Born on Wednesday, 1st October – Famous Birthdays

01/10/2006

Priah Ferguson, American actress

Priah Nicole Ferguson is an American actress from Atlanta, Georgia. She is best known for her role as Erica Sinclair on the Netflix series Stranger Things. Ferguson began acting at a young age and her career spans TV and film.

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01/10/2002

Livvy Dunne, American gymnast and social media personality

Olivia Paige Dunne is an American influencer and former artistic gymnast. She is also a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and former member of the LSU Tigers women's gymnastics team. In 2017, she was named as a member of the US Junior Women's National Team. Dunne has a social media following of over 10 million.

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01/10/2001

Luna Blaise, American actress and singer

Luna Blaise Boyd is an American actress. In 2015, she made her film debut in Memoria and subsequently gained recognition for her roles in the sitcom Fresh Off The Boat (2015–2018) and supernatural drama series Manifest (2018–2023). In 2025, she starred in the top-grossing science fiction film Jurassic World Rebirth, which brought her to greater attention.

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Mason Greenwood, English footballer

Mason Will John Greenwood is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Marseille.

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01/10/2000

Kalle Rovanperä, Finnish professional rally driver

Kalle Alex Rovanperä is a Finnish professional rally and racing driver who last competed in the Formula Regional Oceania Trophy with Hitech. He is a double World Rally Championship (WRC) champion, having won the 2022 and 2023 World Championships consecutively. As the son of former WRC driver Harri Rovanperä, he garnered international attention by starting rallying at an exceptionally young age.

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01/10/1998

Daniel Gafford, American basketball player

Daniel Gafford is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was drafted in the second round of the 2019 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. He plays both the power forward and center positions.

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Haumole Olakau'atu, Australian-Tongan rugby league player

Haumole Olakau'atu is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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01/10/1997

Jade Bird, English singer, songwriter, and musician

Jade Elizabeth Bird is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Bird's music has been influenced by many folk and Americana artists. The media, when describing Bird's music, have drawn comparisons with pop, Americana, country and folk rock.

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01/10/1994

Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer

Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan, commonly known as Trézéguet, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and the Egypt national team. His nickname is taken from the French former footballer David Trezeguet, after his former youth coach noticed similarities of playing style and appearance between the pair.

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01/10/1993

Chris Green, South African-Australian cricketer

Christopher James Green is a South African-Australian cricketer. Green bowls right-arm off-break and bats right-handed, playing as an All-rounder. He plays for New South Wales and the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League. He also plays Sydney Grade Cricket for Northern District Cricket Club. Green made his Thunder debut in the final round of the BBL04. He made his international debut for the Australian cricket team in December 2023.

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Lizaad Williams, South African cricketer

Lizaad Buyron Williams is a South African cricketer who plays for Northerns. He made his international debut for South Africa in April 2021.

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01/10/1992

Xander Bogaerts, Aruban baseball player

Xander Jan Bogaerts is an Aruban professional baseball shortstop and second baseman for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox. He represents the Netherlands national team in international competition.

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01/10/1991

Robbie Ray, American baseball player

Robert Glenn Ray is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, and Seattle Mariners.

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Jennifer Dodds, Scottish curler

Jennifer Carmichael Dodds is a Scottish curler. She currently plays third on Team Rebecca Morrison and mixed doubles with Bruce Mouat, representing Scotland and Great Britain. She is the 2022 Olympic champion in women's curling and the 2021 World champion in mixed doubles curling.

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01/10/1990

Pedro Filipe Mendes, Portuguese footballer

Pedro Filipe Teodósio Mendes is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Liga Portugal 2 club Feirense.

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Albert Prosa, Estonian footballer

Albert Prosa is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

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01/10/1989

Brie Larson, American actress

Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress, singer and filmmaker. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager, and has since expanded to leading roles in independent films and blockbusters. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.

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01/10/1987

Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor and singer

Hiroki Aiba is a Japanese actor associated with Grand-Arts. He debuted as an actor in 2005 as Shusuke Fuji in Musical: The Prince of Tennis and also reprised his role in the live-action film The Prince of Tennis. Since then, he has appeared in other theater productions, television programs, and films, such as Ryunosuke Ikenami/Shinken Blue in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.

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Mitchell Aubusson, Australian rugby league player

Mitchell Aubusson is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row and centre, spending his entire career with the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL). He won three NRL premierships with the Sydney Roosters in 2013, 2018 and 2019. He has also played for NSW Country at representative level. Aubusson is the Sydney Roosters 2nd highest capped player with 306 matches played.

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Matthew Daddario, American actor

Matthew Quincy Daddario is an American actor. He gained recognition for his role as Alec Lightwood in the television series Shadowhunters (2016–2019).

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Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Indonesian businessman and politician, 14th Vice President of Indonesia

Gibran Rakabuming Raka is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is serving as the 14th vice president of Indonesia since 2024. Previously the 18th mayor of Surakarta from 2021 to 2024, he is the eldest child of the seventh president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. He was the running mate of Prabowo Subianto in the 2024 presidential election, winning with almost 59% of the votes.

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01/10/1986

Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (died 2021)

Sayaka Kanda , also known professionally as Sayaka, Lily, and Jun Uehara , was a Japanese actress, singer, and model. She was the only child of actor Masaki Kanda and pop singer Seiko Matsuda.

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Jurnee Smollett, American actress

Jurnee Diana Smollett is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress appearing on television sitcoms, including On Our Own (1994–1995) and Full House (1992–1994). She gained greater recognition with her role in Kasi Lemmons's independent film Eve's Bayou (1997), which earned her a Critics' Choice Movie Award.

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01/10/1985

Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer

Mohammed Nazimuddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he is the captain of Chittagong Division, and has played Test, limited overs and Twenty20 cricket for Bangladesh.

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01/10/1984

Beck Bennett, American actor and comedian

Christopher Beck Bennett is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for eight seasons, joining for its 39th season in 2013 and leaving at the end of its 46th season in 2021. Before SNL, he performed in AT&T's "It's Not Complicated" commercials, in which he interviewed children, and produced sketch videos with the comedy group Good Neighbor.

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Matt Cain, American baseball player

Matthew Thomas Cain is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the San Francisco Giants from 2005 to 2017. A three-time World Series champion and a three-time National League (NL) All-Star, he is widely regarded as a central figure of the Giants' success in the 2010s for his pitching and leadership.

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01/10/1983

Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (died 2006)

Mohamed Mohamed Abdelwahab was an Egyptian footballer. He played in the defensive left back position. He was an important part of the Egyptian squad that went on to win the 2006 African Cup of Nations. He died during training with his club El Ahly on 31 August 2006.

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Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer

Mirko Vučinić is a Montenegrin football manager and former player, who is the manager of Montenegro national team. Quick, versatile, and physically strong, Vučinić was known for his creativity, technique, and intelligence as a footballer, as well as his powerful striking ability from distance.

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01/10/1981

Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer

Júlio César Clemente Pereira Baptista is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder or a forward. He is nicknamed "The Beast" due to his size and physical presence on the football field.

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Tom Donnelly, New Zealand rugby player

Thomas Mathew Donnelly is a former rugby union player who played for Montpellier in the Top 14. He also made 15 appearances for the All Blacks since 2009 and played for Otago Rugby Football Union. He moved into a coaching career at Otago from 2017.

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Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player

David Johnny Oduya is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Oduya is a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015.

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01/10/1980

Sarah Drew, American actress

Sarah Drew is an American actress and director. She is known for her roles as Stacy Rowe in the MTV animated series Daria (1997–2001), Hannah Rogers in The WB family drama series Everwood (2004–2006), and Dr. April Kepner in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy. She currently plays the lead role of Emily Lane in the Hallmark Christmas mystery series Mistletoe Murders (2024–present).

