Born on Sunday, 19th October – Famous Birthdays

19/10/1999

Carlotta Truman, German singer-songwriter

Carlotta Truman is a German singer and a finalist in season 3 of Das Supertalent 2009 and The Voice Kids 2014. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 as part of the duo Sisters with the song "Sister", after winning the German national selection Unser Lied für Israel.

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19/10/1998

Noof Al Maadeed, Qatari women's rights activist

Noof Al Maadeed is a Qatari women's rights activist. She gained international attention in 2019 after documenting her escape from Qatar on TikTok after allegedly experiencing years of domestic violence and restricted women's rights. She lived in the United Kingdom until 2021 as an asylum seeker. On 30 September that year, she returned to Qatar after reassurances from the government that she would be safe and that her rights would be respected.

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19/10/1996

Chance Perdomo, American-British actor (died 2024)

Chance Perdomo was an American and British actor. He earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for his performance in the BBC Three film Killed by My Debt (2018). He gained further prominence through his roles as Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020) and Andre Anderson in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video series Gen V (2023). He also appeared in the films After We Fell (2021), After Ever Happy (2022), and After Everything (2023). He died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident while travelling to begin filming for Gen V's second season.

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Bernadeth Pons, Filipino volleyball athlete

Bernadeth Amoguis Pons is a Filipina indoor and beach volleyball athlete. She is currently playing for the Creamline Cool Smashers at the Premier Volleyball League.

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19/10/1995

Sammis Reyes, Chilean-American football and basketball player

Sammis Daniel Reyes Martel is a Chilean professional football tight end and former basketball player. The first player from Chile to play in the National Football League, Reyes grew up playing basketball as a youth member of their national team before moving to the United States on an athletic scholarship at 14. He played college basketball for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, Palm Beach Panthers, Tulane Green Wave, and Loyola Wolf Pack.

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19/10/1994

Cal Petersen, American ice hockey player

Calvin Louis Petersen is an American professional hockey player who is a goaltender for the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the fifth round, 129th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2013 NHL entry draft. On July 1, 2017, he signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Kings as an unrestricted free agent.

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Anthony Santander, Venezuelan baseball player

Anthony Roger Santander is a Venezuelan professional baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Baltimore Orioles. He made his MLB debut in 2017 and was an All-Star in 2024.

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Agnė Sereikaitė, Lithuanian speed skater

Agnė Sereikaitė is a Lithuanian short track speed skater.

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19/10/1993

Hunter King, American actress

Hunter Haley King is an American actress. She is known for portraying Adriana Masters on Hollywood Heights (2012), Summer Newman on The Young and the Restless and Clementine Hughes on Life in Pieces (2015–2019). Earlier in her career she was credited as Haley King, but she has since been credited as Hunter King.

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Abby Sunderland, American sailor

Abigail Jillian Sunderland is an American sailor who, in 2010, attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

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19/10/1992

Lil Durk, American rapper

Durk Devontay Banks, known professionally as Lil Durk, is an American rapper. Regarded as a pioneering artist in the Chicago-based hip-hop subgenre drill music, he is often considered the subgenre's most commercially successful rapper. He initially garnered local success with the release of his Signed to the Streets mixtape series (2013–2014), which led to him to sign with Def Jam Recordings. The label released his debut studio album, Remember My Name (2015), and its follow-up, Lil Durk 2X (2016), to moderate commercial reception before parting ways with the rapper in 2018.

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Shiho, Japanese actress and model

Shiho is an actress and model. Her agency is Stardust Promotion.

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19/10/1991

Colton Dixon, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Michael Colton Dixon is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He placed seventh on the eleventh season of American Idol.

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19/10/1990

Tom Kilbey, English footballer

Thomas Charles Kilbey is an English television personality. He used to play as a professional footballer for Portsmouth F.C. Tom Kilbey grew up in East London and went to Forest School.

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Janet Leon, Swedish singer-songwriter and dancer

Janet Ava Owji, also known by her stage name OWJI and her former stage name Janet Leon, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and A&R. Leon began her career as part of the pop group Play, for which she was lead singer 2003–2005. She rose to further prominence in Sweden with the release of her hit debut solo album Janet (2009) and the successful singles "Let Go" and "Heartache on the Dancefloor", both also released in 2009.

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Ciara Renée, American actress and singer

Ciara Renée Harper is an American actress and musician. She is best known for her roles on Broadway as The Witch in Big Fish, the Leading Player in Pippin, Jenna in Waitress, and Elsa in Frozen. She played Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse. In 2015, she guest starred as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in episodes of CW series Arrow and The Flash, before reprising the role in the main cast for the first season of the associated series DC's Legends of Tomorrow, from its premiere in 2016. Her vocal type is mezzo-soprano.

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Endō Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler

Endō Shōta is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Anamizu, Ishikawa. After a successful amateur career, he turned professional in March 2013, making the top makuuchi division that September. His highest rank has been komusubi. He has been awarded one special prize for Fighting Spirit, one for Outstanding Performance and four for Technique, as well as seven gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He was runner-up in the September 2016 and September 2021 tournaments. He wrestled for the Oitekaze stable. He is extremely popular with sumo fans and has been regarded as one of the most promising home-grown wrestlers in sumo.

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19/10/1989

James Gavet, New Zealand rugby league player

James Gavet is a former Samoa international rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League.

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Mindaugas Kuzminskas, Lithuanian basketball player

Mindaugas Kuzminskas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player and the vice–captain for AEK Athens of the Greek Basketball League and the Basketball Champions League. He also formerly represented the Lithuanian national team in international competition. He is 2.05 m tall, and he can play at both the small forward and power forward positions.

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Miroslav Stoch, Slovak footballer

Miroslav Stoch is a Slovak former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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Rakuto Tochihara, Japanese actor

Rakuto Tochihara is a Japanese former actor from Tokyo, a graduate of Horikoshi High School. His debut role was in Boogiepop Phantom where he voiced the character Poom Poom. He later had a starring role in the 2005 Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Hibiki and its film Kamen Rider Hibiki & The Seven Senki as the character Asumu Adachi. His roles have also included the drama RH Plus as Ageha Seto and in the film Aquarian Age: The Movie as Naoya Itsuki. On February 28, 2018, he announced his decision to retire from the entertainment industry to take over his father's company.

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Janine Tugonon, Filipino model and television host

Janine Marie Raymundo Tugonon is a Filipino actress, TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2012. She represented the Philippines at the Miss Universe 2012 pageant, winning 1st runner up.

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19/10/1988

Zeph Ellis, English rapper and producer

Joseph Daniel Joel Ellis-Stevenson, better known by his stage names Zeph Ellis and Dot Rotten, was a British MC, rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Lambeth, South London.

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Markiyan Kamysh, Ukrainian writer

Markiyan Kamysh is a Ukrainian novelist, best known for his works about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its environs.

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Chris Lawrence, Australian rugby league player

Chris Lawrence is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played his entire career as a centre and second-row for the Wests Tigers in the NRL, and has played for Australia at international level.

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19/10/1987

Tsunenori Aoki, Japanese actor

Tsunenori Aoki is a Japanese actor and model.

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Sam Groth, Australian tennis player

Samuel Groth is an Australian politician and professional tennis player. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Nepean in 2022 representing the Victorian Liberal Party until his retirement from Parliament in February 2026, causing a by-election. Prior to his resignation from Parliament he had served Deputy Leader of the state Liberal Party between 27 December 2024 and 28 January 2026.

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19/10/1984

Danka Barteková, Slovak skeet shooter

Danka Hrbeková is a Slovak skeet shooter. She has won many medals from ISSF World, European Championships and ISSF World Cups. Barteková finished 8th at Women's Skeet event at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal in Women's Skeet at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Barteková is a 14-time gold medalist in the Slovak Championship since 1999.

