Born on Sunday, 5th October – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 252 notable people were born on 5th October — spanning from 1274 to 2006. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
On Sunday, 5th October 2025, notable figures were born across various fields of entertainment, sport and public service. Among the notable births recorded on this date, Jacob Tremblay emerged as a Canadian actor who would go on to achieve significant recognition in film and television. The day also marks the birth of Kevin Magnussen in 1992, a Danish racing driver who would compete at the highest levels of motorsport, bringing Scandinavian talent to international circuits.
The historical record extends considerably further back, encompassing figures of lasting influence. Denis Diderot, born in 1713, was a French philosopher and critic whose intellectual contributions shaped Enlightenment thought and whose editorial work on the Encyclopédie became foundational to European intellectual history. These births span centuries of human achievement, from philosophical inquiry to contemporary entertainment and sport.
The professional achievements on this date range from entertainment to competitive athletics. Jesse Eisenberg, born in 1983, became an American actor and writer known for significant film roles and literary contributions. Beyond acting and driving, the date encompasses births across cricket, basketball, ice hockey, football and numerous other disciplines, reflecting the diverse talents celebrated across October 5th throughout modern history.
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05/10/2006
Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
Jacob Tremblay is a Canadian actor. He became known for his role as a child born in captivity in Room (2015), for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and became the youngest nominee for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.
05/10/1999
Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer
Washington Sundar is an Indian international cricketer. He plays for the India national team as an all-rounder, who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm off-spin. He represents Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League. Sundar was a part of the Indian squad that won the 2023 Asia Cup, 2025 Champions Trophy, and the 2026 T20 World Cup.
05/10/1998
Exequiel Palacios, Argentine footballer
Exequiel Alejandro Palacios is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Argentina national team.
05/10/1997
Michael Hoecht, Canadian American football player
Michael Hoecht is a Canadian professional football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Brown Bears.
05/10/1993
Jewell Loyd, American basketball player
Jewell Loyd is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Nicknamed the "Gold Mamba", she played college basketball at Notre Dame and was selected first overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2015 WNBA draft. Loyd won gold medals for the United States national team at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Wakamotoharu Minato, Japanese sumo wrestler
Wakamotoharu Minato is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Fukushima. He wrestles for the Arashio stable, where he is a stable mate of his brothers Wakatakakage and Wakatakamoto. His highest rank to date has been sekiwake.
05/10/1992
Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver
Kevin Jan Magnussen, also known simply as K-Mag, is a Danish racing driver who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for WRT and the IMSA SportsCar Championship for RLL as a factory driver for BMW. Magnussen competed in Formula One from 2014 to 2020 and 2022 to 2024.
Cody Zeller, American basketball player
Cody Allen Zeller is an American professional basketball player who last played for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played high school basketball at Washington High School in Washington, Indiana, where he was named Indiana Mr. Basketball as a senior in 2011.
05/10/1991
Pär Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
Pär Lindholm is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre currently playing for Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).
Tornike Shengelia, Georgian basketball player
Tornike "Toko" Shengelia is a Georgian professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Shengelia also represents the senior Georgian national team. He earned an All-EuroLeague First Team selection in 2018.
05/10/1990
Nathan Peats, Australian rugby league player
Nathan Peats is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a hooker for Tugun Seahawks in the Gold Coast Rugby League.
05/10/1989
Kelsey Adrian, Canadian basketball player
Kelsey Alexa Adrian is a Canadian female professional basketball player.
Marcel Baude, German footballer
Marcel Baude is a German footballer who plays as a right-back.
Ify Ibekwe, American basketball player
Ifunanya Debbie "Ify" Ibekwe is a Nigerian American professional basketball player for the Virtus Eirene Ragusa and the Nigeria women's national team.
Travis Kelce, American football player
Travis Michael Kelce is an American professional football tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft and later won Super Bowls LIV, LVII, and LVIII with the team. He played college football for the Cincinnati Bearcats.
05/10/1988
Benny Howell, English cricketer
Benny Alexander Cameron Howell is an English first-class cricketer. Howell is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast for Nottinghamshire.
Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter
Bahar Kizil is a German singer and songwriter of Turkish descent, best known as one of the founding members of the girl group Monrose, which won the fifth season of the German version of Popstars.
Maja Salvador, Filipino actress, dancer, singer, and host
Maja Ross Andres Salvador-Ortega is a Filipino actress, singer and television personality. Known for portraying strong female leads in revenge dramas in film and television, she has been described as one of the best actresses of her generation. Salvador's accolades include an Asia Contents Award, a FAMAS Award, a Gawad Urian Award, a Luna Award and a PMPC Star Awards for Movies, including nominations from Asian Television Awards and Asian Academy Creative Awards.
05/10/1987
Dillon Francis, American DJ and record producer
Dillon Hart Francis, known professionally as DJ Hanzel, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He played a key role in popularizing moombahton and later developed its heavier variants, moombahcore and EDM trap.
Michael Grabner, Austrian ice hockey player
Michael-René Grabner is an Austrian former professional ice hockey player. Grabner grew up playing for the local team in Villach, EC VSV. He moved to North America at the age of 17 and joined the Spokane Chiefs of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) to further his hockey career. After his second season with the Chiefs, he was selected 14th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2006 NHL entry draft.
Jesse Joensuu, Finnish ice hockey player
Jesse Matias Joensuu is a Finnish former professional ice hockey winger who finished his career with Porin Ässät of the SM-liiga. Joensuu served as the team's captain for the 2023–24 season.
Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
Kevin Antonio Joel Gislain Mirallas y Castillo, known as Kevin Mirallas, is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a winger.
Tim Ream, American soccer player
Timothy Michael Ream is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back or left-back for Major League Soccer club Charlotte FC and captains the United States national team.
Park So-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
Park So-yeon, referred to as Soyeon, is a South Korean singer and actress. She debuted as a member of girl group T-ara in July 2009. The group went on to become one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.
Luigi Vitale, Italian footballer
Luigi Vitale is an Italian former footballer who played as a left midfielder, left back, or a left wing back, currently working as head coach of amateur club Stabia City.
Brandan Wright, American basketball player
Brandan Keith Wright is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Growing up in Tennessee, Wright fast became a standout at his high school Brentwood Academy, earning three "Mr. Basketball" titles, a feat no player at any level had ever done in Tennessee. After leading his high school team to four consecutive state championships, Wright was eventually recruited by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's basketball team. In his lone season as a Tar Heel, Wright was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year, and earned All-ACC Second Team honors. In the 2007 NBA draft, Wright was chosen eighth overall by the Charlotte Bobcats, and in a draft-night trade was dealt to the Golden State Warriors for guard Jason Richardson.
05/10/1986
Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
Mladen Bartulović is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Metalist 1925 Kharkiv. He spent most of his playing career in Ukrainian Premier League representing various clubs from Central Ukraine: Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, Vorskla Poltava, Inhulets Petrove, and others.
Tanner Roark, American baseball player
Tanner Burnell Roark is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Nationals, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics, and Toronto Blue Jays. He played college baseball at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
05/10/1985
Nicola Roberts, English singer-songwriter
Nicola Maria Roberts is an English singer and songwriter. In 2002, Roberts was selected as a member of Girls Aloud, a pop girl group created through ITV's reality competition show Popstars: The Rivals. The group went on to receive large success, achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK top ten singles, two UK number one albums, five consecutive platinum-selling studio albums, and receiving nominations for five BRIT Awards, winning Best Single in 2009 for "The Promise".
