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Famous October Birthdays
The following 7,456 famous people including celebrities were born in the month of October. A random sample was chosen for each day. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info. You might also want to browse the filtered celebrity birthdays in October.
Zodiac signs for October are Libra ♎ and Scorpio ♏. The modern birthstone for October is Opal while the mystical gemstone (based on Tibetan origin) is Jasper.
October 1
208
Alexander Severus, Roman emperor (d. 235)
1890
Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer (d. 1982)
1922
Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1968
Phil de Glanville, English rugby player
1972
Guna Zariņa, Latvian actress
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October 2
1904
Graham Greene, English author, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1949
Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
1982
Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
1985
Buster Davis, American football player
1994
Joana Eidukonytė, Lithuanian tennis player
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October 3
1863
Pyotr Kozlov, Russian archaeologist and explorer (d. 1935)
1961
Rebecca Stephens, English journalist and mountaineer
1966
Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player and sportscaster
1968
Marko Rajamäki, Finnish footballer and manager
1977
Luca Tognozzi, Italian footballer
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October 4
1723
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (d. 1798)
1884
Subramaniya Siva, Indian author and activist (d. 1925)
1971
Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
1978
Go Soo, South Korean actor and singer
1984
Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
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October 5
1885
Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (d. 1969)
1919
Donald Pleasence, English actor and singer (d. 1995)
1939
Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino lawyer and jurist
1970
Audie Pitre, American singer and bass player (Acid Bath) (d. 1997)
1976
Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic
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October 6
1908
Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1989)
1951
Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
1956
Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator
1976
Magdalena Kučerová, Czech-German tennis player
1985
Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
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October 7
1936
Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1948
Stephen Rucker, American composer
1952
Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1958
Timothy Ackroyd, English actor
1967
Ellen ten Damme, Dutch actress and singer
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October 8
1934
Kader Asmal, South African academic and politician (d. 2011)
1948
Sarah Purcell, American radio and television host
1965
Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1970
Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game designer and director
1985
Eiji Wentz, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (WaT)
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October 9
1873
Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
1918
Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress (d. 2000)
1941
Karam ud Din, Pakistani lieutenant (d. 2008)
1957
Don Garber, American businessman
1961
Ellen Wheeler, American actress, director, and producer
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October 10
1567
Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (d. 1597)
1941
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (d. 1995)
1970
Matthew Pinsent, English rower and sportscaster
1973
Mario Lopez, American actor and producer
1974
Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
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October 11
1885
François Mauriac, French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1928
Roscoe Robinson, Jr., American general (d. 1993)
1944
Cindy Carol, American actress
1944
Mike Fiore, American baseball player
1973
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese actor and singer
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October 12
1878
Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (d. 1956)
1929
Nappy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1935
Shivraj Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence
1968
Mark Donovan, Welsh actor
1978
Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
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October 13
1499
Claude of France (d. 1524)
1919
R. Kanagasuntheram, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (d. 2010)
1949
Raimundo Fagner, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1960
Ari Fleischer, American journalist and politician, 24th White House Press Secretary
1965
Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
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October 14
1840
Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868)
1900
W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993)
1942
Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright
1980
Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer
1982
Ryan Hall, American runner
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October 15
1926
Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (d. 1981)
1936
Michel Aumont, French actor
1938
Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1993)
1980
Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer-songwriter (Killer)
1984
Izale McLeod, English footballer
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October 16
1905
Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (d. 1990)
1921
MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
1952
Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
1978
Ethan Luck, American guitarist and drummer (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, and Relient K)
1982
Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
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October 17
1898
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (d. 1971)
1902
Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
1934
Rico Rodriguez, American trombonist (The Specials and Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra)
1966
Shaun Edwards, English rugby player and coach
1979
Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer-songwriter and violinist (Stream of Passion and Elfonía)
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October 18
1904
Haim Shirman, Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
1905
Jan Gies, Dutch activist (d. 1993)
1920
Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994)
1977
Kunal Kapoor, Indian actor
1982
Thierry Amiel, French singer-songwriter
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October 19
1976
Michael Young, American baseball player
1981
Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
1987
Fumino Kimura, Japanese actress
1989
Janine Tugonon, Filipino model and television host
1993
Abby Sunderland, American sailor
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October 20
1819
Báb, Iranian religious leader, founded Bábism (d. 1850)
1927
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic (d. 2007)
1967
Monica Ali, Bangladeshi-English author
1968
Susan Tully, English actress, director, and producer
1987
Raphael Hackl, German rugby player
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October 21
1927
Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer
1940
Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer and sportscaster
1959
Rose McDowall, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, and Current 93)
1981
Nemanja Vidić, Serbian footballer
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October 22
1870
Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1921
Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant (d. 2014)
1929
Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1936
Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (d. 2014)
1973
Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer
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October 23
1762
Samuel Morey, American engineer (d. 1843)
1918
Augusta Dabney, American actress (d. 2008)
1936
Charles Goodhart, English economist and academic
1954
Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1985
Chris Neal, English footballer
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October 24
1840
Eliza Pollock, American archer (d. 1919)
1942
Ruthann Aron, American politician
1944
Bettye Swann, American singer-songwriter
1946
Keti Chomata, Greek singer and actor (d. 2010)
1954
Tom Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician
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October 25
1864
John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (d. 1920)
1928
Marion Ross, American actress and singer
1935
Sam Taylor, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1984
Iván Ramis, Spanish footballer
1993
Ediz Yıldırımer, Turkish swimmer
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October 26
1759
Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 1794)
1860
Frank Eaton, American marshal and author (d. 1958)
1916
Boyd Wagner, American colonel and pilot (d. 1942)
1959
Evo Morales, Bolivian soldier and politician, 80th President of Bolivia
1980
Koichi Watanabe, Japanese kick-boxer
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October 27
1945
John Kane, Scottish actor and screenwriter
1951
Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
1987
Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1990
Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
1999
Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
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October 28
1886
Noel Macklin, English car maker and boat designer (d. 1946)
1939
Jane Alexander, American actress and producer
1955
Ronnie Bass, American football player and sportscaster
1964
Andrew Bridgen, English soldier and politician
1976
Keiron Cunningham, English-Welsh rugby player and coach
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October 29
1883
Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
1907
Edwige Feuillère, French actress (d. 1998)
1945
Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Animals, The Blockheads, and Skip Bifferty)
1959
Jesse Barfield, American baseball player and sportscaster
1965
William De Los Santos, Hawaiian/Irish-American author, poet, screenwriter and film director
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October 30
1910
Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian-Monacan organist and composer (d. 1994)
1946
Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, AC/DC, and Uriah Heep)
1956
Juliet Stevenson, English actress
1958
Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
1984
Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player
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October 31
1705
Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1835
Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (d. 1923)
1933
Phil Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973
Paul Abrahams, English footballer
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