October Famous Birthdays

Famous October Birthdays

 

Birthday Name
1207-10-01 Henry III  king of England 1216-72
1685-10-01 Charles VI  Holy Roman emperor 1711-40
1781-10-01 James Lawrence  naval hero “Dont give up the ship!”
1791-10-01 Sergey Aksakov  Russian novelist Chronicles of a Russian Family
1832-10-01 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison  1st wife of Benjamin Harrison
1881-10-01 William Edward Boeing  founded aircraft co
1893-10-01 Faith Baldwin  author
10/1/1904 Vladimir Horowitz  pianist
10/1/1907 Hiram Fong  Sen
10/1/1909 Sam Yorty  ex-mayor of LA
10/1/1911 Edward P. Boland  D-Rep-Mass
10/1/1920 Walter Matthau  Odd Couple
10/1/1921 James Whitmore  Actor Black Like Me
10/1/1924 William Rehnquist  chief justice
10/1/1924 Jimmy Earl Carter D 39th Pres 1977-1981
10/1/1927 Tom Bosley  Actor Happy Days
10/1/1928 George Peppard  Actor Breakfast at Tiffanys
10/1/1928 Laurence Harvey  Actor Alamo
10/1/1930 Richard Harris
10/1/1935 Julie Andrews  Actress & singer Sound of Music
10/1/1936 Stella Stevens  Actress Girls! Girls!
10/1/1936 Charles G. Fullerton  astronaut STS-3
10/1/1936 Edward Villella  American ballet dancer
10/1/1945 Rod Carew  baseball slugger
1851-10-02 Ferdinand Foch  believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
1869-10-02 Mahatma K Ghandi  pacifist Porbandar
1871-10-02 Cordell Hull  sec of state
1895-10-02 Groucho Marx  comedian
10/2/1904 Graham Greene  prolific English novelist Brighton Rock
10/2/1921 Robert Runcie  archbishop of Canterbury
10/2/1928 Spanky McFarland  Little Rascal
10/2/1932 Maury Wills  Dodger shortstop
10/2/1939 Yuri N. Glazkov  Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 24
10/2/1940 Rex Reed  movie critic
10/2/1945 Don McLean  singer
10/2/1948 Donna Karan  Actress
10/2/1951 Sting  Police
1605-10-03 Li Tzu-cheng  Chinese revolutionary
1800-10-03 George Bancroft  historian
1803-10-03 John Gorrie  invented cold-air process of refrigeration
1804-10-03 Townsend Harris  1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1814-10-03 Mikhail Lermontov  leading Russian Romantic poet
1859-10-03 Elenora Duse  in Italy
1888-10-03 Carl von Ossietzky  German journalist
1899-10-03 Gertrude Berg  Molly Goldberg
10/3/1925 Gore Vidal  writer Myra Breckinridge
10/3/1935 Charles M. Duke Jr  astronaut Apollo 16
10/3/1935 Eileen Brennan
10/3/1941 Chubby Checker  singer
10/3/1950 Pamela Hensley  in LA
10/3/1951 Dave Winfield  NY Yankee
10/3/1959 Jack Wagner  General Hospitals rocker
1289-10-04 Louis X  the Stubborn
1626-10-04 Richard Cromwell  lord protector of England 1658-59
1822-10-04 Rutherford B. Hayes  R
1850-10-04 John W. McGraw  R
1880-10-04 Damon Runyon  writer
1895-10-04 Buster Keaton  Actor The Navigator
10/4/1923 Charlton Heston  Moses Ben Hur
10/4/1931 Dick Tracy  crimestopper
10/4/1934 Sam Huff  NFL linebacker NY Giants
10/4/1941 Lori Saunders  in Kansas City Mo
10/4/1944 Patty LaBelle  singer
