Historical Events
- Oct 2 Colombia votes against a peace agreement with rebel group FARC in a national referendum
Film & TV History
Oct 2 Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint of $10 million worth of jewelry in her hotel in Paris
Ryder Cup
Oct 2 Ryder Cup Golf, Hazeltine National GC: US regains Cup; beats Europe, 17-11; Americans Brooks Koepka, Brandt Snedeker & Patrick Reed each win 3 matches
Sports History
Oct 2 Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in San Francisco) after a record 67 MLB seasons
- Oct 3 Yoshinori Ohsumi from Japan wins Nobel Prize for Medicine for research into autophagy
Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 7 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end armed conflict with FARC
Event of Interest
Oct 7 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent
- Oct 8 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen
- Oct 8 New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett
Event of Interest
Oct 9 Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis
Film & TV History
Oct 10 Actress Shailene Woodley arrested for trespassing while protesting against proposed Dakota Access Pipeline
- Oct 10 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to UK-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland for work on contract theory
- Oct 11 South Korean firm Samsung announces it will permanently stop production of Note 7 phones after complaints devices caught fire
- Oct 12 Auston Matthews becomes 1st player to score 4 goals in his NHL debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa
- Oct 12 James Charles (17) becomes the 1st male face of make-up label CoverGirl
- Oct 16 Ed Whitlock (85) becomes oldest person to complete a marathon under 4 hours, at Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes
- Oct 17 Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-11 launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China
- Oct 18 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attempts to influence US election
- Oct 19 Third US Presidential debate: Donald Trump notably refuses to say if he will accept the result of election during debate with Hillary Clinton at Nevada University, Las Vegas
- Oct 22 AT&T buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion
- Oct 24 Suicide bomb kills 61 and injures 117 at a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, ISIS claims responsibility
- Oct 25 4 killed on a theme park ride at Dreamworld, in Queensland, Australia
- Oct 25 Paul Beatty becomes the 1st American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout"
How Far I'll Go
Oct 28 Disney Records releases Alessia Cara's single "How Far I'll Go" from the film "Moana"
- Oct 28 Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area established off Antarctica - world's largest marine protected area at 598,000 square miles (2.06 million square-kilometers), larger than Mexico [1]
- Oct 30 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits central Italy - strongest in Italy for 36 years
- Oct 30 Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
- Oct 30 Oakland Raiders break the single game record for most penalties in an NFL game gaining 23 in win over Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Sports History
Oct 30 Slovak tennis star Dominika Cibulková beats Germany's Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-4 to win the WTA Finals title decider in Kallang, Singapore
- Oct 31 Lebanon parliament elects Michel Aoun President after 2 1/2 years without a leader
Famous Weddings
- Oct 1 TV host Louise Roe (33) weds Mackenzie Hunkin at the historic Eton College Chapel in Windsor, England
- Oct 2 Actress Lyndsy Fonseca (29) weds actor Noah Bean (37) at Saltwater Farm in Connecticut
- Oct 2 Actress Zosia Mamet (28) weds actor Evan Jonigkeit at the Cedar Lakes Estate in Port Jervis, New York
- Oct 8 "Teen Mom OG" star Maci Bookout weds Taylor McKinney at the Honey Lake Resort in Greenville, Florida
- Oct 10 Actor and director Shia LaBeouf (30) weds "Nymphomaniac" co-star Mia Goth (23) at Viva Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Robbie Amell
Oct 15 "The Flash" actor Robbie Amell (28) weds actress Italia Ricci (29) in downtown Los Angeles
- Oct 15 Former "Glee" actress Dianna Agron (30) weds Mumford & Sons banjo player Winston Marshall (27) in Morocco
- Oct 29 Cuban American singer-songwriter Ana Cristina (30) weds American country music producer John Carter Cash (46) at French Huguenot Church in Charleston, South Carolina
Famous Divorces
Gwen Stefani
