Historical Events
- Oct 1 "Racer's" Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico
- Oct 1 US imposes treaty on Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin
- Oct 9 Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
- Oct 9 Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke, North Carolina, killing 100
- Oct 31 Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Mississippi; 300 die
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 8 Otto Winter-Hjelm, Norwegian musician and composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1931)
- Oct 14 Ellison Capers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1908)
- Oct 16 John Francis Barnett, British composer, born in London (d. 1916)
- Oct 18 Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg, German-Dutch sculptor and architect of church interiors, born in Cologne (d. 1919)
- Oct 26 James Lawlor Kieran, Irish-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mountbellew, County Galway (d. 1869)
- Oct 28 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, born in Edo, Japan (d. 1913)
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
Oct 29 Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1901-05), born in Maassluis, Netherlands
- Oct 29 Harriet Powers, African-American slave and quilt maker (Bible Quilt 1886), born in Clarke County, Georgia (d. 1910)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Robert Clark, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1819-21), dies at 60
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837)
Oct 5 French Queen of Holland (1806-10), dies at 54
- Oct 6 Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer, noted for his operas and oratorios, dies at 77
- Oct 9 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
- Oct 10 Charles Fourier, French philosopher and early Socialist (credited with inventing term 'feminism'), dies at 65
- Oct 11 Samuel Wesley, British organist and composer referred to as "The English Mozart" (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
- Oct 12 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1815-37), dies at 62
- Oct 15 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (Minister of Justice, 1810-14), and poet ("Liberation of Moscow"), dies at 77
- Oct 17 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
