11 October: today's birthdays

• Amitabh Bachchan - Indian actor. He is married to Indian actress Aishwarya Rai
• Art Blakey - American jazz drummer
• Matt Bomer - American actor. He is best known for his role as Neal Caffrey in the TV series White Collar
• Bobby Charlton - English soccer coach and former player
• Gérald Darmanin - French jurist and politician
• Emily Deschanel - American actress. She is known for her role as Dr. Temperance Brennan in the TV series Bones. She is the sister of actress and singer-songwriter Zooey Deschanel
• Thích Nhất Hạnh - Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, writer, and peace activist, born Nguyễn Xuân Bả. He wrote Being Peace, The Miracle of Mindfulness, and Reconciliation - Healing the Inner Child
• Roman Jakobson - Russian linguist
• François Mauriac - French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952. He wrote the novel Thérèse Desqueyroux