Born on Monday, 20th October – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 242 notable people were born on 20th October — spanning from 888 to 2003. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
October 20th marks the birthday of numerous figures across sports, entertainment and public service. Kamala Harris, the 49th Vice President of the United States, was born on this date in 1964, representing one of the most significant political figures to share the date. In the sporting world, Andrey Rublev, the Russian tennis player, entered the world in 1997 and has since become a prominent competitor on the professional circuit. The date also celebrates the births of Jess Glynne, the English singer-songwriter who rose to prominence in the 2010s, and numerous athletes including Carney Chukwuemeka, the English footballer born in 2003, and Yéremy Pino, the Spanish footballer who debuted in professional football in the early 2020s.
Historical births recorded on October 20th extend back centuries, encompassing creative and intellectual figures who shaped their respective fields. Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian-American actor who became iconic for his portrayal of Count Dracula, was born in 1882. Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet and soldier, entered the world in 1854 and left an indelible mark on literature despite his brief life. The date encompasses figures from diverse professions, ranging from John Dewey, the American psychologist and philosopher born in 1859, to numerous scientists, composers and politicians who contributed to their societies.
The date falls under the zodiac sign of Libra, a period associated with balance and harmony. The waxing gibbous moon phase illuminates the night sky, while moderate temperatures and variable cloud cover characterise the weather conditions typical for this time of year in the northern hemisphere. DayAtlas provides comprehensive information about weather patterns, historical events, notable births and deaths for any date and location, offering users detailed insights into what occurred on specific days throughout history.
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20/10/2003
Carney Chukwuemeka, English footballer
Carney Chibueze Chukwuemeka is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Austria national team.
20/10/2002
Yéremy Pino, Spanish footballer
Yéremy Jesús Pino Santos is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Spain national team.
20/10/2001
Paige Bueckers, American basketball player
Paige Madison Bueckers is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Breeze of Unrivaled. She played college basketball for the UConn Huskies.
20/10/2000
Kenneth Walker III, American football player
Kenneth Walker III is an American professional football running back for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and Michigan State Spartans, winning the Walter Camp and Doak Walker Awards in 2021. Walker was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the second round of the 2022 NFL draft. In the 2025 season, he was named MVP of Super Bowl LX.
20/10/1999
Chuu, South Korean singer and television personality
Kim Ji-woo, known professionally as Chuu (츄), is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Loona and its sub-unit, yyxy.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again, American rapper
Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, known professionally as YoungBoy Never Broke Again or NBA YoungBoy, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Gaulden released eight mixtapes from 2015 to 2017, and garnered a regional following for his work. He signed with Atlantic Records and Artist Partner Group in the latter year to release the singles "Untouchable" and "No Smoke", both of which marked his first entries on the Billboard Hot 100. Released in January of the following year, his single "Outside Today" became his first to peak within the chart's top 40, and received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It served as both his mainstream breakthrough and the lead single for his debut studio album, Until Death Call My Name (2018), which peaked at number seven on the US Billboard 200 despite mixed critical reception.
20/10/1998
Jordan Ridley, Australian rules footballer
Jordan Ridley is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected by Essendon with their second selection and twenty-second overall in the 2016 national draft. He made his senior debut for Essendon against Geelong in round nine of the 2018 season.
20/10/1997
Ademola Lookman, Nigerian footballer
Ademola Lookman Olajade Alade Aylola Lookman is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or second-striker for La Liga club Atlético Madrid. Born in England, he plays for the Nigeria national team.
Daizen Maeda, Japanese footballer
Daizen Maeda is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish Premiership side Celtic and the Japan national team.
Nguyễn Tiến Linh, Vietnamese footballer
Nguyễn Tiến Linh is a Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a striker for V.League 1 club Công An Hồ Chí Minh City and the Vietnam national team.
Andrey Rublev, Russian tennis player
Andrey Andreyevich Rublev is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the ATP as high as world No. 5 in singles, which he achieved on 13 September 2021, and No. 44 in doubles, attained on 6 November 2023. Rublev has reached the quarterfinals of all four Majors and won a gold medal in mixed doubles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
20/10/1996
Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player
Anthony Sinisuka Ginting is an Indonesian badminton player. He first rose to senior prominence when he won the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games, having won a 2014 Youth Olympic bronze in 2014. At the 2020 Olympics, he won bronze in the men's singles event, becoming the first Youth Olympic badminton medalist to win a medal at the Olympics. Ginting was part of Indonesia's winning team at the 2020 Thomas Cup.
20/10/1995
Humberto Carrillo, Mexican wrestler
Humberto Garza Carrillo is a Mexican professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Berto. He is one-half of Los Garza with his cousin Angel. He is also a member of Legado Del Fantasma.
20/10/1994
Festus Talam, Kenyan long-distance runner
Festus Talam is a Kenyan long-distance runner.
20/10/1992
Mattia De Sciglio, Italian footballer
Mattia De Sciglio is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back.
Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast
Ksenia Andreyevna Semyonova is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She is the 2007 world champion on the uneven bars, the 2008 European champion on the uneven bars and the balance beam, and the 2009 European all-around champion. She also won a gold medal with the Russian team at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she finished fourth in the team competition, fourth in the all-around, and sixth in the uneven bars final.
Kyle Wiltjer, Canadian-American basketball player
Kyle Gregory Wiltjer is a Canadian-American professional basketball player for Reyer Venezia Mestre of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He spent two seasons of college basketball with the Kentucky Wildcats before transferring to play with the Gonzaga Bulldogs in 2013. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, he has played for the Canada national team.
20/10/1991
Phupoom Pongpanupak, Thai actor
Phupoom Pongpanupak, better known by his nickname Ken (เคน), is a Thai actor known for his leading role in the Thai television soap opera Saam Num Nua Thong. He is one of the top Thai actors in Thailand known for his project films including his best friends Mario Maurer, Nadech Kugimiya and Prin Suparat.
20/10/1990
Sam Mataora, Cook Islands rugby league player
Sam Mataora is a Cook Island professional rugby league footballer. He played for the Canberra Raiders and Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League. His positions were prop and second-row.
20/10/1989
Jamie Collins, American football player
Jamie Lee Collins Sr. is an American football coach and former professional linebacker who is the inside linebackers coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. Collins played college football for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, receiving first-team All-C-USA honors in 2012, and was selected by the Patriots in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft. As a member of the Patriots for seven non-consecutive seasons, Collins earned Pro Bowl and second-team All-Pro honors in 2015 when he led the league in forced fumbles and also won Super Bowl XLIX. Outside of his New England tenure, he played three seasons with the Cleveland Browns and two with the Detroit Lions.
Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter
Jessica Hannah Glynne is an English singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence in 2014 as a featured artist on the singles "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit and "My Love" by Route 94, both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Glynne signed with Atlantic Records to release her debut studio album, I Cry When I Laugh (2015). Despite mixed critical response, it debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and spawned the successful singles "Hold My Hand" and "Don't Be So Hard on Yourself".
20/10/1988
ASAP Ferg, American rapper
Darold Durard Brown Ferguson Jr., known professionally as FERG, is an American rapper from Harlem, New York City. He is a lead member of the hip hop collective ASAP Mob, from which he adopted his moniker and recording contract with Polo Grounds Music and RCA Records.
