Born on Tuesday, 10th February – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 216 notable people were born on 10th February — spanning from 1486 to 2009. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Tuesday, 10th February 2026 marks a date associated with numerous notable births spanning centuries of history. Among those born on this day was Antonio Arena, an Italian footballer who entered the world in 2009, beginning what would become a career in professional sport. Another significant figure born on this date was Sergio Camello, a Spanish footballer born in 2001, who similarly pursued athletics at the highest levels. The range of professions and nationalities among those sharing this birth date demonstrates the widespread distribution of notable individuals across different fields and continents.
The early 1990s and 1980s saw the births of several individuals who would go on to achieve prominence in entertainment and sports. Emma Roberts, the American actress, was born on 10th February 1991 and would establish herself as a recognisable figure in television and film. Earlier that same decade, in 1989, Birgit Skarstein, a Norwegian Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur, was born on this date, her achievements reflecting both sporting excellence and broader contributions to society.
Historical figures from centuries past also share this birth date. Bertolt Brecht, the influential German director, playwright and poet, was born on 10th February 1898 and would leave an indelible mark on twentieth-century theatre and literature. The date also marks the birth of Harold Macmillan in 1894, who would later serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, shaping British political history during a significant period.
On 10th February 2026, the weather conditions and celestial patterns create the backdrop for this significant date. The moon phase presents a particular stage in its monthly cycle, whilst the zodiac sign of Aquarius influences astrological interpretations for those observing such traditions. These atmospheric and astronomical elements frame the day historically and contemporaneously.
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10/02/2009
Antonio Arena, Italian footballer
Antonio Arena is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Roma. Born in Australia of Italian descent, he has represented both Australia and Italy at youth international level, having most recently appeared for the Italy national under-18 team.
10/02/2001
Sergio Camello, Spanish footballer
Sergio Camello Pérez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Rayo Vallecano.
10/02/2000
María Carlé, Argentine tennis player
María Lourdes Carlé is an Argentine professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 71, achieved on 6 May 2024, and a best doubles ranking of 124, achieved on 11 November 2024.
Yara Shahidi, American actress and model
Yara Sayeh Shahidi is an American actress and producer. She began her career as a child, appearing in the films Imagine That (2009), Butter (2011), and Alex Cross (2012).
10/02/1999
Tiffany Espensen, American actress
Tiffany Espensen is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, before becoming known for her teenaged roles, such as Piper in the 2011 Nickelodeon series Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures and Belinda in the 2014 Disney XD series Kirby Buckets. Espensen has also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
10/02/1997
Josh Jackson, American basketball player
Joshua O'Neal Jackson is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Stockton Kings of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for one season with the Kansas Jayhawks before declaring for the 2017 NBA draft, where he was selected fourth overall by the Phoenix Suns.
Lilly King, American swimmer
Lillia Camille King is an American former competitive swimmer who specialized in breaststroke. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke competition and also won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay, in which she swam the breaststroke leg. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, King won a silver medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay for her efforts in the prelims, the silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke, and the bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay, where she swam the breaststroke leg. She is the current world record holder in the long course 100-meter breaststroke.
Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
Chloë Grace Moretz is an American actress. She began acting as a child, with early roles in the horror film The Amityville Horror (2005), the drama series Desperate Housewives (2006–2007), the horror film The Eye (2008), the drama film The Poker House (2008), the romantic comedy film 500 Days of Summer (2009), and the children's comedy film Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010). Her breakthrough came in 2010 with her performance as Hit-Girl in the superhero film Kick-Ass.
Nadia Podoroska, Argentine tennis player
Nadia Natacha Podoroska is an Argentine professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 36, achieved on 12 July 2021 and a best doubles ranking of No. 62, attained on 18 October 2021.
Josh Rosen, American football player
Joshua Ballinger Lippincott Rosen is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for four seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, receiving Freshman All-American and Pac-12 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year honors in 2015. As a junior, Rosen set the school's record for single-season passing yards and earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 Conference.
Adam Armstrong, English footballer
Adam James Armstrong is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
10/02/1996
Alexandar Georgiev, Bulgarian-Russian ice hockey player
Alexandar Georgiyevich Georgiev is a Bulgarian-born Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). An undrafted player, Georgiev previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Colorado Avalanche, and San Jose Sharks, as well as in the Liiga for TPS. He is the first Bulgarian-born player to play in the NHL.
Emanuel Mammana, Argentine footballer
Emanuel Hernán Mammana is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Argentine Primera División club Vélez Sarsfield.
10/02/1995
Sterling Brown, American basketball player
Sterling Damarco Brown is an American professional basketball player for Partizan Belgrade of the Basketball League of Serbia (KLS), the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 2013 to 2017. As a senior, he earned second-team all-conference honors in the American Athletic Conference (AAC). Brown was drafted 46th overall in the 2017 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.
Bobby Portis, American basketball player
Bobby Portis Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arkansas Razorbacks, earning consensus second-team All-American honors as a sophomore in 2015. Portis was selected in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls with the 22nd overall pick. He won an NBA championship with Milwaukee in 2021.
Carolane Soucisse, Canadian ice dancer
Carolane Soucisse is a Canadian retired ice dancer who represented both Ireland and Canada. With skating partner and husband, Shane Firus, she is a three-time Irish national champion (2023–25) and represented Ireland at the European and World Championships. Skating with Firus for Canada, she is the 2018 Four Continents silver medallist. They have finished third at the 2020 Canadian Championships and represented Canada on the Grand Prix circuit and at the World Championships.
Lexi Thompson, American golfer
Alexis Noel Thompson is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. She has won a total of 15 professional titles during her career, including 11 victories on the LPGA Tour. Her one major title came at the 2014 Kraft Nabisco Championship. She has represented the United States at seven Solheim Cups, winning in 2015, 2017 and 2024.
Naby Keïta, Guinean footballer
Naby Laye Keïta is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for NB I club Ferencváros, and captains the Guinea national team.
10/02/1994
Son Na-eun, South Korean singer and actress
Son Na-eun, known mononymously as Naeun, is a South Korean actress and singer. She gained popularity following her debut as a member of the South Korean girl group, Apink. Apart from her group's activities, Son has also starred in various television series such as The Great Seer (2012), My Kids Give Me a Headache (2012–2013), Second 20s (2015), Cinderella with Four Knights (2016), The Most Beautiful Goodbye (2017), Dinner Mate (2020), Ghost Doctor (2022), Agency (2023), and Romance in the House (2024).
Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer
Kang Seul-gi, known mononymously as Seulgi, is a South Korean singer and dancer. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Red Velvet, its sub-unit Red Velvet – Irene & Seulgi, and the supergroup Got the Beat. She released her debut EP, 28 Reasons, in 2022.
Makenzie Vega, American actress
Makenzie Jade Vega Norfolk is an American actress. She is known for her role as Grace Florrick on The Good Wife and as the 11-year-old counterpart of Nancy Callahan in Sin City.
Miguel Almirón, Paraguayan footballer
Miguel Ángel Almirón Rejala is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right winger for Major League Soccer club Atlanta United and the Paraguay national team.
10/02/1993
Yasser Ibrahim, Egyptian footballer
Yasser Ibrahim Ahmed El Hanafi is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and the Egypt national team.
Max Kepler, German-American baseball player
Maximilian Kepler-Różycki is a German professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, with whom he made his MLB debut in 2015, and Philadelphia Phillies. Before signing with the Twins, he played for Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg of the Baseball-Bundesliga. He bats and throws left-handed. He holds the record for home runs hit in a career by a German-born player.
Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer
Luis Guillermo Madrigal Gutiérrez is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a forward for Chilean club San Luis de Quillota.
Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer
Filip Twardzik is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Spartak Trnava.
10/02/1992
Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer and actress
Haruka Nakagawa , is a Japanese media personality based in Indonesia. She is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 and its sub-unit Watarirouka Hashiritai, as well as its Indonesian sister group JKT48, all produced by Yasushi Akimoto.
Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
Reinhold Yabo is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
10/02/1991
C. J. Anderson, American football player
Cortrelle Javon Anderson is an American football coach and former running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons, primarily with the Denver Broncos. After playing college football for the California Golden Bears, he was signed by the Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2013, where he made one Pro Bowl selection and was part of the team that won a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl 50. Anderson also played in Super Bowl LIII with the Los Angeles Rams. Following his NFL retirement, he rejoined California's football team as a volunteer assistant in 2020 before accepting a head coaching position at Monte Vista High School in Danville in 2021.
Rebecca Dempster, Scottish footballer
Rebecca Eileen Dempster is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Fimauto Valpolicella. She has made three appearances for the Scotland national team.
Emma Roberts, American actress
Emma Rose Roberts is an American actress, singer, and producer. Known for her performances spanning multiple genres of film and television, her work in the horror and thriller genres have established her as a scream queen. Her accolades include a Young Artist Award, an MTV Movie & TV Award, and a ShoWest Award.
10/02/1990
Yuri Berchiche, Spanish footballer
Yuri Berchiche Izeta is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao.
Trevante Rhodes, American actor
Trevante Nemour Rhodes is an American actor. He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as "Black" in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. He has since starred in The Predator (2018), Bird Box (2018), and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in 2009.
Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
Choi Soo-young, known mononymously as Sooyoung, is a South Korean singer, actress, and songwriter. She was a member of the short-lived Korean-Japanese singing duo Route 0 during 2002 in Japan. After returning to South Korea in 2004, Choi eventually became a member of girl group Girls' Generation in 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most widely known girl groups worldwide.
10/02/1989
Travis d'Arnaud, American baseball player
Travis Emmanuel d'Arnaud is an American professional baseball catcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, and Atlanta Braves. He made his MLB debut in 2013 with the Mets. D'Arnaud won a Silver Slugger Award in 2020 and was a member of the 2021 World Series champions with the Braves. He was an All-Star in 2022.
Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player
Liam Johnson Hendriks is an Australian professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox. He has been an All-Star three times and was the American League's Reliever of the Year in 2020 and 2021. His most recent accomplishment is winning the AL MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award for the 2023 season.
Birgit Skarstein, Norwegian Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur
Birgit Lovise Røkkum Skarstein is a Norwegian former Paralympic athlete and social entrepreneur who competed in para rowing and para cross-country skiing. She is a Paralympic champion and silver medallist, six-time world champion and four-time European champion in single sculls. Skarstein has won a total of twelve World Championships medals, eight in rowing and four in cross-country skiing, and holds the world best time in women's single sculls. She announced her retirement on 1 January 2025.
10/02/1988
Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer
Francesco Acerbi is an Italian professional footballer who plays primarily as a centre-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team. He is known for his strength, hard-tackling and aerial ability.
10/02/1987
Justin Braun, American ice hockey player
Justin Timothy Braun is an American professional ice hockey player currently under contract with the Straubing Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Braun was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and grew up nearby in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He previously played for the San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers, and the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player
Jakub Kindl is a Czech professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for Kiekko-Pojat of Mestis, the second tier of professional hockey in Finland. He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings and Florida Panthers.
Facundo Roncaglia, Argentine footballer
Facundo Sebastián Roncaglia is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for San Telmo. Mainly a central defender, he can also play as a right-back.
10/02/1986
Jeff Adrien, American basketball player
Jeff Adrien is an American professional basketball player for the Piratas de Quebradillas of the Puerto Rican National Basketball League (BSN).
Josh Akognon, American basketball player
Joshua Emmanuel Akognon is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Washington State Cougars and Cal State Fullerton Titans. Standing at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), he played at the point guard position.
Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
Radamel Falcao García Zárate is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Categoría Primera A club Millonarios. Nicknamed "El Tigre", he is considered one of the greatest Colombian and South American footballers of all time. With over 350 goals for club and country, he is the all time top goalscorer for the Colombia national team.
Nahuel Guzmán, Argentine footballer
Nahuel Ignacio Guzmán Palomeque is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Liga MX club UANL.
Roberto Jiménez, Spanish footballer
Roberto Jiménez Gago, known simply as Roberto, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
Viktor Troicki is a Serbian tennis coach and a former professional player. He won three singles and two doubles titles on the ATP Tour. Troicki won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup, and his second and third ATP singles titles at the 2015 and 2016 Apia International Sydney. His biggest achievements were a career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 and winning the deciding rubber in Serbia's Davis Cup final against France in 2010. Since then, in every Davis Cup he attended, he has contributed to Serbia reaching a quarterfinal or better. He is known for serving a 12-month ban for an anti-doping rule violation in 2013–14 for missing a blood test. By winning the inaugural ATP Cup in 2020, Troicki became the first player in tennis Open Era history to win all three major team competitions. In December 2020, Troicki was appointed captain of the Serbian team for the Davis Cup and ATP Cup.
10/02/1985
Selçuk İnan, Turkish footballer
Selçuk İnan is a Turkish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Known for his vision, passing range, leadership, and set-piece ability, İnan is regarded as one of the finest Turkish midfielders of his generation.
