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Actors Born on October 1

  • 1890 Alice Joyce, American actress (Song O' My Heart), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1955)
  • 1890 Stanley Holloway, English actor (Higgins-Our Man Higgins), born in London, England (d. 1982)
  • 1896 Ted Healy [Ernest Nash], American vaudeville, stage, and screen actor, comedian (Mad Love, San Francisco, Soup to Nuts), and creator of the Three Stooges, born in Kaufman, Texas (d. 1937)
  • 1903 George Coulouris, British actor (Runaway Bus), born in Manchester, England (d. 1989)
  • 1906 Fatso Marco, American actor and comedian (Milton Berle Show), born in New York City (d. 1962)
  • 1907 Barbara Morrison, English actress (Project Moonbase), born in Weston-Super-Mare (d. 1992)
  • 1907 Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer, actor (world light heavyweight champion 1932-34), born in Leonard's Bridge, Connecticut (d. 1976)
  • 1909 Everett Sloane, American actor (Patsy, Citizen Kane, Enforcer), born in New York City (d. 1965)
  • 1911 Herman Hickman, American College Football Hall of Fame guard, coach and broadcaster (Army, Yale), born in Johnson City, Tennessee (d. 1958)
  • 1914 Michael Goodliffe, British actor (A Night to Remember, Cromwell, 5th Day of Peace), born in Bebington, Cheshire, England (d. 1976)
  • 1920 Lon "Lonny" Chapman, American actor (Investigator, For the People), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2007)
  • 1920 Walter Matthau, American actor and comedian (The Odd Couple, Bad News Bears), born in New York City (d. 2000)
  • 1921 James Whitmore, American actor (The Shawshank Redemption, Give 'em Hell Harry), born in White Plains, New York (d. 2009)
  • 1927 Sandy Gall, Scottish journalist and newscaster (ITN, 1963-92; LBC, 2003-), born in Penang, Straits Settlements
  • 1927 Tom Bosley, American actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote, Fiorello!), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2010)
  • 1928 George Peppard, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's; Banacek; The A-Team - "Hannibal"; Blue Max), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1994)
  • 1928 Laurence Harvey [Larushka Skine], Lithuanian-born South African actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet), born in Joniškis (d. 1973)
  • 1930 Philippe Noiret, French actor (Nuovo cinema Paradiso, Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino), born in Lille, Nord (d. 2006)

Richard Harris (1930-2002)

Irish actor (A Man Called Horse, This Sporting Life) and singer ("MacArthur Park"), born in Limerick, Ireland

  • 1931 Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer, filmmaker and novelist, born in Florence, Italy (d. 2021)

Julie Andrews (88 years old)

1935 British Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award-winning stage and screen singer and actress (My Fair Lady (Broadway); Mary Poppins; The Sound Of Music; The Princess Diaries), born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

  • 1936 Stella Stevens [Estella Eggleston], American actress (Girls! Girls! Girls!; The Nutty Professor; Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows), born in Yazoo City, Mississippi (d. 2023)
  • 1939 Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor
  • 1947 Larry Lamb, British actor (EastEnders, 2008-09; Gavin & Stacey), and radio and television presenter, born in Edmonton, Middlesex, England
  • 1947 Stephen Collins, actor (Star Trek I, Tattingers), born in Des Moines, Iowa
  • 1950 Jeane Manson, American singer and actress, born in Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1950 Randy Quaid, actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, Saturday Night Live), born in Houston, Texas
  • 1954 Richard Schlesinger, American news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours), born in New York City
  • 1957 Stelios Mainas, Greek actor
  • 1958 Adrian Partington, English choral director (BBC National Chorus of Wales, 1999-present; Gloucester Cathedral, 2008-present), organist, and pianist, born in Nottingham, England
  • 1958 Michelle Bauer [Medvitz], California, actress (One Million Heels BC)
  • 1959 Koralia Karanti, Greek stage and screen actress, born in Athens, Greece
  • 1960 Elizabeth Dennehy, American actress (Guiding Light), born in Jacksonville, North Carolina
  • 1961 Robert Rey, Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
  • 1962 Esai Morales, American actor (Bad Boys; La Bamba; NYPD Blue), born in Brooklyn, NYC
  • 1963 Beth Chamberlin, Danville Vt, actress (Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light)
  • 1964 Harry Hill, British comedian
  • 1964 Max Matsuura, Japanese record producer and broadcaster, born in Yokohama, Japan
  • 1965 Cindy Margolis, American model and actress, born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1965 Ted King, American Actor
  • 1966 Christopher Titus, American actor/comedian
  • 1966 Scott Innes, American voice actor (Scooby-Doo), born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri
  • 1968 Jay Underwood, American actor (The Boy Who Could Fly), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • 1969 Zach Galifianakis, American actor (The Hangover; Birdman; Between Two Ferns), born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina
  • 1970 Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor
  • 1971 Gigi Lai, Hong Kong actress and businesswoman, born in Hong Kong
  • 1971 Song Il Gook, Korean actor
  • 1974 Christian Borle, American actor (play Peter and the Starcatcher), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 1975 Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
  • 1975 Kim Suna, Korean actress
  • 1978 Leticia Cline, American model and TV Personality
  • 1985 Emerald Fennell, English, actress, writer and director (The Crown, Saltburn), born in London, England
  • 1986 Jurnee Smollett-Bell, American actress (Lovecraft Country), born in New York City
  • 1986 Sayaka Kanda, Japanese singer and actress, born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
  • 1987 Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor and singer (The Prince Of Tennis), born in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
  • 1987 Michaela Coel, English actress, filmmaker and singer (Chewing Gum), born in London, England
  • 1988 Cariba Heine, Australian actress

Brie Larson (34 years old)

1989 American actress (Room; Captain Marvel), singer and director, born in Sacramento, California

  • 1990 Charlie McDonnell, British YouTube Personality, vlogger, and singer-songwriter, born in Bath, Somerset, England