Birthdays Date 1951 October | History by KabAstro

Sting (72 years old)

Oct 2 British singer-songwriter and bassist (The Police - "Every Breath You Take"; solo - "Fragile") and actor (Dune), born in Wallsend, Northumberland

Oct 3 Bernard Cooper, American novelist and short story writer, born in Hollywood, California

Dave Winfield (72 years old)

Oct 3 American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (12 x MLB All Star; 7 x Gold Glove; 6 x Silver Slugger; SD Padres; NY Yankees), born in St. Paul, Minnesota

Oct 3 Jack Grondin, American rock drummer (.38 Special, 1974-91), born in the USA
Oct 3 Jack Harris, British rock vocalist (The Alan Parsons Project), born in Shoreditch, Hackney, London
Oct 3 Kathryn [Kathy] Sullivan, American geologist and astronaut (1st American woman to walk in space), born in Paterson, New Jersey
Oct 3 Keb' Mo' [Kevin Roosevelt Moore], American Grammy Award-winning blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Los Angeles, California
Oct 3 Nick Glennie-Smith, British session keyboard player (Roger Daltrey; Roger Waters), film score composer (Ella Enchanted; Secretariat), and conductor, born in London, England
Oct 4 Alan Rosenberg, American actor (Civil Wars, LA Law, Cybill), born in Passaic, New Jersey
Oct 4 Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
Oct 4 Norbert Sattler, Austrian slalom canoeist (World C'ship gold K-1 team 1971, K-1 1973; Olympic silver K-1 1972), born in Mauthen, Kärnten, Austria (d. 2023)
Oct 4 Truck Robinson, American basketball forward (NBA All-Star 1978, 81; New Orleans Jazz; NBA rebound leader 1978), born in Jacksonville, Florida

Bob Geldof (72 years old)

Oct 5 Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays") and activist (Live Aid), born in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland

Oct 5 Karen Allen, American actress (Cruising, Starman, Wanderers), born in Carrollton, Illinois
Oct 5 Leah Poulos-Mueller, American speed skater (Olympic gold 1980), born in Berwyn, Illinois
Oct 6 Kevin Cronin, American rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon), born in Champaign Illinois

John Mellencamp (72 years old)

Oct 7 American rock singer-songwriter ("Jack & Diane"; "Small Town"; "Pink Houses"), co-founder of Farm Aid, and actor (Falling From Grace), born in Seymour, Indiana

Oct 7 Ricky Phillips, American bass guitarist (Styx, 2003-), born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Oct 7 Táta Vega [Carmen Rosa Vega], American vocalist (Color Purple soundtrack), born in Queens, Long Island
Oct 8 Jack O'Connell, American politician (Member of the California State Senate), born in Glen Cove, New York
Oct 9 Greg Robinson, American football coach (Syracuse University 2005-08; Super Bowl 1997, 98 DC Denver Broncos), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2022)
Oct 9 Richard Chaves, American actor (Cease Fire, Predator), born in Jacksonville, Florida
Oct 9 Robert Wuhl, American actor (Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam), born in Union, New Jersey
Oct 10 Epeli Ganilau, Fijian soldier and politician (National Alliance Party of Fiji)
Oct 11 Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer-songwriter and music record producer, born in Paris, France
Oct 11 Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey defenseman (World C'ship gold 1976, 1977; Olympic silver 1976; Philadelphia Flyers, TJ Motor České Budějovice), born in Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic (d. 2008)
Oct 12 Bernie Ruoff, CFL kicker (Winnipeg, Hamilton), born in West Germany
Oct 12 Donnie Dacus, American session and touring guitarist (Chicago, 1978-80; Badfinger, 1982), born in Pasadena, Texas
Oct 12 Ed Royce, American politician (Rep-R-California), born in Los Angeles, California

Sally Little (72 years old)

Oct 12 South African/American golfer (PGA 1980, du Maurier 1988), born in Cape Town, South Africa

Oct 14 Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-British rock vocalist (Boney M), born in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica
Oct 15 Frank DiMino, American rock vocalist (Angel), born in Washington, D.C.
Oct 15 Hani Al-Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan (2016-present), born in Amman, Jordan
Oct 15 Peter Richardson, British actor, writer and director (The Comic Strip Presents, The Pope Must Die), born in Devon, England

Roscoe Tanner (72 years old)

Oct 15 American tennis player (Australian Open 1977; Wimbledon 1979 runner-up; World #4 1979), born in Kiawah Island, South Carolina