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Antonio Narciso, Italian footballer

Antonio Narciso is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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01/10/1979

Curtis Axel, American wrestler

Joseph Curtis Hennig is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE from 2007 to 2020, where he performed under the ring names Curtis Axel and Michael McGillicutty.

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Rudi Johnson, American football player (died 2025)

Burudi Ali Johnson was an American professional football player who was a running back for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football for the Auburn Tigers and was selected by the Bengals in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL draft.

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Gilberto Martínez, Costa Rican footballer

Gilberto Martínez Vidal is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a defender.

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Ryan Pontbriand, American football player

Ryan David Pontbriand is an American former professional football player who was a long snapper and center in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rice Owls and was selected in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. He has the distinction of being the highest-drafted pure long snapper in the history of the NFL draft.

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01/10/1978

Nicole Atkins, American singer-songwriter

Nicole Atkins is an American singer-songwriter. Her influences include 1950s crooner music, 1960s psychedelia, soul music, and the Brill Building style of writing. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era.

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01/10/1976

Denis Gauthier, Canadian ice hockey player

Denis Gauthier, Jr. is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. A first round selection of the Calgary Flames at the 1995 NHL entry draft, Gauthier played for the Flames, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings during his ten-season National Hockey League (NHL) career.

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Ümit Karan, Turkish footballer

Ümit Karan is a Turkish football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Menemenspor.

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Richard Oakes, English guitarist and songwriter

Richard John Oakes is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the guitarist, occasional pianist, backing vocalist and co-songwriter of the English band Suede.

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Mark Švets, Estonian footballer

Mark Švets is a retired Estonian professional footballer.

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01/10/1975

Justin Leppitsch, Australian rules footballer

Justin Leppitsch is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the former coach of the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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01/10/1974

Keith Duffy, Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

Keith Peter Thomas Francis Julian John Duffy is an Irish singer, actor, radio and television presenter and drummer who began his professional music career as part of Irish boy band Boyzone alongside Ronan Keating, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately in 1993. The band decided to focus on solo projects in 2000, since which Duffy has taken acting roles in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair City. He has also presented The Box and You're a Star.

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Sherri Saum, American actress

Sherri Saum is an American actress. Saum is best known for her co-lead role as Lena Adams Foster in the Freeform drama series The Fosters (2013–2018) as well as a subsequent guest star role in its spinoff Good Trouble (2019–2024). She is also known for her television roles in Beggars and Choosers, Rescue Me, In Treatment and Locke & Key, as well as for her roles in the daytime soap operas Sunset Beach and One Life to Live.

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01/10/1973

Christian Borle, American actor and singer

Christian Dominique Borle is an American actor and singer. He is a two-time Tony Award winner for his roles as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher and as William Shakespeare in Something Rotten!. Borle also originated the roles of Prince Herbert, et al. in Spamalot, Emmett in Legally Blonde, and Joe in Some Like It Hot on Broadway, earning Tony nominations for the latter two. He starred as Marvin in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos, which also earned him a Tony nomination. His first leading role on Broadway was Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie. He would later also star as Bert in Mary Poppins and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also portrayed Orin Scrivello in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. Borle starred as Tom Levitt on the NBC musical-drama television series Smash and Vox in the adult animated black comedy musical series Hazbin Hotel.

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Jana Henke, German swimmer

Jana Henke is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, becoming two times European champion in 800 m freestyle.

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John Mackey, American composer

John Mackey is an American composer of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band, as well as orchestra. For several years, he focused on music for modern dance and ballet.

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01/10/1972

Ronen Altman Kaydar, Israeli author and poet

Ronen Elimelech Altman Kaydar is an Israeli writer and poet.

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Nicky Morgan, British politician

Nicola Ann Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Cotes is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2014 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2019 to 2020. She was the first woman to chair the Treasury Select Committee. A member of the Conservative Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough from 2010 to 2019. She is the current Chair of the Advertising Standards Authority, having succeeded Lord Currie of Marylebone in November 2024.

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Ayşe Yiğit, Belgian politician

Ayşe Yiğit is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, she has represented Hainaut since June 2024. She had previously been a member of the Senate from 2019 to 2024.

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01/10/1971

Andrew O'Keefe, Australian lawyer and television host

Andrew Patrick O'Keefe is an Australian former television presenter and lawyer. He co-hosted the weekend edition of breakfast program Weekend Sunrise from 2005 until 2017 as well as the Australian versions of game shows Deal or No Deal, and The Chase Australia. Since 2021, he has been convicted of drug and domestic violence offences.

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01/10/1970

Simon Davey, Welsh footballer and manager

Simon Davey is a Welsh former professional footballer and football manager. He is now Executive Director of a youth club in America called Southern Soccer Academy. He played for Swansea City, Carlisle United and Preston North End and had a short loan spell with Darlington, making a total of 271 appearances in the Football League. After retiring as a player, he spent eight years as a coach at Preston, before going on to manage Barnsley, Darlington and, until October 2010, Hereford United.

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Alexei Zhamnov, Russian ice hockey player and manager

Alexei Yuryevich "Alex" Zhamnov is a former professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins. He is currently serving the head coach of HC Spartak Moscow of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He previously served as general manager of Vityaz Chekhov and Atlant Moscow Oblast and was the head coach of the Russia men's national ice hockey team.

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Vince Zampella, American video game designer (died 2025)

Vincent Walter Zampella II was an American video game designer. He was best known for being a co-founder and the former studio head of Infinity Ward, the head of Respawn Entertainment, and the former CEO of Ripple Effect Studios.

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01/10/1969

Zach Galifianakis, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter

Zachary Knight Galifianakis is an American comedian, actor and writer.

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Joseph Patrick Moore, American musician, composer, and producer

Joseph Patrick Moore is an American musician from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. He is a bass player, composer, arranger and record producer who has played alongside Colonel Bruce Hampton, Earl Klugh, Stewart Copeland, John Popper, and Derek Trucks. In 2003, he founded Blue Canoe Records, the internet's first all-digital independent jazz label; he co-owns the label with Travis Prescott.

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Ori Kaplan, Israeli-American saxophonist and producer

Ori Kaplan is an Israeli jazz saxophonist and a music producer. He moved to the United States in 1991. He has worked with many artists including Shotnez Tom Abbs, Firewater, Gogol Bordello, and Balkan Beat Box. He is also known as DJ Shotnez.

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Marcus Stephen, Nauruan weightlifter and politician, 27th President of Nauru

Marcus Ajemada Stephen is a Nauruan politician and former sportsperson who previously was a member of the Cabinet of Nauru, and who served as President of Nauru from December 2007 to November 2011. The son of Nauruan parliamentarian Lawrence Stephen, Stephen was educated at St Bedes College and RMIT University in Victoria, Australia. Initially playing Australian rules football, he opted to pursue the sport of weightlifting, in which he represented Nauru at the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games between 1990 and 2002, winning seven Commonwealth gold medals.

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Igor Ulanov, Russian ice hockey player

Igor Sergeevich Ulanov is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ulanov was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in the tenth round of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft.

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01/10/1968

Rob Collard, English race car driver

Robert John Collard is a British auto racing driver from Hampshire, best known for racing in the British Touring Car Championship, winning two races in a West Surrey Racing MG, and claiming the Independent's Cup title in 2003. In 2008, he returned to running the series full-time, driving for the Motorbase Performance team, where he remained for 2009, before returning to West Surrey Racing. Collard also owns his own demolition firm, R Collard Ltd.

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Phil de Glanville, English rugby player

Philip Ranulph de Glanville is a former English rugby union player who played at centre for Bath and England.

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Mark Durden-Smith, British television presenter

Mark Durden-Smith is an English television presenter best known for presenting ITV shows such as I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! and This Morning Summer, Sky 1 shows such as The Match and Double or Nothing, and Channel 5's rugby union coverage.

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Kevin Griffin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Kevin Michael Griffin is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Better Than Ezra, with whom he has released nine studio albums. He has also issued one solo record.

