| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Bud Abbott |
Actor |
2-Oct-1895 |
24-Apr-1974 |
Half of Abbott and Costello |
| Charles Adler |
Actor |
2-Oct-1956 |
|
Voice of Buster Bunny |
| Sigtryggur Baldursson |
Drummer |
2-Oct-1962 |
|
Drummer for the Sugarcubes |
| Camilla Belle |
Actor |
2-Oct-1986 |
|
When a Stranger Calls |
| Lorraine Bracco |
Actor |
2-Oct-1954 |
|
Goodfellas, The Sopranos |
| Avery Brooks |
Actor |
2-Oct-1948 |
|
Sisko on Star Trek: DS9 |
| James M. Buchanan |
Economist |
2-Oct-1919 |
|
Public Choice Theory |
| Ward Churchill |
Activist |
2-Oct-1947 |
|
Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann |
| Johnnie Cochran |
Attorney |
2-Oct-1937 |
29-Mar-2005 |
Successfully defended O. J. Simpson |
| Mary Sue Coleman |
Educator |
2-Oct-1943 |
|
President, University of Michigan |
| Edward Cox |
Attorney |
2-Oct-1946 |
|
Nixon's son-in-law |
| Patricia Diaz Dennis |
Attorney |
2-Oct-1946 |
|
FCC Commissioner 1986-89 |
| Becky Norton Dunlop |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Conservative activist |
| Christian de Duve |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1917 |
|
Microstructure of the cell |
| Jack Finney |
Author |
2-Oct-1911 |
14-Nov-1995 |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| Ferdinand Foch |
Military |
2-Oct-1851 |
20-Mar-1929 |
Allied Supreme Commander WWI |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
Activist |
2-Oct-1869 |
30-Jan-1948 |
Proselytizer of nonviolence |
| E. L. Godkin |
Journalist |
2-Oct-1831 |
21-May-1902 |
Co-founder of The Nation |
| Theodore F. Green |
Politician |
2-Oct-1867 |
19-May-1966 |
Governor and Senator from Rhode Island |
| Graham Greene |
Novelist |
2-Oct-1904 |
3-Apr-1991 |
The Third Man |
| Moses Gunn |
Actor |
2-Oct-1929 |
16-Dec-1993 |
Bumpy Jonas in Shaft |
| Ayumi Hamasaki |
Singer |
2-Oct-1978 |
|
Japanese Madonna |
| Donald J. Harrington |
Educator |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
President, St. John's University |
| Carl T. Hayden |
Politician |
2-Oct-1877 |
25-Jan-1972 |
US Senator from Arizona, 1927-69 |
| Richard Hell |
Musician |
2-Oct-1949 |
|
Blank Generation |
| Martin Hellman |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| DeShaun Holton |
Rapper |
2-Oct-1975 |
11-Apr-2006 |
D-12 |
| Francis Hopkinson |
Author |
2-Oct-1737 |
9-May-1791 |
The Ballad of the Kegs |
| Cordell Hull |
Government |
2-Oct-1871 |
23-Jul-1955 |
US Secretary of State, 1933-44 |
| Freddie Jackson |
Singer |
2-Oct-1956 |
|
Rock Me Tonight |
| Hank Johnson |
Politician |
2-Oct-1954 |
|
Congressman, Georgia 4th |
| Siim Kallas |
Head of State |
2-Oct-1948 |
|
Prime Minister of Estonia |
| Donna Karan |
Fashion Designer |
2-Oct-1948 |
|
Owner, DKNY |
| Ernest Bai Koroma |
Head of State |
2-Oct-1953 |
|
President-Elect of Sierra Leone |
| Chris LeDoux |
Country Musician |
2-Oct-1948 |
9-Mar-2005 |
Rodeo star, cowboy singer |
| Annie Leibovitz |
Photographer |
2-Oct-1949 |
|
Celebrity photographer |
| Willy Ley |
Author |
2-Oct-1906 |
24-May-1969 |
The Conquest of Space |
| William Marshall |
Actor |
2-Oct-1917 |
8-Jun-1994 |
State Fair |
| Groucho Marx |
Comic |
2-Oct-1890 |
19-Aug-1977 |
You Bet Your Life |
| Spanky McFarland |
Actor |
2-Oct-1928 |
30-Jun-1993 |
The Little Rascals |
| Ben McKelway |
Journalist |
2-Oct-1895 |
1976 |
Editor, The Washington Star |
| Don McLean |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
American Pie |
| Elizabeth Montagu |
Socialite |
2-Oct-1720 |
25-Aug-1800 |
English leader of society |
| Lani O'Grady |
Actor |
2-Oct-1954 |
25-Sep-2001 |
Mary Bradford on Eight Is Enough |
| Ruth Bryan Owen |
Politician |
2-Oct-1885 |
26-Jul-1954 |
Congresswoman and Ambassador to Demark |
| Jack Parsons |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1914 |
17-Jul-1952 |
Satanic rocket scientist |
| Joseph A. Pichler |
Business |
2-Oct-1939 |
|
CEO of Kroger, 1990-2003 |
| James Purnell |
Politician |
2-Oct-1970 |
|
British MP, Stalybridge and Hyde |
| Efren Ramirez |
Actor |
2-Oct-1973 |
|
Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite |
| Sir William Ramsay |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1852 |
23-Jul-1916 |
Discovered noble gases |
| Rex Reed |
Critic |
2-Oct-1938 |
|
At the Movies |
| King Richard III |
Royalty |
2-Oct-1452 |
22-Aug-1485 |
King of England 1483-85 |
| Kelly Ripa |
Actor |
2-Oct-1970 |
|
Faith on Hope & Faith |
| James Root |
Guitarist |
2-Oct-1971 |
|
Rhythm guitarist, Slipknot |
| Robert Runcie |
Religion |
2-Oct-1921 |
11-Jul-2000 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-91 |
| Mike Rutherford |
Guitarist |
2-Oct-1950 |
|
Guitarist for Genesis |
| Joe Sacco |
Cartoonist |
2-Oct-1960 |
|
Palestine |
| Wallace Stevens |
Poet |
2-Oct-1879 |
2-Aug-1955 |
Harmonium |
| Sting |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Lead singer of The Police |
| Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux |
Author |
2-Oct-1619 |
10-Nov-1692 |
Historiettes |
| Tiffany |
Singer |
2-Oct-1971 |
|
Teen singing sensation |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Studied nucleotides, ATP, etc |
| Nat Turner |
Military |
2-Oct-1800 |
11-Nov-1831 |
Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| Edward Tylor |
Anthropologist |
2-Oct-1832 |
2-Jan-1917 |
Founder of cultural anthropology |
| Paul von Hindenburg |
Military |
2-Oct-1847 |
2-Aug-1934 |
Namesake of doomed zeppelin |
| Arthur Edward Waite |
Paranormal |
2-Oct-1857 |
19-May-1942 |
Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck |
| David M. Walker |
Government |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
US Comptroller General |
| Gene Weingarten |
Columnist |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Below the Beltway |
| Maury Wills |
Baseball |
2-Oct-1932 |
|
Stole 104 bases in 1962 |
