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One of the most commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he has worked in more than 100 films in a career spanning over four decades.
Famous Birthdays on October 19
1961 — Sunny Deol
Indian actor and producer
October 19 has 254 recorded notable births across history, from 879 to 1999. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1466 The Thirteen Years' War between Poland and the Teutonic Order ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn. Source
- 1900 Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation. Source
- 2019 Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War. Source
- 1956 The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945. Source
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Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011.
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Robert Reed played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E.
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In 2016, Thundercat won a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Performance for his work on the track "These Walls" from To Pimp a Butterfly.
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LaWanda Page released five solo albums, including the 1977 gold-selling Watch It, Sucker!
More major people born on October 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1962
Evander Holyfield
American boxer and actor
Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011.
1932
Robert Reed
American actor (died 1992)
Robert Reed was an American actor. He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G.
1984
Thundercat
American singer and record producer
Stephen Lee Bruner, better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American musician, singer, record producer, songwriter, and bassist from Los Angeles, California.
1920
LaWanda Page
American actress (died 2002)
LaWanda Page was an American actress, comedian and dancer whose career spanned six decades.
1949
Lynn Dickey
American football player and radio host
Clifford Lynn Dickey is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Green Bay Packers.
1948
James Howard Kunstler
American author and critic
James Howard Kunstler is an American writer, social critic, public speaker, and blogger known for his analysis of urban development, suburbanization, and energy issues.
1966
David Vann
American novelist and short story writer
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England.
1973
Hicham Arazi
Moroccan tennis player
Hicham Arazi is a Moroccan former professional tennis player. He played professionally from 1993 to the end of 2007. The left-hander reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22 on November 5, 2001.
1900
Bill Ponsford
Australian cricketer and baseball player (died 1991)
William Harold Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his…
1960
Ayuo Takahashi
Japanese-American singer-songwriter
Ayuo Takahashi is a Japanese-born American composer, poet, lyricist, singer, and performer of plucked string instruments including guitar, bouzouki, Irish harp, Chinese zheng, Japanese koto, and medieval European…
1956
Didier Theys
Belgian race car driver and coach
Didier Maurice Theys is a Belgian sports car driver. He is a two-time overall winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona ; a winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring (1998); the Sports Racing Prototype driver champion of the…
1954
Sam Allardyce
English footballer and manager
Samuel Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player.
1918
Robert Schwarz Strauss
American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Russia (died 2014)
Robert Schwarz Strauss was an influential figure in American politics, diplomacy, and law whose service dated back to future President Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign in 1937.
1916
Jean Dausset
French-Spanish immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France.
1605
Thomas Browne
English physician and author (died 1682)
Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science, medicine, religion and the esoteric.
1956
Grover Norquist
American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform
Grover Glenn Norquist is an American political activist and anti-tax advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases.
1936
James Bevel
American civil rights activist and minister (died 2008)
James Luther Bevel was an American minister and a leader and major strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
1990
Ciara Renée
American actress and singer
Ciara Renée Harper is an American actress and musician. She is best known for her roles on Broadway as The Witch in Big Fish, the Leading Player in Pippin, Jenna in Waitress, and Elsa in Frozen.
1933
Brian Booth
Australian cricketer and educator (died 2023)
Brian Charles Booth was an Australian cricketer who played in 29 Test matches between 1961 and 1966, and 93 first-class matches for New South Wales.