October 31st, 1976

Born on October 31st, 1976

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 17,000 days old!

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What happened on October 31st?

October 31st, 2015

Shortly after takeoff, Metrojet Flight 9268 (pictured) exploded and then crashed into the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.

October 31st, 2005

The discovery of the Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra, based on photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope nearly five months prior, was announced.

October 31st, 1999

Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.

October 31st, 1984

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi (pictured) was assassinated by two of her own Sikh bodyguards, sparking riots that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Sikhs.

October 31st, 1973

Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the prison's exercise yard.

October 31st, 1941

More than 101 crew members of the USS Reuben James perished when their vessel became the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by hostile action during World War II after it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-552.

October 31st, 1917

World War I: Allied forces defeated Turkish troops in Beersheba in Southern Palestine at the Battle of Beersheba, with the battle involving one of the last successful cavalry charges.

October 31st, 1913

Public-transportation workers in Indianapolis went on strike (pictured), shutting down mass transit in the city.

October 31st, 1517

According to one account, Martin Luther(depicted) posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, present-day Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

October 31st, 0475

Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

October 31st, 1913

The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins.

October 31st, 1907

The Parliament of Finland approved the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

October 31st, 1903

The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

October 31st, 1864

Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.

October 31st, 1863

The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 31st

Born on October 31st, 1976

47

Seth Abramson

American professor, poet, attorney, and author

*October 31st, 1976, Concord

47

Kōji Yamamoto

Japanese actor-singer

*October 31st, 1976, Tokyo

47

Piper Perabo

American actress

*October 31st, 1976, Dallas

47

Guti

Spanish footballer and football manager

*October 31st, 1976, Madrid

47

Charlotte Martin

American musician

*October 31st, 1976, Charleston

47

Jean-Simon DesRochers

Canadian writer

*October 31st, 1976, Montreal

47

Henry Gilroy

American screenwriter and producer

*October 31st, 1976, Los Angeles

47

Chi Muoi Lo

American actor

*October 31st, 1976, Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm

47

Sascha Bertow

German handball player

*October 31st, 1976, Quickborn, Schleswig-Holstein

47

Sanjit De Silva

Sri Lankan actor

*October 31st, 1976, Colombo

47

Bianca DeGroat

American actress

*October 31st, 1976, Massachusetts

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 31st?

28

Emiliano Sala

Argentine association football player (1990-2019)

*October 31st, 1990, Cululú †January 21st, 2019, English Channel

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

38

Paul Cram

Actor

*October 31st, 1985, Augusta

26

Marcus Rashford

English association football player (born 1997)

*October 31st, 1997, Manchester

30

Letitia Wright

British actress

*October 31st, 1993, Georgetown

46

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Irish actor

*October 31st, 1977, Dundrum

46

Sieger Sloot

Dutch actor and cabaret artist

*October 31st, 1977, Rotterdam

37

Christie Hayes

Australian actress

*October 31st, 1986, South Coast

62

Peter Jackson

New Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actor

*October 31st, 1961, Pukerua Bay

59

Marco van Basten

Dutch association football player and manager

*October 31st, 1964, Utrecht

77

Stephen Rea

Irish actor

*October 31st, 1946, Belfast

50

Philippe Bas

French actor

*October 31st, 1973, 19th arrondissement of Paris

86

Bud Spencer

Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player (1929–2016)

*October 31st, 1929, Naples †June 27th, 2016, Rome

85

Josef Wierer

German actor

*October 31st, 1930, Wörth an der Donau †April 22nd, 2016, Nittenau

49

Joelle Charbonneau

American opera singer and writer (1974-)

*October 31st, 1974, Chicago

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

49

Ruben Fleischer

American film director

*October 31st, 1974, Washington, D.C.

46

Séverine Ferrer

French singer

*October 31st, 1977, Montpellier

82

Adolf Erman

German Egyptologist and lexicographer (1854-1937)

*October 31st, 1854, Berlin †June 26th, 1937, Berlin

76

Herman Van Rompuy

Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council (born 1947)

*October 31st, 1947, Etterbeek

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Born in 1976

48

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

48

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

48

Damien Leith

Irish-Australian singer–songwriter

*January 18th, 1976, Dublin

48

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

48

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

48

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung

48

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

48

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

48

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

48

Daniel Ernemann

German association football player and manager

*February 18th, 1976, Amberg

48

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

48

Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers

*February 24th, 1976, Kiryat Ata

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Leap year

Yes: 1976 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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