Historical Events
French Magic
Oct 28 French Magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin performs for Algerian Marabouts in Algeria to convince them that French magic is the stronger
Famous Birthdays
Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856-1928)
Oct 3 American orator, civil rights leader, writer and publisher (New York Age), born in Marianna, Florida
- Oct 9 Sylvain Dupuis, Belgian conductor, composer, and music educator (Le Chant de la Création), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1931)
- Oct 15 Robert Nivelle, French military officer, born in Tulle, France (d. 1924)
- Oct 25 Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (discovery and descriptions of the Neandertal remains from the Huŝnjakova rock shelter at Krapina in northwestern Croatia), born in Zagreb, Croatia (d. 1936)
- Oct 28 Franz Xavier Arens, American composer, born in Neef, Germany (d. 1932)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 8 Théodore Chassériau, Dominican-French Romantic painter, muralist, and youngest artist exhibited at the Louvre museum, dies at 37
- Oct 10 Mikhail Vielgorsky, Russian composer, dies at 67
- Oct 19 William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), dies at 56
- Oct 23 Alexander Ross, Canadian fur trader, dies at 73
- Oct 29 Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director, dies at 68
