07 October: today's birthdays

• Trent Alexander-Arnold - English professional footballer, born Trent John Alexander-Arnold
• Shawn Ashmore - Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Bobby Drake (Iceman) in the X-Men film series
• Milo Baughman - American furniture designer
• Niels Bohr - Danish physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922
• Simon Cowell - English TV and music producer. He is best known as a judge on the US and UK TV talent shows Pop Idol and The X Factor. He is also a judge in Britain's Got Talent and America's Got Talent
• Nélson de Jesus e Silva - Brazilian soccer player known as Dida
• Dida - Nickname of Brazilian soccer player Nélson de Jesus e Silva
• Georges Duby - French historian
• Lapo Elkann - Italian entrepreneur born in New York. He is the grandson of Gianni Agnelli, who was the major shareholder of Fiat 
• Heinrich Himmler - German Nazi exponent
• Ronald David Laing - Scottish psychiatrist
• Robert Z. Leonard - American film director, actor, producer and screenwriter
  
• Joe Lhota - American politician. He is the former deputy mayor of New York City
• Vladimir Putin - Russian politician, 2nd and 4th President of Russia
• Thom Yorke - English singer and musician. He is the singer of the rock band Radiohead