Famous Birthdays
Famous Deaths
- Oct 4 Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
- Oct 8 Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia and abbess of Herford who corresponded with Descartes, dies at 61
- Oct 13 Daniel Elsevier, Dutch book publisher, dies at 54
- Oct 13 François Roberday, French Baroque organist and composer, dies during an epidemic at 56
- Oct 16 Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
- Oct 30 Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish-French mystic, dies at 64
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