Born on Thursday, 30th October – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 257 notable people were born on 30th October — spanning from -39 to 2000. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Thursday, 30th October 2025 marks a significant date in history associated with numerous notable figures across various fields. Among those born on this day, Artemi Panarin stands out as a prominent ice hockey player whose career has made considerable impact on the sport internationally. Born in Russia in 1991, Panarin has represented multiple teams in the National Hockey League and became a key player for the New York Rangers. Another notable figure is Giselle, a Japanese singer born in 2000, who has gained recognition in the music industry through her work as part of a contemporary girl group.
The historical record for 30th October extends far into the past, encompassing important figures such as Christopher Wren, the renowned English architect who designed St Paul’s Cathedral and lived from 1632 to 1723. His contributions to architecture during the Baroque period remain influential in the development of English building design and urban planning.
On 30th October 2025, the moon is in a waning gibbous phase. The weather conditions show clear skies with temperatures around 8 degrees Celsius and gentle winds from the northwest. The zodiac sign for this date is Scorpio, affecting those born during this astrological period.
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30/10/2000
Giselle, Japanese singer
Aeri Uchinaga , known professionally as Giselle (Korean: 지젤), is a Japanese singer and rapper based in South Korea. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Aespa, formed by SM Entertainment in November 2020.
30/10/1998
Cale Makar, Canadian ice hockey player
Cale Douglas Makar is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected with the fourth overall pick by the Avalanche in the 2017 NHL entry draft.
30/10/1997
Tage Thompson, American ice hockey player
Tage Nathaniel Thompson is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center and alternate captain for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Thompson was selected 26th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 2016 NHL entry draft, with whom he played one season before being traded to the Sabres. Thompson played his collegiate hockey at the University of Connecticut.
30/10/1996
Devin Booker, American basketball player
Devin Armani Booker is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, winning SEC Sixth Man of the Year before being drafted 13th overall by the Suns in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft. Booker is a five-time All-Star, a two-time All-NBA member, and is the Suns' all-time leading scorer. He has also won gold medals with the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Olympic teams.
Dennis Gilbert, American ice hockey player
Dennis Gilbert is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the Belleville Senators in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks, 90th overall, in the 2015 NHL entry draft, and has also played for the Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, and Buffalo Sabres.
Kennedy McMann, American actress
Kennedy Paige McMann is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the character Nancy Drew in the CW television series of the same name (2019–2023).
Kim Ji-sung, South Korean actress
Kim Ji-sung (Korean: 김지성) is a South Korean actress. She is known for her roles in dramas such as Mysterious Personal Shopper (2018), Graceful Friends (2020), and How to Be Thirty (2021). She also appeared in movies Coffee Mate (2016), Park Hwa-young (2017) and The Way (2017).
30/10/1994
Mia Eklund, Finnish tennis player
Mia Nicole Eklund is a retired Finnish tennis player.
30/10/1993
Marcus Mariota, American football player
Marcus Ardel Taulauniu Mariota is an American professional football quarterback for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks. In 2014, Mariota became the first player at the school and the first Hawaii-born athlete to win the Heisman Trophy.
30/10/1992
Matt Parcell, Australian rugby league player
Matt Steven Parcell is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for Western Clydesdales in the Queensland Cup.
Camila Silva, Chilean tennis player
Camila Silva Espinoza is a Chilean former tennis player.
30/10/1991
Jarell Eddie, American basketball player
Jarell Alexander Eddie is an American professional basketball player who last played for Al-Ittihad Jeddah of the Saudi Premier League. He played college basketball for Virginia Tech before splitting the first four years of his professional career in the NBA and NBA G League. Since 2018, Eddie has played in Europe.
Artemi Panarin, Russian ice hockey player
Artemi Sergeyevich Panarin, nicknamed the "Breadman", or simply "Bread", is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for Vityaz Chekhov, Ak Bars Kazan, SKA Saint Petersburg, the Chicago Blackhawks, the Columbus Blue Jackets and the New York Rangers.
Tomáš Satoranský, Czech basketball player
Tomáš Satoranský is a Czech professional basketball player and the team captain for FC Barcelona of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Standing at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), he primarily plays at the point guard position, but he can also play as a shooting guard or small forward due to his height and wingspan.
30/10/1990
Joe Panik, American baseball player
Joseph Matthew Panik is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays, and Miami Marlins. Panik was an All-Star in 2015 and won a Gold Glove Award in 2016.
Suwaibou Sanneh, Gambian sprinter
Suwaibou Sanneh is a Gambian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He was born in Soma. He set a personal best and national record time of 10.16 seconds during the Twilight Series Meet #3 on 30 May 2013 in New York City.
30/10/1989
Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
Ashley Luke Barnes is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Burnley.
Nastia Liukin, Russian-American gymnast and actress
Anastasia "Nastia" Valeryevna Liukin is a Russian–American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic all-around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World champion on the uneven bars. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller for the third-highest tally of World Championship medals among U.S. gymnasts. Liukin also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games. In October 2011, Liukin announced that she was returning to gymnastics with the hopes of making a second Olympic team. Liukin did not make the 2012 Olympic team and retired from the sport on July 2, 2012.
30/10/1988
Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
Janel Meilani Parrish is an American actress and singer. She starred as Mona Vanderwaal in Pretty Little Liars (2010–17) and its spin-off, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (2019), and as Margot Covey in the To All the Boys series (2018–21). She also portrayed Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Misérables (1996), and Jade in the teen comedy film Bratz (2007). She finished in third place on the tenth season of Fox's The Masked Singer in 2023. She has also starred in numerous movies for Hallmark.
30/10/1987
Danielle Fong, Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy
Danielle Fong is a Canadian scientist and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy, and as of late 2025 is working at another startup, LightCell Energy.
Ashley Graham, American model
Ashley Graham Ervin is an American model and television presenter. She made her debut on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2016. A year later, she published her first book, A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like, which contributes to her advocacy in the body positivity and inclusion movement.
Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer
Alexandra Lowe Riley is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in the United States, she represented the New Zealand national team. She captained both her club and national teams. As a collegiate athlete, she captained the Stanford soccer team to two NCAA semi-finals and one final.
30/10/1986
Desmond Jennings, American baseball player
Desmond Delane Jennings is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
Thomas Morgenstern is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2014. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers of all time, having won the World Cup overall title twice with 23 individual wins, the Four Hills Tournament and the Nordic Tournament once each, eight World Championship gold medals, and three Winter Olympic gold medals.
Keisuke Sohma, Japanese actor
Keisuke Sohma is a former Japanese actor known for his portrayal as Genta Umemori/ ShinkenGold in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.
Tamera Young, American basketball player
Tamera "Ty" Young is an American former basketball player and assistant coach with the Chicago Sky. After playing collegiately for James Madison University, Young was drafted by the Atlanta Dream with the 8th overall pick of the 2008 WNBA draft. She was traded to the Chicago Sky, and helped them to the WNBA Finals in 2014, then came back to Atlanta, and was traded to the Aces in 2018.
30/10/1985
Ragnar Klavan, Estonian footballer
Ragnar Klavan is an Estonian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He is regarded as one of the greatest Estonian footballers of all time. A left-footed centre back, he also played as a left back during his career.
30/10/1984
Gedo, Egyptian footballer
Mohamed Nagy Ismail Afash, commonly known as Gedo, is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Eva Marcille, American model and actress
Eva Marcille Pigford is an American actress, fashion model and television personality. She rose to prominence after she won the third cycle of America's Next Top Model. Afterwards, she starred as Tracie Evans in Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007–2012), and Tyra Hamilton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless (2008–2009).
David Mooney, Irish footballer
David Mooney is an Irish footballer who has played for several clubs in Ireland and the United Kingdom. As of 2019, he was playing as a striker for Leinster Senior League side Lucan United.
Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player
Isaac Beattie Ross is a New Zealand rugby union player. He plays in the lock position for the San Diego Legion of Major League Rugby (MLR) competition in the U.S.
Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
Tyson Strachan is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He most recently played for the Cardiff Devils in the EIHL. He was drafted by the Carolina Hurricanes in the fifth round, 137th overall, in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
30/10/1983
Trent Edwards, American football player
Trent Edwards is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal and was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft. As a rookie, Edwards took over the starting position after an injury to incumbent starter J. P. Losman, leading Buffalo to a 5–1 start in 2008 before injuries and declining play resulted in his own demotion and eventual release from the team in 2010.
Iain Hume, Canadian soccer player
Iain Edward Hume is a soccer manager and former professional soccer player who played as a forward.
Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
Maor Melikson is an Israeli former association footballer who played as a winger for the Israel national team. As a result of injury he announced his retirement on 1 January 2020.
30/10/1982
Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
Andrew Greene is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), primarily for the New Jersey Devils, with whom he served as team captain. He also played for the New York Islanders.
Manny Parra, American baseball player
Manuel Alex Parra is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds.
Clémence Poésy, French actress and model
Clémence Guichard, known professionally as Clémence Poésy, is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series, Chloë in In Bruges, Rana in 127 Hours, Natasha Rostova in War and Peace, and the lead role as Elise Wassermann in the 24-episode series The Tunnel.
Stalley, American rapper
Kyle Alfonso Myricks, better known by his stage name Stalley, is an American rapper from Massillon, Ohio.
30/10/1981
Fiona Dourif, American actress
Fiona Christianne Dourif is an American actress and producer. She is best known for portraying Dr. Cassie McKay in the HBO Max medical drama series The Pitt (2025–present).
Joshua Jay, American magician and author
Joshua Jay is an American magician, author, and lecturer. He has performed in over 100 countries and was awarded top prize at the World Magic Seminar in 1998. He worked with Penn and Teller on the show Fool Us, and he holds a Guinness World Record for card tricks. Jay has performed on shows including Good Morning America and The Today Show. In January 2018, Jay was recognized by the Society of American Magicians for his contribution to the art of magic.
Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean model and actress
Wang Ji-hyun, known professionally as Jun Ji-hyun (전지현) and Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She rose to fame with her role in the romantic comedy film My Sassy Girl (2001), which was popular in several Asian countries. She has also starred in Il Mare (2000), Windstruck (2004), The Thieves (2012), The Berlin File (2013), and Assassination (2015). Jun also found success in television with dramas My Love from the Star (2013–2014) and The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016–2017).
Ayaka Kimura, Japanese singer and actress
Ayaka Tanihara , born Ayaka Kimura October 30, 1981 and known professionally as Ayaka Nagate , is a Japanese actress and former singer. From 1998 to 2008, Nagate was part of Hello! Project as a member of the Japan-based girl group Coconuts Musume.
Shaun Sipos, Canadian actor
Shaun Sipos is a Canadian actor, known for playing Jack on the series Complete Savages (2004–2005), David Breck on Melrose Place (2009–2010), Eric Daniels on Life Unexpected (2010–2011), Aaron Whitmore on The Vampire Diaries (2013–2014), Adam Strange on Krypton (2018–2019), Luke Tillerson on Outer Range (2020–2023), David O'Donnell on Reacher (2022–2023).
Ian Snell, American baseball player
Ian Dante Snell is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Seattle Mariners. From 2001 to 2003, he went by the name Ian Oquendo, adopting the last name of his wife, and during the 2009 World Baseball Classic he went by Ian Davila-Snell, adopting his stepfather's surname. He threw a mid-90s fastball, along with a curveball, slider and changeup.
Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump is an American businesswoman. She is the second child of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his first wife, Ivana Trump. Ivanka was a presidential advisor in her father's first administration (2017–2021).
30/10/1980
Rich Alvarez, Filipino-Japanese basketball player
Richard Alvarez is a Japanese-born Filipino professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Macau Black Knights of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played his whole career in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He was the first overall pick of 2004 PBA draft by the Shell Turbo Chargers.
Choi Hong-man, South Korean wrestler and mixed martial artist
Choi Hong-man, often anglicised to Hongman Choi, is a South Korean kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and former ssireum wrestler. In Asia, he is called "Che Man", "Techno Goliath", "Korean Monster" and "Korean Colossus". He won the 2005 K-1 Seoul Grand Prix beating Kaoklai Kaennorsing in the finals. He stands 2.18 m and weighs 160 kg.
Kareem Rush, American basketball player
Kareem Lamar Rush is an American former professional basketball player, who played for five National Basketball Association (NBA) franchises between 2002 and 2010, as well as other leagues in the U.S. and abroad. Rush's younger brother, Brandon, last played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, while older brother JaRon played college basketball for UCLA.
30/10/1979
Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
Jason Alan Bartlett is a Filipino American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, and San Diego Padres.
30/10/1978
Martin Dossett, American football player
Martin William Dossett is a former NFL wide receiver who signed with the Green Bay Packers in 2003. He played college football & ran track at Baylor University. As of January 2025, his son, Mason, is a redshirt wide receiver at Baylor. Dossett has played in professional leagues such as the NIFL, NFL Europe and AF2 before playing in Corpus Christi, Texas, for the Corpus Christi Hammerheads of the Intense Football League.
Stephanie Izard, American chef
Stephanie Izard is an American chef and television personality best known as the first female chef to win Bravo's Top Chef, taking the title during its fourth season. She is the co-owner and executive chef of three award-winning Chicago restaurants, Girl and the Goat, Little Goat, and Duck Duck Goat, and opened her first restaurant, Scylla as chef-owner at the age of 27. Valley Goat is the newest iteration in Silicon Valley, CA (Sunnyvale) on the Starwood property brand TREEHOUSE HOTELS & RESORTS. Izard received a James Beard Foundation Award for "Best Chef: Great Lakes" in 2013 for her work at Girl and the Goat. She has made a number of appearances on Top Chef since her win, both as a guest judge on subsequent seasons and as a participant in Top Chef Duels. In 2017, Izard competed in the Food Network series Iron Chef Gauntlet, where she overall defeated chefs Bobby Flay, Michael Symon, and Masaharu Morimoto to obtain the title of Iron Chef.
Matthew Morrison, American singer-songwriter and actor
Matthew James Morrison is an American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his role as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee (2009–2015).
Dan Poulter, English physician and politician
Daniel Leonard James Poulter is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich from 2010 to 2024. Poulter is a psychiatrist, and served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health between September 2012 and May 2015. Initially elected as a Conservative, he defected to Labour in April 2024.
Derren Witcombe, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer
Derren John Charles Witcombe is an Australian-born New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. As a player, he played at hooker. He was educated at Pompallier Catholic College.
30/10/1976
Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
Stern John is a Trinidadian football manager and former player who is currently managing Saint Lucia. He managed Anguilla from 2020 to 2022. He previously played for a number of American and English football clubs that included Columbus Crew, Nottingham Forest, Birmingham City, Coventry City, Derby County, Sunderland, Southampton, Bristol City, Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town. He is the all-time Central American/Caribbean men's top goal scorer in international football with 70 goals.
Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer and manager
Ümit Özat is a Turkish professional football manager and former player.
Maurice Taylor, American basketball player
Maurice De Shawn Taylor is an American former professional basketball player. He played power forward and center positions. Originally from Detroit, Taylor played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines and was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers as the 14th overall pick in the 1997 NBA draft. Taylor played from 1997 to 2007 in the NBA for the Clippers, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, and Sacramento Kings. From 2009 to 2011, Taylor played internationally in Italy and China.
30/10/1975
Ian D'Sa, English-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Ian D'Sa is a Canadian guitarist, producer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Billy Talent.
Marco Scutaro, Venezuelan baseball player
Marcos Scutaro, better known as Marco Scutaro, is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder. He bats and throws right-handed. Scutaro made his major league debut with the New York Mets in 2002, and subsequently played for the Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies and San Francisco Giants. Scutaro was named the most valuable player of the 2012 National League Championship Series while with the Giants; he and the team then won the 2012 World Series over the Detroit Tigers.
30/10/1973
Michael Buettner, Australian rugby league player and official
Michael Buettner is an Australian rugby league official and former professional footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative back, he played club football for the North Sydney Bears, the Northern Eagles, the Parramatta Eels and the Wests Tigers.
Silvia Corzo, Colombian lawyer and journalist
Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto is a Colombian lawyer and presenter.
Edge, Canadian wrestler and actor
Adam Joseph Copeland is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under his real name. He is best known for his tenures with the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/WWE), where he performed from 1998 to 2011 and again from 2020 to 2023 under the ring name Edge.
Michael Oakes, English footballer and manager
Michael Christian Oakes is an English football coach and former professional footballer.
Raci Şaşmaz, Turkish actor, producer, and screenwriter
Raci Şaşmaz is a Turkish film producer, writer and actor.
30/10/1972
Jessica Hynes, English actress, producer, and screenwriter
Jessica Hynes is an English actress, director and writer. Best known as a comedy actress, she has played Cheryl in The Royle Family (1998–2010), Siobhan Sharpe in Twenty Twelve (2011–2012) and W1A (2014–2017) and Emily Yates in There She Goes (2018–2023). She was also one of the stars, creators and writers of Spaced (1999–2001). She has also had starring roles in television film Tomorrow La Scala! and BBC dramas Years and Years (2019) and Miss Austen (2025). In film, Hynes has appeared in the Bridget Jones (2004–2016), Nativity (2012–2018) and Paddington (2017–2024) film series.
30/10/1971
Fredi Bobic, Slovenian-German footballer and manager
Fredi Bobic is a German football executive and former player who played as a striker. He is currently the head of football operations at Ekstraklasa club Legia Warsaw.
Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
Tzanis Stavrakopoulos is a Greek former professional basketball player. At a height of 2.02 m, he played at the small forward and power forward positions.
Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch field hockey player
Suzan Jacobien Unia van der Wielen is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who played 191 international matches for the Netherlands, in which the striker scored a total number of seventy goals.
30/10/1970
Ben Bailey, American comedian and game show host
Benjamin Ray Bailey is an American comedian best known as the host of the game show Cash Cab. He also does stand-up comedy, and as an actor has appeared in some films and television shows. He has received multiple Daytime Emmy nominations including three wins for Outstanding Game Show Host, as the host of Cash Cab.
Tory Belleci, American visual effects designer and television presenter
Salvatore Paul Belleci is an American television personality and model maker, best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters. He has also worked with Industrial Light and Magic on films including Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. The Federation battleships and podracers are some of Belleci's pieces.
Christine Bersola-Babao, Filipino journalist and actress
Maria Concepcion "Christine" Peji Bersola-Babao, also known as Tin Tin, is a Filipina multi-media personality. She is best known for appearing in the educational television program Sine'skwela.
Billy Brown, American actor
Billy Brown is an American actor best known for his lead roles as Richard 'Death Row' Reynolds on the FX sports drama series Lights Out (2011), Archer Petit on the CBS drama series Hostages (2013–14), and Detective Nate Lahey on the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–20). He is also known for his supporting roles as Detective Mike Anderson on the sixth and seventh seasons of the Showtime crime thriller series Dexter (2011–12), and August Marks on the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons of the FX action crime drama series Sons of Anarchy (2012–14).
Nia Long, American actress
Nia Talita Long is an American actress. Best known for her work in black cinema, Long rose to prominence after starring in the film Boyz n the Hood (1991), and for her portrayal of Beullah "Lisa" Wilkes on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1991–1995). She then appeared in the films Friday (1995), Love Jones (1997), and Soul Food (1997).
Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
Ekaterini Voggoli is a retired Greek discus thrower.
30/10/1969
Stanislav Gross, Czech lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (died 2015)
Stanislav Gross was a Czech lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic and leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 2004 until 2005 when he resigned as a result of his financial irregularities. He previously served as minister of the Interior in cabinets of Miloš Zeman and Vladimír Špidla from 2000 to 2004. Gross was Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1992 to 2004.
Snow, Canadian rapper and reggae singer-songwriter
Darrin Kenneth O'Brien, known by his stage name Snow, is a Canadian rapper and musician. His 1992 single "Informer" spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Vangelis Vourtzoumis, Greek basketball player
Evangelos "Vangelis" Vourtzoumis is a retired Greek professional basketball player.
30/10/1968
Emmanuelle Claret, French biathlete (died 2013)
Emmanuelle Claret was a French biathlete. Her best performance came in 1996 when she became world champion in the Biathlon World Championships 1996 in Ruhpolding at 15 km. She also won a silver medal with the French relay at the same championships. She won the overall World Cup in 1996. She has won three individual victories in the world cup. She died of leukemia on 11 May 2013, aged 44.
Jack Plotnick, American actor, director, and producer
Jack Plotnick is an American film and television actor, writer, and producer. Notable main television roles include Lovespring International, Drawn Together, and Action. Notable film roles include Gods and Monsters, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Rubber, and Wrong.
Ken Stringfellow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Kenneth Stuart Stringfellow is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer. Best known for his work with The Posies, R.E.M., and the re-formed Big Star, Stringfellow's discography includes more than 200 albums.
30/10/1967
Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
Bradley E. Aitken is a Canadian former professional ice hockey Left wing who played 14 games in the National Hockey League.
Leonidas Kavakos, Greek violinist and conductor
Leonidas Kavakos is a Greek violinist and conductor. He has won several international violin competition prizes, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation scholar. He has also recorded for record labels such as Sony/BMG and BIS. As a conductor, he was an artistic director of the Camerata Salzburg and has been a guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
30/10/1965
Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Gavin McGregor Rossdale is an English musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush. He helped form Bush in 1992. Upon the band's separation in 2002, Rossdale became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career. He resumed his role in Bush when the band reunited in 2010. In 2013, he received the Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.
30/10/1964
Adnan Al Talyani, Emirati footballer
Adnan Khamis Mohammed Obaid Al-Talyani Al-Suwaidi is a retired footballer from the United Arab Emirates who played as a forward for the country's Pro Football League, Al-Shaab CSC, and the national team. He is considered one of the best football players and goal scorers in the history of the UAE League and the national team.
Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi journalist and author
Humayun Kabir Dhali is an author and journalist from Bangladesh.
Howard Lederer, American poker player
Howard Henry Lederer is an American professional poker player. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and holds two World Poker Tour titles. Lederer has also contributed to several books on poker strategy and has provided commentary for poker programming. He is known by poker fans and players as "The Professor" and is the older brother of professional poker player Annie Duke.
30/10/1963
Michael Beach, American actor and producer
Michael Anthony Beach is an American actor. He has appeared in the films Lean on Me (1989), One False Move (1992), True Romance (1993), Short Cuts (1993), Waiting to Exhale (1995), A Family Thing (1996), Soul Food (1997), Aquaman (2018), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and Saw X (2023). On television, he played Al Boulet on the NBC medical drama ER from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 2005, Beach was a regular cast member in another NBC drama series, Third Watch, as Monte Parker, and as T.O. Cross in FX's Sons of Anarchy.
Rebecca Heineman, American video game designer and programmer
Rebecca Ann Heineman was an American video game designer and programmer. Heineman was a founder or co-founder of video game companies Interplay Productions, Logicware, Contraband Entertainment, and Olde Sküül. She was the chief executive officer of Olde Sküül from 2013 until her death in 2025.
Andrew Solomon, American-English journalist and author
Andrew Solomon is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, Libyan politics, and Deaf politics.
Mike Veletta, Australian cricketer and coach
Michael Robert John Veletta is a former Australian cricketer.
Kristina Wagner, American actress
Kristina Wagner is an American actress. She is sometimes credited by the name Kristina Malandro. She is best known for her role as Felicia Jones on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. She also briefly had a small role on the ABC series Hotel in the late 1980s.
30/10/1962
Stefan Kuntz, German footballer and manager
Stefan Kuntz is a German professional football manager and former player who played as a striker. He was most recently sporting director of Bundesliga side Hamburger SV.
Danny Tartabull, Puerto Rican baseball player
Danilo Tartabull Mora is a Cuban–Puerto Rican former professional baseball right fielder and designated hitter. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners (1984–1986), Kansas City Royals (1987–1991), New York Yankees (1992–1995), Oakland Athletics (1995), Chicago White Sox (1996), and Philadelphia Phillies (1997).