Paul Millsap, American basketball player
Paul Millsap is an American former professional basketball player who played for 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A power forward from Louisiana Tech University, Millsap was selected by the Utah Jazz in the second round of the 2006 NBA draft and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. He played in Utah until 2013, when he became a member of the Atlanta Hawks. Millsap has also played for the Denver Nuggets, Brooklyn Nets, and Philadelphia 76ers. He is a four-time NBA All-Star.
10/02/1984
Greg Bird, Australian rugby league player
Greg Bird is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played as a second-row, lock or five-eighth for Australia at international level.
Alex Gordon, American baseball player
Alexander Jonathan Gordon is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played his entire career for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2007 to 2020. Prior to playing professionally, Gordon attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he played college baseball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
Kim Hyo-jin is a South Korean actress and model. She began modeling in teen magazines, and made her acting debut in 1999. She made her theater debut in 2009 in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream and followed this up by appearing in the theatrical production Fool for Love a year later. She is best known for playing the youngest of the three sisters in sex comedy film Everybody Has Secrets (2004), a con artist in the television drama Private Lives (2020), and a top star in Castaway Diva (2023).
Zaza Pachulia, Georgian basketball player
Zaur "Zaza" Pachulia is a Georgian professional basketball executive and former player who is a basketball operations consultant for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
10/02/1983
Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Victor Vincent Fuentes is an American musician. He is the co-founder, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil, which he formed with his brother Mike Fuentes in 2006.
10/02/1982
Hamad Al-Tayyar, Kuwaiti footballer
Hamad Al Tayyar is a Kuwaiti footballer.
Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
Justin Alexander Gatlin is a retired American sprinter who competed in the 60 meters, 100 meters, and 200 meters. He is the 2004 Olympic Champion in the 100 meters, the 2005 and 2017 World Champion in the 100 meters, the 2005 World Champion in the 200 meters, and the 2019 World Champion in the 4 × 100 meters relay. In addition, Gatlin is the 2003 and 2012 World Indoor Champion in the 60 meters. He is a 5-time Olympic medalist and a 12-time World Championship medalist. At the World Athletics Relays, Gatlin won two gold medals in the 4 × 100 meters relay in 2015 and 2017. Gatlin is also a record 3-time Diamond League Champion in the 100 meters. He won the Diamond League trophy in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer
Tarmo Neemelo is an Estonian retired professional footballer who last played as a striker for Meistriliiga club Paide Linnameeskond.
Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
Iafeta Iakopo "Feka" Paleaaesina is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer. He played as a prop for the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL, and for the Wigan Warriors, Salford City Reds and Hull F.C. in the Super League.
10/02/1981
Uzo Aduba, American actress
Uzoamaka Nwanneka "Uzo" Aduba is an American actress. Her accolades include three Emmy Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and one Tony Award. She is one of only two actors to win an Emmy Award in both the comedy and drama categories for the same role, the other being Ed Asner.
Stephanie Beatriz, American actress
Stephanie Beatriz Bischoff Alvizuri is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Detective Rosa Diaz in the Fox/NBC comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021), Quiet in the Peacock action-comedy series Twisted Metal (2023–present), Carla in the musical film In the Heights (2021), and voicing Mirabel Madrigal in the Disney animated film Encanto (2021) and Vaggi in the adult animated musical series Hazbin Hotel (2024–present).
Max Brown, English actor
Max Brown is a British actor who made his television debut in 2001 at the age of 20. He is best known for his role as Edward Seymour in the television series The Tudors.
Andrew Johnson, English footballer
Andrew Johnson is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for Birmingham City, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers.
Barry Sloane, English actor
Barry Sloane is an English actor. He has appeared in numerous television shows, and in the RTS Royal Television Society Programme Awards and BAFTA Award–winning television films Pleasureland and The Mark of Cain. In 2010, Sloane made his West End debut in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem. It was described as "the greatest British play of the [21st] century"
Holly Willoughby, English model and television host
Holly Marie Willoughby is an English television presenter, author and model. She has presented several ITV television shows, most notably This Morning (2009–2023) and Dancing on Ice.
10/02/1980
César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
César David Izturis is a Venezuelan former professional baseball shortstop who currently serves as the bench coach for the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League. He played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals, and Cincinnati Reds. He is the half-brother of shortstop Maicer Izturis.
Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer and manager
Enzo Maresca is an Italian professional football manager and former player.
Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
Michael Tavares Ribeiro is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. Originally selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the second round, 45th overall, of the 1998 NHL entry draft, Ribeiro has played in the NHL for the Canadiens, Dallas Stars, Washington Capitals, Phoenix Coyotes and the Nashville Predators.
Bruno Šundov, Croatian basketball player
Bruno Šundov is a Croatian former professional basketball player. Standing at 2.18 m, he played the center position. He played for five NBA teams and over 20 clubs around the world.
10/02/1979
Joey Hand, American race car driver
Joseph Alan Hand is an American professional racing driver who competes in sports car racing as a Ford factory driver. A former champion of the Star Mazda Series, Hand is the co-winner of the 2011 24 Hours of Daytona driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, the 2012 12 Hours of Sebring GT class for BMW Team Rahal, and the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans LMGTE Pro class for Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA driving the Ford GT.
10/02/1978
Don Omar, Puerto Rican rapper, singer, producer, and actor
William Omar Landrón Rivera, known professionally as Don Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Dubbed the "King of Reggaeton" by music critics and fans alike, he has also been recognized by Billboard and Rolling Stone as a reggaeton legend. He is often cited as an influence by other Hispanic urban performers.
10/02/1977
Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
Salif Alassane Diao is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
10/02/1976
Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach
William Lance Berkman, nicknamed "Fat Elvis" and "Big Puma", is an American baseball coach and former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman, who is the former head baseball coach of the Houston Christian Huskies. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers. Berkman is a six-time MLB All-Star and won a World Series championship and the National League Comeback Player of the Year Award with the Cardinals in 2011. He stands 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m), and weighs 220 pounds (100 kg). Berkman spent various seasons of his career as a regular at all three outfield positions.
Keeley Hawes, English actress
Clare Julia "Keeley" Hawes is an English actress. After beginning her career in a number of literary adaptations, including Our Mutual Friend (1998) and Tipping the Velvet (2002), Hawes rose to fame for her portrayal of Zoe Reynolds in the BBC series Spooks (2002–2004), followed by her co-lead performance as DI Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010). She is also known for her roles in Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty as DI Lindsay Denton (2014–2016) and in BBC One drama Bodyguard (2018), in which she played Home Secretary Julia Montague.
