Historical Events
- Oct 3 Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
- Oct 4 Toronto Argonauts Football Club (CFL) forms as Argonaut Rowing Club rugby-football squad; oldest existing pro sports team in North America still using original name
- Oct 4 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Tom Kidd beats countryman Jamie Anderson by 1 stroke; first Open not held at Prestwick GC
- Oct 8 First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
- Oct 11 Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to U of Toronto
- Oct 18 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts & Hamilton Tigers
- Oct 18 Columbia Princeton Rutgers & Yale set rules for collegiate football
Event of Interest
Oct 30 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City)
P. T. Barnum
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 2 Sir Pelham Warner, English cricket batsman, tour manager and administrator (15 Tests; MCC chairman of selectors), born in The Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 1963)
- Oct 2 Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), born in Savage, Maryland (d. 1938)
- Oct 6 Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
- Oct 8 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), born in Frederiksberg, Denmark (d. 1967)
- Oct 9 Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1916)
- Oct 9 Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist, born in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary (d. 1944)
- Oct 14 José Serrano Simeón, Spanish composer, born in Sueca, Valencia, Spain (d. 1941)
- Oct 14 Ray Ewry, American track and field athlete (8 Olympic golds 1900, 04, 08), born in Lafayette, Indiana (d. 1937)
- Oct 14 Jules Rimet, French football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), born in Theuley, Franche-Comté, France (d. 1954)
- Oct 18 Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
- Oct 19 Barton King, cricketer (North America's greatest all-rounder)
- Oct 21 George P Gooch, English historian/MP
- Oct 22 Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
- Oct 23 William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
- Oct 24 Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Southport, Lancashire, U.K., British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions)
- Oct 26 Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (1924-26, 1929-42), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1942)
- Oct 27 Henry Tate, Australian composer and poet, born in Melbourne (d. 1926)
- Oct 29 Guillermo Valencia, Colombian poet, translator and statesman
- Oct 30 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 2 Cornelius Varley, water-color painter, dies
- Oct 3 Kintpuash, [Captain Jack], fought Modoc indians, Oregon, dies
- Oct 6 Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist, dies at 76
- Oct 9 George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- Oct 21 Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
- Oct 29 Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52
- Oct 29 Johan N M J, king of Saxon (1854-73), dies
- Oct 29 Leonardus Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship, dies at 78