Rui Pinto, Portuguese activist and whistleblower
Rui Pedro Gonçalves Pinto is a Portuguese activist, whistleblower, creator of the Football Leaks website, and responsible for Malta Files and Luanda Leaks revelations.
Candice Swanepoel, South African supermodel and philanthropist
Candice Susan Swanepoel is a South African model. She is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. She became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010. In 2016, she was listed 8th on the Forbes top-earning models list.
20/10/1987
Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors (died 2019)
Marie Sophie Hingst was a German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors. Born in Wittenberg to a Protestant family, she fabricated a Jewish background and sent documentation for 22 misrepresented or non-existent relatives, who she claimed were Holocaust victims, to the official Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.
20/10/1986
Elyse Taylor, Australian model
Elyse Taylor is an Australian model. She is a brand ambassador for makeup and skincare brand Nude by Nature and has walked in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
20/10/1985
James Sutton, English race car driver
James Sutton is a racing driver. He won the 2007 Porsche Carrera Cup GB.
20/10/1984
Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (died 2012)
Mitchell Adam Lucker was an American musician best known as the lead vocalist for the deathcore band Suicide Silence.
Andrew Trimble, Irish rugby player
Andrew Trimble is a former Irish rugby union player from Northern Ireland who played for Ulster and represented Ireland at international level.
20/10/1983
Alona Tal, Israeli actress
Alona Tal is an Israeli actress and singer. She is known for her roles in Veronica Mars as the cheerleader Meg Manning, in Supernatural as budding monster hunter Jo Harvelle, as Sonya Lebedenko in the final season of Burn Notice, as grad student Stella Baxter in SEAL Team, and as FBI agent Kayla Craig in Cross.
Michel Vorm, Dutch footballer
Michel Armand Vorm is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Following his playing career, he was also a goalkeeping coach at Tottenham Hotspur.
20/10/1982
Preeti Barameeanant, Thai singer
Clash is a Thai rock band. They released their first album in 2001 and are known for their emotional rock ballads. The band was founded in 2001 by Preeti Barameeanant, Chodchapak Pholthanachod (guitar), Thapana Na Bangchang (guitar), Sukrit Sripaoraya (bass), and Anan Dapphetthikon (drum). The band signed to UP G record in 2001 and up until now they have released 5 albums, 2 greatest hits albums, and 2 special acoustic albums.
Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
Rebecca Dawn Brewerton is a Welsh professional golfer and a member of the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour.
Lawrence Roberts, American basketball player
Lawrence Edward Roberts III is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he played at the power forward position.
20/10/1981
Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
Dimitris Papadopoulos is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a striker.
20/10/1979
Paul Ifill, English footballer
Paul Everton Ifill is a former professional footballer and current manager who played as a forward. He is currently in charge of New Zealand Central League side Wellington Olympic. He spent most of his career playing as a right winger or a right midfielder, often described as an "old fashioned winger".
John Krasinski, American actor, director, and producer
John Burke Krasinski is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), where he was also a producer and occasional director. He directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place, for which Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He has since written and directed the sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020).
Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
Paul Jeremiah O'Connell is an Irish rugby union coach and former player. When he retired, he was Ireland's third most-capped player (108) and the eighteenth most-capped international player in rugby union history. During his career, O'Connell captained Munster, Ireland and the British & Irish Lions. He is now the forwards coach for the Ireland national men's team.
20/10/1978
Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer who represented India from 1999 to 2013. Widely regarded as one of the most destructive openers and one of the greatest batsmen of his era, he played for Delhi Capitals in IPL and Delhi and Haryana in Indian domestic cricket. He batted right-handed and played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test side in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag became the first Indian to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance in 2008, subsequently becoming the first player of any nationality to retain the award for 2009. He worked as stand-in captain occasionally during absence of main captain of India, also worked as Vice-Captain for Indian squad. He is former captain of Delhi Daredevils and Delhi Ranji Team. During his time with India, Sehwag was a member of the team that was one of the joint winners of the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, the winners of the 2007 T20 World Cup, and the winners of the 2011 Cricket World Cup. During the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, Sehwag was the highest run scorer with 271 runs. In 2023, he was inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player and songwriter
Paul "Pablo" Wilson is a Scottish musician, who is best known as the former bass guitarist for Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. He previously played guitar in Glasgow band Terra Diablo during 2000–2005. Wilson plays left-handed and generally uses a black Rickenbacker for concerts. He is a multi-instrumentalist trained in piano.
20/10/1977
Hun Manet, Cambodian politician and military officer, 33rd Prime Minister of Cambodia
Hun Manet is a Cambodian politician and military officer who has served as Prime Minister of Cambodia and Vice President of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) since 2023. He is the second child of Senate president and former prime minister Hun Sen and Bun Rany.
Leila Josefowicz, Canadian-American violinist
Leila Bronia Josefowicz is an American-Canadian classical violinist.
Sam Witwer, American actor and musician
Sam Witwer is an American actor and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Crashdown in Battlestar Galactica, Davis Bloome in Smallville, Aidan Waite in Being Human, Mr. Hyde in Once Upon a Time, Ben Lockwood in Supergirl, and Rupert Chipping in Riverdale.
20/10/1976
Dan Fogler, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Daniel Kevin Fogler is an American actor, comedian and writer. He had his breakout in theatre, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as William Barfée in the Broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which was also his Broadway debut.
Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer and manager
Nicola Legrottaglie is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
20/10/1975
Ronny Aukrust, Norwegian politician
Ronny Holen Aukrust is a Norwegian politician and deputy member of the Storting. A member of the Labour Party, he has represented Østfold since October 2025.
20/10/1974
Ed Hale, American singer-songwriter, writer and socio-political activist
Ed Hale is an American writer, singer-songwriter-recording artist. His hit singles include "I Walk Alone", "New Orleans Dreams" and "Scene in San Francisco", which all landed in the Billboard Top 40 Charts in the Adult Contemporary radio format.
Limmy, Scottish comedian and writer
Brian Limond, known as Limmy, is a Scottish comedian, author, and Twitch streamer.
Bashar Rahal, Emirati-American actor and producer
Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor.
20/10/1972
Will Greenwood, English rugby player and sportscaster
William John Heaton Greenwood, MBE is an English former rugby union player who played for Leicester Tigers and Harlequins and was a member of England's 2003 World Cup-winning team and the 1997 British & Irish Lions. He played in the centre, mainly as an inside centre.
Brian Schatz, American academic and politician, 11th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
Brian Emanuel Schatz is an American politician serving since 2012 as the senior United States senator from Hawaii. A progressive Democrat, Schatz served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006, representing the 25th legislative district; as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii from 2008 to 2010; and as the 12th lieutenant governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2012.
20/10/1971
Kenneth Choi, American actor
Kenneth Choi is an American actor. He is known for playing Henry Lin on the television series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), Chester Ming in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Judge Lance Ito in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016). He is also known for his roles as Jim Morita and Principal Morita in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) respectively, and Lewis on the Fox comedy series The Last Man on Earth (2016–2017). Since 2018 he has been starring in the Fox/ABC drama series 9-1-1, playing LAFD firefighter Howie "Chimney" Han.
Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, songwriter, and actor. A key figure in West Coast hip-hop, he helped define G-funk and gangsta rap, and is often regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Known for his signature drawled delivery and melodic flow, his lyrics frequently address social issues such as recreational drug use and gun violence.
