List of Famous people born in October
Martin Castrogiovanni
Martín Leandro Castrogiovanni is a retired Italian rugby union player. Born in Paraná, Argentina, Castrogiovanni qualified for Italy through his heritage, he moved to Italy as a teenager and represented the Italian national team 119 times over 14 years. In Italy he played for Calvisano between 2001 and 2006, before moving to England to play for Leicester Tigers where he played 145 games over 7 seasons, winning three Premiership Rugby titles. In 2013 he moved to Toulon where he won a Heineken Cup, before finishing his career with Racing 92 in Paris.
Thomas Schmidberger
Thomas Schmidberger is a German para table tennis player. He has won two world titles and six European titles in para table tennis tournaments.
Park Ju-hyun
Park Ju-hyun is a South Korean actress. She debuted in the film The Dude In Me (2019) followed by tvN 's television film Drama Stage Season 3: My Wife's Bed. She gained recognition with her appearance in the drama series A Piece of Your Mind (2020) and starred in her first lead role as Bae Gyu-ri in Netflix original series Extracurricular (2020).
Teruhiko Mashiko
Teruhiko Mashiko is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet.
Katrin Langensiepen
Katrin Langensiepen is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.
Didi Wagner
Adriana Golombek Wagner is a Brazilian television presenter.
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she was the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984. On June 7, 2020, she became the first woman to dive to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans. She was Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Sullivan's tenure ended on January 20, 2017, with the swearing in of President Donald Trump. Following completion of her service at NOAA, she was designated as the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, and has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
Takayuki Shimizu
Takayuki Shimizu is a former professional baseball outfielder for Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the Number 3 draft pick by the Yomiuri Giants in 1996 and played for them until 2008. He is currently a Giants coach.
Narana Coissoró
Narana Sinai Coissoró, GOIP GOC GCIH, is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and retired politician of the right-wing CDS – People's Party.
Colonel Amirouche
Amirouche Aït Hamouda, commonly called Colonel Amirouche, was a leader in the Algerian War, organizing the maquis of the Wilaya III. He is considered a national hero in Algeria.