10/4/1946 Susan Sarandon  NYC Atlantic City
10/4/1949 Armand Assante
1713-10-05 Denis Diderot  encyclopedist
1829-10-05 Chester A  21st Pres 1881-85
1882-10-05 Robet Hutchings Goddard  rocket pioneer
1887-10-05 Rene Cassin  Nobel Peace Prize 1968
10/5/1905 Ray Kroc  who gave Ronald McDonald a job
10/5/1908 Joshua Logan  Broadway producer
10/5/1919 Donald Pleasance  Happy Halloween
10/5/1921 Bill Willis  AAFC
10/5/1923 Glynis Johns  in South Africa
10/5/1923 Philip Berrigan  militant priest
10/5/1929 Richard F. Gordon Jr.  U.S. astronaut Gemini 11
10/5/1930 Pavel R. Popovich  Soviet cosmonaut Vostok 4
10/5/1933 Diane Cilento  in Australia
10/5/1951 Karen Allen  in Illinois
10/5/1951 Bob Geldof  Band Aid organizer
1820-10-06 Jenny Lind  in Sweden
1831-10-06 Richard Dedekind  mathematician
1846-10-06 George Westinghouse  responsible for alternating current in US
1866-10-06 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden  broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1887-10-06 Mart┬ín Luis Guzm n  Mexican novelist The Eagle & the Serpent
1888-10-06 Li Ta-chao  cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
10/6/1906 Janet Gaynor  in Phila Sunrise
10/6/1909 Carol Lombard
10/6/1914 Thor Heyerdahl  anthropologist
10/6/1925 Shana Alexander  point-counterpoint journalist
10/6/1936 Anna Quayle
10/6/1942 Britt Ekland  in Sweden
10/6/1956 Stephanie Zimbalist  NYC Remington Steele
1849-10-07 James Whitcomb Riley  American poet The Raggedy Man
1879-10-07 Joe Hill  songwriter
1885-10-07 Niels Bohr  physicist
1888-10-07 Henry A. Wallace  D/P
10/7/1905 Jean Arthur  or 10-17-08
10/7/1916 Walt W. Rostow  economist
10/7/1917 June Allyson  Actress
10/7/1926 Diana Lynn
10/7/1927 Al Martino  singer
10/7/1931 Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu  Nobel Peace Prize 1982
10/7/1931 Desmond Tutu  Archbishop of South Africa
10/7/1943 Oliver North
10/7/1951 John Cougar Mellencamp  singer
10/7/1955 Yo-Yo Ma  cellist
10/7/1959 Judy Landers
1869-10-08 J Frank Duryea  invented 1st auto built & operated in the US
1873-10-08 Ejnar Hertzsprung  Danish astronomer Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
1890-10-08 Eddie Rickenbacker  aviator
1895-10-08 Juan Per┬ón  president of Argentina 1946-55
1897-10-08 Rouben Mamoulian  Movie director
10/8/1909 Bill Hewitt  NFL end Chicago Bears
10/8/1916 Spark Matsunaga  D-Ha-Sen
10/8/1920 Frank Herbert  sci-fi writer Dune
10/8/1930 James Olsen
10/8/1936 Rona Barrett  Gossip columnist & friend of Tom Snyder
10/8/1940 David Carradine
10/8/1941 Jesse Jackson  D
10/8/1943 Chevy Chase  comedian
10/8/1949 Sigourney Weaver  LA Alien
10/8/1951 Johnny Ramone  rock guitarist
1547-10-09 Miguel de Cervantes  novelist Don Quixote
1757-10-09 Charles X  reactionary king of France 1824-30; deposed
1835-10-09 Camille Saint-Sans  French composer
1890-10-09 Aimee Semple McPherson  Pentecostal evangelist
10/9/1906 Leopold Senghor  poet
10/9/1924 Robert Rushworth  X-15 pilot
