October 5 - Births

Births

• 1338 – Alexios III of Trebizond (d. 1390)
• 1520 – Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
• 1641 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
• 1658 – Mary of Modena (d. 1718)
• 1695 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
• 1703 – Jonathan Edwards, American minister and theologian (d. 1758)
• 1712 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
• 1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784)
• 1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
• 1717 – Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
• 1743 – Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer (d. 1818)
• 1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
• 1792 – Joseph Crosfield, English businessman (d. 1844)
• 1795 – Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian brewer and politician, 13th Mayor of Halifax (d. 1873)
• 1820 – David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
• 1824 – Henry Chadwick, English-American author and historian (d. 1908)
• 1829 – Chester A. Arthur, American politician, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
• 1844 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
• 1848 – Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist and poet (d. 1919)
• 1850 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910)
• 1857 – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish author (d. 1942)
• 1858 – Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist, survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1949)
• 1864 – Louis Lumière, French director and producer (d. 1948)
• 1873 – Lucien Mérignac, French fencer (d. 1941)
• 1878 – Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1881 – Robert Stangland, American jumper (d. 1953)
• 1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor (d. 1945)
• 1887 – René Cassin, French jurist and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
• 1889 – Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan author (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
• 1894 – Bevil Rudd, South African runner (d. 1948)
• 1898 – Nachum Gutman, Israeli painter (d. 1980)
• 1899 – Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1963)
• 1901 – John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
• 1902 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Ray Kroc, American businessman (d. 1984)
• 1903 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
• 1905 – John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1907 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1909 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1911 – Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist (d. 2011)
• 1911 – Brian O'Nolan, Irish author and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1912 – Fritz Fischer, German nazi doctor (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Eugene Bennett Fluckey American navy commander (d. 2007)
• 1916 – Stetson Kennedy, American author and activist (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian author (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Robin Bailey, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1922 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
• 1922 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
• 1923 – Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Stig Dagerman, Swedish author and journalist (d. 1954)
• 1923 – Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Glynis Johns, South African-Welsh actress, singer, and dancer
• 1923 – Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Bill Dana, American actor and screenwriter
• 1924 – José Donoso, Chilean author (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Barbara Kelly, Canadian-English actress (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Avraham Adan, Israeli general (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer (d. 1979)
• 1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
• 1929 – Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American captain and astronaut
• 1929 – Bill Wirtz, American businessman (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet astronaut (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1932 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian diplomat
• 1935 – Arlene Saunders, American soprano
• 1936 – Václav Havel, Czech politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Barry Switzer, American football coach
• 1938 – Teresa Heinz Kerry, American businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian author and playwright
• 1939 – Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress
• 1939 – Walter Wolf, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Walter Wolf Racing
• 1939 – Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino jurist
• 1940 – Thom Christopher, American actor
• 1940 – John Byrne Cooke, American author and photographer
• 1940 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress
• 1941 – Roy Book Binder, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 – Eduardo Duhalde, Argentine lawyer and politician, 50th President of Argentina
• 1942 – Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations)
• 1943 – Ben Cardin, American politician
• 1943 – Steve Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steve Miller Band)
• 1945 – Brian Connolly, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sweet) (d. 1997)
• 1945 – Geoff Leigh, English saxophone player (Henry Cow)
• 1946 – Zahida Hina, Pakistani journalist and author
• 1946 – Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1947 – Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter (AC/DC and Geordie)
• 1947 – Michèle Pierre-Louis, Haitian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1948 – Carter Cornelius, American singer (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (d. 1991)
• 1948 – Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
• 1948 – Zoran Živković, Serbian author
• 1949 – Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
• 1949 – Bill James, American historian and author