Eddie Jones, American basketball player
Edward Charles Jones is an American former professional basketball player who played for five teams in his 14-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career.
Kamiel Maase, Dutch runner
Kamiel Maase is a retired long-distance runner from the Netherlands, who is the current Dutch record holder in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres. He retired in January, 2009.
Dannii Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
Danielle Jane Minogue is an Australian singer, television personality, and actress. As a child she appeared on the television talent show Young Talent Time (1982–1988) before gaining recognition for her role as Emma Jackson on the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1989–1990). Minogue began her music career in the early 1990s, achieving early success with her debut album, Love and Kisses (1991), and the singles "Love and Kisses", "Jump to the Beat" and "Success". Following the release of her second album, Get into You (1993), Minogue's popularity as a singer declined, leading her to make a name for herself with award-winning performances in theatre productions.
20/10/1970
Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (died 2011)
Neil Heywood was an English businessman. The great-grandson of John Barr Affleck, Britain's Consul General in Tianjin from 1935 to 1938, Heywood lived and worked in China from the early 1990s and became associated with the Bo Xilai family. In 2011, he was murdered by Bo's wife Gu Kailai in Chongqing after a business dispute. His death sparked a major political scandal and precipitated Bo's downfall in 2012.
Aapo Ilves, Estonian poet and illustrator
Aapo Ilves is an Estonian poet, writer, playwright, artist and musician. He writes in Estonian, Võro and Seto languages. Ilves has also written song lyrics for other artists, including several "Hits of the Year" and also Estonian Eurovision entries "Tii" in 2004 and Kuula in 2012.
Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author
Michelle Malkin is an American conservative political commentator. She was a Fox News contributor and in May 2020 joined Newsmax TV. Malkin has written seven books and founded the conservative commentary website Twitchy and the conservative blog Hot Air.
Taj McWilliams-Franklin, American basketball player
Taj McWilliams-Franklin is an American former professional basketball player.
20/10/1969
Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player and coach
Laurie William Daley AM, also known by the nickname "Loz", is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and a former player who played as a centre and five-eighth in the late 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.
Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
Juan Alberto González Vázquez, nicknamed Juan Gone, is a Puerto Rican former baseball outfielder. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for four teams, but is most identified with the Texas Rangers, for whom he played from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2003. One of the premier run producers and most feared hitters of the 1990s and early 2000s, González hit over 40 home runs five times and amassed at least 100 runs batted in (RBI) eight times. He also had a batting average of .310 or higher in five seasons.
20/10/1968
Susan Tully, English actress, director, and producer
Susan Lorna Tully is a British actress, television producer and television director from London.
20/10/1967
Artur Grigorian, Armenian-Uzbek boxer
Artur Razmikovich Grigorian is a retired Armenian-Uzbek professional boxer.
Kerrod Walters, Australian rugby league player
Kerrod Walters is an Australian former rugby league footballer. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative hooker, he played most of his club football with the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1992 and 1993 NSWRL Premierships.
Kevin Walters, Australian rugby league player and coach
Kevin David Walters is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach, as well as a pundit for Fox League.
20/10/1966
Allan Donald, South African cricketer and coach
Allan Anthony Donald is a South African former cricketer who is also the former bowling coach of Bangladesh national cricket team. Often nicknamed 'White Lightning' due to his quick bowling, he is considered one of the South Africa national cricket team's greatest pace bowlers of all time. He was an integral member of the South African team in its resurgence into international cricket since readmission and played an influential role as a frontline genuine seam bowler to boost South Africa to new heights. During his playing career, he was known for his bowling speed and aggression on the field. He is also remembered for his infamous runout during South Africa's loss in the 1999 World Cup semi-final match against Australia. Donald is the first South African to take 300 Test wickets.
Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist and engineer, founded Slackware
Patrick Volkerding is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. Volkerding is Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also known informally as "The Man".
20/10/1965
Norman Blake, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Norman Blake is a Scottish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter in the Glasgow-based band Teenage Fanclub.
Jonathan I. Schwartz, American businessman
Jonathan Ian Schwartz is an American businessman. He is president and CEO of CareZone, a firm intending to lower the price of prescription drugs for people with chronic illness.
Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
Mikhail Alekseyevich Shtalenkov is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played extensively in his native USSR and Russia for HC Dynamo Moscow before moving to North America, where he played with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Edmonton Oilers, Phoenix Coyotes and Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He had been previously selected in the fifth round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, 108th overall, by the Mighty Ducks. Internationally he played in the 1992 and 1998 Winter Olympics, as well as several World Championships, representing successfully the Soviet Union, Unified Team, and Russia.
William Zabka, American actor and producer
William Michael Zabka is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), and the TV series Cobra Kai (2018–2025).
20/10/1964
Kamala Harris, American politician and lawyer, 49th Vice President of the United States
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female, first African American, and first Asian American vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian public official in U.S. history. Harris represented California in the United States Senate from 2017 to 2021 and was the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election.
20/10/1963
Julie Payette, Canadian engineer, astronaut, and 29th Governor General of Canada
Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served as the 29th governor general of Canada from 2017 to 2021.
20/10/1962
Dave Wong, Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
Dave Wang is a Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer, songwriter and actor.
20/10/1961
Audun Kleive, Norwegian drummer and composer
Audun Kleive is a Norwegian jazz drummer. He was raised in Skien and is the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist Iver Kleive.
Kate Mosse, English author and playwright
Katherine Louise Mosse is a British novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages. She co-founded in 1996 the annual award for best UK-published English-language novel by a woman that is now known as the Women's Prize for Fiction, and since 2024 has a sister award, The Women's Prize for Nonfiction.
Ian Rush, Welsh footballer and manager
Ian James Rush is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of all time and one of the greatest Welsh players ever. Rush played for Liverpool from 1980 to 1987 and 1988 to 1996. He is the club's all-time leading goalscorer, having scored 346 goals in all competitions. He also holds the records for being the highest goalscorer in the history of the EFL Cup and in FA Cup finals. At international level, Rush made 73 appearances for Wales and remained their record goalscorer with 28 goals, until 2018.
Les Stroud, Canadian director, producer, and harmonica player
Les Stroud is a Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician best known as the creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman. Stroud was named Chief Scout by Scouts Canada on 22 November 2021. After a short career behind the scenes in the music industry, Stroud became a full-time wilderness guide, survival instructor and musician based in Huntsville, Ontario. Stroud has produced survival-themed programming for The Outdoor Life Network, The Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and YTV. The survival skills imparted from watching Stroud's television programs have been cited by several people as the reason they lived through harrowing wilderness ordeals.
Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
Michie Tomizawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer born in Maruko, Nagano Prefecture and raised in Shinmachi, Gunma.
20/10/1959
Mark Little, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Mark Little is an Australian actor, television presenter, comedian and screen/stage writer. He is known for playing Joe Mangel on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1988 to 1991, in 2005 and in 2022.
20/10/1958
Valerie Faris, American director and producer
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are two American directors and producers for films and music videos. They started their career directing videos for such artists as Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M. and the Smashing Pumpkins. Together they directed the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Ruby Sparks (2012), and Battle of the Sexes (2017). They also directed the Netflix comedy series Living with Yourself (2019) and episodes of the Hulu series Fleishman Is In Trouble (2022).
Lynn Flewelling, American author and academic
Lynn Flewelling is an American fantasy fiction author.
