This Week's Birthdays - Week of October 3

October 3, 1800 – George Bancroft, American historian and 17th Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)

October 4, 1942 – Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967)

October 5, 1713 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (d. 1784)

October 6, 1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)

October 7, 1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

October 8, 1946 – John Thomas Walton, a decorated United States war veteran and a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

October 9, 1966 – David William Donald Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom.