Famous birthdays for Oct. 28: Gwendoline Christie, Brad Paisley

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Gwendoline Christie attends the 70th annual Primetime Emmy Award at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles on September 17. The actor turns 40 on October 28. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio.

They include:

-- Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus in 1466

-- Rifle maker Eliphalet Remington in 1793

-- Russian writer Ivan Turgenev in 1818

-- Eight-time Academy Award-winning costumer Edith Head in 1897

-- Actor Elsa Lanchester in 1902

-- English novelist Evelyn Waugh in 1903

-- Dr. Jonas Salk, a developer of the polio vaccine, in 1914

-- Former baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1926

-- Country musician Charlie Daniels in 1936 (age 82)

-- Basketball Hall of Fame member Lenny Wilkens in 1937 (age 81)

-- Actor Jane Alexander in 1939 (age 79)

-- Actor Dennis Franz in 1944 (age 74)

-- Rock singer Wayne Fontana in 1945 (age 73)

-- Singer/actor Telma Hopkins in 1948 (age 70)

-- Olympic decathlon champion Caitlyn Jenner in 1949 (age 69)

-- Actor Annie Potts in 1952 (age 66)

-- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1955 (age 63)

-- Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 1956 (age 62)

-- Actor Lauren Holly in 1963 (age 55)

-- Actor Jami Gertz in 1965 (age 53)

-- Comedian Andy Richter in 1966 (age 52)

-- Actor Julia Roberts in 1967 (age 51)

-- Country singer Brad Paisley in 1972 (age 46)

-- Actor Joaquin Phoenix in 1974 (age 44)

-- Actor Gwendoline Christie in 1978 (age 40)

-- Actor Matt Smith in 1982 (age 36)

-- Actor Finn Wittrock in 1984 (age 34)

-- Actor Troian Bellisario in 1985 (age 33)

-- Singer Frank Ocean in 1987 (age 31)

-- Actor Devon Murray in 1988 (age 30)

-- Actor Nolan Gould in 1998 (age 20)