October 1, 1920-  Walter Matthau, actor

October 1, 1921-  James Whitmore, actor

October 1, 1924-  Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President (1977-1981)

October 1, 1924-  William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

October 1, 1927-  Tom Bosley, actor

October 1, 1928-  George Peppard, actor, the leader in TV series “A-Team”

October 1, 1935-  Julie Andrews, actress, singer, “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music”

October 1, 1950-  Randy Quaid, actor, “cousin “Eddy” in “Vacation” movies

October 1, 1963-  Mark McGwire, MLB baseball slugger, home run record holder

October 2, 1869-  Mahatma Ghandi, India Hindu leader, taught “non-violence”

October 2, 1890-  Groucho Marx, comedian, “Marx Brothers”

October 2, 1895-  Bud Abbott, comedian, comedy team “Abbott & Costello”

October 2, 1928-  George McFarland, actor “Spanky” on “Spanky and Our Gang”

October 2, 1937-  Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., attorney

October 2, 1945-  Don McLean, singer, songwriter

October 2, 1951-  Gordon Sumner, musician, songwriter “Sting”

October 2, 1970-  Kelly Ripa, actress, talk show hostess

October 3, 1902-  Harvey Kurtzman, created “Mad” magazine

October 3, 1941-  Chubby Checker, singer, musician

October 3, 1954-  Al Sharpton, American minister, activist, talk show host

October 3, 1959-  Jack Wagner, actor

October 3, 1969-  Gwen Stefani, singer, songwriter

October 4, 1181-  St. Francis of Assisi, Catholic religious leader

October 4, 1822-  Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877-1881)

October 4, 1861-  Frederic Remington, painter, sculptor

October 4, 1895-  Buster Keaton, comedian

October 4, 1923-  Charlton Heston, Oscar winning actor

October 4, 1941-  Jackie Collins, author

October 4, 1946-  Susan Sarandon, actress

October 4, 1976-  Alicia Silverstone, actress

October 4, 1989-  Dakota Johnson, U.S. actress

October 5, 1829-  Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. President (1881-1885)

October 5, 1882-  Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of the Space Age

October 5, 1902-  Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s

October 5, 1923-  Glynis Johns, actress, played in “Mary Poppins”

October 5, 1963-  Laura Davies, LPGA golfer

October 5, 1965-  Mario Lemieux, NHL hockey player

October 5, 1975-  Kate Winslet, actress, “Rose” in movie “Titanic”

October 6, 1846-  George Westinghouse, engineer, inventor, developed AC electric power

October 6, 1906-  Janet Gaynor, actress

October 6, 1914-  Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer

October 6, 1956-  Stephanie Zimbalist, actress

October 6, 1963-  Elisabeth Shue, actress

October 7, 1917-  June Allyson, actress

October 7, 1931-  Desmond Tutu, archbishop, won Nobel Peace Prize

October 7, 1943-  Oliver North, National Security Council

October 7, 1951-  John Mellencamp, singer

October 7, 1952-  Vladimir Putin-  Russian leader

October 7, 1959-  Simon Cowell, judge on “American Idol”

October 7, 1966-  Toni Braxton, singer

October 8, 1890-  “Eddie” Rickenbacker, WWI flying ace

October 8, 1936-  David Carradine, actor

October 8, 1939-  Paul Hogan, actor “crocodile Dundee”.

October 8, 1941-  Jesse Jackson, civil right leader

October 8, 1943-  Chevy Chase, actor, comedian, SNL, “Vacation” movies

October 8, 1943-  R. L. Stine, author of children’s books

October 8, 1949-  Sigourney Weaver, actress, “Ellen Ripley” in movie “Alien”

October 8, 1956-  Stephanie Zimbalist, actress, starred in “Remington Steele”

October 8, 1970-  Matt Damon, actor

Octoer 8, 1980-  Nick Cannon, American actor, rapper, TV host.

October 8, 1985-  Bruno Mars, singer.

October 9, 1938-  Russell Myers, cartoonist, created “Broom Hilda”

October 9, 1940-  John Lennon, singer, songwriter, musician, member of the “Beatles”

October 9, 1948-  Jackson Browne, singer, songwriter

October 9, 1953-  Sharon Osbourne, actress, wife of Ozzie Osbourne

October 9, 1954-  Scott Bakula, American actor, “Star Trek”, “NCI New Orleans”

October 9, 1955-  Scott Bakula, actor, TV series “Quantum Leap” and “Star Trek- Enterprise”

October 9, 1981-  Zacary Ty Bryan, actor, “Brad” on TV series “Home Improvement”

