1875 – Marie, last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I (1914-27), born in Eastwell Park, Kent, England (d. 1938)
1882 – Jean Giraudoux, French writer and playwright (The Madwoman of Chaillot), born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France (d. 1944)
1922 – Neal Hefti, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Woody Herman; Count Basie); band leader (Kate Smith Show) and composer (“Li’l Darlin”; The Odd Couple; Batman theme), born in Hastings, Nebraska (d. 2008)
1930 – Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer (Cuarteto d’Aida; Buena Vista Social Club), born in Havana, Cuba
1940 – Frida Boccara, French singer, born in Casablanca, French Morocco (d. 1996)
1968 – Grayson McCouch, American actor (Morgan Winthrop-Another World), born in NYC, New York
1969 – Matthew Whitaker, American lawyer and politician (Acting Attorney General, Nov. 2018-Feb. 2019), born in Des Moines, Iowa
1975 – Kelly Lin, Chinese actress (Reign of Assassins), born in China
1987 – Makoto Ogawa, Japanese pop singer (Morning Musume), born in Kashiwazaki, Japan
1992 – Evan Fournier, French NBA player (New York Knicks), born in Saint-Maurice, France
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Famous Birthdays for 28th October 2022
1801 – Karl Georg Lickl, Austrian pianist, physharmonica (type of harmonium) player, and composer, born in Vienna (d. 1877)
1938 – Peter Carlstein, South African cricketer (South African Test batsman 1958-64), born in Klerksdorp, South Africa
1940 – Susan Harris, American television writer and producer (It Takes Two), born in Mount Vernon, New York
1959 – Neville Henry, British rock saxophonist (Blow Monkeys – “Wicked Ways”)
1963 – Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician and songwriter (“Adesso Te”), born in Cinecittà Est, Rome, Italy
1965 – Eric Floyd, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 – Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
1968 – Shawna Molcak, Cardston Alberta, basketball guard (Olympics 1996)
1980 – Kanzi, Bonobo, most literate non-human, born at Georgia State University
1982 – Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
Famous Birthdays for 27th October 2022
1872 – Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), born in Baltimore, Maryland [or Oct 3rd, 1873] (d. 1960)
1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), born in Manitoba (d. 1963)
1912 – Conlon Nancarrow, American-Mexican composer, often of player piano music (Soundings 4), born in Texarkana, Arkansas (d. 1997)
1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist and writer, born in Minburn, Iowa (d. 2017)
1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish comic actor (Olsen-banden films) and operetta singer (Royal Danish Theatre, 1958-73), born in Hellerup, Denmark (d. 1998)
1926 – Nana Joshi [Padmanabh Govind Joshi], Indian cricket wicket-keeper (Indian National Team during 1950’s), born in Baroda, Gujarat, India (d. 1987)
1940 – John Gotti, American mafia gangster and head of the Gambino family, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2002)
1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American author (The Woman Warrior), born in Stockton, California
1966 – Timm Rosenbach, NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints), born in Everett, Washington
1978 – Vanessa-Mae [Vanakorn Nicholson], Singaporean-British violinist and Olympic alpine skier, born in Singapore
Famous Birthdays for 26th October 2022
1645 – Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter (King David), born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1727)
1902 – Beryl Markham (née Clutterbuck), British-Kenyan; racehorse trainer, aviator, and memoirist, born in Ashwell, Rutland, England (d. 1986)
1924 – Shaw Taylor, British actor and television presenter (Police 5), born in Hackney, London, England (d. 2015)
1936 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (General Hospital, Will and Grace), born in NYC, New York (d. 2019)
1945 – Jaclyn Smith, American actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity), born in Houston, Texas
1947 – Ian Ashley, British racing driver, born in Wuppertal, Germany
1954 – Carlos Agostinho do Rosário, Mozambican politician, Prime Minister of Mozambique (2015-), born in Maxixe, Mozambique
1959 – François Chau, Cambodian actor, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
1966 – Masaharu Iwata, Japanese video game composer, born in Tokyo
1974 – Lisa [Elizabeth Sakura Narita], Japanese musician (M-Flo), born in Tokyo
Famous Birthdays for 25th October 2022
1612 – James Graham, Marquis of Montrose “the Great Montrose”, Scottish general and poet, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1650)
1800 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet and historian (Ivry, Naaseby), born in Leicestershire, England (d. 1859)
1895 – Levi Eshkol [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69), born in Oratov, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1969)
1909 – Whitner “Whit” Bissell, American actor (Time Machine, Soylent Green, The Magnificent Seven), born in NYC, New York (d. 1996)
1928 – Marion Ross, American actress (Marion-Happy Days, Bkln Bridge), born in Watertown, Minnesota
1949 – Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), born in Rouyn, Quebec
1952 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek soccer midfielder (46 caps; Olympiacos; Panathinaikos) and manager (Panathinaikos), born in Piraeus, Greece (d. 2004)
