Anniversaries 1 October

Birth

Sallust21

Roman historian, politician -86–-34 BC

Alessandro Pepoli3

Italian writer 1757–1796

William Beckford7

English novelist 1760–1844

Vincenzo Cuoco2

Italian historian and writer 1770–1823

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna1

British writer 1790–1846

Rufus Choate11

American politician 1799–1859

Nat Turner7

American slave rebellion leader 1800–1831

Edward Coote Pinkney5

American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor 1802–1828

Friedrich Thyssen1

German banker 1804–1877

Henry Clay Work3

American composer and songwriter 1832–1884

Annie Besant85

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, wr… 1847–1933

Остин О'Малли1

1858–1932

Louis Untermeyer5

American poet 1885–1977

Stanley Holloway19

English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and mo… 1890–1982

Liaquat Ali Khan1

Pakistan Movement Leader and 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan 1895–1951

Francis Sears1

American physicist 1898–1975

Neville Goddard11

American author and lecturer 1905–1972

Fletcher Knebel1

Novelist, journalist 1911–1993

Daniel J. Boorstin39

American historian 1914–2004

Дэниэл Бурстин1

1914–2004

William H. Rehnquist32

Chief Justice of the United States 1924–2005

Jimmy Carter153

American politician, 39th president of the United States (i… 1924

Zhu Rongji11

former Premier of the People's Republic of China 1928

Simon Soloveychik8

Russia writer and philosopher 1930–1996

Julie Andrews15

British actress, singer, author, theatre director, and danc… 1935

Alvin Goldman1

American philosopher 1938

Phyllis Chesler12

Psychotherapist, college professor, and author 1940

Richard Corben5

American illustrator 1940

Haris Silajdžić2

Bosniak politician 1945

Tim O'Brien25

American novelist 1946

Isaac Bonewits2

Neopagan leader, author, and neo-druid priest 1949–2010

John Hegley4

British writer, musician and comedian 1953

Andrus Ansip2

Estonian chemist and politician 1956

Theresa May54

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1956

William J. Federer1

American historian 1957

Brian P. Cleary7

American writer 1959

Holly Lisle2

American writer 1960

Esai Morales3

American actor 1962

Майкл Энтони Макфол1

1963

Michael McFaul9

American academic and diplomat 1963

Irene Tarimo1

Tanzanian scientist, biologist and educator 1964

Christopher Titus42

actor, writer, podcaster 1964

Carmen Rivera1

American playwright 1964

Harry Hill12

English comedian, doctor 1964

Mia Mottley1

prime minister of Barbados 1965

Donna VanLiere2

American writer 1966

George Weah1

Liberian association football player and politician 1966

Michael Thomas Ford17

American writer 1968

Zach Galifianakis25

American actor and comedian 1969

Chulpan Khamatova10

Russian actress 1975

Jurnee Smollett2

American actress 1986

Abby Stein20

Trans activist, speaker, and educator 1991

Death

Marsilio Ficino9

Italian philosopher 1433–1499

Pierre Corneille81

French tragedian 1606–1684

Margaret Hughes8

British actress 1645–1719

James Fordyce1

British writer and minister 1720–1796

John Angell James22

British abolitionist 1785–1859

William Hepworth Thompson1

British classical philologist 1810–1886

Benjamin Jowett10

Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817–1893

William Harcourt4

British politician 1827–1904

William Mulock6

Canadian politician, judge, academic administrator 1843–1944

Barbados Joe Walcott2

British boxer 1873–1935

E. B. White54

American writer 1899–1985

Malcolm de Chazal13

Mauritian artist 1902–1981

Neville Goddard11

American author and lecturer 1905–1972

A.D. Patel5

Fijian politician 1905–1969

Curtis LeMay13

American general and politician 1906–1990

Douglas McGregor22

American professor 1906–1964

Cecilia Eusepi1

Italian saint 1910–1928

Eric Hobsbawm47

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer 1917–2012

David Berg35

Children of God founder 1919–1994

Richard Avedon2

American photographer 1923–2004

John S. Bell19

Northern Irish physicist 1928–1990

Gottfried Schatz3

biochemist 1936–2015

Tom Clancy83

American author 1947–2013