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Jon Guenther, American author and engineer

Jon Guenther is an American author of nearly forty novels in a variety of genres. In addition to books under his own name, he has written many novels in The Executioner series created by Don Pendleton about the fictional character Mack Bolan. He is also creator of the Christian Pulp brand and genre.

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Jay Underwood, American actor and pastor

Jay Underwood is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a teen actor in the mid-1980s, he is perhaps best known for his starring feature film roles; portraying Eric Gibb in The Boy Who Could Fly, Chip Carson in Not Quite Human, Grover Dunn in The Invisible Kid, Sonny Bono in The Sonny and Cher Story, Bug in Uncle Buck, and Ernest Hemingway in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He also portrayed the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four.

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01/10/1967

Mike Pringle, American-Canadian football player

Michael A. Pringle is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He set or tied almost every significant league record for the position. He played college football for the Cal State Fullerton Titans, earning third-team All-American honors. He was twice signed by National Football League (NFL) teams, though he saw very limited playing time.

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Scott Young, American ice hockey player and coach

Scott Allen Young is an American former professional ice hockey right winger and a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. In July 2017 he was named director of player development for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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01/10/1966

George Weah, Liberian footballer and politician, 25th President of Liberia

George Manneh Oppong Weah is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer who served as the 25th president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Before his election for the presidency, Weah served as senator from Montserrado County. He played as a striker in his prolific 18-year professional football career which ended in 2003. Weah is the first African former professional footballer to become a head of state, and the only African Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner in history, winning both awards in 1995. He won the African Footballer of the Year twice and is considered one of the greatest strikers ever.

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José Ángel Ziganda, Spanish footballer and manager

José Ángel "Cuco" Ziganda Lakunza is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a centre-forward.

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01/10/1965

Andreas Keller, German field hockey player

Andreas Keller is a former field hockey player from West Germany, who competed at three Summer Olympics for his native country. He won the gold medal with Germany at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, after securing silver at the two previous Olympics in Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988), with West Germany.

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Cindy Margolis, American actress and model

Cynthia Dawn Margolis is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress.

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Mia Mottley, Barbadian prime minister

Mia Amor Mottley is a Barbadian politician and lawyer who has served as the eighth prime minister of Barbados since 2018 and as Leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the first woman to hold both positions. Having overseen the abolition of the Barbadian monarchy, she is the first prime minister of the Barbadian republic.

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Chris Reason, Australian journalist

Chris Reason is a journalist, foreign correspondent and news anchor for the Seven Network Australia.

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Cliff Ronning, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Clifford John Ronning is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He was selected by the St. Louis Blues in the seventh round of the 1984 NHL entry draft, 134th overall. During a National Hockey League (NHL) career that spanned 18 years, Ronning played for the Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Nashville Predators, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild and New York Islanders.

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01/10/1964

Harry Hill, English comedian and author

Matthew Keith Hall, known professionally as Harry Hill, is an English comedian, presenter and writer. He pursued a career in stand-up following years working as a medical doctor, developing an offbeat, energetic performance style that fused elements of surrealism, observational comedy, slapstick, satire and music. When performing, he usually wears browline glasses and a dress shirt with a distinctive oversized collar and cuffs.

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Max Matsuura, Japanese songwriter, producer, and manager

Masato Matsuura , better known by his stage name Max Matsuura , is a Japanese record producer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Avex Group, one of the largest music labels. He is known mainly for discovering and developing new artists into stars, as well as for reviving Ami Suzuki's career after she was released by her previous record label.

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Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-New Zealand chess player and author

Jonathan David Sarfati is a New Zealand young Earth creationist who writes articles for Creation Ministries International (CMI), a non-profit Christian apologetics ministry. Sarfati has a PhD in chemistry, and was New Zealand national chess champion in 1987 and 1988.

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01/10/1963

Jean-Denis Delétraz, Swiss race car driver

Jean-Denis Delétraz is a Swiss racing driver. He participated in three Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 Australian Grand Prix. Before reaching Formula One, he scored two third places in the 1988 Formula 3000 season, but principally earned his three Formula One drives as a pay driver. After Formula One, he competed in sports car racing, with two class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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Mark McGwire, American baseball player and coach

Mark David McGwire, nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals from 1986 to 2001. He won two World Series championships, one with Oakland as a player in 1989 and one with St. Louis as a coach in 2011. One of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, McGwire hit 583 home runs during his career, which ranked 5th-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement and currently ranks 11th. He holds the major-league career record for at bats per home run ratio (10.6), and is the former record holder for both home runs in a single season and home runs hit by a rookie. McGwire was one of several central figures in baseball's steroids scandal.

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01/10/1962

Attaphol Buspakom, Thai footballer and manager (died 2015)

Attaphol Buspakom, nicknamed "Tak" ; was a Thai retired national footballer and football manager. He was given the role at Muangthong United and Buriram United after TTM Samut Sakhon folded after the 2009 season.

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Nico Claesen, Belgian footballer and coach

Nicolaas "Nico" Pieter Claesen is a former Belgian football player who works as head coach of RFC Liège.

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Esai Morales, American actor

Esai Manuel Morales Jr. is an American actor. He has had notable roles in the films Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series American Family, the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue (2001–2004), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series Caprica (2009–2010), Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series Ozark (2017), and the DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in the superhero series Titans (2019).

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Paul Walsh, English footballer and sportscaster

Paul Anthony Walsh is an English former professional footballer who now works as a television pundit.

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01/10/1961

Gary Ablett Sr., Australian footballer

Gary Robert Ablett Sr. is a former professional Australian rules footballer who represented Hawthorn and Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL). Nicknamed "God", Ablett is widely regarded as one of Australian football's greatest players, and was especially renowned for his high-flying spectacular marks and his prolific goalkicking.

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Rico Constantino, American wrestler and manager

Americo Sebastiano Costantino is a retired American professional wrestler. He performed under the ring names Rico Costantino and Rico in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 1998 to 2004.

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Corrie van Zyl, South African cricketer and coach

Cornelius Johannes Petrus Gerthardus van Zyl is a former South African cricketer who played two One Day Internationals in 1992. As of 2018 he was employed by Cricket South Africa as general manager of cricket.

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01/10/1960

Joshua Wurman, American scientist, Doppler on Wheels inventor, and storm chaser

Joshua Michael Aaron Ryder Wurman is an American atmospheric scientist and inventor known for creating the Doppler on Wheels and pioneering tornado, tropical cyclone, and weather radar research. He currently serves as the executive director of the FARM Facility and has served as a principal investigator for various field projects including ROTATE, IHOP, and VORTEX 2.

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01/10/1959

Mark Aizlewood, Welsh footballer and manager

Mark Aizlewood is a Welsh manager and former professional footballer who manages Cymru South side Carmarthen Town.

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Brian P. Cleary, American author and poet

Brian P. Cleary is an American humorist, poet, and author. He is best known for his books written for grade-school children that explore grammar in humorous ways; he also controls a line of gift books for grownups. He is the senior editor for digital content at American Greetings, and his greetings have been performed by Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera, Smokey Robinson, William Shatner, Meghan Trainor and others.

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Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer-songwriter, musician, and politician

Youssou N'Dour, also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour, is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and politician. N'Dour helped develop a style of popular Senegambian music known as mbalax, a genre that has sacred origins in the Serer music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism.

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01/10/1958

Martin Cooper, English saxophonist, composer, and painter

Martin Cooper is an English musician. He is the secondary keyboardist and occasional saxophonist for the band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, whom he first joined in 1980.

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Masato Nakamura, Japanese bass player and producer

Masato Nakamura is a Japanese musician, bass guitarist, and record producer. He is a member of the J-pop band Dreams Come True, which was formed in 1988 and went on to sell over 50 million CDs. He also composed the soundtracks for the video games Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992).