10/02/1975
Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
Hiroki Kuroda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 1997 to 2007 before playing in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2008 to 2011 and New York Yankees from 2012 to 2014. After the 2014 season, he chose to return to the Carp to finish out his career. Between the two leagues, he won 203 games.
Tina Thompson, American basketball player and coach
Tina Marie Thompson is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Most recently, she served as the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers women's basketball team from 2018 to 2022; she was subsequently hired by the Portland Trail Blazers as a team scout later in 2022. Thompson was inducted into both the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.
10/02/1974
Elizabeth Banks, American actress
Elizabeth Banks is an American actress and filmmaker. She is known for playing chaperone Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015) and an ICCA commentator in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial film debut with Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), whose $69 million opening-weekend gross set a record for a first-time director. She directed the action comedy Charlie's Angels (2019) and the horror comedy film Cocaine Bear (2023). Banks founded the film and television production company Brownstone Productions in 2002 with her husband, Max Handelman.
Ty Law, American football player
Tajuan Edward "Ty" Law is an American former professional football cornerback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, earning first-team All-American honors, and was selected by the Patriots in the first round of the 1995 NFL draft.
Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
Ivri Lider is an Israeli pop star and part of the duo TYP, also known as The Young Professionals. He served as a judge on the first season of The X Factor Israel.
Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach
Henry Rangi Paul is a rugby union coach and former rugby league and rugby union player. A dual-code international, Paul won 24 caps for New Zealand in rugby league and 6 for England in rugby union, as well as rugby sevens. Paul played as a loose forward, stand-off, fullback, and occasionally as a hooker, and as a centre and fly-half in rugby union.
10/02/1973
Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician
Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho is a British businesswoman, philanthropist and public servant. She co-founded Last Minute during the dotcom boom of the early 2000s and has subsequently served on public service digital projects. She sits on the boards of WeTransfer and Chanel, as well as being a trustee of The Queen's Commonwealth Trust. She previously served on the board of Channel 4.
10/02/1972
Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer
Michael Scott Kasprowicz is a former Australian international cricketer, who played all formats of the game. He is a right arm fast bowler. He represented Queensland and played in the English county scene at first class level.
10/02/1971
Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (died 2015)
Lorena Rojas was a Mexican actress and singer, best known for her leading roles in popular telenovelas.
10/02/1970
Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author
Melissa Jane Doyle is an Australian television presenter, author and journalist.
Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager
Noureddine Naybet is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He played in Spain for Deportivo de La Coruña and in Portugal for Sporting CP, as well as in France for FC Nantes and in England for Tottenham Hotspur. He is considered one of the best defenders in La Liga of his generation. Naybet spent the longest and most successful period of his career with Deportivo La Coruña in Spain's La Liga, from 1996 to 2004. He was named the 44th greatest African player of all time by the African football expert Ed Dove.
Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
10/02/1969
Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor
Joe Mangrum is an installation and multiple-medium artist who is particularly known for his large-scale colored sand paintings. He resides in New York City. Using a wide spectrum of components, his work often includes organic materials, such as flowers, food and sand, in addition to deconstructed computer parts, auto-parts and a multitude of found and collected objects. His installations often include mandala-like forms, pyramids, maps, grids and mushroom clouds and the Ouroboros.
James Small, South African rugby player (died 2019)
James Terence Small was a South African rugby union winger who played for the Springboks. His international debut was against the All Blacks in 1992 and he made his final appearance against Scotland in 1997. In that final test match, he scored his 20th try, becoming the leading Springbok try scorer, eclipsing Danie Gerber's record. He was also the leading try scorer in the 1996 Super 12 season.
10/02/1968
Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
Peter "Poppe" Popovic is a Swedish former ice hockey defenceman of Serbian ancestry, and currently an assistant coach of the Sweden men's national team. Popovic was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the 5th round of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft.
Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
Garrett Erin Reisman is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joined Expedition 16 aboard the International Space Station for a short time before becoming a member of Expedition 17. He returned to Earth on June 14, 2008 on board STS-124 on Space Shuttle Discovery. He was a member of the STS-132 mission that traveled to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis from May 14 to 26, 2010. He is a consultant at SpaceX and a Professor of Astronautics Practice at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering.
10/02/1967
Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
Laura Elizabeth Dern is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, five Golden Globes, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster
Jacky Durand is a French former professional road bicycle racer. Durand had an attacking style, winning the Tour of Flanders in 1992 after a 217 kilometres (135 mi) breakaway, and three stages in the Tour de France.
Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
George Vincent Gilligan Jr. is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He became widely known as the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the AMC crime series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and its spin-off prequel series Better Call Saul (2015–2022). He has received numerous accolades, including four Primetime Emmy Awards, six Writers Guild of America Awards, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Producers Guild of America Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award, and a BAFTA Television Award.
10/02/1966
Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician
Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, is an Australian-British politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours.
Daryl Johnston, American football player and sportscaster
Daryl Peter Johnston is an American sportscaster and former professional football fullback and executive. Nicknamed "Moose", he played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), all for the Dallas Cowboys.
David Cordani, American businessman
David M. Cordani is an American business executive. He is currently serving as the president, CEO, and chairman of the board of the Cigna Group.
10/02/1964
Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
Glenn Lee Beck is an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck also hosts the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News and now airs on TheBlaze. Beck has authored six New York Times–bestselling books.
10/02/1963
Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
Leonard Kyle Dykstra, nicknamed Nails and Dude, is an American former professional baseball center fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets (1985–1989) and Philadelphia Phillies (1989–1996). Dykstra was a three-time All-Star and won a World Series championship as a member of the 1986 Mets.
10/02/1962
Cliff Burton, American musician and songwriter (died 1986)
Clifford Lee Burton was an American musician who served as the bassist for the heavy metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986. He is renowned for his musicianship and influence.
Bobby Czyz, American boxer and commentator
Robert Edward Czyz is an American commentator and former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1998. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight title from 1986 to 1987 and the World Boxing Association (WBA) cruiserweight title from 1991 to 1993.
Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Randolph Velischek is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Minnesota North Stars, New Jersey Devils, and Quebec Nordiques, and coached the Metropolitan Riveters of the National Women's Hockey League for one season. He was drafted 53rd overall by the North Stars in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft and played 509 career NHL games, scoring 21 goals and 97 points.
10/02/1961
Alexander Payne, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Constantine Alexander Payne is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.
