Famous Birthdays
- Oct 3 Heinrich Panofka, German violist and composer, born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1887)
- Oct 4 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (Prime Minister of the Province of Canada), born in Boucherville, Lower Canada (d. 1864)
- Oct 21 Miguel Hilarion Eslava, Spanish composer and priest (Chapel Master Royal Chapel Madrid), born in Burlada, Spain (d. 1878)
- Oct 21 Napoléon Henri Reber, French composer, born in Mulhouse, Alsace (d. 1880)
- Oct 22 Magnus Huss, Swedish physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease, born in Torps, Västernorrland county, Sweden (d. 1890)
- Oct 30 James Samuel Wadsworth, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Geneseo, New York (d. 1864)