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01/10/1957

Kang Seok-woo, South Korean actor

Kang Seok-woo is a South Korean actor. He made his acting debut in 1978 in the Kim Soo-yong film Yeosu , then starred in his first television drama Ordinary People in 1982. Kang was most active on the big screen in the 1980s, but has worked exclusively in television since 1995. He has also displayed his artwork in several exhibitions.

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Éva Tardos, Hungarian mathematician and educator

Éva Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, known for her work in theoretical computer science. For her work, she has received the Fulkerson Prize (1988), the Dantzig Prize (2006), and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2019).

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01/10/1956

Andrus Ansip, Estonian engineer and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Estonia

Andrus Ansip is an Estonian politician, a member of the European Parliament, the former European Commissioner for Digital Single Market and Vice President of the European Commission, in office from 2014 until 2019. Previously, he was Prime Minister of Estonia from 2005 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal Estonian Reform Party from 2004 to 2014.

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Theresa May, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Theresa Mary May, Baroness May of Maidenhead, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead from 1997 to 2024, and has been a member of the House of Lords since August 2024. May was the second female British prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher, and the first woman to have held two of the Great Offices of State. May is a one-nation conservative.

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01/10/1955

Howard Hewett, American singer-songwriter

Howard Hewett Jr. is an American singer–songwriter. Hewett rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the group Shalamar. In 1985, he left the group to pursue his solo career, but he later returned to the group in 2001. He signed with Elektra Records. In 1986, he released his debut solo album I Commit to Love. Hewett and his group Shalamar contributed material to the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack. The soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media in 1986.

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Morten Gunnar Larsen, Norwegian pianist and composer

Morten Gunnar Larsen is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, well known for several ragtime and stride piano recordings and collaborations.

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Jeff Reardon, American baseball player

Jeffrey James Reardon is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1979–1994 with the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Yankees. Reardon was nicknamed "the Terminator" for his intimidating presence on the mound and 98 mph fastball. A long-time closer, Reardon became MLB's all-time saves leader in 1992 with his 342nd save, breaking Rollie Fingers' previous record of 341. Reardon's record was broken the following season by Lee Smith. Reardon currently ranks 12th on the all-time saves list with 367.

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01/10/1953

Pete Falcone, American baseball player

Peter Frank Falcone is an American former professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Atlanta Braves.

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Viljar Loor, Estonian volleyball player (died 2011)

Viljar Loor was among the most accomplished Estonian volleyball players. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Loor won the gold medal with the Soviet Union men's national volleyball team. He also won gold medals with the Soviet team at the 1978 FIVB World Championship in Italy and the 1982 FIVB World Championship in Argentina. He was a middle blocker.

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Miguel Lopez, Salvadorian-American soccer player

Miguel Angel López was a soccer defender who played one season in the North American Soccer League. Born in El Salvador, he played for the U.S. national team.

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Grete Waitz, Norwegian runner and coach (died 2011)

Grete Waitz, née Grete Andersen, was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, the highest number of victories in a single big city marathon in history. She won the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki. She was also a five-time winner of the World Cross Country Championships.

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Klaus Wowereit, German civil servant and politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin

Klaus Wowereit is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 21 October 2001 to 11 December 2014. In 2001 state elections his party won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as President of the Bundesrat in 2001/02. His SPD-led coalition was re-elected in the 2006 elections; after the 2011 elections the SPD's coalition partner changed from the Left to the Christian Democratic Union. He was also sometimes mentioned as a possible SPD candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany (Kanzlerkandidatur), but that never materialized.

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01/10/1952

Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager

Jacques Martin is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach. In the National Hockey League (NHL), he has served as head coach of the St. Louis Blues, Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens and Florida Panthers. Martin also served as the general manager of the Panthers and has served as an assistant coach with the Canadian men's national ice hockey team. Martin is a Franco-Ontarian, and a two-time Stanley Cup champion.

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Bob Myrick, American baseball player (died 2012)

Robert Howard Myrick was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was the great-nephew of longtime Washington Senators second baseman Buddy Myer.

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Ivan Sekyra, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)

Ivan Sekyra was a Czech rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, director, and screenwriter. He learned to play the violin as a child. In 1978, he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Life Sciences in Prague. In 1976, he co-founded the group Abraxas. Later, he was a member of Projektil and Drakar. He eventually founded the heavy metal band Silent Garden.

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Earl Slick, American rock guitarist and songwriter

Earl Slick is an American guitarist best known for his collaborations with David Bowie, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Robert Smith. He has also worked with other artists including John Waite, Tim Curry and David Coverdale, in addition to releasing several solo recordings, and two records with Phantom, Rocker & Slick, the band he formed with Slim Jim Phantom & Lee Rocker.

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01/10/1951

Brian Greenway, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Brian Gilbert Greenway is a Canadian musician who is the longest-serving member of the rock band April Wine, which he joined in 1977 and performs guitar, harmonica, and vocals duties. Prior to joining April Wine he was a member of the bands Mashmakhan and the Dudes. Greenway initially performed with April Wine from 1977 to 1986 when the band split, and again from 1992 to the present day.

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01/10/1950

Elpida, Greek singer-songwriter

Elpida Karayiannopoulou, is a Greek singer who was one of the most successful singers in Greece and the Greek diaspora in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Yvette Freeman, American actress

Yvette Freeman is an American actress, singer and director. Predominantly active as a stage actress, she made her Broadway debut in 1979 in the original production of Ain't Misbehavin'. She won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her portrayal of Dinah Washington in the 1998 Off-Broadway play Dinah Was. On television, she is best known for her roles as Haleh Adams in the NBC medical drama series ER, Evelyn Smalley in the TV series Working , and Irma Lerman in Orange Is the New Black.

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Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, English neuroscientist, academic, and politician

Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. She is also interested in the neuroscience of consciousness and the impact of technology on the brain.

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Mark Helias, American bassist and composer

Mark Helias is an American double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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Sigbjørn Johnsen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance

Sigbjørn Johnsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party and was Norwegian Minister of Finance in the periods 1990–1996 and 2009–2013.

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Boris Morukov, Russian physician and astronaut (died 2015)

Boris Vladimirovich Morukov was a Russian physician at the State Research Center RF-Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP). He trained with the Russian Federal Space Agency as a research-cosmonaut and flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-106 as a mission specialist

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Randy Quaid, American actor

Randy Randall Rudy Quaid is an American actor.

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01/10/1949

Isaac Bonewits, American singer-songwriter, liturgist, and author (died 2010)

Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits was an American Neo-Druid who wrote a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic. Bonewits was a public speaker, liturgist, singer and songwriter, and founder of the Neopagan organizations Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF) and the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League.

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Sheila Gilmore, Scottish lawyer and politician

Sheila Gilmore is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 2010 to 2015. Gilmore stood for the seat following the decision of Gavin Strang to stand down; she is a former councillor at the City of Edinburgh Council.

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André Rieu, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor

André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known as the founder of the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.

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01/10/1948

Cub Koda, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)

Michael John "Cub" Koda was an American rock and roll musician, songwriter, and critic. Rolling Stone magazine considered him best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys Room", recorded by his band Brownsville Station, which reached number 3 on the 1974 Billboard chart.

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01/10/1947

Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (died 2009)

David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's fundamental early role-playing game (RPG) genre work pioneered now-archetypical devices, such as: cooperative play to develop a storyline instead of individual competitive play to "win"; and adventuring in dungeon, town, and wilderness settings as presented by a neutral judge who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all characters aside from the player characters.

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Dalveer Bhandari, Indian lawyer and judge

Dalveer Bhandari is an Indian jurist. He is currently one of the judges of the International Court of Justice. He is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Bombay High Court. Bhandari was also a judge of the Delhi High Court.

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Buzz Capra, American baseball player and coach

Lee William Capra, is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, from 1971 to 1977. Nicknamed "Buzz", by a neighbor as a child, Capra was a National League (NL) All-Star and the NL earned run average (ERA) leader, in 1974.

