Born on Saturday, 11th October – Famous Birthdays

11/10/2001

Maja Chwalińska, Polish tennis player

Maja Chwalińska is a Polish tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 121, achieved on 31 March 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 91, achieved on 9 June 2025. She won her first senior singles title at a ITF Circuit tournament in Bytom in July 2019, having already won four ITF doubles titles up to that point.

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Daniel Maldini, Italian footballer

Daniel Maldini is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Serie A club Lazio, on loan from Atalanta, and the Italy national team.

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Jacob Preston, Australian rugby league player

Jacob Preston is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-rower for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NRL.

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Chu Ye-jin, South Korean actress

Chu Ye-jin is a South Korean actress. She was a contestant on Mnet's girl group survival program Produce 101.

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11/10/1999

Leicester Fainga'anuku, New Zealand rugby union player

Leicester Ofa Ki Wales Twickenham Faingaʻanuku is a rugby union player, who plays as a wing or centre for Tasman in the Bunnings NPC, the Crusaders in Super Rugby and the All Blacks. He previously played for Toulon in the Top 14. Born in Tonga, he represents New Zealand internationally.

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Keldon Johnson, American basketball player

Keldon Wilder Johnson is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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11/10/1996

Rhea Ripley, Australian wrestler

Demi Bennett is an Australian professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Rhea Ripley. She is a two-time Women's World Champion and a one-time WWE Raw Women's Champion. Regarded as one of the best female wrestlers in the world due to her popularity and in-ring ability, her first reign as Women's World Champion is tied with Bayley as the longest in the title's history at 380 days.

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Arman Tsarukyan, Armenian professional mixed martial artist

Arman Nairovich Tsarukyan is an Armenian professional mixed martial artist, submission grappler, and freestyle wrestler. He competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of January 27, 2026, he is #2 in the UFC lightweight rankings and as of April 14, 2026, he is #13 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.

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11/10/1995

Nicolás Jarry, Chilean tennis player

Nicolás Jarry Fillol is a Chilean professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 16, achieved on 20 May 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 40, attained on 18 March 2019. He is currently the No. 4 singles player from Chile.

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11/10/1994

Clésio Baúque, Mozambican footballer

Clésio Palmirim David Baúque, known simply as Clésio, is a Mozambican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Mozambican side Black Bulls and the Mozambique national team.

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Zior Park, South Korean rapper

Park Ji-won, better known by his stage name Zior Park (Korean: 지올팍), is a South Korean rapper and music video director.

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T. J. Watt, American football player

Trent Jordan Watt is an American professional football linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers for four years. After redshirting his freshman year, Watt injured his knee in his sophomore year, keeping him out until the 2015 season. Watt broke out in 2016, recording 11.5 sacks and receiving various collegiate honors. After foregoing his last year of college eligibility, Watt was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft.

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11/10/1993

Brandon Flynn, American actor

Brandon Paul Flynn is an American actor known for his role as Justin Foley in the Netflix teen drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020). His work in film and television includes the series Manhunt (2024), Ratched (2020), and True Detective (2019), and the films The Parenting (2025) and Hellraiser (2022).

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Hardik Pandya, Indian cricketer

Hardik Himanshu Pandya is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian cricket team. He is an all-rounder who is a right-handed middle order batsman and fast-medium bowler. He is considered one of the best all-rounders in the world in white-ball cricket. Pandya is the first fast-bowling all-rounder in T20Is to complete 1,000 runs and 100 wickets. He captains Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and occasionally plays for Baroda in domestic cricket. He has captained the Indian team in white-ball cricket and was the vice captain of the team that won the 2024 T20 World Cup.

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11/10/1992

Cardi B, American rapper

Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper. Born and raised in New York City, she is known for her energetic rap flow and outspoken lyrics. Since launching her music career in 2016 and releasing her two mixtapes, Cardi B has been cited for her part in helping elevate the relevance of female rappers in popular music.

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Christian Davis, English cricketer

Christian Arthur Linghorne Davis is an English former cricketer who played for Sussex. He is a right-handed batsman and left arm fast-medium bowler. He made his one day debut for Northamptonshire against Essex, on 8 August 2010. He has since played four first-class matches for Leeds-Bradford MCCU, and played for Sussex in one day and first-class cricket. In July 2016 he scored the record individual score for Sussex 2nd XI, 258* against Glamorgan 2nd XI at Abergavenny

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Riffi Mandanda, Congolese footballer

Riffi Mandanda is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in France, he is a former youth international for France and DR Congo.

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Ligi Sao, New Zealand rugby league player

Liligiifo Sao is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop and loose forward for Hull F.C. in the Super League.

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11/10/1991

Joel Bitonio, American football player

Joel Michael Bitonio is an American professional football guard. He played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack and was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft. During his NFL career, Bitonio has been named to seven Pro Bowls, two first-team and three second-team All-Pro teams.

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Toby Fox, American video game developer and composer

Robert F. "Toby" Fox is an American video game developer, composer, and voice actor. He is best known for developing the role-playing video games Undertale and Deltarune.

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Gio Urshela, Colombian baseball player

Giovanny Urshela Salcedo is a Colombian professional baseball third baseman who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, and Athletics. Urshela made his MLB debut in 2015 with Cleveland.

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Kika van Es, Dutch footballer

Kika van Es is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender for the Netherlands national team.

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11/10/1990

Joo, South Korean singer and actress

Jung Min-joo, born Jung A-rin and known professionally as Joo, is a South Korean singer, songwriter and musical actress. In 2006, she became a contestant on JYP Entertainment's Superstar Survival. Although she didn't win, she was accepted as a trainee at JYP Entertainment. After two years of training, Joo debuted as a soloist with her single album Young Girl in January 2008. However, she resumed training for two years, as she didn't feel ready for her debut. Joo later returned in January 2011 by releasing her EP Heartmade.

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Sebastian Rode, German footballer

Sebastian Rode is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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11/10/1989

Michelle Wie, American golfer

Michelle Sung Wie West is an American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour. At age 10, she became the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. Wie also became the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links and the youngest to qualify for an LPGA Tour event. She turned professional shortly before her 16th birthday in 2005, accompanied by an enormous amount of publicity and endorsements. She won the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year in 2004 and her first and only major at the 2014 U.S. Women's Open.

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11/10/1988

Omar Gonzalez, American soccer player

Omar Alejandro Gonzalez is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for MLS Next Pro club Chicago Fire FC II.

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Ricochet, American wrestler

Trevor Mann, known by his ring name Ricochet, is an American professional wrestler. As of August 2024, he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Demand and was the inaugural AEW National Champion.

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11/10/1987

Tony Beltran, American soccer player

Anthony Benjamin Beltran is an American former soccer player who spent nearly all of his entire professional career at Real Salt Lake.

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Mike Conley Jr., American basketball player

Michael Alexander Conley Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted as the fourth overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies.

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Nathan Coulter-Nile, Australian cricketer

Nathan Mitchell Coulter-Nile is an Australian cricketer who has played at One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International level for the Australian national team. Domestically, he is contracted to Western Australia and the Melbourne Stars. From Perth, Western Australia, Coulter-Nile attended Aquinas College, and represented the state under-17 and under-19 teams, later going on to play three youth ODI matches for the Australian national under-19 team. Having held a rookie contract from the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) for several seasons, he made his debut at state level during the 2009–10 season, and has since become a regular selection in Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers' fast bowling attacks. Coulter-Nile made his Twenty20 International debut for the Australian national cricket team in February 2013, and his ODI debut in September 2013.

