, abolitionist.
10/19/1889:Fannie Hurst, US novelist. (10/18?)
10/19/1895:Lewis Mumford, historian, philosopher, and city planner.
10/19/1899:Eddie Bauer.
10/19/1899:Miguel Angel Asturias.
10/19/1918:Robert Strauss, US ambassador to Russia.
10/19/1920:LaWanda Page, actress.
10/19/1921:Bern Bennett, CBS staff announcer.
10/19/1922:Jack Anderson, newspaper columnist.
10/19/1931:John LeCarre (David John Moore Cornwell), English spy novelist.
10/19/1932:Robert Reed, actor.
10/19/1937:Peter Max, pop artist.
10/19/1938:Renata Adler.
10/19/1945:Jeannie C. Riley, singer.
10/19/1945:John Lithgow, actor.
10/19/1945:Patricia Ireland, National Organization for Women president.
10/19/1960:Jennifer Holliday, blues singer.
10/19/1962:Evander Holyfield.
10/19/1965:Bradley Lee Daugherty, basketball player.
10/19/1967:Amy Carter, daughter of Jimmy Carter.
10/20/1632:Sir Christopher Wren, English astronomer and architect.
10/20/1819:Siyyid Ali Muhammad (“the Bab”), prophet of the Baha’i Faith.
10/20/1854:Arthur Rimbaud, French poet.
10/20/1856:James Robert Mann, author of the “White Slave Traffic Act.”
10/20/1859:John Dewey, US philosopher and educator.
10/20/1874:Charles Ives, US composer.
10/20/1884:Bela Lugosi, actor. (1882?) (10/29?)
10/20/1891:Fanny Brice, actress. (10/29?)
10/20/1908:Arlene Francis (Arlene Kazanjian), TV personality.
10/20/1925:Art Buchwald, newspaper columnist.
10/20/1928:Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist.
10/20/1931:Mickey Mantle, baseball player.
10/20/1932:William Christopher, actor.
10/20/1935:Jerry Orbach, actor.
10/20/1952:Tom Petty, musician.
10/20/1953:Keith Hernandez, baseball player.
10/20/1956:Melanie Mayron, actress.
10/21/1772:Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, critic, and philosopher.
10/21/1790:Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet.
10/21/1813:Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore, second wife of Millard
:Fillmore.
10/21/1833:Alfred Bernhard Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of Nobel
:Prize.
10/21/1845:Will Carleton, poet (observed in Michigan schools).
10/21/1912:Sir Georg Solti, conductor.
10/21/1917:John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, jazz trumpeter.
10/21/1921:Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer.
10/21/1928:Edward Charles “Whitey” Ford, baseball player.
10/21/1929:Ursula Le Guin, author.
10/21/1940:Frances FitzGerald, journalist and author.
10/21/1940:Manfred Mann, rock singer.
10/21/1942:Elvin Bishop, musician.
10/21/1956:Carrie Fisher, actress.
10/21/1959:George Bell, baseball player.
10/21/1976:Jeremy Miller, actor.
10/22/1811:Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer and pianist.
10/22/1844:Sarah Bernhardt, French actress.
10/22/1882:N.C. Wyeth.
10/22/1907:Jimmie Foxx, baseball player.
10/22/1917:Joan Fontaine, actress.
10/22/1919:Doris Lessing, English author.
10/22/1920:Timothy Francis Leary, psychologist and LSD advocate.
10/22/1922:John Hubbard Chafee, Rhode Island Senator.
10/22/1925:Robert Rauschenberg, artist.
10/22/1938:Christopher Lloyd, actor.
10/22/1938:Derek Jacobi, actor.
10/22/1939:Tony Roberts, actor.
10/22/1942:Annette Funicello, Mouseketeer and actress.
10/22/1943:Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac), actress (“The Last Metro”).
10/22/1952:Jeff Goldblum, actor.
10/22/1952:Patti Davis, writer.
10/22/1963:Brian Boitano, ice skater.
10/23/1752:Nicholas Appert, French chef (invented canning process).
10/23/1817:Pierre Larousse, French grammarian and encyclopedist.
10/23/1835:Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 23rd US vice president.
10/23/1844:Louis Riel, Canadian patriot.
10/23/1844:Robert Bridges, English poet.
10/23/1869:John Heisman, pioneering college football coach.
10/23/1873:William Coolidge, inventor of the X-ray tube.
10/23/1906:Gertrude Caroline Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel.
10/23/1925:Johnny Carson, TV personality.
10/23/1931:Diana Dors (Diana Fluck), actress.
10/23/1931:Jim Bunning, baseball player.