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Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate

Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin.

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Stephen Collins, American actor and director

Stephen Weaver Collins is an American former actor. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007. Afterwards, Collins played the roles of Dayton King on the ABC television series No Ordinary Family and Gene Porter in the NBC television series Revolution, father of Elizabeth Mitchell's character, Rachel Matheson. Before 7th Heaven, Collins was known for his roles as Commander Willard Decker in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture and pilot Jake Cutter in the ABC television series Tales of the Gold Monkey. In 2014, his career came to an end after he confessed to sexual abuse against multiple minors.

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Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (died 2013)

Nevill Drury was an English-born Australian editor and publisher, as well as the author of over 40 books on subjects ranging from shamanism and western magical traditions to art, music, and anthropology. His books have been published in 26 countries and in 19 languages.

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Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician

Adriano Tilgher is an Italian far-right and neo-fascist politician.

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Martin Turner, English singer-songwriter and bass player

Martin Robert Turner is an English musician best known for his time as the bass guitarist, lead vocalist and a founding member of the rock band, Wishbone Ash. Turner is now the lead singer and bassist for "Martin Turner Ex-Wishbone Ash".

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Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (died 2006)

Maria Elisabeth Ender, better known as Mariska Veres, was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue. She was known for her sultry voice, eccentric performances, and her striking appearance which featured kohl-rimmed eyes, and high and long jet-black hair, which was actually a wig.

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01/10/1946

Dave Holland, English bassist, composer, and bandleader

David Holland is an English double bassist, bass guitarist, cellist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States since the early 1970s.

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Tim O'Brien, American novelist and short story writer

Tim O'Brien is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans.

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01/10/1945

Rod Carew, Panamanian-American baseball player and coach

Rodney Cline Carew is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman, first baseman and designated hitter from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels. The most accomplished contact hitter in Twins history, he won the 1977 AL Most Valuable Player Award, setting a Twins record with a .388 batting average. Carew appeared in 18 consecutive All-Star Games and led the AL in hits three times, with his 239 hits in 1977 ranking as the 12th most in a season at the time and the 16th most as of 2024, tied with Willie Keeler's 239 hits from 1897. He won seven AL batting titles, the second most AL batting titles in history behind Ty Cobb, and on July 12, 2016, the AL batting title was renamed to the Rod Carew American League batting title.

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Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 1979)

Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who Rolling Stone described as a "soul legend". His most popular songs include "The Ghetto", "This Christmas", "Someday We'll All Be Free", and "Little Ghetto Boy". Hathaway is also renowned for his renditions of "A Song for You", "For All We Know", "Jealous Guy" and "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know", along with "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of many collaborations with Roberta Flack. He has been inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame and won one Grammy Award from four nominations. Hathaway was also posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Dutch director David Kleijwegt made a documentary called Mister Soul – A Story About Donny Hathaway, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 28, 2020.

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Ram Nath Kovind, 14th President of India

Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first person from Uttar Pradesh as well as the first member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to become the president of India. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Governor of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and as a Member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh for two successive terms. Prior to entering politics, he was a lawyer and he practised in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India until 1993.

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01/10/1943

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French director, producer, and screenwriter

Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed Black and White in Color (1976), Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear (1988), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Black Gold (2011), and Wolf Totem (2015).

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Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2014)

Angèle Arsenault, was a Canadian-Acadian singer, songwriter and media host.

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Jerry Martini, American saxophonist

Gerald L. Martini is an American musician, best known for being the saxophonist for Sly and the Family Stone. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of Sly and the Family Stone.

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Robert Slater, American author and journalist (died 2014)

Robert Slater was an American author and journalist known for over two dozen books, including biographies of political and business figures such as Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, George Soros, and Donald Trump.

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01/10/1942

Herb Fame, American R&B singer

Peaches & Herb is an American vocal duo. Herb Fame has remained a constant as "Herb" since the duo was created in 1966; seven different women have filled the role of "Peaches", most notably Francine Edna "Peaches" Hurd Barker, the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo, and Linda Greene Tavani, the third "Peaches", who appeared on the duo's biggest hits "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) and "Reunited" (1979).

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Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French race car driver and engineer (died 2023)

Jean-Pierre Alain Jabouille was a French racing driver and engineer, who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1981. Jabouille won two Formula One Grands Prix across seven seasons.

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Bob Lanigan, Australian rugby league player (died 2024)

Robert Lanigan was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s. He played for Newtown in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition.

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Robert Lelièvre, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)

Robert Lelièvre was a French singer, songwriter and guitar player. He is best remembered as a member of the folk rock trio Cy, Maia & Robert, and for fronting the Danish progressive rock band Pan. Their eponymous debut album is considered amongst the best in the history of Danish rock music.

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David Stancliffe, English bishop and scholar

David Staffurth Stancliffe is a British retired Anglican bishop in the Church of England. He was provost of Portsmouth Cathedral from 1982 to 1993 and Bishop of Salisbury from 1993 to 2010. He is the third generation of his family to be in ordained ministry.

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Günter Wallraff, German journalist and author

Günter Wallraff is a German writer and undercover journalist.

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01/10/1940

Phyllis Chesler, American feminist psychologist

Phyllis Chesler is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is a renowned second-wave feminist psychologist and the author of 20 books, including the best-sellers Women and Madness (1972), With Child: A Diary of Motherhood (1979), and An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir (2013). Chesler has written extensively about topics such as gender, mental illness, divorce and child custody, surrogacy, second-wave feminism, pornography, prostitution, incest, and violence against women.

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Steve O'Rourke, English race car driver and manager (died 2003)

Steve O'Rourke was an English music manager and racing driver. He was the manager of Pink Floyd, a position he held from 1968 until his death. Among his accomplishments was negotiating Pink Floyd's split with bass player and main songwriter Roger Waters.

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Marc Savoy, American accordion player, created the Cajun accordion

Marc Savoy is an American musician, and builder and player of the Cajun accordion.

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01/10/1939

George Archer, American golfer (died 2005)

George William Archer was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969.

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Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor

Geoffrey Whitehead is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television, film and radio roles.

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01/10/1938

Tunç Başaran, Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)

Tunç Başaran was a Turkish screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor.

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Mary McFadden, American fashion designer (died 2024)

Mary McFadden was an American fashion designer of women's clothing and other high-fashion items, including historically inspired form-fitting dresses.

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Stella Stevens, American actress and director (died 2023)

Stella Stevens was an American actress. She was the mother of actor Andrew Stevens.

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01/10/1937

Saeed Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (died 2024)

Saeed Ahmed was a Pakistani Test cricketer who captained the national team, and later became a preacher and member of Tablighi Jamaat.

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01/10/1936

Duncan Edwards, English footballer (died 1958)

Duncan Edwards was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, playing 177 matches for the club. He was noted for his physical strength, toughness, and level of authority on the pitch, and has been ranked amongst the toughest players of all time. One of eight players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster, he survived initially but succumbed to his injuries in hospital two weeks later. Many of his contemporaries have described him as one of the best, if not the best, players with whom they had played.

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01/10/1935

Julie Andrews, English actress and singer

Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer and author. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2000 New Year Honours.

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Walter De Maria, American sculptor and drummer (died 2013)

Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual art, and land art of the 1960s.

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01/10/1934

Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (died 2014)

Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y García de los Ríos, iure uxoris Marquess of O'Shea was a Spanish banker. He was the executive chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander. In 1993 his bank absorbed Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto), and in 1999 it merged with Banco Central Hispano creating Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH), which became Spain's largest bank, of which he was co-president with Central Hispano's José María Amusategui, until Amusategui retired in 2002. In 2004, BSCH acquired the British bank Abbey National, making BSCH the second largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation. He was known for his obsession with growth and performance as well as regularly visiting branches.

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01/10/1932

Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993)

Albert Gene Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and a capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster".

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01/10/1931

Sylvano Bussotti, Italian violinist and composer (died 2021)

Sylvano Bussotti was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher. His compositions employ graphic notation, which has often created special problems of interpretation. He was known as a composer for the stage. His first opera was La Passion selon Sade, premiered in Palermo in 1965. Later operas and ballets were premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Lirico di Milano, Teatro Regio di Torino and Piccola Scala di Milano, among others. He was artistic director of La Fenice in Venice, the Puccini Festival and the music section of the Venice Biennale. He taught internationally, for a decade at the Fiesole School of Music. He is regarded as a leading composer of Italy's avantgarde, and a Renaissance man with many talents who combined the arts expressively.

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Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (died 2013)

Mohammad Anwar Shamim was a former fighter pilot who was the Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, serving in the post from 1978 until retiring in 1985.

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Alan Wagner, American radio host and critic (died 2007)

Alan Cyril Wagner was an American television executive, radio personality, writer, and opera historian and critic. He served as the East Coast vice president of programming at CBS from 1976 to 1982. After he left CBS, he became the first president of Disney Channel, but only served in the role for a year.

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01/10/1930

Frank Gardner, Australian race car driver and manager (died 2009)

Frank Gardner OAM was a racing driver from Australia. Born in Sydney, he was best known for touring car racing, winning the British Saloon Car Championship three times, and sports car racing driver but he was also a top flight open wheeler driver. He was European Formula 5000 champion, and participated in nine World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 July 1964. He scored no championship points. Gardner also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races and his results included a third placing at the 1965 Mediterranean Grand Prix at the Autodromo di Pergusa in Sicily, fourth in the 1965 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch and third in the 1971 International Gold Cup at Oulton Park. He participated each year in the open wheeler Tasman Series held in New Zealand and Australia during the European winter, and shared the grids with the likes of Jim Clark, Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt and won the New Zealand Grand Prix. On his return to Australia he ran his own touring car racing team under several branded names, most notably JPS Team BMW and was BMW's factory Australian team for over a decade. The team won two Australian Touring Car Championships and the 1988 Bathurst 1000. The team was sold to the Morris family in the 1990s, becoming Paul Morris Motorsport with Gardner continuing to run the team until his retirement in 1998. The team also won the 1997 Bathurst 1000 and six Australian Super Touring Championships.

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Richard Harris, Irish actor (died 2002)

Richard St John Francis Harris was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe. In 2020 he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

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Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Mayor of Karachi (died 2020)

Naimatullah Khan was a Pakistani politician who served as the City Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi from August 2001 to June 2005.

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Philippe Noiret, French actor (died 2006)

Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.

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01/10/1929

Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby player and coach

Kenneth Richard "Arko" Arthurson AM is an Australian rugby league football identity. Affectionately known as "The Godfather of Manly", he played, coached and was later an administrator at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Later he ran the NSWRL, and then the Australian Rugby League during the 1990s' Super League war, resigning in 1997 as part of the peace process for creating the unified National Rugby League.

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Grady Chapman, American singer (died 2011)

Grady Chapman was best known as the American lead singer of doo wop group The Robins.

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Bonnie Owens, American singer-songwriter (died 2006)

Bonnie Owens was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later to Merle Haggard.

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01/10/1928

Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-English actor, director, and producer (died 1973)

Laurence Harvey was a Lithuanian-born British actor and film director. He was born to Lithuanian Jewish parents and emigrated to South Africa at an early age, before later settling in the United Kingdom after World War II. In a career that spanned a quarter of a century, Harvey appeared in stage, film and television productions primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Willy Mairesse, Belgian race car driver (died 1969)

Willy Mairesse was a Formula One and sports-car driver from Belgium. He participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 June 1960. He achieved one podium and scored a total of seven championship points. He committed suicide in a hotel room in Ostend after a crash at the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans forced an end to his career.

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George Peppard, American actor (died 1994)

George Peppard was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek. He played Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-smoking leader of a renegade commando squad in the 1980s action television series The A-Team.

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Sivaji Ganesan, Indian actor (died 2001)

Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian actor and film producer. He was mainly active in Tamil cinema and theatre during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ganesan is acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian actors of all time and among the most imitated one by other actors. He was known for his versatility and the variety of roles he depicted on screen, which also gave him the Tamil nickname Nadigar Thilagam. In a career that spanned close to five decades, he acted in 288 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Sivaji Ganesan is the only actor in Tamil cinema to have played the lead role in over 250 films.

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Zhu Rongji, Chinese engineer and politician, 5th Premier of the People's Republic of China

Zhu Rongji is a Chinese retired politician and electrical engineer who served as the 5th premier of China from 1998 to 2003. He also served as member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1992 to 2002, along with CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin.

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01/10/1927

Tom Bosley, American actor (died 2010)

Thomas Edward Bosley was an American actor, television personality and entertainer. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984) for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination. Bosley also did a variety of voiceover work such as playing the lead character, Harry Boyle, in the animated series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and the narrator of the syndicated film history documentary series That's Hollywood. He was also known for his role as Sheriff Amos Tupper in the Angela Lansbury-led CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1988), and as the title character in the NBC/ABC series Father Dowling Mysteries (1989–1991).

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Sherman Glenn Finesilver, American lawyer and judge (died 2006)

Sherman Glenn Finesilver was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

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Sandy Gall, Malaysian-Scottish journalist and author (died 2025)

Henderson Alexander "Sandy" Gall was a Scottish journalist, author and Independent Television News (ITN) news presenter whose career as a journalist spanned more than 50 years. He began his career in journalism as a sub-editor at the Aberdeen Press and Journal in 1952 and became a foreign correspondent for the Reuters international news agency from 1953 to 1963. Gall joined ITN as a foreign reporter and troubleshooter in 1963, and also worked as a newscaster on News at Ten between 1970 and 1991. He was the Rector of the University of Aberdeen from 1978 to 1981 and founded the Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal charity with his wife in 1986.

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01/10/1924

Jimmy Carter, American naval lieutenant, politician, 39th President of the United States, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)

James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He lived longer than any other president in US history, reaching age 100.

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Bob Geigel, American wrestler and promoter (died 2014)

Robert Frederick Geigel was an American professional wrestling promoter and professional wrestler. He operated the Kansas City, Missouri-based Heart of America Sports Attractions promotion from 1963 to 1986, and served three terms as the president of the National Wrestling Alliance from 1978 to 1980, from 1982 to 1985, and finally from 1986 to 1987.

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Leonie Kramer, Australian academic (died 2016)

Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, was an Australian academic, educator and professor. She is notable as the first female professor of English in Australia, first woman to chair the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Companion of the Order of Australia.

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William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (died 2005)

William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American attorney who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate justice from 1972 to 1986. Considered a staunch conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states.

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Roger Williams, American pianist (died 2011)

Roger Williams was an American popular music pianist. Described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most popular instrumentalists of the mid-20th century", and "the rare instrumental pop artist to strike a lasting commercial chord," Williams had 22 hit singles – including the chart-topping "Autumn Leaves" in 1955 and "Born Free" in 1966 – and 38 hit albums between 1955 and 1972.

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01/10/1922

Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)

Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics.

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01/10/1921

James Whitmore, American actor (died 2009)

James Allen Whitmore Jr. was an American actor who appeared in over 150 stage, film, and television roles over a 50-year career. He received numerous honors, notably a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor for Battleground (1949) and Best Actor for Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975).

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01/10/1920

David Herbert Donald, American historian and author (died 2009)

David Herbert Donald was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for books about Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner; he published more than 30 books on United States political and literary figures and the history of the American South.

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Walter Matthau, American actor (died 2000)

Walter John Matthau was an American actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. He starred in 10 films alongside his real-life friend Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). The New York Times called this "one of Hollywood's most successful pairings". Among other accolades, Matthau won an Academy Award, one BAFTA Award, and two Tony Awards.