10/9/1925 Robert Finch  Actor
10/9/1940 Joe Pepitone  baseball player
10/9/1940 Gordon Humphrey  R-NH
10/9/1940 John Lennon  Beatle
10/9/1945 Jeannie C Riley  in Texas
10/9/1948 Jackson Brown  rocker
10/9/1955 Steve Ovett  English track star
10/9/1959 Mike Singletary
10/9/1967 Carling Bassett  in Canada Tennis player
10/9/1975 Sean Lennon
1731-10-10 Henry Cavendish  English physicist
1738-10-10 Benjamin West  painter
1813-10-10 Giuseppe Verdi  composer of operas Rigoletto
1830-10-10 Emily Dickinson  poet
1861-10-10 Fridtjof Nansen  Norweg. Arctic explorer
1892-10-10 Ivo Andric  Yugoslav novelist Bridge on the Drina Nobel61
1895-10-10 Lin Yu-tang  Chinese writer My Country & My People
10/10/1900 Helen Hayes  Actress Caesar & Cleopatra
10/10/1924 James Clavell  author Tai Pan
10/10/1930 Harold Pinter  playwright
10/10/1930 Adlai Stevenson III  D-Sen-Ill
10/10/1946 Ben Vereen  dancer
10/10/1955 David Lee Roth  rocker
10/10/1958 Tanya Tucker  in Seminole Texas
1758-10-11 Wilhelm Olbers  discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta
1844-10-11 Henry John Heinz  founded a prepared-foods company
1884-10-11 Eleanor Roosevelt  crusader
1885-10-11 Francois Mauriac  French novelist
1897-10-11 George Preston Marshall  NFL team owner Washington Redskins
10/11/1900 Cal Hubbard  NFL tackle Giants
10/11/1906 Earl Dutch Clark  NFL quarterback Portsmouth Spartans
10/11/1910 Joseph Alsop  newspaper columnist
10/11/1918 Jerome Robbins  choreographer
10/11/1932 Dottie West  country singer
10/11/1937 Ron Leibman
10/11/1949 Daryl Hall  Rocker
1537-10-12 Edward VI  king of England 1547-53
1798-10-12 Pedro I  1st emperor of Brazil 1822-31
1860-10-12 Elmer Sperry  inventor of the gyrocompass
1866-10-12 Ramsay MacDonald  Labour
1872-10-12 Ralph Vaughan Williams  in England
1896-10-12 Eugenio Montale  Italian poet
10/12/1923 Jean Nidetch in Brooklyn  founder of Weight Watchers
10/12/1928 Spankey McFarland  Actor
10/12/1932 Dick Gregory  comedian-activist
10/12/1932 Jake Garn  R-Sen-Ut
10/12/1933 Joan Rivers
10/12/1935 Luciano Pavarotti  operatic tenor
10/12/1936 Tony Kubek  Yankee shortstop
10/12/1947 Chris Wallace  reporter
10/12/1950 Susan Anton  Actress-singer
10/12/1962 Sid Fernandez  Met Pitcher
1769-10-13 Horace H Hayden  cofounder of 1st dental college
1853-10-13 Lillie Langtry  the Jersey Lily
10/13/1909 Herblock Herbert L. Block  political cartoonist
10/13/1917 Burr Tillstrom  creator of Kukla
10/13/1918 Cornell Wilde  Actor
10/13/1920 Laraine Day
10/13/1921 Yves Montand  French Actor
10/13/1925 Nipsey Russel  comedian
10/13/1925 Margaret Thatcher Tory  British PM 1979-
10/13/1942 Art Garfunkel  built bridge over troubled waters
10/13/1942 Pamela Tiffin  in Oklahoma City
10/13/1959 Marie Osmond  in Ogden Utah
1633-10-14 James II  king of England 1685-88
1712-10-14 George Grenville  British prime minister 1763-65
1857-10-14 Elwood Haynes  auto pioneer
1874-10-14 Raymond Ewry  of U.S.
