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Famous birthdays in October

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Pick a day of October to see well-known people born on it. Each date page lists names, what each person is known for and their birth year, built from Wikidata.

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The most widely known name for each day

  1. October 1: Jimmy Carter 1924 President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
  2. October 2: Mahatma Gandhi 1869 Indian independence activist
  3. October 3: Zlatan Ibrahimović 1981 Swedish association football player
  4. October 4: Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 President of the United States from 1877 to 1881
  5. October 5: Denis Diderot 1713 French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist
  6. October 6: Le Corbusier 1887 Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer
  7. October 7: Vladimir Putin 1952 President of the Russian Federation
  8. October 8: Sigourney Weaver 1949 American actress
  9. October 9: John Lennon 1940 British musician
  10. October 10: Harold Pinter 1930 British playwright
  11. October 11: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945
  12. October 12: Pedro I of Brazil 1798 Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826
  13. October 13: Margaret Thatcher 1925 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
  14. October 14: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 President of the United States from 1953 to 1961
  15. October 15: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 German philosopher
  16. October 16: Günter Grass 1927 German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor
  17. October 17: Eminem 1972 American rapper, record producer and actor
  18. October 18: Henri Bergson 1859 French philosopher
  19. October 19: Miguel Ángel Asturias 1899 Guatemalan writer and diplomat
  20. October 20: Arthur Rimbaud 1854 French poet
  21. October 21: Alfred Nobel 1833 Swedish chemist and inventor
  22. October 22: Doris Lessing 1919 British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer
  23. October 23: Pelé 1940 Brazilian footballer
  24. October 24: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists
  25. October 25: Katy Perry 1984 American singer
  26. October 26: François Mitterrand 1916 21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995
  27. October 27: Theodore Roosevelt 1858 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
  28. October 28: Bill Gates 1955 American businessman, investor, and philanthropist
  29. October 29: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 1938 24th president of Liberia
  30. October 30: Diego Maradona 1960 Argentine football player and manager
  31. October 31: Katsushika Hokusai 1760 Japanese artist

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