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01/10/1919

Bob Boyd, American baseball player (died 2004)

Robert Richard Boyd was an American first baseman in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball.

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Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (died 2000)

Asrar ul Hassan Khan, better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi language film industry. He wrote lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtracks. He was one of the dominant musical forces in Indian cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s, and was an important figure in the Progressive Writers' Movement. He is considered one of the finest avant-garde Urdu poets of 20th century literature.

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01/10/1917

Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and theologian (died 2009)

Cahal Brendan Daly KGCHS was a Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian and writer from County Antrim.

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01/10/1915

Jerome Bruner, American psychologist and author (died 2016)

Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a BA in 1937 from Duke University and a PhD from Harvard University in 1941. He taught and conducted research at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and New York University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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01/10/1914

Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, lawyer, author, and 12th Librarian of Congress (died 2004)

Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.

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01/10/1913

Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (died 2009)

Hélio Gracie was a Brazilian martial artist who together with his brothers Oswaldo, Gastao Jr, George and Carlos Gracie founded and developed the self-defense martial art system of Gracie jiu-jitsu, also known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ).

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Harry Lookofsky, American violinist and producer (died 1998)

Harry William Lookofsky was an American jazz violinist. He was also the father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Brown, who most notably was a founding member of the Left Banke and Stories.

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01/10/1912

Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 2014)

Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, was a British mathematician and politician who was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1975 to 1976 and an advisor on educational matters to Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.

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01/10/1911

Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (died 1994)

Irwin Kostal was an American musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway musicals.

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Heinrich Mark, Estonian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 2004)

Heinrich Mark was an Estonian politician and Prime Minister of the Estonian Government in Exile.

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01/10/1910

Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician and pathologist (died 1983)

Fritz Köberle was an Austrian-Brazilian physician, pathologist and scientist, discoverer of the neurogenic mechanism of the chronic phase of Chagas disease, a human parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan.

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José Enrique Moyal, Australian physicist and engineer (died 1998)

José Enrique Moyal was an Australian mathematician and mathematical physicist who contributed to aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering and statistics, among other fields.

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Bonnie Parker, American criminal (died 1934)

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow were American outlaws who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, committing a series of criminal acts such as bank robberies, kidnappings and murders between 1932 and 1934. The couple were known for their bank robberies and multiple murders, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934. On May 23, 1934, they were ambushed and killed on Louisiana Highway 154 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, by a law enforcement posse led by retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and three civilians.

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Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2012)

Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. He was the rosh yeshiva of the Torah Ore yeshiva in Kiryat Mattersdorf and Yeshivas Derech Chaim in Brooklyn. He was a posek, Gadol HaDor, and one of the last living Torah scholars to have been educated in the yeshivas of prewar Europe. He was often consulted on a range of communal and personal halachic issues. He was one of the rabbinic leaders of Kiryat Mattersdorf, together with Rabbi Yisroel Gans and Rabbi Yitzchok Yechiel Ehrenfeld. He was also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Israel.

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01/10/1909

Sam Yorty, American captain, politician, and 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (died 1998)

Samuel William Yorty was an American politician, attorney, and radio host from Los Angeles, California. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the California State Assembly, but he is most remembered for his turbulent three terms as the 37th mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973. Although Yorty spent almost all of his political career as a Democrat, he became a Republican in 1973.

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01/10/1908

Herman David Koppel, Danish pianist and composer (died 1998)

Herman David Koppel, known in Denmark as Herman D. Koppel, was a Danish composer and pianist of Jewish origin. Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family to Sweden in 1943. He wrote 7 symphonies, numerous concertos, 6 string quartets and other chamber music, piano works, operas and film music.

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01/10/1907

Maurice Bardèche, French journalist, author, and critic (died 1998)

Maurice Bardèche was a French art critic and journalist, better known as one of the leading exponents of neo-fascism and Holocaust denial in post–World War II Europe. Viewed as the "father-figure of Holocaust denial", Bardèche introduced in his works many aspects of neo-fascist and Holocaust denial propaganda techniques, methodology and ideological structures; his work is deemed influential in regenerating post-war European far-right ideas at a time of the identity crisis in the 1950–1960s.

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Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (died 1977)

Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, Hungarian: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש ] was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israel Prize, he taught and served as director of the Rubin Academy of Music, now known as the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.

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01/10/1906

S. D. Burman, Indian composer and singer (died 1975)

Sachin Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer. He was a member of the Tripura royal family. He started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one of the most successful and influential Indian film music composers. Burman composed the soundtracks for over 100 movies, including Bengali films and Hindi.

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01/10/1904

Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-English physicist and academic (died 1979)

Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann, he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With his aunt, Lise Meitner, he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator, Rudolf Peierls, he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Leading the Los Alamos Critical Assemblies experiments in 1945, he oversaw the world's first prompt criticality in the Dragon device.

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A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (died 1977)

Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist politician. He was one of 16 Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952. Later he became one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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01/10/1903

Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born American pianist and composer (died 1989)

Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz was a Russian and American pianist. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, timbre, and the public excitement engendered by his playing.

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Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (died 1970)

Pierre Veyron was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver active from 1933 through 1953.

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01/10/1900

Tom Goddard, English cricketer (died 1966)

Thomas William John Goddard was an English cricketer and the fifth-highest wicket taker in first-class cricket.

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Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (died 1927)

Ashfaqulla Khan was a freedom fighter and martyr in the Indian independence movement against British rule, and the co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association, later to become the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

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01/10/1899

Ernest Haycox, American author (died 1950)

Ernest James Haycox was an American writer of Western fiction.

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01/10/1896

Ted Healy, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1937)

Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of The Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy that they later made famous, he had a successful stage and film career of his own and was cited as a formative influence by several later comedy stars.

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01/10/1895

Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 1951)

Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He played a key role in consolidating the state of Pakistan, much as Muhammad Ali Jinnah did in founding it. A leading figure in the Pakistan Movement, he is revered as Quaid-e-Millat and Shaheed-e-Millat.

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01/10/1894

Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician and academic (died 1961)

Edgar Krahn was an Estonian mathematician. Krahn was born in Sootaga, Governorate of Livonia, as a member of the Baltic German minority. He died in Rockville, Maryland, United States.

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01/10/1893

Cliff Friend, American pianist and songwriter (died 1974)

Cliff Friend was an accomplished American songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.

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Ip Man, Chinese martial artist (died 1972)

Ip Man, also known as Yip Man, was a Chinese martial arts grandmaster. He became a teacher of the martial art of Wing Chun when he was 20. He had several students who later became martial arts masters in their own right, the most famous among them being Bruce Lee.

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01/10/1890

Stanley Holloway, English actor (died 1982)

Stanley Augustus Holloway was an English actor, comedian, singer and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career.

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01/10/1887

Ned Hanlon, Australian politician, 26th Premier of Queensland (died 1952)

Edward Michael Hanlon was an Australian politician and soldier, who was Premier of Queensland from 1946 until his death in 1952.

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Shizuichi Tanaka, Japanese general (died 1945)

Shizuichi Tanaka was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Japanese Military Governor of the Philippines during World War II.

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01/10/1885

Louis Untermeyer, American poet, anthologist, and critic (died 1977)

Louis Untermeyer was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.

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01/10/1881

William Boeing, American engineer and businessman who founded the Boeing Company (died 1956)

William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world.

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01/10/1878

Othmar Spann, Austrian economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1950)

Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist. His radical anti-liberal and anti-socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al. and popularized in his books and lecture courses, helped antagonise political factions in Austria during the interwar years.

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01/10/1865

Paul Dukas, French composer, scholar, and critic (died 1935)

Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works, largely due to its usage in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau, and a ballet, La Péri.