1890-10-14 Dwight D Eisenhower  R
1894-10-14 E. E. Cummings  poet
1896-10-14 Lillian Gish  silent film & stage Actress Birth of a Nation
10/14/1926 Roger Moore  thesaintly James Bond
10/14/1938 John Dean III  former White House counsel
10/14/1947 Charlie Joiner  NFL wide receiver Houston
10/14/1950 Sheila Young Ochowitz  US Olympic speed skater
10/14/1952 Nikolai Adrianov  Soviet Olympic gymnast
0070-10-15 Virgil  Mantua
1542-10-15 Akbar  Indian Mughal emperor 1556-1605
1785-10-15 Jose Miguel Carrera  president of Chile 1811-14
1829-10-15 Asaph Hall  discoverer of the moons of Mars
1844-10-15 Friedrich Nietzsche  ┼íbermensch
1858-10-15 John L. Sullivan  heavyweight champ 1882-92
10/15/1900 Mervyn Le Roy  movie producer
10/15/1905 C P Snow  British novelist & scientist
10/15/1908 John Kenneth Galbraith  economist
10/15/1917 Arthur Schlesinger Jr.  historian
10/15/1921 Mario Puzo  author Godfather
10/15/1924 Lee Iacocca  CEO of Chrysler Corp
10/15/1926 Jean Peters  Actress
10/15/1937 Linda Lavin  in Portland Maine – Alice TV show
10/15/1942 Penny Marshall  NYC Laverne & Shirley former Mrs Rob Reiner
10/15/1945 Jim Palmer  baseball player
10/15/1946 Richard Carpenter  Carpenters
10/15/1959 Princess Sarah Ferguson  Fergie
1708-10-16 Albrecht von Haller  the father of experimental physiology
1758-10-16 Noah Webster  lexicographer
1792-10-16 Francisco Moraz n  Liberal
1854-10-16 Oscar Wilde  Fingal OFlahertie Wills – Dublin
1863-10-16 Sir Austen Chamberlain  British foreign secretary Nobel 1925
1888-10-16 Eugene ONeill  dramatist Desire Under the Elms Nobel 1936
1890-10-16 Paul Strand  photographer
1898-10-16 William O. Douglas  former Supreme Court justice
10/16/1908 Enver Hoxha  post-war leader of Albania
10/16/1921 Linda Darnell
10/16/1925 Angela Lansbury  Actress Murder She Wrote
10/16/1927 Gunter Grass  German novelist
10/16/1931 Charles W. Colson  pres adviser
10/16/1946 Suzanne Somers  Actress 3s Co in San Bruno Calif
1835-10-17 Alexandrine-Pieternella Tinne  explored the White Nile
1893-10-17 Spring Byington
10/17/1903 Irene Ryan  in El Paso Texas
10/17/1915 Arthur Miller  playwright Death of a Salesman
10/17/1919 Rita Hayworth  in NY Alzheimer victim
10/17/1921 Tom Poston  comedian
10/17/1928 Julie Adams  in Iowa
10/17/1929 Beverly Garland  in Santa Cruz California
10/17/1930 Jimmy Breslin  newspaperman & raconteur
10/17/1933 William A. Anders  astronaut Apollo 8
10/17/1938 RobertEvel Knievel  motorcycle daredevil
10/17/1945 Dave Cutler  CFL place kicker Edmonton Eskimos
10/17/1946 Bob Seagren  pole vaulter
10/17/1947 Charles A. Ingene  macromarketing researcher
10/17/1948 Margot Kidder  in Yellowknife – Lois Lane
10/17/1949 George Wendt  cheers
1777-10-18 Heinrich von Kleist  German dramatist
1859-10-18 Henri Bergson  French philosopher Creative Evolution Nobel 1927
1878-10-18 James Truslow Adams  historian
10/18/1919 Pierre Elliot Trudeau  L
10/18/1921 Jesse Helms R-NC-Sen  right-wing
10/18/1922 Richard Stankiewicz  U.S. sculptor
10/18/1925 Melina Mercouri  in Athens Greece
10/18/1926 Chuck Berry  Rockn roll star
