Historical Events
PM Spencer Perceval
Oct 4 Spencer Perceval becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland retires due to ill health
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 2 Anton Emil Titl, Austrian composer, born in Nedvědice (d. 1882)
- Oct 4 Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian colonel general, born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kalingrad, Russia) (d. 1872)
- Oct 4 Robert Cumming Schenck, American Major General (Union Army), born in Franklin, Ohio (d. 1890)
- Oct 11 Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist and lecturer, born in Cohocton, New York (d. 1887)
- Oct 16 Francesco Schira, composer, born in Island of Malta (d. 1883)
- Oct 22 Federico Ricci, Italian composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1877)
- Oct 22 Volney E. Howard, American politician, born in Oxford County, Maine (d. 1889)
- Oct 27 Peter Donders, Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Suriname, born in Tilburg, Netherlands (d. 1887)
Famous Deaths
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
Oct 11 American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder's Stand
William Cavendish-Bentinck (1738-1809)
Oct 30 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Whig: 1783, 1807-09), dies after an operation to remove a kidney stone at 71
