Born on Friday, 3rd October – Famous Birthdays

03/10/2004

Noah Schnapp, American actor

Noah Cameron Schnapp is an American actor. He made his acting debut in 2015 with his portrayal of Charlie Brown in the animated film The Peanuts Movie and his supporting role in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. Schnapp gained international recognition for his role as Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which he received various accolades.

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03/10/2001

Anton Lundell, Finnish ice hockey player

Anton Lundell is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lundell was considered a top prospect for the 2020 NHL entry draft, where he was selected 12th overall by the Panthers. Lundell won back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Panthers in 2024 and 2025.

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Max Plath, Australian rugby league player

Max Plath is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a lock, hooker or second-row forward for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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C. J. Stroud, American football player

Coleridge Bernard "C. J." Stroud IV is an American professional football quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he holds several school records, including most passing yards in a single game with 573, as well as being the first player to throw for six touchdowns three times. Stroud was a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2021 and 2022, and was subsequently selected by the Houston Texans second overall in the 2023 NFL draft. In his rookie season, he led the Texans to a division title and playoff victory en route to winning the Offensive Rookie of the Year Award.

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03/10/2000

CJ Abrams, American baseball player

Paul Christopher Abrams Jr. is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022 with the San Diego Padres. Abrams was named an All-Star in 2024.

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03/10/1997

Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater

Jin Boyang is a Chinese figure skater. He is a two-time World bronze medalist (2016–2017), the 2018 Four Continents champion, a two-time Four Continents silver medalist, the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalist, a six-time Chinese national champion and a two-time Chinese national winter games champion. On the junior level, he is the 2015 World Junior silver medalist and the 2013 JGP Final champion. He is the first Chinese skater to medal in the men's singles event at a World Championships.

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Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player

Jonathan Judah Isaac is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season for the Florida State Seminoles. Isaac was selected with the sixth overall pick by the Magic in the 2017 NBA draft.

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Bang Chan, Australian singer and record producer based in South Korea

Christopher Chahn Bahng, known professionally as Bang Chan (Korean: 방찬), is an Australian singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer based in South Korea. Signed to JYP Entertainment, he is the leader of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids and a member of 3Racha, an in-house production team and sub-unit of Stray Kids.

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03/10/1995

Ayo Edebiri, American actress

Ayo Edebiri is an American actress, comedian, television writer, and director. Since 2022, she has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, two Actor Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a nomination for a Directors Guild of America Award for directing the episode "Napkins".

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Mike Gesicki, American football player

Michael William Gesicki is an American professional football tight end for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions. He was selected in the second round of the 2018 NFL draft by the Miami Dolphins.

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Artem Zub, Russian ice hockey player

Artyom Valerievich Zub is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).

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03/10/1994

Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player

Victoria Bosio is an Argentine tennis player. On 17 December 2018, she reached her best WTA singles ranking of world No. 308. On 7 March 2022, she peaked at No. 284 in the doubles rankings.

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Seth Jones, American ice hockey player

Jared Seth Jones is an American professional ice hockey player who is a defenseman for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected fourth overall by the Nashville Predators in the 2013 NHL entry draft. After two seasons playing for the United States National Team Development Program, Jones joined the Western Hockey League's (WHL) Portland Winterhawks. He has also played in the NHL for the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Chicago Blackhawks.

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03/10/1993

Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer

Raffaele Di Gennaro is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Inter Milan.

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03/10/1991

Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter

Jenny McLoughlin is a British Paralympian track and field athlete competing mainly in T37 sprint events. She has represented Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Paralympics and in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. After moving to Wales at the age of 14, she became eligible to join the Wales team for the Commonwealth Games, winning silver in the T37 sprint in India.

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Aki Takajo, Japanese singer

Aki Takajō , is a Japanese tarento who is a former member of the idol groups AKB48 and JKT48. She auditioned for AKB48's sixth generation and was promoted to member of Team A. Her talent agency is Horipro and was one of the charter members to support JKT48. She is also a former member of the sub-unit French Kiss.

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03/10/1990

Johan Le Bon, French cyclist

Johan Le Bon is a French road bicycle racer, who currently rides for French amateur team Dinan Sport Cycling.

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03/10/1989

Nate Montana, American football player

Nathaniel Joseph Montana is an American former college football quarterback. After walking-on at Notre Dame as a freshman in 2008, he transferred to Pasadena City College in 2009, went back to Notre Dame in 2010, transferred to Montana in 2011, and finally transferred to West Virginia Wesleyan in 2012. Montana is the son of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana.

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Alex Trimble, Irish singer

Two Door Cinema Club are an Irish rock band formed in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland in 2007. The band consists of Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday, and Kevin Baird.

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03/10/1988

Dustin Gazley, American ice hockey player

Dustin James Gazley is an Italian–American professional ice hockey player who is a winger for HC Bolzano of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL).

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ASAP Rocky, American rapper and songwriter

Rakim Athelston Mayers, known professionally as ASAP Rocky, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, fashion designer and model. Born and raised in Harlem, he embarked on his musical career as a member of the hip hop collective ASAP Mob, from which he adopted his stage name. In August 2011, Mayers' single "Peso" was leaked online and began receiving radio airplay within weeks, propelling cloud rap into mainstream attention. He signed with Polo Grounds Music, an imprint of RCA Records, that October and released his debut mixtape, Live. Love. A$AP to widespread critical acclaim.

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Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress

Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

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03/10/1987

Starley, Australian pop singer

Starley Hope, known mononymously as Starley, is an Australian singer and songwriter. She is best known for her debut single "Call on Me", released in 2016, which was remixed into a club song by Ryan Riback the following year.

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03/10/1986

Lewis Brown, New Zealand rugby league player

Lewis Brown, also known by the nickname of "Sharky", is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s, who played for the New Zealand Warriors, Penrith Panthers and Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. He primarily played at second-row, but could also fill in at centre or hooker.

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Jackson Martínez, Colombian footballer

Jackson Arley Martínez Valencia is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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03/10/1985

Courtney Lee, American basketball player

Courtney Lee is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.

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03/10/1984

Yoon Eun-hye, South Korean singer and actress

Yoon Eun-hye is a South Korean singer and actress. She debuted as a member of South Korean girl group Baby Vox, staying with the group from 1999 to 2005, as well as WSG Wannabe, a female project group in 2022. Yoon has since moved on to acting and is best known for starring in the television dramas Princess Hours (2006), The Vineyard Man (2006), Coffee Prince (2007), My Fair Lady (2009), Lie to Me (2011), and Missing You (2012).

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Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player

Bruno Gervais is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played with the New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning and the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress

Jessica Parker Kennedy is a Canadian actress known as Melissa Glaser in The Secret Circle, Max on Black Sails, and Nora West-Allen / XS in The Flash. She also had guest roles on Smallville, Undercovers, Kaya and Colony.

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Anthony Le Tallec, French footballer

Anthony Le Tallec is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward or an attacking midfielder for Liverpool, Sochaux, and Annecy FC.

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Chris Marquette, American actor

Christopher Marquette, also credited as Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette, is an American actor. He began his career with a main role as Adam Brody on the ABC sitcom Aliens in the Family (1996) before his breakout with a main role as Marc Delgado on the Lifetime medical drama series Strong Medicine (2000–2005).

