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Born in October

22,790 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

Fransérgio
association football player
35 years old
October 18 · 1990
Source: Soccerway
Rod Strachan
swimmer
70 years old
October 16 · 1955
No external source identified
Tadese Tola
marathon runner, athletics competitor
38 years old
October 31 · 1987
Source: World Athletics database
Frantz Jourdain
writer, art critic
1847–1935 · aged 87
October 3 · 1847
Source: Structurae
Johann Urbanek
association football player
1910–2000 · aged 89
October 10 · 1910
Source: FBref
Louis Moilliet
photographer, painter
1880–1962 · aged 81
October 6 · 1880
Source: Le Delarge
Albert Stewart Meek
naturalist, scientific collector
1871–1943 · aged 71
October 26 · 1871
No external source identified
Ludovico Micara
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
1775–1847 · aged 71
October 12 · 1775
Source: Catholic-Hierarchy.org
Rodrigo Meléndez*
association football coach, association football player
Date disputed
October 3 · 1977
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Naoya Kondo
association football player
43 years old
October 3 · 1983
Source: Transfermarkt
Francesco Benussi
association football player
44 years old
October 15 · 1981
Source: Transfermarkt
Gordon Wright
association football player
1884–1947 · aged 62
October 3 · 1884
No external source identified
Camille Chevillard
conductor, chef de chant
1859–1923 · aged 63
October 14 · 1859
Source: International Music Score Library Project
Karl Witzell*
naval officer
Date disputed
October 10 · 1884
No external source identified
Apel·les Mestres i Oñós
editorial cartoonist, painter
1854–1936 · aged 81
October 29 · 1854
Source: International Music Score Library Project
Emilio Soriano Aladrén
association football referee
80 years old
October 29 · 1945
No external source identified
Laurie Warder
tennis player
63 years old
October 23 · 1962
Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website
Olga Slavnikova
journalist, literary critic
68 years old
October 23 · 1957
Source: Integrated Authority File
José Ángel Mañas
writer
54 years old
October 22 · 1971
Source: Babelio
Remy Chauvin
ethologist, ufologist
1913–2009 · aged 96
October 10 · 1913
Source: BnF authorities
Dane Zajc
librarian, essayist
1929–2005 · aged 75
October 26 · 1929
Source: Slovenska biografija
Princess Auguste of Hessen-Kassel
painter
1823–1889 · aged 65
October 30 · 1823
Source: The Peerage
Annie Lorrain Smith
botanical collector, lichenologist
1854–1937 · aged 82
October 23 · 1854
Source: Naming names: the first women taxonomists in mycology
Daniel Noonan
rower
46 years old
October 28 · 1979
Source: Sports-Reference.com
Piotr Skrobowski
association football player
64 years old
October 16 · 1961
Source: Transfermarkt
Peter Bamm
physician writer, military physician
1897–1975 · aged 77
October 20 · 1897
Source: Munzinger Personen
Henry Wenceslaus, Duke of Oels-Bernstadt
1592–1639 · aged 46
October 7 · 1592
Source: Integrated Authority File
Andrei Bushkov
figure skater, figure skating coach
57 years old
October 13 · 1969
No external source identified
Steven Alfred
association football player
29 years old
October 11 · 1997
No external source identified
Boris Galchev
association football player, association football coach
42 years old
October 31 · 1983
Source: FBref
Rudolf Haym
opinion journalist, politician
1821–1901 · aged 79
October 5 · 1821
Source: Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog
Andrey Kobelev
association football player, association football coach
57 years old
October 22 · 1968
Source: Transfermarkt
Lyubomir Ivanov
logician, politician
74 years old
October 7 · 1952
No external source identified
Laura Adani
film actor, stage actor
1913–1996 · aged 82
October 7 · 1913
Source: BnF authorities
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
diplomat, civil servant
1932–2021 · aged 88
October 20 · 1932
No external source identified
Izabela Dragneva
weightlifter
