Born on Wednesday, 22nd October – Famous Birthdays

22/10/2001

Brian Branch, American football player

Brian Amani Branch is an American professional football safety for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he was an All-American and a national champion. Branch was selected by the Lions in the second round of the 2023 NFL draft. In 2024, he earned his first Pro Bowl.

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Jo Yu-ri, South Korean singer and actress

Jo Yuri is a South Korean singer and actress. She is known as a former member of the South Korean–Japanese girl group Iz*One. She first gained prominence after participating in Mnet's reality competition series Produce 48 in 2018, where she finished in third place and debuted with Iz*One on October 29, 2018.

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22/10/2000

Baby Keem, American rapper and record producer

Hykeem Jamaal Carter Jr., known professionally as Baby Keem, is an American rapper and record producer. Raised in Las Vegas, he gained recognition in the late 2010s with his contributions to Black Panther: The Album (2018) by his cousin Kendrick Lamar and The Lion King: The Gift (2019) by Beyoncé. As a lead artist, he gained initial recognition for his 2019 sleeper hit single "Orange Soda", which received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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22/10/1999

Geraldo Perdomo, Dominican baseball player

Geraldo Rafael Perdomo is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021. He was named to his first MLB All-Star Game in 2023 and helped the Diamondbacks win their first National League pennant since 2001.

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22/10/1997

Jan Köstering, German politician

Jan Tobias Köstering is a German politician and member of the Bundestag. A member of The Left, he has represented North Rhine-Westphalia since March 2025.

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22/10/1996

B.I, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and producer

Kim Han-bin, known professionally as B.I (Korean: 비아이) is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer. He debuted in the South Korean boy band iKon under YG Entertainment in September 2015. On June 12, 2019, he departed from the group due to substance allegations. During his time with the group, he played a significant role in the production and songwriting of their music, and is credited as the sole record producer for all of the group's releases. His contributions to iKon's second studio album, Return, for the lead single "Love Scenario", earned him the prestigious "Songwriter of the Year" award at the 2018 Melon Music Awards.

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Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Norwegian ski runner

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo is a Norwegian cross-country skier who represents Byåsen IL. He holds multiple records, among them for being the youngest male skier in history to win the FIS Cross-Country World Cup, the Tour de Ski, a World Championship event, and an Olympic event in cross-country skiing.

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22/10/1994

Corbin Burnes, American baseball player

Corbin Brian Burnes is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers and Baltimore Orioles.

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22/10/1993

Charalambos Lykogiannis, Greek footballer

Charalampos "Babis" Lykogiannis, also known as Lykos, is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Serie A club Bologna and the Greece national team.

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22/10/1990

David Savard, Canadian ice hockey player

David Savard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was selected in the fourth round, 94th overall, by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2009 NHL entry draft. Savard also played for the Tampa Bay Lightning, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2021, and Montreal Canadiens.

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22/10/1989

JPEGMafia, American rapper and singer

Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, known professionally as JPEGMAFIA, is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, he released his debut studio album, Black Ben Carson (2016) independently as well as his second album Veteran (2018), which received widespread critical acclaim. His third album, All My Heroes Are Cornballs (2019) entered the Billboard 200, and had signed to Republic for the release of his fourth album LP! (2021); both were met with continued critical acclaim. In 2023, he released his collaborative studio album Scaring the Hoes (2023) through AWAL. In 2024, he released his fifth studio album I Lay Down My Life for You (2024).

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Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player

Muhammad Hassan "Mo" Wilkerson is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Temple Owls, and was selected by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft.

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22/10/1988

Sarah Barrow, English diver

Sarah Barrow is a British retired diver who competed in several LEN European Aquatics Championships and Commonwealth Games, where she won multiple medals.

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Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress

Parineeti Chopra is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Chopra is a recipient of several accolades, including a Filmfare and a National Film Award. Chopra has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2013.

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22/10/1987

Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner

Erba Tiki Gelana is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. Her personal best of 2:18:58 remained the Ethiopian national record for the event from 2012 to 2017. She won the 2011 Amsterdam Marathon and the 2012 Rotterdam Marathon. She won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics with a time of 2:23:07, a new Olympic record.

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Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer-songwriter

Donatas Montvydas, also known by his stage name Donny Montell, is a Lithuanian singer-songwriter who represented Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, held in Baku, Azerbaijan. He represented Lithuania for a second time in 2016, when he represented his country in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress

Park Ha-sun is a South Korean actress and entertainer. She made her debut in 2005 with the TV series Love Needs a Miracle. Park rose to fame for her portrayal of Queen Inhyeon in MBC's 2010 historical drama Dong Yi, and as a teacher in the sitcom High Kick: Revenge of the Short Legged that aired in 2011–2012.

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22/10/1986

Chancellor, South Korean-American musician

Kim Jung-seung, better known by his stage name Chancellor (챈슬러), is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Born in Seoul, his family immigrated to the United States in his youth where he lived until returning to South Korea in 2009. He debuted in the trio One Way the following year, which found little success. He partnered with Park Jang-geun to form the songwriting and production duo Duble Sidekick, which garnered success in 2012. Chancellor left the team two years later to pursue a solo career. He released his debut studio album My Full Name in 2016.

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Kyle Gallner, American actor

Kyle Steven Gallner is an American actor. He began acting in 2000, earning recognition for playing Bart Allen in the superhero series Smallville (2004–2009), Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas in the mystery drama series Veronica Mars (2005–2006), and Reed Garrett in the police drama series CSI: NY (2006–2010).

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Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player

Kara Elise Lang Romero is a former Canadian soccer player and current sports analyst, who represented her country in two FIFA World Cups and the Olympic Games, and played club soccer for Vancouver Whitecaps Women. She is the youngest woman to be named to Canada National Women's Team, making her National Team debut on 1 March 2002 at the Algarve Cup in Portugal at age 15. Lang retired on 5 January 2011 at the age of 24 due to recurring knee and ACL injuries. Lang began a comeback in 2013, with her ambition being to help Canada in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, but suffered a third ACL injury in February 2014, effectively ending her comeback. She now has two sons and a daughter with professional baseball player Ricky Romero. She was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame as a player in November 2015.

