October 19 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, entrepreneurs and creators, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Schaeffler is a German billionaire businessman and owner of 80% of the holding company INA Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG, which includes the manufacturer of rolling element bearings Schaeffler AG.
$1.8Breported estimate as of September 2026 · Forbes
James "Jim" Morgan McKelvey Jr. is a New York City-based, American, billionaire, and businessman, who co-founded Block, Inc.(formerly Square). He is a Board Director at Emerson Electric.
Jessica Kopitske, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Dahr Jamail Jr. was an American attorney and billionaire. As the wealthiest practicing attorney in America, he was frequently referred to as the "King of Torts".
Yoshiko Shinohara is a Japanese businesswoman and philanthropist. Shinohara founded Persol Holdings in 1973, leading the company until she retired while taking on the role of chairman emeritus in 2016.
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (13 people)
Actors27% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs24% (11 people)
Creators22% (10 people)
Musicians16% (7 people)
Politicians16% (7 people)
Scientists16% (7 people)
Countries
19 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France3 (3 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
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John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars."
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
Nir Barkat is an Israeli businessman and politician, currently serving as Minister of Economy. He previously served as mayor of Jerusalem from 2008 to 2018.
Ronald Vaughan Joyce, was a Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and billionaire. He was an early investor in the Tim Hortons doughnut chain as Tim Horton's first franchisee in 1967.
Ronald V. Joyce, C.M., C.B.H.F., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Avram A. Glazer is an American businessman. He is a member of the Glazer family, who own the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) and hold a majority ownership stake in English Premier League club Manchester United.
James Beeland Rogers Jr. is an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. He is the chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management.
Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre.
IamIrishwikiuser, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David John Moore Cornwell, known by his pen name John le Carré, was an English author. Many of his espionage novels have been adapted for film or television.
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies".
Photographed by Adrian Hon, http://mssv.net/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player. Allardyce made 578 league and cup appearances in a 21-year career spent mostly in the Football League, as well as brief spells in the North American Soccer League and League of Ireland.
Jason R. Reitman is a Canadian and American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), Young Adult (2011), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and Saturday Night (2024).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peter Tosh was a Jamaican musician and reggae singer. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari.
Wang Yi is a Chinese diplomat and politician who is the director of the Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Office of U.S. National Security Advisor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lewis Mumford was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer.
Primitivojumento, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Attributed to Joan Carlile (died 1679), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Umberto Boccioni was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures.
it:Emilio Sommariva, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, better known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed "O Poetinha", was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwright.
UnknownUnknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hadise Açıkgöz is a Belgian-born Turkish singer, songwriter, dancer and television personality. Born and raised in Belgium, her family is of Lezgin-Kumyk origin who settled in Sivas, Turkey.
Takeshi Koshida is a Japanese football manager and former footballer. He is the technical director of Vietnam national football team and Vietnam women's national football team.
Arthur Jules Morin was a French physicist. He conducted experiments in mechanics and invented the Morin dynamometer. He introduced the term coefficient of friction and demonstrated its utility.
Le Panthéon des Illustrations Françaises au XIXe Siècle, vol. 11., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Isagani Sybico Amatong is a Filipino politician from the province of Zamboanga del Norte. He last served as Congressman in the House of Representatives of the Philippines representing the 3rd legislative district of Zamboanga del Norte.
This page lists 45 people born on October 19, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 September 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 19. Read the full methodology.
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