Brooke Valentine, American singer and songwriter
Kanesha Nichole Brookes-Moody, better known by her stage name Brooke Valentine, is an American actress, model, singer, songwriter, and television personality. Her single "Girlfight" peaked on U.S. music charts in 2005, paving the way for her debut album Chain Letter released via Subliminal Entertainment imprint on Virgin Records and went on to sell more than 290,000 units worldwide. After a first attempt at a comeback, Brooke officially returned to the spotlight in 2012 with two singles "Forever" and the Adult R&B Top 40 hit "Don't Wanna Be In Love".
05/10/1984
Naima Adedapo, American singer and dancer
Naima Adedapo is an American singer and dancer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Adedapo placed in the top 11 on the tenth season of American Idol.
Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
Kenwyne Joel Jones CM is a Trinidadian football manager and retired professional player who played as a forward. He managed the Trinidad and Tobago women's national team. He began his football career with Joe Public F.C. in his native Trinidad and Tobago. He moved to W Connection in 2002, and he was a utility player in the Trinidad and Tobago team in 2003 against Finland. In 2004, he joined Southampton, where he was converted to a striker. He was later loaned to Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City during the 2004–05 season.
Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian-Australian actress
Nathalie Kelley is a Peruvian-Australian actress, known for her role as Neela in the 2006 action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and for her roles in various television series including Body of Proof (2011–2012), Unreal (2015), The Vampire Diaries (2016–2017), Dynasty (2017–2018) and The Baker and the Beauty (2020).
Nate Thompson, American ice hockey player
Nathan Scott Thompson is an American former professional ice hockey forward. He played for the Boston Bruins, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning, Anaheim Ducks, Ottawa Senators, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers and Winnipeg Jets. The Bruins drafted him in the sixth round at the 2003 NHL entry draft.
Angel Perkins, American sprinter
Angel Perkins is an American former hurdler and sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2008 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. As a prep, she won gold medals at the 2001 World U18 Championships in the 200 m and medley relay, and was described as among the best high school sprinters ever in the 100 m and 200 m and world-class on the 400 m. While competing for the Baylor Bears track and field team, she went on to win medals at both the Pan American junior and senior athletics championships before earning World Indoor bronze in 2008.
05/10/1983
Jesse Eisenberg, American actor and writer
Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor, playwright, and filmmaker. Recognized for playing smart but socially awkward characters in both comedies and dramas, his accolades include a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, and three Golden Globes.
Nicky Hilton, American socialite, fashion designer, and model
Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Rothschild is an American socialite, fashion designer and model. She is a member of the Hilton family by birth and of the Rothschild family following her 2015 marriage to James Rothschild, a grandson of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild. Hilton is the younger sister of Paris Hilton.
Florian Mayer, German tennis player
Florian Mayer is a German former professional tennis player.
Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, popularly known as the Narail Express, is a Bangladeshi politician and former cricketer who captained in all three formats of the game for the Bangladesh national cricket team and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Narail-2 constituency during 2019–2024. He is widely regarded as the most successful captain for the Bangladesh cricket team.
05/10/1982
Michael Roos, Estonian-American football player
Michael Roos is an Estonian-born former professional American football offensive tackle who played his entire career for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Titans in the second round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football for the Eastern Washington Eagles.
Steve Williams, Australian-German rugby player
Steve Williams is an Australian-born German international rugby union player, having played for the SC Neuenheim and the German national rugby union team. He has also played club rugby at highest level in Scotland, the Netherlands and Portugal.
05/10/1981
Jeanette Antolin, American gymnast
Jeanette Antolin is an American former artistic gymnast who was a member of the U.S. national team from 1995 to 2000. In 1999, she competed at the Pan American Games, where she helped the U.S. win a team silver medal, and the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She then joined the UCLA Bruins.
Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer
Joel Lindpere is an Estonian football coach and former professional player.
Andy Nägelein, German footballer
Andreas Hannes Ling Fung Nägelein, commonly known as Andy Nägelein, is a former professional footballer. Nägelein began his career in Germany and he left to Cyprus and China in short term. His usual position was defensive midfielder, but he could also be utilized as a centre-back or a full back. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Germany, he made nine appearances for the Hong Kong national team.
05/10/1980
Yuta Tabuse, Japanese basketball player
Yuta Tabuse is a Japanese professional basketball player for Utsunomiya Brex of the B.League. A point guard, Tabuse is 1.75 metres and 75 kilograms (165 lb). He was the first Japanese-born player to appear in a National Basketball Association (NBA) game.
Paul Thomas, American bass player
Good Charlotte is an American rock band formed in Waldorf, Maryland, in 1995. The band currently consists of Joel Madden, Benji Madden, Paul Thomas (bass), and Billy Martin.
James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
James Michael Toseland is an English former motorcycle racer, commentator and vocalist of his own rock band named Toseland. For 2020, he was team-manager of Wepol Racing with riders in World Supersport and Supersport 300, and is a television motorcycle racing commentator.
Joakim Brodén, Swedish-Czech musician and lead vocalist of the power metal band Sabaton
Joakim "Jocke" Brodén is a Swedish-Czech musician who is the lead vocalist, keyboardist and occasional rhythm guitarist of the power metal band Sabaton. He and bassist Pär Sundström formed the band in 1999. He holds both Swedish and Czech citizenship.
05/10/1979
Vince Grella, Australian footballer
Vincenzo Grella is an Australian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Dandenong to Italian immigrants, Antonio and Maria, Grella began his senior career in Australia before moving to Italy, where he spent over ten years, playing for Empoli, Ternana, Parma and Torino. He moved to Blackburn Rovers of the Premier League in 2008 where he spent four seasons, before returning to Australia in 2012 to play for Melbourne Heart.
Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
Curtis Sanford is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He is currently a goalie coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, and Columbus Blue Jackets.
05/10/1978
Steinar Nickelsen, Norwegian organist and composer
Steinar Sønk Nickelsen is a Norwegian jazz musician from Bærum, known from several bands and album releases.
Jesse Palmer, Canadian football player and sportscaster
Jesse James Palmer is a Canadian television personality, sports commentator, and former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons. Palmer played college football for the Florida Gators under coach Steve Spurrier, and then played professionally for the New York Giants in the NFL before spending half of the 2006 season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Shane Ryan, Irish footballer and hurler
Shane Ryan is an Irish sportsman who plays hurling for the Dublin county team and, formerly, Gaelic football also for the Dublin county team (F), for which he received an All Star. Ryan plays his club hurling and football for Naomh Mearnóg and his preferred position is centre back, although he is known to have played many positions for Dublin. He made his senior debut for Dublin on 4 June 1999. He made the decision to concentrate solely on Gaelic football in 2004, which dealt a blow to the then hurling manager Humphrey Kelleher. In 2009, he made the decision to switch back to hurling and join Anthony Daly's team after giving it much consideration. Ryan is a graduate of Business Studies (2001) in Dublin City University and is a teacher by profession.
James Valentine, American musician and songwriter
James Burgon Valentine is an American musician who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the pop band Maroon 5.
Morgan Webb, Canadian-American television host and producer
Morgan Ailis Webb is a former co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play. She was previously the host of the podcast WebbAlert and a monthly columnist for the United States edition of FHM, where she contributed a monthly video game column titled "Tips from the Gaming Goddess". She began working at independent game studio Bonfire Studios in March 2017 in a production role.
05/10/1977
Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic author, illustrator, and critic
Þórarinn Hugleikur Dagsson, nicknamed Hulli, born 5 October 1977 is an Icelandic artist. He received a B.A. degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002.
Vinnie Paz, Italian-American rapper and producer
Vincenzo Luviner, better known as Vinnie Paz, is an Italian-American rapper and producer behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks. He is also the frontman of the hip-hop collective Army of the Pharaohs.
Konstantin Zyryanov, Russian footballer
Konstantin Georgiyevich Zyryanov is a Russian football manager and a former player of Komi descent.