Oct 4 Singer Gwen Stefani and musician Gavin Rossdale divorce after 13 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Edda Heiðrún Backman, Icelandic stage and screen actress, singer, theater director, and painter, dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 58
- Oct 2 Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (Academy of St Martin in the Fields), dies at 92
- Oct 2 Thomas Round, British tenor (Gilbert and Sullivan For All), dies at 100
- Oct 3 Joan Marie Johnson, American pop singer (The Dixie Cups - "Chapel Of Love"; "Iko Iko"), dies of congestive heart failure at 72
- Oct 4 Caroline Crawley, British alt-rock singer (Shelleyan Orphan; Babacar), dies at 53
- Oct 4 Donald H. White, American composer (Lyric Suite for Euphonium and Winds; Tuba Sonata) and educator, dies at 95
- Oct 4 Hso Khan Pha, 1st President of the democratic and newly independent Union of Burma from 1948-52, dies at 78
- Oct 5 Michal Kováč, ist President of Slovakia (1993-98), dies at 86
- Oct 5 Pompeiu Hărăşteanu, Romanian basso profondo singer (Opera Bonn, 1968-72; Romanian National Opera, 1972-2012), dies at 81
- Oct 6 Mick Harvey, Australian cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire), dies at 95
- Oct 7 Johnny Gleeson, Australian cricket spin bowler (29 Tests, 93 wickets, BB 5/61; NSW CA), dies at 78
- Oct 8 Don Ciccone, American singer-songwriter (The Critters - "Mr. Dieingly Sad"; The Hit Men), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Oct 9 Aaron Pryor, American welterweight boxing champion, dies of heart disease at 60
- Oct 9 Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes & Diamonds, Man of Iron), dies at 90
- Oct 9 Anthony Grant, British MP (C), dies at 91
- Oct 10 Graham Carleton Greene, British publisher (Jonathon Cape), dies at 80
- Oct 12 (William) "Sonny" Sanders, American soul vocalist, songwriter, arranger and producer (Jackie Wilson), dies at 77
Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016)
Oct 13 King of Thailand (1946-2016), was world's longest reigning monarch, dies at 88
- Oct 13 Dario Fo, Italian playwright and performer (Nobel Prize Literature 1997), dies at 90
- Oct 13 Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove), dies at 93
- Oct 13 Jim Prentice, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (2014-15), dies in a plane crash at 60
- Oct 13 John Gilmore, American true crime author (Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder), dies at 81
- Oct 14 Jean Alexander, English actress (Hilda Ogden on Coronation Street), dies at 90
- Oct 15 Barbara Romack, American golfer (US Curtis Cup team 1954, 56, 58), dies at 83
- Oct 16 Kigeli V, last King of Rwanda (1959-61), dies at 80
- Oct 17 Eddie Applegate, American actor (The Patty Duke Show - "Richard"), dies at 81
- Oct 18 Anthony Addabbo, American actor (Jason-Generations), dies at 56
- Oct 19 Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina, dies at 99
- Oct 20 Junko Tabei, Japanese mountain-climber, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest, dies at 77
- Oct 21 Manfred Krug, German actor (Boxer), dies at 79
- Oct 22 Steve Dillon, English comic book artist (Preacher), dies at 54
- Oct 23 Jack Chick, American religious cartoonist (Chick tracts), dies at 92
- Oct 23 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (1972-95), dies at 84
- Oct 23 Tom Hayden, American civil rights and antiwar activist and politician (Rep-D-Ca), dies at 76
- Oct 24 Bobby Vee [Velline], American pop singer ("Devil Or Angel"; "Take Good Care Of My Baby"), dies at 73
- Oct 24 Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (2000-2005), dies at 88
- Oct 24 Pete Burns, English singer (Dead or Alive, "Spin Me Round"), dies of a cardiac arrest at 57
- Oct 25 Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer, Captain of winning World Cup team (1970), dies at 72
- Oct 26 Stuart Edwards, British guitarist (Edison Lighthouse - "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"), dies of cancer at 73
- Oct 27 Pentti Siimes, Finnish actor (Miriam), dies at 87
- Oct 29 John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), dies at 98
- Oct 29 Pen Sovann, 1st post-Khmer Rouge Cambodian Prime Minister (1981), dies at 80
- Oct 29 Roland Dyens, French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger (Libra Sonatine), dies at 61
- Oct 31 James Galanos, American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 92
- Oct 31 Natalie Babbitt, American children's writer (Tuck Everlasting), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Oct 31 Tammy Grimes, American stage actress (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 82
