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100 people born today: October 19
Christopher Don Houston is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was... more » | |
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He... more » | |
Ansu Toure is a Liberian footaller who currently plays for Persiba Balikpapan in the Indonesia... more » | |
 | Patrick Lynn Swindall, Sr., is an American politician. Swindall was born in Gadsden, Alabama. He... more » |
Ed "Snoozer" Quinn was a jazz guitarist very highly regarded by his fellow musicians, but who... more » | |
Freja Beha Erichsen, also known as Freja Beha, is a Danish model. more » | |
Thomas Hearns is a retired American professional boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and... more » | |
Gerald Home is the actor who played Tessek-Squid Head and the Mon Calamari Officer in Star Wars... more » | |
Flavio Cotti is a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 10... more » | |
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official and army general,... more » | |
| Peter Lawrence Boyle was an Irish-American actor, best known for his role as Frank Barone on the... more » |
Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, Duke of Fronsac, Marquis of Brézé was a French admiral. He was born... more » | |
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and Artistic Director... more » | |
Eugenio Elia Levi was an Italian mathematician, known for his fundamental contributions in group... more » | |
Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the... more » | |
Ernst Didring was an early 20th-century author who wrote mainly of life in his home country of... more » | |
| Huell Burnley Howser was an American television personality, actor, voice artist, and comedian... more » |
Justus Lipsius was a Southern-Netherlandish philologist and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of... more » | |
Bolesław Limanowski was a Polish socialist politician, as well as historian and journalist and... more » | |
Rudolf Wegscheider was an Austrian chemist. Wegscheider studied chemistry and was the founder of... more » | |
| Timmy Mallett is a television presenter and broadcaster in the United Kingdom. Mallett is most... more » |
Xavier Oyekola Adibi is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was... more » | |
Frederick III was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days in 1888, the Year of the Three... more » | |
| John Harris was a British author. He published a series of crime novels featuring the character... more » |
| Tony Furtado is an American banjo player, slide guitar player and singer/songwriter of... more » |
Composer Bryon Turcotte has been making music with his heart, his mind and his hands since he... more » | |
Jeremy Scahill is a founding editor of the online news publication The Intercept and author of... more » | |
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske, was an American poet and writer who became an... more » | |
Simon Godfrey is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Demons in the... more » | |
Paulino Iglesias Posse, better known as Pablo Iglesias, was a Spanish socialist and labour... more » | |
Andrea Del Boca is an Argentine telenovela actress. more » | |
José Padilla, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen... more » | |
Ronnie Ray Bryant, better known by his stage name Baby Bash, is a Mexican-American rapper. From... more » | |
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one... more » | |
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov PAR is a Russian screen and stage actor, People's Artist of Russia,... more » | |
Jacob Schaefer, Jr. was a professional carom billiards player with german grandparentage, a... more » | |
Yıldo, real name Ahmet Yıldırım Benayyat, is a famous Turkish showman, actor, retired football... more » | |
Donald B. Elliott is a registered pharmacist and American politician of the Republican Party in... more » | |
Shauntay L. Henderson was a wanted fugitive apprehended on March 31, 2007 by the FBI after... more » | |
| Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell CH, PC, best known as Manny Shinwell, was a British trade union... more » |
Yoenis Céspedes Milanés is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder with the Oakland Athletics... more » | |
| Christapor Mikaelian, also known by his noms de guerre Hellen, Topal, and Edward, was one of the... more » |
Luca Giordano was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and... more » | |
Christopher Hunter "Chris" Shays is an American politician. He was a member of the United States... more » | |
| Prince Eugene of Savoy, was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European... more » |
Ze'ev Jabotinsky MBE, born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, was a Revisionist Zionist leader,... more » | |
Emperor Go-Shirakawa was the 77th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of... more » | |
Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian... more » | |
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro is a Nicaraguan political leader, former president and... more » | |
Major General Kevin C. Kiley was the 41st Surgeon General of the United States Army and... more » | |