1969 – Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian, actress, and television host, born in Toronto, Ontario
1971 – Geoffrey Prommayon, Thai-American soccer player (PSV), born in Udon Thani, Thailand
2001 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, heir apparent to the Belgian throne, born in Erasmus Hospital, Anderlecht, Brussels
Famous Birthdays for 24th October 2022
1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist who was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa and naturalist (Philosophical Transactions), born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1723)
1872 – Peter O’Connor, Irish athlete (1st recognised world long jump record 1901), born in Millom, England (d. 1957)
1908 – John Alwyne Kitching, British zoologist (d. 1996)
1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone, born in Bassano del Grappa (d. 1984)
1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (Chemins), born in Oneglia, Italy (d. 2003)
1940 – David Sainsbury, English billionaire and founder (Dutch Soc-Dem)
1944 – Bettye Swann [Champion], American soul singer (“Make Me Yours”; “Don’t Touch Me”),born in Shreveport, Louisiana, o
1945 – Anthony Christian, English artist
1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American politician (Rep-D-Maryland) and CEO of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1959 – Michelle Lujan Grisham, American politician, Governor of New Mexico (2019-), born in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Famous Birthdays for 23rd October 2022
1844 – Robert Bridges, English poet (Testament of beauty) and British Poet Laureate (1913-30), born in Walmer, Kent (d. 1930)
1852 – Jean-Louis Forain, French impressionist etcher and lithographer, born in Reims, France (d. 1931)
1902 – Otto J. Gombosi, Hungarian-American musicologist, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1955)
1918 – James Daly, American actor (Medical Center, Planet of the Apes), born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin (d. 1978)
1936 – Barry Sinclair, New Zealand cricket batsman and captain (21 Tests, 3 x 100s; Wellington CA), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2022)
1939 – Charlie Foxx, American soul songwriter, guitarist, and singer (“Mockingbird”), born in Greensboro, North Carolina (d. 1998)
1950 – Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1962 – Beatie Edney, English actress (Diary of a Mad Old Man), born in London, England
1967 – Jaime Yzaga, Peruvian tennis star, born in Lima, Peru
1983 – Filipos Darlas, Greek footballer, born in Kenourgio, Greece
Famous Birthdays for 22nd October 2022
1765 – Daniel Steibelt, German pianist and composer, born in Berlin (d. 1823)
1885 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian operatic spinto tenor singer (New York Metropolitan Opera, 1913-45), born in Montagnana, Italy
1898 – Marcel Mihalovici, composer
1900 – Edward Stettinius Jr. 48th US Secretary of State (1944-45) and diplomat, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1949)
1905 – Karl Jansky, Czech, discoverer (cosmic radio emissions in 1932)
1908 – John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
1927 – Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern
1938 – Derek Jacobi, British Tony, BAFTA, and Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor and director (I, Claudius; Much Ado About Nothing; Dead Again), born in London, England
1952 – Julie Dash American filmmaker (Daughters of the Dust), born in New York City
1976 – Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
Famous Birthdays for 21st October 2022
1847 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright, poet, and librettist (Puccini’s “La bohème”, “Tosca”, and “Madama Butterfly”), born in Colleretto Parella, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1906)
1885 – Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austrian-English composer, teacher, and musicologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1974)
1914 – Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist
1940 – Julie Parrish, Middlesboro Ky, actress (Good Morning World, Capitol)
1948 – Moses J “Moss” Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader
1948 – Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University
1949 – Shulamit Ran, composer
1971 – Damien Martyn, cricketer (WA and Australian middle-order batsman)
1983 – Zack Greinke, American baseball player
1993 – Kane Brown, American country music singer-songwriter (Experiment), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Famous Birthdays for 20th October 2022
1700 – Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
1711 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
1854 – Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile)
1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935 discovered neutron), born in Bollington, Cheshire (d. 1974)
1921 – Hans Warren, Dutch writer, poet and critic (Secret Diary)
1925 – Art Buchwald, American columnist and author (Have I Ever Lied to You), born in Mt Vernon, New York (d. 2017)
1939 – Raymond Jones, British keyboardist and songwriter, born in Oldham, England
1958 – Ivo Pogorelić, Croatian pianist (1978 Casagrande winner), born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1969 – Juan Gonzalez, Puerto Rican MLB outfielder (Texas Rangers), born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress