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Notable Birthdays for October 21

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- Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize, in 1833
- dancer/choreographer Ted Shawn in 1891
- conductor Georg Solti in 1912
- mathematician Martin Gardner in 1914
- jazz trumpeter John Dizzy Gillespie in 1917
- baseball Hall of Fame member Whitey Ford in 1928 (age 88)
- author Ursula K. Le Guin in 1929 (age 87)
- rock musician Manfred Mann in 1940 (age 76)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Steve Cropper in 1941 (age 75)
- Judith Judge Judy Sheindlin in 1942 (age 74)
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1949 (age 67)
- actor-author Carrie Fisher in 1956 (age 60)
- actor Ken Watanabe in 1959 (age 57)
- and socialite Kim Kardashian in 1980 (age 36).

 


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