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Thundercat, American singer and record producer

Stephen Lee Bruner, better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American musician, singer, record producer, songwriter, and bassist from Los Angeles, California. First coming to prominence as a member of crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, he returned to his musical roots, placing a strong focus on funk, soul, progressive R&B, psychedelia and jazz-fusion. He has since released five solo studio albums and is noted for his work with producer Flying Lotus and his appearances on Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly. In 2016, Thundercat won a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Performance for his work on the track "These Walls" from To Pimp a Butterfly. In 2020, Thundercat released his fourth studio album, It Is What It Is, which earned him a Grammy Award for Best Progressive R&B Album. Rolling Stone has ranked him as one of the greatest bass players of all time.

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19/10/1983

Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish actress

Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström is a Swedish actress. Known for her roles on film and television, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Saturn Award and two Critics' Choice Super Awards, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.

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Andy Lonergan, English footballer

Andrew Michael Lonergan is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeping coach of Liverpool F.C. Women.

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Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and blogger

Cara Louise Santa Maria is an American science communicator. She hosts the podcast Talk Nerdy and co-hosts The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, and was a co-host of TechKnow on Al Jazeera America.

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19/10/1982

Atom Araullo, Filipino journalist

Alfonso Tomas "Atom" Pagaduan Araullo is a Filipino broadcast journalist. He currently hosts documentary programs such as The Atom Araullo Specials and I-Witness, and is serving as the anchor of newscast State of the Nation.

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J. A. Happ, American baseball player

James Anthony Happ is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He won the World Series as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, and was an All-Star as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Gillian Jacobs, American actress and director

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs is an American actress. She is known for playing Britta Perry in the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), Mickey Dobbs in the Netflix romantic comedy series Love (2016–2018), and Mary Jayne Gold in the Netflix miniseries Transatlantic (2023). Her other notable television roles include Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2015), Atom Eve in the animated superhero series Invincible (2021–present), and Tiffany Jerimovich in the FX on Hulu comedy-drama series The Bear (2022–present).

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Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer

Lodewicus Theodorus "Louis" Oosthuizen is a South African professional golfer who won the 2010 Open Championship. He has finished runner-up in all four major championships: the 2012 Masters Tournament, the 2015 and 2021 U.S. Open, the 2015 Open Championship, and the PGA Championship in 2017 and 2021. His highest placing on the Official World Golf Ranking is fourth, which he reached in January 2013.

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Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer

Gonzalo Pineda Reyes is a Mexican professional football manager and former player. Pineda played as a defensive midfielder for several clubs in Mexico, and also represented Mexico internationally. He last played in 2015 for the Seattle Sounders FC. He became assistant coach of the Sounders beginning with the 2017 season.

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Daan van Bunge, Dutch cricketer

Daan Lodewijk Samuel van Bunge is a Dutch former cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm leg break bowler.

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19/10/1981

Leon Bott, Australian rugby league player

Leon Bott is an Australian former professional rugby league and union footballer.

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Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver

Heikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish racing and rally driver, who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2013. Kovalainen won the 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix with McLaren. In sportscar racing, Kovalainen won Super GT in 2016 with SARD.

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19/10/1980

José Bautista, Dominican baseball player

José Antonio Bautista Santos, nicknamed "Joey Bats", is a Dominican former professional baseball right fielder and third baseman who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the Toronto Blue Jays. Bautista also played for the Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Rajai Davis, American baseball player

Rajai Lavae Davis is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, and New York Mets. He is currently employed by MLB in the Baseball Operations department.

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Benjamin Salisbury, American actor

Benjamin David Salisbury is an American former actor and dancer best known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the CBS television sitcom The Nanny from 1993 to 1999.

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19/10/1979

José Luis López, Mexican footballer

José Luis López Monroy is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Brian Robertson, American trombonist

Suburban Legends are an American ska punk band that formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1998 and later based themselves in nearby Santa Ana. After building a fanbase in the Orange County ska scene through their numerous regular performances at the Disneyland Resort, a series of lineup changes in 2005 introduced elements of funk and disco into the group's style.

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Sachiko Sugiyama, Japanese volleyball player

Sachiko Sugiyama is a volleyball player from Japan, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #12 jersey. There she ended up in fifth place with the Japan women's national team. Sugiyama played as a middle blocker.

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19/10/1978

Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver

Enrique Antônio Langue e Silvério de Bernoldi is a Brazilian former professional racing driver who raced for the Arrows Formula One team in 2001 and 2002, and was the test driver for British American Racing between 2004 and 2006. He entered IndyCar racing in 2008, and competed in the FIA GT World Championship between 2009 and 2011, in addition to entering multiple other competitions.

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Zakhar Dubensky, Russian footballer

Zakhar Vladimirovich Dubensky is a retired Russian football midfielder. He last played for FC Volgar-Gazprom Astrakhan.

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Henri Sorvali, Finnish guitarist and keyboard player

Henri Antti Viljami "Trollhorn" Sorvali, is a Finnish musician, known as a guitarist and keyboardist of pagan metal band Moonsorrow, and keyboardist of black metal band Finntroll.

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19/10/1977

Habib Beye, French-Senegalese footballer

Habib Frédéric Beye is a professional football coach and former player who played as a right-back. He is currently the head coach of Ligue 1 club Marseille. Born in France, Beye represented the Senegal national team, earning 45 caps between 2001 and 2008.

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Louis-José Houde, Canadian comedian and actor

Louis-José Houde is a French-Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for his performances in films such as Bon Cop, Bad Cop in 2006, Father and Guns in 2009, A Sense of Humour in 2011 and Compulsive Liar (Menteur) in 2019.

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Jason Reitman, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter

Jason R. Reitman is a Canadian and American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and Saturday Night (2024). He has received a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe, and four Academy Award nominations, two for Best Director. He is the son of director Ivan Reitman and is known for frequently collaborating with screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Gil Kenan.

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Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer

Raúl Tamudo Montero is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Mo Twister, Filipino radio and television host

Mohan Gumatay, known professionally as Mo Twister, is a Filipino American radio and television presenter. He is best known for his Good Times programs, which started as a radio show and later spun off to the television and Internet. He currently resides in Las Vegas and remotely hosts the Good Times with Mo (GTWM) radio show on Magic 89.9 in the Philippines, as well as his own GTWM podcast.

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19/10/1976

Bruno Dias, Portuguese politician

Bruno Ramos Dias is a Portuguese politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A communist, he has represented Setúbal from April 2002 to March 2005, from April 2007 to October 2019 and from October 2019 to March 2024. He had also been a temporary substitute member of the Assembly from September 2001 to April 2002.

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Omar Gooding, American actor and producer

Omar Miles Gooding, also known by his stage name Big O, is an American actor and comedian.

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Jostein Gulbrandsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer

Jostein Gulbrandsen is a US-based Norwegian guitarist and composer.

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Desmond Harrington, American actor

Desmond Harrington is an American actor. He made his film debut in 1999, playing Jean d'Aulon in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc. His later credits include Riding in Cars with Boys, The Hole, Ghost Ship, We Were Soldiers, Love Object, Wrong Turn, The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and The Neon Demon (2016).

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Paul Hartley, Scottish footballer and manager

Paul Hartley is a Scottish professional football manager and former player who currently manages Scottish League One club Cove Rangers.

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Hiroshi Sakai, Japanese footballer

Hiroshi Sakai is a former Japanese football player.

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Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player

Dan Smith is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played primarily in the American Hockey League (AHL), he also played 22 games in the National Hockey League with the Colorado Avalanche and the Edmonton Oilers between 1998 and 2005.

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Michael Young, American baseball player

Michael Brian Young is an American former professional baseball infielder who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Since 2014, Young has worked in the Rangers’ front office as a Special Assistant to the General Manager. Originally a second baseman, the versatile Young was a five-time All-Star at shortstop, once at third base, and once as a combination designated hitter / utility infielder. He was the 2005 American League (AL) batting champion.

