| JAN | 1-15 16-31 | APR | 1-15 16-30 | JULY | 1-15 16-31 | OCT | 1-15 16-31 |
| FEB | 1-15 16-29 | MAY | 1-15 16-31 | AUG | 1-15 16-31 | NOV | 1-15 16-30 |
| MAR | 1-15 16-31 | JUNE | 1-15 16-31 | SEPT | 1-15 16-30 | DEC | 1-15 16-31 |
These are the birthdates of some very famous Australians and in Australia whose birthday is on October.
WERE YOU or someone you know born in March? You’ll find below some notable Australian politicians, footballers, actors, musicians, athletes and even an Olympic Gold Medal winner that have March birthdays.
OCTOBER 1 TO 15
| Birth | Death | Born in October | A little bit about them . . . |
| 01 Oct 1910 | -1998 | José Enrique Moyal | Australian mathematical physicist, helped establish the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics in 1949, professor of mathematics at Macquarie Uni |
| 01 Oct 1930 | -2009 | Frank Gardner | Australian race car driver, 1st in British Touring Car Championship (‘ 66, ‘ 67,’ 73), 2nd in 1975 Bathurst |
| 01 Oct 1961 | Gary Ablett, Sr. | Australian rules footballer, AFL 2005 Hall of Fame, named to the AFL Team of the Century, 1993 Leigh Matthews Trophy, Coleman Medal (‘ 93,’ 94, ‘ 95) | |
| 01 Oct 1965 | Chris Reason | Australian journalist (The Sun, Seven News), married to Kathryn Robinson (Ten News presenter) | |
| 01 Oct 1988 | Cariba Heine | Australian actress (Blue Water High) | |
| 02 Oct 1932 | Lorrae Desmond Beryl Hunt | Australian singer, character actress (Number 96, A Country Practice), in 1962 became the first woman to win a Gold Logie, also won 1984 Logie | |
| 04 Oct 1876 | -1958 | Hugh McCrae | Australian writer (The Ship of Heaven, Idyllia) |
| 04 Oct 1914 | -2003 | Jim Cairns | Australian police detective (1933-44) and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1974-75), in 1970 led estimated 100,000 people in a peaceful sit-down demonstration in Melbourne – the largest Australian protest against the Viet Nam War |
| 04 Oct 1943 | Owen Davidson | Australian tennis player, winner 1965 & 1967 Australian Championships, partnered with legend Billie Jean King they won 8 grand slam mixed double titles – ‘ 67 French, ‘ 67 US Championships, Wimbledon (‘ 67, ‘ 71, ‘ 73,’ 74), US Open (‘ 71, ‘ 73) | |
| 05 Oct 1927 | -1999 | Anne Haddy | Australian actress (Neighbours, Play School, Dynasty, Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, They’re a Weird Mob), married to actor James Condon |
| 05 Oct 1967 | Guy Pearce | English-Australian actor (The Time Machine, The Kings Speech, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Neighbours, Snowy River McGregor Saga), won an Emmy in 2011 for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries for Mildred Pierce | |
| 06 Oct 1930 | Richie Benaud | Australian cricketer and commentator, Australian Cricket Hall of Fame 2007, ICC Cricket Hall of Fame 2009, 1963 became the first player to complete the Test double of 200 wickets and 2,000 runs | |
| 07 Oct 1919 | Zelman Cowen | 19th Governor-General of Australia, Rhodes Scholar, Dean of Law Faculty at University of Melbourne (1951-66), regarded as a leading constitutional lawyer, his son is Rabbi Dr. Shimon Cowen | |
| 07 Oct 1935 | Thomas Keneally | Australian writer, best known for Schindler’s Ark later to become the Academy Award winning movie Schindler’s List, named an Australian National Living Treasure, Miles Franklin Award (1967, 1968) | |
| 07 Oct 1939 | Clive James Vivian James | Australian TV critic (The Observer), radio broadcaster (BBC: A Point of View) and writer (Brilliant Creatures, Unreliable Memoirs, From Land of Shadows), elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010 | |
| 07 Oct 1961 | Brian Mannix | Australian singer (Uncanny X-Men – Everybody Wants to Work) and actor (Neighbours) | |
| 07 Oct 1975 | Tim Minchin | Australian actor (Two Fists One Heart), comedian and musician (White Wine in the Sun, Ready for This?) | |
| 08 Oct 1901 | -2000 | Mark Oliphant | Australian physicist and humanitarian, co-discovery of deuteron, triton, helium-3, played a fundamental role in the development of the atomic bomb, Governor of South Australia (1971-1976), nephew is Pat Oliphant (Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist) |
| 08 Oct 1918 | -2005 | Ron Randell | Australian actor (The Longest Day, A Son Is Born, Kiss Me Kate, King of Kings, World of Suzie Wong) |
| 08 Oct 1939 | Paul Hogan | Australian actor (Crocodile Dundee film series, Anzacs, Lightning Jack, Charlie and Boots, Paul Hogan Show), Australian of the Year 1985 | |
| 08 Oct 1961 | Simon Burke | Australian actor (The Alice, Young Lions, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Brides of Christ, Flying Doctors, A Country Practice, The Sullivans), began career age 13 in Australian film The Devil’s Playground | |
| 09 Oct 1908 | -1961 | Harry Hooton | Australian poet, social commentator (Things You See When You Haven’t Got a Gun, The Politics of Things) |
| 09 Oct 1934 | Jill Ker Conway | Australian-American author (Road from Coorain, Merchants and Merinos), first woman president of Smith College (largest women’s college in USA) | |
| 09 Oct 1972 | Sarah Vandenbergh | Australian actress (Neighbours, Hollyoaks) | |
| 10 Oct 1870 | -1935 | Louise Mack Marie Louise Mack | Australian writer (The World is Round, An Australian Girl in London, A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War), journalist, first female war correspondent – pioneer in first person war reporting such as German invasion of Antwerp Belgium in October 1914 |
| 10 Oct 1991 | Gabriella Cilmi | Australian singer (Sanctuary, Save the Lies, Sweet About Me), received 6 ARIA Awards in 2008 | |
| 11 Oct 1947 | Paul John Kelly | Australian political journalist (The Australian), historian, author (100 Years: The Australian Story, The Unmaking of Gough, Hawke Ascendancy, Howard’s Decade), Walkley Award 2001, his book The Dismissal was the basis of the Network Ten miniseries (1983), author and presenter on the ABC TV of the documentary series 100 Years – The Australia Story (2001) | |
| 11 Oct 1972 | Claudia Black | Australian actress (Farscape, Stargate SG-1, Dragon Age Origins), film voice (Rango, Stolen Life), game voice (Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning, Gears of War) Constellation Awards 2006 & 2008 | |
| 11 Oct 1963 | Marcus Graham | Australian actor (Underbelly, E Street, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Secret Life of Us, Stupid Stupid Man) | |
| 12 Oct 1968 | Hugh Jackman | Australian actor (X-Men series, Australia, Man from Snowy River), voice film (Happy Feet, Flushed Away), singer (Boy from Oz), Tony Award 2004, Emmy Award 2005, philanthropist (proponent of microcredit – small loans to entrepreneurs in impoverished countries) | |
| 13 Oct 1878 | -1952 | Patrick J Hartigan pseudonym John O’Brien | Australian Roman Catholic priest, writer (Old Bush School, Said Hanrahan, Tangmalangmaloo), John O’Brien Festival is held every March in Narrandera |
| 14 Oct 1965 | Constantine Koukias | Greek-Australian flautist and composer for chamber, opera, choral, orchestral and music theatre (Prayer Bells, Incantation II, Days and Nights with Christ) | |
| 15 Oct 1946 | Katy Manning | English-Australian actress (Doctor Who, Private Wives) | |
| 15 Oct 1940 | Peter Charles Doherty | Australian veterinary surgeon and researcher, named an Australian National Living Treasure, Australian of the Year 1997, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1996 for discovery how immune system recognises virus-infected cells, first person with veterinary qualification to win a Nobel Prize |
OCTOBER 16 TO 31
| Birth | Death | Born in October | A little bit about them . . . |
| 16 Oct 1916 | -1997 | George Turner | Australian author (Cupboard Under the Stairs, Lame Dog Man, Beloved Son, Sea and Summer), Miles Franklin Award 1962, Arthur C Clark Award 1988 |
| 16 Oct 1967 | Michael York | Australian field hockey, silver medal 1992 Olympics, bronze medal 1996 and 2000 Olympics | |
| 16 Oct 1976 | Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald | Australian rules footballer and media personality, 4th place in Big Brother Australia 2004, co-hosted Big Brother & Friday Night Games 2005-6 | |
| 16 Oct 1985 | Casey Stoner | Australian motorcycle racer, 2007 MotoGP World Champion | |
| 16 Oct 1959 | Martin Sacks | Australian actor (Blue Heelers, Underbelly, Do or Die, Restless Years, My Husband My Killer), Logie 1997, Logie 1998, Logie 1999, Logie 2000, Logie 2001 | |
| 17 Oct 1917 | -1991 | Sumner Locke Elliott | Australian-American novelist (Careful He Might Hear You, Rusty Bugles, Signs of Life, Signs of Life), Miles Franklin Award 1963 |
| 17 Oct 1946 | Drusilla Modjeska | Australian writer (Poppy, The Orchard, Sisters) | |
| 17 Oct 1959 | Russell Gilbert | Australian comedian (Hey Hey It’s Saturday, Bringles, Russell Gilbert Show), actor (Ned Kelly, The Extra) | |
| 18 Oct 1942 | Larry Pickering | Australian political cartoonist (Canberra Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian) | |
| 18 Oct 1954 | Liz Burch | Australian actress (Flying Doctors, Cop Shop, Five Mile Creek, Ocean Girl, Crash Burn) | |
| 19 Oct 1958 | Tiriel Mora | Australian actor, best known as local solicitor Dennis Denuto in the popular Australian film The Castle | |
| 20 Oct 1971 | Dannii Minogue | Australian singer (Love and Kisses, Neon Nights, Get Into You), actor (Home and Away), judge (X Factor, Australia’s Got Talent), Kylie Minogue’s sister | |
| 20 Oct 1959 | Mark Little | Australian actor (Neighbours, Blackball), TV presenter (Big Breakfast, The Villa), comedian | |
| 20 Oct 1994 | Morgan Featherstone | Australian model, career began at 6 months old when she appeared in a cheese ad, she was subjected to intense media & public speculation that modelling would ruin her childhood, but it appears not to be true | |
| 21 Oct 1942 | Allan “Gricey” Grice | Australian race car driver, won Bathurst 1000 in 1986, 1990, politician (Member for Broadwater 1992-2001) | |
| 24 Oct 1987 | Lincoln Lewis | Australian actor (Home and Away, Tomorrow When the War Begins, Underbelly Razor), Logie Award 2010, his father is rugby league footballer and coach Wally Lewis | |
| 24 Oct 1989 | Eliza Taylor Cotter | Australian actress (Neighbours, Pirate Islands, The Sleepover Club) | |
| 25 Oct 1941 | Helen Reddy | Australian singer (I Am Woman, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone, Angie Baby,) ARIA Hall of Fame | |
| 25 Oct 1958 | Lenore Smith | Australian actress (Flying Doctors, Restless Years, The Man Who Sued God, Farscape, Outriders) | |
| 26 Oct 1967 | Keith Urban | New Zealand-Australian country singer (It’s a Love Thing, Somebody Like You, Without You, I’m In), ARIA music award (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007), CMAA music award (91, 92, 98, 01, 03, 04, 07, 10, 12) Grammy Award (2006, 2008, 2010, 2011), married to Australian actress Nicole Kidman | |
| 27 Oct 1728 | -1779 | James Cook | British explorer, navigator and cartographer (charted with unusual accuracy for his day Newfoundland, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and other lands), and as commander of Endeavour his sailing master was William Bligh (later to command HMS Bounty) |
| 28 Oct 1942 | Terence Donovan | English-Australian actor (Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, Division 4, Neighbours, Cop Shop, Man from Snowy River), father of actor Jason Donovan | |
| 29 Oct 1947 | Helen Coonan | Australian politician (Liberal senator for NSW), first woman to hold an Australian Treasury portfolio (2001-04) since Federation | |
| 29 Oct 1964 | Jackie Pereira | Australian field hockey player, member of Australian Women’s Hockey Team Hockeyroos, gold medal in 1988 and 1996 Olympics, gold medal 1994 and silver 1990 World Cup | |
| 29 Oct 1983 | Richard Brancatisano | Australian actor (Power Rangers Mystic Force, Home and Away), Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial 2007 | |
| 30 Oct 1948 | Garry McDonald | Australian actor (Aunty Jack Show, Flash Nick from Jindivik, Mother and Son, Picnic at Hanging Rock), best known for comedic character Norman Gunston, Gold Logie awarded in 1976 to Norman Gunston (only Logie awarded to a character), Logie 1976 and 1994, Logie Hall of Fame 1997 | |
| 30 Oct 1958 | Stefan Dennis | Australian actor (Neighbours, Sullivans, Henderson Kids, Young Doctors, Dream Team, River City), and singer (Don’t It Make You Feel Good?) | |
| 31 Oct 1888 | -1958 | Hubert Wilkins George Hubert Wilkins | Australian polar explorer, aviator, war correspondent, geographer, photographer, 1912 became first person to film combat, 1918 awarded Military Cross, Knighted in 1928, so respected by US Navy that after he died his ashes were scattered in a memorial service at the North Pole by the men of the submarine USS Skate. |
| 31 Oct 1929 | -2004 | Eddie Charlton | Australian snooker and English billiards player, 1983 rated 4th among worlds 125 best snooker players, rated 6th in the world at age 55 |
| 31 Oct 1986 | Christie Hayes | Australian actress (Home and Away, Search for Treasure Island), Pepsi Light commercial 2006 |
