Historical Events
- Oct 1 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Oct 5 Dutch Minister Carl Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme"
- Oct 7 Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam
- Oct 10 Baseball World Series: in second consecutive all-New York WS, Yankees again beat Giants, 4-2 at the Polo Grounds for a 4-1 series victory
- Oct 13 A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, NYC
To Have and Have Not
Oct 15 Ernest Hemingway's novel "To Have and Have Not" published
Sports History
Oct 15 Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri
Asturias Offensive
Oct 21 Francisco Franco's nationalist troops occupy Gijón, ending the occupation of Asturias
- Oct 25 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
Bees Sign Stengel
Oct 25 Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
- Oct 31 Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Hedwig "Hedy" d'Ancona, Dutch fministy activist (Man Woman Society), magazine editor, and politician (Minister of Wealth, Health, and Culture 1989-94; European Parliament, 1984-89, 1994-99; Dutch Senate 1974-83), born in The Hague, Netherlands minister of WVC (PvdA)
- Oct 1 Saeed Ahmed, Pakistan cricket batsman (41 Tests; 2,991 runs @ 40.41), born in Jalandhar, Punjab
- Oct 3 Boldizsár Csiky, Romanian composer, born in Târgu Mureș, Romania
- Oct 3 John MacLeod, American basketball coach (NBA Phoenix Suns 1973-87), born in New Albany, Indiana (d. 2019)
- Oct 3 Ton de Kruyf, Dutch composer, born in Leerdam, Netherlands (d. 2012)
- Oct 4 Franz Vranitzky, Austrian politician, Chancellor, 1986-97, born in Vienna
Jackie Collins (1937-2015)
Oct 4 British-American romance novelist (The Stud; The Bitch; Lucky), born in London, England
- Oct 4 Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
- Oct 5 Abi Ofarim [Abraham Reichstadt], Israeli dancer, folk and pop singer, guitarist, and record producer (Ester & Abi - "Cinderella Rockerfella"), born in Safed, British Palestine (now Israel) (d. 2018)
- Oct 5 Barry Switzer, American football coach (Oklahoma), born in Crossett, Arkansas
- Oct 5 Eli Jacobs, American financier and baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Oct 7 Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician, born in Warsaw, Poland
- Oct 8 Frank Cignetti Sr., American College Football HOF coach (West Virginia Uni, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; career college record 199–77–1), born in Apollo, Pennsylvania (d. 2022)
- Oct 9 Pat Burke, British rock saxophonist (Foundations - "Baby Now That I've Found You"; "Build Me Up Buttercup"), born in Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies
- Oct 10 Bruce Devlin, Australian golfer (8 PGA Tour titles), born in Armidale, NSW
- Oct 11 Bobby Charlton, English soccer midfielder (106 caps; World Cup 1966; Manchester United) and manager (Preston NE), born in Ashington, England (d. 2023)
- Oct 11 Georgi Vladimirovich Machinski, Russian cosmonaut, born in Moscow, Russia
- Oct 11 R. H. W. Dillard, American poet (The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele and Other Poems), born in Roanoke, Virginia
- Oct 12 Per Kristoffersen, Norwegian soccer forward (25 caps; Fredrikstad FC 194 games, 147 goals), born in Fredrikstad, Norway (d. 2023)
- Oct 12 Robert Mangold, American minimalist artist (Yellow/Gray Looped Line Zone), born in North Tonawanda, New York
- Oct 15 Anthony Hopkins, English clinical neurologist and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, born in Poole, Dorset (d. 1997)
- Oct 15 Linda Lavin, American actress (Alice, Barney Miller), born in Portland, Maine
- Oct 16 Emile Ford, St. Lucian pop singer (first Black male singer to top UK charts - "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"), and sound engineer, born in Castries, St Lucia (d. 2016)
- Oct 16 Tony Anthony, Clarksburg WV, actor (Treasure of 4 Crowns)
- Oct 17 Paxton Whitehead, English stage and screen actor (Back to School, Mad About You - "Hal"), born in East Malling, Kent (d. 2023)
- Oct 19 Marilyn Bell, Canadian open water swimmer (first to swim across Lake Ontario), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Oct 19 Nicholas Palmer, television writer/producer
