Happy Birthday!

[Samuel]

Caco Ciocler (Carlos Alberto Ciocler) born Sept. 27, 1971 in São Paulo.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caco_ciocler

Actor from one of my favorite brazilian films: "Olga"

[Samuel]

Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) born 2 October 1951 Wallsend, England.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UppX6vP3c4g

Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal composer, lead singer and bass player of the rock band The Police.

[Samuel]

Adriana Calcanhotto born October 03, 1965 in Porto Alegre, Brazil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlbGPeULc0

Great voice of MPB. Tho the people say that her songs is so melancholic I don't agree and like so much.

[Samuel]

Alicia Silverstone, born October 4, 1976 in San Francisco, California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Silverstone

Former fashion model, currently she's an american actress.

[Bud]

Sputnik launched 4 October 1957: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik

It was also the debut of Leave It To Beaver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Beaver

[Samuel]

Very interesting Bud, Thanks.

[Samuel]

Robert Frederick Zenon Bob Geldof, KBE, born 5. Oct. 1954 in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA-2oXzk10

[Samuel]

Fernando de Queiroz Scherer, born October 6, 1974 in Florianópolis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Scherer

He's an international top swimmer from Brazil.

[Samuel]

Thom Yorke (Thomas Edward Yorke) born October 7, 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPDiEz-GcE

Singer of the band Radiohead. Maybe this song ("High and Dry") is best known with Jamie Cullum and his great perform at the piano:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxvCVvWWiNk (Slow version)

[Samuel]

Pitty (Priscilla Novais Leone) born October 7, 1977 in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qluNnIhWfg

She's a brazilian rock singer.

[Samuel]

Toni Braxton (Toni Michelle Braxton) born October 7, 1966 in Severn, Maryland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07U_uKGfv48

[christratton]

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was an English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, with his storytelling optimism and gift for melody, complemented each other. In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance". (footnotes omitted)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3j6S8N8bTE

[Samuel]

Miguel Falabella (born on October 10, 1957 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian TV, cinema and theater actor, producer and director.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic8H8ixnj8o

[Samuel]

Jorge Vercilo (Jorge Luís Santana Vercilo) born October 11, 1968 in Rio de Janeiro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2yqjwn7I4

He's a singer, guitar player and songwritter.

[christratton]

Michelle Sung Wie (Korean Wie Seong-mi Hangul: 위성미 Hanja: 魏聖美, born October 11, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii)(IPA pronunciation of surname: [wi][1]) is an American professional golfer. She is perhaps most famous for her controversial attempts to make a cut at a PGA Tour event using sponsor's exemptions. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article, "one of 100 people who shape our world."[2] Since September 2007 she has been a student at Stanford University.[3] [4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Wie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQqAqGr7 ... ed&search=

[christratton]

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Simon is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both as half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. In 2006, Time magazine called him one of the "100 people who shape our world."[1] As of 2007, he resides in New Canaan, Connecticut.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kd8xp86 ... ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePy ... ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6K8wfyzAJQ

[Samuel]

Fernanda Montenegro (Arlete Pinheiro Esteves da Silva) born October 16, 1929 in Rio de Janeiro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernanda_Montenegro

She is an Academy Award-nominated Brazilian film, stage and television actress.

[Samuel]

Chris Andrews, born 15. October 1942 in London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5S04hmPgaI

[christratton]

Christopher Andrew (Reynolds, Abeyta) Stratton, b. October 18, 1966 Frequent contributor to DianaKrallFans.com forums, Mr. Stratton is an attorney who had the pleasure of working for Hillary Rodham Clinton on the Clinton-Gore '92 campaign right after graduating college. He went on to serve at the Energy Department for the (first and hopefully not last) Clinton Administration, promoting renewable sources of energy and energy conservation and sheperding the Department's successful first annual application to the Corporation for National and Community Service, a/k/a Americorps, before going on to law school. He is a graduate of North Pulaski High School in Jacksonville, Arkansas, of Yale College and of the University of Connecticut School of Law.

But enough about me!

[christratton]

Wynton Learson Marsalis (b. October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. He is also the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. A compilation of his series of inspirational letters to a young jazz musical student, named Anthony, has been published as To a Young Jazz Musician.

Marsalis has made his reputation with a combination of skill in jazz performance and composition, a sophisticated yet earthy and hip personal style, an impressive knowledge of jazz and jazz history, and skill as a virtuoso classical trumpeter. As of 2006, he has made sixteen classical and more than thirty jazz recordings, has been awarded nine Grammys between the genres, and has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first time it has been awarded for a jazz recording.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaqyZuU1ajM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFz8zoGqKAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFCDQiWmIY