01 October: today's birthdays

• Julie Andrews - English actress and singer. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for his role as Mary Poppins in the homonymous musical fantasy film
• Jean Jacques Annaud - French film director. He directed the films The name of the Rose, The Lover and Seven Years in Tibet. He won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Black and White in Color)
• Júlio César Clement Baptista - Brazilian soccer player
• Jerome Bruner - American psychologist
• Phyllis Chesler - American psychotherapist and writer. She wrote Women and Madness, About Men, Letters to a Young Feminist, and An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir 
• Charles Cros - French poet and inventor
  
• Jean-Pierre Jabouille - Former French racing driver
• Gus Kenworthy - British-born American freestyle skier, born ​Augustus Richard Kenworthy
• Walter Matthau - American actor of Russian descent, born Walter John Matthow. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film The Fortune Cookie, directed by Billy Wilder
• Theresa May - English politician, leader of the Conservative Party, born Theresa Mary Brasier. She served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Gaby Mudingayi - Belgian former soccer player born in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Philippe Noiret - French actor. He starred in the films The Grande Bouffe, I Don't Kiss, The Old Gun, and Life and Nothing But 
• Eliseu Pereira dos Santos - Portuguese soccer player
• Yoshiyuki Tsuruta - Former Japanese swimmer
• Mirko Vučinić - Montenegrin football player.
• George Weah - LIberian politician, former professional footballer, born George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah. He is the 25th President of Liberia
• Nick Whitaker - American actor