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Gary Neal, American basketball player and coach

Gary Neal is an American former basketball professional player and coach. He played college basketball for the La Salle Explorers and Towson Tigers. Neal began his professional career abroad with teams in Turkey, Spain and Italy before signing with the San Antonio Spurs in 2010. He mostly played the shooting guard position.

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Ashlee Simpson, American singer-songwriter and actress

Ashley Nicolle Ross-Næss, also known as Ashlee Simpson, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. The younger sister of singer and actress Jessica Simpson, she began her career as a backup dancer for her sister and appeared in television commercials at the age of 15. Simpson later pursued a career as an actress and had a main role on the family drama 7th Heaven. She appeared on the reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, broadcast on MTV between 2003 and 2005, which focused on Ashlee's older sister Jessica and Jessica's then-husband Nick Lachey. While working on her debut studio album, Simpson became the star of a spin-off reality series, The Ashlee Simpson Show, which was broadcast on MTV between 2004 and 2005. Like her sister before her, Simpson became the center of considerable media attention.

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03/10/1983

Thiago Alves, Brazilian mixed martial artist

Thiago Alves is a Brazilian former bare-knuckle fighter and former mixed martial artist. A 27-fight veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he competed in the promotion from 2005 until 2019. Aside from being a professional fighter, Alves has been a striking coach at the American Top Team since 2017.

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Fred, Brazilian footballer

Frederico Chaves Guedes, also known as Fred, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Mark Giordano, Canadian ice hockey player

Mark Giordano is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is an advisor for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). In the NHL, he played as a defenceman for the Calgary Flames for 15 seasons, where he was the team captain for his final eight seasons, and the Seattle Kraken, where he served as captain during the first six months of their inaugural season. An undrafted player, Giordano signed with the Flames as a free agent in 2004 after playing two seasons of major junior ice hockey with Owen Sound Attack of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).

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Andreas Papathanasiou, Cypriot footballer

Andreas Papathanasiou is a Cypriot footballer who plays as a forward.

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Tessa Thompson, American actress

Tessa Lynne Thompson is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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03/10/1981

Danny Coid, English footballer

Daniel John Coid is an English former professional footballer.

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Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer

Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Ibrahimović is known for his acrobatic strikes and volleys, technique, ball control, and physical dominance. He is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and is one of the most decorated footballers in the world, having won 34 trophies in his career. He scored over 570 career goals, including more than 500 club goals, and scored in four consecutive decades between the 1990s and the 2020s.

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Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer

Jan Andreas Isaksson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Jonna Lee, Swedish singer and musician

Jonna Emily Lee is a Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer and visual director. Lee is the creator and artist of audiovisual online project iamamiwhoami who since 2009 have released their audiovisual series online. Since her first solo album, she has collaborated with music producer and artist Claes Björklund who is also a member of iamamiwhoami. In 2017, Lee started using the moniker ionnalee for her new solo project. In February 2018 she released her debut solo album, Everyone Afraid to Be Forgotten. With the album she also created her own world tour co funded by her fans via Kickstarter. ionnalee remixed Moby's "The Ceremony of Innocence" which was released in December 2018, and in February, her sophomore solo album Remember the Future was announced with the release date 31 May 2019.

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Ronald Rauhe, German kayaker

Ronald Rauhe is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 1997. Competing in six Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals in the K-2 500 m event. Rauhe has won 16 world championship gold medals, the most by a male kayaker; now with 26 World medals, in 2011 he exceeded the 20 of his compatriot, Torsten Gutsche.

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Matt Sparrow, English footballer

Matthew Ronald Sparrow is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder

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03/10/1980

Anquan Boldin, American football player

Anquan Kenmile Boldin is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles and was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the second round of the 2003 NFL draft. He also played for the Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions.

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Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player

Sheldon W. Brookbank is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the assistant coach of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL) under Jeremy Colliton.

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Lindsey Kelk, English journalist and author

Lindsey Kelk is an English author, journalist and former children's book editor. She initially signed a up-to three-book deal with HarperCollins following the submission of a manuscript for her first novel. To date, she has published 22 adult books and is also the author of the children's series Cinders and Sparks.

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Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer-songwriter and producer

Daniel John Mark Luke O'Donoghue is an Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of the Irish rock band The Script. He also appeared as a coach on the first two series of the television singing talent show The Voice UK. He was earlier a member of the Irish boy band Mytown.

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Héctor Reynoso, Mexican footballer

Héctor Reynoso López is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (died 2013)

Ivan Turina was a Croatian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made one appearance for the Croatia national team.

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03/10/1979

Josh Klinghoffer, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Josh Adam Klinghoffer is an American musician best known for being the guitarist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from 2009 to 2019, with whom he recorded two studio albums, I'm with You (2011) and The Getaway (2016), and the B-sides compilation I'm Beside You (2013). Klinghoffer took the place of his friend and frequent collaborator John Frusciante in 2009, after a period as the band's touring rhythm guitarist. At age 32, Klinghoffer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2012, making him the youngest inductee at the time.

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John Morrison, American wrestler and actor

John Randall Hennigan, better known by his ring name John Morrison, is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Johnny TV and is a member of MxM TV. He also performs for their sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) and Mexican partner promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Hennigan is best known for his tenures in WWE from 2002 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2021, as well as for appearing in promotions such as Impact Wrestling, Lucha Underground and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. He also performs on the independent circuit under various ring names.

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03/10/1978

Gerald Asamoah, Ghanaian-German footballer

Gerald Asamoah is a German football executive and former professional player who works as the first-team manager of Schalke 04.

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Neil Clement, English footballer

Neil Clement is an English former professional footballer who spent the majority of his career playing for West Bromwich Albion.

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Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer

Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently serving as club ambassador for Bayern Munich. He was captain of Peru's national football team, and was its fifth-highest scorer. He is the highest scorer and most successful Latin American football player in the history of German football. He is the all-time top scorer of SV Werder Bremen, the ninth top scorer in the history of Bayern Munich and the sixth top scorer in the history of the Bundesliga and its second top scorer in the 21st century. He is also among the 20 top scorers in the history of UEFA club competitions and the seventh-highest South American scorer in European football history.

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Jake Shears, American singer-songwriter

Jason F. Sellards, known professionally by the stage name Jake Shears, is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is best known as the co-lead vocalist of New York City pop-rock band Scissor Sisters, who achieved considerable chart success in the 2000s before their indefinite hiatus in 2012. Since 2017, Shears has pursued a solo career; he released his debut solo studio album, Jake Shears, in August 2018 and his second album Last Man Dancing on June 2, 2023. In addition to his solo career, Shears has collaborated with several artists and made his Broadway debut in Kinky Boots in 2018.

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Shannyn Sossamon, American actress

Shannon Marie Kahololani "Shannyn" Sossamon is an American actress and musician. She has appeared in the films A Knight's Tale (2001), 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002), The Rules of Attraction (2002), The Order (2003), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), The Holiday (2006), Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), Road to Nowhere (2009), The End of Love (2012), and Sinister 2 (2015).

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03/10/1977

Daniel Hollie, American wrestler

Daniel Richard Hollie is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) between 2003 and 2007 under the ring name Danny Basham and in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Damaja in 2007.

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Eric Munson, American baseball player and coach

Eric Walter Munson is an American former professional baseball catcher and current coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2000 to 2009 for the Detroit Tigers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Houston Astros, and Oakland Athletics. He was the third overall pick in the 1999 MLB draft by the Tigers, behind Josh Hamilton and Josh Beckett.