55 years old
October 1 · 1971
No external source identified
Svetlana Bolshakova
athletics competitor
41 years old
October 14 · 1984
Source: World Athletics database
Ramón Maximiliano Valdés
writer, politician
1867–1918 · aged 50
October 13 · 1867
Source: Find a Grave
Héctor Santos
association football player
1944–2019 · aged 74
October 29 · 1944
Source: Transfermarkt
Volodymyr Yavorivsky
poet, screenwriter
1942–2021 · aged 78
October 11 · 1942
Source: The Fine Art Archive
Karen Melchior
politician, diplomat
45 years old
October 15 · 1980
Source: tv2lorry.dk
Angelo Jank
painter, teacher
1868–1940 · aged 71
October 30 · 1868
Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Gérard Joseph
association football player
76 years old
October 22 · 1949
Source: Transfermarkt
Éva Fahidi
writer, actor
1925–2023 · aged 97
October 22 · 1925
Source: Integrated Authority File
Marek Piwowski
film director, screenwriter
90 years old
October 24 · 1935
Source: IMDb
Stepan Khmara
politician, human rights defender
1937–2024 · aged 86
October 12 · 1937
No external source identified
Émile Mayrisch
industrialist, entrepreneur
1862–1928 · aged 65
October 10 · 1862
No external source identified
Gerard Badía
association football player
36 years old
October 18 · 1989
Source: FBref
Viktor Knorre
astronomer, chess player
1840–1919 · aged 78
October 4 · 1840
Source: SNAC
Frank Van der Stucken
violinist, musician
1858–1929 · aged 70
October 15 · 1858
Source: International Music Score Library Project
Georgy Lisitsin
chess player
1909–1972 · aged 62
October 11 · 1909
No external source identified
Hugo Henrique Assis do Nascimento
association football player
45 years old
October 27 · 1980
Source: Transfermarkt
Roger Stanier
microbiologist, university teacher
1916–1982 · aged 65
October 22 · 1916
Source: SNAC
Leonas Bistras
journalist, diplomat
1890–1971 · aged 80
October 20 · 1890
Source: limis.lt
Thomas Menamparampil
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
89 years old
October 22 · 1936
No external source identified
Gustav Spörer
astronomer
1822–1895 · aged 72
October 23 · 1822
Source: Integrated Authority File
José Neto
association football player
1935–1987 · aged 51
October 5 · 1935
No external source identified
Agostino Barelli
architect
1627–1697 · aged 69
October 26 · 1627
Source: sueddeutscher-barock.ch
Tomasz Grysa
diplomat, Catholic bishop
55 years old
October 16 · 1970
Source: Catholic-Hierarchy.org
Göran Wahlenberg
naturalist, pteridologist
1780–1851 · aged 70
October 1 · 1780
Source: Q22341380
Gulielma Lister
botanical illustrator, scientific collector
1860–1949 · aged 88
October 28 · 1860
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Miguel Calderón Gómez
basketball player, basketball coach
1950–2025 · aged 74
October 30 · 1950
Source: FIBA database
Rustam Tulaganov
boxer
35 years old
October 8 · 1991
No external source identified
Atanas Komchev
amateur wrestler
1959–1994 · aged 35
October 23 · 1959
No external source identified
Luigi Poletti*
philanthropist, engineer
Date disputed
October 28 · 1792
Source: Archivio Storico Ricordi
Vita Andersen*
poet, writer
Date disputed
October 29 · 1942
Source: lex.dk
Miriam Zohar
stage actor, actor
94 years old
October 16 · 1931
No external source identified
Pavel Řehák
association football coach, association football player
63 years old
October 7 · 1963
Source: Transfermarkt
François Sevez
military personnel
1891–1948 · aged 56
October 22 · 1891
No external source identified
Liliane de Kermadec
film director, screenwriter
1928–2020 · aged 91
October 6 · 1928
Source: Fichier des personnes décédées
Hermann Nuber
association football player, association football coach
1935–2022 · aged 87
October 10 · 1935
Source: Transfermarkt
Garth Robinson
sprinter
56 years old
October 11 · 1970
Source: World Athletics database
Borislav Milić
chess player
1925–1986 · aged 60
October 20 · 1925
No external source identified
Harry Lundahl
journalist, association football coach
1905–1988 · aged 82
October 16 · 1905