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Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer

Ștefan Daniel Radu is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a left-back or a centre-back and spent the majority of his professional career with Lazio.

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22/10/1984

Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player

Aleksandar "Aleks" Marić is an Australian-Serbian former professional basketball player. Marić gained a reputation as a winner over the course of his successful European career, securing contracts with several basketball powerhouse outfits. Rising to stardom at Partizan Belgrade in 2010, he was part of a Serbian Cup and Adriatic League championship winning team, as well as an All-EuroLeague First Team member. That breakout season earned him selection to the Australian national team for the 2010 World Championships and the 2012 London Olympics. In 2019, he became an assistant coach with the Sydney Kings.

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Antti Pihlström, Finnish ice hockey player

Antti Sakari Pihlström is a Finnish professional ice hockey left winger who is currently playing with HPK of the Finnish Liiga.

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22/10/1983

Byul, South Korean singer

Kim Go-eun, better known by the stage name Byul, is a South Korean singer. She debuted in 2002 with the album December 32.

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Plan B, British singer and actor

Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew, better known by his stage name Plan B, is an English rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and filmmaker. He first emerged as a rapper, releasing his debut album, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words, in 2006. His second studio album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks (2010), was a soul and R&B album, and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. He has also collaborated with other artists such as Chase & Status, most notably on the 2009 top ten single "End Credits".

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22/10/1982

Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player

Robinson José Canó Mercedes is a Dominican-American professional baseball second baseman for the Diablos Rojos del México of the Mexican League; he also captains the Estrellas Orientales of the Dominican Professional Baseball League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, San Diego Padres, and Atlanta Braves.

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Heath Miller, American football player

Earl Heath Miller Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons from 2005 to 2015. Miller played college football for the Virginia Cavaliers, earning unanimous All-American honors and winning the John Mackey Award. The Steelers selected him in the first round with the 30th overall pick of the 2005 NFL draft.

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Darren O'Day, American baseball player

Darren Christopher O'Day is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and Atlanta Braves.

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Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist

Mark Renshaw is a retired Australian racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the Française des Jeux, Crédit Agricole, HTC–Highroad, Belkin Pro Cycling, Etixx–Quick-Step and Team Dimension Data teams. His most notable wins are the general classification of the 2011 Tour of Qatar, and the one-day race Clásica de Almería in 2013.

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22/10/1980

Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer

Niall Breslin, known as Bressie, is an Irish musician, former Westmeath Gaelic footballer and Leinster Rugby player. Breslin found success as the lead singer, guitarist, songwriter with pop band The Blizzards, as a co-writer and producer with XIX Entertainment and as a solo artist. He was the winning coach on the first, third and fifth seasons of The Voice of Ireland.

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Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby league player

Luke O'Donnell is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he previously played his club football in Australia with National Rugby League teams the Balmain Tigers, Wests Tigers, North Queensland Cowboys and the Sydney Roosters, with whom he featured in the club's 13th premiership. O'Donnell also played for two seasons with the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League.

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22/10/1979

Jannero Pargo, American basketball player and coach

Jannero Pargo is an American professional basketball coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Neosho County CC and the Arkansas Razorbacks.

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22/10/1978

Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (died 2007)

Chaswe Ronald Nsofwa was a Zambian international footballer who played as a striker. He died during a training match in Be'er Sheva, Israel.

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Owais Shah, Pakistani-English cricketer

Owais Alam Shah is a former England cricketer. A middle-order batsman, he played for Middlesex from 1995 to 2010 and Essex from 2011 to 2013 before announcing his retirement from first-class cricket. He played Twenty20 cricket for Hampshire in 2014 and 2015. He also represented England in all forms of the game.

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22/10/1976

Luke Adams, Australian race walker

Luke Kendall Adams is a male race walker from Australia, who was born in Tanzania. His parents worked as medical missionaries. He is a three-time Olympian for Australia. On 23 June 2000, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal.

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22/10/1975

Martín Cardetti, Argentinian footballer and manager

Martín Cardetti is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward. He played professional club football in Argentina, Spain, France, Mexico, Uruguay and Colombia.

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Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer

Miguel Ángel "Míchel" Salgado Fernández is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

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22/10/1974

Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter

Tim Kinsella is an American musician, author, and film director from Chicago, Illinois. Known for his eccentric singing voice, he first rose to prominence as lead singer and lyricist of the emo band Cap'n Jazz which he co-founded with his brother Mike in 1989. Following its dissolution in 1995, he formed Joan of Arc the same year and served as its lead singer, primary songwriter, and only continuous member until their breakup in 2020.

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Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player

Miroslav Šatan is a Slovak former professional ice hockey right winger, who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), five in the Tipos Extraliga, and three in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Šatan was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2019.

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22/10/1973

D'Lo Brown, American wrestler

Accie Julius Connor, better known by his ring name D'Lo Brown, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to TNA Wrestling, where he works as a producer. He is best known for his time with WWE. Brown is also known for his appearances in Ring of Honor, All Japan Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Noah.

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Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer and manager

Andrés Palop Cervera is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer

Mark Richard van der Zijden is a Dutch freestyle and medley swimmer, who swam in the qualifying heats of the bronze winning 4×200 m freestyle relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Four years earlier, when Atlanta, Georgia hosted the Games, Van der Zijden became seventh in the same event.

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22/10/1971

Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player

Amanda Coetzer is a South African former professional tennis player. She was ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Women's Tennis Association, achieved in November 1997. Coetzer won nine WTA Tour titles in singles and nine in doubles, and reached three major singles semifinals and one major doubles final. Coetzer earned a reputation for regularly beating players who were ranked higher than her. By virtue of scoring so many upset wins in spite of her 5'2" (1.58m) stature, she gained the nickname: "The Little Assassin".

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Kornél Dávid, Hungarian basketball player

Dávid Kornél is a Hungarian former professional basketball player. He is yet the only Hungarian who played in the NBA.

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José Manuel Martínez, Spanish runner

José Manuel Martínez Fernández, known as Chema Martínez, is a Spanish long-distance runner. He is married to Spanish field hockey player Nuria Moreno.

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Jennifer Lee, American filmmaker

Jennifer Michelle Lee is an American filmmaker and playwright. She served as the chief creative officer (CCO) of Walt Disney Animation Studios from 2018 to 2024, before stepping down to return to full-time filmmaking. She is best known as the writer and one of the directors of Frozen (2013) and its sequel Frozen 2 (2019), the former of which earned her an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Besides being the first female CCO of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Lee was the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film and the first female director of two feature films that each earned more than $1 billion in gross box office revenue.

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22/10/1970

Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer and manager

Winston Lloyd Bogarde is a Dutch retired professional footballer. He was known for his physical strength, and played mostly as a centre-back although he could occasionally play as left-back.

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Javier Milei, Argentine politician and economist, President of Argentina

Javier Gerardo Milei is an Argentine politician and economist who has served as the 59th president of Argentina since 2023. Milei also served as a national deputy representing the City of Buenos Aires for the party La Libertad Avanza from 2021 until his resignation in 2023, due to him being elected President of Argentina that same year.

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22/10/1969

Julio Borges, Venezuelan politician

Julio Andrés Borges Junyent is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. In the late 1990s, Borges hosted a TV court show called "Justicia Para Todos" on Radio Caracas Televisión. He later co-founded the party Primero Justicia in 2000 along with Henrique Capriles and Leopoldo López.

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Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player

Héctor Pacheco Carrasco is a Dominican former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Kintetsu Buffaloes. He bats and throws right-handed.

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Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer-songwriter

Helmut Lotti, is a Belgian tenor and singer-songwriter. Lotti performs in several styles and languages. Once an Elvis impersonator, he has sung African and Latino and Jewish music hit records, and he crossed over into classical music in the 1990s. In 2023 he brought a selection of his favourite Heavy Metal songs at Graspop Metal Meeting.

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Coque Malla, Spanish musician and actor

Jorge Malla Valle, better known as Coque Malla, is a Spanish musician and actor, frontman of the group Los Ronaldos. His mother was the actress Amparo Valle, who died on 29 September 2016.

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22/10/1968

Stephanie Cutter, American lawyer and political consultant

Stephanie Cutter is an American communications and political consultant. She was an advisor to President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris. She previously worked in campaign and communications roles for other prominent Democrats including Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. In 2026, she became an advisor to the gambling platform Kalshi.

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Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player

Stéphane Yvon Quintal is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 16 seasons. He served as senior vice president of player safety for the NHL from 2014 to 2016. Married to Véronique Dea, father of Jézabel Quintal, Kenzo Quintal and Alexie Quintal.

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22/10/1967

Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor

Salvatore Di Vittorio is an Italian composer and conductor. He is the music director and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York.

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Oona King, Baroness King of Bow, British business executive and politician

Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow, is a British business executive and former Labour Party politician. She was a Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 until 2005; and a member of the House of Lords from 2011 to 2024.

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Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (died 1994)

Ulrike Maier was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria, a two-time World Champion in super-G. She competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics.

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Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster

Ronald Frederick Bradley Tugnutt is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Tugnutt played several seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Dallas Stars. While a member of the Nordiques on March 21, 1991, Tugnutt set a modern-day NHL record for most saves in a regular-season game when he stopped 70 of 73 shots in a 3–3 tie with the Boston Bruins.

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22/10/1966

Yuri Arbachakov, Russian-Japanese boxer

Yuri Yakovlevich Arbachakov is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 1997. He held the WBC flyweight title from 1992 to 1997.

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Maelo Ruiz, New York City-born Puerto Rican Salsa romántica singer

Ismael Ruiz Hernández, better known as Maelo Ruiz, is a New York City-born Puerto Rican Salsa singer identified within the Salsa romántica genre.

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22/10/1965

Sumito Estévez, Venezuelan chef

Sumito Estévez Singh is a Venezuelan chef, writer, entrepreneur, educator and television personality.

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A. L. Kennedy, Scottish comedian, journalist, and author

Alison Louise Kennedy is a Scottish writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns and reviews to European newspapers.

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Otis Smith, American football player and coach

Otis Smith III is an American football coach and former player professionally as a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL).

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Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Piotr Paweł Wiwczarek, also known as Peter, is a Polish musician who is the vocalist and lead guitarist for the death metal band Vader, as the only constant member of the band since its inception. He has also collaborated with Kazimierz "Para" Paraszczuk on his tribute album, Bandid Rockin', and is the producer of several of Vader's releases. He was also the founder and guitarist of a side-project, named Panzer X. Panzer X was active between 2004 and 2007. After giving a single concert in 2012, they disbanded again that same year.

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22/10/1964

Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (died 1993)

Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s with Cibona and Real Madrid before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989.

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Amit Shah, Indian politician, Minister of Home Affairs (since 2019).

Amit Anilchandra Shah is an Indian politician who has served as the 32nd Minister of Home Affairs since 2019, the longest-serving holder of the office in Indian history. Additionally he has been the 1st Minister of Co-operation since July 2021. He is also the member of parliament (MP) for Gandhinagar. He served as the 10th president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He had been elected as a member of the upper house of parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019. Shah is a chief strategist of the BJP and an ardent ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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22/10/1961

Barbara Potter, American tennis player

Barbara Potter is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the WTA Tour between 1978 and 1989, winning six singles titles and 19 doubles titles. Her highest singles ranking was No. 7 in December 1982.

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22/10/1960

Darryl Jenifer, American bass player

Darryl Aaron Jenifer is an American musician and music producer, widely known as the bassist for the hardcore punk band Bad Brains and for the rap-rock group The White Mandingos. He appeared in TV's Illest Minority Moments presented by ego trip and the three-part ego trip's Race-O-Rama on VH1.

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22/10/1959

Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (died 2005)

Arto Salminen was a Finnish writer known for his social commentary.

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Marc Shaiman, American composer and songwriter

Marc Shaiman is an American composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, widely known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman, actor Billy Crystal, entertainer Bette Midler, and director Rob Reiner. Shaiman has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award — as well as seven Academy Award nominations.

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22/10/1958

Bobby Blotzer, American drummer

Robert John Blotzer is an American musician best known as the drummer for metal band Ratt. He attended Torrance High School in Torrance, California along with his future Ratt bandmate Juan Croucier.

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22/10/1957

Henry Lauterbach, German jumper

Henry Lauterbach is a retired East German high jumper and long jumper.

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Daniel Melingo, Argentine musician

Daniel Melingo is an Argentine musician, with a background in rock. He later became a tango artist and toured with his band Los Ramones del Tango.

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22/10/1956

Alejandro Kuropatwa, Argentine photographer (died 2003)

Alejandro Kuropatwa was an Argentine photographer. Born in Buenos Aires to a family of Jewish immigrants, in his youth he studied photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology between 1979 and 1982. He then went back to Buenos Aires where he developed his career as a professional photographer. During the eighties and nineties, he became famous for his pictures of main Argentine rock stars such as Charly García, Gustavo Cerati and Fito Páez. Due to his festive lifestyle and extravagant personality, he was known as the "Argentine Andy Warhol". Openly gay, Kuropatwa discovered that he had AIDS in 1984. After coming close to death many times, a new generation of anti AIDS drugs stabilized his health and he survived for almost 20 years. In 2002, Kuropatwa won the Konex Award as the most influential Argentine photographer of the nineties. That same year, Kuropatwa exhibited his lifetime of work at the Buenos Aires National Museum of Fine Arts. Kuropatwa died in 2003 due to complications related to AIDS, at the age of 47.

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22/10/1955

John Adam, Australian rugby league player

John Adam is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for the North Sydney Bears in the New South Wales Rugby League competition. His position of choice was as a centre though he could also, and often did, play on the wing.

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22/10/1954

Graham Joyce, English author and educator (died 2014)

Graham William Joyce was a British writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award, the World Fantasy Award, and six times the British Fantasy Award for both his novels and short stories.

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22/10/1953

René Arce Islas, Mexican politician

René Arce Islas is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PVEM. He served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District and as Senator during the LX and LXI Legislatures, then with the PRD.

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22/10/1952

Julie Dash, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Julie Ethel Dash is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer. Dash received her MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmmakers known as the L.A. Rebellion.

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22/10/1950

Donald Ramotar, Guyanese politician, 8th President of Guyana

Donald Rabindranauth Ramotar is a Guyanese politician who was President of Guyana from 2011 to 2015. He was also the General Secretary of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) from 1997 to 2013.

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22/10/1949

Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 1990)

Steven John Bator, known professionally as Stiv Bator and later as Stiv Bators, was an American punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands Dead Boys and the Lords of the New Church.

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Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (died 2015)

Vasilios Magginas was a Greek politician, member of the Greek Parliament for the New Democracy for the Aetolia-Acarnania constituency and government minister.

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Manfred Trojahn, German flute player, composer, and conductor

Manfred Trojahn is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher.

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Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager

Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger is a French former football manager and player who has been serving as FIFA's Chief of Global Football Development since 2019. Nicknamed "Le Professeur", he is widely regarded as one of the most influential football managers of his generation. Wenger was the manager of Arsenal from 1996 to 2018, becoming the longest-serving and most successful manager in the club's history and the longest-serving manager in the history of the Premier League.

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22/10/1948

Mike Hendrick, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (died 2021)

Michael Hendrick was an English cricketer, who played in thirty Tests and twenty-two One Day Internationals for England from 1973 to 1981. He played for Derbyshire from 1969 to 1981, and for Nottinghamshire from 1982 to 1984. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.

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Debbie Macomber, American author

Debbie Macomber is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her Cedar Cove series of novels was adapted into a television series of the same name. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded both a RITA Award and a lifetime achievement award by the Romance Writers of America.

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22/10/1947

Raymond Bachand, Canadian lawyer and politician

Raymond Bachand is a former politician, a businessman and a lawyer in Quebec, Canada. He was the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Outremont, and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party caucus. He is the former Minister of Finance and Revenue in the majority government of Premier of Quebec Jean Charest, and was previously Minister for Tourism during the minority government mandate from April 2007 to October 2008, and Minister of economic development of innovation and export trade from his election until June 2009. Bachand is a former trade unionist. On 26 August 2013, Bachand resigned his seat.

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Haley Barbour, American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi

Haley Reeves Barbour is an American attorney, politician, and lobbyist who served as the 63rd governor of Mississippi from 2004 to 2012. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997.

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Adam Gondvi, Indian poet (died 2011)

Adam Gondvi was an Indian poet from Atta Paraspur, Gonda, Uttar Pradesh. He wrote Poetry in Hindi, highlighting the plight of marginalized castes, Dalits, impoverished people. He was born in a poor farmer family that nonetheless had considerable arable land. Gondvi's poetry was known for social commentary, scathing view of corrupt politicians and revolutionary nature.

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22/10/1946

Claude Charron, Canadian educator and politician

Claude Charron is a former CEGEP teacher, provincial politician, writer and broadcaster. He became Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the youngest Member of the National Assembly of Quebec.

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Godfrey Chitalu, Zambian footballer (died 1993)

Godfrey Chitalu, nicknamed Ucar, was a Zambian footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as the greatest Zambian player of all time as he holds his national team's goalscoring record and was voted Zambian footballer of the year five times. In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African footballers of the past 50 years. Chitalu is the all-time African men's top goal scorer in international football with 79 goals.

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Elizabeth Connell, South African mezzo-soprano (died 2012)

Frances Elizabeth Connell was a South African-born operatic mezzo-soprano, and later soprano, whose career took place mainly in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist

Kelvin Calder MacKenzie is an English media executive and a former newspaper editor. He became editor of The Sun in 1981, by which time the publication had been established as Britain's largest-circulation newspaper. After leaving The Sun in 1994, he was appointed to executive roles in satellite television and other broadcasting outlets, as well as being involved in a number of publishing enterprises.

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Jaime Nebot, Ecuadorian politician

Jaime José Nebot Saadi is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. He formerly served as mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city. He is affiliated with the Christian Social Party (PSC) and the Madera de Guerrero Civic Movement. Nebot ran twice for president of Ecuador, in 1992 losing against Sixto Duran-Ballén, and in 1996 losing against Abdalá Bucaram.

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22/10/1945

Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and game show host

Yvan Ponton is a Canadian actor, commentator and television host. Ponton has had a lengthy acting career which includes roles in a variety of major French-Canadian television shows and movies. He is most well known to English-speaking audiences for his role as Jean-Guy Drouin in the 1977 film Slap Shot.

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Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper

Sheila Hilary Sherwood née Parkin is a former international long jumper who won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, and a gold medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympic Games and had a career best distance of 6.73 metres.

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Michael Stoute, Barbadian-English horse trainer

Sir Michael Ronald Stoute is a Barbadian British Thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing.

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Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

Leslie Abel West was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Mountain. West was named the 245th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2023.

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22/10/1943

Allen Coage, American-Canadian wrestler and coach (died 2007)

Allen James Coage was an American judoka and professional wrestler. He won medals for the United States at several international judo competitions, including the heavyweight bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and later appeared in professional wrestling promotions such as the World Wrestling Federation, New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling under the ring names Bad News Brown, Buffalo Allen, and Bad News Allen.

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Catherine E. Coulson, American actress (died 2015)

Catherine Elizabeth Coulson was an American stage and screen actress who worked behind the scenes on various studio features, magazine shows and independent films as well as acting in theater and film since the age of 15. She is best known for her role as Margaret Lanterman, the enigmatic Log Lady, in the David Lynch TV series Twin Peaks.

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Jan de Bont, Dutch director, producer, and cinematographer

Jan de Bont is a Dutch retired film director, producer, and a former cinematographer.

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Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Zanzibar (died 2021)

Seif Sharif Hamad was a Tanzanian politician who served as the First Vice President of Zanzibar and as Party Chairman of ACT Wazalendo.

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22/10/1942

Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1966)

Robert Gaston Fuller was an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for "Let Her Dance" and his cover of the Crickets' "I Fought the Law," recorded with his group the Bobby Fuller Four.

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Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican wrestler (died 2019)

Pedro Antonio Morales was a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in the United States with Worldwide Wrestling Associates (WWA) and the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF).

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22/10/1941

Charles Keating, English-American actor (died 2014)

Charles Keating was an English actor.

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22/10/1939

Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique

Joaquim Alberto Chissano is a Mozambican politician who served as the second President of Mozambique, from 1986 to 2005. He is credited with transforming the war-torn country of Mozambique into a successful African democracy. After his presidency, Chissano became an elder statesman, envoy and diplomat for both his home country and the United Nations. Chissano also served as Chairperson of the African Union from 2003 to 2004.

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George Cohen, English footballer (died 2022)

George Reginald Cohen was an English professional footballer who played as a right-back. He spent his entire professional career with Fulham and won the 1966 FIFA World Cup with England. He is a member of the English Football Hall of Fame and was the uncle of rugby union World Cup winner Ben Cohen.

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Tony Roberts, American actor and singer (died 2025)

David Anthony Roberts was an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. He is best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Woody Allen, having acted in six of his films, most notably Annie Hall (1977).

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22/10/1938

K. Indrapala, Sri Lankan historian and academic

Karthigesu Indrapala is a Sri Lankan academic, historian, archaeologist, author and former dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna.

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César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2024)

César Luis Menotti, known as El Flaco ("Slim"), was an Argentine football player and manager who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the Argentina national team.

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22/10/1937

Alan Ladd Jr., American film producer and executive (died 2022)

Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. was an American film industry executive and producer. He was president of 20th Century Fox from 1976 to 1979, during which he approved the production of Star Wars, on his confidence in George Lucas, which proved well-founded. He later established The Ladd Company and headed MGM/UA. Ladd won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1996 for producing Braveheart.

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José Larralde, Argentine singer-songwriter

José Larralde is an Argentine singer-songwriter of folk music.

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Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (died 1982)

Manos Loïzos was one of the most important Greek Cypriot music composers of the 20th century.

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22/10/1936

John Blashford-Snell, English soldier, author, and explorer

Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell is a former British Army officer, explorer and author. He founded Operation Raleigh and the Scientific Exploration Society.

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Peter Cook, English architect and academic

Sir Peter Cook is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram, and was knighted in 2007 by Elizabeth II for his services to architecture and teaching. He is also a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic. His achievements with Archigram were recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when the group was awarded the Royal Gold Medal.

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Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (died 2014)

Jovan Pavlović was a Serbian Orthodox prelate who was the metropolitan bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1982 until his death in 2014. He was one of the most prominent individuals in Serbian community in Croatia during his lifetime.

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22/10/1934

Donald McIntyre, New Zealand opera singer

Sir Donald Conroy McIntyre was a New Zealand operatic bass-baritone who made an international career, based at the Royal Opera House in London from 1967. He was a versatile singer but became best-known for portraying Wagner characters, especially Wotan in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring in 1976.

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22/10/1933

Carlos Alberto Sacheri, Argentine philosopher and martyr (died 1974)

Carlos Alberto Sacheri was an Argentine Thomist philosopher and scholar. He was murdered in front of his family by ERP members on 22 December 1974 in Buenos Aires; he was targeted because of his perceived anticommunism. He was a disciple of the priest Julio Meinvielle. The most widespread of his publications was The Clandestine Church (1971), a denunciation of modernism and liberation theology from traditional positions.

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Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and manager (died 2007)

Helmut Senekowitsch was an Austrian football player and later a football manager.