• 1949 – B. W. Stevenson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
• 1950 – Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead and Fastway)
• 1950 – Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1950 – James Rizzi, American painter (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Karen Allen, American actress
• 1951 – Bob Geldof, Irish singer-songwriter, actor, and author (The Boomtown Rats)
• 1952 – Clive Barker, English author and director
• 1952 – Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
• 1952 – Gigi Sabani, Italian television host and singer (d. 2007)
• 1955 – John Alexander, English footballer
• 1955 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Caroline Loeb, French actress and singer
• 1955 – Ángela Molina, Spanish actress
• 1957 – Mark Geragos, American lawyer
• 1957 – Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist (Madness and The Dance Brigade)
• 1957 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
• 1958 – André Kuipers, Dutch physician and astronaut
• 1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist
• 1959 – Maya Lin, American architect and sculptor, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Civil Rights Memorial
• 1959 – Kelly Joe Phelps, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 – Careca, Brazilian footballer
• 1960 – Daniel Baldwin, American actor, director, and producer
• 1960 – David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player
• 1960 – David Shannon, American author
• 1960 – Evangelia Tzampazi, Greek politician
• 1961 – Sharon Cheslow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chalk Circle)
• 1961 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist
• 1962 – Michael Andretti, American race car driver
• 1962 – Thomas Herbst, German footballer
• 1962 – Caron Keating, English television host (d. 2004)
• 1963 – Laura Davies, English golfer
• 1963 – Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater
• 1964 – Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
• 1964 – Philip A. Haigh, Writer and Historian
• 1964 – Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
• 1965 – Trace Armstrong, American football player
• 1965 – Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Dennis Byrd, American football player
• 1966 – Sean M. Carroll, American cosmologist
• 1966 – Terri Runnels, American wrestler and manager
• 1966 – Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
• 1967 – Rex Chapman, American basketball player
• 1967 – Guy Pearce, English-Australian actor and singer
• 1970 – Josie Bissett, American actress
• 1970 – Matthew Knights, Australian footballer
• 1970 – Audie Pitre, American singer and bass player (Acid Bath) (d. 1997)
• 1970 – Cal Wilson, New Zealand comedian and actress
• 1971 – South Park Mexican, American rapper, founded Dope House Records
• 1971 – Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine footballer
• 1971 – Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor and singer
• 1972 – Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball player
• 1972 – Grant Hill, American basketball player
• 1972 – Thomas Roberts, American journalist
• 1974 – Rich Franklin, American mixed martial artist
• 1974 – Heather Headley, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1974 – Colin Meloy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Decemberists, Tarkio, and Happy Cactus)
• 1974 – Anousjka van Exel, Dutch tennis player
• 1974 – Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
• 1975 – Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
• 1975 – Carson Ellis, American illustrator
• 1975 – Christian Fährmann, German footballer
• 1975 – Parminder Nagra, English actress
• 1975 – Monica Rial American voice actress, director, and scriptwriter
• 1975 – Scott Weinger American actor and producer
• 1975 – Kate Winslet, English actress and singer
• 1976 – Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic
• 1976 – Song Seung-heon, South Korean actor
• 1976 – Royston Tan, Singaporean screenwriter and director
• 1976 – J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
• 1977 – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic cartoonist, scriptwriter, and critic
• 1977 – Vinnie Paz, American rapper
• 1978 – Jesse Palmer, Canadian-American football player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Shane Ryan, Irish footballer
• 1978 – James Valentine, American guitarist (Maroon 5 and JJAMZ)
• 1978 – Morgan Webb, Canadian-American television host and producer
• 1979 – Vince Grella, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Joe Lipari, American comedian, radio host, and director
• 1979 – Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Paul Thomas, American bass player (Good Charlotte)
• 1980 – James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
• 1981 – Andy Nägelein, German footballer
• 1981 – Kelvin Tan, Singaporean singer
• 1982 – Brandi Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (Blaque)
• 1982 – Steve Williams, Australian-German rugby player
• 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
• 1983 – Nicky Hilton, American model and fashion designer
• 1983 – Florian Mayer, German tennis player
• 1983 – Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1983 – Noot Seear, Canadian model and actress
• 1984 – Naima Adedapo, American singer
• 1984 – Tiana Benjamin, English actress
• 1984 – Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
• 1985 – Nicola Roberts, English singer-songwriter and actress (Girls Aloud)
• 1986 – Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
• 1987 – Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Tim Ream, American soccer player
• 1987 – Park So-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (T-ara)
• 1987 – Javier Villa, Spanish race car driver
• 1987 – Luigi Vitale, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Bobby Edner, American singer, dancer, and actor (Varsity Fanclub)
• 1988 – Benny Howell, English cricketer
• 1988 – Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter (Monrose)
• 1989 – Marcel Baude, German footballer
• 1993 – Ali Brustofski, American singer