Source: EU-Football.info
Yelena Chebukina
volleyball player
61 years old
October 11 · 1965
No external source identified
Thomas Fraser-Holmes
swimmer
35 years old
October 9 · 1991
No external source identified
Wanda Chotomska
poet, screenwriter
1929–2017 · aged 87
October 26 · 1929
Source: Integrated Authority File
Nikolay Andreyev
sculptor, graphic artist
1873–1932 · aged 59
October 26 · 1873
No external source identified
Jean Peyrelevade
businessperson, military flight engineer
86 years old
October 24 · 1939
No external source identified
Fumiko Yonezawa
theoretical physicist
1938–2019 · aged 80
October 19 · 1938
No external source identified
Lu Jiaxi
politician, chemist
1915–2001 · aged 85
October 26 · 1915
No external source identified
Alexander Gelman
poet, playwright
92 years old
October 25 · 1933
Source: Russian literature of the 20th century. Volume 1, 2005
Edith Hancke
stage actor, actor
1928–2015 · aged 86
October 14 · 1928
Source: Integrated Authority File
Gogita Gogua
association football player
43 years old
October 4 · 1983
Source: national-football-teams.com
Gunilla Nyroos
film actor, director
81 years old
October 7 · 1945
Source: filmportal.de
Mike Day
sport cyclist
42 years old
October 9 · 1984
No external source identified
Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov
revolutionary, writer
1885–1938 · aged 52
October 7 · 1885
No external source identified
Vladimir Ivanow
linguist
1886–1970 · aged 83
October 3 · 1886
No external source identified
Leopold Loeffler*
painter
Date disputed
October 27 · 1827
Source: Web umenia
Jürgen Kramny
association football player, association football coach
54 years old
October 18 · 1971
Source: Transfermarkt
David Siradze
association football player
44 years old
October 21 · 1981
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Michał Jurecki
handball player
41 years old
October 27 · 1984
No external source identified
Louis-Isidore Duperrey
hydrographer, sea captain
1786–1865 · aged 78
October 22 · 1786
No external source identified
Ruth Usoro
athletics competitor
29 years old
October 8 · 1997
Source: Tilastopaja
Ji Xinjie
swimmer
28 years old
October 27 · 1997
No external source identified
Niko Bungert
association football player
39 years old
October 24 · 1986
Source: As
Philarète Chasles*
translator, critic
Date disputed
October 6 · 1798
Source: birth certificate
Oskar Kallas
diplomat, folklorist
1868–1946 · aged 77
October 25 · 1868
Source: Biographical lexicon of Estonian sport
Cristian Ugalde
handball player
38 years old
October 19 · 1987
Source: Catalan Sport Encyclopedia
Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir
athletics competitor, pharmacist
40 years old
October 28 · 1985
Source: World Athletics database
Del Andrews
cinematographer, film producer
1894–1942 · aged 48
October 5 · 1894
No external source identified
Abdoulaye Sané
association football player
33 years old
October 15 · 1992
Source: Transfermarkt
Gladys Asmah
entrepreneur, minister
1939–2014 · aged 74
October 16 · 1939
No external source identified
Vojtech Zamarovský
jurist, writer
1919–2006 · aged 86
October 5 · 1919
Source: Czech National Authority Database
Jael Ferreira
association football player
37 years old
October 30 · 1988
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Vsevolod Rauzer
chess player
1908–1941 · aged 33
October 16 · 1908
No external source identified
Stein Grieg Halvorsen
actor, film actor
1909–2013 · aged 104
October 19 · 1909
Source: historical register of persons
Christian Homann Schweigaard
lawyer, politician
1838–1899 · aged 60
October 14 · 1838
Source: Find a Grave
Freddie Wolff
athletics competitor
1910–1988 · aged 77
October 13 · 1910
No external source identified
Lukáš Zelenka
association football player
47 years old
October 5 · 1979
Source: Transfermarkt
Vladimir Jelčić
handball player
58 years old
October 10 · 1968
No external source identified
Richard Schroeder
swimmer
64 years old
October 29 · 1961
No external source identified
Evaristo Pérez de Castro*