Scott Hall, American wrestler (died 2022)
Scott Oliver Hall was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under his real name and with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Razor Ramon.
Mark King, English singer-songwriter and bass player
Mark Raymond King is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. He is the lead vocalist and bassist of the jazz-funk band Level 42. King is known for his slap style of playing the bass guitar, with MusicRadar describing him as "the guy who put the slap in pop during the 80s". King received a BASCA Gold Badge Award in October 2015 in recognition of his contribution to British music. He won the "Outer Limits" award at the 2017 Progressive Music Awards.
Dave Krieg, American football player
David Michael Krieg is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He attended Milton College in his home state of Wisconsin and made the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent. In his 18-year NFL career, Krieg played for the Seahawks (1980–1991), Kansas City Chiefs (1992–1993), Detroit Lions (1994), Arizona Cardinals (1995), Chicago Bears (1996), and Tennessee Oilers (1997–1998).
Viggo Mortensen, American-Danish actor and producer
Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. is a Danish-American actor and filmmaker. He has received nominations for three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
20/10/1957
Jane Bonham-Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, English politician
Jane Bonham Carter, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and member of the House of Lords.
Chris Cowdrey, English cricketer and sportscaster
Christopher Stuart Cowdrey is an English former cricketer. Cowdrey played for Kent, Glamorgan and England as an all-rounder. He is the eldest son of the cricketer and life peer, Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge. He was educated at Tonbridge School.
Chalermchai Sitthisart, Thai military officer, 40th Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army
General Chalermchai Sitthisart PC is a retired Thai military officer and general within the Royal Thai Army. In September 2016, he was chosen to serve as the Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Army, and was endorsed by then-King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Sitthisart was appointed to replace the retiring Teerachai Nakwanich, with his appointment taking effect on October 1. Chalermchai start working after graduated from the military school at Royal Thai Army Special Warfare Command as a special operations force officer so that Chalermchai's appointment marked a departure from the Burapha Payak royalist military faction - known as the "Eastern Tigers", as he is considered to not have ties with the dominant faction.
Hilda Solis, American academic and politician, 25th United States Secretary of Labor
Hilda Lucia Solis is an American politician and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 1st district and is the Chair of Los Angeles County. Solis previously served as the 25th United States Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013, as part of the administration of President Barack Obama. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing the 31st and 32nd congressional districts of California that include East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
20/10/1956
Danny Boyle, English director, producer, and screenwriter
Daniel Francis Boyle is an English director and producer. He has been described by the British Film Institute as "one of the liveliest and most unpredictable of British directors, adept at shifting genres and bringing a personal quality to whatever he tackles".
Martin Taylor, English guitarist
Martin Taylor, MBE is a British jazz guitarist who has performed solo, in groups, guitar ensembles, and as an accompanist.
20/10/1955
Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Film Awards, and 15 Academy Award nominations.
David Profumo, English author and academic
David John Profumo, FRSL, is an English novelist.
Aaron Pryor, American boxer (died 2016)
Aaron Pryor was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1990. He was a two-time light welterweight world champion, having held the WBA world title from 1980 to 1983, and the IBF title from 1984 to 1985. Additionally, he held the Ring magazine title from 1980 to 1983, and the lineal title from 1983 to 1985.
Sheldon Whitehouse, American politician
Sheldon Whitehouse is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1993 to 1998, and as the 71st attorney general of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003. He was elected to the Senate in 2006, defeating Republican incumbent Lincoln Chafee. He was reelected in 2012, 2018, and 2024.
20/10/1954
Steve Orich, American composer and conductor
Steve Orich is a composer, orchestrator and musical director.
20/10/1953
Keith Hernandez, American baseball player and sportscaster
Keith Hernandez is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Cleveland Indians. Hernandez was a five-time All-Star who shared the 1979 NL MVP award and won two World Series titles, one each with the Cardinals and Mets. Since 1998, he has been a color commentator on Mets television broadcasts.
Richard McWilliam, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (died 2013)
Richard P. McWilliam was the chairman and co-founder of Upper Deck Company, a successful and award-winning Carlsbad-based collectibles business that specializes in trading cards for Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, National Football League and Major League Soccer. Before McWilliam was involved with the Upper Deck Company, he was a Cal State Fullerton graduate and former certified public accountant.
Bill Nunn, American actor (died 2016)
William Goldwyn Nunn III was an American actor. He was known for his collaborations with director Spike Lee, notably as Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing (1989). He also portrayed Daily Bugle editor Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–07), and co-starred in the sitcoms The Job (2001–02) and Sirens (2014–15).
20/10/1952
Melanie Mayron, American actress and director
Melanie Joy Mayron is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for her role as photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama thirtysomething for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989, and was nominated for same award in 1990 and 1991. In 2018, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Mayron for her outstanding contributions to film and television.
Derek Ridgers, English photographer and art director
Derek Ridgers is a British photographer known for his photography of music, film and club/street culture. He has photographed people including James Brown, the Spice Girls, Sinéad O' Connor, Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp, as well as politicians, gangsters, artists, writers, fashion designers and sports people. Ridgers has also photographed British social scenes such as skinhead, fetish, club, punk and New Romantic.
Wilma Salgado, Ecuadorian politician and economist
Wilma Josefina Salgado Tamayo is an Ecuadorian politician and economist.
20/10/1951
Al Greenwood, American keyboard player
Alan Greenwood is an American rock musician who was a founding member and keyboardist of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. He performed on the albums Foreigner (1977), Double Vision (1978) and Head Games (1979). In 2024, Greenwood was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Foreigner.
Patrick Hall, English lawyer and politician
Patrick Hall is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1997 to 2010. He was re-selected by the Labour Party as their candidate in Bedford for the 2015 general election, but failed to be re-elected to Parliament.
Ken Ham, Australian-American evangelist
Kenneth Alfred Ham is an Australian Christian fundamentalist, young Earth creationist, apologist and former science teacher, living in the United States. He is a founder, CEO, and former president of Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Christian apologetics organisation that operates the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.
Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish businessman and politician
Leif Pagrotsky is a Swedish politician, economist, and diplomat. He served as minister of culture from 2004 to 2006 and minister for industry, employment and communications from 2002 to 2004 under Prime Minister Göran Persson. After this, he held the position of Consul General of Sweden in New York City from 2016 to 2018.
Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
Claudio Ranieri is a retired Italian professional football manager and former player who is the senior advisor of Serie A club Roma. As manager of Leicester City, he won the 2015–16 Premier League, a feat regarded as one of the greatest shocks in sporting history.
20/10/1950
Chris Cannon, American politician (died 2024)
Christopher Black Cannon was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, for the Republican Party, representing the third district of Utah from 1997 to 2009.
Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2017)
Thomas Earl Petty was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader and frontman of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist.
William Russ, American actor and director
William Russ is an American actor and television director. He played Alan Matthews on the sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and appeared in the television series Wiseguy, the soap operas Another World and The Young and the Restless and the feature films The Right Stuff (1983), Pastime (1990) and American History X (1998).
20/10/1949
Valeriy Borzov, Ukrainian-Russian sprinter
Valeriy Pylypovych Borzov is a Soviet-Ukrainian former sprinter and politician. He is a two-time Olympian, a former president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, and Minister for Youth and Sports of Ukraine.
20/10/1948
Peter Combe, Australian entertainer
Peter Charles Combe is an Australian children's entertainer and musician. At the ARIA Music Awards he has won three ARIA Awards for Best Children's Album, for Toffee Apple (1988), Newspaper Mama (1989) and The Absolutely Very Best of Peter Combe Recorded in Concert (1992) and four additional nominations. His best-known tracks are "Toffee Apple", "Spaghetti Bolognaise", "Mr Clicketty Cane", "Juicy Juicy Green Grass" and "Newspaper Mama". His Christmas Album reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 50.
Sandra Dickinson, American-English actress and composer
Sandra Dickinson is an American-British actress. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She has often played characters within the trope of a dumb blonde with a high-pitched voice.
Piet Hein Donner, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
Jan Pieter Hendrik "Piet Hein" Donner is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 21 December 2018.
Melih Gökçek, Turkish journalist and politician, Mayor of Ankara
İbrahim Melih Gökçek is a Turkish politician who served as the mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017. From 1991 to 1994, he was an MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and was controversially also declared the winner in 2014. He is a member of the governing AK Party.
20/10/1946
Diana Gittins, American-English sociologist, author, and academic
Diana Gittins, is a former associate lecturer in creative writing for the Open University and a published writer of fiction and non-fiction books.
Lewis Grizzard, American comedian and author (died 1994)
Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South. Although he spent his early career as a newspaper sports writer and editor, becoming the sports editor of the Atlanta Journal at age 23, he is much better known for his humorous newspaper columns in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a popular stand-up comedian and lecturer.
Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
Richard Loncraine, English director and screenwriter
Richard Loncraine is a British film and television director.
Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
Lucien Van Impe is a former Belgian cyclist, who competed professionally between 1969 and 1987. He excelled mainly as a climber in multiple-day races such as the Tour de France. He was the winner of the 1976 Tour de France, and six times winner of the mountains classification in the Tour de France.
Chris Woodhead, English civil servant and academic (died 2015)
Sir Christopher Anthony Woodhead was a British educationalist. He was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England from 1994 to 2000, and was one of the most controversial figures in debates on the direction of English education policy. He was Chairman of Cognita, a company dedicated to fostering private education, from 2004 to 2013.
20/10/1945
Ric Lee, English drummer
Richard "Ric" Lee is an English drummer of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
20/10/1944
Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher (died 2024)
Thakurartha Devadithya Guardiyawasam Lindamulage Nalin Kumar de Silva was a Sri Lankan philosopher, polymath and a political analyst. He was the former Sri Lankan ambassador in Myanmar. He was a professor in the department of mathematics, a member of University Grant Commission and the dean of the faculty of science at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
David Mancuso, American party planner, created The Loft (died 2016)
David Paul Mancuso was an American disc jockey who created the popular "by invitation only" parties in New York City, which later became known as "The Loft". The first party, called "Love Saves The Day", was held on 14 February, 1970.
20/10/1943
Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano and actress
Dunja Vejzović is a Croatian operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano.
20/10/1942
Earl Hindman, American actor (died 2003)
Earl John Hindman was an American actor, best known for his roles as Bob Reid on the television soap opera Ryan's Hope from 1975—1984 and 1988–89, and as Wilson W. Wilson on the sitcom Home Improvement from 1991–1999.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences.
Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist (died 1992)
Hubertus Balthazar "Bart" Zoet was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1961 and 1969. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Gerben Karstens, Evert Dolman, and Jan Pieterse; he finished 20th in the individual road race. Next year he won the Grote 1-MeiPrijs.
20/10/1941
Anneke Wills, English actress
Anneke Wills is an English actress, best known for her role as the companion Polly in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
20/10/1940
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa, Cameroonian filmmaker
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa is a Cameroonian film director and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, Muna Moto, in 1975. Dikongué Pipa's films deal with the interrelationships between elements of traditional Cameroonian culture and the wider world.
Kathy Kirby, English singer (died 2011)
Kathy Kirby was an English singer, best known for her cover version of Doris Day's "Secret Love" and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, where she finished in second place. Her popularity peaked in the 1960s, when she was one of the best-known and most-recognised personalities in British show business.
Robert Pinsky, American poet and critic
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work has earned numerous accolades. Pinsky is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate writing program at Boston University. In 2015, the university named him a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed on senior faculty members who are actively involved in teaching, research, scholarship, and university civic life.
20/10/1939
Patrick Hughes, English painter, illustrator, and photographer
Patrick Hughes is a British artist working in London. He is the creator of "reverspective", an optical illusion on a three-dimensional surface where the parts of the picture which seem farthest away are actually physically the nearest.
20/10/1938
Emidio Greco, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2012)
Emidio Greco was an Italian film director and screenwriter, best known for the 1974 film Morel's Invention.
Dolores Hart, American actress and nun
Dolores Hart, O.S.B. is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun and former actress. Following her movie debut with Elvis Presley in Loving You (1957), she made 10 films in five years, including Wild Is the Wind (1957), King Creole (1958), and Where the Boys Are (1960).
Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer and educator (died 2006)
Iain Stewart Macmillan was the Scottish photographer famous for taking the cover photograph for the Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969. He grew up in Scotland, then moved to London to become a professional photographer. He used a photo of Yoko Ono in a book that he published in 1966, and Ono invited him to photograph her exhibit at Indica Gallery. She introduced him to John Lennon, and Lennon invited him to photograph the cover for Abbey Road. He worked with Lennon and Ono for several years, staying for a while at their home in New York.
20/10/1937
Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (died 2013)
Cancio Castillo Garcia was a Filipino lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the court on October 6, 2004, by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and retired on October 19, 2007.
Wanda Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Wanda LaVonne Jackson is an American retired singer and songwriter. Since the 1950s, she has recorded and released music in the genres of rock, country and gospel. She was among the first women to have a career in rock and roll, recording a series of 1950s singles that helped give her the nickname "The Queen of Rockabilly". She is also counted among the first female stars in the genre of country music.
Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player and sportscaster
Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez, nicknamed "the Dominican Dandy", is a Dominican former right-handed pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1960 to 1975, mostly with the San Francisco Giants. Known for his high leg kick, variety of pitches, arm angles and deliveries, pinpoint control, and durability, Marichal won 18 games to help the Giants reach the 1962 World Series, and went on to earn 191 victories in the 1960s, the most of any major league pitcher. He won over 20 games six times, on each occasion posting an earned run average (ERA) below 2.50 and striking out more than 200 batters, and became the first right-hander since Bob Feller to win 25 games three times. His 26 wins in 1968 remain a San Francisco era record.
Emma Tennant, English author (died 2017)
Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde. She also published under the pseudonym Catherine Aydy.
20/10/1935
Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (died 2004)
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" and a "versatile stage and film actor." Over his career he received a Tony Award and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award.
20/10/1934
Bill Chase, American trumpet player (died 1974)
Bill Chase was an American trumpeter and leader of the jazz-rock band Chase.
Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (died 1996)
Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are "Freedom Jazz Dance", popularized by Miles Davis in 1966, and "Listen Here".
Timothy West, English actor (died 2024)
Timothy Lancaster West was an English actor with a long and varied career across theatre, film, and television. He began acting in repertory theatres in the 1950s before making his London stage debut in 1959 moving on to three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1960s. West played King Lear and Macbeth (twice) along with other notable roles in The Master Builder and Uncle Vanya. In 1978, West was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival for his performance in The Homecoming.
20/10/1933
Barrie Chase, American actress and dancer
Barrie Chase is an American actress and dancer.
20/10/1932
Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (died 2004)
Roosevelt Brown Jr. was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants from 1953 to 1965. He played college football for the Morgan State Bears and was selected by the Giants in the 27th round of the 1953 NFL draft.
William Christopher, American actor and singer (died 2016)
William Christopher was an American actor and comedian, best known for playing Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. from 1965 to 1968 and Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983 and its spinoff AfterMASH from 1983 to 1985.
Rokurō Naya, Japanese voice actor (died 2014)
Rokurō Naya was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and the younger brother of voice actor Gorō Naya (1929–2013). He was a lifelong resident of Tokyo and was affiliated with Mausu Promotion at the time of his death.
20/10/1931
Richard Caliguiri, American lawyer and politician, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (died 1988)
Richard S. Caliguiri was an American politician who served as the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1977 until his death in 1988.
Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1995)
Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–1968) with the New York Yankees, primarily as a center fielder. Mantle is regarded by many as one of the best players and sluggers of all time. He was an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player three times and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
Ken Morrison, English businessman (died 2017)
Sir Kenneth Duncan Morrison CBE was an English businessman, Life President, and former chairman of Morrisons, the fifth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. He was the son of William Morrison, who founded the company.
20/10/1928
Michael O'Donnell, English physician, author, and journalist (died 2019)
Michael O'Donnell was a British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster.
20/10/1927
Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, author, and actress (died 2013)
Joyce Diane Bauer Brothers was an American psychologist, television personality, advice columnist, and writer.
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic (died 2007)
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma B.A. B.L., also known as Yuga Kavi, was a Telugu poet, critic and litterateur. He is well known for his works Naa Desam, Naa Prajalu and Kaala Rekha. He authored over fifty works which have been translated into English, Kannada, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Nepali and Greek.
20/10/1926
Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English lieutenant and politician, founded the National Motor Museum (died 2015)
Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, was a British aristocrat and Conservative politician, best known for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for alleged homosexual activity, a charge he denied.
20/10/1925
András Bíró, Hungarian journalist and human rights activist (died 2024)
András Bíró was a Hungarian journalist, journal editor, environment activist and human rights activist, noted for his support of the Romani people in Hungary.
Art Buchwald, American soldier and journalist (died 2007)
Arthur Buchwald was an American humorist best known for his column in The Washington Post. At the height of his popularity, it was published nationwide as a syndicated column in more than 500 newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary.
Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (died 2002)
Thomas John Dowd was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Dowd worked on a veritable "who's who" of recordings that encompassed blues, jazz, pop, rock, and soul records.
Roger Hanin, Algerian-French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2015)
Roger Hanin was a French actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the TV police drama, Navarro.
20/10/1924
Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (died 2014)
Robert Louis Peters was an American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor. He held a PhD in Victorian literature. Born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924, his poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis. The book commemorating this loss, Songs for a Son, was selected by poet Denise Levertov to be published by W. W. Norton in 1967. Songs for a Son began a flood of poetry.
20/10/1923
Robert Craft, American conductor and musicologist (died 2015)
Robert Lawson Craft was an American conductor and writer. He is best known for his intimate professional relationship with Igor Stravinsky, on which Craft drew in producing numerous recordings and books.
20/10/1922
John Anderson, American actor (died 1992)
John Robert Anderson was an American character actor. He was best known for his more than 500 television roles.
Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (died 2012)
Franco Ventriglia was an opera singer who sang bass in every major European opera house during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He returned to the U.S. in 1978, where he continued to perform at venues including Carnegie Hall, and traveled to perform in southeast Asia, until his retirement in 2001 at age 79.
20/10/1921
Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (died 1955)
Manuel Leaonedas Ayulo was an American racecar driver. His efforts, along with those of friend and teammate Jack McGrath, helped establish track roadsters as viable race cars. Ayulo was killed in practice for the 1955 Indianapolis 500 when his car crashed straight into a concrete wall. He was found to have not been wearing a seat belt and his pockets "were filled with wrenches".
Hans Warren, Dutch poet and author (died 2001)
Johannes Adrianus Menne Warren was a Dutch writer. Much of his fame in the Netherlands derives from having published a collection of diaries in which he described his life and homosexual experiences in a country that deeply repressed homosexuality. He is also known for his poetry, his literary criticism, and his translations of poetry from Modern Greek.
20/10/1920
Nick Cardy, American illustrator (died 2013)
Nicholas Viscardi, known professionally as Nick Cardy and Nick Cardi, was an American comics artist best known for his DC Comics work on Aquaman, the Teen Titans and other major characters. Cardy was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.
Fanny de Sivers, Estonian-French linguist and academic (died 2011)
Fanny de Sivers was an Estonian linguist, literature researcher, and essayist.
Akhil Bandhu Ghosh, Indian singer (died 1988)
Akhil Bandhu Ghosh was a Bengali singer from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is considered as one of the greatest exponents of Bengali classical based vocal music.
Janet Jagan, 6th President of Guyana (died 2009)
Janet Rosenberg Jagan was an American-born Guyanese politician who served as the 6th President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999. She was the first female president of Guyana, and the first American-born woman to serve as a head of state. She previously served as the first female Prime Minister of Guyana from 17 March 1997 to 19 December 1997. The wife of Cheddi Jagan, whom she succeeded as president, she was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the Order of Excellence, in 1993, and the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal for Women's Rights in 1998.
Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 2010)
Siddhartha Shankar Ray was an Indian lawyer, diplomat and Indian National Congress politician from West Bengal. In his political career he held a number of offices, including Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–77), Union Minister of Education (1971–72), Governor of Punjab (1986–89) and Indian Ambassador to the United States (1992–96). He was, at one point, the main troubleshooter for the Congress Party.
20/10/1919
Tracy Hall, American chemist and academic (died 2008)
Howard Tracy Hall was an American physical chemist and one of the early pioneers in the research of synthetic diamonds, using a press of his own design.
20/10/1918
Martin Drewes, German soldier and pilot (died 2013)
Martin Drewes was a German Luftwaffe military aviator and night fighter ace during World War II. He was credited with 52 victories of which 43 were claimed at night whilst flying variants of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter. The majority of his victories were claimed over the Western Front in Defence of the Reich missions against the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command.
Robert Lochner, American-German soldier and journalist (died 2003)
Robert H. Lochner was a journalist who helped to revive the free media in West Germany after World War II and who is most well known for assisting John F. Kennedy with his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in 1963.
20/10/1917
Stéphane Hessel, German-French activist and diplomat (died 2013)
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
Ants Kaljurand, Estonian anti-communist, freedom fighter and forest brother (died 1951)
Ants Kaljurand popularly known as Terrifying Ants,, was an Estonian anti-communist, and forest brother during and after World War II.
Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)
Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
20/10/1914
Fayard Nicholas, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (died 2006)
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger brother Harold Nicholas made up the Nicholas Brothers tap dance duo, who starred in the MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943), The Pirate (1948), and Hard Four (2007). The Nicholas brothers also starred in the 20th Century-Fox musicals Down Argentine Way (1940), Sun Valley Serenade (1941), and Orchestra Wives (1942).
20/10/1913
Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (died 1998)
Louis Marshall Jones, known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer. He was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978.
20/10/1912
Ruhi Su, Turkish singer-songwriter (died 1985)
Mehmet Ruhi Su was a Turkish opera singer, Turkish folk singer and saz virtuoso of probable Armenian origin.