Oct 16 Alan Wheat, American politician (Rep-D-Missouri, 1983-95), born in San Antonio, Texas
Oct 16 Daniel Gerroll, actor (Big Business), born in London, England
Oct 17 Prabowo Subianto, Indonesian politician (Minister of Defense), born in Jakarta, Indonesia
Oct 18 Pam Dawber, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam), born in Detroit, Michigan
Oct 18 Terry McMillan, American author
Oct 19 "Uncle" Floyd [Vivino], American stage and television performer (The Uncle Floyd Show, 1974–98). and world record piano player, born in Paterson, New Jersey
Oct 19 Annie Golden, American punk rock singer (The Shirts), and actress (Hair; Assassins: Orange is the New Black), born in Brooklyn, New York
Oct 19 Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize, born in Athens, Greece
Oct 20 Al Greenwood, American keyboardist (Foreigner - "Feels Like the First Time"), born in New York City
Oct 20 Claudio Ranieri, Italian football manager (Leicester City) and player, born in Rome
Oct 20 Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician and diplomat, born in Gothenburg, Sweden
Oct 21 Thom Panunzio, American audio engineer (Bruce Springsteen; The Roches; Tom Petty, No Doubt), and record producer (Alice Cooper; Joan Jett; Iggy Pop), born in the USA
Oct 23 Charly García, Argentine singer (Sui Generis, Serú Girán), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oct 23 David Johnson, English soccer forward (8 caps; Liverpool FC, Ipswich Town, Everton, Manchester City), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2022)
Oct 23 Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovar politician, First President of Kosovo (2006-10), born in Pakashticë, Yugoslavia
Oct 23 Michael Rupert, American actor (Pasadena Playhouse), born in Denver, Colorado
Oct 24 Todd Crespi, German actor (Magician), born in Frankfurt, Germany
Oct 25 Ransom Wilson, American conductor and flutist (Soliste NY), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Oct 25 Richard Lloyd, American guitarist (Television), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Oct 26 Julian Schnabel, American artist and director (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), born in Brooklyn, New York
Oct 26 Maggie Roche, Irish-American singer-songwriter (The Roches - "Hammond Song"), born in Park Ridge, New Jersey (d. 2017)
Oct 26 [William] Bootsy Collins, American guitarist and singer (James Brown; Parliament-Funkadelic), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Oct 27 Carlos Frenk, Mexican-British cosmologist, born in Mexico

Edward Lee Howard (1951-2002)

Oct 27 American CIA Case Officer and alleged Soviet spy who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985, born in Alamogordo, New Mexico

Oct 27 Jayne Kennedy, American actress (Body and Soul), born in Washington, D.C.
Oct 27 K. K. Downing, British rock guitarist (Judas Priest - "Breakin' The Law"), born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England
Oct 27 Nancy Jacobs, American politician (R), Senator Maryland (1999-2015), born in Charleston, West Virginia
Oct 28 (Gerald) "Jezz" Woodroffe, English rock session and touring keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Robert Plant, Belle Stars), and video game composer, born in Birmingham, England
Oct 28 John Regan, American session and touring rock bassist (Frehley's Comet, Peter Frampton), born in New York (d. 2023)
Oct 28 Rajan Mishra, Indian classical music vocalist, born in Varanasi, India (d. 2021)
Oct 28 Ron & Don Galyon, American siamese twins (Jerry Springer Show), born in Dayton, Ohio
Oct 29 Dirk Kempthorne, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (Senator-R Idaho 1993-99), born in San Diego, California
Oct 29 Guy Gelso, American rock drummer (Zebra), born in Oakland, California
Oct 30 Frank Pallone, American politician (Rep-D-New Jersey), born in Long Branch, New Jersey
Oct 30 Harry Hamlin, American actor (Michael Kuzak-LA Law), born in Pasadena, California
Oct 31 François Bracci, French soccer defender (18 caps; Olympique de Marseille, RC Strasbourg, FC Bordeaux), born in Beinheim, France (d. 2023)
Oct 31 Nick Saban, American football coach (National NCAA C'ships 2003, 09, 11-12, 15, 17; LSU, Alabama, Miami Dolphins), born in Fairmont, West Virginia

About October 1951

How Old? 72 years old
Generation: Baby Boomer
Leap Year: No

Chinese Zodiac: Rabbit
Star Signs: Libra (Sep 23 - Oct 22), Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21)

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