Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet who became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He was fluent in both French and...
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a German Field Marshal of World War II. He was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded...
William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was an English gentleman and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed. In 1681, King Charles II handed...
Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress, director and writer. She was often referred to as The First Lady of American Cinema. She was a prominent film...
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. His success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of...
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. He is probably best known for his opera, Carmen, which was also his final work.
Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse and patriot. She is renowned for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied...
Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine military officer and politician. After serving in several government positions, including those of Minister of Labour and Vice President of the Republic,...
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was the first person...
Jayne Torvill, OBE (born 7 October 1957) is an English ice dancer. With Christopher Dean, she won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics representing Great Britain. Torvill took a seven-year break from skating from 1998–2005. In...
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress who is particularly noted for
Britt-Marie Eklund (born 6 October 1942), better known as Britt Ekland, is a Swedish actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the...
Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995)was an English film, television, and stage actor. His most notable film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in the Halloween series, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only...
Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS, RDI (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a Greek-British car designer. He is probably best remembered for the design and development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in...
Stanley Augustus Holloway, OBE (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, comedian, singer and poet. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially...
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist,engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the “Dambusters” raid) to attack the dams of...
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and a prominent figure of 20th century music. Shostakovich was in many ways an obsessive man: according to his...
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won four Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and two Academy Awards — as producer of 1975’s Best Picture,One...
Natalie Christine Horler (born 23 September 1981) is an Anglo-German singer and TV presenter. She was born in Bonn to English parents who had moved to Germany in 1980. She began her...