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Luca Tognozzi, Italian footballer

Luca Tognozzi is a former Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.

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03/10/1976

Herman Li, Hong Kong-English guitarist and producer

Herman Li is a Hong Kong-born British guitarist. He is one of the lead guitarists, producers and songwriters for the power metal band DragonForce.

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Seann William Scott, American actor and producer

Seann William Scott is an American actor. In film, Scott is best known for his breakout role as Steve Stifler in the American Pie film series (1999–2012). He also starred in a lead role as Doug Glatt in Goon (2011) and its sequel, Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017). His other notable lead film credits include Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Road Trip (2000), Final Destination (2000), Evolution (2001), The Rundown (2003), The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), Mr. Woodcock (2007), Role Models (2008), and The Wrath of Becky (2023). Scott had a supporting voice role as Crash in the Ice Age film series (2006–2016).

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03/10/1975

India Arie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

India Arie Simpson is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence with her debut album, Acoustic Soul (2001), which was a commercial and critical success. She has since released the albums Voyage to India (2002), Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship (2006), Songversation (2013) and Worthy (2019). Her music blends elements of R&B, soul, and neo-soul, often incorporating themes of self-empowerment, spirituality, and social consciousness.

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Phil Greening, English rugby player and coach

Phil Greening is an English former rugby union footballer who played as a hooker. Greening finished his rugby career with London Wasps in 2005. During his career he earned 24 caps for England, as well as going to Australia with the British and Irish Lions in 2001.

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Satoko Ishimine, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Satoko Ishimine is a Japanese female singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 1992 when she won the grand prix of the 16th annual Nagasaki Singing Festival at the age of 16, which resulted in her receiving a recording contract with Toshiba EMI.

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Talib Kweli, American rapper

Talib Kweli Greene is an American rapper. He is one half of the hip-hop duo Black Star, which he formed in 1997 with fellow Brooklyn rapper Mos Def. Their 1998 single, "Definition", entered the Billboard Hot 100 and preceded their eponymous debut album (1998), which entered the Billboard 200. The duo then began pursuing solo careers, although one further Black Star album — No Fear of Time (2022) — has been released.

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Alanna Ubach, American actress

Alanna González Ubach is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Serena McGuire in Legally Blonde (2001) and Legally Blonde 2 (2003), Isabel Villalobos in Meet the Fockers (2004), Maria in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), Noreen in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Jane in Clockwatchers (1998), Naomi in Waiting... (2005) and Still Waiting... (2009), Margaret in Being Us (2011), Jeanine Pirro in Bombshell (2019), and the voice of Mamá Imelda in Coco (2017), as well as Jo Hernandez-Frumpkis on Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, Suze Howard on Euphoria, Amy Hobbs on See Dad Run, Tessa Flores on Guilty Party, Carol Atkinson on The Flight Attendant, and Susan Bennett on Ted.

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03/10/1974

John Dwyer, American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, visual artist, and record label owner

John Dwyer is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, visual artist, and record label owner. He is best known as the founding member and primary songwriter of the garage rock band Osees, with whom he has released 28 studio albums. In addition to his work with Osees, Dwyer records solo material under the name Damaged Bug.

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Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Michael Paul Johnson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Tampa Bay Lightning, Phoenix Coyotes, Montreal Canadiens and the St. Louis Blues.

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Antti Laaksonen, Finnish ice hockey player

Antti Akseli Laaksonen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey left winger who last played for the Lukko of the SM-Liiga. Antti had a seven-year NHL career, mostly as a third line wing and penalty killer for the Boston Bruins, Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche.

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Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater

Maria Aaltje "Marianne" Timmer is a Dutch former speed skater specializing in the middle distances. At the 1998 Winter Olympics she won a gold medal in both these events.

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03/10/1973

Keiko Agena, American actress

Christine Keiko Agena is an Okinawan American actress. She is mostly known for playing Lane Kim in Gilmore Girls and NYPD medical examiner Dr. Edrisa Tanaka on FOX's crime drama Prodigal Son (2019–2021).

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Neve Campbell, Canadian actress

Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canadian actress. Campbell has amassed several credits and accolades over three decades. She emerged as a scream queen in the late 1990s for starring in horror films. She has also appeared in Canadian and American television, blockbusters and independent features.

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Angélica Gavaldón, American-Mexican tennis player and coach

Angélica Gavaldón Loaiza is a Mexican retired tennis player.

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Lena Headey, British actress

Lena Kathren Headey is a British actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received five Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for her portrayal of Gorgo, Queen of Sparta, in 300 (2006).

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Eirik Hegdal, Norwegian saxophonist and composer

Eirik Hegdal is a Norwegian Jazz musician (saxophone), composer, arranger and music teacher, known from the band Dingobats (1995-2005) and as leader of Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

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03/10/1972

Komla Dumor, Ghanaian-English journalist (died 2014)

Komla Afeke Dumor was a Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme Focus on Africa.

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G. Love, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player

Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love, is an American singer, rapper and musician best known as the frontman for the band G. Love & Special Sauce.

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Michael Nylander, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

Michael Gunnar Nylander is a Swedish former professional ice hockey centre and coach. He played for fifteen seasons in the NHL, and represented the Swedish national team in multiple Olympics and World Championships.

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Guy Oseary, Israeli-American talent manager and businessman

Guy Harley Oseary is an American talent manager, investor and writer. His clients include Madonna and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He founded the investment companies A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures.

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03/10/1971

Wil Cordero, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach

Wilfredo Cordero Nieva is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left fielder, shortstop, and first baseman during 1992–2005 for seven different teams: the Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins, and Washington Nationals.

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Kevin Richardson, American singer-songwriter and actor

Kevin Scott Richardson is an American pop singer, best known as a member of the vocal group the Backstreet Boys. Richardson was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame with his cousin and bandmate Brian Littrell in 2015.

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03/10/1970

Elmar Liitmaa, Estonian guitarist and songwriter

Terminaator is an Estonian rock group formed in 1987 by Arno Veimer and Jaagup Kreem in Tallinn 10. High School. Kreem was in the 7th grade then. The first public performance was in Tallinn 47. High School in the schoolbands' festival. The first time in the studio was in 1989. First songs "Charleen" and "Meeletu maailm" were recorded in 1991. They found wider fame in 1992, when they won the festival of young bands Rock In. They have also performed in Latvia, Lithuania and Finland, although they have not had much success outside of Estonia. On the Estonian television show "7 vaprat", Terminaator have appeared playing their songs "Ainult sina võid mu maailma muuta", "Juulikuu lumi", "See ei ole saladus", and "Portselanist tüdruk".

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Jimmy Ray, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

James "Jimmy" Ray is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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03/10/1969

Garry Herbert, English rower and sportscaster

Garry Gerard Paul Herbert is an Olympic gold medal-winning cox. He steered the British coxed pair to victory in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1993 World Rowing Championships.

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Janel Moloney, American actress

Janel Moloney is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Donna Moss on the television series The West Wing, a role for which she received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002 and 2004. From 2014 to 2017, she starred in the television series The Leftovers.

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Gwen Stefani, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

Gwen Renée Stefani Shelton is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani rose to fame as a member and lead vocalist of the band No Doubt, whose hit singles include "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and "Don't Speak" from their studio album Tragic Kingdom (1995), as well as "Hey Baby" and "It's My Life" from later albums. During the band's hiatus, Stefani embarked on a solo pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Inspired by pop music from the 1980s, the album was a critical and commercial success. It spawned six singles, including "What You Waiting For?", "Rich Girl", "Hollaback Girl", and "Cool". "Hollaback Girl" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies.