October 10, 1900-  Helen Hayes, actress

October 10, 1914-  Dorothy Lamour, actress

October 10, 1946-  Ben Vereen, actor, singer

October 10, 1958-  Tanya Tucker, singer

October 10, 1969-  Brett Favre, NRL Green Bay Packers quarterback

October 10, 1974-  Dale Earnhardt Jr, auto racer

October 11, 1844-  Henry John Heinz, founded Heinz Ketchup company

October 11, 1884-  Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt

October 11, 1932-  Dottie West, singer

October 11, 1937-  Ron Leibman, actor

October 11, 1948-  Daryl Hall, musician, singer

October 11, 1961-  Steve Young, NFL San Francisco 49er’s quarterback

October 11, 1962-  Joan Cusack, actress

October 11, 1966-  Luke Perry, actor

October 12, 1935-  Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer

October 12, 1947-  Chris Wallace, TV news correspondent

October 12, 1950-  Susan Anton, actress, singer

October 12, 1950-  Ronald McNair, astronaut, physicist, died in Challenger space shuttle explosion

October 12, 1970-  Kirk Cameron, actor

October12, 1975-  Marion Jones, Olympic track star

October 13, 1925-  Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of England

October 13, 1941-  Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, “Simon & Garfunkel”

October 13, 1949-  Sammy Hagar, singer, musician

October 13, 1957-  Chris Carter, created “The X-Files”

October 13, 1959-  Marie Osmond, actress, singer * Brother-Sister duo “Donny & Marie”

October 13, 1962-  Jerry Rice, NFL San Francisco 49ers wide receiver

October 13, 1969-  Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic figure skater

October 13, 1980-  Ashanti, singer, songwriter

October 14, 1644-  William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania

October 14, 1890-  Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President (1953-1961)

October 14, 1894-  E. E. Cummings, poet

October 14, 1916-  C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General

October 14, 1927-  Roger Moore, actor , played “James Bond” in seven movies.

October 14, 1938-  John Dean, Nixon White House counsel during Watergate

October 14, 1939-  Ralph Lauren, fashion designer

October 14, 1979-  Usher, Rap singer

October 15, 1908-  John Kenneth Galbraith, economist

October 15, 1917-  Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian

October 15, 1920-  Mario Puzo, novelist, wrote “The Godfather”

October 15, 1924-  Lee Iacocca, Chrysler auto executive, led turnaround of company

October 15, 1943-  Penny Marshall, actress, director

October 15, 1946-  Richard Carpenter, singer, with sister Karen Carpenter

October 15, 1959-  Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, and first wife of Prince Andrew

October 15, 1959-  Emeril Lagasse, TV chef

October 15, 1969-  Vanessa Marcil- actress, TV soap opera “General Hospital”

October 16, 1758-  Noah Webster- compiled first American English dictionary

October 16, 1854-  Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright

October 16, 1886-  David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel

October 16, 1898-  William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice

October 16, 1925-  Angela Lansbury, actress, “Murder, She Wrote”

October 16, 1946-  Suzanne Somers, actress, “Chrissy” on TV series “Three’s Company”

October 16, 1958-  Tim Robbins, actor, director

October 16, 1975-  Kellie Martin, actress

October 17, 1912-  Pope John Paul I, pope for just 34 days in 1978

October 17, 1918-  Rita Hayworth, actress

October 17, 1938-  Evel Knievel, motorcycle daredevil

October 17, 1948-  Margot Kidder, actress

October 17, 1948-  George Wendt, actor

October 17, 1963-  Norm McDonald- actor, “SNL”

October 17, 1972-  Eminem, Rap singer

October 18, 1926-  Chuck Berry, singer, songwriter, starred in movie “Patton”

October 18, 1939-  Mike Ditka, NFL Chicago Bears head coach

October 18, 1939-  Lee Harvey Oswald, assassinated President John F. Kennedy

October 18, 1956-  Martina Navratilova, Hall of Fame tennis champion

October 18, 1960-  Jean-Claude Von Damme, actor

October 19, 1922-  Jack Anderson, columnist, journalist

October 19, 1932-  Robert Reed, played the dad on TV series “The Brady Bunch”

October 19, 1945-  John Lithgow, actor , comedian

October 19, 1962-  Evander Holyfield, champion heavyweight boxer

October 20, 1882-  Bela Lugosi, actor, played “Dracula”

October 20, 1925-  Art Buchwald, humorist

October 20, 1931-  Mickey Mantle, MLB baseball slugger

October 20, 1935-  Jerry Ohrbach, actor

October 20, 1953-  Tom Petty, singer

October 20, 1972-  Snoop Dogg, Rap singer

October 21, 1833-  Alfred Nobel, chemist, engineer, established Nobel Prizes

October 21, 1917-  Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet player, bandleader

October 21, 1929-  Whitey Ford, Hall of Fame MLB baseball pitcher

October 21, 1956-  Carrie Fisher, actress, “Princess Leia” in “Star Wars”

