Birthdays in Film & TV
Julie Andrews (87 years old)
Oct 1 British Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award-winning stage and screen singer and actress (My Fair Lady (Broadway); Mary Poppins; The Sound Of Music; The Princess Diaries), born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
Bruno Sammartino (1935-2018)
Oct 6 Italian-American strongman and professional wrestler, born in Pizzoferrato, Italy
- Oct 6 Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
- Oct 9 Jules Croiset, Dutch actor (Help, Doctor Verzuipt!), born in Deventer, Netherlands
- Oct 9 Paul Beers, Dutch actor (Mother Courage & Her Children)
- Oct 11 Frederick Combs, American stage and screen actor (The Boys In The Band), playwright, and director, born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 1992)
- Oct 13 Philippine Aeckerlin, Dutch actress (Oh Venus, Daddy Longlegs), born in Schiebroek, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Oct 15 Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director and actor (Witte Waan), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Peter Boyle (1935-2006)
Oct 18 American actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond), born in Norristown, Pennsylvania
- Oct 20 Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2004)
- Oct 23 Jimmy Dale, British-Canadian pianist and orchestra leader (The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour), born in London, England (d. 2017)
- Oct 29 Isao Takahata, Japanese anime film director, screenwriter and producer (Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya), born in Ujiyamada, Mie, Japan (d. 2018)
- Oct 30 Michael Winner, English film producer and director (Big Sleep, Death Wish), born in London, England (d. 2013)
Weddings in Film & TV
- Oct 8 American bandleader Ozzie Nelson marries American band singer Harriet Hilliard (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)