October 1: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is October 1st your birthday? Was someone special to you born on October 1st? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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October 1st was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

October 1st Birthdays: Famous Artists

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape artist (Animalia, Les Chevaux, The Flock Resting, Landscape with Muleteer and Herdsman and Three Cows Resting), was born on October 1, 1620.

Anna-Lou (Annie) Leibovitz, American celebrity photographer (Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair) was born on October 1, 1949.

Adolf Oberlander, German caricaturist (Variations on the Kissing Theme), was born on October 1, 1845.

French Neoclassical painter Joseph Roques (La Naissance de la Vierge, La Nourrice du Peintre and Personnage Pres d'un Feu de Bois dans un Paysage) was born on October 1, 1757.

Jean Rousseau, French violinist and composer (Traité de la Viole), was born on October 1, 1644.

October 1st Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Eva Klobukowska, Polish relay sprinter and Olympic gold medalist (1964), was born on October 1, 1946.

American professional baseball player and record-setting home-run hitter Mark David McGwire was born on October 1, 1963. McGwire hit 583 home runs during his professional career.

October 1st Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Faith Baldwin, American romance novelist (Adam's Eden, Babs and Mary Lou, District Nurse, He Married a Doctor, Manhattan Nights, Mavis of Green Hill, The Office Wife, They Who Love and Those Difficult Years), was born on October 1, 1893.