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11/10/1986

Ikioi Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler

Ikioi Shōta is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Katano, Osaka. He began his career in March 2005. He won the jūryō championship in November 2011 in his very first tournament in the division and just two tournaments later made his makuuchi division debut. He was runner up to Jōkōryū in the jūryō division in September 2012. His highest rank was sekiwake. He won four special prizes for Fighting Spirit and five gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He did not miss a single bout from his professional debut until the last day of the January 2021 tournament. He retired in June 2021 to become a coach and elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Kasugayama.

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11/10/1985

Nesta Carter, Jamaican sprinter

Nesta Carter OD is a Jamaican retired sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres event. Carter was successful as part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 metres relay team, taking gold and setting successive world records at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 London Olympics. He also won a 4 × 100 m silver medal at the 2007 World Championship and a gold at the 2015 World Championships. On August 11, 2013, Carter secured an individual 100 m World Championship bronze medal in Moscow, behind Justin Gatlin and teammate Usain Bolt. He followed this with another gold in the 4 × 100 metres relay.

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Yang Cheng, Chinese footballer

Yang Cheng is a former Chinese football goalkeeper.

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Álvaro Fernández, Uruguayan footballer

Álvaro Fernández (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾo feɾˈnandes] is a retired Uruguayan footballer. He played as a midfielder. His last club was Club Plaza Colonia. Since 2009, Fernandez has made 12 appearances for the Uruguayan National Team.

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Peter Ölvecký, Slovak ice hockey player

Peter Ölvecký is a Slovak professional ice hockey forward. He played 32 games in the National Hockey League with the Minnesota Wild and Nashville Predators from 2008 to 2010. The rest of his career, which lasted from 2003 to 2019, was mainly spent in the Slovak Extraliga. Internationally Ölvecký played for the Slovakian national team at several tournaments, including the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress (died 2025)

Michelle Christine Trachtenberg was an American actress. After beginning her career in commercials at age three, she made her television debut in her first credited role on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1994–1996) and her feature film debut in the 1996 comedy Harriet the Spy. As a child actress, Trachtenberg starred in several Nickelodeon productions. In 1997, she won a Young Artist Award for her performance in CBS's sitcom Meego. She also played Penny Brown in Disney's 1999 superhero comedy film Inspector Gadget.

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11/10/1984

Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer

Sergio Hellings is a Dutch footballer who is without a club having last played for Roeselare.

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Martha MacIsaac, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter

Martha MacIsaac is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in several feature films, including Superbad (2007), The Last House on the Left (2009), Dead Before Dawn (2012), and Battle of the Sexes (2017). She has also worked in television and as a voice actress.

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Zeb Taia, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player

Zeb Taia is a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row forward for both New Zealand and the Cook Islands at international level.

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Jane Zhang, Chinese singer-songwriter

Zhang Liangying, also known as Jane Zhang, is a Chinese singer, songwriter and record producer. She is known for her signature use of the whistle register and has been dubbed the "Dolphin Princess" (海豚公主). Zhang began performing as a teenager by singing in pubs to help earn money for her family. After signing with Huayi Brothers Media Corporation in 2005, Zhang released her first studio album, The One (2006). Her second album, Update, was released in 2007. Zhang's third studio album, Jane@Music, was released in 2009. Her fourth studio album, Believe in Jane, was released in 2010. In 2011, Zhang released her fifth studio album, Reform, which was certified double platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

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11/10/1983

Denis Grebeshkov, Russian ice hockey player

Denis Sergeyevich Grebeshkov is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman who last played for Vityaz Podolsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, Edmonton Oilers and Nashville Predators, the former which drafted him in the first round, 18th overall, in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.

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11/10/1982

Cameron Knowles, New Zealand footballer

Cameron Knowles is a New Zealand professional football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of MLS club Minnesota United.

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Jeff Larish, American baseball player

Jeffrey David Larish is an American former professional baseball infielder and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics.

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Terrell Suggs, American football player

Terrell Raymonn Suggs, nicknamed "T-Sizzle", is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for 17 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, and was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens with the 10th overall pick in the 2003 NFL draft, and is the franchise's all-time leader in sacks. He also played for the Arizona Cardinals and the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Mauricio Victorino, Uruguayan footballer

Mauricio Bernardo Victorino Dansilo is a Uruguayan football coach and a former defender. He is an assistant manager with Nacional.

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11/10/1980

Nyron Nosworthy, English-born Jamaican footballer

Nyron Paul Henry Nosworthy is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back. After beginning his career with Gillingham, he moved to Sunderland in 2005 with whom he played in the Premier League. After two lengthy loan spells with Sheffield United he made a permanent switch to Watford in 2012 but was released in the summer of 2014 after a loan to Bristol City. Nosworthy represented Jamaica at international level, playing fourteen games and scoring once.

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11/10/1979

Jamar Beasley, American football player

Jamar Beasley is an American soccer player.

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Andy Douglas, American wrestler

The Naturals were a professional wrestling tag team made up of Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens. They are best known for their work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where they are former three-time NWA World Tag Team Champions.

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Kim Yong-dae, South Korean footballer

Kim Yong-dae is a South Korean former football goalkeeper who last played for Ulsan Hyundai. He is considered one of South Korea's best goalkeepers even to the point where he had been nicknamed by fans as "Yong Der Sar" in reference to former goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar of Manchester United and the Netherlands.

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11/10/1978

Carl Bussey, American soccer player

Carl Bussey is an American retired soccer midfielder who played professionally in Major League Soccer and the USL First Division. He played three games for the U.S. at the 1995 FIFA U-17 World Championship.

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Trevor Donovan, American actor

Trevor Donovan Neubauer is an American actor, author, and model. He is best known for his role as Teddy Montgomery on The CW teen drama series 90210 (2009–2013).

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Takuya Kawaguchi, Japanese footballer

Takuya Kawaguchi is a former Japanese football player.

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11/10/1977

Matt Bomer, American actor and producer

Matthew Staton Bomer is an American actor. His works have earned him accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Peabody Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Igor Figueiredo, Brazilian snooker player

Igor Almeida Figueiredo is a Brazilian former professional snooker player. As an amateur, Figueiredo entered the International Open Series (PIOS) tour in 2009 finishing 12th at year end. The same year, he was a finalist at the IBSF World Championship, earning himself a wild card entry onto the main tour for 2010. He went on to play as a professional from 2010 to 2017 but was relegated from the tour at the end of the 2017 season.

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Jérémie Janot, French footballer and manager

Jérémie Roger Janot is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Saint-Étienne for 16 years of his career, and last played for Le Mans.

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Desmond Mason, American basketball player and sportscaster

Desmond Tremaine Mason is an American painter and former professional basketball player. He played as a shooting guard and small forward. Mason has also found success as an artist, working in a variety of media. Currently, he is an NBA analyst and sports radio co-host for The Franchise, a sports talk station in Oklahoma City.

