page_title: 1972
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 / Births / October
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Sandra Kim, 22 septembre 2012.
context_page_description: 1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
  Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
context_section_description: October 2 – Konstantinos Papadakis, Greek pianist
  October 3
  Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (d. 2017)
  Guy Oseary, Israeli-American businessman
  October 5 – Grant Hill, African-American basketball player
  October 6
  Anders Iwers, Swedish musician
  Ko So-young, South Korean actress
  October 8 – Kim Myung-min, South Korean actor
  October 10 – Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and screenwriter
  October 11 – Claudia Black, Australian actress
  October 15 – Sandra Kim, Belgian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1986 winner
  October 17
  Eminem, American rapper and actor
  Sharon Leal, American actress and director
  Tarkan, Turkish singer
  October 19 – Sayaka Aoki, Japanese voice actress
  October 21
  Evgeny Afineevsky, Russian-born American film director and producer
  Masakazu Morita, Japanese voice actor
  Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
  Ilaria Latini, Italian voice actress
  October 22 – Saffron Burrows, British actress
  October 24
  Van Darkholme, Vietnamese-American dungeon master, performance artist and film director
  Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
  October 25 – Esther Duflo, French American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
  October 24 – Van Darkholme, Vietnamese-American gay pornographic actor, director and photographer
  October 27
  Elissa, Lebanese singer
  Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
  Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
  October 28 – Brad Paisley, American country music singer-songwriter
  October 29
  Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress
  Gabrielle Union, American actress
  October 31 – Matt Dawson, English rugby player and TV personality.
caption: Sandra Kim
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