Did you know
Bonnie Parker's exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934.
Famous Birthdays on October 1
1910 — Bonnie Parker
American criminal (died 1934)
October 1 has 258 recorded notable births across history, from 86 BC to 2006. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on October 1
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- 1931 Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution. Source
- 1982 Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan; on the same day, Sony releases the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind. Source
- 1861 Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day. Source
- 1961 The CTV Television Network, Canada's first private television network, is launched. Source
Did you know
Stephen Collins is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007.
Did you know
Sivaji Ganesan is the only actor in Tamil cinema to have played the lead role in over 250 films.
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Mark McGwire won two World Series championships, one with Oakland as a player in 1989 and one with St.
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Christian Borle's first leading role on Broadway was Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
More major people born on October 1
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1947
Stephen Collins
American actor and director
Stephen Weaver Collins is an American former actor. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007.
1928
Sivaji Ganesan
Indian actor (died 2001)
Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian actor and film producer.
1963
Mark McGwire
American baseball player and coach
Mark David McGwire, nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and St.
1973
Christian Borle
American actor and singer
Christian Dominique Borle is an American actor and singer. He is a two-time Tony Award winner for his roles as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher and as William Shakespeare in Something Rotten!.
1945
Donny Hathaway
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 1979)
Donny Edward Hathaway was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who Rolling Stone described as a "soul legend".
1927
Tom Bosley
American actor (died 2010)
Thomas Edward Bosley was an American actor, television personality and entertainer.
1945
Rod Carew
Panamanian-American baseball player and coach
Rodney Cline Carew is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player and coach.
1936
Duncan Edwards
English footballer (died 1958)
Duncan Edwards was an English footballer who played as a left-half for Manchester United and the England national team.
1934
Emilio Botín
Spanish banker and businessman (died 2014)
Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y García de los Ríos, iure uxoris Marquess of O'Shea was a Spanish banker. He was the executive chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander.
1931
Sylvano Bussotti
Italian violinist and composer (died 2021)
Sylvano Bussotti was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher.
1910
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2012)
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg was a Polish-born, American-raised, Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva who, from 1965, made his home in the Kiryat Mattersdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.
1927
Sandy Gall
Malaysian-Scottish journalist and author (died 2025)
Henderson Alexander Gall was a Scottish journalist, author and Independent Television News (ITN) news presenter whose career as a journalist spanned more than 50 years.
-86
Sallust
Roman historian (died 34 BC)
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family.
1966
George Weah
Liberian footballer and politician, 25th President of Liberia
George Manneh Oppong Weah is a Liberian politician and former professional footballer who served as the 25th president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024.
1953
Grete Waitz
Norwegian runner and coach (died 2011)
Grete Waitz, née Andersen was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours.
1945
Ram Nath Kovind
14th President of India
Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2017 to 2022.
1955
Jeff Reardon
American baseball player
Jeffrey James Reardon is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1979–1994 with the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta…
1832
Henry Clay Work
American composer and songwriter (died 1884)
Henry Clay Work was an American songwriter and composer. He is best remembered for his musical contributions to the Union in the Civil War—songs documenting the afflictions of slavery, the hardships of army life, and…
1953
Klaus Wowereit
German civil servant and politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
Klaus Wowereit is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 21 October 2001 to 11 December 2014.