05/10/1976
Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic
Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov is a Russian politician who is currently serving as the head of the Chechen Republic. He was formerly affiliated with the Chechen independence movement through his father, who was the separatist-appointed mufti of Chechnya. He is a colonel general in the Russian military.
Royston Tan, Singaporean director, producer, and screenwriter
Royston Tan is a Singaporean filmmaker and actor.
J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
Christopher Beltram Hernandez "J. J." Yeley is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 44 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for NY Racing Team, and part-time in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, driving the No. 42 Chevrolet Camaro SS for Young's Motorsports, and the No. 5 Ford Mustang Dark Horse for Hettinger Racing. He has previously competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, what is now the ARCA Menards Series, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, as well as the IndyCar Series.
05/10/1975
Bobo Baldé, French-Guinean footballer
Dianbobo "Bobo" Baldé is a former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Carson Ellis, American painter and illustrator
Carson Friedman Ellis is a Canadian-born American children's book illustrator and artist. She received a Caldecott Honor for her children's book Du Iz Tak? (2016). Her work is inspired by folk art, art history, and mysticism.
Hutch Harris, American songwriter and musician
Hutch Harris is an American songwriter and musician, and was the lead guitarist/vocalist of Portland, Oregon rock band The Thermals. He also writes and performs under the name Forbidden Friends. More recently, he has performed with Clear Rivers.
Parminder Nagra, English actress
Parminder Kaur Nagra is an English-American actress. She gained prominence through her roles as Jess Bhamra in the film Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Dr. Neela Rasgotra in the NBC medical drama ER (2003–2009). Her other television roles include Meera Malik in the first season of the NBC crime drama The Blacklist (2013–2014) and a recurring role as Ellen Nadeer in season four of the ABC/Marvel series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016–2017). More recently, Nagra starred as the titular character of the ITV series DI Ray (2022–2024).
Monica Rial, American voice actress, director, and screenwriter
Monica Jean Rial is an American voice actress and ADR script writer affiliated with Funimation/Crunchyroll, ADV Films/Sentai Filmworks and Toei Animation USA. She provides voices for English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series.
Scott Weinger, American actor
Scott Weinger is an American actor, screenwriter and television producer. He is the voice of the Disney character Aladdin in the 1992 animated film and various follow-ups, and played Steve Hale on the ABC sitcom Full House and its Netflix sequel Fuller House. For ABC, he wrote and produced for the television sitcoms Galavant and Black-ish and was a co-executive producer of The Muppets. He is a writer and co-executive producer on the Hulu show Paradise, for which he received a 2025 Emmy nomination.
Kate Winslet, English actress
Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress. Primarily known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012.
05/10/1974
Rich Franklin, American mixed martial artist and actor
Richard Jay Franklin II is an American businessman and retired mixed martial artist. He is best known for competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he is a member of the UFC Hall of Fame and a former UFC Middleweight Champion. Franklin has been the Vice President of Singaporean combat sports promotion ONE Championship since May 2014.
Heather Headley, Trinidadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress
Heather Headley is a Trinidadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the title role of Aida. She also won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album for her album Audience of One. In 2018, she recurred as Gwen Garrett on the NBC medical drama television series Chicago Med. She stars on the Netflix series Sweet Magnolias, which debuted in 2020 and is in its fourth season as of February 2025.
Anousjka van Exel, Dutch tennis player
Anousjka van Exel is a Dutch former tennis player.
05/10/1973
Cédric Villani, French mathematician and academic
Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani is a French mathematician and politician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, and he was the director of Sorbonne University's Institut Henri Poincaré from 2009 to 2017. As of September 2025, he is a professor at the École normale supérieure de Rennes.
05/10/1972
Annely Akkermann, Estonian banker and politician
Annely Akkermann is an Estonian politician who served as minister of finance in the government of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas between 19 October 2022 and 17 April 2023.
Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball player
Aaron Colin Guiel is a Canadian former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees from 2002 to 2006 and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 2007 to 2011.
Grant Hill, American basketball player and actor
Grant Henry Hill is an American professional basketball executive and former player who is a co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a part-owner of Orlando City SC of Major League Soccer (MLS) and Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). He is also part of an ownership group that purchased the Baltimore Orioles in 2024. Hill also works as a basketball analyst for CBS, NBC and Turner Sports.
Thomas Roberts, American journalist and actor
Thomas Albert Roberts is an American television journalist who served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel. He ended his seven-year stint anchoring MSNBC Live, the daytime news platform of NBC News, on weekends from 5-7pm ET. Before that he was anchor of Way Too Early and a contributor to Morning Joe. He was also an NBC News correspondent and a fill-in anchor on Today and NBC Nightly News. On November 18, 2017, it was announced that Roberts had decided to leave MSNBC for other endeavors. On August 14, 2020, it was announced that Roberts will be the host of season four of DailyMailTV.
05/10/1971
Tonia Antoniazzi, British politician
Antonia Louise Antoniazzi is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gower since 2017.
Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentinian footballer and manager
Mauricio Andrés Pellegrino Luna is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is currently manager of Lanús.
05/10/1970
Josie Bissett, American actress
Jolyn Christine Heutmaker, known professionally as Josie Bissett, is an American actress. She is known for her role as Jane Mancini on the television series Melrose Place (1992–1999), and for her television film appearances over the past three decades.
Matthew Knights, Australian footballer and coach
Matthew Knights is an Australian rules football coach and former player who is currently serving as an assistant coach with the West Coast Eagles. Knights played in the midfield for the Richmond Football Club from 1988 to 2002, before going on to forge a coaching career, most notably as head coach of the Essendon Football Club from 2008 to 2010. He later became the head coach of the Geelong VFL Football Club from 2012 to 2014, guiding the Cats to the 2012 VFL Premiership and the 2013 VFL Grand Final.
Tord Gustavsen, Norwegian pianist and composer
Tord Gustavsen is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer. He tours extensively worldwide, and he has been a bandleader for a trio, ensemble and quartet at various times, all bearing his name.
Cal Wilson, New Zealand comedian, actress, and screenwriter (died 2023)
Cal Wilson was a New Zealand stand-up comedian, author, radio and television presenter based in Australia. Wilson wrote the New Zealand sitcom Willy Nilly from 2001 until 2003. She then appeared in numerous comedy and television shows, including being the host of Sleuth 101, co-host of The Great Australian Bake Off, and voiced Petal and Thorn in the children's TV series Kitty Is Not a Cat. Wilson also co-hosted several radio shows.
05/10/1967
Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster
Rex Everett Chapman is an American former professional basketball player and social media influencer, mostly known for his time with the Charlotte Hornets from 1988 to 1992 and for his time with the Phoenix Suns from 1996 to 2000. Chapman was a high school star in Kentucky, winning many awards for his play. In two seasons at the University of Kentucky, he won further awards and scored more than 1,000 points. Chapman was the first draft pick of the expansion Charlotte Hornets and played on four National Basketball Association (NBA) teams. Over his 12-year career, he averaged 14.6 points per game and appeared in two slam dunk competitions.
Guy Pearce, English-Australian actor
Guy Edward Pearce is an Australian actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards and eight AACTA Awards.
05/10/1966
Dennis Byrd, American football player (died 2016)
Dennis DeWayne Byrd was an American professional football player who was a defensive end and defensive tackle for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. He played for the Jets for four seasons beginning in 1989. Over his four seasons, he recorded 28 sacks and 110 tackles. His career ended when he was paralyzed following a collision with a teammate during a game. Through rehabilitation, he later managed to walk again.
Sean M. Carroll, American physicist, cosmologist, and academic
Sean Michael Carroll is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He was formerly a research professor at the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) department of physics. He also is currently an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and he has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, where he has published in scientific journals such as Nature as well as other publications, including The New York Times, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist. He is known for his atheism, his vocal critique of theism and defense of naturalism. He is considered a prolific public speaker and science popularizer. In 2007, Carroll was named NSF Distinguished Lecturer by the National Science Foundation.