Jeremy Michael Riddle is a Christian musician, songwriter, and worship leader. On March 6, 2007,... more » | |
Christian Friedrich Schönbein was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the... more » | |
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux, was the first... more » | |
Charles Russell Train was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. more » | |
Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium. She was the daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of... more » | |
Fr. Leopold Moczygemba, OFM Conv - founder of the first Polish-American parish in Panna Maria... more » | |
Jack Williams was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's... more » | |
Marina Prior is an Australian soprano and actress with a career mainly in musical theatre. more » | |
Helen Jewett was an upscale New York City prostitute whose murder, along with the subsequent... more » | |
Iona Campagnolo, PC OC OBC is a Canadian politician, and was the first woman and 27th Lieutenant... more » | |
Stephen V was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1270 and 1272, and Duke of Styria from 1258 to... more » | |
Sergey Leonidovich Dorenko is a Russian TV and radio journalist, famous for hosting a... more » | |
| Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an American actress known for her versatility in a wide variety of... more » |
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer. He began... more » | |
Mariano Ospina Rodríguez was a Colombian politician, journalist and lawyer, founder of the... more » | |
| Erich Warsitz was a German test pilot of the 1930s. He held the rank of Flight-Captain in the... more » |
| Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, QC is an English politician, who is one of the small number of... more » |
Rick Vandivier is an American jazz guitarist, composer and educator. He is the spirit and leader... more » | |
Kir Bulychov or Bulychev was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko, a Soviet Russian science... more » | |
| John Lowell was a United States federal judge from Boston, Massachusetts. He was appointed to... more » |
Candy Lo is a Canto- rock singer-songwriter and actress from Hong Kong. She has released nine... more » | |
Moris Pfeifhofer is a Swiss figure skater. He is the 2005 and 2007 Swiss national bronze... more » | |
Laura Nyro NEAR-oh was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical... more » | |
| Miquel Llobet Solés was a classical guitarist, born in Barcelona. Llobet was a renowned virtuoso... more » |
Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published... more » | |
| Anthony John Clarke is an Irish-born singer-songwriter for some time based in Liverpool but now... more » |
| Jeremiah Donovan was a saloon owner and Democratic politician in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a... more » |
Matthew Henry was an English commentator on the Bible and Presbyterian minister. more » | |
David "Dave" Liffiton is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for... more » | |
Cyrus Reed Teed was a U.S. eclectic physician and alchemist turned religious leader and messiah... more » | |
| Edward Lipiński was a Polish economist, intellectual, social critic, and human rights advocate... more » |
Constantine Mitsotakis, is a Greek politician and former Prime Minister of Greece. He was born... more » | |
Nerijus Astrauskas is a football striker who plays for FK Trakai in the Lithuanian A Lyga. more » | |
Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech American tennis player and coach. Billie Jean King,... more » | |
Craig Cameron Mello is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the... more » | |
| Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, a prominent contributor to... more » |
Chris Rolie is a film director. more » | |
Melina Mercouri, born as Maria Amalia Mercouri, was a Greek actress, singer and politician. As... more » | |
| Frederic Harrison was a British jurist and historian. more » |
| Sergey Rakhmanin is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot and flight instructor. more » |
Frank Charles Carlucci III served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in... more » | |
Professor Vytautas Landsbergis is a Lithuanian conservative politician and Member of the... more » | |
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, 1st Duke of Parma was a French lawyer and statesman during the... more » | |
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramenthra Maha Mongkut Phra Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua, or Rama IV, known in... more » | |
Alexander "Alex" Williams is an English film animator and cartoonist. He is the son of animator... more » | |
Thes One, born Christopher Cesar Portugal in Torrance, California, on October 18, 1977, to an... more » | |
Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi was a Song Dynasty Confucian scholar who became the leading figure of the... more » | |
Ralph Eggleston is an American animator, art director, storyboard artist and production designer... more » | |
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was an American engineer and United States Army officer who saw action in... more » | |
Michael Keller Ditka is a former American football player, coach, and television commentator... more » |