page_title: 1945 in the United States
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1945 in the United States / Births / October
caption_attribution_description: John Lithgow in Central Park
context_page_description: Events from the year 1945 in the United States. World War II ended during this year following the surrender of Germany in May and that of Japan in September.
context_section_description: October 1 – Donny Hathaway, African-American soul singer, songwriter (d. 1979)
  October 2 – Don McLean, American rock singer, songwriter (American Pie)
  October 3 – Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (d. 1988)
  October 4 – Clifton Davis, African-American actor, minister (Amen)
  October 12 – Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (d. 2015)
  October 13 – Susan Stafford, American television presenter
  October 15 – Jim Palmer, American baseball player
  October 18 – Huell Howser, American television personality, host of California's Gold (d. 2013)
  October 19 – John Lithgow, American actor (Third Rock from the Sun)
  October 20 – George Wyner, American actor
  October 22 – Buzz Potamkin, American television producer (d. 2012)
  October 24
  Eugenie Scott, American Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education
  Sean Solomon, American Principal Investigator of NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury
  October 25 – David Schramm, American astrophysicist (d. 1997)
  October 26
  Pat Conroy, American author (d. 2016)
  Jaclyn Smith, American actress
  October 27 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
  October 29
  Melba Moore, African-American singer, actress (Hair)
  Daniel Albright, American literary critic and musicologist
  October 30
  Ron Slinker, American wrestler (d. 2008)
  Henry Winkler, American actor, director, producer and author
  October 31 – Brian Doyle-Murray, American actor (Saturday Night Live)
caption: John Lithgow
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