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22/10/1931

Ann Rule, American police officer and author (died 2015)

Ann Rae Rule was an American author of true crime books and articles. She is best known for The Stranger Beside Me (1980), about the serial killer Ted Bundy, her co-worker and one-time friend, who was later revealed to be a murderer. Rule wrote over 30 true crime books, including Small Sacrifices, about Oregon child murderer Diane Downs. Many of Rule's books center on murder cases that occurred in the Pacific Northwest and her adopted home state of Washington.

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22/10/1930

Estela de Carlotto, Argentine human rights activist

Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was kidnapped and missing while pregnant in Buenos Aires, in late 1977. Through stories, she could ascertain that her daughter had given birth to a boy, and that her grandson was appropriated and his identity changed. She searched for him for nearly 36 years, until, on 5 August 2014, after a DNA check voluntarily made by the person concerned, her grandson was identified, and became the 114th in the list of recovered grandchildren.

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José Guardiola, Spanish singer (died 2012)

José Guardiola Díaz de Rada, was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan. He represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963.

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22/10/1929

Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, English director and producer (died 2015)

Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett was a British film producer/director, author and hereditary peer.

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Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (died 1990)

Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Soviet professional footballer considered to be one of the greatest players of all time and the best goalkeeper in the history of the sport. He was the first and only goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or. He was known for his athleticism, positioning, imposing presence in goal, and acrobatic reflex saves. He was also deputy chairman of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union.

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22/10/1928

Clare Fischer, American pianist, composer and arranger (died 2012)

Douglas Clare Fischer was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After graduating from Michigan State University, he became the pianist and arranger for the vocal group the Hi-Lo's in the late 1950s.

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Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)

Nelson Pereira dos Santos was a Brazilian film director. He directed films such as Vidas Secas, based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, Rio, 40º Graus, and his most well-known film outside of Brazil is the black comedy How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971).

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22/10/1927

Allan Hendrickse, South African minister and politician (died 2005)

Helenard Joe Hendrickse, popularly known as Allan Hendrickse, was a South African politician, Congregationalist minister and teacher. He was a founder of the 1969–1994 Labour Party of South Africa and a leader of the South African House of Representatives, and he participated in an act of defiance by swimming at a South African beach reserved for Whites only.

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22/10/1925

Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (died 2012)

Slater Nelson "Dugie" Martin Jr. was an American professional basketball player and coach who was a playmaking guard for 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A seven-time NBA All-Star, he won five championships. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)

Dorothy Veronica "Dory" Previn was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.

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Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (died 2014)

Edith Kawelohea Kapule McKinzie was an American genealogist, educator, author, and expert in hula and chant. A Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiian, Edith published two books on Hawaiian genealogy, was director of the Hawaiian Language Newspaper Indexing Project, and taught traditional hula and chant across the United States. In 2004, she was named a Living Treasure of Hawaii for her contributions to Hawaiian culture and heritage.

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22/10/1923

Bert Trautmann, German footballer and coach (died 2013)

Bernhard Carl "Bert" Trautmann was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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22/10/1921

Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1981)

Georges Charles Brassens was a French singer-songwriter and poet.

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Aleksandr Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (died 1986)

Aleksandr Semyonovich Kronrod was a Soviet mathematician and computer scientist, best known for the Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula which he published in 1964. Earlier, he worked on computational solutions of problems emerging in theoretical physics. He is also known for his contributions to economics, specifically for proposing corrections and calculating price formation for the USSR. Later, Kronrod gave his fortune and life to medicine to care for terminal cancer patients. Kronrod is remembered for his captivating personality and was admired as a student, teacher and leader.

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Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant (died 2014)

Harald Nugiseks was an Estonian serviceman in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. A Waffen-Oberscharführer (sergeant), he served in the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. Nugiseks was one of the four Estonians to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

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22/10/1919

Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

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22/10/1918

Lou Klein, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1976)

Louis Frank Klein was an American professional baseball player, manager, coach and scout. During his active career he was an infielder in the Major Leagues for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Athletics, and was known as one of the players who "jumped" to the Mexican League in 1946. He was then suspended by Commissioner of Baseball Happy Chandler for a five-year span, although the suspension was later reduced.

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22/10/1915

Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (died 2012)

Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist terrorist group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang.

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22/10/1913

Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (died 1954)

Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.

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Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (died 1997)

Bảo Đại, born Nguyễn Phúc (Phước) Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was de jure emperor of Annam and Tonkin, which were then protectorates in French Indochina, covering the present-day central and northern Vietnam. Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1932.

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Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2002)

Hans-Peter Tschudi was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1959–1973) heading the Department of Home Affairs.

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22/10/1908

John Gould, American journalist and author (died 2003)

John Thomas Gould was an American humorist, essayist, and columnist who wrote a column for the Christian Science Monitor for over sixty years from a farm in Lisbon Falls, Maine. He was published in most major American newspapers and magazines and wrote thirty books.

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José Escobar Saliente, Spanish cartoonist (died 1994)

José Escobar Saliente was a Spanish comic book writer and artist, born in Barcelona. He signed as Escobar, and is most famous for his creation Zipi y Zape, as well as the character Carpanta. He was also an author and a theater actor, as well as one of the pioneers of animation in Spain during the 1920s, and worked on early Spanish animated movies, such as La ratita que barría la escalerita.

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22/10/1907

Günther Treptow, German tenor (died 1981)

Günther Treptow was a German operatic tenor, best known for Wagner roles.

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22/10/1906

Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator (died 1970)

Kees van Baaren was a Dutch composer and teacher.

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Aurelio Baldor, Cuban mathematician and lawyer (died 1978)

Aurelio Ángel Baldor de la Vega was a Cuban mathematician, educator and lawyer. Baldor is the author of a secondary school algebra textbook, titled Álgebra, used throughout the Spanish-speaking world and published for the first time in 1941. He is also the author of the following two books, a) Baldor's Arithmetic and b) Baldor's Geometry of the Plane and the Space and Trigonometry.

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22/10/1905

Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (died 1969)

Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. His most famous composition is the standard Autumn Leaves.

