October 21 (UPI) – People born on this date are the sign of Libra.
— The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1772
— Swedish chemist/industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize, in 1833
— Jazz trumpeter John “Dizzy” Gillespie in 1917
— Singer Celia Cruz in 1925
— Whitey Ford, Baseball Hall of Famer, 1928
— Author Ursula K. Le Guin in 1929
— Rock musician Manfred Mann in 1940 (age 82)
– Steve Cropper’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee in 1941 (age 81)
— Judith “Judge Judy” Sheindlin in 1942 (age 80)
— Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1949 (age 73)
— American astronaut Ronald McNair in 1950
— Actress/author Carrie Fisher in 1956
— Actor Ken Watanabe in 1959 (age 63)
— Actor William Zabka in 1965 (age 57)
— Actor Andrew Scott in 1976 (age 46)
– Kim Kardashian television in 1980 (age 42)
— Model Amber Rose in 1983 (age 39)
— Actor Matt Dallas in 1982 (age 40)
— Actor Glen Powell in 1988 (age 34)
— Country music singer-songwriter Kane Brown in 1993 (age 29)
— Singer Doja Cat, born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, in 1995 (27 years old)
— 1997 voice actor Nick Wolfhard (age 25)