| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Adams |
Head of State |
30-Oct-1735 |
4-Jul-1826 |
2nd President of the U.S. |
| Joe Adcock |
Baseball |
30-Oct-1927 |
3-May-1999 |
Milwaukee Braves First Baseman |
| Zoë Akins |
Playwright |
30-Oct-1886 |
29-Oct-1958 |
The Greeks Had a Word For It |
| Néstor Almendros |
Cinematographer |
30-Oct-1930 |
4-Mar-1992 |
Mauvaise Conduite |
| Rudolfo Anaya |
Author |
30-Oct-1937 |
|
Bless Me, Ultima |
| Rand V. Araskog |
Business |
30-Oct-1931 |
|
CEO of ITT, 1979-98 |
| Gertrude Franklin Atherton |
Author |
30-Oct-1857 |
14-Jun-1948 |
Black Oxen |
| Charles Atlas |
Fitness Guru |
30-Oct-1892 |
23-Dec-1972 |
Former 97-pound weakling |
| Joan Banks |
Actor |
30-Oct-1918 |
18-Jan-1998 |
Radio actress, Gangbusters |
| Michael Beach |
Actor |
30-Oct-1963 |
|
Doc Parker on Third Watch |
| George M. Bibb |
Politician |
30-Oct-1776 |
14-Apr-1859 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1844-45 |
| Bruce Braley |
Politician |
30-Oct-1957 |
|
Congressman, Iowa 1st |
| Georgia Caine |
Actor |
30-Oct-1876 |
4-Apr-1964 |
Broadway musical actress |
| Felix Perez Camacho |
Politician |
30-Oct-1957 |
|
Governor of Guam |
| Hamilton Camp |
Actor |
30-Oct-1934 |
2-Oct-2005 |
Voice of GizmoDuck |
| William Campbell |
Actor |
30-Oct-1923 |
28-Apr-2011 |
Dementia 13 |
| Robert Caro |
Historian |
30-Oct-1935 |
|
Biographer of Lyndon Johnson |
| Sarah Carter |
Actor |
30-Oct-1980 |
|
DOA: Dead or Alive |
| Ahmed Chalabi |
Government |
30-Oct-1944 |
|
Prominent on the Iraqi Provisional Council |
| André de Chénier |
Poet |
30-Oct-1762 |
25-Jul-1794 |
Greatest 18th c. French poet |
| Roscoe Conkling |
Politician |
30-Oct-1829 |
18-Apr-1888 |
US Senator from New York, 1867-81 |
| Arrigo Caterino Davila |
Historian |
30-Oct-1576 |
26-May-1631 |
Istoria delle guerre civili di Francia |
| Henry Laurens Dawes |
Politician |
30-Oct-1816 |
5-Feb-1903 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1875-93 |
| John William Dawson |
Geologist |
30-Oct-1820 |
20-Nov-1899 |
Air Breathers of the Coal Period |
| Ty Detmer |
Football |
30-Oct-1967 |
|
Heisman Trophy Winner, 1990 |
| Annie Dillard |
Author |
30-Oct-1945 |
|
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| Gerhard Domagk |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1895 |
24-Apr-1964 |
Sulfa drugs for strep, stapf infections |
| John Doolittle |
Politician |
30-Oct-1950 |
|
Congressman from California, 1991-2009 |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Novelist |
30-Oct-1821 |
28-Jan-1881 |
Crime and Punishment |
| Edge |
Wrestling |
30-Oct-1973 |
|
WWE wrestler |
| Roland Freisler |
Government |
30-Oct-1893 |
3-Feb-1945 |
Headed the Reich Ministry of Justice |
| Fred Friendly |
Journalist |
30-Oct-1915 |
3-Mar-1998 |
President of CBS News, 1964-66 |
| Dick Gautier |
Actor |
30-Oct-1931 |
|
Hymie on Get Smart |
| Ruth Gordon |
Actor |
30-Oct-1896 |
28-Aug-1985 |
Rosemary's Baby |
| Ragnar Granit |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1900 |
31-Mar-1990 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Lawrence Grant |
Actor |
30-Oct-1870 |
10-Feb-1952 |
The Mask of Fu Manchu |
| Stanislav Gross |
Government |
30-Oct-1969 |
|
Prime Minister of Czechia, 2004-05 |
| David Hahn |
Inventor |
30-Oct-1976 |
|
Do-it-yourself nuclear reactor |
| William F. Halsey |
Military |
30-Oct-1882 |
20-Aug-1959 |
WWII Commander of the South Pacific |
| Harry Hamlin |
Actor |
30-Oct-1951 |
|
Michael Kuzak on L.A. Law |
| Theodor W. Hänsch |
Physicist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Leland H. Hartwell |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1939 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Joe Heck |
Politician |
30-Oct-1961 |
|
Congressman, Nevada 3rd |
| Jayne Heitmeyer |
Actor |
30-Oct-1960 |
|
Earth: Final Conflict |
| Miguel Hernández |
Poet |
30-Oct-1910 |
28-Mar-1942 |
El rayo que no cesa |
| Georg Heym |
Poet |
30-Oct-1887 |
16-Jan-1912 |
Der ewige Tag |
| Philip Heymann |
Government |
30-Oct-1932 |
|
US Deputy Attorney General, 1993-94 |
| Bonnie G. Hill |
Business |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
VP of Times Mirror Co., 1997-2001 |
| Pete Hoekstra |
Politician |
30-Oct-1953 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2011 |
| Eddie Holland |
Musician |
30-Oct-1939 |
|
R&B songwriter, producer and performer |
| Ruth Hussey |
Actor |
30-Oct-1911 |
19-Apr-2005 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Frank M. Johnson |
Judge |
30-Oct-1918 |
23-Jul-1999 |
11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981-99 |
| Philip J. Kaplan |
Blogger |
30-Oct-1975 |
|