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Tetsuya, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer

Tetsuya , formerly known as Tetsu, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as bassist and bandleader of the rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. Formed in 1991, they have sold over 40 million records, making them one of the best-selling music artists in Japan.

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03/10/1968

Paul Crichton, English footballer and manager

Paul Andrew Crichton is an English football coach and former footballer. He is the goalkeeper coach of National Women's Soccer League club Orlando Pride.

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Greg Foster, American basketball player and coach

Gregory Clinton Foster is an American professional basketball coach and former player who last served as assistant coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Marko Rajamäki, Finnish footballer and manager

Marko Rajamäki is a Swedish-born Finnish former footballer. He managed Turun Palloseura (TPS) between 2010 and 2014. Previously he managed the club's under-18 team and was also the assistant manager of the senior team in 2009. Rajamäki is himself a former Finnish international footballer.

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Donald Sild, Estonian javelin thrower

Donald-Aik Sild is a retired male javelin thrower from Estonia.

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03/10/1967

Rob Liefeld, American author and illustrator

Robert Liefeld is an American comic book creator. A prominent writer and artist in the 1990s, he is known for co-creating the character Cable with writer Louise Simonson and the character Deadpool with writer Fabian Nicieza. In the early 1990s, Liefeld gained popularity due to his work on Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and later X-Force. In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which started a wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers. The first book published by Image Comics was Liefeld's Youngblood #1.

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Chris Collingwood, English-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Chris Collingwood is an American singer, songwriter, and artist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne.

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03/10/1966

Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player and sportscaster

Darrin Glen Fletcher is an American former professional baseball catcher and sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1989 to 2002 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, and Toronto Blue Jays.

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03/10/1965

Annemarie Verstappen, Dutch swimmer

Anna Maria Theodora Petra "Annemarie" Verstappen is a female former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands.

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Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player

Jan-Ove Waldner, in Sweden commonly J-O Waldner or simply mononymously as J-O, is a Swedish former professional table tennis player. He is often referred to as "the Mozart of table tennis." A sporting legend in his native Sweden as well as in China, he is known in China as 老瓦 Lǎo Wǎ 'Old Wa' or 常青树 Cháng Qīng Shù 'Evergreen Tree', because of his extraordinary longevity and competitiveness.

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03/10/1964

Clive Owen, English actor

Clive Owen is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film Close My Eyes (1991) before earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in Croupier (1998). In 2005, he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the drama Closer (2004).

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03/10/1963

Benny Anders, American basketball player

Benny Michael Anders is an American former basketball player. Anders was a forward on the Guy Lewis-coached Houston Cougars teams during the early 1980s. The team featured a set of players called the Phi Slama Jama basketball fraternity that included Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Michael Young, Alvin Franklin, Reid Gettys, Larry Micheaux and Anders.

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Dan Goldie, American tennis player

Daniel C. Goldie is a former tennis player from the United States who won 2 singles and 2 doubles titles. The right-hander reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 1989 where he defeated Kelly Evernden, Jimmy Connors, Wally Masur and Slobodan Živojinović before losing to Ivan Lendl. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 27 in April 1989. Before turning pro, Goldie played tennis for Stanford University, where he won the 1986 National Singles Championship before graduating with a degree in Economics.

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03/10/1962

Tommy Lee, Greek-American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer

Thomas Lee is an American musician, best known as the co-founder and drummer of heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. He also founded rap metal band Methods of Mayhem and has pursued solo musical projects.

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Simon Scarrow, Nigerian-English novelist

Simon Scarrow is a British writer. Scarrow completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue, and then went into teaching as a lecturer, firstly at East Norfolk Sixth Form College, then at City College Norwich.

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03/10/1961

Rebecca Stephens, English journalist and mountaineer

Rebecca Stephens is a British author and journalist, known for being the first British woman to climb the Seven Summits, and the first British woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer, and musicologist

Ludger Stühlmeyer is a German cantor, organist, composer, docent and musicologist.

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03/10/1959

Craig Bellamy, Australian rugby league player and coach

Craig Bellamy is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL), and a former professional rugby league footballer.

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Fred Couples, American golfer

Frederick Steven Couples is an American professional golfer who has competed on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. A former World No. 1, he has won 64 professional tournaments, most notably the Masters Tournament in 1992, and the Players Championship in 1984 and 1996. Couples became the oldest person to make the cut in the Masters Tournament history during the 2023 Tournament at 63 years, six months, and five days.

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Greg Proops, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Gregory Everett Proops is an American actor, stand-up comedian and television host. He is widely known for his work on the British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He has also voiced the titular character on the American version of Bob the Builder: Project: Build It in series 10 to 14.

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Frank Stephenson, Italian automotive designer and blogger

Frank Stephenson is a Moroccan-born Spanish-American automobile designer who has worked for Ford, BMW, Mini, Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, and McLaren. He is best known for redesigning the Mini as the Mini Hatch.

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Jack Wagner, American actor and singer

Peter John Wagner II is an American actor, singer, and golfer. He is best known for his roles on soap operas such as General Hospital, Santa Barbara, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Melrose Place. His 1985 single "All I Need" peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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03/10/1958

Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor

Chen Yanyin is a Chinese sculptor whose work was featured in the Chinese Fine Arts Chronicle, 2008. Her work was also part of "Between Ego and Society: An Exhibition of Contemporary Female Artists in China" at the Chicago Cultural Center.

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Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer and choreographer

Louise Lecavalier OC is a Canadian dancer known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance.

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03/10/1957

Roberto Azevêdo, Brazilian engineer and diplomat, 6th Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo is a Brazilian career diplomat who served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 2013 until 2020. Since 2020, he has been Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Affairs at PepsiCo.

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Tim Westwood, English radio and television host

Timothy Westwood, often known professionally simply as Westwood, is a British DJ and presenter. He was described by The Guardian in 2022 as "a veteran of the hip-hop scene whose opinions have been able to make or break upcoming artists for more than 30 years". He hosted the Radio 1 rap show and presented the MTV UK show Pimp My Ride UK. In 2013, he left Radio 1 and 1Xtra after nearly twenty years and returned to Capital Radio.

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03/10/1956

Hart Bochner, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Hart Matthew Bochner is a Canadian TV, film and voice actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He has appeared in films such as Breaking Away (1979), Terror Train (1980), Rich and Famous (1981), The Wild Life (1984), Making Mr. Right (1987), Die Hard (1988), Apartment Zero (1988), Mr. Destiny (1990), Mad at the Moon (1992), Break Up (1998), Liberty Stands Still (2002) and Spread (2009). On television, he has starred in War and Remembrance (1988–89), Children of the Dust (1995), Baby for Sale (2004), The Starter Wife (2008) and Scandal (2015).

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03/10/1955

Moshe Kam, American engineering educator

Moshe Kam is an Israeli and American electrical engineer. He is an engineering educator serving as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Until August 2014 he served as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and department head of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University. In 2011, he served concurrently as the 49th president and CEO of IEEE. Earlier he was IEEE's vice president for educational activities (2005–2007) and IEEE's representative director to the accreditation body ABET. Kam is known for his studies of decision fusion and distributed detection, which focus on computationally feasible fusion rules for multi-sensor systems.