George Stephanopoulos, American television journalist
George Robert Stephanopoulos is an American television host, political commentator, and former Democratic advisor. Stephanopoulos currently is a coanchor with Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan on Good Morning America, and host of This Week, ABC's Sunday morning current events news program.
10/02/1960
Jim Kent, American biologist, computer programmer, academic
William James Kent is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects and the 2003 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award.
10/02/1959
John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
John Vincent Calipari is an American basketball coach who is the head coach at the University of Arkansas. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
10/02/1958
Ricardo Gareca, Argentine footballer and manager
Ricardo Alberto Gareca Nardi, nicknamed el Tigre and el Flaco, is an Argentine football manager and former player. He was recently the manager of the Chile national team.
10/02/1957
Katherine Freese, American astrophysicist and academic
Katherine Freese is a theoretical astrophysicist. She is currently a professor and Director of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics. She is known for her work in theoretical cosmology at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics.
10/02/1956
Kathleen Beller, American actress
Kathleen Jennifer Beller is an American actress who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Promises in the Dark (1979) and was well known for her role as Kirby Anders on the prime time soap opera Dynasty. She had a small role in The Godfather Part II and a featured role in The Betsy.
James Martin Graham, American Roman Catholic priest (died 1997)
James Martin Graham American Roman Catholic priest, founder of The Sts. Martin & James Respite in Waterbury, Connecticut and Director of the International Christian AIDS Network (ICAN).
Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
Enele Sosene Sopoaga PC is a Tuvaluan diplomat and politician who was Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 2013 to 2019.
10/02/1955
Jim Cramer, American television personality, pundit, and author
James Joseph Cramer is an American television personality, author, entertainer and former hedge fund manager. He is the host of Mad Money on CNBC and an anchor on Squawk on the Street. After graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he worked for Goldman Sachs and then became a hedge fund manager, founder and senior partner of Cramer Berkowitz. He co-founded TheStreet, which he wrote for from 1996 to 2021. Cramer hosted Kudlow & Cramer from 2002 to 2005. Mad Money with Jim Cramer first aired on CNBC in 2005. Cramer has written several books, including Confessions of a Street Addict (2002), Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World (2005), Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich (2006), Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully (2013), and How to Make Money in Any Market (2025).
Tom LaGarde, American basketball player
Thomas Joseph LaGarde is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1977 to 1985 before a recurring knee issue cut short his career. He earned a gold medal as a member of Team USA in the 1976 Olympics. LaGarde also was a member of an NBA championship team with the Seattle SuperSonics three years later, although torn right knee ligaments forced him to sit out the final five months of the season.
Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster
Gregory John Norman is an Australian former professional golfer who spent 331 weeks as world number one in the 1980s and 1990s. He won 88 professional tournaments, including 20 PGA Tour tournaments and two majors: The Open Championship in 1986 and 1993. Norman also earned thirty top-10 finishes and was the runner-up eight times in majors throughout his career. In a reference to his blond hair, size, aggressive golf style and his birthplace's native coastal animal, Norman's nickname is "the Great White Shark", which he earned after his play at the 1981 Masters.
10/02/1952
Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
Lee Hsien Loong, also known by his initials LHL, is a Singaporean politician and former military officer who has served as the Senior Minister of Singapore since 2024, having previously served as the third Prime Minister between 2004 and 2024. He also served as the secretary-general of the governing People's Action Party (PAP) between 2004 and 2024. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he has represented the Teck Ghee division of Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 1991, having previously represented Teck Ghee Single Member Constituency (SMC) between 1984 and 1991.
10/02/1951
Bob Iger, American media executive
Robert Alan Iger is an American media executive who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company twice, from 2005 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2026. He previously was the president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) between 1994 and 1995 and president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, from 1995 until its acquisition by Disney in 1996. Iger was named president of Disney in 2000 and succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, until his contract expired in 2020. He then was executive chairman until his formal retirement from the company on December 31, 2021. At the request of Disney's board of directors, Iger returned to Disney as CEO on November 20, 2022, following the dismissal of his appointed successor, Bob Chapek. In July 2023, Disney renewed Iger's contract until 2026. He was succeeded as CEO of Disney by Josh D'Amaro on March 18, 2026.
10/02/1950
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, Mexican economist and politician (died 1994)
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the presidential campaign of 1994.
Mark Spitz, American swimmer
Mark Andrew Spitz is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time. This achievement set a record that lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Phelps, like Spitz, set seven world records.
10/02/1949
Nigel Olsson, English rock drummer and singer-songwriter
Nigel Olsson is an English drummer, best known for being a lifelong member of the Elton John Band. He has had an equally long career as a session musician and composed, recorded and produced albums as a solo artist, highlighting his 1979 hit single "Dancin' Shoes".
10/02/1947
Louise Arbour, Canadian lawyer and jurist
Louise Arbour, is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist.
Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (died 2013)
Lawrence Douglas "Butch" Morris was an American cornetist, composer and conductor. He was known for pioneering his structural improvisation method, Conduction, which he utilized on many recordings.
Nicholas Owen, English journalist
Nicholas David Arundel Owen is an English journalist, television presenter and radio presenter. He previously presented on the BBC News channel and BBC One, and used to present a weekly programme on Classic FM radio.
10/02/1946
Dick Anderson, American football player
Richard Paul Anderson is an American former professional football player who was a safety for the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons during the 1960s and 1970s. He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes and was recognized as a consensus All-American. He was selected in third round of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft, and he played for his entire professional career for the Dolphins.
10/02/1945
Delma S. Arrigoitia, Puerto Rican historian, author, educator and lawyer (died 2023)
Delma S. Arrigoitia was a historian, author, educator, and lawyer whose written works covered the life and works of some of Puerto Rico's most prominent politicians of the early 20th century. After earning her doctorate in history at Fordham University in New York, she helped develop the graduate school for history at the University of Puerto Rico and taught there for many years.
Glynn Saulters, American basketball player
Grady Glynn Saulters Jr. is an American former professional basketball player born in Minden, Louisiana.
10/02/1944
Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1992)
Peter Allen was an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer, known for his flamboyant stage persona, energetic performances, and lavish costumes. Allen's songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Elkie Brooks, Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, including Newton-John's first chart-topping hit "I Honestly Love You", and the chart-topping and Academy Award-winning "Arthur's Theme " by Christopher Cross.
Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
Francis Anthony Keating II is an American attorney, politician and a former FBI special agent who served as the 25th governor of Oklahoma from 1995 to 2003.
Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist
Frances Moore Lappé is an American researcher and author in the field of food and democracy policy. She is the author of 20 books including the 2.5-million-copy selling 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet, which the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History describes as "one of the most influential political tracts of the times." She has co-founded three organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty, and environmental crises, as well as solutions emerging worldwide through what she calls "living democracy". Her latest work is a report entitled Crisis of Trust: How Can Democracies Protect Against Dangerous Lies? with Max Boland and Rachel Madison. Recent books by Lappé include Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want, co-authored with Adam Eichen, and It’s Not Too Late: Crisis, Opportunity, and the Power of Hope. In 1987, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them."
Rufus Reid, American bassist and composer
Rufus Reid is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer.
10/02/1941
Michael Apted, English director and producer (died 2021)
Michael David Apted was an English television and film director and producer.
Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (died 2025)
Richard Warner Carlson was an American journalist, diplomat and lobbyist who was the director of the Voice of America from 1986 to 1991. Carlson also was a newspaper and wire service reporter, magazine writer, documentary filmmaker, and television/radio correspondent. He was the father of conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson.
10/02/1940
Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper (died 2026)
Mary Denise Rand was an English athlete who excelled at jumping, hurdles and the pentathlon. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics. Until 2024, Rand was the only British female athlete to win three medals in a single Olympics.
Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (died 2009)
Kenneth Joseph Rankin was an American singer and songwriter in the folk rock and singer-songwriter genres; he was influenced by jazz. Rankin often sang notes which were in a high range to express emotion.
10/02/1939
Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada
Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as the 26th governor general of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida, Angolan nationalist (died 1967)
Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida was an Angolan revolutionary, writer, and poet. She was a member of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola and, in addition to seeing combat, worked for the organisation as a translator, educator, and radio host.
10/02/1937
Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist and academic (died 1983)
Anne Barbara Michie Anderson was a Scottish reproductive physiologist, researcher, lecturer, and author. Her major contributions were for her research in reproductive physiology. In the last decade of her life, she broadened this to encompass more about women's health generally, including doing clinical trials and working with people focusing in on what would become evidence-based medicine.
Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2025)
Roberta Cleopatra Flack was an American singer and pianist known for her emotive, genre-blending ballads that spanned R&B, jazz, folk, and pop and contributed to the birth of the quiet storm radio format. Her commercial success included the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and "Feel Like Makin' Love". She became the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in consecutive years.
10/02/1935
Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor (died 2018)
Theodore Antoniou, was a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and theatre music to solo instrumental works. In addition to his career as composer and conductor, he was professor of composition at Boston University. His education included studies in violin, voice, and composition at the National Conservatory of Athens, the Hellenic Conservatory, and conducting at both The Hochschule für Musik and the International Music Centre in Darmstadt. He was a member of the Academy of Athens.
Barbara Maier Gustern, American vocal coach and singer (died 2022)
Barbara Joan Gustern was an American vocal coach and singer. She had many noted students, including Blondie singer Debbie Harry, Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Diamanda Galás, and Kathleen Hanna.
10/02/1934
Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet (died 2024)
Fleur Adcock was a New Zealand poet, editor and translator. Born in Papakura, New Zealand, and raised partly in England, Adcock spent most of her adult life in the United Kingdom, where she became a prominent figure in contemporary poetry. Her work is characterised by wit, a conversational tone and psychological insights, and explores themes of identity, place and the complexities of human relationships.
10/02/1933
Faramarz Payvar, Iranian musician and composer (died 2009)
Master Farâmarz Pâyvar was an Iranian composer and santur player. Payvar died on 9 December 2009 after a long struggle with brain damage. Although once perceived as marginal, the santur is now considered an important solo instrument in Persian classical music, largely as a result of his work. Over the course of his career, Payvar revolutionised its playing, led two major ensembles and made numerous recordings.
Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic (died 2017)
Richard Warren Schickel was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time from 1965–2010, and also wrote for Life and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His last writings about film were for Truthdig.
10/02/1932
Barrie Ingham, English-American actor (died 2015)
Barrie Stanton Ingham was an English actor. He worked in television, on stage and in several films.
10/02/1931
James West, American inventor and acoustician
James Edward Maceo West is an American inventor and acoustician. He holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets.
10/02/1930
E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (died 2013)
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is one of seven writers to win two Newbery Medals, the venerable American Library Association award for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature, and the only author to win the medal and receive an honor in the same year"
Robert Wagner, American actor and producer
Robert John Wagner Jr. is an American actor. He is known for starring in the television shows It Takes a Thief (1968–1970), Switch (1975–1978), and Hart to Hart (1979–1984). He later had recurring roles on Two and a Half Men (2007–2008) and NCIS (2010–2019).
10/02/1929
Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (died 2004)
Jerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. He was considered one of film music's most innovative and influential composers. He was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, and four British Academy Film Awards.
Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
James W. Whittaker, also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American climber and mountain guide. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington. On May 1, 1963, he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, alongside the Sherpa Nawang Gombu, a nephew of Tenzing Norgay. They ran out of oxygen, but managed to reach the summit.
Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer (died 2024)
Louis Winslow Whittaker was an American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman. He and his twin brother, Jim Whittaker, also a renowned mountaineer and guide, were born and raised in Seattle.
10/02/1927
Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
Leontyne Price is an American singer who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, becoming the first Black singer to maintain a sustained relationship with the company. She regularly appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala. She was particularly renowned for her performances of the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.
10/02/1926
Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (died 2013)
Sidney Bryan Berry was a United States Army Lieutenant General, Superintendent of West Point (1974–1977), and Commissioner of Public Safety for the state of Mississippi (1980–1984).
Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soldier, footballer and manager (died 1993)
Robert Dennis Blanchflower was a Northern Ireland footballer, football manager and journalist who played for and captained Tottenham Hotspur, including during their double-winning season of 1960–61. He was twice Footballer of the Year and ranked as the greatest player in Spurs history by The Times in 2009. After a lengthy playing career, he retired at the age of 38. He became a respected football journalist and, later, a football manager.
10/02/1925
Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (died 2012)
Pierre Mondy was a French film and theatre actor and director.
10/02/1924
Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host and actor (died 2013)
Max Ferguson, OC was a Canadian radio personality and satirist, best known for his long-running radio programs Rawhide and The Max Ferguson Show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2005)
Norman Robert "Bud" Poile was a professional ice hockey player, coach, general manager, and league executive. Bud was the brother of Don Poile, and the father of David Poile.