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Rhett McLaughlin, American YouTuber

Rhett James McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III, collectively known as Rhett & Link, are an American comedy duo. Since 2012, they have created and hosted the YouTube series Good Mythical Morning. Self-styled as "Internetainers", Their other notable projects include comedic songs and sketches, their IFC series Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings, their scripted series Rhett & Link's Buddy System on YouTube Premium and Rhett & Link's Wonderhole, their podcast Ear Biscuits, and their novel The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek.

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Ty Wigginton, American baseball player

Ty Allen Wigginton is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, Philadelphia Phillies, and St. Louis Cardinals. He mainly played as a first and third baseman, but also platooned as an infielder and an outfielder during his career. He batted and threw right-handed.

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11/10/1976

Dominic Aitchison, Scottish bass player and songwriter

Dominic Aitchison is a Scottish bassist and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist and founding member of post-rock band Mogwai. Aside from Mogwai, he also played bass guitar in Crippled Black Phoenix and Stage Blood.

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Emily Deschanel, American actress and producer

Emily Erin Deschanel is an American actress. She played Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan in the Fox crime procedural series Bones (2005–2017).

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11/10/1974

Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player

Jason William Arnott is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.

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Rachel Barton Pine, American violinist and educator

Rachel Barton Pine is an American violinist. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony at age 10, and was the first American and youngest ever gold medal winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition. The Washington Post wrote that she "displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon."

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11/10/1973

Brendan B. Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Wheatus is an American rock band from Northport, New York, formed in 1995. Their 2000 single, "Teenage Dirtbag" and 2001 cover version of Erasure's "A Little Respect" charted worldwide. Their self-titled album was certified platinum in the United Kingdom.

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Greg Chalmers, Australian golfer

Gregory John Chalmers is an Australian professional golfer. Chalmers has played primarily on the PGA Tour of Australasia and PGA Tour. He is a two-time winner of the Australian Open and late in his career eventually won a PGA Tour event, the 2016 Barracuda Championship.

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Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer and manager

Steven John Pressley is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who played as a centre back. He is currently the head coach of Scottish Premiership club Dundee.

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Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper

Niki Xanthou is a Greek long jumper.

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Dmitri Young, American baseball player and radio host

Dmitri Dell Young is an American former professional baseball player. He played all or parts of 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left fielder, first baseman, and designated hitter, for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, and Washington Nationals from 1996 through 2008. He is a two-time All-Star and winner of the National League Comeback Player of the Year Award. His younger brother, Delmon Young, also played in MLB.

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11/10/1972

Marcus Bai, Papua New Guinean rugby league player

Marcus "George" Bai is a Papua New Guinean former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. An international representative winger, he represented Papua New Guinea on numerous occasions including at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. Bai played club football for English clubs Hull FC, Leeds Rhinos and the Bradford Bulls, as well as Australian clubs the Gold Coast Chargers and Melbourne Storm. He became the first player to have won the World Club Challenge with three clubs. In 2005 he was minutes away from being the first person to win all of the major domestic competitions in both Australia and England however Hull F.C. struck with minutes to go in the Challenge Cup final to deny Leeds Rhinos the Challenge Cup and him a place in the history books.

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11/10/1971

Petra Haden, American violinist and singer

Petra Haden is an American musician and singer.

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Justin Lin, American film director

Justin Lin is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker and television show maker. His films have grossed over US$3 billion worldwide as of March 2017. He is best known for his directorial work on Better Luck Tomorrow (2002), the Fast & Furious franchise from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) to Fast & Furious 6 (2013) and F9 (2021), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). He is also known for his work on television programs like Community and True Detective.

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Oleksandr Pomazun, Ukrainian footballer and manager

Aleksandr Vasil'evich Pomazun is a former goalkeeper and football coach. He is the goalkeepers coach with FC Khimik-Arsenal.

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11/10/1970

Chidi Ahanotu, American football player

Chidi Obioma Ahanotu is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was selected in the 1993 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for whom he would play in nine of his twelve professional seasons.

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Vanessa Harding, American wrestler

Leslie Culton better known by her ring name Vanessa Harding, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and manager who has competed in North American independent promotions throughout the early 2000s including Full Impact Pro, Future of Wrestling, the Heartland Wrestling Association, Ohio Valley Wrestling and NWA Florida. She has also had short stints in Ring of Honor, World League Wrestling and Women's Extreme Wrestling. She is also known as Elle Cee, where she has appeared in several adult films, such as on the bangbus.com website.

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MC Lyte, American rapper, DJ, and actress

Lana Michele Moorer, better recognized by her stage name MC Lyte, is an American rapper-songwriter, actress, television announcer, and businesswoman. Regarded as a pioneer in the field of female rap,

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Andy Marriott, English-Welsh footballer and manager

Andrew Marriott is an English-born Welsh professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. He is a journeyman player, having represented various clubs, and has also played for the Welsh national team.

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Shin Tae-yong, South Korean footballer and coach

Shin Tae-yong is a South Korean football manager and former professional player. He is the first man to win the AFC Champions League as both player and manager, having won the 1995 tournament as a player and the 2010 tournament as a manager with Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma.

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Constance Zimmer, American actress

Constance Zimmer is an American actress. She rose to prominence playing Dana Gordon on the HBO series Entourage (2005–11) and Claire Simms on the ABC series Boston Legal (2006–07). She went on to appear on the Netflix series House of Cards (2013–18) and voiced Strongarm on Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2014–17). She gained wider recognition for her role as Quinn King on Unreal (2015–18), for which she received a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination both in 2016.

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11/10/1969

Merieme Chadid, Moroccan astronomer and explorer

Merieme Chadid is a Moroccan-French astronomer, explorer and astrophysicist. She leads international polar scientific programs and has been committed to installing a major astronomical observatory at the heart of Antarctica.

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Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands is the third and youngest son of the former Dutch queen, Beatrix, and her husband, Claus von Amsberg, and is the younger brother of the reigning Dutch king, Willem-Alexander. He is a member of the Dutch Royal House and currently fourth in the line of succession to the Dutch throne behind his nieces.

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Stephen Moyer, English actor

Stephen John Emery, known professionally as Stephen Moyer, is an English actor and film director. He is best known for portraying the vampire Bill Compton in the HBO television series True Blood.

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11/10/1968

Jane Krakowski, American actress and singer

Jane Krakowski is an American actress and singer. She starred as Jenna Maroney in the NBC satirical comedy series 30 Rock, for which she received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Krakowski's other television roles have included Elaine Vassal in the Fox legal comedy-drama series Ally McBeal (1997–2002) and Jacqueline White in the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020). For the latter, she received another Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.

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Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Claude Lapointe is a Canadian former ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, New York Islanders, and Philadelphia Flyers between 1991 and 2004.

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Brett Salisbury, American football player and author

Brett Jon Salisbury is a former college football quarterback at University of Oregon, BYU, and Wayne State College.

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11/10/1967

Jay Grdina, American businessman and pornographic actor

John G. "Jay" Grdina is an American businessman and former pornographic actor. He is often credited under the stage name Justin Sterling.

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Artie Lange, American actor and comedian

Arthur Steven Lange Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and radio personality, best known for his work on Mad TV (1995–1997) and The Howard Stern Show (2001–2009). Raised in New Jersey, Lange first worked as a longshoreman and taxi driver to support his family following the paralysis of his father. He debuted as a stand-up in 1987 and began performing full-time five years later, developing his act on the New York City club circuit.