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John S. Lesmeister, American educator and politician, 30th North Dakota State Treasurer (died 2006)

John Steven Lesmeister was a North Dakota politician who served as the 30th North Dakota State Treasurer from 1981 to 1984.

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Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (died 2000)

Douglas Allen Woody was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band and as a co-founder of Gov't Mule.

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Buket Uzuner, Turkish author

Buket Uzuner is a Turkish writer, author of novels, short stories, and travelogues. She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland. Her works have been translated into eight languages: Spanish, English, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hebrew, Korean, and Bulgarian.

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03/10/1954

Eddie DeGarmo, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer

Eddie DeGarmo is an American contemporary Christian music recording artist, keyboardist, producer and singer. He became best friends with guitarist/lead vocalist Dana Key in first grade, and co-founded the Christian rock group DeGarmo and Key with him in 1978. DeGarmo played keyboards and provided vocals for the band.

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Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player and sportscaster

Dennis Lee Eckersley, nicknamed "Eck", is an American former professional baseball pitcher and color commentator. Between 1975 and 1998, he pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, and St. Louis Cardinals. Eckersley had success as a starter, but gained his greatest fame as a closer, becoming the first of two pitchers in major league history to have both a 20-win season and a 50-save season in a career.

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Al Sharpton, American minister, talk show host, and political activist

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts a weekday radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, which is nationally syndicated by Urban One, and he is a political analyst and weekend host for MS NOW, hosting PoliticsNation.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1990)

Stephen Ray Vaughan, also known abbreviated as SRV, was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, he is considered one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He was the younger brother of guitarist Jimmie Vaughan.

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03/10/1952

Bruce Arians, American football coach

Bruce Charles Arians is an American football executive and former coach in the National Football League (NFL). Since 2022, he has been a senior football consultant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Arians was previously the head coach of the Temple Owls from 1983 to 1987, the Arizona Cardinals from 2013 to 2017 and the Buccaneers from 2019 to 2021. He was also the interim head coach of the Indianapolis Colts during the 2012 season. Arians is known as a "quarterback whisperer" with a "no risk-it, no biscuit" slogan, which encourages aggressive playcalling. Under Arians's coaching, several high-profile quarterbacks were named to the All-Pro team or Pro Bowl, including Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Andrew Luck, Carson Palmer, and Tom Brady.

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Gary Troup, New Zealand cricketer

Gary Bertram Troup is a New Zealand former cricketer and local politician who played 15 Test matches and 22 One Day Internationals for New Zealand.

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03/10/1951

Keb' Mo', American blues musician and songwriter

Kevin Roosevelt Moore, known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician. He is a singer, guitarist and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America." His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country. The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name.

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Kathryn D. Sullivan, American geologist and astronaut

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions.

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Dave Winfield, American baseball player and sportscaster

David Mark Winfield is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. He is the special assistant to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves.

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03/10/1950

Ronnie Laws, American jazz, R&B, and funk saxophone player

Ronald Wayne Laws is an American jazz and smooth jazz saxophonist, and singer. He is the younger brother of jazz flutist Hubert Laws and jazz vocalist Eloise Laws, and the older brother of Debra Laws.

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03/10/1949

Lindsey Buckingham, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American musician, record producer, and the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has released seven solo studio albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.

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J. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter

Jyoti Prakash Dutta is an Indian film director, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is best known for Ghulami (1985), Yateem (1988), Batwara (1989), Kshatriya (1993) and Border (1997).

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Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russian director and screenwriter (died 2021)

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rogozhkin was a Russian film director and writer.

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Laurie Simmons, American photographer and director

Laurie Simmons is an American photographer and filmmaker. Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged as a counterpoint to the male-dominated and formalist fields of painting and sculpture. The group introduced new approaches to photography, such as staged setups, narrative, and appropriations of pop culture and everyday objects that pushed the medium toward the center of contemporary art. Simmons's elaborately constructed images employ psychologically charged human proxies—dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins, props, miniatures and interiors—and also depict people as dolls. Often noted for its humor and pathos, her art explores boundaries such as between artifice and truth or private and public, while raising questions about the construction of identity, tropes of prosperity, consumerism and domesticity, and practices of self-presentation and image-making. In a review of Simmons's 2019 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, critic Steve Johnson wrote, "Collectively—and with a sly but barbed sense of humor—[her works] challenge you to think about what, if anything, is real: in our gender roles, and our cultural assumptions, and our perceptions of others."

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03/10/1947

John Perry Barlow, American poet, songwriter, blogger, and activist (died 2018)

John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and an early fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

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Ben Cauley, American trumpet player and songwriter (died 2015)

Ben Cauley Jr. was an American trumpet player, vocalist, songwriter, and founding member of the Stax recording group the Bar-Kays. He was the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that killed soul singer Otis Redding and four members of the Bar-Kays.

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Fred DeLuca, American businessman (died 2015)

Frederick Adrian DeLuca was an American businessman, who was the co-founder and president of the Subway franchise of fast food restaurants with Peter Buck. During his tenure, Subway grew into the largest franchise in the world.

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Anne Dorte of Rosenborg (died 2014)

Countess Anne Dorte of Rosenborg was a Danish countess. She was the wife of Count Christian of Rosenborg, the grandson of King Christian X of Denmark. Prince Christian had to give up his princely rank in order to marry her because she was a commoner. The couple married in Kongens Lyngby Kirke, Kongens Lyngby, on 7 February 1971, earning her the title Her Excellency Countess Anne Dorte of Rosenborg. She was daughter of Villy Edgaard VIlhelm Nielsen, Procurator, and wife Bodil Marie Elisabeth Maltoft.

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Takis Michalos, Greek water polo player and coach (died 2010)

Panagiotis "Takis" Michalos was a Greek water polo player and coach. He was born in Ampelokipoi, Athens.

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03/10/1946

P. P. Arnold, American soul singer

Patricia Ann Cole, known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American-born British-based soul singer. She began her career in 1965 as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. The following year she relocated to London to pursue a solo career. Arnold enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom with her singles "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (1967) and "Angel of the Morning" (1968).

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03/10/1945

Tony Brown, English footballer and sportscaster

Anthony Brown is an English former footballer who played as a wing half and an inside forward. He was often referred to by his nickname Bomber or Bomber Brown and was known for his spectacular goals. He joined West Bromwich Albion as a youth in 1961 and turned professional in 1963. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Brown was part of an Albion team that built a reputation as a successful cup side, winning the 1966 Football League Cup Final and the 1968 FA Cup Final and finishing as runners-up in the League Cup in 1967 and 1970. He was the top scorer in Division One in 1970–71 and received his only England cap at the end of that season.

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Christopher Bruce, English dancer and choreographer

Christopher Bruce is a British choreographer and performer. He was the Artistic Director of the Rambert Dance Company until 2002.

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Jo Ritzen, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Education

Jozef Marie Mathias "Jo" Ritzen is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist.

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03/10/1944

Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician and academic

Pierre René, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 1978 Fields Medal, 1988 Crafoord Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize and 2013 Abel Prize.

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Bob Riley, American politician, 52nd Governor of Alabama

Robert Renfroe Riley is an American retired politician and businessman who served as the 52nd governor of Alabama from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district from 1997 to 2003.