10/02/1923
Allie Sherman, American football player and coach (died 2015)
Alex "Allie" Sherman was an American football player and coach who played 51 games in six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as a quarterback and defensive back, and afterward served as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and of the New York Giants of the NFL. He later worked as a cable television and sports marketing executive and media personality.
10/02/1922
Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (died 2015)
Árpád Göncz was a Hungarian writer, translator, lawyer and liberal politician who served as President of Hungary from 2 May 1990 to 4 August 2000. Göncz played a role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, for which he was imprisoned for six years. After his release, he worked as a translator of English-language literary works.
José Gabriel da Costa, Brazilian spiritual leader, founder of the União do Vegetal (died 1971)
José Gabriel da Costa, later known as Mestre Gabriel, (1922–1971), is the founder of the União do Vegetal, a religion with Christian and reincarnationist foundations that considers Hoasca to be its main sacrament. This beverage is made by boiling two plants, Mariri and Chacrona, both of which are found in the Amazon rainforest.
10/02/1920
José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (died 2001)
José Manuel Castañón was a Spanish writer born in Pola de Lena, Asturias. Although he fought in Francisco Franco’s 1936 military uprising, he later distanced himself from Franco's regime and in 1957 left for a 20-year exile to Venezuela. His best-known novel Moletu-Voleva, published in Madrid in 1956, a story about lust for money.
Alex Comfort, English physician and author (died 2000)
Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician, writer and activist, known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972). He was a poet and author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, geriatrician, sexologist, political theorist and commentator, anarchist, and pacifist.
Neva Patterson, American actress (died 2010)
Neva Louise Patterson was an American actress.
10/02/1919
Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (died 2014)
Ioannis Charalambopoulos was a Greek Army officer and socialist politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of National Defence of Greece.
10/02/1915
Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor (died 2016)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. A centenarian, he was among the longest-serving stage performers and continued acting up until his death.
10/02/1914
Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (died 2001)
Lawrence Cecil Adler was an American harmonica player and film composer. Known for playing major works, he played compositions by George Gershwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin. During his later career, he collaborated with Sting, Elton John and Kate Bush.
10/02/1910
Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1969)
Dominique Pire, O.P. was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958. Pire delivered his Nobel lecture, entitled Brotherly Love: Foundation of Peace, in December 1958.
10/02/1909
Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, scholar, and politician (died 2004)
Thiri Pyanchi Min Thu Wun was a Burmese poet, writer and scholar who helped launch a new age literary movement called Khit-San in Burma. He is the father of Htin Kyaw, president of Myanmar from 2016 to 2018.
10/02/1908
Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (died 2000)
Jean Coulthard, was a Canadian composer and music educator. She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Archer. All three died within weeks of each other in 2000. Her works might be loosely termed "prematurely neo-Romantic," as the orthodox serialists who dominated academic musical life in North America during the 1950s and 1960s had little use for her.
10/02/1907
Anthony Cottrell, New Zealand rugby player (died 1988)
Anthony Ian "Beau" Cottrell was a New Zealand rugby union player. A hooker and prop, Cottrell represented Canterbury at a provincial level and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1929 to 1932. He played 22 matches for the All Blacks including 11 internationals. He went on to serve as a member of the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union.
10/02/1906
Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (died 1973)
Creighton Tull Chaney, known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film The Wolf Man (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard in Son of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films, including six films in their 1940s Inner Sanctum series, making him a horror icon. He also portrayed Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939) and played supporting parts in dozens of mainstream movies, including High Noon (1952), The Defiant Ones (1958), and numerous Westerns, musicals, comedies and dramas.
10/02/1905
Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (died 1964)
Walter Augustine Brown was an American sports executive. He was the founder and original owner of the Boston Celtics, operated the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, and served as president of the Boston Athletic Association. In ice hockey, he coached the Boston Olympics to five Eastern Hockey League championships, owned the Boston Bruins, and served as president of the International Ice Hockey Federation. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1965, and IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997.
Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (died 1939)
William Henry "Chick" Webb was an American jazz and swing music drummer and band leader.
10/02/1904
John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1963)
John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS was an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Spending a considerable amount of his career in the United States, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Wake Island, and in 1957, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days. He had seven children by his wife, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, including actress Mia Farrow.
10/02/1903
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (died 1948)
Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 2 June 1948.
Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (died 1939)
Matthias Sindelar was an Austrian professional footballer. Regarded as one of the greatest Austrian players of all time, Sindelar notably played for Austria Vienna and the national side.
10/02/1902
Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
Walter Houser Brattain was an American solid-state physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
10/02/1901
Stella Adler, American actress and educator (died 1992)
Stella Adler was an American actress and acting teacher.
10/02/1899
Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (died 1982)
Ahmet Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1966 to 1973.
10/02/1898
Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (died 1979)
Joseph Kessel, also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
10/02/1897
Judith Anderson, Australian actress (died 1992)
Dame Frances Margaret Anderson, known professionally as Judith Anderson, was an Australian actress who had a successful career in stage, film, and television.
John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."
10/02/1894
Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986)
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit, and unflappability.
10/02/1893
Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (died 1980)
James Francis Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (died 1953)
William Tatem Tilden II, nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American tennis player. He was the world No. 1 amateur for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and was ranked as the world No. 1 professional by Ray Bowers in 1931 and 1932 and Ellsworth Vines in 1933. Tilden won 14 Major singles titles, including 10 Grand Slam events, one World Hard Court Championships and three professional majors. He was the first American man to win Wimbledon, first claiming the title in 1920. He also won a joint-record seven U.S. Championships titles.
10/02/1892
Alan Hale Sr., American actor and director (died 1950)
Alan Hale Sr., typically credited as Alan Hale, was an American actor and film director. He is best known for his many character roles during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn. He also played in films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan. In total, his career in film lasted 40 years.
10/02/1890
Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist (died 1918)
Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.
10/02/1888
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (died 1970)
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo ("Hermeticism"), he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th-century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned with futurism. Like many futurists, he took an irredentist position during World War I. Ungaretti debuted as a poet while fighting in the trenches, publishing one of his best-known pieces, L'allegria.
10/02/1883
Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (died 1959)
Edith Clarke was an American electrical engineer and academic. Clarke specialized in electrical power system analysis and is credited with laying the foundation for the smart grid - helping the electric grid of the future grow, remain stable and reliable. She was the first person who used an analyzer to obtain data about power networks. The U.S. Department of Energy calls her efforts “the first step toward smart grid technology. She could be called the Smart Grid’s ‘Founding Mother.’”. She wrote the textbook used by power engineers for decades titled Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems.