20/10/1910
Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (died 2013)
Chen Liting was a Chinese playwright, drama and film director, screenwriter, and film theorist. He was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist China, together with Shi Dongshan, Cai Chusheng, and Zheng Junli. His most famous film was Women Side by Side (1949).
20/10/1909
Carla Laemmle, American actress and photographer (died 2014)
Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle, known professionally as Carla Laemmle and occasionally as Beth Laemmle, was an American actress and dancer, and the niece of Universal Pictures studio founder Carl Laemmle. As an actress/dancer, she is known primarily for her roles in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Dracula (1931). At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving actors of the silent film era, with her career spanning nearly 90 years, also with one of the longest gaps.
Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter (died 1993)
Yasushi Sugiyama was a Japanese painter of the Shōwa and Heisei eras, who practiced the nihonga style of watercolour painting.
20/10/1908
Stuart Hamblen, American singer-songwriter, actor, and radio show host (died 1989)
Carl Stuart Hamblen was an American entertainer who in 1926 became one of radio's first singing cowboys, going on to become a singer, actor, radio show host and songwriter. He converted to Christianity under the ministry of Billy Graham, becoming a temperance movement supporter and running several times for political office. He is best known as the composer of the Southern gospel hymn "It Is No Secret " and the song "This Ole House" (1954); which was most notably recorded by Rosemary Clooney and Shakin' Stevens.
20/10/1907
Arlene Francis, American actress and television personality (died 2001)
Arlene Francis was an American game show panelist, actress, and radio and television talk show host. She was a pioneer for women in television, and is best known for her long-running role as a panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, on which she appeared regularly from 1950 to 1975.
20/10/1904
Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (died 1986)
Thomas Clement Douglas was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His government introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program.
Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (died 2006)
Enolia Pettigen McMillan was an American educator, civil rights activist, and community leader. She was the first female national president of the NAACP.
Anna Neagle, English actress, singer, and producer (died 1986)
Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer.
20/10/1901
Frank Churchill, American film composer (died 1942)
Frank Edwin Churchill was an American film composer and songwriter. He wrote music for many classic films produced by Walt Disney, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo and Bambi.
Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress, and dancer (died 1993)
Adelaide Louise Hall was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938. Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2003 as the world's most enduring recording artist, having released material over eight consecutive decades. She performed with major artists such as Art Tatum, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande, Rudy Vallee, and Jools Holland, and recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington and with Fats Waller.
20/10/1900
Ismail al-Azhari, Sudanese politician, 3rd President of Sudan (died 1969)
Ismail al-Azhari was a Sudanese nationalist and political figure. He served as the first Prime Minister of Sudan between 1954 and 1956, and as Head of State of Sudan from 1965 until he was overthrown by Gaafar Nimeiry in 1969.
Wayne Morse, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1974)
Wayne Lyman Morse was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing the Democratic Party’s leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds.
20/10/1897
Yi Un, South Korean general (died 1970)
Yi Un was the 28th Head of the Korean Imperial House, an Imperial Japanese Army general and the last Imperial Crown Prince of the Korean Empire. Before becoming the heir apparent to Sunjong of Korea, who became the emperor in 1907, Yi Un was known as the title Prince Imperial Yeong (영친왕). In 1910, the Korean Empire was annexed by Japan and Emperor Sunjong was forced to abdicate, and Yi Un married Princess Masako of Nashimoto, the eldest daughter of Prince Nashimoto Morimasa, on 28 April 1920 at Tokyo.
20/10/1895
Rex Ingram, American actor (died 1969)
Rex Ingram was an American stage, film, and television actor.
Morrie Ryskind, American writer/director (died 1985)
Morris Ryskind was an American dramatist, lyricist and writer of theatrical productions and movies who became a conservative political activist later in life.
20/10/1894
Olive Thomas, American model and actress (died 1920)
Olive Thomas was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model. Her birth certificate appears to list her name as Oliva, but this is widely thought to be an error. In the 1900 census, she is listed as Olive R. Duffy.
20/10/1893
Charley Chase, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1940)
Charles Joseph Parrott, known professionally by stage name Charley Chase, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, screenwriter and film director. He worked for many pioneering comedy studios but is chiefly associated with the producer Hal Roach. Chase was the elder brother of the comedian/director James Parrott.
20/10/1891
Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (died 1973)
Samuel Flagg Bemis was an American historian and biographer. For many years he taught at Yale University. He was also president of the American Historical Association and a specialist in American diplomatic history. He was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Jerald A. Combs says he was "the greatest of all historians of early American diplomacy."
James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
Sir James Chadwick was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in Britain in 1945 for his achievements in nuclear physics.
20/10/1890
Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (died 1968)
Aleksander Maaker, nicknamed Torupilli-Sass was a folk musician, a player of the traditional torupill, the Estonian bagpipe. Maaker was from the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. At the time of his death, the only other torupill player was the revivalist Olev Roomet, at the time a choir member, though other revivalist such as Ants Taul took up the instrument and its construction beginning in the 1970s.
20/10/1889
Johann Gruber, Austrian priest and saint (died 1944)
Johann Gruber, also known as "Papa Gruber" and "The Saint of Gusen", was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest who was imprisoned in Concentration Camp Gusen I from 1940 until he was murdered by the camp commandant on Holy Friday 1944. In the concentration camp, Gruber helped many others survive by raising funds from outside the camp and bribing the SS men and kapos in order to organise the delivery of food to starving inmates.
Luo Yixiu, first wife of Mao Zedong (died 1910)
Luo Yixiu was the first wife of Chinese communist revolutionary and future leader of China, Mao Zedong, to whom she was married from 1908 until her death. Coming from the area around Shaoshan, Hunan, in south central China – the same region as Mao – her family were impoverished local landowners.
20/10/1887
Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (died 1981)
Prince Yasuhiko Asaka was the founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family and served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese invasion of China and the Second World War. He was the son-in-law of Emperor Meiji and uncle by marriage of Emperor Hirohito. He is most notable for being the commander of Japanese forces outside Nanjing in December 1937, when he presided over the mass murder and rape of hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians during the Nanjing Massacre.
20/10/1883
Karl Probst, American engineer (died 1963)
Karl Probst was an American freelance engineer and automotive pioneer, credited with drafting the design drawings of the first prototype of the Bantam Reconnaissance Car, also known as the World War II "jeep" in 1940.
20/10/1882
Margaret Dumont, American actress (died 1965)
Margaret Dumont was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films; Groucho Marx called her "practically the fifth Marx brother."
Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (died 1956)
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known by the stage name Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian–American actor. He was best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic Dracula (1931), Ygor in both Son of Frankenstein (1939) and Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956.
20/10/1877
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, American businessman (died 1915)
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Vanderbilt family. A sportsman, he participated in and pioneered a number of related endeavors. He died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
20/10/1874
Charles Ives, American composer (died 1954)
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Later in life, the quality of his music was publicly recognized through the efforts of contemporaries like Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, and he came to be regarded as an "American original".
20/10/1873
Nellie McClung, Canadian author and suffragist (died 1951)
Nellie Letitia McClung was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book Sowing Seeds in Danny, and would eventually publish sixteen books, including two autobiographies. She played a leading role in the women's suffrage movement in Canada, helping to grant women the right to vote in Alberta and Manitoba in 1916. McClung was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1921, where she served until 1926.
