Giuseppe Verdi 1813
Helen Hayes 1900
Johnny Green 1908
Ivory Joe Hunter 1914
Thelonious Monk 1917
Louis Gottlieb 1923 - Musician (The Limeliters)
James Clavell 1924
Edward D. Wood, Jr. 1924
Paul Kruger 1925 - Politician (South Africa)
Richard Jaeckel 1926
Harold Pinter 1930
Bruce Devlin 1937
Dallas Smith 1941
Peter Coyote 1942
Joanna Shimkus 1944
Ben Vereen 1946
John Prine 1946
Charles Dance 1946
Pete Mahovlich 1948
Cyril Neville 1948 - Percussionist, vocalist (Meters, The Neville Brothers)
Jessica Harper 1949
Midge (James) Ure 1953
David Lee Roth 1954 - Singer (Van Halen)
Tanya Tucker 1958 - Country music singer, songrwiter
Kirsty MacColl 1959 - Singer, songwriter
Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1961
Jim Glennie 1963 - Musician (James)
Rebecca Pidgeon 1965
Mike Malinin 1967 - Musician (Goo Goo Dolls)
Brett Favre 1969 - Football player
Dean Roland 1972 - Musician (Collective Soul)
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974 - Race car driver
Mya (Mya Marie Harrison) 1979 - Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress
Eddie Rickenbacker 1890
Juan Peron 1895
Billy Conn 1917
Rona Barrett 1936 - Entertainment reporter
Fred Stolle 1938 - Tennis player
Paul Hogan 1939 - Actor ("Crocodile Dundee" movies)
Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1940
Jesse Jackson 1941 - Civil rights leader
George Bellamy (The Tornados) 1941
Buzz Clifford 1942
R.L. Stine 1943 - Author
Chevy Chase 1943 - Actor, comedian
Susan Raye 1944
Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1947
Sarah Purcell 1948
Brian Glenwright 1949
Sigourney Weaver 1949 - Actress
Hamish Stuart (Average White Band) 1949
Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang) 1950
Johnny Cummings (Ramones) 1951
Ricky Lee Phelps (Brother Phelps) 1953
Michael Dudikoff 1954
Darrell Hammond 1955
Bill Elliott 1955 - NASCAR driver
Stephanie Zimbalist 1956 - Actress
Mitch Marine (Tripping Daisy) 1961
Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin' Daddies) 1963
C.J. Ward (The Ramones) 1965
Teddy Riley 1966
Emily Proctor 1968 - Actress ("CSI: Miami")
Jeremy Davies 1969 - Actor ("Lost", "Saving Private Ryan")
Matt Damon 1970 - Actor
Kristanna Loken 1979 - Actress
Byron Reeder (Mista) 1979
Nick Cannon 1980 - Actor, TV host ("America's Got Talent")
Bruno Mars 1985 - Singer, songwriter
Angus T. Jones 1993 - Actor ("Two and a Half Men")
Bella Thorn 1997 - Actres, singer, model
1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1904 - "Little Johnny Jones" opened in Hartford, CT.
1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.
1935 - "The Oθͺ°eills" debuted on CBS radio.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1950 - U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time.
1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.
1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.
1966 - The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.
1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.
2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.
2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2003 - It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.
2003 - Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the "Siegfried and Roy" show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.
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