Fredrik Olausson, Swedish ice hockey player
Karl-Gustav Fredrik Olausson is a Swedish former ice hockey player from Nybro who is currently assistant coach for HV71 in Elitserien. He had previously played 17 seasons in the NHL and another 6 in Sweden.
Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker player and referee
Jan Verhaas is a Dutch snooker and pool referee, best known for refereeing on the World Snooker Tour (WST) from 1991 to 2025. At the 2003 World Snooker Championship, he became the first referee from outside the UK to referee a World Championship final. He also refereed the World Championship finals in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013 and 2017, as well as eight Masters finals and four UK Championship finals.
05/10/1965
Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
Mario Lemieux is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played parts of 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins between 1984 and 2005, and he assumed ownership of the franchise in 1999. Nicknamed "the Magnificent One" and "Super Mario", Lemieux is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time for his combination of size, strength, athleticism, and creativity.
Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Patrick Jacques Roy is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, executive, and former player who most recently was the head coach for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). Roy was hailed in sports media as "king of goaltenders" and was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history in 2017. Nicknamed "Saint Patrick", he split his playing career in the National Hockey League (NHL) between the Montreal Canadiens, with whom he played for 11 years, and the Colorado Avalanche, with whom he played for eight years. Roy won the Stanley Cup four times during his career, two with each franchise.
05/10/1964
Korina Sanchez, Filipino journalist
Korina Maria Baluyut Sanchez-Roxas is a Filipino broadcast journalist, television news anchor, senior field reporter, magazine show host, radio anchor, newspaper columnist and musician. She served as chief reporter for the Integrated News and Current Affairs Division of ABS-CBN airing on TV Channel 2, AM Radio Station DZMM and cable TV network ABS-CBN News Channel. She also has a regular column in The Philippine Star entitled That Does It, as well as a Tagalog column entitled K Ka Lang in its sister newspaper, Pilipino Star Ngayon.
05/10/1963
Laura Davies, English golfer and sportscaster
Dame Laura Jane Davies, is an English professional golfer. She has achieved the status of her nation's most accomplished female golfer of modern times, being the second non-American to finish at the top of the LPGA money list as well as winning the Ladies European Tour (LET) Order of Merit a record seven times: in 1985, 1986, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2004 and 2006.
Tony Dodemaide, Australian cricketer
Anthony Ian Christopher Dodemaide is an Australian cricket administrator and former cricketer. After a three-year stint as Chief Executive of the Western Australian Cricket Association in Perth, he became the current chief executive of Cricket Victoria. He is currently a selector for the Australian men's national team.
Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater
Michael Florian Hadschieff is a former speed skater from Austria.
05/10/1962
Michael Andretti, American race car driver
Michael Mario Andretti is an American former racing driver, and current team owner. Statistically one of the most successful drivers in the history of American open-wheel car racing, Andretti won the 1991 CART championship, and amassed 42 race victories, the most in the CART era and fifth-most all time. Since his retirement, Andretti has owned Andretti Autosport, which has won four IndyCar Series championships and five Indianapolis 500 races. He is the son of Mario Andretti, a multi-time champion, and is the father of IndyCar Series driver Marco Andretti.
Thomas Herbst, German footballer and manager
Thomas Herbst is a German football manager and former player. He was most recently the head coach of FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin.
Caron Keating, British television host (died 2004)
Caron Louisa Keating was a British television presenter.
05/10/1960
Daniel Baldwin, American actor, director, and producer
Daniel Leroy Baldwin is an American actor and director. He is the second-oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, all of whom are actors. He is best known for playing the role of Detective Beau Felton in the NBC TV series Homicide: Life on the Street. He also starred in the films Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), Hero (1992), Mulholland Falls, Trees Lounge, Vampires, Phoenix, Paparazzi (2004), Sidekick (2005), The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006), and Grey Gardens (2009).
Careca, Brazilian footballer[citation needed]
Antônio de Oliveira Filho, better known as Careca, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player and coach
David Edward Kirk is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He is best known for having been the captain of the All Blacks when they won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987.
05/10/1959
Kenan İpek, Turkish lawyer and judge
Kenan İpek is a Turkish legal prosecutor and judge who served as the Minister of Justice of Turkey from 7 March to 17 November 2015. Having previously served as the Undersecretary to the Justice Ministry, İpek succeeded the Justice and Development Party minister Bekir Bozdağ as the Minister of Justice in accordance to Article 114 of the Turkish Constitution three months before the June 2015 general election. He is, formally, of no political affiliation, and concurrently served as the President of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors during his time as Minister.
Maya Lin, American architect and sculptor, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Civil Rights Memorial
Maya Ying Lin is an American architect, designer, and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio, to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. She has an older brother, the poet Tan Lin.
Kelly Joe Phelps, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)
Kelly Joe Phelps was an American musician and songwriter. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz.
05/10/1958
André Kuipers, Dutch physician and astronaut
André Kuipers is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut. He became the second Dutch citizen, third Dutch-born and fifth Dutch-speaking astronaut upon launch of Soyuz TMA-4 on 19 April 2004. Kuipers returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-3 11 days later.
Neil Peart, Australian footballer
Neil Peart is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood, Richmond and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994, he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210 million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. Since 1996, he has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.
05/10/1957
Bernie Mac, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, known professionally as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and film producer. His most noted film roles were as Frank Catton in the Ocean's film series from 2001 through 2007 and as the title character of Mr. 3000. Mac joined Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D. L. Hughley as one of the "Big Four" comedians in the film The Original Kings of Comedy. After briefly hosting the HBO show Midnight Mac, Mac appeared in several films in smaller roles. He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001 through 2006, earning him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. His other films included starring roles in The Players Club, Head of State, Bad Santa, Guess Who, Pride, and Soul Men. Mac died at 50 years old on August 9, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois from complications of pneumonia.
Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist
Lee Jay Thompson, nicknamed Kix or El Thommo, is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and composer. In a career spanning 5 decades, Thompson came to prominence in the late 1970s as a founder of, and saxophonist with, the English ska band Madness.
05/10/1955
John Alexander, English footballer
John Alexander is an English former footballer who holds the post of club secretary at Manchester United.
Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
Jean-Jacques Lafon is a French singer-songwriter and painter. He remains known for his 1985 one-hit wonder "Le géant de papier", which peaked at No. 6 on the SNEP singles chart and earned a Silver disc. Lafon is also the writer of the 1987 hit "Viens boire un p'tit coup à la maison" for Licence IV, under the pseudonym of Falon.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, English academic and businessman
Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is a British businessman and academic who was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority during the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, serving from September 2008 until its abolition in March 2013. He is a former chairman of the Pensions Commission and the Committee on Climate Change, as well as a former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. He has described himself in a BBC HARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur as a 'technocrat'.
05/10/1953
Philip Hampton, English-Scottish accountant and businessman
Sir Philip Roy Hampton is a British businessman. He was the first chairman of UK Financial Investments Limited in 2008 and chairman of government-owned The Royal Bank of Scotland Group between 2009 and 2015. He has also chaired GlaxoSmithKline and J Sainsbury.
Roy Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player
Roy James Laidlaw is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
05/10/1952
Clive Barker, English author, director, producer, and screenwriter
Clive Barker is a British writer, filmmaker, and visual artist. He came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of short stories collectively named the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror author. His work has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series and the Candyman series.
Harold Faltermeyer, German keyboard player, composer, and producer
Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeyer is a German musician, composer and record producer.
Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is a Pakistani former cricketer, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. As a cricketer, he captained the Pakistan national cricket team to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. After retiring from cricket, he founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Pakistan's first cancer hospital. He is the founder of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and was its chairman from 1996 to 2023.