Courtney Walsh, Jamaican cricketer
Courtney Andrew Walsh OJ is a Jamaican former cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the team in 22 Test matches. He played as a fast bowler and is considered one of the all-time greats, best known for his opening bowling partnership with fellow West Indian Curtly Ambrose for several years. Walsh played 132 Tests and 205 ODIs for the West Indies and took 519 and 227 wickets respectively. He shared 421 Test wickets with Ambrose in 49 matches. He held the record of most Test wickets from 2000, after he broke the record of Kapil Dev. This record was later broken in 2004 by Shane Warne. He was the first bowler to reach 500 wickets in Test cricket. His autobiography is entitled "Heart of the Lion". Walsh was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1987. In October 2010, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He was appointed as the Specialist Bowling Coach of Bangladesh Cricket Team in August 2016.
30/10/1961
Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
Scott William Garrelts is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants from 1982 to 1991. Garrelts's best year as a Giant came during the 1989 season, when he went 14-5 with a 2.28 ERA, leading his team to the World Series against their Bay Area rivals, the Oakland Athletics.
Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
Giorgos Papakonstantínou, is a Greek economist and politician and former Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece and former Minister for Finance. Following expulsion from his party PASOK, he received a one-year suspended sentence for misdemeanours over his handling of the infamous “Lagarde list”. The court found him guilty of removing the names of three relatives of about 2,000 Greeks with money overseas. He is currently a professor at the European University Institute.
Larry Wilmore, American comedian and television host
Elister Larry Wilmore III is an American comedian, writer, producer, and actor. He served as the "Senior Black Correspondent" on The Daily Show from 2006 to 2014, and hosted The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore in 2015 and 2016. He is also the creator of the sitcom The Bernie Mac Show. He was an executive producer for the ABC television series Black-ish, and since May 2017, with Issa Rae, of the HBO television series Insecure, is a co-creator, he has hosted a podcast, Black on the Air. On the show, he discusses current events and interviews guests. He was also the host of the talk show Wilmore.
30/10/1960
Charnele Brown, American actress and singer
Charnele Brown is an American actress, producer, writer, fashion designer and singer. She is known for her roles as Paula in the 1992 film How Ya Like Me Now and as Kimberly Reese on NBC comedy sitcom A Different World from 1988 until 1993.
Grayson Hugh, American singer-songwriter
Grayson Hugh is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, Hammond B3 organ player and composer. He is best known for his 1988 hit "Talk It Over", and his other blue-eyed soul hits "Bring It All Back" and "How 'Bout Us?".
Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2020)
Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award, alongside Pelé.
30/10/1959
Vincent Lagaf', French actor, singer, and game show host
Vincent Rouïl , better known as Vincent Lagaf', is a French humorist, TV presenter, singer and actor.
30/10/1958
Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (died 2014)
Olav Dale was a Norwegian composer, orchestra leader and jazz saxophonist. In addition to saxophone he played other woodwinds. He received little formal education in music, but he completed studies at the Voss Folk High School and the Toneheim Folk High School (1976–78).
Joe Delaney, American football player (died 1983)
Joe Alton Delaney was an American professional football player who was a running back for two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, Delaney set four franchise records that would stand for more than 20 years. His nephew is Terrace Marshall Jr.
Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist and photographer
Ramona d'Viola is an American cyclist.
Pétur Guðmundsson, Icelandic basketball player and coach
Pétur Karl Guðmundsson is an Icelandic former professional basketball player and coach. Standing 2.18 m, weighing 118 kg (260 lb) and playing the center position, Pétur was the first Icelander and one of the first European players ever to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Often described as the greatest Icelandic basketball player of all time, he was named the Icelandic Basketball Player of the 20th century by the Icelandic Basketball Association in 2001, and in 2015, he was inducted in to the National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland Hall of Fame. Pétur was also a member of the Icelandic national basketball team from 1978 to 1992 but missed several years of competition due to FIBA rules banning professional players from playing for national teams.
30/10/1957
Shlomo Mintz, Israeli violinist and conductor
Shlomo Mintz is a Russian-born Israeli violinist and conductor. He regularly appears with orchestras and conductors on the international scene and is heard in recitals and chamber music concerts around the world.
Kevin Pollak, American actor, game show host, and producer
Kevin Elliot Pollak is an American actor, comedian, impressionist and podcaster. He has appeared in over 90 films; his roles include Sam Weinberg in Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men, Jacob Goldman in Grumpy Old Men and its sequel Grumpier Old Men; Todd Hockney in The Usual Suspects, Phillip Green in Martin Scorsese's Casino, and Bobby Chicago in End of Days.
30/10/1956
Juliet Stevenson, English actress
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, is an English actress of stage and screen, and a narrator. She is known for her role in the film Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Her other film appearances include Emma (1996), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Being Julia (2004), Infamous (2006), The Enfield Haunting (2015), Wolf (2023), and Reawakening (2024).
30/10/1955
Heidi Heitkamp, American lawyer and politician, 28th Attorney General of North Dakota
Mary Kathryn "Heidi" Heitkamp is an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019. A member of the North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party, her 2012 victory made the first woman elected to Congress from North Dakota, where she served as the 20th tax commissioner from 1986 to 1992 and as the 28th state attorney general from 1992 to 2000. As of 2025, she is the last Democrat to have won or held statewide office in North Dakota.
30/10/1954
Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
Mahmoud Ibrahim Ibrahim El Khatib, popularly nicknamed Bibo, is an Egyptian retired footballer and current President of Al Ahly. He is considered as one of the best forwards in the history of African football.
T. Graham Brown, American country singer-songwriter
Anthony Graham Brown, known professionally as T. Graham Brown, is an American country music singer. Active since 1973, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Three of these singles — "Hell and High Water" and "Don't Go to Strangers" from 1986, and "Darlene" from 1988 — reached Number One, and eight more made Top Ten.
Jeannie Kendall, American country singer-songwriter
The Kendalls were an American country music duo, consisting of Royce Kendall and his daughter Jeannie Kendall. Between the 1960s and 1990s, they released 16 albums on various labels, including five on Mercury Records. Between 1977 and 1985, 22 of their singles reached the top 40 on the Billboard country singles charts, including three number-one hits: "Heaven's Just a Sin Away", "Sweet Desire", and "Thank God for the Radio". Eight other singles also reached the top 10. The Kendalls continues performing today as Jeannie Kendall, one of the original founding members, joined by Carl Acuff Jr. with a newly released CD “You Got Me” in 2022 recorded on Leaping Hawk Record Label. Includes another hit from writer Jerry Gillespie ”Island In The Kitchen” and co writer Dan Willis. Jeannie Kendall is currently signed with Leaping Hawk Records in the Ozarks working with Bonnie and Rune Trulove.
Mario Testino, Peruvian-English photographer
Mario Eduardo Testino Silva OBE HonFRPS is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer.
30/10/1953
Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American lawyer and politician
Cornelis Piet Hoekstra is an American politician and diplomat serving since 2025 as the 33rd United States ambassador to Canada. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the United States ambassador to the Netherlands from 2018 to 2021, and was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district from 1993 to 2011.
Charles Martin Smith, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Charles Martin Smith is an American actor, film and television director and screenwriter, long based in British Columbia, Canada.
30/10/1951
Tony Bettenhausen Jr., American race car driver and businessman (died 2000)
Tony Lee Bettenhausen Jr. was an American Champ Car team owner and driver who died in a 2000 plane crash. He was the son of former 14-time Indianapolis 500 competitor Tony Bettenhausen and the brother of 21-time Indy 500 racer Gary Bettenhausen. Another brother, Merle Bettenhausen, was critically injured in his only Indy Car start.
Trilok Gurtu, Indian drummer and songwriter
Trilok Gurtu is an Indian percussionist and composer whose work blends the music of India with jazz fusion and world music.
Harry Hamlin, American actor
Harry Robinson Hamlin is an American actor, author, and entrepreneur. He is widely known for his roles as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, a role he reprised in 2007's Santa Monica Studio video game God of War II, and as Michael Kuzak in the legal drama series L.A. Law, for which he received three Golden Globe nominations. For his recurring role as Jim Cutler on the AMC drama series Mad Men, Hamlin received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
Poncho Sanchez, American singer and conga player
Poncho Sánchez is an American conguero, Latin jazz band leader, and salsa singer. In 2000, he and his ensemble won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their work on the Concord Picante album Latin Soul. Sanchez has performed with artists including Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaría, Hugh Masekela, Clare Fischer, and Tower of Power.