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19/10/1975

Burak Güven, Turkish singer-songwriter and bass player

Burak Güven is a Turkish musician, bass player, and one of the backing singers in the rock band Mor ve Ötesi

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19/10/1973

Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player

Hicham Arazi is a Moroccan former professional tennis player. He played professionally from 1993 to the end of 2007. The left-hander reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22 on November 5, 2001. During his career, Arazi captured one ATP Tour singles title, in Casablanca. "The Moroccan Magician" reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open twice and the French Open twice. Some tennis analysts also called him "The Moroccan McEnroe" due to his talent – he played with incredible touch, and often enjoyed the support of the crowd even when not at home. He led Patrick Rafter, winner of the US Open in 1997 and 1998, two sets to love during the first round of the latter tournament. In the fourth set he was upset with several line calls, telling umpire Norm Chryst to "get out of here", which sparked the beginning of Arazi's meltdown. During his career, he notably gained victories over former world No. 1s and major champions Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin, Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Carlos Moyá and Jim Courier.

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Okan Buruk, Turkish footballer and manager

Okan Buruk is a Turkish professional football manager and former player, currently serving as the manager of Süper Lig club Galatasaray. With seven Super League titles as a player and four more as a manager, he holds the record for the most championships in the league’s history.

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Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player

Joaquin Jesse Gage is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Gage was selected in the fifth round of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, 109th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers, and played 23 games in the NHL with the Oilers.

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19/10/1972

Keith Foulke, American baseball player

Keith Charles Foulke is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. A graduate of Hargrave High School in Huffman, Texas, Foulke attended Galveston College and Lewis–Clark State College. Between 1997 and 2008, he pitched for the San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. Foulke was an All-Star in 2003 and he earned the save in the final game of the 2004 World Series.

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Pras, American rapper-songwriter, record producer, and actor

Prakazrel Samuel Michel, known professionally as Pras, is an American rapper, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of the hip-hop group Fugees, which he formed with fellow New Jerseyans Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill in 1990.

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19/10/1970

Andrew Griffiths, English politician

Andrew James Griffiths is a former British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burton from 2010 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he was succeeded by his estranged wife, Kate Griffiths.

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Chris Kattan, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Christopher Lee Kattan is an American actor and comedian. After performing with numerous comedy troupes, including The Groundlings in Los Angeles, he broke through as a regular cast member on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (1996–2003).

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19/10/1969

Pedro Castillo, Peruvian politician, President of Peru

José Pedro Castillo Terrones is a Peruvian politician, former elementary school teacher, and union leader who served as the president of Peru from 28 July 2021 until he was removed from office on 7 December 2022.

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Zdeno Cíger, Slovak ice hockey player and coach

Zdeno Cíger is a Slovak former professional ice hockey player and currently coach. He played for the National Hockey League's New Jersey Devils, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning. Zdeno Cíger was drafted 54th overall in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils as their 3rd choice. Cíger played in 352 NHL games, amassing 94 goals and 134 assists. His best year came up in the 1995-1996 season when he scored 31 goals and added 39 assists, after which he would leave the NHL before briefly returning 6 years later during the 2001–02 NHL season.

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John Edward, American psychic and author

John Edward McGee Jr. is an American television personality, writer and self-proclaimed psychic medium.

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Trey Parker, American actor, animator, producer, and screenwriter

Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and songwriter. He is best known for co-creating the animated television series South Park and the stage musical The Book of Mormon (2011) with his creative partner Matt Stone.

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Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager

Erwin Sánchez Freking is a Bolivian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, currently a manager.

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19/10/1968

Rodney Carrington, American comedian, actor, and singer

Rodney Scott Carrington is an American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist and songwriter. He has released six major-label studio albums and a greatest hits package, on Mercury Records and Capitol Records. His comedy act typically combines stand-up comedy and original songs. Most of his songs are performed in a neotraditional country style, with Carrington handling lead vocals and guitar. Carrington has also starred in the ABC sitcom Rodney and in the 2008 film Beer for My Horses.

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19/10/1967

Amy Carter, American illustrator and activist

Amy Lynn Carter is the only daughter and fourth child of the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. Carter first entered the public spotlight as a child when she lived in the White House during her father's presidency.

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Yōji Matsuda, Japanese actor

Yōji Matsuda is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo, Japan.

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Yoko Shimomura, Japanese pianist and composer

Yoko Shimomura is a Japanese composer and pianist known for her work in video games. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1988 and began working at the video game studio Capcom the same year. Shimomura wrote music for several games there, including Final Fight, Street Fighter II, and The King of Dragons. She left Capcom and joined Square in 1993, with her first project there being Live A Live. There she would compose the music for games such as Super Mario RPG, Legend of Mana, and Parasite Eve. Shimomura received the BAFTA Fellowship award in 2025.

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19/10/1966

Jon Favreau, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Jonathan Kolia Favreau is an American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in many films such as Rudy (1993), PCU (1994), Swingers (1996), Very Bad Things (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Replacements (2000), Daredevil (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Four Christmases (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), I Love You, Man (2009), People Like Us (2012), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Chef (2014).

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Dimitris Lyacos, Greek poet and playwright

Dimitris Lyacos is a Greek writer. He is the author of the composite novel Until the Victim Becomes our Own and the Poena Damni trilogy. Lyacos's work is characterised by its genre-defying form and the avant-garde combination of themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology.

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David Vann, American novelist and short story writer

David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.

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19/10/1965

Brad Daugherty, American basketball player and sportscaster

Bradley Lee Daugherty, nicknamed "Big Train" and "El Gato Grande", is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels and professionally with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Todd Park Mohr, American rock singer-songwriter and musician

Todd Park Mohr is the singer and guitarist for the American rock band Big Head Todd and the Monsters. He is their namesake and primary lyricist. A founding member of the band, he also occasionally provides keyboards and saxophone.

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19/10/1964

Ty Pennington, American model, carpenter and television host

Tygert Burton "Ty" Pennington is an American television host, artist, carpenter, author, and former model and actor.

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19/10/1963

Sinitta, American-British singer

Sinitta Renet Malone, known mononymously as Sinitta, is a British singer and actress. She initially found commercial success in the mid-to-late 1980s with the singles "So Macho", "Toy Boy","GTO", and "Cross My Broken Heart" and had several other hits during the decade. In the 2000s, she appeared on television in Loose Women, The Xtra Factor and This Morning. She took part in the ITV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2011.

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19/10/1962

Claude Callegari, English YouTube personality (died 2021)

Claudio Luciano Ricardo Callegari was an English Arsenal supporter and a contributor to the football YouTube channel AFTV. He made his first appearance in 2012 before becoming a regular until 2020. He died on 29 March 2021.

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Tracy Chevalier, American-English author

Tracy Rose Chevalier is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.

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Brian Henninger, American golfer

Brian Hatfield Henninger is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He has won two tournaments on the PGA Tour and three on the Nationwide Tour.

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Bendik Hofseth, Norwegian saxophonist and composer

Bendik Hofseth is a Norwegian jazz musician and a professor with the University of Agder. In 2026, he was appointed Knight First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for his contributions to Norwegian and international musical life.

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Evander Holyfield, American boxer and actor

Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk, who became two-weight undisputed champions in the four-belt era. Nicknamed "the Real Deal", Holyfield is the only four-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles from 1990 to 1992, the WBA and IBF titles again from 1993 to 1994, the WBA title a third time from 1996 to 1999; the IBF title a third time from 1997 to 1999 and the WBA title for a fourth time from 2000 to 2001.

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Svetlana Zainetdinova, Soviet-Estonian chess player and coach

Svetlana Zainetdinova is an Estonian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master and ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster.

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19/10/1961

Sunny Deol, Indian actor and producer

Ajay Singh Deol, professionally known as Sunny Deol, is an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and former politician who works in Hindi cinema. One of the most successful film stars of India, he has worked in more than 100 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades. He is particularly known for his angry action hero persona and various iconic dialogues. Deol has won several awards including two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards. He was a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing Gurdaspur in Punjab as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2019 to 2024.