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David Starr, American race car driver

David Leon Starr is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, driving the No. 53 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Joey Gase Motorsports with Scott Osteen. He has also previously competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, where he is a four-time race winner, as well as NASCAR Cup Series, and what are now the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series West.

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Peter Thiel, German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist

Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.

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11/10/1966

Luke Perry, American actor and producer (died 2019)

Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. Perry also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale. He had guest roles on shows such as Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace, as well as a recurring role voicing Rick Jones in The Incredible Hulk (1996–1997) from Marvel Comics, and also appeared in various films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), 8 Seconds (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Final Storm, The Beat Beneath My Feet (2015), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which was his final feature performance and earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He died of a stroke on March 4, 2019, at the age of 52.

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Todd Snider, American singer-songwriter

Todd Daniel Snider was an American singer-songwriter whose music incorporated elements of folk, rock, blues, alt country and funk.

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Stephen Williams, Welsh lawyer and politician

Stephen Roy Williams is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West from the 2005 general election until his defeat by Labour Party candidate Thangam Debbonaire in 2015. As an MP, he served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition government as Parliamentary under-secretary of state in the Department of Communities and Local Government from 2013 to 2015.

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11/10/1965

Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor and producer

Sean Patrick Flanery is an American actor. He is known for playing Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints (1999) and its sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009), Greg Stillson in the television series The Dead Zone, Jeremy "Powder" Reed in Powder (1995), Indiana Jones in the George Lucas television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as Bobby Dagen in Saw 3D (2010). He is also known for his role as Sam Gibson on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless in 2011. He starred in Devil's Carnival, a short film which was screened on tour beginning in April 2012.

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Alexander Hacke, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Alexander Hacke is a German guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, musician, record producer, writer and filmmaker. He is primarily known as a longtime member of the influential German industrial music group Einstürzende Neubauten.

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Orlando Hernández, Cuban baseball player

Orlando Hernández Pedroso, nicknamed "El Duque", is a Cuban-born right-handed former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Industriales of the Cuban National Series, the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and New York Mets of Major League Baseball, and the Cuban national baseball team in international play.

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Volodymyr Horilyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach

Volodymyr Ivanovych Horilyi is a Soviet and Ukrainian retired football defender and a football coach.

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Lennie James, English actor

Lennie Michael James is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Morgan Jones in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2018) and in its spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2023), and starring as DCI Tony Gates in Line of Duty series one.

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11/10/1964

Michael J. Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Michael John Nelson is an American comedian and writer, most known for his work on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). Nelson was the head writer of the series for most of the show's original eleven-year run, and spent half of that time as the on-air host, also named Mike Nelson. In addition to writing books, Nelson is currently part of the online movie riffing site RiffTrax, and was previously part of the straight-to-DVD Film Crew with fellow MST3K alumni, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy.

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11/10/1963

Marcus Graham, Australian actor

Marcus Graham is an Australian film, television and stage actor, writer and director, with roles including Mulholland Drive and Josh Jarman. He was known as a teenage heartthrob in the early 1990s while starring in the Australian TV soap E Street as the character Stanley 'Wheels' Kovac. He is also known for his role as Harvey Ryan in Home and Away.

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Brian Rice, Scottish footballer and manager

Brian Rice is a Scottish football coach and former player, who is currently first team coach to David Martindale at Scottish Premiership club Livingston.

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Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer

Ronny Rosenthal, nicknamed "Rocket Ronny", is an Israeli former footballer who played as a forward.

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Rima Te Wiata, English-New Zealand actress and singer

Heather Rima Te Wiata is a New Zealand actress, comedian, singer and voice artist, who is also notable for her career in Australia. Her career in stage, TV and film has spanned over 50 years and she is especially known her long-running recurring role in TV soap opera Sons and Daughters as Janice Reid in 204 episodes.

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11/10/1962

Joan Cusack, American actress

Joan Mary Cusack is an American actress. An acclaimed character actress known for her distinctive voice and offbeat comedic timing, her portrayals of neurotic, endearing characters have earned her numerous accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning once in 2015.

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Andy McCoy, Finnish musician

Antti Hulkko, better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is best known for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the rock band Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop and a variety of other groups.

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11/10/1961

Neil Buchanan, English guitarist

Neil Buchanan is an English artist, photographer, and musician, best known for his work on British children's television. During his tenure as a children's television presenter, he hosted the CITV programme Art Attack, a television programme that he co-created, during its original run from 1990 to 2007, as well as Finders Keepers and It's a Mystery, while he also produced and starred in CITV's ZZZap!.

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Steve Young, American football player and sportscaster

Jon Steven Young is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, most notably with the San Francisco 49ers. He previously played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who drafted him. Prior to his NFL career, Young played for the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL) for two seasons. He played college football for the BYU Cougars, setting school and NCAA records.

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11/10/1960

Randy Breuer, American basketball player

Randall W. Breuer is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round of the 1983 NBA draft. A 7'3" center from the University of Minnesota, Breuer played in 11 NBA seasons from 1983 to 1994. He played for the Bucks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks and Sacramento Kings.

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Nicola Bryant, English actress

Nicola Jane Bryant is an English actress best known for her role as Peri Brown, a companion to both the Fifth and Sixth Doctors, in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986.

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Curt Ford, American baseball player and manager

Curtis Glenn Ford is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, from 1985 through 1990.

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Gábor Pölöskei, Hungarian footballer and manager

Gábor Pölöskei is a retired Hungarian football player and current manager.

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11/10/1959

Wayne Gardner, Australian motorcycle racer

Wayne Michael Gardner is an Australian former professional motorcycle and touring car racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1986 to 1992, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing team where he became the first Australian to win motorcycling's premier class in 1987. His success on the world motorcycle road racing circuit earned him the nickname The Wollongong Whiz.

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Allan Little, Scottish journalist and author

James Allan Stuart Little is a Special Correspondent for BBC News, based at New Broadcasting House, London.

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11/10/1957

Francky Dury, Belgian footballer and manager

Francky Dury is a Belgian football manager. He most recently managed Zulte Waregem, the team he coached for almost 20 years. Before that, he had already worked for their predecessor Zultse VV for 10 seasons.

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Dawn French, Welsh-English actress, comedian and screenwriter

Dawn Roma French is a British actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for writing and starring in the BBC sketch comedy series French and Saunders (1987–2007) with her friend and comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for starring in the BBC comedy series Murder Most Horrid (1991–1999) and The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2007). She has been nominated for seven British Academy Television Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.

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11/10/1956

Nicanor Duarte, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, President of Paraguay

Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos is a Paraguayan lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the 47th President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. A member of the Colorado Party, he became the central figure of Paraguayan politics during his presidency.

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Doug Lawrence, American jazz saxophonist

Doug Lawrence is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.

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Derek Ringer, Scottish race car driver

Derek Ringer is a British rally co-driver from Scotland. He is most closely associated with Colin McRae, with whom he won the 1995 World Rally Championship.

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Stephen Spinella, American actor

Stephen Spinella is an American actor. He originated the role of Prior Walter in the original Broadway production of Angels in America, winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and the 1994 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.