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03/10/1943

Jeff Bingaman, American soldier and politician, 25th Attorney General of New Mexico

Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman Jr. is an American retired politician who served as a United States senator from New Mexico from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 25th Attorney General of New Mexico from 1979 to 1983. During his time in the Senate, Bingaman served as Chairman of Committee Outreach for the Senate Democratic Caucus and was the longtime chair of the Senate Energy Committee.

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Baki İlkin, Turkish civil servant and diplomat

Baki İlkin was a Turkish diplomat and ambassador who served as the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations.

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03/10/1942

Alan Rachins, American actor (died 2024)

Alan L. Rachins was an American actor and comedian, known for his role as Douglas Brackman in L.A. Law which earned him both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, and his portrayal of Larry on the television series Dharma & Greg.

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03/10/1941

Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter

Chubby Checker is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the Pony, with his 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time". His biggest UK hit, "Let's Twist Again", was released one year later. That same year, Checker also popularized the song "Limbo Rock", a previous-year instrumental hit by the Champs to which he added lyrics and its trademark Limbo dance. He also introduced other dance styles, such as the Fly. In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1960, an honor it maintained in an August 2013 update of the list. In 2014, Checker was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, and he was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2025.

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Andrea de Adamich, Italian racing driver and sportscaster (died 2025)

Andrea Lodovico de Adamich was an Italian racing driver. He participated in 34 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, making his championship debut at the 1968 South African Grand Prix with Scuderia Ferrari. Driving for multiple other teams in the early 1970s, de Adamich scored a total of six points throughout his Formula One career. He also competed in endurance racing, and went on to become a TV pundit and commentator after his retirement from motorsport.

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John Elliott, Australian businessman (died 2021)

John Dorman Elliott was an Australian businessman and state and federal president of the Liberal Party. He had also been president of the Carlton Football Club. He frequently provoked controversy due to his political affiliations, his brushes with the law, and his abrasive personal style.

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Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist (died 2017)

Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca was a Romanian historian and philologist. An ethnic Aromanian, he specialized in the study of classical philology, Byzantine and Ottoman studies and cultures of the Balkans, including the Aromanians.

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03/10/1940

Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)

Alan Earle O'Day was an American singer-songwriter, best known for writing and singing "Undercover Angel," a million-selling Gold-certified American No. 1 hit in 1977. He also wrote songs for many other notable performers, such as 1974's Helen Reddy No. 1 hit "Angie Baby" and "Rock and Roll Heaven". In the 1980s he moved from pop music to television, co-writing nearly 100 songs for the Saturday morning Muppet Babies series, and in the 1990s he wrote and performed music on the National Geographic series Really Wild Animals. O'Day also collaborated with Tatsuro Yamashita on a series of popular songs in Japan including "Your Eyes", "Magic Ways", "Christmas Eve" and "Fragile".

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Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Joseph Gilbert Yvon Jean Ratelle is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played for the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins. He featured in three Stanley Cup Final. In twenty-one seasons he averaged almost a point a game and won the Lady Byng Trophy twice in recognition of his great sportsmanship. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985.

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Mike Troy, American swimmer (died 2019)

Michael Francis Troy was an American competitive swimmer, a two-time Olympic champion, and world record-holder in three events.

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03/10/1939

Bob Armstrong, American wrestler and trainer (died 2020)

Joseph Melton James was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Bullet" Bob Armstrong. In the course of his career, which spanned five decades, Armstrong held numerous championships throughout the Southeastern United States. His four sons, Joseph Scott, Robert Bradley, Steve and Brian Girard, all became wrestlers.

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03/10/1938

Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 1960)

Edward Ray Cochran was an American rock and roll musician. His songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. Cochran experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques, and overdubbing, even on his earliest singles. Cochran played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums. His image as a sharply dressed and attractive young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death, Cochran achieved iconic status.

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David Hart Dyke, English captain

Captain David Hart Dyke, is a retired Royal Navy officer, former aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, and former commanding officer of HMS Coventry, which was sunk during the Falklands War.

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Jack Hodgins, Canadian author and academic

Jack Hodgins is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Critically acclaimed, among his best received works is Broken Ground (1998), a historical novel set after the First World War, for which he received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and many other accolades.

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Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peruvian entrepreneur and politician, 66th President of Peru

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as the president of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He served as prime minister of Peru and as minister of economy and finance during the presidency of Alejandro Toledo. Kuczynski resigned from the presidency on 23 March 2018, following a successful impeachment vote and days before a probable conviction vote. Since 10 April 2019 he has been in pretrial detention, due to an ongoing investigation on corruption, money laundering, and connections to Odebrecht, a public works company accused of paying bribes.

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03/10/1936

Steve Reich, American composer

Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay "Music as a Gradual Process" by stating, "I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." For example, his early works experiment with phase shifting, in which one or more repeated phrases plays slower or faster than the others, causing it to go "out of phase." This creates new musical patterns in a perceptible flow.

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03/10/1935

Charles Duke, American general, pilot, and astronaut

Charles Moss Duke Jr. is an American former astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot who, as Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, became the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days. Duke is one of four surviving Moon walkers, along with David Scott, Buzz Aldrin and Harrison Schmitt.

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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (died 2020)

Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan was a Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor.

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03/10/1934

Benjamin Boretz, American composer and theorist

Benjamin Aaron Boretz is an American composer and music theorist.

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Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator (died 2015)

Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, also known as Michel Cardena, was a Colombian-Dutch Nouveau réalisme and pop art painter and a pioneer of video art in the Netherlands. His works cover a variety of artistic media, including painting, drawing, video, photography, object assemblages and digital art.

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Harold Henning, South African golfer (died 2004)

Harold Henning was a South African professional golfer. He played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour. He won professional tournaments on the highest level in Africa, Australia, Asia, North America and Europe.

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Simon Nicholson, English sculptor and painter (died 1990)

Simon Hepworth Nicholson was a British painter and sculptor. He was the son of sculptor Barbara Hepworth and her second husband, artist Ben Nicholson.

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03/10/1933

Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player (died 2024)

Neale Andrew Fraser, was an Australian champion tennis player. Fraser is the most recent man to have completed the triple crown, which he did in 1959 and 1960 at the U.S. National Championships. He won the 1960 Wimbledon championships. Fraser was ranked world No. 1 amateur tennis player in 1959 and 1960 by Lance Tingay and Ned Potter.

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03/10/1931

Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2026)

Glenn Henry Hall was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League career, which lasted from 1952 to 1971 with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St. Louis Blues, Hall set a record with 502 consecutive games played as a goaltender. He won the Vezina Trophy three times, was voted the first team All-Star goaltender seven times, and was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as best rookie in 1956. He also won the Stanley Cup with the Black Hawks in 1961. Nicknamed "Mr. Goalie", he was the first goaltender to use the butterfly style. In 2017, Hall was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.

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03/10/1928

Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (died 1986)

Erik Belton Evers Bruhn was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author.

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Shridath Ramphal, Guyanese academic and politician, 2nd Commonwealth Secretary-General (died 2024)

Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal OM, often known as Sir Sonny Ramphal, was a Guyanese politician who was the second Commonwealth Secretary-General, holding the position from 1975 to 1990. He was also the foreign minister of Guyana from 1972 to 1975, and assistant attorney general of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962.

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03/10/1926

Gerardo P. Cabochan, Filipino politician (died 2014)

Gerardo "Gerry" Paulino Cabochan was a Filipino lawyer, soldier, storyteller, and politician who served in the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1987 to 1992 representing the 2nd district of Caloocan.

