Birthdays in Film & TV
- Oct 6 Earle Hodgins, American film and television fast-talking character actor (Guestward Ho!), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1964)
- Oct 9 Heinrich George [Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz], German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex), born in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany (d. 1946)
- Oct 10 Lester Lonergan Jr, American stage and screen actor (Guilty Bystander; The Growing Paynes), born in Peterson, New Jersey (d. 1959
- Oct 14 Lillian Gish, American silent film and stage actress (Birth of a Nation), born in Springfield, Ohio (d. 1993)
- Oct 15 Ina Claire [Fagan], American stage and screen actress (Ninotchika), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1985)
- Oct 20 Charley Chase, American comedian, actor and director (d. 1940)
Merian C. Cooper (1893-1973)
Oct 24 American film director and producer (King Kong) and aviator (Kościuszko Squadron, Director-Pan American Airways), born in Jacksonville, Florida