1753 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1802)
1796 – George Back, English sea officer and explorer (North Canada), born in Stockport, Cheshire (d. 1878)
1856 – Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich, Grand Duke of Russia, born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1929)
1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), born in Klagenfurt, Austria (d. 1942)
1893 – August Defresne, Dutch playwright and director (Uninhabited Island), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1961)
1908 – Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding)
1920 – John Smith, English chairman of Liverpool F.C. (1973-90), (d. 1995)
1946 – Sally Field, American actress (Forrest Gump, Gidget, Flying Nun), born in Pasadena, California
1951 – John Falsey, American television writer and producer, born in New Haven, Connecticut
1964 – Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color), born in Brooklyn, New York
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 5th November 2018
1494 – Hans Sachs, German composer, playwright and shoemaker
1873 – Teddy Flack [Edwin], Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896, born in London, England (d. 1935)
1895 – Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
1914 – Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
1919 – Myron Floren, Webster SD, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1938 – Chris Robinson, Fla, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World)
1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual
1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer (Everything Can Make a Man Happy)
1971 – Dana Jacobson, ESPN’s First Take hostess
1992 – Odell Beckham Jr., American NFL player (New York Giants), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Famous Birthdays for 4th November 2018
1890 – Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Bracke, Borgia)
1900 – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1911 – Ssamu Shimizu, composer
1915 – Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster
1947 – Rodney Marsh, cricketer (AKA “Iron Gloves” AKA “Bacchus” Kept wickets)
1965 – Erik Norgard, NFL center/guard (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1967 – Alex Rousseau, US water polo 2m Offense (Olympic 4th 1992, 96), born in Paris, France
1969 – Jan Apell, Swedish tennis star
1977 – So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
1981 – Vince Wilfork, American football player
Famous Birthdays for 3rd November 2018
1833 – Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
1889 – Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer
1948 – Lulu [Marie Lawrie], Scottish singer (Together) and actress (To Sir, With Love), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1954 – Kevin P Chilton, American General, test pilot and NASA astronaut (STS 49, 59, 76), born in Los Angeles, California
1954 – Brigitte Lin, Taiwanese actress (Red Dust, Swordsman II), born in Taipei, Taiwan
1957 – Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2), born in Stockholm, Sweden
1960 – Marcel “Baaf” Stavenuiter, Dutch drummer (Bob Color)
1970 – Doug Zmolek, NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Rochester, New York
1972 – Chris Shelling, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1973 – Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
Famous Birthdays for 2nd November 2018
1696 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania’s ambassador to the Native Americans, born in Herrenberg, Germany (d. 1760)
1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), born in Vårdnäs, Linköping (d. 1964)
1911 – Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, born in National City, California (d. 1995)
1913 – Ivor Roberts-Jones, British sculptor (known for sculpted heads of Yehudi Menuhin and George Thomas), born in Oswestry, England (d. 1996)
1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2001)
1927 – John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and billionaire
1939 – Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat, born in Birmingham
1949 – Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
1958 – Willie McGee, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985), born in San Francisco, California
1974 – Prodigy [Albert Johnson], American rapper (Mobb Deep), born in Hempstead, Long Island, New York (d. 2017)
Famous Birthdays for 1st November 2018
1549 – Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1748 – Christoph Rheineck, composer
1879 – Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)
1911 – Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), born in Madison, Wisconsin
1929 – Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
1944 – Richard “Kinky” Friedman, American country rocker (Ride ’em Jewboy), born in Chicago, Illinois
1958 – Rachel Ticotin, American actress (Grace-For Love and Honor, Total Recall), born in NYC, New York
1962 – Anthony Kiedis, rock vocalist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1983 – Jon Wilkin, English rugby league footballer
Famous Birthdays for 31st October 2018
1632 – Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Procuress, Astronomer), born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1675)
1892 – Ruth Fuller Sasaki, American Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1967)
1914 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer, born in Westerveld, Netherlands (d. 1995)
1927 – Anita Kerr, American singer composer and producer (The Anita Kerr Singers), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1929 – Bud Spencer, Italian actor (Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It), born in Borgo Santa Lucia, Naples, Italy (d. 2016)
1930 – Michael Collins, Mjr Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11), born in Rome, Italy
1941 – Lucas Brown Jackson, American basketball player (Olympic gold 1964), born in San Marcos, Texas
1969 – Lee Woodall, NFL linebacker (SF 49ers), born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
1979 – Simão Sabrosa, Portuguese footballer, born in Vila Real, Portugal
1982 – The Cheeky Girls, British-Romanian singers, born in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania
Famous Birthdays for 30th October 2018
1391 – Eduard, [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/author
1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1966)
1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (Another Thin Man), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2005)
1925 – Teo Macero [Attilio Joseph Macero], American composer, born in Glens Falls, New York
1925 – Gus Savage, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1981- 93), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2015)
1944 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (supported US 2003 invasion), born in Kadhimiya, Baghdad (d. 2015)
1946 – Ian McGeechan, Scottish rugby player
1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
1970 – Ben Bailey, American host of the TV game show Cash Cab, born in Bowling Green, Kentucky
1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model
Famous Birthdays for 29th October 2018
1815 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856)
1899 – Akim Tamiroff, Armenian-Russian actor (Touch of Evil, For Whom the Bell Tolls), born in Tiflis, Russian Empire (d. 1972)
1913 – Eddie Constantine, American singer and actor (Alphaville, License to Kill, Lucky Jo, It Lives Again), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1993)
1925 – Robert Hardy, British actor (Harry Potter, All Creatures Great and Small), born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (d. 2017)
1935 – Isao Takahata, Japanese anime film director, screenwriter and producer (Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), born in Ujiyamada, Mie, Japan (d. 2018)
1940 – Galen Weston, English Canadian multi-millionaire industrialist
1960 – Michael Carter, shot putter (Olympic silver 1984), born in Dallas, Texas
1968 – Grayson McCouch, American actor (Morgan Winthrop-Another World), born in NYC, New York
1972 – Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress (Black-ish), born in Los Angeles, California
1984 – Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
Famous Birthdays for 28th October 2018
1466 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (The Praise of Folly), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1536)
1510 – Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
1801 – Karl Georg Lickl, composer
1914 – Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
1929 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (The French Connection), born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France (d. 1988)
1933 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
1952 – Annie Potts, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women), born in Nashville, Tennessee
1956 – Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
1980 – Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
1981 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer