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Famous people born on October 21

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Well-known people born on October 21 include Alfred Nobel (1833), Benjamin Netanyahu (1949), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772) and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 21 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1617 (Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso) and the most recent is 1998 (Kerem Aktürkoğlu). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.

Who was born on October 21?

  1. Alfred Nobel 1833 Swedish chemist and inventor
  2. Benjamin Netanyahu 1949 Prime Minister of Israel, (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
  3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 English poet, literary critic and philosopher
  4. Ursula K. Le Guin 1929 American fantasy and science fiction author
  5. Carrie Fisher 1956 American actress, writer and screenwriter
  6. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 French author, poet and statesman
  7. Nemanja Vidić 1981 Serbian association football player
  8. Nikita Mikhalkov 1945 Russian film director, writer, producer and actor
  9. Andre Geim 1958 Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
  10. Wolfgang Ketterle 1957 German physicist
  11. Edmondo de Amicis 1846 Italian writer
  12. Dizzy Gillespie 1917 American jazz trumpeter
  13. Celia Cruz 1925 Cuban singer
  14. Jean-Pierre Sauvage 1944 French nanotechnologist
  15. Waris Dirie 1965 Somali model, author, actress, activist
  16. Ken Watanabe 1959 Japanese actor
  17. Tariq Ali 1943 British political activist, writer, and historian
  18. Martin Gardner 1914 American mathematics and science writer
  19. Jon Andoni Goikoetxea 1965 Spanish association football player
  20. Paco Gento 1933 Spanish footballer
  21. Christopher A. Sims 1942 American econometrician and macroeconomist
  22. Paul Ince 1967 English association football player and manager
  23. Edogawa Ranpo 1894 Japanese writer
  24. Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso 1617 Political and religious leader of Tibet
  25. Ricky Rubio 1990 Spanish basketball player
  26. Yulimar Rojas 1995 Venezuelan athletics competitor
  27. Georg Solti 1912 Hungarian-British conductor
  28. Andrew Scott 1976 Irish actor
  29. Ronald McNair 1950 American physicist, astronaut
  30. Peter Mandelson 1953 British politician and life peer
  31. Liliane Bettencourt 1922 French heiress, socialite and businesswoman
  32. Lee Chong Wei 1982 Malaysian badminton player
  33. Käärijä 1993 Finnish rapper, singer and songwriter
  34. Ivan Silayev 1930 Russian politician
  35. Sam Vokes 1989 Welsh association football player
  36. Glen Powell 1988 American actor
  37. Oswald Avery 1877 Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher
  38. Salman bin Hamad, Crown Prince of Bahrain 1969 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain
  39. Hussein Kamel of Egypt 1853 Sultan of Egypt
  40. Matt Dallas 1982 American actor
  41. Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld 1921 Dutch astronomer
  42. Higashiyama 1675 Emperor of Japan
  43. Henrique Hilário 1975 Portuguese association football player
  44. Jerry Heil 1995 Ukrainian singer-songwriter and YouTuber
  45. Catherine Hardwicke 1955 American film director, screenwriter and architect
  46. Artur Aleksanyan 1991 Armenian wrestler
  47. Anele Ngcongca 1987 South African footballer
  48. Mary Blair 1911 American artist
  49. Douglas G. Hurley 1966 American astronaut
  50. Eleonora Giorgi 1953 Italian actress
  51. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1990 French chess player
  52. Pierre Augereau 1757 General, Marshal of France
  53. Kerem Aktürkoğlu 1998 Turkish association football player
  54. Malcolm Arnold 1921 English composer and conductor
  55. Steve Lukather 1957 American musician
  56. Bernard Tomic 1992 Australian tennis player
  57. Thomas Cavalier-Smith 1942 British biologist
  58. Kieran Richardson 1984 English association football player
  59. Giuseppe Giacosa 1847 Italian librettist, poet and writer
  60. Kenji Fukuda 1977 Japanese association football player
  61. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez 1882 President of El Salvador
  62. Blanca Suárez 1988 Spanish actress
  63. Manuel Marín 1949 Spanish politician
  64. Henri Guisan 1874 Swiss general
  65. Shukri al-Quwatli 1891 1st President of Syrian Republic
  66. Artsvik 1984 Armenian singer and songwriter
  67. Jean Bart 1650 French admiral and privateer
  68. Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu 1918 South African anti–apartheid activist
  69. Jonathan Viera 1989 Spanish footballer
  70. Everett McGill 1945 American actor
  71. Alcindo Sartori 1967 Brazilian association football player
  72. Ludovico Antonio Muratori 1672 Italian priest, writer, librarian, historian and diplomat
  73. Hamza Mendyl 1997 Moroccan association football player
  74. Daniel Podence 1995 Portuguese association football player
  75. Cameron Burgess 1995 Australian-Scottish association football player
  76. Kazimierz Świątek 1914 Catholic cardinal
  77. Enrico Betti 1823 Italian mathematician
  78. Oliver Spasovski 1976 Politician from North Macedonia
  79. Milan Obrenović II 1819 Prince of Serbia
  80. Alberto Iglesias 1955 Spanish composer
  81. Steve Cropper 1941 American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer
  82. Carlos Veiga 1949 Cape Verdean politician
  83. Prince Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta 1898 Duke of Aosta, Commander in Italian East Africa
  84. Gusztáv Jány 1883 Hungarian military officer
  85. Julio Médem 1958 Spanish film director and screenwriter
  86. Goyo Benito 1946 Spanish footballer

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 21 share the 21st of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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