30/10/1950
Phil Chenier, American basketball player and broadcaster
Philip Chenier is an American former professional basketball player who was a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for ten seasons. He was also a television sports broadcaster for the NBA's Washington Wizards.
Tim Sheens, Australian rugby league player and coach
Timothy Sheens is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. Head Coach of the Australia national team between 2009 and 2015, he has also been the head coach of National Rugby League (NRL) clubs, the Penrith Panthers, the Canberra Raiders, the North Queensland Cowboys and the Wests Tigers. As a player, Sheens was a prop forward with Sydney's Penrith club in the 1970s and 1980s before he retired and became their coach.
30/10/1949
Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (died 1996)
Larry Gene Bell was an American serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered at least three women and girls in the Carolinas from 1984 to 1985. In addition to this, Bell remains the prime suspect in at least one disappearance. Convicted for the two murders in South Carolina, he was sentenced to death and executed in 1996.
Leon Rippy, American actor
Leon Rippy is an American actor. Active on screen since 1983, Rippy has appeared in numerous films and recurring roles on television. He is best known for his roles as Earl the Angel on the series Saving Grace, saloon owner Tom Nuttall on the series Deadwood and militiaman John Billings in The Patriot (2000).
30/10/1948
Richard Alston, English dancer and choreographer
Sir Richard Alston CBE is a British choreographer. He has been resident choreographer and artistic director for the Ballet Rambert and is currently artistic director at The Place. His works include Windhover (1972), Soda Lake (1986), and Pulcinella (1987).
Garry McDonald, Australian actor and screenwriter
Garry George McDonald AO is an Australian comedian, television host, actor, satirist and mental health activist. In a career spanning six decades he has had many theatre, television and film roles, and has been listed as a National Living Treasure. He is best known as the seemingly naive celebrity interviewer Norman Gunston, through whom he pioneered the "ambush interviewer" technique since followed by many others. He received a Gold Logie award for the television Norman Gunston Show in which he developed the character and is a Logie Hall of Fame inductee. He is also famed for his role of the hapless Arthur Beare in the television sitcom Mother and Son, as well as his numerous surporting roles in feature films.
30/10/1947
Glenn Andreotta, American soldier (died 1968)
Glenn Urban Andreotta was an American helicopter crew chief in the Vietnam War noted for being one of three who intervened in the Mỹ Lai massacre, in which 504 unarmed children, women and men were murdered.
Tim Kirk, American illustrator and designer
Tim Kirk is both a professional artist and an American fan artist. He worked as a senior designer at Tokyo DisneySea, as an Imagineer for the Walt Disney company.
Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He has performed as the bassist and vocalist for rock bands Poco and the Eagles, having replaced Randy Meisner in both cases. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist. In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Eagles.
Herschel Weingrod, American screenwriter and producer
Herschel Alan Weingrod is an American screenwriter. He has written and co-written a number of Hollywood films, including Trading Places, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, and Space Jam with fellow writer Timothy Harris.
30/10/1946
Robert L. Gibson, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Robert Lee Gibson, , is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. A retired NASA astronaut, he also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1992 to 1997. Today Gibson is active as a professional pilot, racing regularly at the annual Reno Air Races. He was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2003 and the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2013, and has received several military decorations throughout his career.
Andrea Mitchell, American journalist
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C.
Anthony Shorrocks, English economist, author, and academic
Anthony F. Shorrocks is a British development economist.
Chris Slade, Welsh drummer
Chris Slade is a Welsh drummer, who is perhaps best known for playing for Manfred Mann's Earth Band from its inception in 1971 to 1978 on eight albums, and AC/DC, for which he drummed from 1989 to 1994 and performed on the 1990 album The Razors Edge. He returned to AC/DC in February 2015 to replace Phil Rudd for the "Rock or Bust World Tour". Slade has also played with Tom Jones, Toomorrow, Uriah Heep, David Gilmour, The Firm, and Asia.
30/10/1945
Henry Winkler, American actor, comedian, director, and producer
Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Widely known as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen. His many accolades include three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Critics Choice Awards.
Lynne Marta, American actress (died 2024)
Lynne Marta, also credited as Lynn Marta, was an American actress and singer.
30/10/1944
Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (died 2015)
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi was an Iraqi convicted fraudster and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq and a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq under Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He is believed to have been an Iranian agent.
30/10/1943
Paul Claes, Belgian poet and translator
Paul Claes is a Flemish scholar, writer, poet and translator.
Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
Joanna Marie Shimkus is a Canadian film actress. She is the widow of actor Sidney Poitier and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.
David Triesman, Baron Triesman, English union leader and politician
David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman was a British politician, merchant banker and trade union leader.
30/10/1942
Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer and historian (died 2019)
Sven-David Sandström was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.
30/10/1941
Marcel Berlins, French-English lawyer, journalist, and academic (died 2019)
Marcel Berlins was a French lawyer, writer and broadcaster. He was best known for his work in the United Kingdom, writing for British national newspapers The Times and The Guardian, presenting BBC Radio 4's legal programme Law in Action for 16 years, and teaching Media Law at City, University of London.
Aleksandr Dulichenko, Russian-Estonian linguist and academic
Aleksandr Dmitrievich Dulichenko was a Russian-Estonian Esperantist, linguist, and expert in Slavic microlanguages who lived in Estonia. He was a professor at the University of Tartu, where he was the head of the department of Slavic studies.
Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.
Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer
Otis Williams is an American second tenor/baritone singer. He is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group the Temptations, a group in which he continues to perform; he also owns the rights to the Temptations name.
Bob Wilson, English footballer and sportscaster
Robert Primrose Wilson is a former Scotland international football goalkeeper and later broadcaster / anchorman.
30/10/1939
Harvey Goldstein, English statistician and academic (died 2020)
Harvey Goldstein was a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology, statistical software, social statistics, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables.
Leland H. Hartwell, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Leland Harrison "Lee" Hartwell is an American former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division (duplication) of cells.
Eddie Holland, American singer-songwriter and producer
Edward James Holland Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer, brother to songwriter and record producer Brian Holland.
Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model
Grace Slick is an American painter and musician whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
30/10/1938
Morris Lurie, Australian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 2014)
Moses "Morris" Lurie was an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.
30/10/1937
Claude Lelouch, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film A Man and A Woman. At the 39th Academy Awards, A Man and a Woman won Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director, making him one of the youngest nominees in the category. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism.
Brian Price, Welsh rugby player (died 2023)
Brian Price was a Wales international rugby union player. Price first played international rugby for Wales in 1961 after impressing in the Barbarians squad against South Africa. He was selected for the 1966 British Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand playing in all four tests, and spent the majority of his career playing at club level for Newport. A teacher by profession he later became a journalist and sports presenter for radio and television. In 2006 he became President of the Former Player Association.
30/10/1936
Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast and trainer (died 2005)
Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova was a Soviet and Ukrainian artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
Dick Vermeil, American football player and coach
Richard Albert Vermeil is an American former football coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons. He was the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles for seven seasons, the St. Louis Rams for three, and the Kansas City Chiefs for five. Prior to the NFL, he was the head football coach at Hillsdale High School from 1960 to 1962, Napa Junior College in 1964, and UCLA from 1974 to 1975. With UCLA, Vermeil led the team to victory in the 1976 Rose Bowl. Vermeil's NFL tenure would see him improve the fortunes of teams that had a losing record before he arrived and bring them all to the playoffs by his third season, which included a Super Bowl title with the Rams.
30/10/1935
Robert Caro, American journalist and author
Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson.
Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian-Swiss author (died 2011)
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le Grand Cahier. It was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Notebook Trilogy. She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
Jim Perry, American baseball player
James Evan Perry Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1959 to 1975 for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics. During a 17-year baseball career, Perry compiled 215 wins, 1,576 strikeouts, and a 3.45 earned run average. He won the Cy Young Award in 1970 and was a three-time MLB All-Star. He and his younger brother Gaylord Perry, who were Cleveland teammates in 1974–1975, became the first brothers to both win 200 games in the major leagues, and remain the only brothers to both win Cy Young Awards.
Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Michael Robert Winner was a British filmmaker, writer, and media personality. He is known for directing numerous action, thriller, and black comedy films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including several collaborations with actors Oliver Reed and Charles Bronson.
30/10/1934
Keith Barnes, Welsh-Australian rugby player and coach (died 2024)
William Keith Barnes AM, also known by the nickname of "Golden Boots", was a Welsh-born Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was a fullback for the Australian national team and for the Balmain Tigers. He played in 14 tests between 1959 and 1966, as national captain on 12 occasions. He was known as "Golden Boots" due to his exceptional goal-kicking ability. After his playing days he became a referee and later co-commentated on the Amco Cup on Network Ten with Ray Warren in the 1970s. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
Frans Brüggen, Dutch flute player and conductor (died 2014)
Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.
30/10/1933
Col Campbell, New Zealand gardener and television host (died 2012)
Colin "Col" Campbell was a presenter on Gardening Australia, a TV show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was also a presenter on Brisbane radio station 4BC as the "Gardening Guru" of weekend mornings, in which he answered a wide range of questions from callers. Campbell began his radio career in 1983, television in 1985 and newspaper in 1991.
30/10/1932
Barun De, Indian historian and author (died 2013)
Barun De was an Indian historian. He served as the first professor of social and economic history of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, founder-director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata and as the honorary state editor for the West Bengal District Gazetteers. He was chairman of the West Bengal Heritage Commission.
Louis Malle, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1995)
Louis Marie Malle was a French filmmaker who worked in France and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "difficult to pin down", his works often depict provocative or controversial subject matter.
30/10/1931
Vince Callahan, American lieutenant and politician (died 2014)
Vincent Francis Callahan Jr. was an American politician who served for 40 years as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. From January 1968 to January 2008, he represented the 34th district, which covers McLean, Great Falls, Tysons Corner, and parts of Herndon and Vienna. At the time of his retirement, he was the longest-serving Republican in the Virginia General Assembly.
David M. Wilson, Manx archaeologist, historian, and curator
Sir David Mackenzie Wilson is a British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator, specialising in Anglo-Saxon art and the Viking Age. From 1977 until 1992 he served as the director of the British Museum, where he had previously worked, from 1955 to 1964, as an assistant keeper. In his role as director of the museum, he became embroiled in the controversy over the ownership of the Elgin Marbles with the Greek government, engaging with a "disastrous" televised debate with Greek Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri.
30/10/1930
Néstor Almendros, Spanish-American director and cinematographer (died 1992)
Néstor Almendros Cuyás, ASC was a Spanish cinematographer.
Christopher Foster, English economist and academic (died 2022)
Sir Christopher David Foster was a British academic at the University of Oxford and MIT, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, a consultant at Coopers & Lybrand and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a temporary civil servant.
Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (died 1956)
Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954; he was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1972.
Don Meineke, American basketball player (died 2013)
Don "Monk" Meineke was an American basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Dayton and was a consensus second-team All-American in 1952. He later played professionally in the National Basketball Association and won the inaugural Rookie of the Year award in 1953.
30/10/1929
Jean Chapman, English author
Jean Chapman is a British writer of romance novels since 1981 and a lecturer in creative writing. Her debut novel The Unreasoning Earth and The Red Pavilion were both shortlisted for the Parker Pen Romantic Novel of the Year Award. She was elected the twenty Chairman (2001–2003) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and is the three-time President of the Leicester Writer's Club.
Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (died 2012)
Olga Zubarry was an Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1943 and 1997. She made over 60 appearances in film, spanning six decades of Argentine cinema, but is best known for her work during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema. Throughout the course of her career, she received four Silver Condor Awards, two Martín Fierro Awards, a Konex Foundation Award and several others for her films and television performances. She is credited with starring in the first film in Argentina which featured nudity, though only her back was shown and she stated repeatedly that she wore a flesh-colored mesh and was not truly nude.
30/10/1928
Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist. Along with American researcher Hamilton Smith and Swiss researcher Werner Arber, he shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping.
30/10/1927
Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (died 1999)
Joseph Wilbur Adcock was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1950 to 1966, most prominently as a member of the Milwaukee Braves teams that won two consecutive National League pennants and the 1957 World Series.
30/10/1926
Jacques Swaters, Belgian race car driver and manager (died 2010)
Jacques Swaters was a racing driver from Belgium and former team owner of Ecurie Belgique, Ecurie Francorchamps, and Ecurie Nationale Belge.
30/10/1925
Tommy Ridgley, American singer and bandleader (died 1999)
Thomas Herman Ridgley was an American R&B singer, pianist, songwriter and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana. In a musical career lasting half a century Ridgley was a stalwart of the New Orleans rhythm and blues scene. Although he never had a national hit, unlike several of his contemporaries, he made numerous, popular recordings that sold mainly in New Orleans and Louisiana beginning in 1949 with a final release in 1995. His voice was variously described as similar to Roy Brown and Bull Moose Jackson and thus able to adapt to a variety of styles: blues, jump blues, rhythm and blues and soul. In the late 1950s, he became bandleader of The Untouchables with whom he held residencies at important night venues often backing visiting artists. His recording career consisted of over forty singles and three albums. Most of his recordings have been anthologised on compilations in vinyl and CDs.
30/10/1924
John P. Craven, American soldier and engineer (died 2015)
John Piña Craven was an American scientist who was known for his involvement with Bayesian search theory and the recovery of lost objects at sea. He was Chief Scientist of the Special Projects Office of the United States Navy.
30/10/1923
Gloria Oden, American poet and academic (died 2011)
Gloria Catherine Oden was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for Resurrections, a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of her mother and sister in their home in Washington, D.C.
30/10/1922
Elena Mikhnenko, Ukrainian exile (died 1993)
Elena Nestorovna Mikhnenko was the daughter of the Ukrainian anarchist revolutionaries Nestor Makhno and Halyna Kuzmenko. Born in exile, she spent her early life in France, where she was living at the outbreak of World War II. Following the occupation of France, Mikhnenko was captured and conscripted into forced labour in Nazi Germany. She was subsequently arrested by Soviet state security, which first imprisoned her for "anti-Soviet agitation" and then exiled her to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. She lived and worked in Kazakhstan for the rest of her life.
Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (died 2021)
Iancu Țucărman was a Romanian Jewish agricultural engineer and survivor of the Holocaust and the Iași pogrom. He was the penultimate survivor of the "Death's Train" that was used to deport Jews from the Iași railway station after Leonard Zăicescu. Țucărman was buried at the Giurgiului Jewish Cemetery of Bucharest on 11 January 2021.
Jane White, American actress and singer (died 2011)
Jane White was an American actress and singer best known for her Broadway and off-Broadway stage performances. She won Obie Awards in 1966 for her performance in a Shakespeare in the Park productions of Love's Labour's Lost and Coriolanus and in 1971 for sustained achievement.
30/10/1921
Valli Lember-Bogatkina (died 2016)
Valli Lember-Bogatkina was known as "The Grand Old Lady of Estonian watercolor". Her works are exhibited in cities around the world.
30/10/1920
Christy Ring, Irish sportsman (died 1979)
Christopher Nicholas Michael Ring was an Irish hurler whose league and championship career at senior level with the Cork county team spanned twenty-four years from 1939 to 1963. He established many championship records, including career appearances (65), scoring tally (33–208) and number of All-Ireland medals won (8); however, these records were subsequently bested by a number of players. Ring is widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of the game, with many former players, commentators and fans rating him as the number one player of all time.
30/10/1917
Bobby Bragan, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2010)
Robert Randall Bragan was an American shortstop, catcher, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball and an influential minor league executive. His professional baseball career encompassed 73 years, from his first season as a player in the Class D Alabama–Florida League in 1937, to 2009, the last full year of his life, when he was still listed as a consultant to the Texas Rangers' organization.
Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (died 1994)
Minni Katharina Nurme was an Estonian writer.
Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (died 1994)
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov was a prominent Soviet military personality. He was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1977. Between 1977 and 1984, he was Chief of the General Staff of the USSR. He became widely known in the West when he became the Soviet military's spokesman following the shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island in September 1983. He was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff on 6 September 1984.
Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (died 2005)
Maurice Bienvenu Jean Paul Trintignant was a French racing driver and winemaker, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1964. Trintignant won two Formula One Grands Prix across 15 seasons. In endurance racing, Trintignant won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1954 with Ferrari.
30/10/1916
Leon Day, American baseball player (died 1995)
Leon Day was an American professional baseball pitcher, center fielder, and second baseman who spent the majority of his career in the Negro leagues. Recognized as one of the most versatile athletes in the league during his prime, Day could play every position except catcher. A right-handed pitcher with a trademark no wind-up delivery, Day excelled at striking batters out, especially with his high-speed fastball. At the same time, he was an above-average contact hitter, which, combined with his effectiveness as a baserunner and his tenacious fielding, helped cement Day as one of the most dynamic players of the era.
30/10/1915
Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and producer (died 1998)
Fred W. Friendly was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. He originated the concept of public-access television cable TV channels.
Jane Randolph, American-Swiss actress and singer (died 2009)
Jane Randolph, was an American film actress. She is best known for her portrayals of Alice Moore in the 1942 horror film Cat People, and its sequel, The Curse of the Cat People (1944).
30/10/1914
Richard E. Holz, American minister and composer (died 1986)
Richard E Holz, was an American brass band composer, served as Chaplain to the U.S. Army Air Forces in New Guinea, Philippines and Japan. He married Ruby Walker in 1941. After the war, Holz was active in the Salvation Army as a commissioner. He was the head of its Eastern Territorial Music Department and served as bandmaster of the New York Staff Band for 18 years. In 1971, he was appointed chief secretary in Australia and New Guinea. In 1974, he was appointed commander of the western Territory and in 1982, commander of the Central Territory.
Leabua Jonathan, Basotho lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (died 1987)
Joseph Leabua Jonathan was the first prime minister of Lesotho. He succeeded Chief Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane following a by-election and held that post from 1965 to 1986.
Anna Wing, English actress (died 2013)
Anna Wing was a British actress who had a long career in television and theatre, known for playing Beale family matriarch Lou Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
30/10/1911
Ruth Hussey, American actress (died 2005)
Ruth Carol Hussey was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.
30/10/1910
Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (died 1942)
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was self-taught in what refers to literature, and struggled against an unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who physically abused him for spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education. At school, he became a friend of Ramón Sijé, a well-educated boy who lent and recommended books to Hernández, and whose death would inspire his most famous poem, Elegy.
Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian-Monegasque organist and composer (died 1994)
Luciano Sgrizzi was an Italian harpsichordist, organist, pianist and composer.
30/10/1909
Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (died 1966)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS was an Indian nuclear theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), as well as the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour. TIFR and AEET served as the cornerstone to the Indian nuclear energy and weapons programme. He was the first chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). By supporting space science projects which initially derived their funding from the AEC, he played an important role in the birth of the Indian space programme.
30/10/1908
Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 1996)
Ruby Rose Blevins, known professionally as Patsy Montana, was an American country and western singer and songwriter. Montana was the first female country performer to have a million-selling single with her signature song "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart", and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (died 1963)
Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar ,also known as Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, was a politician and a patriarch of India from Tamil Nadu. He was elected three times to the national Parliamentary Constituency.
Peter Smith, English cricketer (died 1967)
Thomas Peter Bromley Smith was an English cricketer, who played for Essex and England. Smith was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1947. An all-rounder, Smith played for Essex from 1929 to 1951.
Dmitry Ustinov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (died 1984)
Dmitry Fyodorovich Ustinov was a Soviet politician and a Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military–industrial complex from 1965 to 1976 and as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984.
30/10/1907
Sol Tax, American anthropologist and academic (died 1995)
Sol Tax was an American anthropologist. He is best known for creating action anthropology and his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox Indians, for "action-anthropological" research titled the Fox Project, and for founding the academic journal Current Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1935 and, together with Fred Eggan, was a student of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown.
30/10/1906
Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (died 1966)
Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Farina won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in its inaugural 1950 season with Alfa Romeo, and won five Grands Prix across seven seasons.
Hermann Fegelein, German general (died 1945)
Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister Gretl.
Alexander Gode, German-American linguist and translator (died 1970)
Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von Aesch was a German-born American linguist, translator and the driving force behind the creation of the auxiliary language Interlingua.
30/10/1905
Johnny Miles, English-Canadian runner (died 2003)
John C. Miles, was a Canadian marathon runner. He won the Boston Marathon in 1926 and 1929.
30/10/1900
Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Granit carried out fundamental research on the retina and the physiological mechanisms of colour vision at the University of Helsinki, and later investigated the neural control of movement at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
30/10/1898
Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (died 1989)
William Harold Terry was an American professional baseball first baseman and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Giants from 1923 to 1936 and managed the Giants from 1932 to 1941. Terry was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. In 1999, he ranked number 59 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. The Giants retired Terry's uniform number 3 in 1984; it is posted on the facade of the upper deck in the left field corner of Oracle Park. Nicknamed "Memphis Bill", he is most remembered for being the last National League player to hit .400, a feat he accomplished by batting .401 in 1930.
30/10/1897
Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (died 1970)
Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Lara y Aguirre del Pino, known as Agustín Lara, was a Mexican composer and performer of songs and boleros. He is recognized as one of the most popular songwriters of his era. His work was widely appreciated not only in Mexico but also in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Spain. After his death, he has also been recognized in the United States, Italy, and Japan. His 1958 bolero album Rosa has been rated as one of the top 25 albums in the history of Latin American music.
30/10/1896
Rex Cherryman, American actor (died 1928)
Rexford Raymond "Rex" Cherryman was an American actor of the stage and screen whose career was most prolific during the 1920s.
Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (died 1985)
Ruth Gordon Jones was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, widely known for a career that spanned seven decades, beginning by performing on Broadway at age 19. Known for her nasal voice and distinctive personality, Gordon gained international recognition and critical acclaim for film roles that continued into her 70s and 80s. Her later work included performances in Rosemary's Baby (1968), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971), Every Which Way but Loose (1978), Any Which Way You Can (1980), and My Bodyguard (1980).
Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and educator (died 1928)
Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
Harry R. Truman, American soldier and inn keeper on Mount St. Helens, killed in the eruption (died 1980)
Harry R. Truman was an American businessman, bootlegger, and prospector. He lived near Mount St. Helens, a dormant volcano in the Cascade Range in the state of Washington, and was the owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake near the base of the mountain. After Mount St. Helens awoke from dormancy in March 1980, Truman became a folk hero in the weeks leading to the volcano's May eruption, after refusing to evacuate his home despite repeated orders from authorities. On May 18, 1980, Truman was killed in the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens by a pyroclastic flow that overtook his lodge and buried the site under 46 m (150 ft) of volcanic debris.
Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (died 1985)
Antonino Votto, sometimes spelt Antonio Votto, was an Italian operatic conductor and vocal coach. Votto developed an extensive discography with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan during the 1950s, when EMI produced the bulk of its studio recordings featuring Maria Callas. Though Votto was a dependable conductor, critics frequently faulted his recordings for their lack of emotional immediacy. This may have been an occupational hazard of working in the studio, as his live sets with Callas, including a Norma and La sonnambula are considered to be great performances. Among his pupils was the soprano Claudia Pinza Bozzolla.
30/10/1895
Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. was an American physician and physiologist. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases.
30/10/1894
Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (died 1977)
Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand was a French biologist, historian of science, and philosopher.
Peter Warlock, English composer and critic (died 1930)
Philip Arnold Heseltine, known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
30/10/1893
Roland Freisler, German soldier, lawyer, and judge (died 1945)
Karl Roland Freisler was a German jurist, judge, and politician who served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1935 to 1942 and as president of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945. As a prominent ideologist of Nazism, he influenced as a jurist the Nazification of the German legal system. He was appointed president of the People's Court in 1942, overseeing the prosecution of political crimes as a judge. Freisler became known for his aggressive personality, his humiliation of defendants, and his frequent use of the death penalty in sentencing.
30/10/1892
Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder (died 1972)
Charles Atlas was an Italian-born American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program which spawned a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness; it has been described as one of the longest-lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time.
30/10/1888
Louis Menges, American soccer player, soldier, and politician (died 1969)
Louis John Menges was an American politician, businessman, and amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek footballer and high jumper (died 1913)
Konstantinos "Kostis" Tsiklitiras was a Greek athlete and Olympic champion.
30/10/1887
Sukumar Ray, Indian-Bangladeshi author, poet, and playwright (died 1923)
Sukumar Ray was a Bengali writer and poet from British India. He is remembered mainly for his writings for children. He was the son of children's story writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury and the father of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
30/10/1886
Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1958)
Zoe Byrd Akins was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid.
30/10/1885
Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (died 1972)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos.
30/10/1882
Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player and composer (died 1957)
Oldřich Duras was a Czech chess master. He was among the leading chess masters of the early 20th century.
William Halsey Jr., American admiral (died 1959)
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. was an American Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others being William Leahy, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz.
Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal (died 1944)
Günther Adolf Ferdinand von Kluge was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Kluge held commands on the Eastern and Western Fronts, until his suicide in connection with the 20 July plot.
30/10/1881
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (died 1941)
Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a Kentucky novelist and poet, primarily known for her novels and stories set in central Kentucky's Washington County, including The Time of Man (1926), "My Heart and My Flesh," The Great Meadow (1930) and A Buried Treasure (1931). Robert Penn Warren called "The Time of Man" a classic; the eminent Southern critic and Southern Review editor Lewis P. Simpson counted her among the half dozen major Southern renascence writers. Three book-length studies of her work, three collections of critical articles, a major conference on her 100th birthday, a collection of her unpublished poems, and a flourishing Roberts Society that generates 20-odd papers at its annual April conferences have yet to revive wide interest in her work.
30/10/1878
Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (died 1929)
Arthur Scherbius was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma.
30/10/1877
Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia (died 1941)
Hugo Celmiņš was a Latvian politician, a public employee, agronomist, twice the Prime Minister of Latvia. Arrested and deported to the USSR after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, imprisoned in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison. On 30 July 1941 shot and buried in the mass graves of Kommunarka shooting ground. Hugo Celmiņš was one of those who developed agrarian reform in Latvia.
30/10/1873
Francisco I. Madero, Mexican businessman and politician, 33rd President of Mexico (died 1913)
Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer, politician and statesman who served as the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed and assassinated in a coup d'état in February 1913. He came to prominence as an advocate for democracy and as an opponent of President and dictator Porfirio Díaz. After Díaz claimed to have won the fraudulent election of 1910 despite promising a return to democracy, Madero started the Mexican Revolution to oust Díaz. The Mexican revolution would continue until 1920, well after Madero and Díaz's deaths, with hundreds of thousands dead.
30/10/1871
Buck Freeman, American baseball player (died 1949)
John Frank "Buck" Freeman was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 169 lb (77 kg), he both batted and threw left-handed. Freeman was one of the top sluggers of his era, his most famous feat being the 25 home runs he hit during the 1899 season.
Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (died 1945)
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
30/10/1868
António Cabreira, Portuguese polygraph (died 1953)
D. António Tomás da Guarda Cabreira de Faria e Alvelos Drago da Ponte was a Portuguese mathematician, polygraph and publicist. A member of the aristocratic Cabreira family, António Cabreira was a claimant to the Miguelist noble titles of Count of Lagos and Viscount of Vale da Mata, which he used.
30/10/1861
Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (died 1929)
Antoine Bourdelle, born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was a French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important figure in the Art Deco movement and the transition from the Beaux-Arts style to modern sculpture.
30/10/1857
Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (died 1904)
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette was a French neurologist and the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by tics. His main contributions in medicine were in the fields of hypnotism and hysteria.
30/10/1839
Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (died 1899)
Alfred Sisley was a French-Born British Impressionist landscape painter who was born to British parents, but spent most of his life in France. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air. He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
30/10/1799
Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (died 1885)
Ignace Bourget was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Montreal from 1840 to 1876.
30/10/1786
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian captain and author (died 1871)
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé was a Canadian lawyer, writer, and seigneur. He is known chiefly for his novel Les Anciens Canadiens, considered the first classic of French Canadian fiction.
30/10/1762
André Chénier, Turkish-French poet and playwright (died 1794)
André Marie Chénier was a French poet associated with the events of the French Revolution, during which he was sentenced to death. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His career was brought to an abrupt end when he was guillotined for supposed "crimes against the state". Chénier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and other works of art.
30/10/1751
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-English poet, playwright, and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (died 1816)
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, he wrote several prominent plays such as The Rivals (1775), The Duenna (1775), The School for Scandal (1777) and A Trip to Scarborough (1777). He served as Treasurer of the Navy from 1806 to 1807. Sheridan died in 1816 and was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the Western canon and are frequently performed around the world.
30/10/1741
Angelica Kauffman, painter (died 1807)
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1768.
30/10/1735
John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (died 1826)
John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War and in the early years of the new nation, he served the Continental Congress of the United States as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with contemporaries, including his wife and advisor Abigail Adams and his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson.
30/10/1728
Mary Hayley, English businesswoman (died 1808)
Mary Hayley was an English businesswoman. She parlayed an inheritance from her first husband into a sizeable estate with her second husband. Upon the latter's death, she took over the business and successfully operated a shipping firm from 1781 to 1792 before living out her life in Bath.
30/10/1712
Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (died 1770)
Canon Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, often called de Soldanis, was a Maltese linguist, historian and cleric from the island of Gozo. He wrote the first lexicon and systematic grammar of the Maltese language, and he was the first librarian of the Bibliotheca Publica, the precursor of the National Library of Malta.
30/10/1668
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (died 1705)
Sophia Charlotte of Hanover was the first Queen consort in Prussia as the wife of King Frederick I. She was the only daughter of Elector Ernest Augustus of Hanover and Sophia of the Palatinate. Her eldest brother, George Louis, succeeded to the British throne in 1714 as King George I.
30/10/1660
Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (died 1731)
Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was the third son of Duke Ernest Günther and his wife Auguste.
30/10/1632
Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (died 1723)
Sir Christopher Wren FRS was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who is one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England. Known for his work in the English Baroque style, he was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.
30/10/1624
Paul Pellisson, French historian and author (died 1693)
Paul Pellisson was a French writer, associated with the Baroque Précieuses movement.
30/10/1558
Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (died 1652)
Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 1st Duke of La Force was a Marshal of France and Peer of France.
30/10/1513
Jacques Amyot, French bishop and translator (died 1593)
Jacques Amyot, French Renaissance bishop, scholar, writer and translator, was born of poor parents, at Melun.
30/10/1492
Anne d'Alençon, French noblewoman (died 1562)
Anne d'Alençon, Lady of La Guerche, was a French noblewoman and a Marquise of Montferrat as the wife of William IX, Marquis of Montferrat. She acted as Regent of the Marquisate of Montferrat for her son, Boniface from 1518 to his death in 1530.
30/10/1447
Lucas Watzenrode, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (died 1512)
Lucas Watzenrode the Younger was Prince-Bishop of Warmia (Ermland) and patron to his nephew, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
30/10/1327
Andrew, Duke of Calabria (died 1345)
Andrew, Duke of Calabria was the first husband of Joanna I of Naples, and a son of Charles I of Hungary and brother of Louis I of Hungary.
30/10/1218
Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (died 1234)
Emperor Chūkyō was the 85th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned only two months in 1221, and he was not officially listed amongst the emperors until 1870 because of doubts caused by the length of his reign. The Imperial Household Agency recognizes Kujō no misasagi (九條陵) near Tōfuku-ji in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto as his tomb.
01/01/1970
Julia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (died 14 AD)
Julia the Elder, known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia, was the daughter and only biological child of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and his second wife, Scribonia. Julia was also stepsister and second wife of the Emperor Tiberius; maternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and the Empress Agrippina the Younger; grandmother-in-law of the Emperor Claudius; and maternal great-grandmother of the Emperor Nero. Her epithet "the Elder" distinguishes her from her daughter, Julia the Younger.