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22/10/1904

Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer (died 1965)

Constance Campbell Bennett was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer. She was a major Hollywood star during the 1920s and 1930s; during the early 1930s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Bennett frequently played society women, focusing on melodramas in the early 1930s and then taking more comedic roles in the late 1930s and 1940s. She is best remembered for her leading roles in What Price Hollywood? (1932), Bed of Roses (1933), Topper (1937), Topper Takes a Trip (1938), and had a prominent supporting role in Greta Garbo's last film, Two-Faced Woman (1941).

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Saúl Calandra, Argentine football player (died 1973)

Saúl H. Calandra was an Argentine football (soccer) midfielder who competed in the 1928 Olympic games. He was a member of the Argentine team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He was also a runner up in the 1927 Copa Lipton. Calandra played club football with Estudiantes de La Plata.

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Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer (died 1950)

Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. An amateur astronomer, he is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

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22/10/1903

George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)

George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He served as the 7th president of the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1968.

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22/10/1899

Salarrué, Salvadoran writer and painter (died 1975)

Luis Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué, known as Salarrué, was a Salvadoran writer, poet, and painter.

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22/10/1898

Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet and philologist (died 1990)

Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas was a Spanish poet, philologist and literary critic. Though a member of the Generation of '27, his best-known work dates from the 1940s onwards.

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22/10/1897

Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (died 1958)

Marjorie Flack was an American artist and writer of children's picture books. She was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York in 1897. She was best known for The Story about Ping (1933), illustrated by Kurt Wiese, popularized by Captain Kangaroo, and for her stories of an insatiably curious Scottish terrier named Angus, who was actually her dog. Her first marriage was to artist Karl Larsson; she later married poet William Rose Benét.

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22/10/1896

Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (died 1988)

Charles Glen King was an American biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of nutrition research and who isolated vitamin C at the same time as Albert Szent-Györgyi. A biography of King states that many feel he deserves equal credit with Szent-Györgyi for the discovery of this vitamin.

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José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese film director and playwright (died 1967)

José Júlio Marques Leitão de Barros was a Portuguese film director and playwright.

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22/10/1895

Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (died 1966)

John Dewey Morrison, nicknamed "Jughandle Johnny", was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of ten seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Robins. For his career, he compiled a 103–80 record in 297 appearances, with a 3.65 earned run average and 546 strikeouts. May was a member of the 1925 World Series champion Pirates, pitching three times during their seven-game defeat of the Washington Senators. In World Series play, he recorded no decisions in 3 appearances, with a 2.89 earned run average and 7 strikeouts.

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22/10/1894

Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer (died 1961)

Mei Lan, better known by his stage name Mei Lanfang, was a notable Chinese Peking opera artist in modern Chinese theater. Mei was known as the "Queen of Peking Opera". Mei was exclusively known for his female lead roles (dan) and particularly his "verdant-robed girls" (qingyi), young or middle-aged women of grace and refinement. He was considered one of the "Four Great Dan", along with Shang Xiaoyun, Cheng Yanqiu, and Xun Huisheng.

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22/10/1893

Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985)

Ernst Julius Öpik was an Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. He is best known for his pioneering work on solar system dynamics, particularly of the Oort cloud and the Yarkovsky effect.

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Luis Otero, Spanish footballer (died 1955)

Luis Otero Sánchez-Encinas was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender and who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics, being a member of the Spanish team that won the silver medal at the tournament.

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22/10/1887

John Reed, American journalist and poet (died 1920)

John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Masses. He is best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.

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22/10/1886

Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (died 1970)

Erik Henrik Fredrik Bergman was a Swedish parish minister of the Lutheran Church and the father of diplomat Dag Bergman, novelist Margareta Bergman, and film director Ingmar Bergman.

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22/10/1885

Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor (died 1969)

Giovanni Martinelli was an Italian operatic spinto tenor. He was associated with the Italian lyric-dramatic repertory, although he performed French operatic roles to great acclaim as well. Martinelli was one of the most famous tenors of the 20th century, enjoying a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appearing at other major international theatres.

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22/10/1882

Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (died 1953)

Edmund Dulac was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse, he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books. After the war, the deluxe children's book market shrank, and he then turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.

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N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (died 1945)

Newell Convers Wyeth was an American painter and illustrator. He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books — 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other."

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22/10/1881

Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)

Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals."

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Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (died 1908)

Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist who made important contributions to seismology, in particular the formulation of the Zoeppritz equations.

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22/10/1875

Théodore Monbeig, French Catholic missionary and botanist (died 1914)

Jean-Théodore Monbeig-Andrieu, MEP was a French Catholic missionary and botanist who collected plants for the Paris Natural History Museum from northern Yunnan where he was posted. He also collected butterflies for Charles Oberthür. He was a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.

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David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician (died 1962)

David van Embden, was a Dutch politician, first for the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB), later for the Labour Party (PvdA).

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22/10/1873

Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (died 1950)

Gustaf John Ramstedt was a Finnish diplomat, orientalist and linguist. He was also an early Finnish Esperantist, and chairman of the Esperanto-Association of Finland.

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Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator (died 1906)

Swami Rama Tirtha, also known as Swami Rama, was an Indian teacher of the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta. He was among the first notable teachers of Hinduism to lecture in the United States, travelling there in 1902, preceded by Swami Vivekananda in 1893 and followed by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920. During his American tours Swami Rama Tirtha spoke frequently on the concept of "practical Vedanta" and education of Indian youth. He proposed bringing young Indians to American universities and helped establish scholarships for Indian students.

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22/10/1870

Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language.

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Lord Alfred Douglas, English author and poet (died 1945)

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At the University of Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but Queensberry produced witnesses who attested to the truth of his claim, and Wilde was later imprisoned. On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married the bisexual poet, Olive Custance, in 1902 and had a son, Raymond.

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22/10/1865

Borghild Holmsen, Norwegian pianist, composer and music critic (died 1938)

Borghild Holmsen was a Norwegian pianist, teacher, music critic and composer. She is thought to be the first Norwegian woman to perform a concert featuring only her own compositions.

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Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (died 1943)

Kristjan Raud was an Estonian symbolist painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Estonian National Museum. Folklore elements figure heavily in his subject matter and his style is reminiscent of Primitivism.