05/10/1951
Karen Allen, American actress
Karen Jane Allen is an American film, television and stage actress. She made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed by a small role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979), before co-starring opposite Al Pacino in William Friedkin's crime thriller Cruising (1980).
Bob Geldof, Irish singer-songwriter and actor
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, political activist, television producer and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement. The band had UK number one hits with his co-compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". Geldof starred as Pink in Pink Floyd's film Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982).
05/10/1950
Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (died 2011)
Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway was an American actor. He portrayed Kenickie in the film Grease and had roles in three television series: struggling actor Bobby Wheeler in Taxi (1978–1982), Prince Erik Greystone in Wizards and Warriors, and security officer Zack Allan on Babylon 5. Conaway was featured in the first and second seasons of the reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
Edward P. Jones, American novelist and short story writer
Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. He became popular for writing about the African-American experience in the United States, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award for The Known World (2003).
James Rizzi, American painter and illustrator (died 2011)
James Rizzi was an American pop artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.
05/10/1949
Peter Ackroyd, English biographer, novelist and critic
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (died 1974)
Michael Gaughan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republicans to die while on hunger strike in the 20th century.
Ralph Goodale, Canadian lawyer and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Finance
Ralph Edward Goodale is a Canadian diplomat and retired politician who served as the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2021 to 2025.
Bill James, American historian and author
George William James is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he named sabermetrics after the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
Yashiki Takajin, Japanese singer and television host (died 2014)
Takajin Yashiki , often referred to as simply Takajin (たかじん), was a Japanese singer and television personality.
05/10/1948
Russell Mael, American vocalist
Russell Craig Mael is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist for the pop and rock duo Sparks, which he formed in 1971 with his elder brother Ron Mael. Mael is known for his wide vocal range, in particular his far-reaching falsetto. He has a flamboyant and hyperactive stage presence which contrasts sharply with Ron Mael's impassive demeanour. The duo released an album with Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, as the supergroup FFS, titled FFS, released in 2015. The Mael brothers are the founders of Lil' Beethoven Records.
05/10/1947
Brian Johnson, English singer and songwriter
Brian Johnson is an English singer and songwriter. He is the third lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC, taking over the role in 1980 after the death of Bon Scott.
Michèle Pierre-Louis, Haitian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis is a Haitian politician who was Prime Minister of Haiti from September 2008 to November 2009. She was Haiti's second female prime minister, after Claudette Werleigh, who served from 1995 to 1996.
05/10/1946
Zahida Hina, Pakistani journalist and author
Zahida Hina is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist and dramatist from Pakistan.
Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
Robin James Lane Fox, is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford. Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College from 1977 to 2014, he serves as Garden Master and as Extraordinary Lecturer in Ancient History for both New College and Exeter College. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history.
Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
Jean Perron is a Canadian ice hockey coach and sports commentator, best known for being the 16th head coach of the Montreal Canadiens, serving from 1985 to 1988. Perron has more recently served as the head coach for Israel's men's national teams.
David Watson, English footballer
David Vernon Watson is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. During his club career, he played for Notts County, Rotherham United, Sunderland, Manchester City, Werder Bremen, Southampton, Stoke City, Vancouver Whitecaps and Derby County.
05/10/1945
Brian Connolly, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 1997)
Brian Francis Connolly was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of glam rock band Sweet between 1968 and 1979 and known for his charismatic stage presence and distinctive voice.
05/10/1944
Richard Rosser, Baron Rosser, English union leader and politician (died 2024)
Richard Andrew Rosser, Baron Rosser was a British trade union leader and Labour politician who was a member of the House of Lords. He latterly served as Shadow Spokesperson for Transport and Home Affairs in the House of Lords.
05/10/1943
Ben Cardin, American lawyer and politician
Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 2007 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as its speaker from 1979 to 1987. In 58 years as an elected official, Cardin never lost an election.
Steve Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Steven Haworth Miller is an American musician. He is the founder and only remaining original member of the Steve Miller Band, which he founded in 1966, and is the principal songwriter, lead singer, harmonicist, keyboardist, and one of the guitarists. He began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more pop-oriented arena rock sound during the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, releasing popular singles and albums. Miller was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
Michael Morpurgo, English author, poet, and playwright
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
Etela Farkašová, Slovak philosopher and writer
Etela Farkašová is a Slovak writer and philosopher.
05/10/1942
Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Richard Allen Street was an American soul and R&B singer, most notable as a member of Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1971 to 1993. Prior to joining the Temptations, he had been a member of Otis and The Distants in the 50s, a vocal group that was led by Otis Williams.
05/10/1941
Stephanie Cole, English actress
Patricia Stephanie Cole is an English stage, television, radio and film actress, known for high-profile roles in shows such as Tenko (1981–1985), Open All Hours (1982–1985), A Bit of a Do (1989), Waiting for God (1990–1994), Keeping Mum (1997–1998), Doc Martin (2004-2009), Ed Reardon's Week (2005–2021), Cabin Pressure (2008–2014), Coronation Street (2011–2013), Still Open All Hours (2013–2019) and Man Down (2014–2017).
Eduardo Duhalde, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 50th President of Argentina
Eduardo Alberto Duhalde is a former politician from Argentina. A member of the Peronist party, Duhalde served as the interim president of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003. In the 1990s, he also held the positions of vice president and governor of Buenos Aires.
Frank Stagg, Irish republican died on hunger strike (died 1976)
Frank Stagg was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker from County Mayo, Ireland who died in 1976 in Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, England after 62 days on hunger strike. Stagg was one of 22 Irish republicans to die on hunger strike in the twentieth century.
05/10/1940
Bob Cowper, Australian cricketer
Robert Maskew Cowper was an Australian cricketer who played Test cricket for Australia from 1964 to 1968, and Sheffield Shield cricket for Victoria and Western Australia from 1960 to 1970. He scored the first Test cricket triple century on Australian soil, a 12-hour 307 against England at the MCG in February 1966.
Terry Trotter, American jazz pianist
Terry William Trotter is an American jazz pianist and piano teacher living in Los Angeles. He has recorded with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Larry Carlton, and many others. Trotter composed the theme music to the television show Everybody Loves Raymond.
05/10/1939
Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian author and playwright (died 2021)
Marie-Claire Blais was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning more than sixty years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts.
A. R. Penck, German painter and sculptor (died 2017)
Ralf Winkler was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and jazz drummer. A neo-expressionist, he became known for his visual style, reminiscent of the influence of primitive art.
Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino lawyer and jurist
Consuelo Ynares-Santiago is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the Court by President Joseph Estrada.
05/10/1938
Johnny Duncan, American country singer (died 2006)
John Richard Duncan was an American country music singer-songwriter, best known for a string of hits in the mid- to late 1970s. In his career, he released 14 studio albums, including thirteen on Columbia Records. These albums produced more than 30 chart singles, with three of those reaching number one: "Thinkin' of a Rendezvous", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better", and "She Can Put Her Shoes Under my Bed (Anytime)" from 1976, 1977, and 1978, respectively. Seven more of his singles were top-10 hits.
Teresa Heinz, Mozambican-American businesswoman and philanthropist
Teresa Heinz, also known as Teresa Heinz Kerry, is a Portuguese-American businesswoman and philanthropist. Heinz is the widow of former U.S. Senator John Heinz and the current wife of former United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, longtime U.S. Senator, and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Heinz has served as chair of the Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies.
05/10/1937
Barry Switzer, American football player and coach
Barry Layne Switzer is an American former college and professional football coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma, and led the Cowboys to win Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history, and is the second of only three head coaches to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl: the others are his Cowboys predecessor Jimmy Johnson and Pete Carroll with the Seattle Seahawks.
