Birthdays & Interesting Dates

October 1
Walter Matthau (1920)
Jimmy Carter (1924)
George Peppard (1928)
Julie Andrews (1935)
Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943)
Randy Quaid (1950)

October 02
Groucho Marx (1890)
Bud Abbott (1895)
Don McLean (1945)
Sting (1951) of The Bride (of Frankenstein)

October 03
Gore Vidal (1925)
Chubby Checker (1941)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954)
Jack Wagner (1959)
Tommy Lee (1962)
Neve Campbell (1973)

October 04
Buster Keaton (1895)
Charlton Heston (1924) the Omega Man on the Planet of the Apes
Armand Assante (1949)
Alicia Silverstone (1976) a real Blast From The Past

October 05 Donald Pleasence (1919), Dr. Loomis in the Halloween movies
Karen Allen (1951)
Bob Geldof (1951)
Josie Bissett (1970)
Kate Winslet (1975), a titanic star

October 07 John Mellencamp (1951)
Bobby Brown (1969)

October 08 Paul Hogan (1939) of "Crocodile Dundee"
Rev. Jesse Jackson (1941)
Chevy Chase (1943) of Nat. Lampoon's European Vacation
Sigourney Weaver (1949) of Alien
Edward Zwick (1952)
Matt Damon (1970)

October 09 John Lennon (1940)
Jackson Browne (1948)
Tony Shalhoub (1953) star of "Monk" tv-series
Scott Bakula (1954) of Star Trek's "Enterprise" tv-series
Michael Pare (1959)

October 10 Ed Wood (1924) Glen or Glenda? Plan 9 From Outer Space
Harold Pinter (1930)
Peter Coyote (1941)
Ben Vereen (1946), he's got roots

October 11 Elmore Leonard (1925)
Joan Cusack (1962)
Luke Perry (1966)

October 12 Luciano Pavarotti (1935) an opera singer, though Wagner is not nearly as bad as it sounds
Susan Anton (1950)
Kirk Cameron (1970) of "Left Behind"

October 13 Yves Montand (1921)
Nipsey Russell (1924)
Lenny Bruce (1925) Ford Fairlane's inspiration
Paul Simon (1941) the singer, not the Senator
Chris Carter (1957)
Marie Osmond (1959) cohost of the SciFi Channel's "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"
Kelly Preston (1962)
Nancy Kerrigan (1969)

October 14 Roger Moore (1927) James Bond, 007
Thomas Dolby (1958)

October 15 Mario Puzo (1920)
Penny Marshall (1943) of American Graffiti and spin-off tv-series "Happy Days/Laverne & Shirley"

October 16 Angela Lansbury (1925)
Tim Robbins (1958) of The Shawshank Redemption
Flea (1962)

October 17 Arthur Miller (1915)
Rita Hayworth (1918)
Montgomery Clift (1920)
Evel Knievel (1938) someone who never tried to jump the shark
Margot Kidder (1948) of Trenchcoat
George Wendt (1948) of House

October 18 Chuck Berry (1926)
George C. Scott (1927) of Exorcist 3
Peter Boyle (1933) of Young Frankenstein and The Shadow
Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960) of Time Cop
Wynton Marsalis (1961)

October 19 Divine (1945)
John Lithgow (1945) of Harry & The Hendersons, Raising Cain, Shrek

October 20 Bela Lugosi (1882) of Dracula (1931)
Mickey Mantle (1931)
Jerry Orbach (1935) a tough-guy actor who's also a "fantastic" Broadway singer
Tom Petty (1950)
Snoop Doggy Dogg (1972)

October 21 Dizzy Gillespie (1917)
Manfred Mann (1940)
Patricia Davis (1952)
Carrie Fisher (1956) of Star Wars

October 22 Three Stooges (1903)
Christopher Lloyd (1938) of Back To The Future
Annette Funicello (1942) Mars Needs Women, "Back To The Beach"
Catherine Deneuve (1943)
Jeff Goldblum (1952) The Fly, Independence Day

October 23 Johnny Carson (1925)
Pele (1940)
Michael Crichton (1942) creator of Westworld, "Futureworld" and Jurassic Park

October 24 F. Murray Abraham (1939)
Kevin Kline (1947) of Fierce Creatures
B.D. Wong (1962)

October 25 Minnie Pearl (1912)
Marion Ross (1928)

October 26 Ralph Bakshi (1938)
Bob Hoskins (1942) of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
Jaclyn Smith (1947)
Hillary Clinton (1947)
Cary Elwes (1962)
Dylan McDermott (1962)

October 27 John Cleese (1939) of Fierce Creatures and Monty Python
October 28 Charlie Daniels (1936) The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Dennis Franz (1944)
Bruce Jenner (1949)
Annie Potts (1952) the Ghostbusters's receptionist
Daphne Zuniga (1962) the princess in Spaceballs (Mel Brooks' Star Wars spoof)
Lynn Holly-Johnson (1963)
Jami Gertz (1965)
Julia Roberts (1967)

October 29 Melba Moore (1945)
Richard Dreyfuss (1947) of Spielberg's Jaws and Always
Rufus Sewell (1967)
Winona Ryder (1971) strong enough to lift shops

October 30 Ruth Gordon (1896), the nice nieghbor lady in Rosemary's Baby
Louis Malle (1932)
Grace Slick (1939)
Henry Winkler (1945) of the black comedy Night Shift with Michael Keaton
Harry Hamlin (1951)
Charles Martin Smith (1953)

October 31 Dale Evans (1912)
Sally Kirkland (1944)
John Candy (1950) of Great Outdoors (with Dan Aykroyd)
Jane Pauley (1950)
Dermot Mulroney (1963)
Vanilla Ice (1967)
10-31-41, U.S. destroyer (USS Ruben James aka "The Rube") sunk by German submarine U562 off Ireland. Of the 160-man crew only 45 survived, Captain and all officers lost. The attack was not reported to the media at the time because FDR did not think the US was ready to declare war on Nazi Germany (see 12-7-41)

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