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Cliff Lyons, Australian rugby league player and coach

Cliff Lyons is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Clive Churchill Medallist and two-time Dally M Medallist, he made 309 first-grade appearances with the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, winning grand finals with them in 1987 and 1996. Lyons also represented New South Wales and Australia, being part of the successful 1990 Kangaroo Tour of Great Britain and France.

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19/10/1960

Dawn Coe-Jones, Canadian golfer (died 2016)

Dawn Coe-Jones was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour, and a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. She was the first female Canadian golfer to surpass $1million in career earnings, announcing the arrival of Canadian female golfers upon the world stage in the 1990s.

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Jennifer Holliday, American actress and singer

Jennifer Yvette Holliday is an American singer and actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (1980–1981) and Dreamgirls (1981–1983), and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls number and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", for which she won a Grammy Award in 1983. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for Dreamgirls.

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Takeshi Koshida, Japanese footballer

Takeshi Koshida is a Japanese football manager and former footballer. He is the technical director of Vietnam national football team and Vietnam women's national football team.

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Susan Straight, American author and academic

Susan Straight is an American writer. She was a National Book Award finalist for the novel Highwire Moon in 2001.

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Ayuo Takahashi, Japanese-American singer-songwriter

Ayuo Takahashi is a Japanese-born American composer, poet, lyricist, singer, and performer of plucked string instruments including guitar, bouzouki, Irish harp, Chinese zheng, Japanese koto, and medieval European psaltery. He is adept at adapting the ancient music of Japan, China, Persia, Greece, and medieval Europe to create a new and original music without abandoning their strict forms while simultaneously making them relevant to contemporary music styles. He has composed for classical ensembles including string quartets, piano, various chamber ensembles, and orchestra, as well as composed, produced and performed with rock, jazz and musicians of various traditional music from around the world. He has also composed many music theater pieces, some of which has been released on CD in the United States and Japan.

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Dan Woodgate, English musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer

Daniel Mark "Woody" Woodgate is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. In a career spanning 45 years, Woodgate came to prominence in the late 1970s as the drummer for the English ska band Madness and went on to become a member of the Anglo-American alternative rock band Voice of the Beehive in the late 1980s. Woodgate began his solo career in 2015, while still a member of Madness, releasing the album In Your Mind.

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19/10/1959

Nir Barkat, Israeli businessman and politician, Mayor of Jerusalem

Nir Barkat is an Israeli businessman and politician, currently serving as Minister of Economy. He previously served as mayor of Jerusalem from 2008 to 2018.

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Martin Kusch, German philosopher and academic

Martin Paul Heinrich Kusch is Professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. Until 2009, Kusch was Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. Prior to Cambridge, Kusch was lecturer in the Science Studies Unit of the University of Edinburgh.

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19/10/1958

Carolyn Browne, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Kazakhstan

Carolyn Browne is a British diplomat who was the British Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2013 to 2018.

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Hiromi Hara, Japanese footballer and manager

Hiromi Hara is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. He also managed Japan national team as caretaker.

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Tiriel Mora, Australian actor

Tiriel Mora is an Australian television and film actor.

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Michael Steele, American journalist and politician, 7th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland

Michael Stephen Steele is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator who served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007 and as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2009 until 2011; he was the first African-American to hold either office.

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Kevin Drum, American journalist and blogger (died 2025)

Kevin Drum was an American journalist. Drum initially rose to prominence through the popularity of his independent blog Calpundit (2003–2004). He later was invited to launch another blog, Political Animal (2004–2008), for the Washington Monthly. He held a writing and blogging position at Mother Jones from 2008 to 2021, before returning to independence with his Jabberwocking blog.

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19/10/1957

Dorinda Clark-Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Dorinda Grace Clark-Cole is an American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, songwriter, musician, talk show host, and evangelist. Clark–Cole is best known as a member of family vocal group The Clark Sisters and as a daughter of pioneering choral director Mattie Moss Clark. As a member of The Clark Sisters, Clark–Cole has won two Grammy Awards. She is known to the music world as the Rose of Gospel Music.

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Ray Richmond, American journalist and critic

Ray Richmond is a globally syndicated critic and entertainment/media columnist. Richmond has also worked variously as a feature and entertainment writer, beat reporter and TV critic for a variety of publications including the Los Angeles Daily News, Daily Variety, the Orange County Register, the late Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Deadline Hollywood, Los Angeles magazine, Buzz, The Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, New Times Los Angeles, DGA Magazine, and Penthouse.

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Karl Wallinger, Welsh singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2024)

Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger was a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s membership of the Waterboys.

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19/10/1956

Steve Doocy, American journalist and author

Stephen James Doocy is an American television host, political commentator, and author. He currently serves as a traveling co-host of Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel.

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Elena Garanina, Soviet ice dancer and coach

Elena Anatolyevna Garanina is a former ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union. With Igor Zavozin, she is the 1978 Nebelhorn Trophy and 1981 Winter Universiade champion. They never made it to the World Figure Skating Championships due to the depth of the Soviet dance field. After turning pro, the duo performed in Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's ice shows.

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Grover Norquist, American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform

Grover Glenn Norquist is an American political activist and anti-tax advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases. A Republican, he is the primary promoter of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a pledge signed by lawmakers who agree to oppose increases in marginal income tax rates for individuals and businesses, and net reductions or eliminations of deductions and credits without a matching reduced tax rate. Prior to the November 2012 election, the pledge was signed by 95% of all Republican members of Congress and all but one of the candidates running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

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Didier Theys, Belgian race car driver and coach

Didier Maurice Theys is a Belgian sports car driver. He is a two-time overall winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona ; a winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring (1998); the Sports Racing Prototype driver champion of the Grand-American Road Racing Association (2002) and the winner of the 24 Hours of Spa. He was also the polesitter (1996) and a podium finisher at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The podium finish in 1999 was a third overall in the factory Audi R8R with co-drivers Emanuele Pirro and Frank Biela. Theys' first appearance at Le Mans was in 1982, while his last start in the world's most famous endurance sports car race came 20 years later in 2002.

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Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (died 2003)

Carlo Urbani was an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as probably a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered a swift and global response credited with saving numerous lives. Shortly afterwards, he himself became infected and died.

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Bruce Weber, American basketball player and coach

Bruce Brett Weber is an American former men's basketball coach who was most recently the head coach at Kansas State University. Prior to his tenure at Kansas State, Weber was the head coach at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois.

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19/10/1955

Dan Gutman, American author

Dan Gutman is an American writer, primarily of children's fiction.

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LaSalle Ishii, Japanese actor and director

Akio Ishii , known professionally as LaSalle Ishii , is a Japanese TV personality, actor, director, writer, columnist, and politician. He named himself after his high school Japanese La Salle Academy. His best-known anime role is Kankichi Ryotsu the lead character in Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo which ran from 1999 to 2004 for 373 episodes.

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Lonnie Shelton, American basketball player (died 2018)

Lonnie Jewel Shelton was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player who played from 1976 to 1985.

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19/10/1954

Sam Allardyce, English footballer and manager

Samuel Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player. Allardyce made 578 league and cup appearances in a 21-year career spent mostly in the Football League, as well as brief spells in the North American Soccer League and League of Ireland. He was signed by Bolton Wanderers from Dudley Town in 1969 and spent nine years at Bolton, helping the club to win the Second Division title in 1977–78. He spent the 1980s as a journeyman player, spending time with Sunderland, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End, and West Bromwich Albion. During this time, he helped Preston win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1986–87.

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Deborah Blum, American journalist and author

Deborah Leigh Blum is an American science journalist, and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several books, including The Poisoner's Handbook (2010) and The Poison Squad (2018), and has been a columnist for The New York Times and a blogger, via her blog titled Elemental, for Wired.