05/10/1936
Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (died 2011)
Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs.
Adrian Smith, American basketball player
Adrian Howard "Odie" Smith is an American former professional basketball player.
05/10/1934
Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (died 2015)
Kenneth Douglas Taylor was a Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman, best known for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the "Canadian Caper" when he was the Canadian ambassador to Iran. With the cooperation of the American Central Intelligence Agency, Taylor helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis by procuring Canadian passports for the Americans to deceive the Iranian Revolutionary guard by posing as a Canadian film crew scouting locations. Before the escape, the six Americans spent several weeks hiding in the homes of Taylor and another Canadian diplomat, John Sheardown.
Angelo Buono, American serial killer and rapist (died 2002)
Angelo Anthony Buono Jr. was an American serial killer, kidnapper and rapist who, together with his adopted cousin Kenneth Bianchi, raped and murdered ten young women and girls between October 1977 and February 1978 in Los Angeles, California in what became known as the Hillside Strangler murders, as the victims were usually strangled to death and dumped on a hillside. In November 1983, after a two-year long trial, Buono was convicted of 9 counts of murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.
05/10/1933
Doug Bailey, American political consultant, founded The Hotline (died 2013)
Doug Bailey was an American political consultant and founder of The Hotline, a bipartisan, daily briefing on American politics.
Billy Lee Riley, American rockabilly musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer (died 2009)
Billy Lee Riley was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. His most memorable recordings include "Rock With Me Baby", "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot".
05/10/1932
Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and author
Charles Neal Ascherson is a Scottish journalist and writer. In his youth he fought for the British in the Malayan Emergency. He has been described by Radio Prague as "one of Britain's leading experts on central and eastern Europe". Ascherson is the author of several books on the history of Poland and Ukraine. His work has appeared in The Guardian and The New York Review of Books.
Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2019)
Dean Sutherland Prentice was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 22 seasons between 1952–53 and 1973–74. He had 10 NHL seasons with 20 or more goals. Over his NHL career, Prentice played for the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Minnesota North Stars.
Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist and police officer (died 2006)
Michael ('Mike') John Rogers was an English ornithologist and Honorary Secretary to the British Birds Rarities Committee.
05/10/1931
Rosalie Gower, Canadian nurse and politician (died 2013)
Rosalie Alma Gower was a Canadian nurse who became a city councilor in Vernon, British Columbia, and later a commissioner of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), known for her work in advancing women's rights.
05/10/1930
Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 2009)
Pavel Romanovich Popovich was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be considered one of the founding fathers of experimental economics.
05/10/1929
Richard F. Gordon Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017)
Richard Francis Gordon Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and a football executive. He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts who reached the Moon, as command module pilot of the Apollo 12 mission, which orbited the Moon 45 times. Gordon had already flown in space as the pilot of the 1966 Gemini 11 mission.
Bill Wirtz, American businessman (died 2007)
William Wadsworth Wirtz was the chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of the family-owned Wirtz Corporation. He was best known as the owner of the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League, who are part of Wirtz Corp's holdings. Wirtz also served as the Blackhawks' team president for over four decades.
05/10/1928
Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (died 1974)
Louise Perkins Fitzhugh was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Fitzhugh is best known for her 1964 novel Harriet The Spy, about an adolescent girl who to keeps a journal recording the foibles of her friends, classmates, and captivating strangers. The novel was later adapted into a live action film in 1996. The sequel novel, The Long Secret, was published in 1965, and its follow-up book, Sport, was published posthumously in 1979. Fitzhugh also wrote Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, which was later adapted into a short film and a Broadway musical.
Marjorie Finlay, American opera singer and television personality (died 2003)
Marjorie Moehlenkamp Finlay was an American opera singer and television personality. A coloratura soprano, Finlay performed concert and opera singing. After winning a talent contest in 1950, she toured on the ABC radio network show Music With the Girls. Finlay later had her own television program and served as an MC for El Show Pan-Americano in Puerto Rico. She toured South America and released an album in Mexico. She is the maternal grandmother of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who dedicated her song "Marjorie" to her. Her vocals are also featured in the background of the song.
05/10/1926
Avraham Adan, Israeli general (died 2012)
Avraham "Bren" Adan was an Israeli major-general and author. Prior to Israel's independence, he served with the Palmach, an elite formation within the Haganah paramilitary force of the Yishuv community in British Mandatory Palestine. Adan fought under the Haganah and later under the newly formed Israel Defense Forces during the First Arab–Israeli War, and was photographed while raising the Israeli Ink Flag at the site of what is now Eilat to mark the end of the war. He served with the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 to 1977, and fought in all of the major Arab–Israeli wars that occurred during that period.
Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator (died 1979)
William Francis Unsoeld was an American mountaineer who was a member of the first American expedition to summit Mount Everest. The American Mount Everest Expedition was led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, and included Unsoeld, Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Barry Bishop and Tom Hornbein. Whittaker, with Sherpa Nawang Gombu, reached the summit on May 1, 1963. Unsoeld, Hornbein, Bishop and Jerstad reached the top on May 22, 1963. Unsoeld and Hornbein's climb was the first ascent from the peak's west ridge, and the first major traverse of a Himalayan peak. His subsequent activities included working as a U.S. Forest Service smokejumper, Peace Corps director in Nepal, speaker for Outward Bound, faculty member at Oregon State University and The Evergreen State College and mountaineering guide. He died on Mount Rainier in an avalanche.
05/10/1925
Gail Davis, American actress (died 1997)
Gail Davis was an American actress and singer, best known for her starring role as Annie Oakley in the 1950s television series Annie Oakley.
Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter (died 2020)
Herbert Kretzmer was a South African-born British journalist and lyricist. He was best known as the lyricist for the English-language musical adaptation of Les Misérables and for his collaboration with French singer and songwriter Charles Aznavour.
Walter Dale Miller, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (died 2015)
Walter Dale "Walt" Miller was an American politician and member of the Republican Party. He served as the 29th governor of South Dakota from 1993 to 1995, having assumed the office upon the death of George S. Mickelson. He was, at age 67 upon taking office, the oldest person to serve as the governor of South Dakota.
05/10/1924
Bill Dana, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)
William Szathmary, known as Bill Dana, was an American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He often appeared on television shows such as The Steve Allen Show, frequently in the guise of a heavily accented Bolivian character named José Jiménez. Dana often portrayed the Jiménez character as an astronaut.
José Donoso, Chilean author (died 1996)
José Manuel Donoso Yáñez, known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he stated that he had left Chile in the 1960s for personal reasons, after 1973 his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death in 1996.
Barbara Kelly, Canadian actress and screenwriter (died 2007)
Barbara Kelly was a Canadian-British actress, best known for her television roles in the United Kingdom opposite her husband Bernard Braden in the 1950s and 1960s, and for many appearances as a panelist on the British version of What's My Line?
Frederic Morton, Austrian-American banker, journalist, and author (died 2015)
Frederic Morton was an Austrian-born American writer.
Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (died 2006)
Robert Thaves was the creator of the comic strip Frank and Ernest, which began in 1972.
05/10/1923
Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (died 2002)
Philip Francis "Phil" Berrigan was an American peace activist and Catholic priest with the Josephites. He engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament and was often arrested.
Stig Dagerman, Swedish journalist and author (died 1954)
Stig Halvard Dagerman was a Swedish author and journalist prominent in the aftermath of World War II.
Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (died 1994)
Albert Sigurður Guðmundsson was an Icelandic professional footballer who played for, amongst others, Rangers, Arsenal, Nancy and A.C. Milan. After retiring from his sporting career, he became a politician and was a member of Alþingi for 15 years, serving as Minister of Finance of Iceland and Minister of Industry.