10/23/1934:Juan “Chi-Chi” Rodriguez, golfer.
10/23/1938:John Heinz, Pennsylvania Senator.
10/23/1940:Pele (Edson Arantes de Nascimento), Brazilian soccer great.
10/23/1942:Michael Crichton, author and film director.
10/23/1956:Dwight Yoakum, country singer.
10/23/1959:Alfred Matthew “Weird Al” Yankovic, satirist.
10/23/1962:Doug Flutie, football player.
10/23/1962:Mike Tomczak, football player.
10/24/1788:Sarah Josepha Hale, author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
10/24/1808:Carl Bernhard von Cotta, geologist.
10/24/1830:Belva Lockwood, first woman candidate for US president.
10/24/1855:James Schoolcraft Sherman, 27th US vice president.
10/24/1904:Moss Hart, US dramatist and writer of librettos.
10/24/1923:Denise Levertov, poet.
10/24/1926:Yelberton Abraham Tittle, football player.
10/24/1930:Jiles Perry “J.P.” Richardson Jr. (a.k.a. The Big Bopper, singer
:and songwriter.
10/24/1936:Bill Wyman, musician.
10/24/1936:David Nelson, actor and producer.
10/24/1939:F. Murray Abraham, actor (“Amadeus”).
10/24/1947:Kevin Kline, actor.
10/25/1800:Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, British essayist and historian.
10/25/1825:Johann Strauss, Austrian composer.
10/25/1838:Georges Bizet, French composer.
10/25/1881:Pablo Picasso, artist.
10/25/1888:Richard Byrd, explorer.
10/25/1889:Abel Gance, film director (“Napoleon”).
10/25/1909:Whit Bissell, actor.
10/25/1912:Jack Kent Cooke.
10/25/1912:Minnie Pearl, comedian and country music star.
10/25/1914:John Berryman.
10/25/1923:Bobby Thomson, baseball player.
10/25/1924:Dr. Bobby Brown, American League president.
10/25/1928:Anthony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo), actor.
10/25/1928:Marion Ross, actress.
10/25/1930:Hanna Gray, educator.
10/25/1940:Bobby Knight, basketball coach.
10/25/1941:Anne Tyler.
10/25/1942:Helen Reddy, singer.
10/25/1944:Jon Anderson.
10/25/1949:Brian Kerwin, actor.
10/25/1967:Julia Roberts, actress (“Pretty Woman”). (10/28?)
10/25/1971:Midori, violinist.
10/26/1685:Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer.
10/26/1803:Joseph Aloysius Hansom, British inventor of the cab.
10/26/1879:Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary.
10/26/1902:Beryl Markham.
10/26/1910:Cardinal John Krol, retired archbishop of Philadelphia.
10/26/1911:Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer.
10/26/1914:Jackie Coogan, actor.
10/26/1916:Francois (Maurice Marie) Mitterrand, French president.
10/26/1919:Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, last shah of Iran.
10/26/1942:Bob Hoskins, actor.
10/26/1946:Ivan Reitman, director and producer.
10/26/1946:Pat Sajak, TV host.
10/26/1947:Hillary Rodham Clinton, US First lady.
10/26/1947:Jaclyn Smith, actress.
10/26/1950:Chuck Forman, football player.
10/26/1962:Cary Elwes, actor.
10/26/1963:Marla Maples.
10/27/1466:Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholor, theologian, and satirist.
10/27/1728:James Cook, English sea captain and explorer.
10/27/1782:Niccolo Paganini, Italian violin virtuoso.
10/27/1811:Isaac Singer, developer of the first practical home sewing
:machine.
10/27/1858:Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president.
10/27/1872:Emily Post, etiquette arbiter. (10/3/1873?)
10/27/1889:Enid Bagnold.
10/27/1910:Frederick De Cordova, producer and director.
10/27/1914:Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright.
10/27/1915:Harry Saltzman, film director.
10/27/1917:Oliver Tambo, South African political activist.
10/27/1918:Teresa Wright, actress.
10/27/1920:Nanette Fabray, actress.
10/27/1922:Ralph Kiner, baseball player and sportscaster.
10/27/1923:Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist.
10/27/1924:Ruby Dee, actress.
10/27/1925:Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State.
10/27/1926:H.R. Haldeman, former White house chief of staff.
10/27/1932:Sylvia Plath.
10/27/1933:Floyd Cramer, musician and singer.
10/27/1933:Gerald M. Weinberg.
10/27/1939:John Cleese, actor and comedian.
10/27/1942:Lee Greenwood.
10/27/1946:Carrie Snodgrass, actress.