politician, head of government
Date disputed
October 26 · 1778
Source: Integrated Authority File
Christina Schweinberger
sport cyclist
29 years old
October 29 · 1996
Source: uci.org
Ruth Stephan
actor, stage actor
1926–1975 · aged 48
October 27 · 1926
Source: ancestry.de
Wang Ju-hsuan
politician, lawyer
65 years old
October 2 · 1961
No external source identified
David Turpel
association football player
33 years old
October 19 · 1992
Source: FBref
Alejandro de la Sota Martínez
architect
1913–1996 · aged 82
October 20 · 1913
Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
tennis player
53 years old
October 6 · 1973
Source: WTA website
Wolfgang Knaller
association football player
65 years old
October 9 · 1961
Source: Transfermarkt
Hitoshi Kihara
geneticist, botanist
1893–1986 · aged 92
October 21 · 1893
Source: SNAC
Louis Cappel
university teacher, Hebraist
1585–1658 · aged 72
October 15 · 1585
No external source identified
Olesya Zykina
sprinter
46 years old
October 7 · 1980
Source: World Athletics database
Alexander Stolz
association football player
43 years old
October 13 · 1983
Source: As
Henry Quinteros
association football player
48 years old
October 19 · 1977
Source: Transfermarkt
Hippolyte Boulenger
painter, visual artist
1837–1874 · aged 36
October 8 · 1837
Source: Dictionnaire des Wallons
Miguel de Andrés
association football player
69 years old
October 8 · 1957
Source: FBref
Magnus Brostrup Landstad
folklorist, collector of fairy tales
1802–1880 · aged 78
October 7 · 1802
Source: Integrated Authority File
Alain Lombard
conductor
86 years old
October 4 · 1940
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Enrique Pérez
association football player
38 years old
October 13 · 1988
Source: As
Maria João Koehler
tennis player
34 years old
October 8 · 1992
Source: WTA website
Carlos Galván
association football player
52 years old
October 28 · 1973
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Emînê Evdal
writer
1906–1964 · aged 57
October 15 · 1906
Source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Semyon Kosberg
engineer, military flight engineer
1903–1965 · aged 61
October 14 · 1903
Source: Belarusian encyclopedia
George Pau-Langevin
lawyer, politician
77 years old
October 19 · 1948
Source: Sycomore
Andrea Mayr
long-distance runner, physician
46 years old
October 15 · 1979
Source: World Athletics database
Oumar Sène
association football player, association football coach
66 years old
October 23 · 1959
Source: Transfermarkt
Bob Scott
racing driver, Formula One driver
1928–1954 · aged 25
October 4 · 1928
No external source identified
Vicente Escudero
writer, dancer
1892–1980
October 27 · 1892
Source: BnF authorities
Jaanus Kuum
sport cyclist
1964–1998 · aged 33
October 2 · 1964
Source: historical register of persons
Didier Sénac
association football player, association football coach
68 years old
October 2 · 1958
Source: Transfermarkt
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs
athletics competitor, sprinter
1923–2015 · aged 91
October 29 · 1923
No external source identified
Anita Blaze
fencer
34 years old
October 29 · 1991
Source: olympedia.org
Alexander Saroukhan
graphic artist, drawing teacher
1898–1977 · aged 78
October 1 · 1898
No external source identified
Mélanie Turgeon
alpine skier
49 years old
October 21 · 1976
No external source identified
Franz Dölger
medievalist, classical philologist
1891–1968 · aged 77
October 4 · 1891
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Michael Liendl
association football coach, association football player
40 years old
October 25 · 1985
Source: FBref
August Kiss
visual artist, artist
1802–1865 · aged 62
October 11 · 1802
Source: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951
Peter Kolbe
explorer, naturalist
1675–1726 · aged 51
October 10 · 1675
Source: Integrated Authority File
Anna Nikandrova
soldier, military officer
1921–1944 · aged 22
October 13 · 1921
No external source identified

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