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03/10/1925

Simone Segouin (also known as Nicole Minet), French Resistance fighter and partisan (died 2023)

Simone Segouin, also known by her nom de guerre Nicole Minet, was a French Resistance fighter who served in the Francs-tireurs et partisans group during World War II. Among her first acts of resistance was stealing a bicycle from a German patrol, which she then used to help carry messages. She went on to take part in large-scale or otherwise dangerous missions, such as capturing German troops, derailing trains, and acts of sabotage.

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Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (died 2012)

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives, and later in 1982 to the United States Senate.

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George Wein, American pianist and producer, co-founded the Newport Folk Festival (died 2021)

George Wein was an American jazz promoter, pianist, and producer. He was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, which is held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. He also co-founded the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger and Theodore Bikel and was instrumental in the founding of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

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03/10/1924

Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (died 1993)

Harvey Kurtzman was an American cartoonist and editor. His best-known work includes writing and editing the parodic comic book Mad from 1952 until 1956, and writing the Little Annie Fanny strips in Playboy from 1962 until 1988. His work is noted for its satire and parody of popular culture, social critique, and attention to detail. Kurtzman's working method has been likened to that of an auteur, and he expected those who illustrated his stories to follow his layouts strictly.

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Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter and coach (died 2012)

Arkady Nikitich Vorobyov was a Soviet and Russian weightlifter, weightlifting coach, scientist and writer. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won one bronze and two gold medals. Between 1950 and 1960 he set 16 official world records. Later for many years he led the national team and the Soviet weightlifting program. In 1995 he was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.

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03/10/1923

Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Dominica (died 2004)

Edward Oliver LeBlanc was a Dominican politician who served as the chief minister from January 1961 to 1 March 1967 and as the first premier from 1 March 1967 to 27 July 1974. Born in Vieille Case, a village in the north of the island, LeBlanc attended the local school and studied agriculture at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad. He worked in the civil service and became a member of the Dominica Trade Union. An early member of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP), he served as a representative in the country's Legislative Council representing the constituency of Portsmouth between 1957 and 1958, and as a representative of Dominica in the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation upon its foundation in 1958. LeBlanc left the federation in 1960 to run for election to the national legislature.

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03/10/1921

Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1996)

Raymond Russell Lindwall was an Australian cricketer who played 61 Test matches for Australia between 1946 and 1960. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in cricket history. In addition to his cricket career, he played top-flight rugby league for St. George, appearing in two grand finals for the club.

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03/10/1919

James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962. He continued to develop the theory, eventually receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986.

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03/10/1916

James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (died 1995)

James Alfred Wight, better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author.

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03/10/1915

Ray Stark, American film producer (died 2004)

Raymond Otto Stark was an American film producer and talent agent. Stark's background as a literary and theatrical agent prepared him to produce some of the most profitable films of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, such as The World of Suzie Wong (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Misfits (1961), Lolita (1962), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Funny Girl (1968), The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Toy (1982), Annie (1982), and Steel Magnolias (1989).

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03/10/1912

Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British peer, Conservative politician (died 1980)

Charles Ingram Courtenay Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, styled Hon. Charles Wood from 1925 until 1944 and Lord Irwin from 1944 until 1959, was a British peer, Conservative politician, Lord Lieutenant of Humberside and High Steward of York Minster.

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03/10/1911

Michael Hordern, English actor (died 1995)

Sir Michael Murray Hordern was an English actor. He is best known for his Shakespearean roles, especially King Lear. He often appeared in film, rising from a bit part actor to leading roles; by the time of his death he had appeared in nearly 140 films. His later work was predominantly in television and radio.

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03/10/1908

Johnny Burke, American songwriter (died 1964)

John Francis Burke was an American lyricist, successful and prolific between the 1920s and 1950s. His work is considered part of the Great American Songbook.

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03/10/1906

Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (died 1997)

Natalie Savage Carlson was an American writer of children's books. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, she was United States nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1966.

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03/10/1905

Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey (died 1993)

Mehmet Tekin Arıburun was a Turkish military officer and statesman. He was born in Ishtib, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. He was the last acting president to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey.

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03/10/1904

Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (died 1998)

Ernst-Günther Schenck was a German medical doctor and member of the SS in Nazi Germany. Because of a chance encounter with Adolf Hitler during the closing days of World War II, his memoirs proved historically valuable. His accounts of this period are prominent in the works of Joachim Fest and James P. O'Donnell regarding the end of Hitler's life, and were included in the film Downfall (2004). Schenck was not allowed to continue his medical career in post-war Germany.

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03/10/1901

Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter (died 1959)

Jean Grémillon was a French film director.

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03/10/1900

Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (died 1938)

Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon. He has been dubbed "North Carolina's most famous writer."

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03/10/1899

Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer (died 1966)

Gertrude Berg was an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce, and star in a long-running hit when she premiered her serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs. Her career achievements included winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, both for Best Lead Actress.

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03/10/1898

Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter (died 1969)

Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 films, including the critically acclaimed Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth, Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's, My Son John, and An Affair to Remember.

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Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator (died 1944)

Adolf Reichwein was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD, who resisted the policies of Nazi Germany.

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03/10/1897

Louis Aragon, French author and poet (died 1982)

Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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03/10/1896

Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman (died 1961)

Auvergne Mary Doherty was an Australian businesswoman, working in her family's cattle business. She was one of the first nine women called to the bar in England; Doherty was the first Western Australian woman called to the English Bar; she did not go on to practise law in England or Western Australia. Instead, Doherty took over her father's business when he died in 1935.

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Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic (died 1987)

Gerardo Diego Cendoya was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.

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03/10/1895

Giovanni Comisso, Italian author and poet (died 1969)

Giovanni Comisso was an important Italian writer of the twentieth century, appreciated by Eugenio Montale, Umberto Saba, Gianfranco Contini and many others.

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Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (died 1925)

Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation".

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03/10/1894

Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco (died 1982)

Elmer Edwin Robinson was the 33rd mayor of San Francisco, California. A Republican, he served as San Francisco's mayor from January 1948 until January 1956.

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Walter Warlimont, German general (died 1976)

Walter Warlimont was a German Army staff officer and general during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of the departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954.

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03/10/1890

Emilio Portes Gil, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (died 1978)

Emilio Cándido Portes Gil was a Mexican politician, lawyer and diplomat who served as the 48th President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930, one of three to serve out the six-year term of president-elect General Álvaro Obregón, who had been assassinated in 1928. Since the 1917 Constitution forbade re-election of a serving president, incumbent President Plutarco Elías Calles could not formally retain the presidency. Portes Gil replaced him, but Calles, the "Jefe Máximo", retained effective political power during what is known as the Maximato.

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03/10/1889

Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1938)

Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.

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03/10/1888

Wade Boteler, American actor and screenwriter (died 1943)

Wade Boteler was an American film actor and writer. He appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943.

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03/10/1886

Alain-Fournier, French soldier, author, and critic (died 1914)

Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature. The book is based partly on his childhood.

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03/10/1885

Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (died 1970)

Sophie Anita Treadwell was an American playwright and journalist of the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her play Machinal which is often included in drama anthologies as an example of an expressionist or modernist play. Treadwell wrote dozens of plays, several novels, as well as serial stories and countless articles that appeared in newspapers. In addition to writing plays for the theatre, Treadwell also produced, directed and acted in some of her productions. The styles and subjects of Treadwell's writings are vast, but many present women's issues of her time, subjects of current media coverage, or aspects of Treadwell's Mexican heritage.