10/18/1927 George C. Scott  Actor Patton
10/18/1928 Keith Jackson  Sportscaster
10/18/1930 Frank Carlucci  National Security Adviser
10/18/1933 Forrest Gregg  NFL tackle Green Bay Packers
10/18/1933 Peter Boyle  Actor
10/18/1934 Inger Stevens  in Sweden
10/18/1939 Mike Ditka  tight end for Bears
10/18/1947 John Johnson  Seattle SuperSonic
10/18/1947 Laura Nyro  in Bronx
10/18/1952 Pam Dawber  Detroit – Mindy of Mork & Mindy
1632-10-19 Christopher Wren  English astronomer & architect
1862-10-19 Auguste Lumire  made 1st movie Workers Leaving Lumire FActory
1882-10-19 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius  Lithuanian poet
1895-10-19 Louis Mumford  cultural historian
1899-10-19 Miguel Asturias  Guatemalan poet
10/19/1909 Robert Beatty  Actor
10/19/1910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  Indian physicist Nobel 1983
10/19/1920 LaWanda Page  in Cleve Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons
10/19/1922 Jack Anderson  columnist
10/19/1931 John Le Carre  English spy novelist Little Drummer Girl
10/19/1932 Robert Reed  Actor
10/19/1945 John Lithgow  Actor
10/19/1967 Amy Carter  daughter of Pres Carter
1632-10-20 Sir Christopher Wren  astronomer
1812-10-20 Austin Flint  19th century heart research. pioneer
1819-10-20 Mirza Ali Mohammad  The Bab
1823-10-20 Thomas Hughes  British author Tom Browns School Days
1854-10-20 Arthur Rimbaud  French poet
1859-10-20 John Dewey  philosopher
1874-10-20 Charles Ives  composer
10/20/1900 Wayne Morse  R/D-Sen-Ore
10/20/1908 Arlene Francis  in Boston Mass
10/20/1911 Will Rogers Jr.  Actor
10/20/1923 Herschel Bernardi  Actor
10/20/1925 Art Buchwald  columnist
10/20/1931 Mickey Mantle  NY Yankee
10/20/1932 Roosevelt Brown  NFL offensive tackle NY Giants
10/20/1932 William Christopher  Actor
10/20/1935 Jerry Orbach
10/20/1937 Juan Marichal  baseball player
10/20/1953 Keith Hernandez
1772-10-21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge  in England
1833-10-21 Alfred Bernhard Nobel  Stockholm
10/21/1912 Sir Georg Solti  conductor
10/21/1914 Martin Gardner  Scientific American math & puzzles columnist
10/21/1917 Dizzy Gillespie  trumpeter
10/21/1928 Whitey Ford  NY Yankee pitcher
10/21/1933 Georgia Brown
10/21/1940 Manfred Mann  rocker
10/21/1945 Kathy Young
10/21/1953 Charlotte Caffey  GoGos
10/21/1956 Carrie Fisher  in Beverly Hills – Star Wars Princess Lelia
10/21/1971 Jade Jagger  daughter of Mick Jagger
1811-10-22 Franz Liszt  Hungary
1845-10-22 Sarah Bernhardt  Actress
1870-10-22 Ivan Bunin  Russian poet
1880-10-22 Joe Carr  president of the NFL
1887-10-22 John Reed  journalist who reported on Mexican
10/22/1906 Sidney Kingsley  author
10/22/1917 Joan Fontaine  Actress
10/22/1919 Doris Lessing  novelist The Golden Notebook
10/22/1920 Timothy Leary
10/22/1920 Mitzi Green
10/22/1922 John Chafee  R-RI-Sen
10/22/1923 Pete Pihos  NFL end Phil Eagles
10/22/1925 Robert Rauschenberg  painter
10/22/1929 Dory Previn  singer
10/22/1938 Derek Jacobi
10/22/1938 Christopher Lloyd  Rev. Jim-Taxi
10/22/1939 Tony Roberts
10/22/1942 Annette Funichello  in Utica NY
