October 30: Today's Notable Birthdays

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October 30th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

October 30th Birthdays: Famous Artists

British painter Michael Andrews (The Colony Room Mural, Landscape with Waterfall, Source of the Thames and Two Dogs) was born on October 30, 1928.

Emile Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (Dying Centaur and Hercules the Archer), was born on October 30, 1861.

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter (The Judgment of Paris and Portrait of a Woman in a Straw Hat), was born on October 30, 1712.

Maria Anna Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss Neoclassical painter (Death of Alcestis, The Paintress of Macaroni's and A Sleeping Nymph Watched by a Shepherd), was born on October 30, 1741.

Claude Lelouch, French film director (13 Jours en France, Another Man Another Chance, Bolero, A Man and a Woman, Les Miserables and Toute Une Vie) and Academy Award winner (1967 and 1976), A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero was born on October 30, 1937.

French film director Louis Malle (Atlantic City, Au Revoir les Enfants, Black Moon, Crackers, Damage, The Fire Within, Goodbye Children, Lacombe Lucien, Murmur of the Heart, My Dinner with Andre, Pretty Baby, The Thief of Paris and Viva Maria) was born on October 30, 1932.

American photojournalist (LIFE and Vogue) and author (Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective and To Smile in Autumn: A Memoir) Gordon Parks was born on October 30, 1912.

Alexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault, French painter (Automedon, Judith and Salome), was born on October 30, 1843.

Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter (The Bridge at Hampton Court, The Church at Moret, Misty Morning, The Rest by the Stream, Sand Heaps,Snow at Louveciennes, Street in Moret, and View of Montmarte), was born on October 30, 1839.

British film director Michael Winner (Appointment with Death, Behave Yourself, The Big Sleep, Bulls Eye, Chorus of Disapproval, Death Wish, Firepower, Old Mac, Parting Shots, Play It Cool, Scorpio, Shoot to Kill, Some Like It Cool, The Stone Killer, Won Ton Ton - the Dog Who Saved Hollywood and You Must Be Joking) was born on October 30, 1935.

October 30th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Larry Holmes, American heavyweight boxing champion, was born on October 30, 1949.

Italian-American bodybuilder Angelo (Charles Atlas) Siciliano was born on October 30, 1893.

Anastasia (Nastia) Liukin, Russian rhythmic gymnast and Olympic gold medalist (2008), was born on October 30, 1989.

Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona was born on October 30, 1960.

Ted Williams, American professional baseball player (Boston Red Sox), was born on October 30, 1918.

October 30th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The House of the Dead, Notes from Underground and The Raw Youth), was born on October 30, 1821.

American television journalist Andrea Mitchell (MSNBC and NBC) was born on October 30, 1946.

Ezra Loomis Pound, American poet (Cantos, Canzoni, Exultations, Homage to Sextus Propertius, Personae, Ripostes and Selwyn), was born on October 30, 1885.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright (The Critic, The Rivals and School for Scandal) was born on October 30, 1751.

Ferdinand (Fred Friendly) Wachenheimer, American broadcast journalist (CBS Reports, Footprints in the Sands of Time, I Can Hear It Now and See It Now) and author (The Constitution, Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control, The Good Guys the Bad Guys and the First Amendment and Minnesota Rag), was born on October 30, 1915.

October 30th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Joan Ganz Cooney, American educator, broadcaster and Children's Television Workshop founder, 1929.

Albert Rice Leventhal, American publisher (Little Golden Books), was born on October 30, 1907.

October 30th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Marilyn Alex, American actress (The Young and Restless), was born on October 30, 1930.

American comedian and television personality Benjamin Ray (Ben) Bailey (Cash Cab) was born on October 30, 1970.

Michael Anthony Beach, American actor (ER and Third Watch), was born on October 30, 1963.

American country music singer Patsy Montana Ruby Blevins was born on October 30, 1914.

Charnele Brown, American actress (A Different World), was born on October 30, 1965.

Clifford (Brownie) Brown, American jazz trumpeter and composer (Clifford Brown All-Stars), was born on October 30, 1930.

American country singer T. Graham Brown ("Come as You Were") was born on October 30, 1954.

Hamilton Camp, British-American singer and actor (He and She and Meatballs 2), was born on October 30, 1934.

American actor William (Bill) Campbell (Blood Bath, Cannonball, Dynasty, The Naked and the Dead, Star Trek and The Young Racers) was born on October 30, 1926.

Kathleen Cody, American actress (Charley and the Angel, Illegally Yours and Superdad), was born on October 30, 1953.

Jerry de Borg, British pop guitarist (Jesus Jones), was born on October 30, 1963.

Rudolf Forster, Austrian actor (The Threepenny Opera), was born on October 30, 1884.

American actor (Get Smart, Search for Adventure and When Things Were Rotten) and television personality (Body Language, Can You Top This, It's Your Bet, Liar's Club, The Match Game, Password Plus, Showoffs, Super Password, Tattletales, Win Lose or Draw and You Don't Say) Richard (Dick) Gautier was born on October 30, 1931.

Ruth Gordon, American playwright (Adam's Rib, A Double Life, Every Which Way But Loose, The Leading Lad, Over Twenty-One, Pat and Mike and Years Ago), author (Myself Among Others) actress (Harold and Maude, Peter Pan and Rosemary's Baby) and Academy Award winner (1969), was born on October 30, 1896.

David Green, Australian rock bassist (Air Supply), was born on October 30, 1949.

American singer and songwriter Stuart Hamblen ("This Old House") was born on October 30, 1908.

Harry Hamlin, American actor (Clash of the Titans, Dinner at Eight, L.A. Law, Laguna Heat, Murder So Sweet, Save Me, Studs Lonigan and Under Investigation), was born on October 30, 1951.

Eddie Holland, American pop, R&B and soul singer and songwriter ("Baby Love," "I Hear a Symphony," "Jamie," "Leaving Here," "Reach Out - I'll Be There," "Stop in the Name of Love," "Where Did Our Love Go" and "You Keep Me Hangin' On"), was born on October 30, 1939.

American actor Ed Lauter (B.J. and the Bear, Death Hunt, Death Wish, Extreme Justice, Fat Man and Little Boy, In the Custody of Strangers, King Kong, Lassiter, The Longest Yard, Mulholland Falls, Rattled, Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise, Stephen King's Golden Years, Trial by Jury and Youngblood) was born on October 30, 1940.

American actress, Evelyn (Sue Carol) Lederer (Captain Swagger, The Lone Star Ranger and Walking Back) was born on October 30, 1906.

Nia Long, American actress (The Guiding Light, Made in America and Soul Food), was born on October 30, 1970.

John Macchia, American actor (Beach Blanket Bingo and Beach Party), was born on October 30, 1931.

British actress Eily Malyon (Devotion, I Married a Witch and Jane Eyre) was born on October 30, 1879.

American actress Lynne Marta (Love American Style, Once an Eagle, Sleeping with the Devil, Starsky and Hutch and Three Men and a Little Lady) was born on October 30, 1946.

Otis Williams Miles, American soul singer (The Temptations), was born on October 30, 1949.

Ruth Hussey O'Rourke, American actress (Another Thin Man, Madame X, Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story and Stars and Stripes Forever), was born on October 30, 1917.

American country singer Kassidy Osborn (SheDaisy), was born on October 30, 1976.

Kevin Pollak, American comedian, television personality (Celebrity Poker Showdown) and actor (Deterrence, End of Days, Entourage, A Few Good Men, Grumpy Old Men, Indian Summer, The Lost Room, Ricochet, Shark, The Usual Suspects, The Wedding Planner, The Whole Nine Yards and Willow), was born on October 30, 1958.

Jane Randolph, American R&B and pop singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn), was born on October 30, 1919.

American actress Shanna Reed (Beverly Hills 90210, Cheers, Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, Magnum PI, Major Dad, Mirrors, Newhart, Promised Land, Simon & Simon, TJ Hooker and Touched by an Angel) was born on October 30, 1956.

Christopher (Chris Slade) Rees, Welsh rock drummer (AC/DC, Asia, Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Uriah Heep), was born on October 30, 1946.

American actor Tequan Richmond (Celestine Prophecy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, MadTV, Everybody Hates Chris, Ray and Toon Disney) was born on October 30, 1992.

Leon Rippy, American actor (The Alamo, Deadwood, Eight-Legged Freaks, Eye of the Storm, Moon 44, The Patriot, Saving Grace, Stargate and Universal Soldier), was born on October 30, 1949.

British rock guitarist and singer Gavin McGregor Rossdale (Institute and Bush) was born on October 30, 1965. Gavin Rossdale is married to rock singer Gwen Stefani.

Timothy B. Schmidt, American rock bass guitarist and singer (The Eagles and Poco), was born on October 30, 1947.

Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus (Les Aventuriers, Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Six in Paris and Virgin and the Gypsy) was born on October 30, 1943.

American actor (American Graffiti, And the Band Played On, The Buddy Holly Story, Culpepper Cattle Co., Fuzz, Herbie Goes Bananas, The Road Home, Speechless, Starman and The Untouchables) and film director Boris and Natasha: The Movie, Fifty/Fifty and Trick or Treat) Charles Martin Smith was born on October 30, 1953.

Juliet Stevenson, British actress (Life Story and Secret Rapture), was born on October 30, 1956.

British actress Kim Thompson (Stealing Heaven) was born on October 30, 1960.

Grace Barnett (Grace Slick) Wing, American rock singer (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship), was born on October 30, 1939.

American actor (An American Christmas Carol, Happy Days and The Lords of Flatbush) and film director (Cop and a Half, Memories of Me and A Smokey Mountain Christmas) Henry Winkler was born on October 30, 1945.

October 30th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

American radiophysicist and electrical engineer Louis Winslow Austin was born on October 30, 1867.

Francois Crepin, Belgian botanist, was born on October 30, 1830.

Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk, German bacteriologist, pathologist and Nobel Prize winner (1939), was born on October 30, 1895.

Finnish physiologist, neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner (1967) Ragnar Arthur Granit was born on October 30, 1900.

Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist and scientific historian (Jahresbericht of Chemistry), was born on October 30, 1817.

American microbiologist and Nobel Prize winner (1978) Daniel Nathans was born on October 30, 1928.

Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr., American physician, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner (1956),was born on October 30, 1895.

Jean Rostand, French philosopher and biologist (The Future of Biology, Great Trends in Biology, Man Facing Biology and Science and Generation), was born on October 30, 1894.

October 30th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

John Adams, 2^nd President of the United States and author (Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States), was born on October 30, 1735. His son, John Quincy Adams, served as 6^th U.S. President.

Chukyo, 85^th Japanese Emperor, was born on October 30, 1218.

Michael Stanley Dukakis, 65^th and 67^th Massachusetts Governor and 1988 U.S. Presidential candidate, was born on October 30, 1933.

William F. (Bull) Halsey, American Navy vice-admiral and World War II Pacific Fleet Commander, was born on October 30, 1882.

Francisco Ignacio Madero González, Mexican revolutionary and President, was born on October 30, 1873.

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