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Joe Bryant, American basketball player and coach (died 2024)

Joseph Washington "Jellybean" Bryant was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played for the Philadelphia 76ers, San Diego Clippers, and Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played for several teams in Italy and one in France. Bryant was the head coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks from 2005 to 2007 and returned to that position for the remainder of the 2011 WNBA season. Bryant also coached in Japan and Thailand. He was the father of the late basketball player Kobe Bryant.

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19/10/1953

Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach

Lionel Eugene Hollins is an American professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, Hollins played for the Portland Trail Blazers, winning an NBA championship in 1977 and named an NBA All-Star in 1978. The Trail Blazers retired his No. 14.

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19/10/1952

Peter Bone, English accountant and politician

Peter William Bone is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wellingborough from 2005 until his removal in 2023. A member of the Conservative Party, he had sat as an independent in the House of Commons after the Conservative whip was withdrawn from him in 2023. He campaigned for Brexit in the EU referendum and was part of the political advisory board of Leave Means Leave. From July to September 2022, he served as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.

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Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and singer

Verónica Judith Sáinz Castro is a Mexican actress and television personality. She began her career in the late 1960s with minor film and television roles before rising to prominence as the star of the telenovela Los ricos también lloran (1979), a success that established her as one of the genre's leading figures. She later followed with El derecho de nacer (1981), Rosa salvaje (1987), and Mi pequeña Soledad (1990).

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19/10/1951

Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematician and physicist

Demetrios Christodoulou is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity. Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow.

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Annie Golden, American actress and singer

Annie Golden is an American actress and singer. She first came to prominence as the lead singer of the punk band the Shirts from 1975 to 1981 with whom she recorded three albums. She began her acting career as Mother in the 1977 Broadway revival of Hair; later taking on the role of Jeannie Ryan in the 1979 film version of the musical. Other notable film credits include Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Baby Boom (1987), Longtime Companion (1989), Strictly Business (1991), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), 12 Monkeys (1995), The American Astronaut (2001), It Runs in the Family (2003), Adventures of Power (2008), and I Love You Phillip Morris (2009).

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Kurt Schrader, American veterinarian and politician

Walter Kurt Schrader is an American politician and veterinarian who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 5th congressional district from 2009 to 2023. His district covered most of Oregon's central coast, plus Salem, and many of Portland's southern suburbs, and a sliver of Portland itself. A member of the Democratic Party, Schrader served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1997 to 2008.

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19/10/1950

Yeslam bin Ladin, Saudi Arabian-Swiss businessman

Yeslam bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin better known as Yeslam bin Ladin, also written Yeslam Binladin, as he prefers to spell it, is a businessman and the half-brother of the deceased al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.

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19/10/1949

Lynn Dickey, American football player and radio host

Clifford Lynn Dickey is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Green Bay Packers. He played college football for the Kansas State Wildcats and was selected in the third round of the 1971 NFL draft by the Houston Oilers, where he spent his first five seasons. Dickey was a member of the Packers for his remaining 10 seasons, leading them in 1982 to their first playoff appearance since 1972 and victory since 1967. He also led the league in passing touchdowns during the 1983 season. For his accomplishments with the franchise, he was inducted to the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1992.

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19/10/1948

James Howard Kunstler, American author and critic

James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic, public speaker, and blogger known for his analysis of urban development, suburbanization, and energy issues. Born in New York City to Jewish parents, he gained prominence through his non-fiction works critiquing American suburban development and predicting societal changes based on resource constraints. His most influential books include The Geography of Nowhere (1993) and Home from Nowhere (1996), a critical examination of American suburbia and urban planning, The Long Emergency (2005) and Too Much Magic (2012), which explore the potential consequences of peak oil and energy depletion on modern civilization and humanity's over-reliance on technology to solve problems. Kunstler's work has become standard reading in architecture and urban planning courses, and he has been a prominent spokesperson for the New Urbanism movement.

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Dave Mallow, American voice actor and screenwriter (died 2025)

Dave Mallow was an American voice actor.

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Patrick Simmons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Patrick Simmons is an American musician best known as a founding member of the rock band The Doobie Brothers, with whom he was inducted as into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. He is the only member of the band to appear on every release.

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19/10/1947

Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian author and illustrator

Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italian cartoonist and one of the most famous Disney comics artists in the world.

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19/10/1946

Bob Holland, Australian cricketer and surveyor (died 2017)

Robert George Holland was a New South Wales and Australian cricketer. He was, because of his surname, nicknamed "Dutchy".

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Philip Pullman, English author and academic

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.

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Keith Reid, English songwriter and lyricist (died 2023)

Keith Stuart Brian Reid was an English lyricist and songwriter.

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19/10/1945

Angus Deaton, Scottish-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Sir Angus Stewart Deaton is a British-American economist and academic. Deaton is a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty, inequality, health, wellbeing, and economic development.

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Divine, American drag queen performer, and actor (died 1988)

Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by the stage name Divine, was an American actor, singer and drag queen. Closely associated with independent filmmaker John Waters, Divine was a character actor, usually performing female roles in cinematic and theatrical productions, and adopted a female drag persona for his music career.

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Patricia Ireland, American lawyer and activist

Patricia Ireland is an American administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996.

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Gloria Jones, American singer-songwriter

Gloria Richetta Jones is an American singer and songwriter who first found success in the United Kingdom, being recognized there as "The Queen of Northern Soul". She recorded the 1965 hit song "Tainted Love" and has worked in multiple genres as a Motown songwriter and recording artist, backing vocalist, and as a performer in musicals such as Hair. In the 1970s, she was a keyboardist and vocalist in Marc Bolan's glam rock band T. Rex. She and Bolan were also in a relationship and had a son together.

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John Lithgow, American actor

John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades including seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Grammy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Jeannie C. Riley, American singer

Jeannie C. Riley is an American country music and gospel singer. She is best known for her 1968 country and pop hit "Harper Valley PTA", which reached number-one on the Billboard Country and Pop charts.

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Martin Welz, South African journalist

Martin Sylvester Welz is a South African journalist and the editor of Noseweek magazine, known for his investigative work on controversial issues such as government and corporate corruption.

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19/10/1944

George McCrae, American singer

George Warren McCrae Jr. is an American soul and disco singer who is most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".

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Bill Melchionni, American basketball player

William P. Melchionni is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA) player. A three time All-Star, Melchionni is one of only four players to win NBA and ABA championships.

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Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1987)

Peter Tosh was a Jamaican musician and reggae singer. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari. He was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion.

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19/10/1943

Robin Holloway, English composer and academic

Robin Greville Holloway is an English composer, academic and writer.

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Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer and coach (died 2025)

Panagiotis "Takis" Ikonomopoulos was a Greek professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, spending most of his career with Panathinaikos. He made 25 appearances for the Greece national team. He was nicknamed "The Bird" (Greek: "Το Πουλί") after his impressive dives he did during his career.

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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., American author and poet

L. E. Modesitt Jr. is an American science fiction and fantasy author who has written over 80 novels. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. By 2015, the 18 novels in the Recluce series had sold nearly three million copies. By 2025, there were 25 Recluce novels.

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19/10/1942

Andrew Vachss, American lawyer and author (died 2021)

Andrew Henry Vachss was an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths.

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19/10/1941

Peter Thornley, English professional wrestler best known for the ring character Kendo Nagasaki

Peter William Thornley is an English professional wrestler who is best known for the ring character Kendo Nagasaki. The character of Nagasaki was a Japanese samurai with a mysterious past and reputed powers of healing and hypnosis. He was one of the biggest draws of all time in British wrestling, especially in the mid-1970s and the turn of the 1980s to 1990s.

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Simon Ward, English actor (died 2012)

Simon Anthony Fox Ward was a British stage and film actor from Beckenham, England. He was known chiefly for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 1972 film Young Winston. He played many other screen roles, including those of Sir Monty Everard in Judge John Deed and Bishop Gardiner in The Tudors.