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11/10/1955

Norm Nixon, American basketball player and sportscaster

Norman Ellard Nixon is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played with Scavolini Pesaro in Italy. Nicknamed "Stormin' Norman", he is a two-time NBA All-Star. He won two NBA championships with the Lakers in 1980 and 1982, at the beginning of their Showtime era.

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11/10/1954

David Michaels, American epidemiologist and politician

David Michaels is an American epidemiologist and professor in the Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology at the Milken Institute School of Public Health of the George Washington University. He held high-level, senate-confirmed public health positions in the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, including a stint from 2009 to 2017 as the administrator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia

Vojislav Šešelj is a Serbian politician. He is the founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). From 1998 to 2000, he was a deputy prime minister of Serbia.

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11/10/1953

David Morse, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

David Bowditch Morse is an American actor. Morse became widely known for his role as Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–88), and he has had roles in The Negotiator, The Good Son, Horns, Contact, The Green Mile, Dancer in the Dark, Disturbia, The Hurt Locker, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Rock and 12 Monkeys.

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11/10/1952

Paulette Carlson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Paulette Tenae Carlson is an American country music singer-songwriter, who rose to fame in the 1980s as the founder and lead vocalist for the country band Highway 101. With Highway 101, she charted four No. 1 hit singles, seven Top 10 hits and won two Country Music Association Awards. As a solo artist, she has charted five times on Hot Country Songs and recorded three studio albums. Her most successful solo single is "I'll Start with You", which peaked at number 21 in 1991. Carlson continues to tour and record new music as a solo artist.

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11/10/1951

Bruce Bartlett, American economist, historian, and author

Bruce Reeves Bartlett is an American historian and author. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush. Bartlett also writes for the New York Times Economix blog.

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Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (died 2008)

Miroslav Dvořák was a Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman. He played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1982 to 1985. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1969 to 1989, was mainly spent with HC České Budějovice in the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League. Internationally Dvořák played for the Czechoslovak national team at several Ice Hockey World Championships, winning gold medals in 1976 and 1977, along with six silver medals, and a silver medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

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Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French singer-songwriter and record producer whose work remains hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017, he has been the highest-grossing living French pop rock act. Born in Paris and active in the French music scene from 1975, Goldman had a highly successful solo career in the 1980s. As part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones, he scored another string of hits in the 1990s.

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Jon Miller, American sportscaster

Jon Miller is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Since 1997, he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. He was also a baseball announcer for ESPN from 1990 to 2010. Miller received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Louise Rennison, English author and comedian (died 2016)

Louise Rennison was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. The series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers were portrayed in a film adaptation called Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Rennison also wrote a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin, The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.

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Charles Shyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)

Charles Richard Shyer was an American filmmaker. Shyer's films are mainly comedies, often with a romcom overtone. His writing-directing credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The Parent Trap (1998), The Affair of the Necklace (2001), and Alfie (2004).

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11/10/1950

Catlin Adams, American actress

Catlin Adams is an American actress, acting coach and film director. As an actress, she appeared in films including The Jerk and The Jazz Singer.

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William R. Forstchen, American historian and author

William R. Forstchen is an American historian and author. A Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina, he received his doctorate from Purdue University.

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Amos Gitai, Israeli director, producer, and author

Amos Gitai is an Israeli artist and filmmaker, born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel.

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Patty Murray, American educator and politician

Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Washington, a seat she has held since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, she held the position of president pro tempore of the Senate from 2023 to 2025. Murray served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993. She was Washington's first female U.S. senator and is the first woman in American history to hold the position of president pro tempore. Murray is also the youngest senator to occupy the office of president pro tempore in more than five decades.

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11/10/1949

Henry Luke Orombi, Ugandan archbishop

Henry Luke Orombi in Pakwach, North Western Uganda, is a Ugandan Anglican bishop. He served as Archbishop of Uganda and Bishop of Kampala from 2004 until his retirement in December 2012, two years earlier than expected. He was succeeded as Archbishop by Stanley Ntagali, who was consecrated in December 2012. Orombi served as Bishop of the Diocese of Kampala, which is the fixed episcopal see of the Archbishop, but unlike many other fixed metropolitical sees, the incumbent is not officially known as "Archbishop o8yf Kampala", but bears the longer compound title "Archbishop of Uganda and Bishop of Kampala".

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Lawrence Tanter, American basketball player and sportscaster

Lawrence Tanter is an American public address announcer best known for his work for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. In addition, he was also the program director for public jazz radio station KKJZ.

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11/10/1948

David Rendall, English tenor and actor

David Montague Rendall was an English operatic tenor who developed an international career performing regularly at the Royal Opera House in London and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. His roles included Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte and other Mozart roles, Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Matteo in R. Strauss's Arabella. He appeared at leading opera houses in Europe, the United States and Japan, growing into heavier roles such as Verdi's Otello and Wagner's Lohengrin.

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Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal

Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is a Ghanaian Catholic prelate who has been a cardinal since 2003 and has served as chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences since 2022.

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11/10/1947

Thomas Boswell, American journalist and author

Thomas M. Boswell is an American retired sports columnist who spent his whole career with The Washington Post.

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Lucas Papademos, Greek economist and politician, 183rd Prime Minister of Greece

Lucas Demetrios Papademos is a Greek economist and academic who served as Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. A technocrat, he previously served as Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002.

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Alan Pascoe, English hurdler

Alan Peter Pascoe is a British former athlete who gained success in hurdles and competed at three Olympic Games. After his athletics career, he has been successful in events marketing and consulting.

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11/10/1946

Elinor Goodman, English journalist

Elinor Mary Goodman is a UK journalist, best known as political editor of Channel 4 News from 1988 to 2005. She was educated at the Manor House School, an independent school in Surrey, England.

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Daryl Hall, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Daryl Franklin Hohl, known professionally as Daryl Hall, is an American rock and soul singer-songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall & Oates, with guitarist and songwriter John Oates. Outside of his work in Hall & Oates, he has also released six solo albums, including the 1980 collaboration with progressive rock guitarist Robert Fripp, Sacred Songs, and the 1986 album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, which provided his best-selling single, "Dreamtime", which peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also collaborated on numerous works by other artists, such as Fripp's 1979 release Exposure, and Dusty Springfield's 1995 album A Very Fine Love, which produced a UK Top 40 hit with "Wherever Would I Be". Since late 2007, he has hosted the streaming television series Live from Daryl's House, in which he performs alongside other artists, doing a mix of songs from each's catalog. The show has been rebroadcast on a number of cable and satellite channels as well.

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Sawao Katō, Japanese gymnast

Sawao Katō is a Japanese former gymnast and one of the most successful Olympic athletes of all time. Between 1968 and 1976 he won twelve Olympic medals, including eight gold medals, making him the most successful Japanese Olympian by number of gold medals won.

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11/10/1945

Andrew Logan, English sculptor and painter

Andrew Logan is an English sculptor, performance artist, jewellery-maker, and portraitist. He founded the Alternative Miss World in 1972, and his works have been exhibited in museums around the world. A museum dedicated to his works, The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture, opened in Berriew in Wales in 1991.

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11/10/1944

Rodney Marsh, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster

Rodney William Marsh is an English former footballer and football coach; he later worked as a broadcaster. A forward, he won nine caps for England between 1971 and 1973, scoring one international goal.

