Historical Events
Historic Publication
Oct 14 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"
Arthur Conan Doyle
- Oct 18 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
Historic Publication
Oct 26 "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" first published by African American journalist Ida B. Wells in Memphis, Tennessee
Ida B. Wells
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 4 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis, born in Texingtal, Austria (d. 1934)
- Oct 4 Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director and actor (Berge in Flammen), born in Urtijëi, Tyrol (d. 1990)
- Oct 4 Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire (d. 1934)
- 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 Norman Howells, composer
- Oct 17 Otakar Jeremias, composer
- 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 NYC, New York (d. 1977)
- Oct 24 Kurt Huber, German philosopher and resistance fighter, 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 Dink Johnson, American musician, born in Biloxi, Mississippi (d. 1954)
- Oct 31 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, American Zen teacher (1st Zen Institute of America), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1967)
- Oct 31 Olof Thiel, Swedish film score composer, under the pseudonym of Jacques Armand, born in Stockholm (d. 1978)
Famous Deaths
Alfred Tennyson
Oct 6 Alfred Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate (The Charge of the Light Brigade), dies at 83
Alfred Tennyson