October 21 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 21, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#270 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 21 birthdays
Alfred Nobel · Swedish chemist and inventor1833
Edmondo De Amicis · Italian writer1846
Martin Gardner · American mathematics and science writer1914
Dizzy Gillespie · American jazz trumpeter1917
Celia Cruz · Cuban singer1925
Ursula K. Le Guin · American fantasy and science fiction author1929
Christopher A. Sims · American econometrician and macroeconomist1942
Tariq Ali · British political activist, writer, and historian1943
Jean-Pierre Sauvage · French nanotechnologist1944
Nikita Mikhalkov · Russian film director, writer, producer and actor1945
Benjamin Netanyahu · Prime Minister of Israel1949
Ronald McNair · American physicist, astronaut1950
Carrie Fisher · American actress, writer and screenwriter1956
Wolfgang Ketterle · German physicist1957
Andre Geim · Russian-born Dutch-British physicist1958
Ken Watanabe · Japanese actor1959
Waris Dirie · Somali model, author, actress, activist1965
Kim Kardashian · American media personality, businesswoman, model and actress1980
Nemanja Vidić · Serbian association football player1981
Doja Cat · American singer and rapper1995
On this day in history
1959The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
1968At the height of the Japanese university protests, protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in Tokyo and clashed violently with police.
1994North Korea and the United States signed the Agreed Framework to limit the former's nuclear weapons program and to normalize relations between the two countries.
2011Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year.
1861American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.
1867The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in the western Indian Territory.
1910HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1944World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded, making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
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