Famous Birthdays
- Oct 3 Antoine Dauvergne, French composer, born in Moulins, Alier, France (d. 1797)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Oct 5 French enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie), born in Langres, Champagne
- Oct 7 Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
- Oct 8 Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist, born in Opatów, Poland (d. 1793)
- Oct 10 Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer, born in Buttelstedt, Germany (d. 1780)
- Oct 13 Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1784)
- Oct 23 Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1778)
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