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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Gerry Adams
Politician
6-Oct-1948   President of Sinn Fein
Milton Ager
Songwriter
6-Oct-1893 6-May-1979 Ain't She Sweet
Hafez al-Assad
Head of State
6-Oct-1930 10-Jun-2000 President of Syria, 1971-2000
Shana Alexander
Journalist
6-Oct-1925 23-Jun-2005 Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder
Jonathan Alter
Columnist
6-Oct-1957   Newsweek Senior Editor
Doug Bereuter
Politician
6-Oct-1939   Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004
William E. Bindley
Business
6-Oct-1940   Founder of Bindley Western Industries
George Henry Boker
Playwright
6-Oct-1823 2-Jan-1890 Francesca da Rimini
William G. Bowen
Educator
6-Oct-1933   President, Princeton University, 1972-88
Melvyn Bragg
TV Personality
6-Oct-1939   The South Bank Show
David Brin
Novelist
6-Oct-1950   The Uplift War
John Caius
Doctor
6-Oct-1510 29-Jul-1573 Second founder of Gonville and Caius College
Mario Capecchi
Scientist
6-Oct-1937   Knock-out mice
Felice Cavallotti
Politician
6-Oct-1842 6-Mar-1898 Italian radical politician
Marcus A. Coolidge
Politician
6-Oct-1865 23-Jan-1947 US Senator from Massachusetts, 1931-37
Le Corbusier
Architect
6-Oct-1887 27-Aug-1965 Most influential 20th century architect
Jerome Cowan
Actor
6-Oct-1897 24-Jan-1972 Miracle on 34th Street
Richard Dedekind
Mathematician
6-Oct-1831 12-Feb-1916 Developed theory of irrational numbers
Klaus Dibiasi
Diver
6-Oct-1947   Platform diver, 3 Olympic Gold Medals
Lloyd Doggett
Politician
6-Oct-1946   Congressman, Texas 25th
Tony Dungy
Football
6-Oct-1955   Indianapolis Colts head coach, 2002-08
Michael Durrell
Actor
6-Oct-1943   Alex Nikolas on Santa Barbara
Britt Ekland
Actor
6-Oct-1942   The Man with the Golden Gun
Bobby Farrell
Singer
6-Oct-1949 30-Dec-2010 Frontman for Boney M
Roshon Fegan
Actor
6-Oct-1991   Ty Blue on Shake It Up!
Edwin Fischer
Pianist
6-Oct-1886 24-Jan-1960 Pianist/conductor, emphasis Bach and Mozart
Wyche Fowler, Jr.
Politician
6-Oct-1940   US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1996-2001
Janet Gaynor
Actor
6-Oct-1906 14-Sep-1984 A Star Is Born
Riccardo Giacconi
Astronomer
6-Oct-1931   Discovered cosmic X-ray sources
Jim Gilmore
Politician
6-Oct-1949   Governor of Virginia, 1998-2002
Ioan Gruffudd
Actor
6-Oct-1973   Horatio Hornblower
Daniel Hamburg
Politician
6-Oct-1948   Congressman from California, 1993-95
Fannie Lou Hamer
Activist
6-Oct-1917 14-Mar-1977 Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer
Thor Heyerdahl
Explorer
6-Oct-1914 18-Apr-2002 Kon-Tiki
Brian Higgins
Politician
6-Oct-1959   Congressman, New York 27th
Amy Jo Johnson
Actor
6-Oct-1970   Julie Emrick on Felicity
Lonnie Johnson
Inventor
6-Oct-1949   Revolutionized the squirt gun industry
Yasar Kemal
Author
6-Oct-1923   Mehmet, My Hawk
John J. LaFalce
Politician
6-Oct-1939   Congressman from New York, 1975-2003
Mitchell Leisen
Film Director
6-Oct-1898 28-Oct-1972 Death Takes a Holiday
Yves Leterme
Head of State
6-Oct-1960   Belgian Foreign Minister
Jenny Lind
Singer
6-Oct-1820 2-Nov-1887 Soprano, The Swedish Nightingale
Carole Lombard
Actor
6-Oct-1908 16-Jan-1942 My Man Godfrey
Louis-Philippe
Royalty
6-Oct-1773 26-Aug-1850 King of France, 1830-48
Joseph Lowery
Activist
6-Oct-1921   Co-Founder of the SCLC
Ethel Mannin
Novelist
6-Oct-1900 1984 Confessions
Humberto Cardinal Medeiros
Religion
6-Oct-1915 17-Sep-1983 Archbishop of Boston, 1970-83
Dan Monson
Basketball
6-Oct-1961   Head Coach, Long Beach State
Les Moonves
Business
6-Oct-1949   CEO of CBS Television
Jacqueline Obradors
Actor
6-Oct-1966   Det. Ortiz on NYPD Blue
Meret Oppenheim
Artist
6-Oct-1911 15-Nov-1985 Fur-covered teacup
Wes Ramsey
Actor
6-Oct-1977   Latter Days
Matteo Ricci
Religion
6-Oct-1552 11-May-1610 Jesuit missionary to China
Lamman Rucker
Actor
6-Oct-1971   Why Did I Get Married?
Zalman Shazar
Head of State
6-Oct-1889 5-Oct-1974 President of Israel, 1963-73
David Sholtz
Politician
6-Oct-1891 21-Mar-1953 Governor of Florida, 1933-37
Elisabeth Shue
Actor
6-Oct-1963   Leaving Las Vegas
Ruben Sierra
Baseball
6-Oct-1965   El Caballo
Jeremy Sisto
Actor
6-Oct-1974   Billy Chenowith on Six Feet Under
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Diplomat
6-Oct-1892 28-Mar-1950 US Ambassador to USSR, 1939-41
Matthew Sweet
Musician
6-Oct-1964   Girlfriend
Olivia Thirlby
Actor
6-Oct-1986   Juno
Fred Travalena
Comic
6-Oct-1942 28-Jun-2009 The Man of a Thousand Faces
Ellen Travolta
Actor
6-Oct-1940   Louisa Arcola on Happy Days
Ernest T. S. Walton
Physicist
6-Oct-1903 25-Jun-1995 Split the atom
John Warnock
Computer Programmer
6-Oct-1940   Co-Founder of Adobe
George Westinghouse
Inventor
6-Oct-1846 12-Mar-1914 Air brake and A/C power
Jeffrey Zaslow
Author
6-Oct-1958 10-Feb-2012 Replaced Ann Landers


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