Historical Events
Prelude in C-sharp-Minor
Oct 8 Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Oct 14 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"
Southern Horrors
Oct 26 "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" first published by African American journalist Ida B. Wells in Memphis, Tennessee
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 4 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian right-wing politician (Chancellor, 1932-34), killed by Nazis, born in Texingtal, Austria (d. 1934)
- Oct 4 Gaston Chevrolet, French auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1920), born in Beaune, Côte-d'Or, France (d. 1920)
- Oct 4 Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire (d. 1934)
- Oct 4 Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director and actor (Berge in Flammen), born in Urtijëi, Tyrol (d. 1990)
- Oct 5 Remington Kellogg, American naturalist and director (U.S. National Museum), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1969)
- Oct 7 Dwain Esper, American film director (The Seventh Commandment), born in Washington State (d. 1982)
- Oct 9 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961), born in Dolac, Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 1975)
- Oct 9 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (The Train of Life), born in Moscow (d. 1941)
- Oct 10 Earle Dickson, American inventor (Band-Aid), born in Grandview, Tennessee (d. 1961)
- Oct 12 Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano, born in Verona, Italy (d. 1975)
- Oct 14 Sumner Welles, American diplomat (Good neighbor policy), born in New York (d. 1961)
- Oct 17 Herbert Howells, British organist, composer (chiefly of Anglican Church scared music), and teacher, born in Lydney, Gloucestershire England (d. 1983)
- Oct 17 Otakar Jeremiáš, Czech composer and conductor, born in Písek, Bohemia (d. 1962)
- Oct 17 Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (d. 1943)
- Oct 19 Ilmari Hannikainen, Finnish pianist and composer, born in Jyväskylä (d. 1955)
- Oct 23 Milton "Gummo" Marx, American actor and comedian (Marx Brothers), born in New York City (d. 1977)
- Oct 24 Kurt Huber, German college professor and member of anti-Nazi resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), born in Chur, Switzerland (d. 1943)
- Oct 27 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), born in Quebrangulo, Brazil (d. 1953)
- Oct 27 Victor E. van Vriesland, Dutch poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1974)
- Oct 28 Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis, Dutch historian of science (biography of Archimedes), born in Tilburg, Netherlands (d. 1965)
- Oct 28 Ludwig Strauss, German-Israeli writer (Night Watch), born in Aachen, Germany (d. 1953)
- Oct 28 Ollie "Dink" Johnson, American Dixieland jazz clarinetist, pianist, and drummer, born in Biloxi, Mississippi (d. 1954)
- Oct 31 Olof Thiel, Swedish film score composer, under the pseudonym of Jacques Armand, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1978)
- Oct 31 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, American Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1967)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 2 Ernest Renan, French philosopher, historian and scholar of religion, dies at 69
- Oct 4 Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
- Oct 5 Bill Powers, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas
- Oct 5 Bob Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (leader of the Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 23
- Oct 5 Dick Broadwell, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 30
- Oct 5 Grat Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang), killed in failed bank robbery attempt in Coffeyville, Kansas at 31
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Oct 6 British Poet Laureate of Great Britain (The Charge of the Light Brigade), dies at 83
