Roy Laidlaw (70)
October 5th, 1953

Scottish rugby union player – Roy Laidlaw was born in Scotland (Country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom) on October 5th, 1953 and is 70 years old today.

Other personalities born on October 5

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

71

Duncan Regehr

Canadian writer, artist and actor

*October 5th, 1952, Lethbridge

72

Karen Allen

American actress

*October 5th, 1951, Carrollton

65

Neil deGrasse Tyson

African-American astrophysicist and science communicator

*October 5th, 1958, Manhattan

67

Howard Schmidt

American computer security expert (1949-2017)

*October 5th, 1949, Philadelphia †March 2nd, 2017, Muskego

71

Emomali Rahmon

President of Tajikistan (1992-present)

*October 5th, 1952, Danghara

44

Sascha Lewandowski

German association football player and manager (1971–2016)

*October 5th, 1971, Dortmund †June 8th, 2016, Bochum

80

Michael Morpurgo

British children's writer

*October 5th, 1943, St Albans

75

Václav Havel

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

*October 5th, 1936, Prague †December 18th, 2011, Hrádeček

48

Kate Winslet

English actress (born 1976)

*October 5th, 1975, Reading

72

Bob Geldof

Irish singer-songwriter and political activist (born 1951)

*October 5th, 1951, Dún Laoghaire

74

Peter Ackroyd

English author

*October 5th, 1949, London

77

A. R. Penck

German artist (1939-2017)

*October 5th, 1939, Dresden †May 2nd, 2017, Zürich

66

Lee Thompson

English musician

*October 5th, 1957, London

75

Donald Pleasence

British actor (1919–1995)

*October 5th, 1919, Worksop †February 2nd, 1995, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

56

Jenna Russell

British actress

*October 5th, 1967, Paddington

71

Harold Faltermeyer

German musician

*October 5th, 1952, Munich

100

Glynis Johns

British actress (1923–2024)

*October 5th, 1923, Pretoria †January 4th, 2024, Los Angeles

56

Guy Pearce

English-born Australian actor

*October 5th, 1967, Ely

47

Ramzan Kadyrov

Russian politician and head of the Chechen Republic

*October 5th, 1976, Akhmat-Yurt

71

Clive Barker

English author, film director, and visual artist

*October 5th, 1952, Liverpool

66

Jens Doberschütz

East German rower

*October 5th, 1957, Dresden

76

Brian Johnson

English singer, songwriter and television show host of car shows

*October 5th, 1947, Dunston

61

James Rizzi

American pop artist (1950-2011)

*October 5th, 1950, New York City †December 26th, 2011, New York City

57

Chester A. Arthur

President of the United States from 1881 to 1885

*October 5th, 1829, Fairfield †November 18th, 1886, New York City

70

Denis Diderot

French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

*October 5th, 1713, Langres †July 31st, 1784, Paris

43

Joakim Brodén

Swedish singer

*October 5th, 1980, Falun

50

Bernie Mac

American actor

*October 5th, 1957, Chicago †August 9th, 2008, Chicago

49

Heather Headley

Trinidadian-born singer

*October 5th, 1974, Barataria

37

Rui Costa

Portuguese cyclist

*October 5th, 1986, Póvoa de Varzim

Also born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*January 1st, 1953, Duisburg

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

71

Jeb Bush

Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007

*February 11th, 1953, Midland

70

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

70

Roberto Benigni

Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director

*October 27th, 1953, Castiglion Fiorentino

70

Barbara Minty

American writer

*June 11th, 1953, Seattle

70

Pierce Brosnan

Irish actor

*May 16th, 1953, Drogheda

71

Christine Ebersole

American actress

*February 21st, 1953, Chicago

70

Gernot Rohr

German-French association football player and manager

*June 28th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Guy Verhofstadt

Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008

*April 11th, 1953, Dendermonde

70

Frances Conroy

American actress

*November 13th, 1953, Monroe

70

Eve Ensler

American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

*May 25th, 1953, New York City

Roy Laidlaw