Glynis Johns, British actress and singer (died 2024)
Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was a British actress and singer. In a career exceeding seven decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Before her death at age 100, she was considered one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.
Kailashpati Mishra, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (died 2012)
Kailashpati Mishra was an Indian politician. He was a leader of Jana Sangh along with Ramdeo Mahto who was founding leader of BJP in Bihar.
05/10/1922
José Froilán González, Argentinian racing driver (died 2013)
José Froilán González was an Argentine racing driver who competed in Formula One between 1950 and 1960. Nicknamed "the Pampas Bull" and "el Cabezón", González was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1954 with Ferrari, and won two Grands Prix across nine seasons. In endurance racing, González won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1954, also with Ferrari.
Bil Keane, American cartoonist (died 2011)
William Aloysius Keane was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it.
Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (died 1985)
John Stein was a Scottish football player and manager. He was the first manager of a club from a Northern European country to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967. Stein also guided Celtic to nine successive Scottish League championships between 1966 and 1974.
05/10/1921
Bill Willis, American football player and coach (died 2007)
William Karnet Willis was an American professional football middle guard and guard who played for eight seasons with the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Football League (NFL). Known for his quickness and strength despite his small stature, Willis was one of the dominant defensive football players of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was named an All-Pro in every season of his career and reached the NFL's Pro Bowl in three of the four seasons he played in the league. His techniques and style of play were emulated by other teams, and his versatility as a pass-rusher and coverage man influenced the development of the modern-day linebacker position. When he retired, Cleveland coach Paul Brown called him "one of the outstanding linemen in the history of professional football".
05/10/1919
Donald Pleasence, English actor (died 1995)
Donald Henry Pleasence was an English actor. He was known for his "bald head and intense, staring eyes," and played more than 250 stage, film, and television roles across a nearly 60-year career.
05/10/1917
Allen Ludden, American television personality and game show host (died 1981)
Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980.
Magda Szabó, Hungarian author and poet (died 2007)
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the Digital Literary Academy, an online digital repository of Hungarian literature. She is the most translated Hungarian author, with publications in 42 countries and over 30 languages.
05/10/1916
Stetson Kennedy, American author and activist (died 2011)
William Stetson Kennedy was an American author, folklorist and human rights activist. One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century, he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. His actions led to the 1947 revocation by the state of Georgia of the Klan's national corporate charter. Kennedy wrote or co-wrote ten books.
05/10/1914
Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (died 2015)
Zhang Zhen was a general of the People's Liberation Army of China and a member of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party.
05/10/1913
Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2007)
Eugene Bennett Fluckey, nicknamed "Lucky Fluckey", was a United States Navy rear admiral who received the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses during his service as a submarine commander in World War II.
05/10/1912
Fritz Fischer, German physician and convicted war criminal (died 2003)
Fritz Ernst Fischer was a Nazi German medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial; he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 15 years and he was released in 1954.
05/10/1911
Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist and academic (died 2011)
Pierre Dansereau was a Canadian ecologist from Quebec known as one of the "fathers of ecology".
Brian O'Nolan, Irish author and playwright (died 1966)
Brian O'Nolan, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, was an Irish Civil Service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. His four English-language novels, including At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, were published under the pen name Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish-language novel, An Béal Bocht, were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen.
05/10/1908
Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (died 1995)
Mehmet Ali Aybar was a lawyer, member of the Turkish parliament, the second president of the Workers Party of Turkey, the founder and President of the Socialist Revolution Party, and a member of the Russell Tribunal against the war crimes of the United States in Vietnam. He is known as one of the most prominent proponents of democratic socialism in Turkish political history.
Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (died 1988)
Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, and actor. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the musical South Pacific and was involved in writing other musicals.
05/10/1907
Mrs. Miller, American novelty singer (died 1997)
Elva Ruby Miller known professionally as Mrs. Miller, was an American singer who became a novelty figure in the 1960s for her unconventional interpretations of contemporary pop songs. An untrained mezzo-soprano, she performed with a pronounced vibrato and frequently deviated from standard pitch and tempo.
Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (died 1959)
Ragnar Wilhelm Nurkse was an Estonian-American economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development. He is considered the pioneer of Balanced Growth Theory.
05/10/1905
John Hoyt, American actor (died 1991)
John Hoyt was an American actor. He began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous films and television series.
Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (died 1987)
Harriet Elizabeth MacGibbon was an American film, stage and television actress best known for her role as the insufferably snobbish, "blue-blooded Bostonian" Mrs. Margaret Drysdale in the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.
05/10/1903
M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist and academic (died 1989)
Marion King Hubbert was an American geologist and geophysicist. He worked at the Shell research lab in Houston, Texas. He made several important contributions to geology, geophysics, and petroleum geology, most notably the Hubbert curve and Hubbert peak theory, with important political ramifications. He was often referred to as "M. King Hubbert" or "King Hubbert".
05/10/1902
Larry Fine, American comedian (died 1975)
Larry Fine was an American actor, comedian and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges and was often called "The Middle Stooge".
Ray Kroc, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1984)
Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman who was instrumental in turning McDonald's into the most successful global fast food corporation by revenue. He purchased it from the McDonald Brothers in 1961, after several years as their franchising agent, and served as the leader of the company until his death.
05/10/1901
John Alton, Austrian-American director and cinematographer (died 1996)
John Alton was an American cinematographer of Hungarian-German origin. Alton photographed some of the most famous films noir of the classic period and won an Academy Award for the cinematography of An American in Paris (1951), becoming the first Hungarian-born person to do so in the cinematography category. He also worked as a director during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema.
05/10/1899
Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (died 1961)
Elda Emma Anderson was an American physicist and health researcher. During World War II, she worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the laboratory. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she became professor of physics at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1929. After the war, she became interested in health physics. She worked in the Health Physics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and established the professional certification agency known as the American Board of Health Physics.
05/10/1898
Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor (died 1980)
Nachum Gutman was a Moldovan-born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author.
05/10/1894
Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (died 1948)
Bevil Gordon D'Urban Rudd was a South African athlete, the 1920 Olympic Champion in the 400 metres.
05/10/1892
Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (died 1969)
Arthur Remington Kellogg was an American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum. His work focused on marine mammals.
05/10/1889
Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author and educator (died 1936)
Teresa de la Parra was a Venezuelan novelist.
05/10/1888
Mary Fuller, American actress and screenwriter (died 1973)
Mary Claire Fuller was an American actress active in both stage and silent films. She also was a screenwriter and had several films produced. An early major star, by 1917 she could no longer obtain roles in film or on stage. A later effort to revive her career in Hollywood failed in the 1920s after talkies began to dominate film. After suffering a nervous breakdown, she was admitted to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC in 1947 and lived there until her death.
05/10/1887
René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
René Samuel Cassin was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Manny Ziener, German actress (died 1972)
Amanda "Manny" Ziener was a German stage and film actress.
05/10/1885
Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (died 1969)
Arunachalam Mahadeva, KCMG was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Home Affairs (1942-1946) and High Commissioner to India (1948-1949).
05/10/1883
Ernst Pittschau, German actor (died 1951)
Ernst Pittschau was a German stage and film actor.
05/10/1882
Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (died 1945)
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).
05/10/1879
Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Francis Peyton Rous was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller University known for his works in oncoviruses, blood transfusion and physiology of digestion. A medical graduate from the Johns Hopkins University, he was discouraged from becoming a practicing physician due to severe tuberculosis. After three years of working as an instructor of pathology at the University of Michigan, he became dedicated researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research for the rest of his career.
05/10/1878
Louise Dresser, American actress (died 1965)
Louise Dresser was an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the many films in which she played the wife of Will Rogers, including State Fair and David Harum.