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03/10/1882

A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and academic (died 1974)

Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto. In addition to his work with the Group of Seven, his long career included serving as a war artist during World War I (1917–1919) and teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

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03/10/1880

Nora Bayes, American singer, entertainer, and actress (died 1928)

Nora Bayes was an American singer and vaudeville performer who was popular internationally between the 1900s and 1920s. She is credited with co-writing the song "Shine On, Harvest Moon" and performed many successful songs during the First World War, including "Over There". She was also noted for her independent views and unconventional private life, becoming an early media celebrity. She made over 160 recordings.

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03/10/1879

Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor and singer (died 1938)

Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor. His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances. He is most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: Dr. Fu Manchu, Henry Chang in Shanghai Express, and, most notably, Honolulu Police detective Lieutenant Charlie Chan in 16 films.

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03/10/1875

Dr. Atl, Mexican painter (died 1964)

Gerardo Murillo Coronado, also known by his signature "Dr. Atl", was a Mexican painter, writer and intellectual. He is most famous for his works inspired by the Mexican landscape, particularly volcanoes, and for being one of the early figures of modern Mexican art.

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03/10/1869

Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (died 1942)

Alfred Flatow was a Jewish German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was murdered in the Holocaust.

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03/10/1867

Joseph Beech, American Methodist missionary and educator (died 1954)

Joseph Beech, or Joe Beech as he was more commonly known, was an American Methodist missionary and educator, member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, and founding president of the West China Union University. He was a recipient of the Order of Brilliant Jade.

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Pierre Bonnard, French painter (died 1947)

Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism. He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.

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03/10/1866

Josephine Sabel, American singer and comedian (died 1945)

Josephine Domingue Sabel was an American singer and comedian, billed as "The Queen of Song" in vaudeville.

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03/10/1865

Gustave Loiseau, French painter (died 1935)

Gustave Loiseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

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03/10/1863

Pyotr Kozlov, Russian archaeologist and explorer (died 1935)

Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov was a Russian and Soviet traveller and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet.

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03/10/1862

Alice B. Woodward, British illustrator for children and scientists (died 1931)

Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862–1951) was an English artist and illustrator. She was one of the most prolific illustrators at the turn of the 20th century and is known mainly for her work in children's literature, and secondarily for her scientific illustrations.

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Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (died 1902)

Johnny Briggs was an English left arm spin bowler who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1879 and 1900 and remains the second-highest wicket-taker in the county's history after Brian Statham. In the early days of Test cricket, Briggs‘ batting was considered careless, although still very useful. He was the first bowler in Test cricket to take 100 wickets, and held the record of most wickets in Test cricket on two occasions, the first in 1895 and again from 1898 until 1904, when he was succeeded by Hugh Trumble. He toured Australia a record six times, a feat only equalled by Colin Cowdrey.

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03/10/1858

Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (died 1924)

Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress, rated by many as the greatest of her time. She performed in many countries, notably in the plays of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen. Duse achieved a unique power of conviction and verity on the stage through intense absorption in the character, "eliminating the self" as she put it, and letting the qualities emerge from within, not imposed through artifice.

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03/10/1848

Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (died 1929)

Henry Lerolle was a French painter, art collector and patron, born in Paris. He studied at Académie Suisse and in the studio of Louis Lamothe.

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03/10/1846

James Jackson Putnam, American neurologist and academic (died 1918)

James Jackson Putnam was an American neurologist.

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03/10/1837

Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (died 1885)

Nicolás Remigio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva was an Argentine politician and journalist, and President of Argentina from 1874 to 1880. Avellaneda's main projects while in office were banking and education reform, leading to Argentina's economic growth. The most important events of his government were the Conquest of the Desert and the transformation of the Buenos Aires into a federal district.

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03/10/1828

Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (died 1897)

Woldemar Bargiel was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period.

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03/10/1804

Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1878)

Townsend Harris was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the Harris Treaty between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened Shogunate Japan to foreign trade and culture in the Edo period.

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Allan Kardec, French author, translator, educator and founder of modern Spiritism (died 1869)

Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, known by the pen name of Allan Kardec, was a French educator, translator, and writer. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and the founder of Spiritism.

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03/10/1800

George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1891)

George Bancroft was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and international levels.

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03/10/1797

Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1870)

Leopold II was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; firstly Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832 Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he had a son, Ferdinand, who later succeeded him. Leopold was recognised contemporarily as a liberal monarch, authorising the Tuscan Constitution of 1848, and allowing a degree of press freedom.

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03/10/1790

John Ross, American tribal chief (died 1866)

John Ross was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866; he served longer in that position than any other person. Ross led the nation through such tumultuous events as forced removal to Indian Territory and the American Civil War. Ross was of Native and European American descent. His father was a European man from Highland, Scotland. His mother was a Native American woman from the Cherokee Nation.

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03/10/1720

Johann Uz, German poet and judge (died 1796)

Johann Peter Uz was a German poet.

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03/10/1716

Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (died 1781)

Giovanni Battista Beccaria was an Italian physicist. A fellow of the Royal Society, he published several papers on electrical subjects in the Phil. Trans. Beccaria was one of Benjamin Franklin's more conspicuous correspondents. His students included Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Giovanni Francesco Cigna, Giuseppe Angelo Saluzzo, and the successor to the Chair of physics, Antonio Vassalli Eandi; moreover, his researches inspired the physicists of Pavia, Alessandro Volta and Luigi Galvani.

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03/10/1713

Antoine Dauvergne, French violinist and composer (died 1797)

Antoine Dauvergne was a French composer and violinist.

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03/10/1637

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (died 1720)

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, was a Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

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03/10/1631

Sebastian Anton Scherer, German organist and composer (died 1712)

Sebastian Anton Scherer was a German composer and organist of the Baroque era.

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03/10/1610

Gabriel Lalemant, French-Canadian missionary and saint (died 1649)

Gabriel Lalemant was a French Jesuit missionary in New France beginning in 1646. Caught up in warfare between the Huron and nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, he was killed in St. Ignace by Mohawk warriors and is one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.

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03/10/1554

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (died 1628)

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who served in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.

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03/10/1458

Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (died 1484)

Casimir Jagiellon was a prince of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The second son of King Casimir IV Jagiellon, he was tutored by Johannes Longinus, a Polish chronicler, diplomat, and priest. After his elder brother Vladislaus was elected as King of Bohemia in 1471, Casimir became the heir apparent. At the age of 13, Casimir participated in the failed military campaign to install him as King of Hungary. He became known for his piety, devotion to God, and generosity towards the sick and poor. He became ill and died at the age of 25. He was buried in Vilnius Cathedral. His canonization was initiated by his brother King Sigismund I the Old in 1514 and the tradition holds that he was canonized in 1521. Saint Casimir the Prince is the patron saint of Poland, Lithuania and Lithuanian youth and the only saint with this name.

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03/10/1390

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (died 1447)

Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. He was, and styled himself as, "son, brother and uncle of kings", being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV of England, the brother of Henry V, and the uncle of Henry VI. Gloucester fought in the Hundred Years' War and acted as Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew. He was a controversial political figure whose actions and policies generated both support and opposition among his contemporaries and later historians. Assessments of his career note his involvement in political conflicts as well as his engagement with intellectual circles, including his role as an early English patron of humanist scholarship, in the context of the Renaissance.

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