Celebrity Birthdays for Oct. 4:
Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is 88.
Actress Felicia Farr is 85.
Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Sam Huff is 83.
Novelist Rudy Wiebe is 83. Author Anne Rice is 76.
Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 76.
Author Roy Blount Jr. is 76.
Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa is 73.
Jazz bassist Eddie Gomez is 73.
Actor Clifton Davis ("Amen") is 72.
Actress Susan Sarandon is 71.
Jim Fielder, bass guitarist with the Mothers of Invention, Buffalo Springfield and Blood, Sweat and Tears, is 70.
Blues musician Duke Robillard is 69.
Actor Armand Assante is 68.
Playwright Lee Blessing is 68.
Actor Alan Rosenberg ("Cybill," ''L.A. Law") is 67.
Actor Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds," ''Water for Elephants") is 61.
Actor Bill Fagerbakke ("Coach," ''Spongebob Squarepants") is 60.
Actress Kyra Schon ("Night of the Living Dead") is 60.
Rap producer Russell Simmons is 60.
Actress-singer Wendy Makkena is 59.
Keyboardist Chris Lowe of The Pet Shop Boys is 58.
Keyboardist Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard of Sawyer Brown is 57.
Actor David W. Harper ("The Waltons") is 56.
Singer Jon Secada is 56.
TV personality John Melendez is 52.
Actor Jerry Minor ("Dr. Ken," ''Community") is 50.
Actor Liev Schreiber ("The Manchurian Candidate," ''Scream 2") is 50.
Actor Abraham Benrubi ("Men In Trees," ''ER") is 48.
Country singer-guitarist Heidi Newfield (Trick Pony) is 47.
Singer-guitarist M. Ward of She And Him is 44.
Actress Alicia Silverstone is 41.
Singer-guitarist Marc Roberge of O.A.R. is 39.
Actress Dana Davis is 39.
Actor Phillip Glasser is 39.
Actress Rachel Leigh Cook ("Josie and the Pussycats," ''She's All That") is 38.
Actor Brandon Barash is 38.
Actor Tim Peper is 37.
Singer Jessica Benson of 3LW is 30.
Actor Michael Charles Roman is 30.
Actress Melissa Benoist ("Supergirl," ''Glee") is 29.
NBA All-Star Derrick Rose is 29.
Actress Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades of Grey") is 28.
Singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock of Little Mix is 26.
Opera singer Ignazio Boschetto (Il Volo) is 23.
Actor Ryan Scott Lee is 21.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1895, comedian Buster Keaton. (Feb. 1, 1966)
In 1911, native women rights activist Mary Two Axe Earley. (Aug. 21, 1996)
In 1916, director George Sidney. (May 5, 2002)
In 1923, actor Charlton Heston (April 5, 2008)
In 1926, Harlem Globetrotter and Basketball Hall-of-Famer Marques Haynes. (May 22, 2015)
In 1929, actor Scotty Beckett ("Our Gang"). (May 10, 1968)
In 1935, actor Eddie Applegate ("The Patty Duke Show"). (Oct. 17, 2016)
In 1937, author Jackie Collins. (Sept. 19, 2015)
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