List of Famous people born on October 10th
Rafael Toloi
Rafael Tolói is a Brazilian-Italian professional footballer who plays for and captains Atalanta as a central defender. Tolói, whose great grandparents hailed from Treviso, acquired Italian citizenship in February 2021.
Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter, and narrator of films, theatre, television, and audiobooks. He is known for his work in various films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) and Good Kill (2014). He was also known as the "Voice of Oscar" for the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony, the first Oscars announcer to be seen on-camera.
Manu Bennett
Jonathan Manu Bennett is a New Zealand actor. He is primarily known for portraying characters in epic fantasy works, such as Crixus in the TV series Spartacus, Allanon in The Shannara Chronicles, Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in Arrow, and Azog the Defiler in the Hobbit film trilogy.
Gail Halvorsen
Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen is a retired officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.
Doris Payne
Doris Marie Payne is an American convicted jewel thief.
Manuel Charr
Mahmoud Omeirat Charr, also known as Manuel Charr, is a Lebanese-born German professional boxer of Syrian descent who held the WBA (Regular) heavyweight title from 2017 to January 2021 and challenged for the WBC heavyweight title in 2012.
Miguel Falabella
Miguel Falabella is a Brazilian TV, cinema and theater actor, producer, writer and director.
Yoshiko Sakurai
Yoshiko Sakurai is a Japanese journalist, TV presenter, and writer. She is also president of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, established in 2007.
Mike Tobey
Michael Edward Tobey is an American–Slovenian professional basketball player for Valencia Basket of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers.
Herbert K. Pililaau
Herbert Kailieha Pililaʻau was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. A Native Hawaiian who was born and raised on the island of Oʻahu, he was drafted into the military as a young man. Sent to Korea in early 1951, he participated as an automatic rifleman in the Battle of Bloody Ridge. During the subsequent Battle of Heartbreak Ridge, he voluntarily stayed behind to cover his unit's withdrawal in the face of an intense attack by North Korean forces. Alone, he held off the assault using his automatic rifle and hand grenades and, after exhausting all available ammunition, engaged the attackers in hand to hand combat until being overrun and killed. For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.