What Happened in October 1872

Historical Events

Oct 2 Phileas Fogg sets out on his journey as depicted in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days"

Oct 1 Israël Querido, Dutch writer (Menschenwee), born in Amsterdam (d. 1932)
Oct 3 Fred Clarke, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder and manager (Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates; World Series 1909 [PP]), born in Winterset, Iowa (d. 1960)
Oct 4 Ernest Blood, American Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Passaic HS, NJ, 200-1 record, 1915-24), born in Manchester, New Hampshire (d. 1955)
Oct 8 Albert Knight, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Leicestershire CCC), born in Leicester, England (d. 1946)
Oct 8 John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone, Wolf Solent), born in Shirley, Derbyshire (d. 1963)

Oct 11 English suffragette who died when hit by King George V's horse at Derby at Epsom Downs, born in Greenwich, England

Oct 11 Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire (d. 1946)
Oct 12 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (Hugh the Drover), born in Down Ampney, England (d. 1958)
Oct 14 Reginald "R.F." Doherty, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1897-1900), born in Wimbledon, England (d. 1910)
Oct 15 Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian politician and 3rd President of Austria (1928-38), born in Krems, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary (d. 1956)
Oct 18 Joséphine Caroline, Belgian royal princess, and later (1935) Benedictine nun, taking the name of Sister Marie-Josephine, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1958)
Oct 18 Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer and poet, born in Yaroslavl, Russian Empire (d. 1936)
Oct 24 Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (1st recognised world long jump record 1901), born in Millom, England (d. 1957)
Oct 27 Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), born in Baltimore, Maryland [or Oct 3rd, 1873] (d. 1960)
Oct 31 James Hogan, Irish College Football Hall of Fame tackle (Yale), born in Glenbane, County Tipperary, Ireland (d. 1910)

Oct 2 Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies at 78

Oct 10 American politician (Secretary of State, 1861-69, Governor of New York, 1839-42), dies at 71

Oct 14 Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian colonel general, dies at 63
Oct 21 Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer (contributions to optics), dies at 78
Oct 23 Théophile Gautier, French writer, historian and poet (Albertus, La Chanson de Roland, Émaux et camées), dies at 61