01 November: today's birthdays

• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux - French poet, novelist and literary critic, best-known as Boileau 
• Hermann Broch - Austrian-borm American writer and playwright. He wrote The Death of Virgil
• Agnès Buzyn - French doctor and politician
• Antonio Canova - Italian sculptor and painter, leading exponent of the Neoclassical style
• Toni Collette - Australian actress, born Antonia Collette. She starred in the films Muriel's Wedding, The Sixth Sense, The Hours, About a Boy, In Her Shoes, and Little Miss Sunshine
• Stephen Crane - American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
• Victòria dels Àngels - Catalan soprano, born Victoria de los Ángeles López García
• Larry Flynt - American publisher, born Larry Claxton Flint Junior. He is the founder and publisher of Hustler, a monthly pornographic magazine
• Anthony Kiedis - American singer, lead vocalist of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Étienne de La Boétie - French philosopher, writer, and poet, considered as one of the fathers of modern political philosophy in France
• Fabrice Luchini - Stage name of Robert Luchini, French stage and film actor
• Robert Luketic - Australian film director. He directed the films Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law, The Ugly Truth, and Killers
• Aishwarya Rai - Indian actress and model. She was Miss World in 1994
• Edgar Reitz - German film director and screenwriter
• Rachel Ticotin - American actress
• Alfred Wegener - German geologist, meteorologist and explorer