Pud of Fucked Company |
| Alan G. Kirk |
Military |
30-Oct-1888 |
15-Oct-1963 |
US Navy Admiral, Ambassador to USSR |
| Richard Kovacevich |
Business |
30-Oct-1943 |
|
CEO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2007 |
| Richard LaGravenese |
Screenwriter |
30-Oct-1959 |
|
Screenwriter, The Fisher King |
| James Laughlin |
Publisher |
30-Oct-1914 |
12-Nov-1997 |
Founder, New Directions Press |
| Ed Lauter |
Actor |
30-Oct-1940 |
|
Character actor, 1970s to present |
| Dave Lebling |
Computer Programmer |
30-Oct-1949 |
|
Co-Founder of Infocom, helped write Zork |
| Claude Lelouch |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1937 |
|
A Man and a Woman |
| Nastia Liukin |
Gymnastics |
30-Oct-1989 |
|
Five medals in 2008 Beijing Olympics |
| Nia Long |
Actor |
30-Oct-1970 |
|
Third Watch |
| Francisco Madero |
Head of State |
30-Oct-1873 |
22-Feb-1913 |
El loquito President of Mexico, 1911-13 |
| Louis Malle |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1932 |
23-Nov-1995 |
Atlantic City |
| Diego Maradona |
Soccer |
30-Oct-1960 |
|
Led Argentina to 1986 World Cup Final |
| Dawn McCarthy |
Musician |
30-Oct-1971 |
|
Faun Fables |
| Neil H. McElroy |
Government |
30-Oct-1904 |
30-Nov-1972 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1957-59 |
| Andrea Mitchell |
Journalist |
30-Oct-1946 |
|
NBC Foreign Affairs Correspondent |
| Patsy Montana |
Country Musician |
30-Oct-1908 |
3-May-1996 |
A Cowboy's Sweetheart |
| Matthew Morrison |
Actor |
30-Oct-1978 |
|
Will Schuester on Glee |
| Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Frank Pallone |
Politician |
30-Oct-1951 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 6th |
| Bob Perry |
Business |
30-Oct-1932 |
|
Perry Homes, Republican financier |
| Eva Pigford |
Model |
30-Oct-1984 |
|
America's Next Top Model |
| Jack Plotnick |
Actor |
30-Oct-1968 |
|
Xandir on Drawn Together |
| Michael Polish |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1970 |
|
The Astronaut Farmer |
| Kevin Pollak |
Comic |
30-Oct-1957 |
|
Host of Celebrity Poker |
| Glenn Poshard |
Politician |
30-Oct-1945 |
|
President, Southern Illinois University |
| Ezra Pound |
Poet |
30-Oct-1885 |
1-Nov-1972 |
The Cantos |
| Jane Randolph |
Actor |
30-Oct-1915 |
4-May-2009 |
Cat People |
| Dickinson W. Richards |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1895 |
23-Feb-1973 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Leon Rippy |
Actor |
30-Oct-1949 |
|
Earl on Saving Grace |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
Author |
30-Oct-1881 |
13-Mar-1941 |
The Great Meadow |
| Timothy J. Roemer |
Politician |
30-Oct-1956 |
|
9-11 Commission member |
| Gavin Rossdale |
Singer |
30-Oct-1965 |
|
Lead singer of Bush |
| Gus Savage |
Politician |
30-Oct-1925 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1981-93 |
| Ronaldo H. Schmitz |
Business |
30-Oct-1938 |
|
CFO of BASF, 1984-90 |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Playwright |
30-Oct-1751 |
7-Jul-1816 |
The School for Scandal |
| Grace Slick |
Singer |
30-Oct-1939 |
|
Jefferson Airplane and Starship |
| Charles Martin Smith |
Actor |
30-Oct-1953 |
|
The Untouchables |
| Juliet Stevenson |
Actor |
30-Oct-1956 |
|
Truly Madly Deeply |
| Laura Denvir Stith |
Judge |
30-Oct-1953 |
|
Missouri Chief Justice |
| William Graham Sumner |
Educator |
30-Oct-1840 |
12-Apr-1910 |
Laissez faire sociologist |
| Maria Thayer |
Actor |
30-Oct-1975 |
|
Redhead on Strangers with Candy |
| Georges Gilles de la Tourette |
Doctor |
30-Oct-1857 |
26-May-1904 |
Tourette's syndrome |
| Ivanka Trump |
Relative |
30-Oct-1981 |
|
Daughter of Donald Trump |
| Paul Valéry |
Poet |
30-Oct-1871 |
20-Jul-1945 |
La Jeune Parque |
| Dick Vermeil |
Football |
30-Oct-1936 |
|
KC Chiefs Head Coach, 2001-06 |
| Andrew von Eschenbach |
Government |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
FDA Commissioner, 2005-09 |
| Günther von Kluge |
Military |
30-Oct-1882 |
18-Aug-1944 |
Nazi general |
| Kristina Wagner |
Actor |
30-Oct-1963 |
|
General Hospital |
| John Patrick Williams |
Politician |
30-Oct-1937 |
|
Congressman from Montana, 1979-97 |
| Otis Williams |
Singer |
30-Oct-1939 |
|
Founder of The Temptations |
| Verne Winchell |
Business |
30-Oct-1915 |
26-Nov-2002 |
Founder of Winchell's Donuts |
| Henry Winkler |
Actor |
30-Oct-1945 |
|
Fonz on Happy Days |
| Michael Winner |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1935 |
|
Death Wish |
| Larry Woiwode |
Novelist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
What I'm Going to Do, I Think |
| Mark G. Yudof |
Educator |
30-Oct-1944 |
|
President of the University of California |
