October Birthdays!

1st, 1924, Milwaukee, William Rehnquist, Supreme Court chief justice.
2nd, 1929, St. Louis, Moses Gunn, portrayal of Booker T. Washington.
3rd, 1854, Mobile, AL, Gorgas Crawford, eradication of yellow fever from Cuba and the Panama Canal.
4th, 1941, New Orleans, Anne Rice, author, Interview with the Vampire.
5th, 1972, Dallas, Grant Hill, basketball, Pistons, Suns, Magic, Clippers.
6th, 1846, Central Bridge, NY, George Westinghouse, inventor train air brake; first to give employees paid vacations.
7th, 1849, Greenfield, IN, James Whitcomb Riley, 19th century American poet known as “The Hoosier Poet.”
8th, 1970, Cambridge, MA, Matt Damon, actor.
9th, 1907, Le Pecq, France, Jacques Tati, filmmaker, comedy masterpieces.
10th, 1963, Princeton, NJ., Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal writer, murdered in Pakistan by terrorists.
11th, 1928, St. Louis, Roscoe Robinson, Jr., first African American to become four-star army general.
12th, 1925, Cleveland, OH, Charles Gordone, playwright, Pulitzer Prize.
13th, 1925, Mineola, NY, Lenny Bruce, stand-up comedian, social critic.
14th, 1858, Boston, MA, John L. Sullivan, first champ of gloved boxing.
15th, 1908, Ontario, Canada, John K. Galbraith, economist, diplomat.
16th, 1888, NYC, NY, Eugene O’Neill, playwright, four Pulitzer Prizes.
17th, 1915, Harlem, NYC, NY., Arthur Miller, playwright.
18th, 1984, St. Paul, MN, Lindsey Vonn, Olympic Skier.
19th, 1945, Rochester, NY, John Lithgow, actor, author.
20th, 1971, Long Beach, CA., Snoop Dogg, rapper, actor, producer.
21st, 1925, Stockholm, Sweden, Alfred B. Nobel, chemist, inventor dynamite, creator of Nobel Prize.
22nd, 1935, Puerto Rico, Chi-Chi Rodriguez, World Golf Hall of Fame.
23rd, 1994, Colorado Springs, CO., Taylor Baxter, YouTube star.
24th, 1830, Royalton, NY, Belva Lockwood, attorney, , suffragist.
26th, 1911, New Orleans LA., Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel.
27th, 1966, Takoma Park, MD., Matt Drudge, journalist.
28th, 1949, Mount Kisco, NY., Caitlyn Jenner, tennis star as Bruce Jenner.
29th, 1942, Daytona Beach, FL., Bob Ross, host “The Joy of Painting.”
30th, 1993, Honolulu, HI., Marcus Mariota, 2014 Heisman Trophy.
31st, 1967, Miami, FL., Vanilla Ice, rapper, actor, TV shows.