10/27/1950:Fran Lebowitz, novelist (“Metropolitan Life”).
10/27/1951:Jayne Kennedy-Overton, actress and TV personality.
10/27/1958:Simon Le Bon, rock singer.
10/27/1963:Tracy Nelson, actress.
10/28/1793:Eliphalet Remington, riflemaker.
10/28/1842:Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (a.k.a. American Joan of Arc), orator
:and author.
10/28/1846:Georges Auguste Escoffier, inventor of peche Melba.
10/28/1902:Elsa Lanchester, actress.
10/28/1903:Evelyn Waugh, British novelist.
10/28/1914:Dr. Jonas Edward Salk, developer of the polio vaccine.
10/28/1926:Bowie Kuhn, former baseball commissioner.
10/28/1929:Dody Goodman, actress.
10/28/1936:Charlie Daniels, musician and songwriter.
10/28/1939:Jane Alexander (Jane Quigley), actress.
10/28/1944:Dennis Franz, actor.
10/28/1948:Telma Hopkins, singer and actress.
10/28/1949:Bruce Jenner, track athlete and sportscaster.
10/28/1952:Annie Potts.
10/28/1955:Bill Gates, Microsoft founder.
10/28/1965:Jami Gertz, actress.
10/28/1967:Julia Roberts, actress. (10/25?)
10/28/1974:Leaf Phoenix.
10/29/1740:James Boswell, Scottish biographer (of Samuel Johnson).
10/29/1815:Daniel Decatur Emmett, singer-composer (“Dixie”).
10/29/1882:Jean Giraudoux, French playwright (“The Madwoman of Chaillot”).
10/29/1884:Bela Lugosi. (1882?) (10/20?)
10/29/1891:Fanny Brice, actress-comedian-singer. (10/20?)
10/29/1897:Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi propaganda chief.
10/29/1921:William Mauldin, political cartoonist.
10/29/1925:John Haley “Zoot” Sims, musician.
10/29/1940:Connie Mack, Florida Senator.
10/29/1945:Melba Moore, singer and actress.
10/29/1947:Richard Dreyfuss, actor.
10/29/1948:Kate Jackson, actress.
10/29/1951:Dirk Kempthorne, Idaho Senator.
10/29/1955:J.T. Smith, football player.
10/29/1959:Jesse Lee Barfield, baseball player.
10/29/1960:Michael D’Andrea Carter, football player.
10/29/1961:Randy Jackson (Steven Randall Jackson), singer.
10/29/1971:Winona Ryder, actress.
10/30/1735:John Adams, 2nd US president.
10/30/1751:Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist.
10/30/1839:Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter.
10/30/1871:Paul Valery, French poet.
10/30/1885:Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet.
10/30/1893:Charles Atlas, strongman. (1894?)
10/30/1896:Ruth Gordon, actress.
10/30/1912:Gordon Parks, photographer and author.
10/30/1915:Fred Friendly, broadcast journalist.
10/30/1932:Louis Malle, film director.
10/30/1937:Claude Lelouch, film director.
10/30/1937:Dick Gautier, actor.
10/30/1939:Grace Slick, rock singer.
10/30/1945:Henry Winkler, actor-director.
10/30/1946:Andrea Mitchell.
10/30/1951:Harry Hamlin, actor.
10/30/1965:Charnele Brown, actress.
10/30/1970:Nia Long.
10/31/1620:John Evelyn, English diarist.
10/31/1632:Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter.
10/31/1795:John Keats, British poet.
10/31/1828:Joseph Wilson Swan, English scientist and inventor.
10/31/1852:Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
10/31/1860:Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts founder.
10/31/1887:Chiang Kai-Shek, founder of Nationalist China.
10/31/1900:Ethel Waters, singer and actress.
10/31/1912:Dale Evans, actress and singer.
10/31/1918:Griffin Bell, former US Attorney General.
10/31/1922:Barbara Bel Geddes, actress.
10/31/1928:Andrew Sarris, movie critic.
10/31/1928:Roy Romer, Colorado Governor.
10/31/1930:Michael Collins, astronaut.
10/31/1931:Dan Rather, journalist.
10/31/1936:Michael Landon (Eugene Michael Orowitz), actor and director.
10/31/1942:David Ogden Stiers, actor.
10/31/1948:Barbara Hall, actress.
10/31/1948:Deidre Hall, actress.
10/31/1950:John Candy, comedian and actor.
10/31/1950:(Margaret) Jane Pauley, anchorwoman.
10/31/1961:Larry Mullen, musician.
10/31/1963:Frederick Stanley McGriff, baseball player.
10/31/1967:Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle), rapper.