10 October: today's birthdays

• Julio Ricardo Cruz - Argentine soccer player
• Alberto Giacometti - Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker
• Jean Gottman - French geographer
• Clare Hollingworth - English journalist and writer. She was the first war correspondent to report the Nazi invasion of Poland, which marked the outbreak of World War II
• Hermann Küttner - German physician and maxillofacial surgeon who discovered the submandibular gland tumor in 1896
• Arthur Oncken Lovejoy - American philosopher born in Germany
• Joan Maragall i Gorina - Catalan writer, poet, journalist, and translater
• Thelonious Monk - American pianist and composer
• Mýa - American singer
• Fridtjof Nansen - Norwegian explorer, scientist and politician, Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. He created the Nansen passport, an internationally recognized document which would protect stateless refugees
• Chris Ofili - English painter of Nigerian descent.
• Harold Pinter - English playwright, poet, theatre director and actor, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. He wrote the play The Birthday Party 
• Mercè Rodoreda - Catalan novelist
  
• David Lee Roth - American singer-songwriter and actor
• Xherdan Shaqiri - Swiss professional footballer of Kosovar-Albanian descent born in Yugoslavia 
• Claude Simon - French novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1985
• Midge Ure - Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter, born James Ure. Along with Bob Geldof, he founded the superband Band Aid
• Giuseppe Verdi - Italian composer
• Ed Wood - American actor and film director