Agnès Jaoui (born October 19, 1964) French director/screenwriter/actor – Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008)
John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) (born October 19, 1931) U.K. novelist – A Small Town in Germany (1968)
Miguel Ángel Asturias (born October 19, 1899) Guatemalan novelist, poet, 1967 literature Nobel Prize winner – Hombres de Maiz (1949)