Jussi Merinen, Finnish politician (died 1918)
Juho Rikard Merinen was a Finnish trade unionist, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Turku Province North between May 1907 and July 1908. He was executed by the White Guard during the Finnish Civil War.
20/10/1871
Atul Prasad Sen, Indian songwriter (died 1934)
Atul Prasad Sen was a Bengali composer, lyricist, singer, writer, lawyer, philanthropist and educationist.
20/10/1864
James F. Hinkle, American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (died 1951)
James Fielding Hinkle was an American banker, politician and the sixth governor of New Mexico.
20/10/1859
John Dewey, American psychologist and philosopher (died 1952)
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
20/10/1858
John Burns, English union leader and politician, President of the Board of Trade (died 1943)
John Elliot Burns was an English trade unionist and politician, particularly associated with London politics and Battersea. He was a socialist and then a Liberal Member of Parliament and Minister. He was anti-alcohol and a keen sportsman. When the Liberal cabinet made a decision for war on 2 August 1914, he resigned and played no further role in politics. After retiring from politics, he developed an expertise in London history and coined the phrase "The Thames is liquid history".
20/10/1854
Arthur Rimbaud, French soldier and poet (died 1891)
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
20/10/1847
Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter (died 1906)
Frits Thaulow was a Norwegian Impressionist painter renowned for his naturalistic depictions of landscape.
20/10/1832
Constantin Lipsius, German architect and theorist (died 1894)
Johannes Wilhelm Constantin Lipsius was a German architect and architectural theorist, best known for his controversial design of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Exhibition Building (1883–1894) on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden, today known as the Lipsius-Bau.
20/10/1822
Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and judge (died 1896)
Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
20/10/1819
Báb, Iranian religious leader, founded Bábism (died 1850)
The Báb was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. The Báb gradually and progressively revealed his claim in his extensive writings to be a Manifestation of God, of a status as great as Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, receiving revelations as profound as the Torah, Gospel, and Quran. This new revelation, he claimed, would release the creative energies and capacities necessary for the establishment of global unity and peace.
20/10/1808
Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (died 1875)
Karl Andree was a German geographer, publicist and consul.
20/10/1801
Melchior Berri, Swiss architect and educator, designed the Natural History Museum of Basel (died 1854)
Melchior Berri was a Swiss architect.
20/10/1790
Patrick Matthew. Scottish farmer and biologist (died 1874)
Patrick Matthew was a Scottish grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner, who contributed to the understanding of horticulture, silviculture, and agriculture in general, with a focus on maintaining the British navy and feeding new colonies. He published the basic concept of natural selection as a mechanism in evolutionary adaptation and speciation and species constancy or stasis in 1831 in a book called Naval Timber and Arboriculture in which he uses the phrase "the natural process of selection". He did not further publicly develop his ideas until after Darwin and Wallace published their theories of evolution by natural selection in 1859. It has been suggested that Darwin and/or Wallace had encountered Matthew's earlier work, but there is no evidence of this. After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin became aware of Matthew's 1831 book and subsequent editions of The Origin include an acknowledgment that Matthew "gives precisely the same view on the origin of species as that" given in the "present volume".
20/10/1785
George Ormerod, English historian and author (died 1873)
George Ormerod was an English antiquary and historian. Among his writings was a major county history of Cheshire, in North West England.
20/10/1784
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1865)
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, was a British Anglo-Irish politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to his death in 1865. A member of the Tory, Whig and Liberal parties, Palmerston was also the first Liberal prime minister. An ideologue of "Free-Trade" and a major sponsor of the Opium Wars against the Chinese Empire and the war against Egypt, he dominated British foreign policy from 1830 to 1865 when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power.
20/10/1780
Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (died 1825)
Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese, better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI. Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802.
20/10/1759
Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (died 1815)
Chauncey Goodrich was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who represented that state in the United States Congress as both a senator and a representative.
20/10/1740
Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch author and poet (died 1805)
Isabelle de Charrière, also known as Madame de Charrière and in the Netherlands as Belle van Zuylen, was a Dutch and Swiss writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier, Neuchâtel, Principality of Neuchâtel. She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. She took a keen interest in the society and politics of her age, and her work around the time of the French Revolution is regarded as being of particular interest.
20/10/1719
Gottfried Achenwall, German historian, economist, and jurist (died 1772)
Gottfried Achenwall was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics.
20/10/1718
Catherine Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, Scottish aristocrat (died 1779)
Catherine Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, was the wife of Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon, and the mother of the 4th Duke. After the duke's death, she married General Staats Long Morris.
20/10/1711
Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, (died 1795)
Timothy Dwight Ruggles was an American colonial military leader, jurist, and politician. He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and later a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.
20/10/1679
Samuel von Cocceji, Prussian jurist and statesman (died 1755)
Samuel Freiherr von Cocceji was a German official from the Electorate of the Palatinate who served Brandenburg-Prussia and the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the son of Heinrich von Cocceji.
20/10/1677
Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland (died 1766)
Stanisław I Leszczyński, also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, was twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and at various times Prince of Deux-Ponts, Duke of Bar and Duke of Lorraine.
20/10/1660
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (died 1723)
Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven PC, styled 17th Baron Willoughby de Eresby between 1666 and 1701, and known as 4th Earl of Lindsey between 1701 and 1706, and as 1st Marquess of Lindsey between 1706 and 1715, was a British statesman and nobleman.
20/10/1632
Edward Hungerford, English politician (died 1711)
Sir Edward Hungerford, KB, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1702. He was famous for his profligate ways and sold thirty manors, including the family seat at Farleigh Hungerford, to fund his extravagant lifestyle. He founded Hungerford Market at Charing Cross as a commercial venture.
20/10/1620
Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (died 1691)
Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp or Cuijp was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father, Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes in a golden early morning or late afternoon light. He was born and died in Dordrecht.
20/10/1616
Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (died 1680)
Thomas Bartholin was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian. He discovered the lymphatic system in humans and advanced the theory of refrigeration anesthesia, being the first to describe it scientifically.
20/10/1612
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (died 1698)
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, 2nd Earl of Cork was an Anglo-Irish nobleman who served as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and was a Cavalier.
20/10/1554
Bálint Balassi, Hungarian writer and noble (died 1594)
Baron Valentinus Balassa de Kékkő et Gyarmat was a Renaissance lyric poet. He wrote in nine languages: Latin, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Slovak, Croatian, Magyar and Romanian. He is the founder of modern slovak lyric and erotic poetry. He lived at Kingdom of Hungary, a multinational state in Central Europe.
20/10/1496
Claude, Duke of Guise (died 1550)
Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise was a French aristocrat and general. He became the first Duke of Guise in 1528.
20/10/1475
Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Italian poet and playwright (died 1525)
Giovanni Rucellai, known as Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, was an Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and man of letters in Renaissance Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. A member of a wealthy family of wool merchants and one of the richest men in Florence, he was cousin to Pope Leo X and linked by marriage to the powerful Strozzi and de' Medici families. He was born in Florence, and died in Rome. He was the son of Bernardo Rucellai (1448–1514) and his wife Nannina de' Medici (1448–1493), and the grandson of Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai (1403–1481). He is now remembered mostly for his poem Le Api, one of the first poems composed in versi sciolti to achieve widespread acclaim.
20/10/0888
Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (died 923)
Year 888 (DCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.