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11/10/1943

Keith Boyce, Barbadian cricketer (died 1996)

Keith David Boyce was a cricketer who played 21 Tests and 8 One Day Internationals for the West Indies between 1971 and 1976. He was a member of the squad that won the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

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Michael Harloe, English sociologist and academic

Professor Michael Harloe was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford between 1997 and 2009, and is a social scientist who has worked for many years on issues of urban and regional development.

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John Nettles, English actor and writer

John Vivian Drummond Nettles is an English actor, author, and historian. He is best known for his starring roles as detectives in the crime drama television series Bergerac (1981–1991) in the title role, and Midsomer Murders (1997–2011) as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. He has also narrated several television series.

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Ilmar Reepalu, Swedish lawyer and politician

Ilmar Reepalu is a Swedish Social Democratic politician of Estonian origin who was the 17th chairman of the municipal board in Malmö from 1994 to 2013.

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Gene Watson, American singer-songwriter and producer

Gary Gene Watson is an American country music singer. He is most famous for his 1975 hit "Love in the Hot Afternoon", his 1981 number-one hit "Fourteen Carat Mind", and his signature 1979 song "Farewell Party". Watson's long career has included five number-one hits, 21 top 10s, and 48 charted singles.

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11/10/1942

Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, Welsh academic and politician

Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, is a member of the British House of Lords and former Cabinet Secretary.

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Amitabh Bachchan, Indian film actor, producer, television host, and former politician

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema. Widely considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he has starred in over 200 films. Bachchan has been called as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ke Mahanayak, Bollywood's Star of the Millennium, or simply Big B. His dominance in the Indian film industry during the 1970s–80s led the French director François Truffaut to describe it as a "one-man industry". He is a recipient of several accolades including seven National Film Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards & one South Filmfare award.

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11/10/1941

Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (died 1999)

Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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11/10/1940

Lucy Morgan, American newspaper reporter (died 2023)

Lucy Ware Morgan was an American long-time reporter and editorialist at the Tampa Bay Times.

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11/10/1939

Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (died 2018)

Maria Esther Andion Bueno, also known as Maria Bueno or MEB for short, was a Brazilian professional tennis player. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, she won 19 major titles, making her the most successful South American tennis player in history, and the only one to ever win Wimbledon in singles. Bueno was the year-end No. 1 female player in 1959 and 1960 and was known for her graceful style of play, that earned her the nickname "tennis ballerina", or "bailarina do tênis" in Portuguese”.

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Austin Currie, Northern Irish lawyer and SDLP politician (died 2021)

Joseph Austin Currie was an Irish politician who served as a Minister of State with responsibility for Children's Rights from 1994 to 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency from 1989 to 2002, representing Fine Gael, and as a Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland (MP) for East Tyrone from 1964 to 1972, representing the Nationalist Party and later the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

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11/10/1938

Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player (died 2017)

Darrall Tucker Imhoff was an American professional basketball player. He spent 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing for six teams from 1960 to 1972. He made an NBA All-Star team, and was also an Olympic Gold medalist. He is perhaps best remembered for being one of the defenders tasked with guarding Wilt Chamberlain during his famed 100-point game in 1962.

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Michael Stear, English air marshal (died 2020)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael James Douglas Stear, was a senior commander of the Royal Air Force (RAF). He served as Deputy Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe from 1992 to 1996.

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11/10/1937

Bobby Charlton, English footballer and manager (died 2023)

Sir Robert Charlton was an English footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, left winger or centre-forward. Widely considered one of the greatest players of all time, he was a member of the England team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup, the year he also won the Ballon d'Or. He finished second in the Ballon d'Or voting in 1967 and 1968. He played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts, passing abilities from midfield, ferocious long-range shooting from both left and right foot, fitness, and stamina. He was cautioned only twice in his career: once against Argentina in the 1966 World Cup, and once in a league match against Chelsea. With success at club and international level, he was one of ten players to have won the FIFA World Cup, the European Cup and the Ballon d'Or. His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup–winning team, was a defender for Leeds United and also for ten years was the manager of the Republic of Ireland.

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R. H. W. Dillard, American poet, author, and critic (died 2023)

Richard Henry Wilde Dillard was an American poet, author, critic, and translator.

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Ron Leibman, American actor and screenwriter (died 2019)

Ron Leibman was an American actor. He won both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1993 for his performance as Roy Cohn in Angels in America. Leibman also won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1979 for his role as Martin 'Kaz' Kazinsky in his short-lived crime drama series Kaz.

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11/10/1936

C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 2013)

Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA's B-52 launch aircraft, the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), and other multi-engine and high performance aircraft.

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Billy Higgins, American drummer and educator (died 2001)

Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.

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James M. McPherson, American historian and author

James Munro McPherson is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003.

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11/10/1935

Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (died 2012)

Danny Wood Evins was an American entrepreneur and founder of Cracker Barrel, a Southern-themed restaurant chain.

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Daniel Quinn, American author and environmentalist (died 2018)

Daniel Clarence Quinn was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy, and the mainstream environmental movement as misguided and ultimately ineffective. Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism".

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11/10/1932

Saul Friedländer, Israeli historian and author

Saul Friedländer is a Czech-born Jewish historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.

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Barry Jones, Australian lawyer and politician

Barry Owen Jones is an Australian writer, teacher, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion, and former politician in the Australian Labor Party. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures.

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Dottie West, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 1991)

Dottie West was an American country singer and songwriter. She also had several credits as an actress. A distinguished figure in the country genre, West was among several people who helped to elevate the platform of female country artists. She was also known for mentoring up-and-coming artists and being the first woman to win a country music accolade from the Grammy Awards.

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11/10/1930

Michael Edwardes, South African-English businessman (died 2019)

Sir Michael Owen Edwardes was a British-South African business executive who held chairmanships at several companies - most notably motor manufacturer British Leyland in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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LaVell Edwards, American football player and coach (died 2016)

Reuben LaVell Edwards was an American college football head coach for Brigham Young University (BYU). With 257 career victories, he ranks as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. Among his many notable accomplishments, Edwards guided BYU to a national championship in 1984 and coached Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer in 1990.

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Sam Johnson, American colonel and politician (died 2020)

Samuel Robert Johnson was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 3rd congressional district in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. In October and November 2015, he was the acting Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, where he also served as chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee.

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11/10/1929

Curtis Amy, American saxophonist and clarinetist (died 2002)

Curtis Edward Amy was an American jazz saxophonist.

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11/10/1928

Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver and bobsledder (died 1957)

Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Ángel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, 11th Marquess of Portago, GE, best known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Spanish aristocrat, racing and bobsleigh driver, jockey and pilot.

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Roscoe Robinson Jr., American general (died 1993)

Roscoe Robinson Jr. was the first African American to become a four-star general in the United States Army. He served as the United States representative to the NATO Military Committee. Robinson previously served as commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division and then of United States Army, Japan.

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Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, English businessman and politician (died 2019)

Geoffrey Johnson Tordoff, Baron Tordoff was a British businessman and politician.

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11/10/1927

Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (died 2005)

Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as the wife of Grand Duke Jean. She was the first child of King Leopold III of Belgium, and sister of the late King Baudouin and former King Albert II and aunt of King Philippe. She was also the maternal first cousin of King Harald V of Norway, maternal second cousin of former Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and a paternal third cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

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Jim Prior, Baron Prior, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2016)

James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1987, he represented the Suffolk constituency of Lowestoft until 1983 and then the renamed constituency of Waveney from 1983 to 1987, when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a life peer. He served in two Conservative cabinets, and outside parliament was Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2004, and Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University from 1992 to 1999.