H. V. Hordern, Australian cricketer (died 1938)
Dr. Herbert Vivian Hordern, also known as Ranji Hordern, was an Australian cricketer who played in seven Test matches between 1911 and 1912. He was the first major leg-spin and googly bowler to play for Australia. His nickname, "Ranji", came from his dark complexion, and is a reference to the famous Indian England test cricketer K S Ranjitsinhji. Hordern was a member of the Hordern family, well known as retailers in Sydney.
10/02/1881
Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (died 1954)
Pauline Brunius, née Emma Maria Pauline Lindstedt was a Swedish stage and film actor, screenwriter and film and theatre director. She was the managing director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1938 to 1948.
10/02/1879
Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (died 1932)
Ernst-Johannes Põdder VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander in the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence.
10/02/1869
Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (died 1948)
Royal Cortissoz was an American art historian and, from 1891 until his death, the art critic for the New York Herald Tribune. During his tenure at the newspaper, he consistently championed traditionalism and decried modernism. Of the latter, he once wrote, "It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud', with a difference, obviously, but a 'dud' just the same."
10/02/1868
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (died 1879)
Prince Waldemar of Prussia was the sixth child and youngest son of the German Crown Prince and Crown Princess, later Emperor Frederick III and Empress Victoria. Prince Waldemar was a grandson of both William I, German Emperor, and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
William Allen White, American journalist and author (died 1944)
William Allen White was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death, White became a spokesman for middle America.
10/02/1867
Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and public servant (died 1957)
Sir Robert Randolph Garran was an Australian lawyer who became "Australia's first public servant" – the first federal government employee after the federation of the Australian colonies. He served as the departmental secretary of the Attorney-General's Department from 1901 to 1932, and after 1916 also held the position of Solicitor-General of Australia.
10/02/1859
Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (died 1943)
Alexandre Millerand was a French politician who served as President of France from 1920 to 1924, having previously served as Prime Minister of France earlier in 1920. His participation in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the start of the 20th century, alongside the Marquis de Galliffet, who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, sparked a debate in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and in the Second International about the participation of socialists in bourgeois governments.
10/02/1847
Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (died 1909)
Nabinchandra Sen was a Bengali poet and writer, often considered one of the greatest poets prior to the arrival of Rabindranath Tagore. He commented on the battle of Plassey and the arrival of British Rule in India as "A night of Eternal Gloom".
10/02/1846
Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (died 1919)
Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford,, styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British admiral and Member of Parliament.
Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (died 1927)
Ira Remsen was an American chemist who introduced organic chemistry research and education in the United States along the lines of German universities where he received his early training. He was the first professor of chemistry and the second president of Johns Hopkins University. He founded the American Chemical Journal, which he edited from 1879 to 1914. The discovery of saccharin was made in his laboratory by Constantine Fahlberg who worked in collaboration with Remsen but patented the synthesis on his own, earning the ire of Remsen.
10/02/1843
Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (died 1919)
Adelina Patti was a Spanish-Italian opera singer. At the height of her career, she was earning huge fees performing in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914. Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history, owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her bel canto technique.
10/02/1842
Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (died 1907)
Agnes Mary Clerke was an Irish astronomer and writer. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London.
10/02/1829
Julius von Szymanowski, Russian surgeon of Polish-German origin (died 1868)
Julius Alphonse Nikolai Szymanowski, Julij Karlovich Szymanowski was a Russian surgeon of Polish-German origin, professor at the University of Helsinki and University of Kiev, originator of many plastic surgery techniques, including the Kuhnt-Szymanowski method. Author of the surgical textbook Handbuch der Operativen Chirurgie (1870). A collection of his poems Was ich gelebt: Lieder was published posthumously.
10/02/1824
Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (died 1898)
Samuel Plimsoll was a British politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line. Its subsequent introduction in regulation resulted in a reduction of ship sinkings and a corresponding significant improvement in seafarer safety from the late 19th century onwards.
10/02/1821
Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1908)
Roberto Bompiani was an Italian painter and sculptor.
10/02/1797
George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (died 1883)
George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall, styled Viscount Chichester until 1799 and Earl of Belfast between 1799 and 1844, was an Anglo-Irish landowner, courtier and politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1830 to 1834, as well as from 1838 to 1841, and as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 1848 and 1852. Ennobled in his own right in 1841, he was also Lord Lieutenant of Antrim from 1841 to 1883 and was made a Knight of St Patrick in 1857.
10/02/1795
Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter and academic (died 1858)
Ary Scheffer was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, Lord Byron and Walter Scott, as well as religious subjects. He was also a prolific painter of portraits of famous and influential people in his lifetime. Politically, Scheffer had strong ties to King Louis Philippe I, having been employed as a teacher of the latter's children, which allowed him to live a life of luxury for many years until the French Revolution of 1848.
10/02/1785
Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (died 1836)
Claude-Louis Navier was a French civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
10/02/1775
Charles Lamb, English poet and essayist (died 1834)
Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
10/02/1766
Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist and physician (died 1815)
Benjamin Smith Barton was an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. He was one of the first professors of natural history in the United States and built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. He wrote the first American textbook on botany.
10/02/1696
Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (died 1765)
Johann Melchior Molter was a German composer and violinist of the late Baroque period.
10/02/1685
Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (died 1750)
Aaron Hill was an English dramatist and miscellany writer.
10/02/1627
Cornelis de Bie, Flemish poet and jurist (died 1715)
Cornelis de Bie was a Flemish rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish and Dutch painters in his Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst, first printed in 1662.
10/02/1609
John Suckling, English poet and playwright (died 1642)
Sir John Suckling was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage. He is best known for his poem "Ballade upon a Wedding".
10/02/1606
Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (died 1663)
Christine of France was Duchess of Savoy from 26 July 1630 to 7 October 1637 as the consort of Duke Victor Amadeus I. She was the daughter of Henry IV of France and sister of Louis XIII. Following her husband's death in 1637, she acted as regent of Savoy between 1637 and 1648.
10/02/1514
Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Brescia (died 1579)
Domenico Bollani (1514–1579) was a diplomat and politician of the Republic of Venice, and as Bishop of Brescia from 1559 to 1579 he was a leading figure of the Catholic reform.
10/02/1499
Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (died 1582)
Thomas Platter the Elder was a Swiss humanist scholar and teacher. He was an early follower of the Protestant Reformation.
10/02/1486
George of the Palatinate, German bishop (died 1529)
George of the Palatinate was Bishop of Speyer from 1513 to 1529.