List of Famous people born on October 21st
Damion Lee
Damion Lee is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors. He played college basketball for three years at Drexel University and transferred to Louisville for his final year of eligibility. He is also brother-in-law of current teammate Steph Curry.
Shelden Williams
Shelden DeMar Williams is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the College Park Skyhawks of the NBA G League. He played college basketball at Duke University, where his #23 jersey was retired on January 28, 2007.
Aaron Tveit
Aaron Kyle Tveit is an American actor and singer. He is known for originating the musical theatre roles of Gabe in Next to Normal, Frank Abagnale Jr. in the stage version of Catch Me If You Can, and the role of Christian in Moulin Rouge! on Broadway, for which he received a 2020 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical and a 2020 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album, as well as for his portrayal of Enjolras in the 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables. Tveit is also known for his work in television, including the role as Tripp van der Bilt on The CW's series Gossip Girl, Mike Warren on the USA Network series Graceland, Danny Zuko in Grease: Live, and Gareth Ritter in the CBS series BrainDead.
Celia Cruz
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname "La Guarachera de Cuba". In the following decades, she became known internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" or "The Queen of Latin Music" due to her contributions to Latin music in the United States.
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. He owned Bofors, which he redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments. Having read a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to the Nobel Prize institution. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him in the second half of the 20th century. His name also survives in companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies that Nobel established.
Charlotte Caffey
Charlotte Irene Caffey is an American rock and roll musician and songwriter, best known for her work in the Go-Go's in the 1980s, including writing "We Got the Beat".
Miroslav Žbirka
Miroslav Žbirka was a Slovak pop music singer and songwriter. He performed in Slovak, Czech, and English.
Lee Chong Wei
Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a former Malaysian badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 349 weeks, including a 199-week streak from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012. He is the fourth Malaysian player after Rashid Sidek, Roslin Hashim and Wong Choong Hann to achieve such a ranking, and is the only Malaysian shuttler who has held the number one ranking for more than a year.
Louis Koo
Louis Koo Tin-lok is a Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. He began his professional career as an actor in local television series, winning TVB's Best Actor award in 1999 and 2001. After 2001, he fully focused on film career and became one of the stalwarts of the Hong Kong film industry. In 2018, Koo was awarded the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, Asian Film Award for Best Actor and the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2017 film, Paradox. Koo founded "One Cool Group Limited" in 2013. As of 2018, One Cool Group has produced 20 films. He was the ambassador of Hong Kong International Film Festival from 2014 to 2018.
Shammi Kapoor
Shammi Kapoor was an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the mid 1950s until the early 1970s and also made a debut in Tamil cinema with the 1992 crime drama Amaran. He received the Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1968 for his performance in Brahmachari and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Vidhaata in 1982. He is widely hailed as one of the most entertaining and successful actors of Indian cinema.