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Happy Birthday To:

* 1289 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
* 1459 – Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
* 1510 – John Caius, English physician (d. 1573)
* 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
* 1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
* 1716 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
* 1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
* 1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
* 1767 – Henri Christophe, king of Haiti (d. 1820)
* 1769 – Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812)
* 1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
* 1801 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
* 1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
* 1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
* 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
* 1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
* 1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
* 1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer (d. 1932)
* 1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
* 1874 – Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
* 1876 – Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
* 1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
* 1886 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
* 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
* 1892 – Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress (d. 1954)
* 1895 – Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)
* 1900 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
* 1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
* 1905 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
* 1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
* 1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
* 1908 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
* 1910 – Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
* 1912 – Perkins Bass, American politician
* 1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
* 1914 – Joan Littlewood, British theatre director (d. 2002)
* 1915 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (d. 2007)
* 1918 – Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
* 1918 – André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
* 1920 – Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
* 1920 – Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
* 1921 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
* 1922 – Joe Frazier, American baseball player
* 1925 – Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
* 1927 – Bill King, American sports broadcaster (d. 2005)
* 1930 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
* 1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
* 1931 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
* 1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
* 1935 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
* 1938 – Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
* 1939 – John LaFalce, American politician, former Member, US House of Representatives
* 1940 – Ellen Travolta, American actress (John Travolta’s Sister)
* 1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
* 1943 – Michael Durrell, American actor
* 1943 – Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
* 1944 – Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
* 1944 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1977)
* 1945 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
* 1946 – Eddie Villanueva, JIL Spiritual Director, Owner of ZOE Broadcasting Network
* 1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
* 1946 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor
* 1946 – Tony Greig, South African–born English cricketer
* 1946 – Millie Small, Jamaican singer
* 1947 – Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
* 1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
* 1949 – Nicolas Peyrac, French composer, lyricist and singer
* 1950 – David Brin, American author
* 1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
* 1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
* 1952 – Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer
* 1952 – Jürgen Schulz, German footballer
* 1954 – David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
* 1954 – Darrell M. West, American political scientist
* 1955 – Tony Dungy, American football coach
* 1956 – Kathleen Webb, American comic book writer and artist
* 1958 – Joseph Finder, American novelist
* 1959 – Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives
* 1959 – Dennis Ray Boyd, American baseball player
* 1959 – Walter Ray Williams Jr., American bowler and horsehoes champion
* 1962 – Rich Yett, baseball player
* 1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
* 1963 – Jsu Garcia, American actor
* 1964 – Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)
* 1964 – Matthew Sweet, American musician
* 1964 – Tom Jager, American swimmer
* 1965 – Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player
* 1965 – Steve Scalise, American politician
* 1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
* 1966 – Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
* 1967 – Kennet Andersson, former Swedish footballer
* 1967 – Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman
* 1968 – Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer
* 1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
* 1970 – Darren Oliver, American baseball player
* 1970 – Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
* 1970 – Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
* 1971 – Phil Bennett, British racing driver
* 1971 – Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
* 1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
* 1972 – Ko So-young, South Korean actress
* 1972 – Anders Iwers, Swedish musician
* 1972 – Ryu Shi-won, South Korean actor and singer
* 1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
* 1973 – Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
* 1973 – Jeff Davis, American comedian
* 1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
* 1973 – Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
* 1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
* 1974 – Alexis Georgoulis, Greek actor
* 1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor (Clueless)
* 1975 – Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana
* 1976 – Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
* 1977 – Danny Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer and recording artist
* 1977 – Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
* 1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
* 1977 – Wes Ramsey, American actor
* 1978 – Ricky Hatton, English boxer
* 1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
* 1979 – Richard Seymour, American football player
* 1979 – Lex Shrapnel, English actor
* 1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
* 1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
* 1981 – José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1982 – Michael Arden, American actor
* 1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
* 1982 – William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
* 1982 – MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
* 1982 – Paul Smith, English boxer
* 1984 – Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
* 1984 – Morne Morkel, South African cricketer
* 1985 – Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
* 1986 – Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer
* 1986 – Mohammad Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
* 1986 – Olivia Thirlby, American actress
* 1988 – Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
* 1998 – Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_6

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Happy Birthday To:

* 1658 – Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
* 1695 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
* 1703 – Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
* 1712 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
* 1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)
* 1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
* 1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
* 1792 – Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
* 1795 – Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
* 1820 – David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
* 1824 – Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
* 1829 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
* 1844 – Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
* 1848 – Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
* 1850 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910)
* 1857 – Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942)
* 1864 – Louis Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1948)
* 1878 – Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
* 1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
* 1882 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
* 1887 – René Cassin, French jurist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
* 1889 – Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
* 1892 – Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
* 1894 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
* 1898 – Nachum Gutman, Israeli painter (d. 1980)
* 1899 – Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1963)
* 1901 – John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
* 1902 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
* 1902 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
* 1903 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
* 1905 – John Hoyt, American film and television actor (d. 1991)
* 1905 – Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
* 1907 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
* 1908 – Joshua Logan, American film director and writer (d. 1988)
* 1909 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player
* 1911 – Flann O’Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
* 1911 – Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist
* 1916 – Stetson Kennedy, American writer
* 1917 – Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
* 1919 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
* 1919 – Robin Bailey, English actor (d. 1999)
* 1921 – Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
* 1922 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
* 1922 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist
* 1922 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
* 1923 – Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
* 1923 – Glynis Johns, British actress
* 1923 – Stig Dagerman, Swedish writer (d. 1954)
* 1924 – Bill Dana, American actor
* 1924 – José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
* 1924 – Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
* 1924 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist Frank and Ernest (comic strip) (d. 2006)
* 1925 – Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
* 1926 – Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
* 1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
* 1929 – Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999)
* 1929 – Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
* 1929 – Bill Wirtz, American ice hockey executive (d. 2007)
* 1930 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
* 1930 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
* 1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
* 1932 – Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1932 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
* 1933 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress
* 1935 – Arlene Saunders, American soprano
* 1936 – Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic
* 1937 – Barry Switzer, American football coach
* 1938 – Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
* 1939 – Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
* 1939 – Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright
* 1939 – Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
* 1939 – Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist
* 1940 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress
* 1940 – John Byrne Cooke, American novelist and photographer; son of Alistair Cooke
* 1940 – Thom Christopher, American actor
* 1941 – Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
* 1942 – Richard Street, American singer (The Temptations)
* 1943 – Steve Miller, American musician (Steve Miller Band)
* 1943 – Ben Cardin, American politician, junior senator of Maryland
* 1945 – Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
* 1945 – Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
* 1946 – Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
* 1946 – Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
* 1947 – Brian Johnson, English singer (AC/DC)
* 1948 – Carter Cornelius, American musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (d. 1991)
* 1948 – Tawl Ross, American musician (P Funk)
* 1948 – Zoran Živković, Serbian writer
* 1949 – Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
* 1949 – Bill James, American baseball writer
* 1949 – B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
* 1950 – Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead, Fastway)
* 1950 – Jeff Conaway, American actor
* 1950 – Edward P. Jones, American writer
* 1951 – Karen Allen, American actress
* 1951 – Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats)
* 1952 – Clive Barker, English writer
* 1952 – Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
* 1952 – Gigi Sabani, Italian TV host (d. 2007)
* 1955 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
* 1955 – Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
* 1955 – Ángela Molina, Spanish actress
* 1957 – Mark Geragos, American attorney
* 1957 – Lee Thompson, English saxophonist (Madness), vocalist
* 1957 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
* 1958 – Neil DeGrasse Tyson, American Astrophysicist
* 1958 – André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
* 1959 – Maya Lin, American sculptor/architect
* 1960 – Daniel Baldwin, American actor
* 1960 – Careca, Brazilian footballer
* 1960 – Evangelia Tzampazi, Greek politician
* 1961 – Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
* 1961 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and George Polk Award winner
* 1961 – David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer
* 1962 – Michael Andretti, American race car driver
* 1962 – Thomas Herbst, German footballer
* 1962 – Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
* 1963 – Laura Davies, English golfer
* 1964 – Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
* 1964 – Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
* 1964 – Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician
* 1965 – Trace Armstrong, American football player
* 1965 – Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1965 – Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1966 – Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
* 1966 – Dennis Byrd, American football player
* 1967 – Rex Chapman, American basketball player
* 1967 – Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor
* 1970 – Josie Bissett, American actress
* 1970 – Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
* 1971 – South Park Mexican, American rapper
* 1971 – Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine former footballer
* 1971 – Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor
* 1972 – Grant Hill, American basketball player
* 1972 – Thomas Roberts, American news anchor
* 1972 – Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball outfielder
* 1974 – Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
* 1974 – Rich Franklin, American Mixed Martial Artist
* 1974 – Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
* 1975 – Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
* 1975 – Parminder Nagra, English actress
* 1975 – Kate Winslet, English actress
* 1975 – Carson Ellis, American artist
* 1975 – Scott Weinger American actor
* 1976 – Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
* 1976 – Royston Tan, Singaporean screenwriter & director
* 1976 – Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President
* 1976 – J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
* 1978 – Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
* 1978 – Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player
* 1978 – Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter
* 1978 – James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
* 1979 – Jaime Chambers, American television reporter
* 1979 – Vincenzo Grella, Australian footballer
* 1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot singer-songwriter
* 1979 – Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1980 – James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
* 1981 – Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
* 1982 – Steve Williams, Australian-born German rugby player
* 1983 – Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
* 1983 – Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
* 1983 – Nicky Hilton, American heiress
* 1983 – Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress
* 1984 – Tiana Benjamin, British actress
* 1984 – Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
* 1985 – Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
* 1986 – Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
* 1987 – Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
* 1987 – Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
* 1988 – Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose)
* 1988 – Bobby Edner, American actor and singer (Varsity Fanclub)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_5

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