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01/10/1857

John Mackenzie Moore, Canadian architect (died 1930)

John Mackenzie Moore was a Canadian architect and politician who served as the mayor of London, Ontario, between 1926 and 1927. Having apprenticed to William Robinson and Thomas Henry Tracy, Moore developed a reputation as a hydraulic engineer and surveyor. He remained with their firm after control was taken by George F. Durand, but left after disputing the terms of their gentlemen's agreement. In 1891, two years after Durand's death, Moore partnered with former staff member Fred Henry to continue the firm's operations. He remained its primary architect into the 1920s.

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01/10/1847

Annie Besant, English-Indian activist and author (died 1933)

Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She supported both Irish and Indian self-rule. She became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.

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01/10/1846

Nectarios of Aegina, Greek metropolitan and saint (died 1920)

Nectarios of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina, is one of the most renowned Greek saints, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church. On 20 April 1961, Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople glorified him as a saint. His feast day is celebrated every year on 9 November.

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01/10/1842

S. Subramania Iyer, Indian lawyer and jurist (died 1924)

Sir Subbier Subramania Iyer was an Indian lawyer, jurist and freedom fighter who, along with Annie Besant, founded the Indian Home Rule Movement. He was popularly known as the "Grand Old Man of South India".

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Charles Cros, French poet and author (died 1888)

Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude.

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01/10/1835

Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician and anatomist (died 1920)

Ádám Politzer was a Hungarian and Austrian physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology.

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01/10/1832

Caroline Harrison, American educator, 24th First Lady of the United States (died 1892)

Caroline Lavinia Harrison was an American music teacher, artist, and the first lady of the United States from 1889 until her death in 1892. She was married to President Benjamin Harrison, and was the second first lady to die while serving in the role.

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Henry Clay Work, American composer and songwriter (died 1884)

Henry Clay Work was an American songwriter and composer. He is best remembered for his musical contributions to the Union in the Civil War—songs documenting the afflictions of slavery, the hardships of army life, and Northern triumphs in the conflict. Besides patriotic pieces, he composed sentimental ballads, some of which promoted the growing temperance movement. Many of Work's compositions were performed at minstrel shows and Civil War veteran reunions. Although largely forgotten nowadays, he was one of the most successful musicians of his time, comparable to Stephen Foster and George F. Root in sales and sheer influence.

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01/10/1808

Mary Anna Custis Lee, American wife of Robert E. Lee (died 1873)

Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington House. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, who was the grandson of Martha Washington,the wife of George Washington. Through her grandmother Eleanor Calvert she was a descendant of King George I.. Lee was a highly educated woman, who edited and published her father's writings after his death.

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01/10/1791

Sergey Aksakov, Russian soldier and author (died 1859)

Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.

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01/10/1771

Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (died 1842)

Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot was a French violinist and composer born in Passy. He studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti and taught at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Pierre Rode and Rodolphe Kreutzer, who wrote the Conservatoire's official violin method. He was sole author of the instructional L'Art du violon (1834). Baillot's teachings had a profound influence on technical and musical development in an age in which virtuosity was openly encouraged. He was leader of the Paris Opéra, gave solo recitals and was a notable performer of chamber music.

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01/10/1762

Anton Bernolák, Slovak priest and linguist (died 1813)

Anton Bernolák was a Slovak linguist and Catholic priest, and the author of the first Slovak language standard.

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01/10/1760

William Thomas Beckford, English author and politician (died 1844)

William Thomas Beckford was a British writer and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. Beckford was the son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, the daughter of George Hamilton. He served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and Hindon in 1790–1795 and 1806–1820. Beckford is best known for writing the 1786 Gothic novel Vathek, for building Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Beckford's Tower in Bath, and for his extensive art collection.

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01/10/1730

Richard Stockton, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1781)

Richard Stockton was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, legislator, and first person from New Jersey to sign the Declaration of Independence.

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01/10/1729

Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, German organist and composer (died 1777)

Anton Cajetan Adlgasser was a German organist and composer at Salzburg Cathedral. He composed a good deal of liturgical music that included eight masses and two requiems, as well as oratorios and orchestral and keyboard works.

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01/10/1724

Giovanni Battista Cirri, Italian cellist and composer (died 1808)

Giovanni Battista Cirri was an Italian cellist and composer in the 18th century.

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01/10/1719

John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, British parliamentarian (died 1781)

John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley, styled The Honourable John Bligh between 1721 and 1747, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British parliamentarian.

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01/10/1712

William Shippen, American physician and politician (died 1801)

William Shippen Sr. was an American physician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also a civic and educational leader who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress.

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01/10/1691

Arthur Onslow, English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (died 1768)

Arthur Onslow was an English politician. He set a record for length of service when repeatedly elected to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons, where he was known for his integrity.

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01/10/1685

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1740)

Charles VI was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain following the death of his relative, Charles II. In 1708, he married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his four children: Leopold Johann, Maria Theresa, Maria Anna, and Maria Amalia.

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01/10/1681

Giulia Lama, Italian painter (died 1747)

Giulia Elisabetta Lama was an Italian painter active in Venice during the late Baroque period. Her dark, intense style contrasted with the dominant pastel tones of the era. She was one of the first female artists to study and depict the nude male figure.

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01/10/1671

Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (died 1742)

Dom Guido Grandi, was an Italian monk, priest, philosopher, theologian, mathematician, and engineer.

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01/10/1620

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (died 1683)

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.

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01/10/1554

Leonardus Lessius, Jesuit theologian (died 1623)

Lenaert Leys, better known as Leonardus Lessius was a Brabant jurist, theologian, economist from the Jesuit order.

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01/10/1550

Anne of Saint Bartholomew, Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun (died 1626)

Anne of Saint Bartholomew was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite and companion to Teresa of Ávila who established new monasteries in France and the Low Countries. Anne sometimes struggled with her superiors as she set about setting new convents and holding her position as a prioress. She later settled in the Spanish Netherlands and opened a house, remaining there until her death in 1626. Pope Benedict XV beatified her in 1917.

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01/10/1542

Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Spanish explorer (died 1595)

Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and cartographer, best known for two of the earliest recorded expeditions across the Pacific Ocean in 1567 and 1595. His voyages led to the discovery of the Marquesas, Cook Islands, and Solomons among other archipelagos. Born in Congosto, in El Bierzo Region (León), he was the nephew of Lope García de Castro, viceroy of Peru.

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01/10/1540

Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss pastor and theologian (died 1617)

Johann Jakob Grynaeus or Gryner was a Swiss Protestant divine.

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01/10/1526

Dorothy Stafford, English noble (died 1604)

Dorothy Stafford, Lady Stafford was an English noblewoman, and an influential person at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England, to whom she served as Mistress of the Robes. Dorothy Stafford was the second wife of Sir William Stafford, widower of Mary Boleyn. She and her family sought exile in Geneva during the reign of Mary I to escape the persecution of their Protestant religion. The Protestant reformer John Calvin stood as godfather to her youngest son.

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01/10/1507

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect who designed the Church of the Gesù (died 1573)

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola, was one of the great Italian architects of 16th-century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome. The three architects who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe are Vignola, Serlio and Palladio. He is often considered the most important architect in Rome in the Mannerist era.

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01/10/1480

Saint Cajetan, Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer (died 1547)

Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene, known in English as Saint Cajetan, was an Italian Catholic priest and religious reformer, co-founder of the Theatines. He is recognised as a saint in the Catholic Church, and his feast day is 7 August.

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01/10/1476

Guy XVI, Count of Laval (died 1531)

Guy XVI, Count of Laval, Mayenne was a member of the House of Laval. He was christened Nicolas, but upon inheriting the title, he took the required name of Guy, as his predecessors had done. He was the son of Jean de Laval, who was the brother of Guy XV and the son of Guy XIV and Isabella of Brittany.

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01/10/1207

Henry III of England (died 1272)

Henry III, also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

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01/10/0208

Alexander Severus, Roman emperor (died 235)

Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty and was the youngest sole emperor of the united Roman Empire.

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01/01/1970

Sallust, Roman historian (died 34 BC)

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar, circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa.

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