Historical Events
- Oct 4 Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
- Oct 11 David Houston patents roll film for cameras
- Oct 12 Henry M Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
- Oct 13 Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations
British Golf Open
Oct 14 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Bob Ferguson retains title with 3 stroke win over Jamie Anderson in shocking weather conditions
Statue of Liberty
Oct 24 Levi P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty
The Gunfight at OK Corral
Oct 26 Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Leonid Sabaneyev, Russian composer, born in Moscow (d. 1968)
William Boeing (1881-1956)
Oct 1 American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company, born in Detroit, Michigan
- Oct 2 Ferdinand [Fred] Barlow, French composer, born in Mulhouse (d. 1951)
- Oct 3 Ludomir Michał Rogowski, Polish composer, born in Lublin, Poland (d. 1954)
- Oct 4 Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (WWII), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1948)
- Oct 5 Otto V. Kuusinen, Finnish politician (founder of the Finnish Communist Party), born in Laukaa, Finland (d. 1964)
- Oct 7 Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
- Oct 11 Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal philosopher and political philosopher, born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973)
- Oct 11 Stark Young, American writer (So Red the Rose), born in Como, Mississippi (d. 1963)
- Oct 12 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, Argentine composer, born in Buenos Aires (d. 1948)
- Oct 12 William Nigh, American director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong), born in Berlin, Wisconsin (d. 1955)
- Oct 13 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet and composer (Plumb), born in Bacău, Romania (d. 1957)
P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
Oct 15 British-American writer (Bertie Wooster novels), born in Guildford, England
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Oct 25 Spanish painter (The Three Dancers, Guernica) and sculptor who co-founded the Cubist movement, born in Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
- Oct 26 Margaret Wycherly, British actress (Keeper of the Flame), born in London, England (d. 1956)
- Oct 28 Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (Olympic silver pole vault & bronze javelin 1906; bronze pole vault 1908; popularized bowling in Sweden), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1969)
- Oct 28 Vin Coutie, Australian rules footballer, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1951)
- Oct 30 Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (The Time of Man), born in Perryville, Kentucky (d. 1941)
- Oct 30 Lena Christ, German writer (The Rumplhanni), born in Glonn, Bavaria (d. 1920)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 3 Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader, dies at 70
- Oct 22 Janis Cimze, Latvian composer, Father of Latvian choir music, dies at 67
- Oct 26 Billy Clanton, brother of outlaw Ike Clanton, dies in the gunfight at the OK Corral at 19
- Oct 31 George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer whose disastrous expedition provided evidence to support the theory of trans-Arctic oceanic drift, dies during his disastrous expedition to the North Pole at 37