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19/10/1940

Larry Chance, American singer-songwriter (died 2023)

Lawrence Figueiredo, better known as Larry Chance, was an American musician and the lead singer of the 1960s doo-wop group Larry Chance and the Earls, originally known as The Earls.

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Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor (died 2023)

Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.

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Rosny Smarth, Haitian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2025)

Rosny Smarth was a Haitian politician. He was Prime Minister of Haiti briefly, from 27 February 1996 to 9 June 1997. Smarth resigned before a successor was found, leaving the post vacant for nearly two years. His political party was the OPL.

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19/10/1939

David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere, Scottish academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office

David George Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere PC DL MP is a British Labour Party politician, former cabinet minister and author.

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19/10/1938

Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, Jamaican-English union leader and politician

William Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth is a former British trade union leader. He was General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1992 to 2003, and the first black leader of a major British trade union.

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19/10/1937

Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer

Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio is a Canadian retired long distance swimmer. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and later swam the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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Peter Max, German-American illustrator

Peter Max is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art.

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Terence Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield, English banker and politician (died 2018)

Terence James Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield, was a British politician and banker, member of the Labour and Co-operative parties.

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19/10/1936

James Bevel, American civil rights activist and minister (died 2008)

James Luther Bevel was an American minister and a leader and major strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and then as its director of direct action and nonviolent education, he initiated, strategized, and developed SCLC's three major successes of the era: the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade, the 1965 Selma voting rights movement, and the 1966 Chicago open housing movement. Bevel suggested that SCLC call for and join a March on Washington in 1963 and strategized the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches which contributed to Congressional passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (died 2024)

Anthony LoBianco was an American actor.

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19/10/1935

Don Ward, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2014)

Donald Joseph Ward was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 34 games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks and Boston Bruins between 1957 and 1960. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1956 to 1973, was mainly spent with the Seattle Totems in the minor Western Hockey League.

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19/10/1934

Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian general and politician, 3rd Head of State of Nigeria

Yakubu Dan-Yumma "Jack" Gowon is a Nigerian general and statesman who served as the military head of state of Nigeria from 1966 to 1975.

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Dave Guard, American folk music singer-songwriter, arranger, and musician (died 1991)

Donald David Guard was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio.

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19/10/1933

Brian Booth, Australian cricketer and educator (died 2023)

Brian Charles Booth was an Australian cricketer who played in 29 Test matches between 1961 and 1966, and 93 first-class matches for New South Wales. He captained Australia in two Tests during the 1965–66 Ashes series while regular captain Bob Simpson was absent due to illness and injury. Booth was a graceful right-handed middle order batsman at No. 4 or 5, and occasionally bowled right arm medium pace or off spin. He had an inclination to use his feet to charge spin bowlers. Booth was known for his sportsmanship on the field and often invoked Christianity while discussing ethics and sport.

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Anthony Skingsley, English air marshal (died 2019)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Anthony Gerald Skingsley, was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

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19/10/1932

Robert Reed, American actor (died 1992)

Robert Reed was an American actor. He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G. Marshall, and is best known for his role as patriarch Mike Brady, opposite Florence Henderson's role as Carol Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which aired from 1969 to 1974. He later reprised his role of Mike Brady on several of the reunion programs. In 1976, he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his guest-starring role in a two-part episode of Medical Center and for his work on the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. The following year, Reed earned a third Emmy nomination for his role in the miniseries Roots.

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19/10/1931

Ed Emberley, American author and illustrator

Edward Randolph Emberley is an American artist and illustrator, best known for children's picture books.

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John le Carré, English intelligence officer and author (died 2020)

David John Moore Cornwell, known by his pen name John le Carré, was an English author. Many of his espionage novels have been adapted for film or television. He has been described as a "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", and is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen.

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Atsushi Miyagi, Japanese tennis player (died 2021)

Atsushi Miyagi was a Japanese tennis player.

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19/10/1930

John Evans, Baron Evans of Parkside, English union leader and politician (died 2016)

John Evans, Baron Evans of Parkside was a British politician who was a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP).

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Mavis Nicholson, Welsh-English journalist (died 2022)

Mavis Nicholson was a Welsh writer and radio and television broadcaster. She was born in Wales, and worked throughout the United Kingdom.

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19/10/1929

Lewis Wolpert, South African-English biologist, author, and academic (died 2021)

Lewis Wolpert was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics of living organisms and explaining how signalling between cells early in morphogenesis could inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.

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19/10/1928

Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (died 2013)

Louis Scheimer was an American producer and voice actor who was one of the original founders of Filmation. He was also credited as an executive producer of many of its cartoons.

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19/10/1927

Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter and illustrator

Pierre Alechinsky is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction.

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Stephen Keynes, English businessman (died 2017)

Stephen John Keynes was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust.

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19/10/1926

Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (died 2009)

Arne Joachim Bendiksen was a Norwegian singer, composer, and producer, described as "the father of pop music" in Norway. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.

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Joel Feinberg, American philosopher and academic (died 2004)

Joel Feinberg was an American political and legal philosopher. He is known for his work in the fields of ethics, action theory, philosophy of law, and political philosophy as well as individual rights and the authority of the state. Feinberg was one of the most influential figures in American law, jurisprudence and political science over the last fifty years.

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Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (died 2015)

Vladimir Emmanuilovich Shlapentokh was a Soviet and American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and university professor, notable for his work on Soviet and Russian society and politics as well as theoretical work in sociology.

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Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina (died 2021)

Marjorie Tallchief was an American ballerina and member of the Osage Nation. She was the younger sister of prima ballerina Maria Tallchief and was the first Native American to be named "première danseuse étoile" in the Paris Opera Ballet.

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19/10/1925

Bernard Hepton, English actor and producer (died 2018)

Bernard Hepton was a British actor and theatre director. He is known for his stage work and television roles in teleplays and series. He also appeared briefly on radio and in film.

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Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (died 2015)

Czesław Jan Kiszczak was a Polish general, communist-era interior minister (1981–1990) and prime minister (1989).

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Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (died 2010)

Emilio Eduardo Massera was an Argentine Naval military officer and a leading participant in the Argentine coup d'état of 1976. In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2, a clandestine Masonic lodge involved in Italy's strategy of tension. Many considered Massera to have masterminded the junta's Dirty War against political opponents, which resulted in over 30,000 deaths and disappearances.

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19/10/1923

Ruth Carter Stevenson, American art collector, founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (died 2013)

Ruth Carter Stevenson was an American art collector. She was the founder of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

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Baby Dalupan, Filipino basketball player and coach (died 2016)

Virgilio "Baby" Adam Dalupan was a Filipino basketball coach and player. Dubbed "The Maestro", Dalupan was best known for his lengthy coaching tenure with the Crispa Redmanizers and garnered a career total of 52 basketball championships.

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19/10/1922

Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (died 2005)

Jack Northman Anderson was an American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the founders of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret U.S. policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In addition to his newspaper career, Anderson also had a national radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting System, acted as Washington bureau chief of Parade magazine, and was a commentator on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for nine years.

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19/10/1921

George Nader, American actor (died 2002)

George Garfield Nader, Jr. was an American actor and writer. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 to 1974, mainly action and adventure film roles. He won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor for the film Four Guns to the Border (1954).

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19/10/1920

Peter Aduja, Filipino-American politician (died 2007)

Peter Aquino Aduja was the first Filipino American elected to public office in the United States. He was elected as a representative in the Hawaii Legislature in 1954.

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Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian activist, philosopher, and spiritual leader (died 2003)

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, also known as Dada /Dadaji, was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar in 1954. Swadhyaya is a self-study process based on the Bhagavad Gita which has spread across nearly 100,000 villages in India, Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and other Asian countries with five million adherents. Noted for his discourses on the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas and the Upanishads.