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22/10/1859

Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (died 1949)

Prince Ludwig Ferdinand Maria Karl Heinrich Adalbert Franz Philipp Andreas Konstantin of Bavaria was a member of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach and a General of Cavalry. Following his marriage to Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, he was also created an Infante of Spain.

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22/10/1858

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1921)

Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

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22/10/1850

Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (died 1908)

Charles Cameron Kingston was an Australian politician. From 1893 to 1899 he was Premier of South Australia, leading a coalition of Radicals supported by the Labor Party.

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22/10/1847

Koos de la Rey, South African Boer general (died 1914)

Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, better known as Koos de la Rey, was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War. De la Rey also had a political career and was one of the leading advocates of Boer independence. His death at the hands of the South African Police under controversial circumstances had a major role in sparking the Maritz rebellion.

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22/10/1844

Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (died 1923)

Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures. She was also an accomplished visual artist, as a painter and particularly as a sculptor.

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Louis Riel, Canadian Métis scholar and politician (died 1885)

Louis Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald. Riel fought to defend Métis rights and identity as the Northwest Territories came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence.

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22/10/1843

James Strachan-Davidson, English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author (died 1916)

James Leigh Strachan-Davidson was an English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author of books on Roman history. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1907 until his death in 1916.

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22/10/1832

August Labitzky, Czech composer and conductor (died 1903)

August Labitzky was a Bohemian composer and kapellmeister, and the son of Joseph Labitzky. Although Labitzky was not as prolific a composer as his father, his Ouverture Characteristique has been occasionally recorded. Written in 1858, it depicts Emperor Charles IV while out hunting. Labitzky also wrote At the Mountain Inn, Idyl around April 1874.

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22/10/1821

Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman (died 1900)

Collis Potter Huntington was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major interstate lines, such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), which he was recruited to help complete. The C&O, completed in 1873, fulfilled a long-held dream of Virginians of a rail link from the James River at Richmond to the Ohio River Valley. The new railroad facilities adjacent to the river there resulted in expansion of the former small town of Guyandotte, West Virginia, into part of a new city which was named Huntington in his honor.

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22/10/1818

Leconte de Lisle, French poet and author (died 1894)

Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.

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22/10/1811

Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1886)

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.

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22/10/1809

Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and statesman, Texas Attorney General (died 1889)

Volney Erskine Howard was an American lawyer, statesman, and jurist.

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22/10/1783

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Ottoman-French polymath and naturalist (died 1840)

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz was a French polymath of the early 19th century. Born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, he was self-educated in France.

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22/10/1781

Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (died 1789)

Louis Joseph was Dauphin of France as the second child and first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. As son of a king of France, he was a fils de France. Louis Joseph died aged seven from tuberculosis and was succeeded as Dauphin by his four-year-old brother Louis Charles.

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22/10/1778

Javier de Burgos, Spanish jurist and politician (died 1848)

Francisco Javier de Burgos y del Olmo was a Spanish jurist, politician, journalist, and translator.

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22/10/1749

Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch historian and bookseller (died 1816)

Cornelis van der Aa was a Dutch writer and bookseller in Haarlem who was sentenced in 1796 by the schepenen of the city to five years of imprisonment and consecutive perpetual exile from the department in Holland for political reasons as he was a follower of the stadtholders. At the end of 1799, he was released and settled in Utrecht as a bookseller. From then on until his death in 1816 in Amsterdam, where he moved to later on, he spent his time writing books. He was born in Leiden and died in Amsterdam.

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22/10/1729

Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor and botanist (died 1798)

Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he attended school in Dirschau and Marienwerder before being admitted at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin in 1745. Skilled in classical and biblical languages, he studied theology at the University of Halle. In 1753, he became a parson at a parish just south of Danzig. He married his cousin Justina Elisabeth Nicolai in 1754, and they had seven children; the oldest child was George Forster, also known as Georg.

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22/10/1701

Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (died 1756)

Maria Amalia of Austria was Holy Roman empress, queen of Bohemia, and electress of Bavaria among many other titles as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII. By birth, she was an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Emperor Joseph I. One of her children was Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria.

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22/10/1689

John V, Portuguese king (died 1750)

Dom John V, known as the Magnanimous and the Portuguese Sun King, was King of Portugal from 9 December 1706 until his death in 1750. His reign saw the rise of Portugal and its monarchy to new levels of prosperity, wealth, and prestige among European courts.

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22/10/1659

Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (died 1734)

Georg Ernst Stahl was a German chemist, physician and philosopher. He was a supporter of vitalism, and until the late 18th century his works on phlogiston were accepted as an explanation for chemical processes.

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22/10/1592

Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (died 1657)

Count Gustav Horn was a Swedish nobleman, military officer, and Governor-General. He was appointed member of the Royal Council in 1625, Field Marshal in 1628, Governor General of Livonia in 1652 and Lord High Constable since 1653. In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), he was instrumental as a commander in securing victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld, in 1631. He was High Councillor of the realm in 1625, elevated to the rank of field marshal in 1628, and sometimes commander-in-chief of Swedish forces in Germany during Thirty Years' War. After the war, he served as Governor-General of Livonia 1652, President of War department and Lord High Constable in 1653. In 1651, Queen Christina created him Count of Björneborg.

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22/10/1587

Joachim Jungius, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1657)

Joachim Jungius was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science.

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22/10/1511

Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1553)

Erasmus Reinhold was a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Saxony.

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22/10/1197

Juntoku, Japanese emperor (died 1242)

Emperor Juntoku of the Jōgen was the 84th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1210 through 1221, a part of Japan's Kamakura Period.

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22/10/1071

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (died 1126)

William IX was the Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou between 1086 and his death. He was also one of the leaders of the Crusade of 1101.

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22/10/0955

Qian Weijun, king of Wuyue (died 991)

Qian Weijun (錢惟濬), courtesy name Yuchuan (禹川), formally Prince Anxi of Bin, was the heir apparent to Qian Chu, the fifth and last king of Wuyue of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. After Wuyue's absorption into its suzerain Song, he continued to serve Song until his death at age 35/36.

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