Some famous birthdays today:

• Elfriede Jelinek (playwright, screenwriter, novelist, writer, poet, translator, author, librettist, born October 20, 1946)
• Stanisław Leszczyński (art collector, born October 20, 1677)
• Dmitry Donskoy (statesperson, born October 12, 1350)
• Báb (religious servant, preacher, born October 20, 1819)
• Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (politician, born October 20, 1784)
• Jomo Kenyatta (politician, writer, born October 20, 1893)
• Li Peng (politician, born October 20, 1928)
• Michiko (Empress Consort of Japan, born October 20, 1934)
• Mickey Mantle (baseball player, born October 20, 1931)
• Viggo Mortensen (writer, painter, poet, singer, musician, actor, film actor, composer, photographer, born October 20, 1958)
• Dannii Minogue (singer, singer-songwriter, actor, songwriter, film actor, model, disc jockey, dressmaker, presenter, born October 20, 1971)
• Pauline Bonaparte (politician, born October 20, 1780)
• Yanina Wickmayer (tennis player, born October 20, 1989)
• Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (consort, born October 13, 1162)
• Stéphane Hessel (writer, diplomat, French Resistance fighter, political activist, born October 20, 1917)
• Lepa Brena (singer, actor, model, born October 20, 1960)
• Jerry Orbach (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born October 20, 1935)
• Yi Un (military personnel, born October 20, 1897)
• Roger Hanin (politician, screenwriter, writer, film director, actor, film actor, born October 20, 1925)
• Valeriy Borzov (politician, athletics competitor, sprinter, born October 20, 1949)
• Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (politician, born October 10, 1567)
• Nicolas de Largillière (painter, born October 20, 1656)
• Konrad Wolf (politician, screenwriter, film director, born October 20, 1925)
• Risa Niigaki (singer, actor, stage actor, seiyū, born October 20, 1988)
• Ango Sakaguchi (screenwriter, novelist, writer, critic, born October 20, 1906)
• John Krasinski (screenwriter, film director, actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, film producer, born October 20, 1979)
• Yasuhiko Asaka (military personnel, born October 20, 1887)
• Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou (monarch, born October 14, 1006)
• Jorge Carlos Fonseca (politician, diplomat, faculty member, born October 20, 1951)
• Frits Thaulow (painter, born October 20, 1847)