Interesting Things to Know
October Celebrity Birthdays!
Do you share a birthday with a celebrity?
Ben Vereen, 77, actor (Sweet Charity), singer, dancer, Miami, FL, 1946.Photo by dtstuff9, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
1 – Julie Andrews, 88, singer, actress, born Julia Wells, Walton-on-Thames, England, 1935.
2 – Sting, 72, singer, born Gordon Sumner, London, 1951.
3 – Alicia Vikander, 35, actress (The Danish Girl), Gothenburg, Sweden, 1988.
4 – Clifton Davis, 78, Singer, actor (That’s My Mama), Chicago, IL, 1945.
5 – Jesse Eisenberg, 40, actor (Batman v Superman), New York, NY, 1983.
6 – Stephanie Zimbalist, 67, actress (Remington Steele), Encino, CA, 1956.
7 – Vladimir Putin, 71, President of Russia, St Petersburg (then Lenningrad), Russia, 1952.
8 – Rona Barrett, 87, gossip columnist, New York, NY, 1936.
9 – Tony Shalhoub, 70, actor (Monk), Green Bay, WIm 1953.
10 – Ben Vereen, 77, actor (Sweet Charity), singer, dancer, Miami, FL, 1946.
11 – John Nettles, 80, actor (Poldark), Cornwall, England, 1943.
12 – Josh Hutcherson, 31, actor (The Hunger Games), Union, KY, 1992.
13 – Ashanti, 43, singer, actress (Coach Carter), born Ashanti Sequoiah Douglas, Long Island, NY, 1980.
14 – David Oakes, 40, actor (The Borgias), Hampshire, England, 1983.
15 – Linda Lavin, 84, actress (Alice), Portland, ME, 1939.
16 – Barry Corbin, 83, actor (Northern Exposure), Dawson County, TX, 1940.
17 – Felicity Jones, 40, actress (Rogue One), Birmingham, England, 1983.
18 – Ne-Yo, 44, singer, born Shaffer Chimere Smith Jr, Camden, AR, 1979.
19 – Rebecca Ferguson, 40, actress (Dune), born Rebecca Ferguson Sundstrom, Stockholm, Sweden, 1983.
20 – John Krasinski, 44, actor (The Office), director (A Quiet Place), Boston, MA, 1979.
21 – Kim Kardashian, 43, television personality, Los Angeles, CA, 1980.
22 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, 48, actor (Modern Family), Missoula, MT, 1975.
23 – Emilia Clarke, 37, actress (Game of Thrones), London, England, 1986.
24 – Monica, 43, singer, born Monica Arnold, Atlanta, GA, 1980.
25 – Midori, 52, violinist, Osaka, Japan, 1971.
26 – Keith Urban, singer, Whangarei, New Zealand, 1969,
27 – Troy Gentile, 30, actor (The Goldbergs), born Troy Farshi, Boca Raton, FL, 1993.
28 – Dennis Franz, 79, actor (Hill Street Blues), Maywood, IL, 1944.
29 – Winona Ryder, 52, actress (Stranger Things), born Winona Horowitz, Winona, MN, 1971.
30 – Grace Slick, 84, singer, Chicago, IL, 1939.
31 – Liv Lisa Fries, 33, actress (Babylon Berlin), Berlin, Germany, 1990.
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