04 October: today's birthdays

• Caitriona Balfe - Irish actress and model
• Ignazio Boschetto - Italian tenor. He is a member of the group Il Volo (The Flight) along with Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - English writer, born Mary Elizabeth Maxwell Braddon. She is best known for her novel Lady Audley's Secret
• Jackie Collins - English writer, the sister of English actress Joan Collins
• Stephen Gyllenhaal - American film director. He directed the film Family of Spies and the TV film Girl Fight.
  He is the fathers of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal
• Charlton Heston - American actor, born John Charles Carter. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1960, for his role in the film Ben-Hur, and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar in 1978
• Dakota Johnson - American fashion model and actress. She plays the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey
• Buster Keaton - American actor famous for his silent films, born Joseph Frank Keaton. He received an Honorary Oscar in 1960
• Rachael Leigh Cook - American actress. She starred in She's All That and she is Kate Moretti in the TV series Perception
• Jean-François Millet - French painter
• Richard Rorty - American philosopher. He wrote Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
• Susan Sarandon - American actress and producer. She won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Dead Man Walking in 1995, a film directed by Tim Robbins, who was her partner in life
• Liev Schreiber - American actor, director and screenwriter. He directed the horror trilogy Scream, Phantoms, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Luis Sepúlveda - Chilean writer, film director, journalist, activist. He wroteThe Story of A Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly and The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
• George Sidney - American film director. He directed Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley
• Alicia Silverstone - American actress. She starred in The Crush, Clueless, and Batman & Robin
• Christoph Waltz - Austrian actor. He won two Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, both directed by Quentin Tarantino