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11/10/1926

Jean Alexander, English actress (died 2016)

Jean Margaret Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British actress. She was best known to television viewers for her long running role of Hilda Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street, a role she played from 1964 until 1987, and also as Auntie Wainwright in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1988 to 2010. For her role in Coronation Street, she won the 1985 Royal Television Society Award for Best Performance, and received a 1988 BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.

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Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (died 2017)

Yvon Dupuis, was a Canadian politician.

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Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk, author, and poet (died 2022)

Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.

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Earle Hyman, American actor (died 2017)

Earle Hyman was an American stage, television, and film actor. Hyman is known for his role on ThunderCats as the voice of Panthro and various other characters. He also appeared on The Cosby Show as Cliff's father, Russell Huxtable. Singer Phyllis Hyman was his cousin.

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Neville Wran, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of New South Wales (died 2014)

Neville Kenneth Wran was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980 to 1986 and chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991.

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11/10/1925

Elmore Leonard, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story author and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are Hombre, Swag, City Primeval, LaBrava, Glitz, Freaky Deaky, Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight and Tishomingo Blues.

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11/10/1924

André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (died 2007)

André Emmerich was a German-born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and John D. Graham.

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Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (died 2011)

Samuel McKee McCrory was a professional footballer from Northern Ireland, most notably spending five years with Southend United and scoring the first goal at their Roots Hall stadium.

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Mal Whitfield, American athlete (died 2015)

Malvin Greston Whitfield was an American athlete, goodwill ambassador, and airman. Nicknamed Marvelous Mal, he was the Olympic champion in the 800 meters at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics, and a member of the 1948 gold medal team in the 4 × 400 metres relay. Overall, Whitfield was a five-time Olympic medalist. After his competitive career, he worked for 47 years as a coach, goodwill ambassador, as well as an athletic mentor in Africa on behalf of the United States Information Service.

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11/10/1922

G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (died 1995)

G. C. Edmondson was the working name of science fiction author Garry Edmonson. According to the obituary published in Locus Magazine, Edmondson was born in Washington state During World War II he served as a U. S. Marine.

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11/10/1919

Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (died 1990)

Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.

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Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor (died 1942)

Douglas Albert Munro was a United States Coast Guardsman who was posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for an act of "extraordinary heroism" during World War II. He is the only person to have received the medal for actions performed during service in the Coast Guard.

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11/10/1918

Fred Bodsworth, Canadian journalist and author (died 2012)

Charles Frederick "Fred" Bodsworth was a Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist.

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Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (died 1998)

Jerome Robbins was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.

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11/10/1916

Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian educator and activist (died 2010)

Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh, better known as Nanaji Deshmukh, was an Indian social activist and politician. He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 2019 by the Government of India. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alongside being a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation.

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Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar, Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (died 1991)

Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar was a Saudi Arabian writer, journalist and poet, best known for his works about 20th-century Islamic challenges. Born in Mecca, capital city of Hejazi Hashemite Kingdom. He received a basic education and graduated from the Saudi Scientific Institute in 1937, took a scholarship for higher studies in Cairo University, then returned to his country and worked in some government offices before devoting himself to literature and research. Attar wrote many works about Arabic linguistic and Islamic studies, and gained fame as a Muslim apologist, anti-communist and anti-Zionist, he who believed in flexibility of Islamic jurisprudence for modern era. Praised by Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad, he was also noted for his defense of Modern Standard Arabic against colloquial or spoken Arabic. In the 1960s, he established the famous Okaz newspaper and then the Kalimat al-Haqq magazine, which lasted only about eight months. He died at the age of 74 in Jeddah.

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11/10/1915

T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet (died 2009)

Thomas Llewelyn Jones was a Welsh language author. Over a writing career of more than 50 years, he became one of the most prolific and popular authors of children's books in Welsh. He wrote, and was generally known, as T. Llew Jones.

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11/10/1913

Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (died 2011)

Joseph Henry Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.

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11/10/1911

Nello Pagani, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver (died 2003)

Cirillo Pagani, nicknamed "Nello", was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver. He was born in Milan, Lombardy, and died in Bresso.

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11/10/1910

Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (died 1997)

Cahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups and Arf rings.

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11/10/1909

Sir Ken Anderson, Australian politician (died 1985)

Sir Kenneth McColl Anderson was an Australian politician, soldier and businessman. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1953 to 1975. He held senior ministerial office in the Coalition governments of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including as Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1968 to 1972.

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11/10/1905

Fred Trump, American real estate entrepreneur (died 1999)

Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four other children.

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11/10/1902

Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian activist and politician (died 1979)

Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava, also known as JP and Lok Nayak, was an Indian politician, theorist and independence activist. He is mainly remembered for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and calling for her overthrow in a "total revolution". In 1999, Narayan was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social service. His other awards include the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service in 1965.

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11/10/1901

Masanobu Tsuji, Japanese colonel and politician (died 1961)

Masanobu Tsuji was a Japanese army officer and politician. During World War II, he was an important tactical planner in the Imperial Japanese Army and developed the detailed plans for the successful Japanese invasion of Malaya at the start of the war. He also helped plan and lead the final Japanese offensive during the Guadalcanal campaign.

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11/10/1899

Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager (died 1964)

Edwin Hawley Dyer was an American left-handed pitcher, manager and farm system official in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1922 to 1944 and 1946–1950. In 1946, Dyer's first season at the helm of the Cardinals, the Redbirds defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in a thrilling National League season that featured the first postseason playoff in baseball history, then bested the favored Boston Red Sox in a seven-game World Series. He was the second rookie manager to win a World Series and first since Bucky Harris in 1924.

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11/10/1897

Nathan Farragut Twining, American general (died 1982)

Nathan Farragut Twining was a United States Air Force general. He was the chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and the third chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960. He was the first member of the Air Force to serve as Chairman. Twining was a distinguished "mustang" officer, rising from private to four-star general and appointment to the highest post in the United States Armed Forces in the course of his 45-year career.

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11/10/1896

Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist (died 1982)

Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy, he developed revolutionary new techniques for the analysis of linguistic sound systems, in effect founding the modern discipline of phonology. Jakobson went on to extend similar principles and techniques to the study of other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology and semantics. He made numerous contributions to Slavic linguistics, most notably two studies of Russian case and an analysis of the categories of the Russian verb. Drawing on insights from C. S. Peirce's semiotics, as well as from communication theory and cybernetics, he proposed methods for the investigation of poetry, music, and the visual arts including cinema.

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11/10/1894

Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian educator and lieutenant (died 1919)

Julius Kuperjanov VR I/2, VR II/2 and VR II/3 was an Estonian military officer who helped to liberate Tartu during the War of Independence, and was the commander of the Tartumaa Partisan Battalion, posthumously renamed the Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion.

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11/10/1890

A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 1978)

Aiyathurai Varnakulasingham Kulasingham was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician, journalist and editor of the Ceylon Daily News and Hindu Organ.

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11/10/1885

François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)

François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.

