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Famous people born on October 10
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 10 include Harold Pinter (1930), Fridtjof Nansen (1861), Naoto Kan (1946) and Claude Simon (1913). Our list below has 101 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 10 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1636 (Thomas Traherne) and the most recent is 2002 (James Trafford). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, singer.
Who was born on October 10?
- Harold Pinter 1930 British playwright
- Fridtjof Nansen 1861 Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Naoto Kan 1946 94th Prime Minister of Japan
- Claude Simon 1913 French writer
- Henry Cavendish 1731 English natural philosopher, and scientist
- Pavel Durov 1984 Technology entrepreneur
- Isabella II of Spain 1830 Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
- Helen Hayes 1900 American actress
- Xherdan Shaqiri 1991 Swiss association football player
- Jean-Antoine Watteau 1684 French painter
- Carolyn Bertozzi 1966 American chemist
- Gerhard Ertl 1936 German physicist
- Thelonious Monk 1917 American jazz pianist and composer
- Rekhā 1954 Indian actress
- Alberto Giacometti 1901 Swiss sculptor and painter
- Yves Chauvin 1930 French chemist
- Aleksis Kivi 1834 National author of Finland
- Mercè Rodoreda 1908 Spanish writer
- Gavin Newsom 1967 40th governor of California since 2019
- Charles Dance 1946 English actor
- Paul Kruger 1825 South African politician and President of the South African Republic
- Ezequiel Garay 1986 Argentine association football player
- Nora Roberts 1950 American romance writer
- Lin Yutang 1895 Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher
- R. K. Narayan 1906 Indian English-language writer
- Tony Adams 1966 English footballer
- Fernando Santos 1954 Portuguese football manager
- Bae Suzy 1994 South Korean singer and actress
- Rumiko Takahashi 1957 Japanese manga artist
- Ken Saro-Wiwa 1941 Nigerian social rights activist
- Taur Matan Ruak 1956 Prime Minister of East Timor
- Ed Wood 1924 American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and film editor
- Dan Stevens 1982 British actor
- Marina Diamandis 1985 British singer
- Chris Penn 1965 American actor
- Evgeny Kissin 1971 Russian classical pianist
- Mýa 1979 American singer
- Michael Giacchino 1967 American music composer
- Yigal Allon 1918 Israeli politician, general, acting prime minister of Israel
- Jodi Benson 1961 American actress
- James Clavell 1921 American novelist
- Bai Ling 1966 Chinese-American actress
- Rafael Tolói 1990 Italian association football player
- Jonathan Littell 1967 American-French writer
- David Lee Roth 1954 American singer
- Felix Nmecha 2000 German association football player
- Bradley Whitford 1959 American actor
- Julio Ricardo Cruz 1974 Argentine footballer
- Nicolás Massú 1979 Chilean tennis player and coach
- Wolfram von Richthofen 1895 German military officer and aviator
- Peter Coyote 1941 American actor, voice artist, director, activist and narrator
- James Trafford 2002 English footballer
- Vikash Dhorasoo 1973 French association football player
- Chalermpol Malakham 1962 Thai singer
- Daria Bilodid 2000 Ukrainian judoka
- Chiaki Kuriyama 1984 Japanese actress and singer
- Daisuke Nasu 1981 Japanese association football player
- Lali Espósito 1991 Argentine singer and actress
- Yuiko Konno 1980 Japanese association football player
- Radu Vasile 1942 57th Prime Minister of Romania
- Jodi Lyn O'Keefe 1978 American actress and model
- Daniel Pearl 1963 American journalist
- Gabriella Cilmi 1991 Australian singer
- Petar Zhekov 1944 Bulgarian footballer
- Zhai Zhigang 1966 Chinese astronaut
- Séverine 1948 French singer
- Rakul Preet Singh 1990 Indian film actress
- Brett Favre 1969 American football player
- S. S. Rajamouli 1973 Indian film director and screenwriter
- Manu Bennett 1969 New Zealand actor
- Alfred Neuland 1895 Estonian weightlifter and coach
- Anita Mui 1963 Hong Kong singer and actress
- Juliane Koepcke 1954 Mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
- Brown Ideye 1988 Nigerian footballer
- Prince Charles, Count of Flanders 1903 Prince, painter
- Yasser Al-Qahtani 1982 Saudi Arabian footballer
- Mario Lopez 1973 American actor
- Nikola Katić 1996 Bosnian association football player
- Dzhano Ananidze 1992 Georgian footballer
- Wendi McLendon-Covey 1969 American actress
- Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo 1944 Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida
- Mariana Pajón 1991 Colombian cyclist
- C. H. D. Buys Ballot 1817 Dutch physicist (*1817 – †1890)
- Rose McIver 1988 New Zealand actress
- Aimee Teegarden 1989 American actress
- John M. Grunsfeld 1958 American astronaut and astronomer
- Midge Ure 1953 British guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter
- Clare Hollingworth 1911 British journalist
- Dimitrios Kasdaglis 1872 British tennis player of Greek origin, resident in Egypt
- Oleg Gordievsky 1938 Colonel of the KGB
- Martin Vahl 1749 Danish-Norwegian botanist
- Ariane Ascaride 1954 French actress
- Jakub Vadlejch 1990 Czech javelin thrower
- Thomas Traherne 1636 English poet
- Ricardo Sá Pinto 1972 Portuguese football player/manager/director
- Tim Miller 1964 American film director
- Murray Walker 1923 British motorsport commentator and journalist
- Takayuki Fujikawa 1962 Japanese association football player
- Francisco Sagasti 1944 President of Peru from 2020 to 2021
- Nina Matviienko 1947 Soviet and Ukrainian singer
- Rıza Kayaalp 1989 Turkish wrestler
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 10 share the 10th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.