10/22/1943 Catherine Deneuve  in Paris Repulsion
10/22/1952 Jeff Goldblum  Actor
1752-10-23 Nicolas Appert  inventor of food canning
1835-10-23 Adlai Stevenson  D
1844-10-23 Robert Bridges  poet laureate of England The Testament of Beauty
1844-10-23 Louis Riel  leader of insurrection of Metis in Manitoba
10/23/1905 Karl Jansky  discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
10/23/1905 Felix Bloch  U.S. physicist Nobel 1952
10/23/1914 Frank Bruiser Kinard  NFL
10/23/1922 Coleen Gray  in Staplehurst Nebraska
10/23/1925 Johnny Carson  Tonight Show host
10/23/1931 Diana Dors  in England
10/23/1938 John Heinz  R-Pa-Sen
10/23/1940 Edison Pele  soccer player extraordinaire
10/23/1942 Michael Crichton  Andromeda Strain
10/23/1956 Darrell Pace  U.S. Olympic archer
1632-10-24 Antony van Leeuwenhoek  Dutch naturalist
10/24/1904 Moss Hart  playwright
10/24/1911 Clarence M. Kelley  FBI head
10/24/1926 Y.A. Tittle  AAFC
10/24/1936 David Nelson  Actor
10/24/1940 F. Murray Abraham  Actor Amadeus
10/24/1947 Kevin Kline
1759-10-25 Baron Grenville  Whig
1825-10-25 Johann Strauss  the Younger Waltz King
1838-10-25 Georges Bizet  composer
1843-10-25 Gleb Uspensky  Russian author Power of the Soil
1877-10-25 Henry Norris Russell  astronomer Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
1881-10-25 Pablo Picasso  doodler Guernica or 10-05
1884-10-25 Eduardo Barrios  Chilean novelist The Love-Crazed Boy
1888-10-25 Richard E Byrd  polar explorer
10/25/1902 Henry Steele Commager  historian
10/25/1909 Whit Bissell  Actor
10/25/1912 Minnie Pearl  in Tenn Grand Old Oprey
10/25/1912 Sarah Ophelia Colley  better known as Minnie Pearl
10/25/1926 Galina Vishnevskaya  Russian soprano
10/25/1927 Barbara Cook  in Atlanta Ga
10/25/1928 Marion Ross  in Minn Happy Days
10/25/1928 Tony Franciosa  Actor
10/25/1931 Annie Giradot  in Paris
10/25/1935 Russell L. Rusty Schweickart  astronaut Apollo 9
10/25/1941 Helen Reddy  in Melbourne Australia I am Woman
1466-10-26 Desiderius Erasmus  Dutch scholar
1759-10-26 Georges Danton  French Revolutionary leader
1855-10-26 Charles Post  who had a way with breakfast cereals
10/26/1911 Sid Gillman  NFL coach LA
10/26/1916 Francois Mitterrand  French President
10/26/1917 Felix the cat  cartoon character
10/26/1919 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi  shah of Iran 1941-79
10/26/1933 Suzy Parker  in San Antonio Texas
10/26/1947 Lynn Anderson  in North Dakota
10/26/1948 Jaclyn Smith  in Houston Texas Charlies Angel
10/26/1954 Lauren Tewes  Love Boat
1728-10-27 Capt. James Cook  discovered Sandwich Islands
1782-10-27 Niccolo Paganini  composer
1811-10-27 Issac Merrit Singer  invented 1st practical home sewing machine
1844-10-27 Klas Arnoldson  Swedish politician
1858-10-27 Theodore Roosevelt  26th Pres 1901-09 Nobel 1906
1872-10-27 Emily Post  authority on social behavior
10/27/1910 Freddie DeCordova  film & TV producer The Tonight Show
10/27/1914 Dylan Thomas  poet A Childs Christmas in Wales
10/27/1917 Oliver Tambo  leader of African National Congress
10/27/1918 Teresa Wright  in NYC
10/27/1920 Nanette Fabray  in San Diego Calif
