October 10 is the birthday of 55 notable people we've found so far, including authors, creators, actors and entrepreneurs, and 3 of them are billionaires.
American-Israeli physician and business billionaire
1945 · United States
$40.5Breported estimate as of August 2025 · Bloomberg
Miriam Adelson is an Israeli-American physician, businesswoman, philanthropist, and conservative political donor. She was married to Sheldon Adelson until his death in 2021.
Jacqueline Mars is an American heiress and investor. She is the daughter of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars Sr., and the granddaughter of Franklin Clarence Mars, founders of the American candy company Mars Inc.
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors31% (17 people)
Actors25% (14 people)
Creators25% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (13 people)
Musicians18% (10 people)
Scientists15% (8 people)
Artists11% (6 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
France4 (4 people)
India4 (4 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Nigeria2 (2 people)
Switzerland2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
By 25
~18Bae SuzyNamed Blue Dragon Film Awards (2012)
~24Rumiko TakahashiReceived the Shogakukan Manga Award (1981)
~25Jean-Antoine WatteauNamed Prix de Rome (1709)
~19Xherdan ShaqiriJoined Switzerland men's national football team (2010)
Simon Lucas Baker is an Australian actor and director. He first gained prominence on the Australian soap opera E Street (1992–1993). Baker achieved his Hollywood breakthrough in 1997 with a supporting role as Matt Reynolds in L.A. Confidential (1997).
Daniel Jonathan Stevens is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2012).
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Charles Dance is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television.
Harold Pinter was an English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years.
Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat, a humanitarian, and the co-founder of the Fatherland League.
Henry Van der Weyde, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Christ Trump was a German and American businesswoman. In 1902, she married Frederick Trump, who died in 1918. After his death, she co-founded the real estate development company E. Trump & Son with their son, Fred, to manage and increase their real estate holdings.
Max Lederle (Lederle & Flocken company) [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · All Elite Wrestling · entertainment
1982 · United States
Antony Rafiq Khan is an American businessman, sports executive, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the founder, owner, president, chief executive officer, executive producer, and head booker of All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Nora Roberts is an American author of over 225 novels, known for romance published under her own name. She also writes police procedurals which have elements of science fiction under the name J. D. Robb, and has published as Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.
Dev Librarian, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Regina Daniels is a Nigerian actress and film producer. As a child actor, she starred as Onyeure in the drama film Dumebi in School (2014), Kenya Obi in Merry Men 2 (2019), and Yewande in the action film Hakeem: Seeking Justice (2025).
1872–1931 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dimitrios Emmanuel Kasdaglis was a Greek-Egyptian tennis player. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 1906 Intercalated Games, also in Athens. In some sources his first name is erroneously given as Dionysios.
From the Official Report of the 1896 Olympics., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Lee Roth is an American rock singer. Known for his wild and energetic stage persona, he was the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Van Halen for three separate periods: from 1974 to 1985, in 1996, and from 2007 to when they disbanded in 2020.
Xherdan Shaqiri is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Swiss Super League club Basel. Born in Kosovo, he represented the Switzerland national team.
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the modern province of Parma, to a family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron named Antonio Barezzi.
Ferdinand Mulnier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mya Marie Harrison, known professionally as Mýa, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She was born in Washington, D.C. and studied ballet, jazz, and tap dance as a child. Her career began in television as a dance posse member on BET's Teen Summit.
Marina Lambrini Diamandis, known mononymously as Marina and previously by the stage name Marina and the Diamonds, is a Welsh singer, songwriter, poet and record producer.
Daniel Åhs Karlsson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Helen Hayes MacArthur was an American actress. Often referred to as the "First Lady of American Theatre", she was the second person and first woman to win the EGOT, and the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting.
Toronto Star, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jodi Benson is an American actress and singer. She is best known for providing the voice of Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989), as well as in its sequel, prequel, and television series spin-off, along with many other Disney works.
Michael Giacchino is an American film, television, and video game score composer. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as three Grammy Awards.
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami, better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
R. K. Balaraman (photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978, she is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists.
Bai Ling is a Chinese American actress and musician. After acting in numerous Chinese productions, she played small roles in American films such as The Crow (1994) and Nixon (1995) before starring as the female lead in Red Corner (1997).
Henry Cavendish was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper, On Factitious Airs.
George Wilson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.
Emmy Andriesse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Evgeny Igorevich Kissin is a Russian-born concert pianist and composer. He became a British citizen in 2002 and an Israeli citizen in 2013. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy.
Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens.
Rosalba Carriera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi is an American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology. She coined the term "bioorthogonal chemistry" for chemical reactions compatible with living systems.
Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis Réard was a French automobile engineer and fashion designer who introduced the modern two-piece bikini in July 1946. He ran a swimsuit store in Paris where he sold bikinis for 40 years.
Jonathan Littell is an American-born writer living in Barcelona. His first novel written in French, The Kindly Ones, won two major French awards, i.e. the Prix Goncourt and the Prix de l'Académie française.
David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on October 10, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of March 2026. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on October 10. Read the full methodology.
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