Historical Events
The White House
Oct 12 Theodore Roosevelt renames the "Executive Mansion" as "The White House"
Event of Interest
Oct 16 Booker T. Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and Edith Roosevelt, prompting condemnation from the South
Pomp & Circumstance March
Oct 19 Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March" premieres in Liverpool, England
- Oct 24 First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
- Oct 25 Joseph Chamberlain, British Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany leads to widespread agitation against the British and breakdown of negotiations for Anglo-German alliance
- Oct 26 First recorded use of "getaway car" occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
Nocturnes
Oct 27 1st complete performance of Claude Debussy's orchestral composition "Nocturnes" by the Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Camille Chevillard, in Paris, France
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Jimmie Reese, American baseball infielder and coach (LA Angels Hall of Fame), born in New York City (d. 1994)
- Oct 2 Charles Stark "Doc" Draper, American Scientist and Engineer who headed the team that invented the Apollo Guidance Computer and inertial navigation technology for aircraft, space vehicles, and submarines, born in Windsor, Missouri (d. 1987)
- Oct 2 Christopher Clarkson, British test pilot, born in Dunsfold, Surrey (d. 1994)
- Oct 2 Roy Campbell, South African poet (Flowering Rifle), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1957)
- Oct 3 Jean Grémillon, French film director, born in Bayeux, France (d. 1959)
- Oct 3 Masao Ohki, Japanese composer (Idea of the Night; Hiroshima Symphony), born in Iwata, Japan (d. 1971)
- Oct 4 [Robert] Carroll Nye, American actor (Gone With The Wind), born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1974)
- Oct 5 John Alton [Johann Jacob Altmann], American cinematographer, born in Sopron, Austria-Hungary (d. 1996)
- Oct 5 Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam (deported 70,000 Dutch Jews to death camps), born in Braunschweig, Germany (d. 1971)
- Oct 7 Frank Boucher, Canadian Hockey HOF center (Ottawa Sens, Vancouver Maroons, NY Rangers), coach (Stanley Cup 1939–40 NY Rangers) and executive (GM NY Rangers), born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 1977)
- Oct 7 Ralph Rainger [Reichenthal], American song and film composer (Thanks for the Memory; Love In Bloom), born in New York City (d. 1942)
- Oct 7 Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (1951–54, 1956–58, 1960 and 1962–75), born in Luang Phrabang, Laos (d. 1984)
- Oct 8 Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Eidsborg, Norway (d. 1977)
- Oct 10 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss-French painter and sculptor, born in Borgonovo, Stampa, Graubünden, Switzerland (d. 1966)
- Oct 11 Emil Hlobil, Czech composer, born in Veselí nad Lužnicí (d. 1987)
- Oct 13 Benjamin Merkelbach, Dutch architect and city builder of Amsterdam, born in Amsterdam (d. 1961)
- Oct 13 Edward Chapman, British actor (Things to Come, Promoter, Rembrandt), born in Harrogate, Yorkshire (d. 1977)
- Oct 14 Willem A. Wagenaar, Dutch journalist and writer (Shanghai) (d. 1968)
- Oct 15 Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), born in Offenbach, Germany (d. 1964)
- Oct 15 Hermann Abs, German banker to Adolf Hitler & Konrad Adenauer and director of Deutsche Bank (1938-45), born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1994)
- Oct 15 Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, English soldier, born in London (d. 1996)
- Oct 18 Barbara Brown, American actress, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1975)
- Oct 18 Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, Soviet-Russian composer, born in Bogodukhov, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1956)
- Oct 19 Arleigh Burke, American admiral (WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross), born in Boulder, Colorado (d. 1996)
- Oct 20 Adelaide Hall, American-English musical theatre, cabaret, and jazz singer (Cotton Club; "Creole Love Call" with Duke Ellington), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 1993) [1]
- Oct 20 Hans-Otto Borgmann, German film score composer under the Third Reich, born in Linden, Germany (d. 1977)
- Oct 21 Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar (Deuteronomium), born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1971)
- Oct 24 Gilda Gray [Marianna Michalska], Polish-American stage and screen actress (Piccadilly), and dancer (The Shimmy), born in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1959)
- Oct 28 Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (The Three Children (Near Clonmel)), born in Dublin (d. 1979)
- Oct 29 Daniele Amfitheatrof [Amfiteatrov], Russian-Italian pianist, conductor, and composer of concert and Hollywood film score music (American Panorama; The Naked Jungle), born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1983)
Famous Weddings
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Oct 9 Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. (27) weds Abby Aldrich in Warwick Neck, Rhode Island
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1880-1901)
- Oct 2 Rudolph Koenig, German physicist, dies at 68
- Oct 10 Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), dies at 87
- Oct 17 George Godfrey, Canadian Black heavyweight boxer known as Old Chocolate, dies of Tuberculosis at 48
- Oct 19 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
- Oct 21 James A. Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
- Oct 23 Georg von Siemens, German banker and politician (helped found Deutsche Bank), dies at 62
- Oct 24 Paul Henrion, French composer, dies at 82
- Oct 29 Leon Czolgosz, American anarchist and assassin of President McKinley, is electrocuted after being sentenced to death at 28
- Oct 30 George Elliott Benson, British Army officer, killed in battle Battle at Bakenlaagte, South Africa at 40