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LaWanda Page, American actress (died 2002)

LaWanda Page was an American actress, comedian and dancer whose career spanned six decades. Crowned "The Queen of Comedy" or "The Black Queen of Comedy", Page melded blue humor, signifyin' and observational comedy with jokes about sexuality, race relations, African-American culture and religion. She released five solo albums, including the 1977 gold-selling Watch It, Sucker!, and collaborated on two albums with the comedy group Skillet, Leroy & Co. As an actress, Page is best known for portraying the Bible-toting and sharp-tongued Esther Anderson on the popular television sitcom Sanford and Son, which aired from 1972 until 1977. Page reprised the role in the short-lived television shows Sanford Arms (1976–1977) and Sanford (1980–1981). She also costarred in the 1979 short-lived series Detective School. Throughout her career, Page advocated for fair pay and equal opportunities for black performers.

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Harry Alan Towers, English-Canadian screenwriter and producer (died 2009)

Harry Alan Towers was a British radio and independent film producer and screenwriter. He wrote numerous screenplays for the films he produced, often under the pseudonym Peter Welbeck. He produced over 80 feature films and continued to write and produce well into his eighties. Towers was married to the actress Maria Rohm, who appeared in many of his films.

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19/10/1918

Charles Evans, English-Welsh mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (died 1995)

Sir Robert Charles Evans was a British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator. He was leader of the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition and deputy leader of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, both of which were successful.

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Russell Kirk, American theorist and author (died 1994)

Russell Amos Kirk was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, lecturer, author, and novelist who influenced 20th century American conservatism. In 1953, he authored The Conservative Mind, which traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition and Edmund Burke. The book helped establish the intellectual framework for a religious and humanistic understanding of conservatism in the postwar era. Kirk was the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism.

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Robert Schwarz Strauss, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Russia (died 2014)

Robert Schwarz Strauss was an influential figure in American politics, diplomacy, and law whose service dated back to future President Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign in 1937. By the 1950s, he was associated in Texas politics with the faction of the Democratic Party that was led by Johnson and John Connally. He served as the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee between 1972 and 1977 and served under President Jimmy Carter as the U.S. Trade Representative and special envoy to the Middle East. He later served as the Ambassador to Russia under President George H. W. Bush. Strauss also served as the last United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

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19/10/1917

William Joel Blass, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)

William Joel Blass was an American war veteran, jurist, attorney, educator, and politician.

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Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, author, and academic (died 2019)

Walter Heinrich Munk was an American physical oceanographer. He was one of the first scientists to bring statistical methods to the analysis of oceanographic data. Munk worked on a wide range of topics, including surface waves, geophysical implications of variations in the Earth's rotation, tides, internal waves, deep-ocean drilling into the sea floor, acoustical measurements of ocean properties, sea level rise, and climate change. His work won awards including the National Medal of Science, the Kyoto Prize, and induction to the French Legion of Honour.

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Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician (died 2020)

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande was an Indian mathematician with notable achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He was notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal latin squares of order 4n + 2 for any n. Shrikhande's specialties were combinatorics and statistical designs. The Shrikhande graph is used in statistical design.

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19/10/1916

Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. Jean Dausset died on June 6, 2009, in Mallorca, Spain, at the age of 92.

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Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (died 1985)

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Russian and Soviet pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. His sister Elizabeth, three years his junior, was a violinist. His daughter Elena became a pianist.

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Minoru Yasui, American soldier, lawyer, and activist (died 1986)

Minoru Yasui was an American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants. His case was the first case to test the constitutionality of the curfews targeted at minority groups.

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19/10/1914

Juanita Moore, American actress (died 2014)

Juanita Moore was an American film, television, and stage actress.

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19/10/1913

Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1980)

Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, better known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed "O Poetinha", was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwright. With his frequent and diverse musical partners, including Antônio Carlos Jobim, his lyrics and compositions were instrumental in the birth and introduction to the world of bossa nova music. He recorded numerous albums, many in collaboration with noted artists, and also served as a successful Brazilian career diplomat.

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19/10/1910

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit describes the maximum mass of a white dwarf. Above it, a stellar remnant will collapse to form a neutron star or black hole. Many concepts, institutions and inventions, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, are named after him.

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Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player (died 2009)

Shunkichi Hamada was a Japanese field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (died 1980)

Paul Charles Jules Robert was a French lexicographer and publisher, best known for his large Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française (1953), often called simply the Robert, and its abridgement, the Petit Robert ; who founded the dictionary company Dictionnaires Le Robert.

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Farid al-Atrash, Syrian actor and singer (died 1980)

Farid al-Atrash, also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, composer, and actor. Although born in Syria, he immigrated to Egypt at the age of nine with his mother and siblings, where he eventually became one of the most noted figures in 20th-century Arabic music.

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19/10/1909

Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (died 1975)

Marguerite Catherine Perey was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie. Perey died of cancer in 1975.

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19/10/1908

Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (died 1981)

Geirr Tveitt was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s.

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19/10/1907

Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader and composer (died 1962)

Roger Wolfe Kahn was an American jazz and popular musician, composer, bandleader and an aviator.

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19/10/1903

Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (died 1971)

Karl Erik Tore Johansson, better known by the stage name Tor Johnson, was a Swedish professional wrestler and actor. As an actor, Johnson appeared in many B-movies, including some famously directed by Ed Wood. In professional wrestling, Johnson was billed as Thor Johnson and Super Swedish Angel.

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19/10/1901

Arleigh Burke, American admiral (died 1996)

Arleigh Albert Burke was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.

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19/10/1900

Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (died 1990)

Erna Berger was a German lyric coloratura soprano. She was best known for roles such as Queen of the Night and Konstanze.

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Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player (died 1991)

William Harold Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain. Ponsford is the only player to twice break the world record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket; Ponsford and Brian Lara are the only cricketers to twice score 400 runs in an innings. Ponsford holds the Australian record for a partnership in Test cricket, set in 1934 in combination with Don Bradman —the man who broke many of Ponsford's other individual records. In fact, he along with Bradman set the record for the highest partnership ever for any wicket in Test cricket history when playing on away soil

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Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1957)

Roy Thomas "Shrimp" Worters was a Canadian professional Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Canadiens and New York Americans.

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19/10/1899

Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.

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19/10/1897

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (died 1994)

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, was a Pakistani organic chemist specialising in natural products, and a professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi.

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19/10/1896

Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player and manager (died 1988)

Robert Arthur O'Farrell was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for 21 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants. O'Farrell also played for the Cincinnati Reds, albeit briefly. He was considered one of the greatest defensive catchers of his generation.

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19/10/1895

Frank Durbin, American soldier (died 1999)

Frank J. Durbin was one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War. Durbin was born in New Hampshire. In 1915, he joined the United States Army at age 20. The next year, he was sent over to Verdun and served with the American and French armies at the Battle of Verdun. While there, Durbin hauled artillery over the front lines. He stayed in the service, guarded the Mexican border in the 1920s, and served in the Second World War as well. After service, he worked for General Motors. By 1963, at age 68, he moved to Florida and stayed there for the rest of his life. He died in Winter Haven at age 103.

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Lewis Mumford, American historian, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1990)

Lewis Mumford was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. He made significant contributions to social philosophy, American literary and cultural history, and the history of technology.

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19/10/1885

Charles E. Merrill, American banker and philanthropist, co-founded Merrill Lynch Wealth Management (died 1956)

Charles Edward Merrill was an American philanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder, with Edmund C. Lynch, of Merrill Lynch.

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19/10/1882

Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1916)

Umberto Boccioni was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death. His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces.

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19/10/1879

Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist (died 1919)

Emma Bell Miles was a writer, poet, and artist. Her works capture the essence of the natural world and the culture of southern Appalachia.

