Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 31
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 31 include Katsushika Hokusai (1760), John Keats (1795), Chiang Kai-shek (1887) and Peter Jackson (1961). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 31 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1620 (John Evelyn) and the most recent is 2005 (Leonor, Princess of Asturias). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on October 31?
- Katsushika Hokusai 1760 Japanese artist
- John Keats 1795 English Romantic poet
- Chiang Kai-shek 1887 Chinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC
- Peter Jackson 1961 New Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor
- Zaha Hadid 1950 Iraqi British architect, designer and painter
- Norodom Sihanouk 1922 Cambodian monarch and politician
- Marco van Basten 1964 Dutch association football player and manager
- Marcus Rashford 1997 English footballer
- Michael Collins 1930 American astronaut
- Karl Weierstraß 1815 German mathematician
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1875 Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the…
- Adolf von Baeyer 1835 German chemist
- Clement XIV 1705 Pope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774
- Bud Spencer 1929 Italian actor, lawyer, professional swimmer and water polo player
- Dunga 1963 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Leonor, Princess of Asturias 2005 38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne
- Reza Pahlavi 1960 Last crown prince of Afghanistan
- Ansu Fati 2002 Bisau-Guinean association football player
- David Ogden Stiers 1942 American actor
- Rob Schneider 1963 American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- John Pople 1925 Nobel prize winning British chemist
- Fritz Walter 1920 German association football player
- Willow Smith 2000 American singer-songwriter and actress
- Kengo Nakamura 1980 Japanese association football player
- Natalie Clifford Barney 1876 American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris
- Emiliano Sala 1990 Argentine association football player
- Guti 1976 Spanish footballer and football manager
- Axel Munthe 1857 Swedish physician
- Mohamed Hussein Tantawi 1935 Egyptian Field marshal and former statesman
- Dermot Mulroney 1963 American actor
- John Candy 1950 Canadian actor
- Letitia Wright 1993 Guyanese actress
- Chikara Fujimoto 1977 Japanese association football player and manager
- Simão Sabrosa 1979 Portuguese footballer
- Eduard Kokoity 1964 President of South Ossetia
- Barbara Bel Geddes 1922 American actress
- Takashi Kano 1920 Japanese association football player
- B. H. Liddell Hart 1895 British historian and theoretician of war
- Helmut Newton 1920 German-Australian photographer
- Piper Perabo 1976 American actress
- Louise of Sweden 1851 Queen consort of Denmark; wife of Frederick VIII of Denmark
- Alexander Grischuk 1983 Russian chess player
- Joan Robinson 1903 English economist
- Georges Mikautadze 2000 Georgian association football player
- Stephen Rea 1946 Irish actor
- Marie Laurencin 1883 French painter, poet and printmaker
- Sébastien Buemi 1988 Swiss professional racing driver
- Vanilla Ice 1967 American rapper
- David Harvey 1935 British geographer and anthropologist
- Michael Landon 1936 American actor and filmmaker
- Denis Irwin 1965 Irish association football player
- Sally Kirkland 1941 American actress, film producer, and activist
- Neal Stephenson 1959 American science fiction writer
- Ali Farka Touré 1939 Malian musician
- José Costa 1953 Portuguese association football player and manager
- Gunnar Gren 1920 Swedish footballer
- Ruben Fleischer 1974 American film director
- James Dunlop 1793 Australian astronomer
- Christophe Jallet 1983 French footballer
- Larry Mullen Jr. 1961 Irish drummer, member of the rock group U2
- Joseph Swan 1828 British physicist and inventor
- Katherine Paterson 1932 American children's writer born and mainly raised in China
- Frank Iero 1981 American musician
- Kerron Clement 1985 American track and field athlete, Olympic athlete
- Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria 1636 Duke of Bavaria
- Meindert Hobbema 1638 Dutch painter
- Predrag Rajković 1995 Serbian association football player
- John Evelyn 1620 Writer, gardener and diarist
- Ethel Waters 1896 American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress
- Mathías Olivera 1997 Uruguayan association football player
- Abdul El-Sayed 1984 American politician and epidemiologist
- Johnny Marr 1963 English musician
- Alfredo Anderson 1978 Panamanian association football player
- Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler 1934 Swedish princess; eldest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Samaire Armstrong 1980 American actress
- Vanessa Marano 1992 American actress
- Ron Rifkin 1939 American actor
- Abraham Wald 1902 American mathematician, statistician, and scientist
- Nolan North 1970 American voice actor
- Jeannie Longo 1958 French cyclist
- Otto Sverdrup 1854 Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer
- Brian Doyle-Murray 1945 American actor
- Frank Shorter 1947 American long-distance runner
- Harry Harlow 1905 American psychologist
- Jean Améry 1912 Austrian-born essayist and Holocaust survivor
- Justin Chatwin 1982 Canadian film and television actor
- Jadav Payeng 1959 Environmentalist, nature scientist
- Angelino Alfano 1970 Italian politician
- Marek Saganowski 1978 Polish association football manager
- Danielle Rose Russell 1999 American actress
- Narriman Sadek 1933 Egyptian queen consort
- Dick Francis 1920 English jockey and crime writer
- Liv Lisa Fries 1990 German actress
- András Hegedüs 1922 Hungarian politician
- Eddie Kaye Thomas 1980 American actor
- James Tavernier 1991 English association football player
- Juliette Gordon Low 1860 Founder of the Girl Scouts
- Anthony Wilding 1883 New Zealand tennis player
- Selina Jen 1981 Taiwanese singer, actress and television host
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 31 share the 31st of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.