My brother was born in October, so when he was a child, we always had Halloween candy at his birthday party and sometimes costumes. We continued that tradition even more so with my niece born in October. Have you ever thought about how much fun it would be to have an actual Halloween birth date? There are just as many people born on October 31st as there are any other day of the year, and some of those are people you know.
Historical figures who were born on October 31st include Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low and poet John Keats. Explorer Christopher Columbus is said to have been born on Halloween, but we don't have exact evidence of that.
Astronaut Michael Collins, who went to moon on the Apollo 11 mission but didn't go down to the surface, was born on October 31st, 1930. He died on April 28, 2021 at the age of 90. Other prominent figures who were born on Halloween include journalists Dan Rather and Jane Pauley, architect Zaha Hadid, and tech and science fiction writer Neal Stephenson
Quite a few entertainers celebrate Halloween as their birthday. These include filmmakers Peter Jackson and Ruben Fleischer, and actors Ron Rifkin, David Ogden Stiers, Stephen Rea, Deidre Hall, Lee Grant, Dermot Mulroney, Piper Perabo, Justin Chatwin, Vanessa Marano, Letitia Wright, Holly Taylor, and Sydney Park.
Also on the Halloween birthday list are musicians Larry Mullen Jr., drummer with U2; Adam Horovitz, also known as Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys; rapper Vanilla Ice; Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne; Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance; and Willow Smith (Will Smith's daughter).
In the world of sports, we have football coach Nick Saban, retired baseball players Fred McGiff and Mike Napoli, and soccer players Marco van Basten and Marcus Rashford.
As for royalty, there is Leonor, Princess of Asturias, heir to the Spanish throne, who will be turning 17 this coming Halloween.
-via 24/7WallStreet
(Images credit: Stefan Servos, NASA, YoTuT)
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