James Lawrence (1781) American naval officer in the War of 1812
Jimmy Carter (1924) 39th President of the United States
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869) Indian political leader, known as the
“Father of India”
Cordell Hull (1871) American statesman
George Bancroft
(1800) American historian, teacher, and diplomat
Eleonora Duse (1859) Italian actress, called “greatest of her time”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822) 19th President of the United States
Frederic
Remington (1861)
American artist; known for paintings of the American West
Who shares my birthday?
Is your birthday in October? The names of some of the famous people born
in October are shown on the calendar on this page and the next. What do
you know about the person who shares your birthday?
Chester A. Arthur
(1829) 21st President of the United States
Pablo Picasso
(1881) Spanish artist; founder of cubist school
Jenny Lind (1820) singer known as the “Swedish Nightingale”
Thor Heyerdahl
(1914) Norwegian explorer
James Whitcomb Riley (1849) American known as the “Hoosier Poet”
Niels Bohr (1885) Danish physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for
physics
Eddie Rickenbacker
(1890) American ace in World War I
Jesse Jackson (1941) American minister and civil rights leader
Camille
Saint-Saens (1835)
French composer
Giuseppe Verdi (1813) Italian opera composer
Fridtjof Nansen
(1861) Norwegian explorer and statesman
Helen Hayes (1900) American actress, known as the “First Lady of the
Theater”
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884) American humanitarian and wife of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Jerome Robbins
(1918) American ballet dancer
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872) British composer
Dick Gregory
(1932) American comedian, author, and political activist
Arna Bontemps
(1902) American author of Story of the Negro
Margaret Thatcher
(1925) British prime minister
Dwight D.
Eisenhower (1890) 34th President of the United States
Lois Lenski (1893)
American author and illustrator
Virgil (70 [b.c.)]{.smallcaps} greatest poet of ancient Rome
Helen Hunt
Jackson (1830) American author of Ramona
Noah Webster
(1758) American educator who compiled Webster’s Dictionary
Oscar Wilde (1854) Irish author, noted for his wit
Jimmy Breslin (1930) American journalist
William Anders (1933) American astronaut and ambassador to Norway
Henri Bergson
(1859) French philosopher and 1927 Nobel Prize winner for literature
Pierre E. Trudeau
(1919) a prime minister of Canada
John McLoughlin (1784) Canadian pioneer, known as the “Father of
Oregon”
Sir Christopher Wren (1632) English architect
Mickey Mantle
(1931) New York Yankee baseball star from 1951 to 1968
Hokusai (1760)
Japanese artist
Alfred Nobel (1833) Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and
founded Nobel Prizes
Franz Liszt (1811) Hungarian composer and most celebrated pianist of
his time
Gertrude Ederle (1907?) American who was the first woman to swim the
English Channel
Pele (1941) Brazilian soccer star
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
(1632) Dutch scientist
Sarah Josepha
Hale (1788)
American editor who wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825) Austrian composer known as the “Waltz
King”
Richard Byrd (1888) American admiral and explorer of the Arctic and
Antarctic
Mahalia Jackson
(1911) American gospel singer
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919) last shah of Iran
James Cook (1728) British navigator and explorer of the Pacific
Ocean
Theodore
Roosevelt (1858) 26th President of the United States
Jonas Salk (1914)
American research scientist; developed a vaccine to fight polio
Bruce Jenner (1949) American Olympic decathlon winner
James Boswell
(1740) Scottish author of The Life of Samuel Johnson
Jean Giraudoux
(1882) French playwright
John Adams (1735) 2nd President of the United States
Richard Sheridan
(1751) Irish playwright
Juliette Low (1860) founder of the Girl Scouts of America
Dan Rather (1931) American television broadcast journalist