| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Maurice Bishop |
Head of State |
29-May-1944 |
19-Oct-1983 |
Prime Minister of Grenada. 1979-83 |
| Mr. Blackwell |
Critic |
29-Aug-1922 |
19-Oct-2008 |
Issued an annual "Worst-Dressed List" |
| Tom Bosley |
Actor |
1-Oct-1927 |
19-Oct-2010 |
Dad on Happy Days |
| Sir Thomas Browne |
Author |
19-Oct-1605 |
19-Oct-1682 |
Pseudodoxia Epidemica |
| Plutarco Elías Calles |
Head of State |
25-Sep-1877 |
19-Oct-1945 |
President of Mexico, 1924-28 |
| Lázaro Cárdenas |
Head of State |
21-May-1895 |
19-Oct-1970 |
President of Mexico, 1934-40 |
| Don Cherry |
Jazz Musician |
18-Nov-1936 |
19-Oct-1995 |
A founder of free-jazz, pocket trumpeter |
| Gordon Childe |
Archaeologist |
14-Apr-1892 |
19-Oct-1957 |
The Dawn of European Civilisation |
| Camille Claudel |
Sculptor |
8-Dec-1864 |
19-Oct-1943 |
French sculptor, mistress of Rodin |
| Jacqueline du Pré |
Cellist |
26-Jan-1945 |
19-Oct-1987 |
Cellist |
| Virgil Earp |
Government |
8-Jul-1843 |
19-Oct-1905 |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| Samuel Guthrie |
Doctor |
1782 |
19-Oct-1848 |
Discovered chloroform |
| John Hodiak |
Actor |
14-Apr-1914 |
19-Oct-1955 |
Lifeboat |
| Raymond Huntley |
Actor |
23-Apr-1904 |
19-Oct-1990 |
Passport to Pimlico |
| Phyllis Kirk |
Actor |
18-Sep-1927 |
19-Oct-2006 |
House of Wax |
| Samora Machel |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1933 |
19-Oct-1986 |
President of Mozambique, 1975-86 |
| H. Freeman Matthews |
Diplomat |
26-May-1899 |
19-Oct-1986 |
Career US Ambassador |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Poet |
22-Feb-1892 |
19-Oct-1950 |
Renascence |
| Pilar Miró |
Film Director |
20-Apr-1940 |
19-Oct-1997 |
The Dog in the Manger |
| James P. Mitchell |
Government |
12-Nov-1900 |
19-Oct-1964 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1953-61 |
| Rudy Ray Moore |
Actor |
17-Mar-1937 |
19-Oct-2008 |
Dolemite |
| Paul Nitze |
Diplomat |
16-Jan-1907 |
19-Oct-2004 |
US cold warrior |
| Sergio Osmeña |
Head of State |
9-Sep-1878 |
19-Oct-1961 |
4th President of the Philippines |
| Charles Pfizer |
Chemist |
1824 |
19-Oct-1906 |
Founder of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals |
| Jerzy Popieluszko |
Activist |
23-Sep-1947 |
19-Oct-1984 |
Priest murdered by Polish government |
| George Pullman |
Business |
3-Mar-1831 |
19-Oct-1897 |
Inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car |
| Martha Raye |
Actor |
27-Aug-1916 |
19-Oct-1994 |
Monsieur Verdoux |
| John Reed |
Activist |
22-Oct-1887 |
19-Oct-1920 |
Ten Days That Shook the World |
| William A. Richardson |
Politician |
2-Nov-1821 |
19-Oct-1896 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1873-74 |
| Guy Rolfe |
Actor |
27-Dec-1911 |
19-Oct-2003 |
Mr. Sardonicus |
| Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
| Nathalie Sarraute |
Novelist |
18-Jul-1900 |
19-Oct-1999 |
Portrait of a Man Unknown |
| Harold R. Swearer |
Educator |
13-Oct-1932 |
19-Oct-1991 |
President of Brown University, 1977-88 |
| Jonathan Swift |
Author |
30-Nov-1667 |
19-Oct-1745 |
Gulliver's Travels |
| Howard Unruh |
Criminal |
21-Jan-1921 |
19-Oct-2009 |
Spree killer, 13 dead in 1949 |
| Pope Urban III |
Religion |
? |
19-Oct-1187 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1185-87 |
| Lew Urry |
Chemist |
29-Jan-1927 |
19-Oct-2004 |
Inventor of alkaline battery |
| Perino del Vaga |
Painter |
28-Jun-1500 |
19-Oct-1547 |
Painter of the Roman School |
| Mercy Otis Warren |
Historian |
25-Sep-1728 |
19-Oct-1814 |
History of the American Revolution |
| Dee Dee Warwick |
Singer |
25-Sep-1945 |
19-Oct-2008 |
Influential but obscure soul singer |
| Charles Wheatstone |
Physicist |
6-Feb-1802 |
19-Oct-1875 |
Inventor of the telegraph |
| Joseph Wiseman |
Actor |
15-May-1918 |
19-Oct-2009 |
Dr. No |
| Gig Young |
Actor |
4-Nov-1913 |
19-Oct-1978 |
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