October 21, 1980-  Kim Kardashian, television personality

October 22, 1903-  Curly Howard, actor, comedian, one of the “Three Stooges”

October 22, 1917-  Joan Fontaine, actress

October 22, 1920-  Timothy Leary, psychologist, Harvard professor, and 60’s guru

October 22, 1938-  Christopher Lloyd, actor

October 22, 1942-  Annette Funicello, actress, singer, beach movies

October 22, 1943-  Catherine Deneuve, actress

October 22, 1963-  Brian Boitano, Olympic champion figure skater

October 22, 1968-  Shaggy, Reggae/pop singer, sang “It wasn’t Me”

October 23, 1893-  Gummo Marx, agent for the “Marx Brothers”

October 23, 1906-  Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel

October 23, 1925-  Johnny Carson, Talk show host, “The Tonight Show”. Tv Talk Show Host Day

October 23, 1935-  Chi Chi Rodriguez, professional golfer

October 23, 1940-  Pelé, soccer player

October 23, 1942-  Michael Crichton, novelist, wrote “Jurrasic Park”

October 23, 1959-  “Weird Al” Yankovic, singer, comedian

October 23, 1962-  Doug Flutie, CFL and NFL quarterback

October 24, 1926-  Y. A. Tittle, NFL quarterback

October 24, 1930-  J.P. Richardson, singer, the “Big Bopper”, sang “Chantilly Lace”

October 24, 1936-  David Nelson, actor, son of Ozzie and Harriet on TV series “The Nelsons”

October 24, 1947-  Kevin Kline, actor

October 24, 1980-  Monica Arnold, singer

October 25, 1881-  Pablo Picasso, the greatest artist of the 20th century.

October 25, 1888-  Richard E. Byrd, aviator, Antarctic explorer

October 25, 1912-  Minnie Pearl, singer, entertainer, Grand Ole Opry star

October 25, 1940-  Bobby Knight, College basketball coach

October 25, 1941-  Helen Reddy, singer

October 25, 1941-  Anne Tyler, novelist

October 25, 1984-  Katy Perry, born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, pop music superstar

October 26, 1879-  Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist leader

October 26, 1914-  Jackie Coogan, “Uncle Fester” on TV series “The Addams Family”

October 26, 1946-  Pat Sajak, TV game-show host , “Wheel of Fortune”

October 26, 1947-  Jaclyn Smith, actress, K-Mart fashion line, TV series “Charlie’s Angels”

October 26, 1947-  Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady, NY Senator, Secretary of State

October 26, 1954-  Lauren Tewes, actress

October 26, 1962-  Dylan McDermott, actor

October 26, 1963-  Natalie Merchant, singer

October 27, 1858-  Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U. S President, Quote: “Walk softly and carry a big stick” (1901-1909)

October 27, 1872-  Emily Post, etiquette expert

October 27, 1914-  Dylan Thomas, poet

October 27, 1920- Nanette Fabray, actress

October 27, 1940- John Gotti, crime boss

October 27, 1956- Patty Sheehan, LPGA golfer

October 28, 1914- Jonas Salk, physician, developed polio vaccine

October 28, 1936-  Charlie Daniels, singer, songwriter, musician

October 28, 1939-  Jane Alexander, actress

October 28, 1944-  Dennis Franz, actor, “NYPD Blue”

October 28, 1949-  Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon champion

October 28, 1955-  Bill Gates, Microsoft executive, multi-multi billionaire

October 28, 1967-  Julia Roberts, actress, “Pretty Woman”, “My Best Friends’ Wedding”, many more

October 28, 1972-  Brad Paisley, Country music superstar

October 29, 1891- Fanny Brice, entertainer, comedianne

October 29, 1947-  Richard Dreyfuss, Oscar winning actor

October 29, 1948-  Kate Jackson, actress

October 29, 1971-  Winon Ryder, actress

October 30, 1735-  John Adams, second U.S. President (1797-1801)

October 30, 1882-  William “Bull” Halsey, World War II Pacific Fleet Commander

October 30, 1885-  Ezra Pound, poet

October 30, 1945-  Henry Winkler, actor

October 30, 1951-  Harry Hamlin, actor

October 31, 1795-  John Keats, poet

October 31, 1860-  Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of America

October 31, 1887-  Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese leader

October 31, 1912-  Dale Evans, the “Queen of the West”, born Frances Octavia Smith

October 31, 1922-  Barbara Bel Geddes, actress

October 31, 1931-  Dan Rather, TV News Anchorman

October 31, 1936-  Michael Landon, actor

October 31, 1950-  John Candy, actor, comedian

October 31, 1950-  Jane Pauley, TV journalist

October 31, 1963-  Dermot Mulroney, actor

October 31, 1967-  Vanilla Ice, singer, actor