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19/10/1876

Mordecai Brown, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1945)

Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown, nicknamed "Three Finger Brown" or "Miner", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and manager during the first two decades of the 20th century. Due to a farm-machinery accident in his youth, Brown lost parts of two fingers on his right hand, and in the process gained a colorful nickname. He turned this handicap into an advantage by learning how to grip a baseball in a way that resulted in an exceptional curveball, which broke radically before reaching the plate. With this technique he became one of the elite pitchers of his era.

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Mihkel Pung, Estonian lawyer and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1941)

Mihkel Pung was an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and Speaker of the National Council from 21 April 1938 to 5 July 1940. Pung was Minister of Finance in 1931. He was arrested during the Soviet annexation of Estonia and sent to Sevurallag, a Soviet gulag in Sverdlovsk Oblast. He died in imprisonment in 1941.

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19/10/1873

Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (died 1925)

Jacobus Johannes "Jaap" Eden was a Dutch athlete. He is the only male athlete to win world championships in both speed skating and bicycle racing.

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Bart King, American cricketer (died 1965)

John Barton "Bart" King was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. King was part of the Philadelphia team that played from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I. This period of cricket in the United States was dominated by "gentlemen cricketers"—men of independent wealth who did not need to work. King, an amateur from a middle-class family, was able to devote time to cricket thanks to a job set up by his teammates.

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19/10/1868

Bertha Knight Landes, American academic and politician, Mayor of Seattle (died 1943)

Bertha Ethel Knight Landes was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928. After years of civic activism, primarily with women's organizations, she was elected to the Seattle City Council in 1922 and became council president in 1924.

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19/10/1862

Auguste Lumière, French director and producer (died 1954)

Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière was a French engineer, industrialist, biologist, and illusionist. In 1894 and 1895, he and his brother Louis invented an animated photographic camera and projection device, the cinematograph, which met with worldwide success.

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19/10/1858

George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (died 1937)

George Albert Boulenger was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses.

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19/10/1850

Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer and academic (died 1935)

Annie Smith Peck was an American mountaineer and adventurer. The northern peak of the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca mountain chain, Huascarán was named Cumbre Aña Peck in Peck's honor. She was an ardent suffragist and noted speaker. She lectured extensively for many years throughout the world, and wrote four books encouraging travel and exploration.

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19/10/1826

Ralph Tollemache, English priest (died 1895)

Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache JP was an English priest in the Church of England. He is best known for the unusual and increasingly eccentric names that he chose for his numerous children.

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19/10/1814

Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter (died 1878)

Theodoros Vryzakis was a Greek painter, known mostly for his historical scenes. He was one of the founders of the "Munich School", composed of Greek artists who had studied in that city.

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19/10/1810

Cassius Marcellus Clay, American journalist, lawyer, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Russia (died 1903)

Cassius Marcellus Clay was an American planter, politician, military officer and abolitionist who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 1863 to 1869.

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19/10/1789

Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest and philosopher (died 1853)

Theophilos Kairis was a Greek priest, philosopher and revolutionary. He was born in Andros, Cyclades, Ottoman Greece, as a son of a distinguished family.

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19/10/1784

Leigh Hunt, English poet and critic (died 1859)

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.

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19/10/1721

Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist and sinologist (died 1800)

Joseph de Guignes was a French orientalist, sinologist and Turkologist born at Pontoise, the son of Jean Louis de Guignes and Françoise Vaillant. He died in Paris.

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19/10/1720

John Woolman, American-English preacher, journalist, and activist (died 1772)

John Woolman was an American merchant, tailor, journalist, Quaker preacher, and early abolitionist during the colonial era. Based in Mount Holly, New Jersey, near Philadelphia, he traveled through the American frontier to preach Quaker beliefs, and advocate against slavery and the slave trade, cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, and conscription. Beginning in 1755 with the outbreak of the French and Indian War, he urged tax resistance to deny support to the colonial military. In 1772, Woolman traveled to England, where he urged Quakers to support abolition of slavery.

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19/10/1718

Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, French general and politician, French Secretary of State for War (died 1804)

Victor François de Broglie, 2nd Duke of Broglie was an officer of the French Army. He served with his father, François Marie de Broglie, 1st Duke of Broglie, at Parma and Guastalla, and in 1734 obtained a colonelcy.

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19/10/1688

William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (died 1752)

William Cheselden was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery, who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession. Via the medical missionary Benjamin Hobson, his work also helped revolutionize medical practices in China and Japan in the 19th century.

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19/10/1680

John Abernethy, Irish minister (died 1740)

John Abernethy was an Irish Presbyterian minister and church leader.

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19/10/1676

Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, Portuguese diplomat (died 1733)

D. Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, before 1718 titled 3rd Marquis of Fontes and 7th Count of Penaguião, was a Portuguese nobleman and diplomat.

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19/10/1658

Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1704)

Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg, was the first Duke of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz, reigning from 1701 until his death. Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a part of the Holy Roman Empire.

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19/10/1613

Charles of Sezze, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (died 1670)

Charles of Sezze - born Giancarlo Marchioni - was an Italian professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor. He became a religious despite the opposition of his parents who wanted him to become a priest and he led an austere life doing menial tasks such as acting as a porter and gardener; he was also a noted writer. He was also held in high esteem across the Lazio region with noble families like the Colonna and Orsini praising him and seeking his counsel as did popes such as Innocent X and Clement IX.

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19/10/1610

James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English-Irish general, academic, and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1688)

Lieutenant-General James FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC, was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier, known as Earl of Ormond from 1634 to 1642 and Marquess of Ormond from 1642 to 1661. Following the failure of the senior line of the Butler family, he was the second representative of the Kilcash branch to inherit the earldom.

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19/10/1609

Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)

Gerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England. Winstanley was the leader and one of the founders of the English group known as the True Levellers or Diggers. The group occupied formerly common land that had been privatised by enclosures and dug them over, pulling down hedges and filling in ditches, to plant crops. "True Levellers" was the name they used to describe themselves, whereas the term "Diggers" was coined by contemporaries.

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19/10/1605

Thomas Browne, English physician and author (died 1682)

Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science, medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the Scientific Revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia, Browne's writings are also characterised by wit and subtle humour, while his literary style is varied, according to genre, resulting in a rich, unique prose which ranges from rough notebook observations to polished Baroque eloquence.

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19/10/1582

Dmitry of Uglich, Russian crown prince and saint (died 1591)

Dmitry Ivanovich was the youngest son of Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible. He was the tsarevich for close to seven years of his half-brother Feodor I's reign. After his death, he was impersonated by a number of imposters to the throne, during the Time of Troubles.

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19/10/1545

John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (died 1604)

Giovanni Giovenale Ancina was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Saluzzo and was a professed member from the Oratorians. The bishop was also a scholar and music composer and was also known for being a noted orator. He served in the Oratorians as a simple priest for around two decades prior to his episcopal appointment which he attempted to elude for five months before submitting to Pope Clement VIII and accepting the papal appointment. He entered his diocese several months later where he became noted for his charitable work with the poor and his efforts to better implement the reforms of the Council of Trent.

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19/10/1507

Viglius, Dutch politician (died 1577)

Viglius was the name taken by Wigle Aytta van Zwichem, a Dutch statesman and jurist, a Frisian by birth.

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19/10/1433

Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (died 1499)

Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.

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19/10/1276

Prince Hisaaki of Japan (died 1328)

Prince Hisaaki , also known as Prince Hisaakira, was the 8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.

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19/10/0879

Yingtian, empress of the Khitan Liao Dynasty (died 953)

Shulü Ping, nickname Yueliduo (月里朵), formally Empress Yingtian also known as Empress Di (地皇后) during the reign of her husband Emperor Taizu of Liao, posthumous name initially Empress Zhenlie then Empress Chunqin was an empress of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China. After Emperor Taizu's death in 926, she served as empress dowager until her death in 953. She was directly involved in two imperial successions and is credited with changing expectations of widows in Khitan society.

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