Peter Max (86 years old)
Oct 19 American psychedelic artist (Dynamite Chicken), born in Berlin, Germany
- Oct 19 Sean Garrison, American actor (Up Periscope, Splendor in the Grass), born in New York City
- Oct 20 Emma Tennant, English writer (Pemberley: or, Pride and Prejudice Continued), born in London (d. 2017)
Juan Marichal (86 years old)
Oct 20 Dominican Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (10 × MLB All-Star; NL wins leader 1968; MLB ERA leader 1969; no-hitter 1963; SF Giants), born in Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic
- Oct 20 Wanda Jackson, American country singer ("Let's Have a Party"), born in Maud, Oklahoma
- Oct 21 Norman Wright, American doo-wop tenor vocalist (Del-Vikings - “Come Go With Me”), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2010)
- Oct 22 Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (Ta Tragoudia Mas) and well known leftist critic of the Greek military junta, born in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt (d. 1982)
- Oct 22 Tadeáš Salva, Slovak composer, born in Lúčky, Slovakia (d. 1997)
- Oct 23 Yvonne Staples, American gospel and R&B singer (The Staple Singers), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2018)
- Oct 24 Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composer of classical music, born in Madrid (d. 2016)
- Oct 25 Roberto Menescal, Brazilian pop, bossa nova, and samba guitarist, composer ("O Barquinho"), and record producer, born in Vitoria, Espírito Santo, Brazil
- Oct 26 Dave Gavitt, American basketball coach, formed Basketball's Big East Conference (1979), born in Westerly, Rhode Island (d. 2011)
- Oct 27 Lara Parker [Mary Rickey], American actress (Dark Shadows - "Angelique"; Save the Tiger; Race with the Devil), and novelist, born in Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 2023)
Lenny Wilkens (86 years old)
Oct 28 American NBA Point Guard and Head Coach (Seattle SuperSonics), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Oct 29 Michael Ponti, German pianist (Boston Competition 1964), born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- Oct 29 Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass banjo player (The Osborne Brothers - "Rocky Top"), born in Roark, Kentucky (d. 2021)
- Oct 30 Brian Price, Welsh rugby union lock (32 Tests Wales, 4 British & Irish Lions; Newport RFC, Barbarians RFC), born in Deri, Wales (d. 2023)
- Oct 30 Claude Lelouch, French movie director (A Man & A Woman, Cat & Mouse, Bolero), born in Paris
- Oct 30 Pat Williams, American politician (Rep-D-Montana, 1979-93), born in Helena, Montana
- Oct 30 Tony Cucchiara, Italian folk singer and songwriter (Cain and Abel), born in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy (d. 2018)
- Oct 31 Tom Paxton, American folk singer and songwriter ("Bottle of Wine': "The Marvelous Toy"), born in Chicago, Illinois
Famous Weddings
Anthony Quinn
Oct 5 Two-time Oscar winner actor Anthony Quinn (22) weds actress Katherine de Mille (26)
- Oct 15 American singer Jo Stafford (19) weds American singer John Huddleston (25) in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1943
Famous Deaths
- Oct 9 August de Boeck, Flemish composer, dies at 72
- Oct 9 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73
- Oct 15 James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail), dies from a heart attack at 70
- Oct 16 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author (Babar the Elephant), dies at 37
- Oct 16 William Sealy Gosset, English statistician (Student's t-distribution), dies at 61
- Oct 19 Betty Carver, wife of English WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
Oct 19 New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), dies of intestinal paralysis at 66
- Oct 21 Lucy Diggs Slowe, American educator (Dean of Women, Howard University, 1922-37), tennis champion (American Tennis Association, 1917), and sorority co-founder (Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1908), dies at 52
- Oct 22 Frank Damrosch, German-born American author and music teacher (founded New York Musical Institute of Musical Art, later Julliard), dies at 88
- Oct 26 Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies, dies at 70