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11/10/1884

Friedrich Bergius, German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)

Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Having worked with IG Farben during World War II, his citizenship came into question following the war, causing him to ultimately flee to Argentina, where he acted as adviser to the Ministry of Industry.

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Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 32nd First Lady of the United States (died 1962)

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president from 1933 to 1945. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role. Widowed in 1945, she served as a United States delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, she was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the declaration. President Harry S. Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

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Sig Ruman, German-American actor (died 1967)

Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann, billed as Sig Ruman and Sig Rumann, was a German-American character actor known for his portrayals of pompous and often stereotypically Teutonic officials or villains in more than 100 films.

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11/10/1883

Kristian Welhaven, Norwegian police officer (died 1975)

Kristian Welhaven was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo for 27 years, from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian intelligence service before World War II, and in re-establishing it after the war. During the war years Welhaven was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in both Norway and Germany, before spending the remainder of the war as a civilian internee in Bavaria.

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11/10/1881

Hans Kelsen, Czech-American jurist and philosopher (died 1973)

Hans Kelsen was an Austrian and later American jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He is known principally for his theory of law, which he named the "pure theory of law ", and for his writings on international law and theory of democracy.

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11/10/1879

Ernst Mally, Austrian philosopher and academic (died 1944)

Ernst Mally was an Austrian analytic philosopher, initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory. Mally was one of the founders of deontic logic and is mainly known for his contributions in that field of research. In metaphysics, he is known for introducing a distinction between two kinds of predication, better known as the dual predication approach.

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11/10/1872

Emily Davison, English educator and activist (died 1913)

Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.

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Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1946)

Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man. His most famous dictum was that "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern."

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11/10/1871

Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian evangelist, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (died 1943)

Johan Oscar Smith was a Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical non-denominational fellowship now known as Brunstad Christian Church.

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11/10/1865

Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian philologist and author (died 1926)

Hans Ernst Kinck was a Norwegian author and philologist who wrote novels, short stories, dramas, and essays. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.

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11/10/1844

Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (died 1919)

Henry John Heinz was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was involved in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. Many of his descendants are known for philanthropy and involvement in politics and public affairs. His fortune became the basis for the Heinz Foundations.

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11/10/1835

Ernst Sars, Norwegian historian (died 1917)

Johan Ernst Welhaven Sars was a Norwegian professor, historian, author and editor. Assuming perspectives from the positivism philosophical school, his main work was Udsigt over den norske Historie, four volumes issued from 1873 to 1891. He co-edited the magazines Nyt norsk Tidskrift from 1877 to 1878, and Nyt Tidsskrift from 1882 to 1887. He was politically active for the Liberal Party of Norway and among the party's most central theoreticians.

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Theodore Thomas, American conductor, founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (died 1905)

Theodore Thomas was a German-American violinist, conductor, and orchestrator. He is considered the first renowned American orchestral conductor and was the founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1891–1905).

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11/10/1827

Afzal-ud-Daulah, Asaf Jah V, 5th Nizam of Hyderabad

Afzal ad-Dawlah, Asaf Jah V Mir Tahniyat Ali Khan Siddiqi was the fifth Nizam of Hyderabad, India, from 1857 to 1869.

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11/10/1821

George Williams, English philanthropist, founded the YMCA (died 1905)

Sir George Williams was an English philanthropist, businessman and founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). The oldest and largest youth charity in the world, its aim is to support young people to belong, contribute and thrive in their communities.

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11/10/1815

Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Italian-French politician (died 1881)

Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte was a French nobleman, revolutionary and politician, the son of Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp. He was a nephew of Napoleon I, Joseph Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte and Jérôme Bonaparte.

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11/10/1814

Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (died 1888)

Jean-Baptiste Lamy, was a French-American Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career, as is Paul Horgan's nonfiction work Lamy of Santa Fe. He sometimes anglicised his name to John Baptist Lamy.

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11/10/1803

Gregor von Helmersen, Estonian-Russian general and geologist (died 1885)

Gregor von Helmersen or Grigory Petrovich Helmersen was a Baltic German geologist.

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11/10/1793

Maria James, Welsh-born American poet, domestic servant (died 1868)

Maria James was a Welsh-born American poet and domestic servant. Her poetry includes Ode on the Fourth of July 1833. As a child, she emigrated with her family from Wales to New York. She would spend most of her life in this state.

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11/10/1788

Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (died 1867)

Simon Sechter was an Austrian music theorist, composer, conductor, and organist. He is best known as a strict music teacher, whose many students included Anton Bruckner, Sigismond Thalberg, and Henri Vieuxtemps. In 1851, he was professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory; after Sechter's death, his student Bruckner would succeed him and continue teaching his approach to harmony and counterpoint.

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11/10/1786

Stevenson Archer, American judge and politician (died 1848)

Stevenson Archer was a judge and United States Representative from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1811 to 1817 and from 1819 to 1821. His son Stevenson Archer and father John Archer were also U.S. Congressmen from Maryland.

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11/10/1782

Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish author and poet (died 1848)

Steen Steensen Blicher was a writer and poet born in Vium near Viborg, Denmark.

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11/10/1778

George Bridgetower, British musician and composer (died 1860)

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower was a British musician, of African and Polish descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in England for much of his life. His playing impressed Beethoven, who made Bridgetower the original dedicatee of his Kreutzer Sonata after they presented its premiere performance.

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11/10/1758

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (died 1840)

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German astronomer. He found a convenient method of calculating the orbit of comets, and in 1802 and 1807, discovered the second and the fourth asteroids Pallas and Vesta.

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11/10/1739

Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (died 1791)

Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Iași, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.

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11/10/1738

Arthur Phillip, English admiral and politician, 1st Governor of New South Wales (died 1814)

Arthur Phillip was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.

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11/10/1675

Samuel Clarke, English minister and philosopher (died 1729)

Samuel Clarke was an English philosopher and Anglican priest. He is considered the major British figure in philosophy between John Locke and George Berkeley. Clarke's altered, Nontrinitarian revision of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer continues to influence worship among modern Unitarians.

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11/10/1672

Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian-Romanian diplomat (died 1742)

Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack statesman, diplomat and member of Cossack starshyna. Described as the first Ukrainian political emigrant, he served as the hetman in exile from 1710 to 1742. He was a close associate of hetman Ivan Mazepa, and the author of the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk.

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11/10/1671

Frederick IV of Denmark (died 1730)

Frederick IV was King of Denmark and Norway from 1699 until his death. Frederick was the son of Christian V of Denmark-Norway and his wife Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel.

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11/10/1661

Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (died 1742)

Melchior Cardinal de Polignac was a French diplomat, Cardinal and Neo-Latin poet.

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11/10/1616

Andreas Gryphius, German poet and playwright (died 1664)

Andreas Gryphius was a German poet and playwright. With his eloquent sonnets, which contains "The Suffering, Frailty of Life and the World", he is considered one of the most important Baroque poets of the Germanosphere. He was one of the first improvers of the German language and German poetry.

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11/10/1552

Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (died 1553)

Dmitry Ivanovich was the eldest son of Ivan the Terrible, the Tsar of all Russia, and as such the first Tsarevich. He died in infancy.

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11/10/1492

Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France, French noble (died 1495)

Charles Orlando, Dauphin of France was the eldest son and heir of King Charles VIII of France and Duchess Anne of Brittany.

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