10/27/1924 Ruby Dee  in Cleve
10/27/1926 H.R. Haldeman  former White House Chief of Staff – Watergate figure
10/27/1930 Bill George  NFL linebacker Chicago Bears
10/27/1939 John Cleese  Monty Python
10/27/1945 Carrie Snodgress  in Park Ridge Illinois
10/27/1951 Jayne Kennedy  entertainer
10/27/1958 Simon Le Bon  disco king
1017-10-28 Henry III  Holy Roman emperor 1046-56
1466-10-28 Erasmus  scholar
1585-10-28 Cornelius Otto Jansen  of France
1846-10-28 Auguste Escoffier  king of chefs & chef of kings
10/28/1902 Elsa Lanchaster  in England – The Bride of Frankenstein
10/28/1907 Edith Head  Fashion designer
10/28/1914 Dr Jonas Salk  who made polio a fear of the past
10/28/1926 Bowie Kuhn  former baseball commissioner
10/28/1929 Dody Goodman  in Columbus Ohio
10/28/1929 Joan Plowright  English Actress
10/28/1936 Charlie Daniels  country music star
10/28/1937 Lenny Wilkins  NBA player
10/28/1939 Jane Alexander  Actress The Betsy
10/28/1940 Gennadi M. Strekalov  Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz T-3
10/28/1944 Coluche  French comedian
10/28/1948 Thelma Hopkins  in Lousiville Kentucky – Sung backup for Tony Orlando
10/28/1949 Bruce Jenner  Decathalon champ
10/28/1959 Walther Bauersfeld  1919 invented 1st modern projection planetarium
1656-10-29 Edmund Halley  in London
1740-10-29 James Boswell  in Scotland
1873-10-29 Guillermo Valencia  Colombian poet
1875-10-29 Marie  queen consort of Ferdinand I of Rumania
1884-10-29 Bela Lugosi  horror Actor Dracula
1891-10-29 Fanny Brice  singing comedienne Ziegeld Follies
1897-10-29 Paul Joseph Goebbels  Nazi propagandist
10/29/1910 Alfred J. Ayer  English Neopositivist philosopher
10/29/1921 Bill Mauldin  political cartoonist
10/29/1926 Jon Vickers  Canadian tenor
10/29/1945 Melba Moore  in NYC
10/29/1947 Richard Dreyfuss  Actor Jaws
10/29/1948 Kate Jackson  Alabama Charleys Angels
1632-10-30 Richard Brinsley Sheridan  playwright Rivals
1735-10-30 John Adams  F
1871-10-30 Paul Valery  French poet
1873-10-30 Francisco Madero  Mexican revolutionary
1885-10-30 Ezra Pound  in Hailey
1896-10-30 Ruth Gordon  Mass Rosemarys Baby
10/30/1919 Jane Randolph  Sung backup for Tony Orlando
10/30/1932 Louis Malle  film director
10/30/1937 Claude Lelouch  Movie director
10/30/1939 Grace Slick  rock singer Jefferson Starship
10/30/1943 Talia Shire  Adrianne-Rocky
10/30/1945 Henry Winkler  TV Actor Fonz
1632-10-31 Jan Vermeer  Dutch painter Procuress
1795-10-31 John Keats  Romantic poet
1815-10-31 Karl Weierstrass  German mathematician theory of functions
1860-10-31 Juliette Gordon Low  Girl Scout founder
1897-10-31 Wilbur Pete Henry  NFL tackle Canton
10/31/1912 Dale Evans  in Uvalde Texas aka Mrs Roy Rodgers
10/31/1922 Barbara Bel Geddes  Dallas
10/31/1930 Michael Collins  astronaut Gemini 10
10/31/1931 Dan Rather  CBS anchorman Whats the frequency Kenneth? Courage!
10/31/1931 Lee Grant  in NYC
10/31/1936 Michael Landon  an acting angel
10/31/1939 Melinda Dillon
10/31/1942 David Ogden Stiers  Actor
10/31/1947 Frank Shorter  runner
10/31/1950 Jane Pauley  in Indianapolis Indiana – Good Morning