Famous birthdays for Oct. 31: Letitia Wright, Peter Jackson

Letitia Wright attends the 70th annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles on September 17. The actor turns 25 on October 31. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI

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

They include:

-- Dutch painter Jan Vermeer in 1632

-- English poet John Keats in 1795

-- Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low in 1860

-- Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the first leader of Nationalist China, in 1887

-- Actor/singer Ethel Waters in 1896

-- Actor Lee Grant in 1925 (age 93)

-- Astronaut Michael Collins in 1930 (age 88)

-- Former TV news anchorman Dan Rather in 1931 (age 87)

-- Actor/director Michael Landon in 1936

-- Folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton in 1937 (age 81)

-- Actor David Ogden Stiers in 1942

-- Actor Brian Doyle-Murray in 1945 (age 73)

-- Actor Stephen Rea in 1946 (age 72)

-- Actor Deidre Hall in 1947 (age 71)

-- Actor John Candy in 1950

-- Former Belgian politician/European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in 1947 (age 71)

-- Olympic gold medal marathon runner Frank Shorter in 1947 (age 71)

-- Broadcaster Jane Pauley in 1950 (age 68)

-- Architect Zaha Hadid in 1950

-- Actor Brian Stokes Mitchell in 1957 (age 61)

-- New Zealand director and producer Peter Jackson in 1961 (age 57)

-- Actor Rob Schneider in 1963 (age 55)

-- Rapper Ad-Rock, born Adam Horovitz, in 1966 (age 52)

-- Rapper Vanilla Ice, born Robert Matthew Van Winkle, in 1967 (age 51)

-- Actor Piper Perabo in 1976 (age 42)

-- Actor Eddie Kaye Thomas in 1980 (age 38)

-- Actor Vanessa Marano in 1992 (age 26)

-- Actor Letitia Wright in 1993 (age 25)

-- Actor Sydney Park in 1997 (age 21)

-- Singer Willow Smith in 2000 (age 18)