05/10/1877
Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (died 1959)
Michael Joyce O'Neill was an Irish born starting pitcher and left fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1901 through 1907, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1901–04) and Cincinnati Reds (1907). O'Neill batted and threw right-handed. A native of Maam, Ireland, he played as Michael Joyce in his 1901 rookie year with the Cardinals.
05/10/1873
Lucien Mérignac, French fencer (died 1941)
Louis Lucien Mérignac was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the gold medal in the masters foil, defeating fellow French fencer Alphonse Kirchhoffer in the final.
05/10/1864
Louis Lumière, French director and producer (died 1948)
Louis Jean Lumière was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema.
05/10/1858
Helen Churchill Candee, American journalist and author (died 1949)
Helen Churchill Candee was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and for her later work as a travel writer and explorer of southeast Asia.
05/10/1856
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish author and playwright (died 1942)
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, known as Cú Uladh, was an Irish language writer during the Gaelic revival. He wrote stories based on Irish folklore, some of the first Irish-language plays, and regular articles in most of the Irish language newspapers, such as An Claidheamh Soluis.
05/10/1850
Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (died 1910)
Sergei Andreevich Muromtsev was a Russian lawyer and politician, and chairman of the First Imperial Duma in 1906.
05/10/1848
Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist and poet (died 1919)
Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as Wotanism, which he claimed was the revival of the religion of the ancient German race, and which included an inner set of Ariosophical teachings that he termed Armanism.
05/10/1844
Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (died 1934)
Francis William Reitz Jr. was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet who was a member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State Secretary of the South African Republic at the time of the Second Boer War, and the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa.
05/10/1841
Philipp Mainländer, German philosopher (died 1876)
Philipp Mainländer was a German philosopher and poet. Born Philipp Batz, he later changed his name to "Mainländer" in homage to his hometown, Offenbach am Main.
05/10/1829
Chester A. Arthur, American general, lawyer, and politician, 21st President of the United States (died 1886)
Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination, Arthur's administration saw the largest expansion of the U.S. Navy, the end of the so-called "spoils system", and the implementation of harsher restrictions for migrants entering from abroad.
05/10/1824
Henry Chadwick, English-American historian and author (died 1908)
Henry Chadwick was an English-American sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian, often called the "Father of Baseball" for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game. He edited the first baseball guide sold to the public. He is credited with creating box scores, as well as creating the abbreviation "K" that designates a strikeout. He was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938.
05/10/1820
David Wilber, American lawyer and politician (died 1890)
David Wilber was a United States representative from New York.
05/10/1816
Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (died 1885)
Ursula Frayne was an Irish nun who became a Mother Superior of the Sisters of Mercy and spent her life in missionary work, initially in Canada but largely in Australia developing schools and academies.
05/10/1803
Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (died 1844)
Friedrich Bernhard Westphal was a German-Danish genre painter and illustrator. He was also known by his nickname Fritz Westphal.
05/10/1795
Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax (died 1873)
Alexander Keith was a Canadian businessman, politician, Freemason and founder of Alexander Keith's Brewery.
05/10/1792
Joseph Crosfield, English businessman (died 1844)
Joseph Crosfield was a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business in Warrington, which was in the historic county of Lancashire and is now in the ceremonial county of Cheshire. This business was to become the firm of Joseph Crosfield and Sons.
05/10/1781
Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (died 1848)
Bernard Bolzano was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views.
05/10/1743
Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator (died 1818)
Giuseppe Gazzaniga was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers. He composed fifty-one operas, particularly opera buffa.
05/10/1728
Chevalier d'Éon, French diplomat and spy (died 1810)
Charlotte d'Éon de Beaumont, usually known as the Chevalière d'Éon or the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, and soldier. D'Éon fought in the Seven Years' War, and spied for France while in Russia and England. Assigned male at birth, D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic and spy. She appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for the first half of her life, except for when she successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. Starting in 1777, d'Éon lived as a woman and was officially recognised as such by King Louis XVI.
05/10/1715
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist and educator (died 1789)
Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He was the father of Honoré, Comte de Mirabeau and André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau. He was, in distinction, often referred to as the elder Mirabeau as he had a younger brother, Jean-Antoine Riqueti de Mirabeau (1717–1794).
05/10/1713
Denis Diderot, French philosopher and critic (died 1784)
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment.
05/10/1712
Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (died 1793)
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.
05/10/1703
Jonathan Edwards, American pastor and theologian (died 1758)
Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards's theological work is broad in scope but rooted in the Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical aptness, and how central the Age of Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His work gave rise to a doctrine known as New England theology.
05/10/1687
Maria Maddalena Martinengo, Italian nun (died 1737)
Maria Maddalena Martinengo, born Margherita Martinengo, was an Italian Roman Catholic professed nun of the order of the Capuchin Poor Clare nuns.
05/10/1658
Mary of Modena (died 1718)
Mary of Modena was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James VII and II. A devout Roman Catholic, Mary married the widower James, who was then the younger brother and heir presumptive of Charles II. She was devoted to James and their children, two of whom survived to adulthood: the Jacobite claimant to the thrones, James Francis Edward, and Louisa Maria Teresa.
05/10/1641
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV (died 1707)
Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan, commonly known as Madame de Montespan, was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated royal mistress of King Louis XIV. During their romantic relationship, which lasted from the late 1660s to the late 1670s, she was sometimes referred to by contemporaries as the "true Queen of France" due to the pervasiveness of her influence at court.
05/10/1609
Paul Fleming, German physician and poet (died 1640)
Paul Fleming was a German physician and poet.
05/10/1524
Rani Durgavati, Queen of Gond (died 1564)
Durgavati, popularly known as Rani Durgavati, was the regent queen of Gondwana during the infancy of her son Vir Narayan, from 1550 to 1564. She married Dalpat Shah, a son of the Gond King Sangram Shah. She is mainly remembered for her courage and sacrifice against the Mughal invasion of Gondwana.
05/10/1520
Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal and diplomat (died 1589)
Alessandro Farnese was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and a great collector and patron of the arts. Farnese was the grandson of Pope Paul III, and the son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, who was murdered in 1547. He should not be confused with his nephew, Alessandro Farnese, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, and the great-grandson of Pope Paul III.
05/10/1487
Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German nobleman (died 1553)
Ludwig of Hanau-Lichtenberg was a German nobleman. He was a younger son of Count Philipp II and his wife Anna of Isenburg-Büdingen.
05/10/1422
Catherine, Princess of Asturias, Spanish royal (died 1424)
Catherine of Castile was suo jure Princess of Asturias and heiress presumptive to the Castilian throne all her life.
05/10/1377
Louis II of Anjou (died 1417)
Louis II was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1384 to 1417; he claimed the Kingdom of Naples, but only ruled parts of the kingdom from 1390 to 1399. His father, Louis I of Anjou—the founder of the House of Valois-Anjou—was a younger son of King John II of France and the adopted son of Queen Joanna I of Naples. When his father died during a military campaign in Naples in 1384, Louis II was still a child. He inherited Anjou from his father, but his mother, Marie of Blois, could not convince his uncles, John, Duke of Berry and Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, to continue her husband's war for Naples. The Provençal nobles and towns refused to acknowledge Louis II as their lawful ruler, but Marie of Blois persuaded them one after another to swear fealty to him between 1385 and 1387.
05/10/1338
Alexios III of Trebizond (died 1390)[citation needed]
Alexios III Megas Komnenos, or Alexius III, was Emperor of Trebizond from December 1349 until his death. He is perhaps the best-documented ruler of that country, and his reign is distinguished by a number of religious grants and literary creations.
05/10/1274
Al-Dhahabi, Syrian scholar and historian (died 1348)
Shams ad-Dīn Al Dhahabī was a Syrian Sunni Muslim historian, biographer, and hadith scholar. He authored major biographical and historical works including Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, and Tarikh al-Islam.