Events in Film & TV
A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll
Oct 15 Ringo Starr releases single "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"; peaks at 26 in US, fails to chart in UK
- Oct 24 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Oct 3 Seann William Scott, American actor (Role Models), born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota
Alicia Silverstone (46 years old)
Oct 4 American actress (Clueless, Batman Forever), born in San Francisco, California
- Oct 4 Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and television presenter
- Oct 5 Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor, born in Seoul, South Korea
- Oct 6 Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
- Oct 7 Taylor Hicks, American pop and blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter (American Idol, 2006), born in Birmingham, Alabama
- Oct 9 Nick Swardson, American stand up comedian and actor (Reno 911!), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Oct 11 Emily Deschanel, American actress (Bones), born in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 12 Sarah Lane, American television personality and ballet dancer, born in San Francisco, California
- Oct 14 Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor (Red Cliff), born in Taipei, Taiwan
- Oct 15 Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer (Fighting Girl), born in Jeonju, South Korea
- Oct 19 Desmond Harrington, American actor
- Oct 19 Omar Gooding, American actor
- Oct 21 Jeremy Miller, West Covina California, actor (Ben-Growing Pains)
- Oct 22 Helen Svedin, Swedish model
- Oct 23 Cat Deeley, English TV presetner, model and television personality (SMTV Live), born in West Bromwich, England
Ryan Reynolds (46 years old)
Oct 23 Canadian-American actor (The Proposal; Deadpool), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Oct 31 Piper Perabo, American actress (Covert Affairs), born in Dallas, Texas
Deaths in Film & TV
- Oct 4 Alexander Gray, American actor (Sally, This is Music), dies at 85
- Oct 5 Barbara Nichols, American actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly), dies of complications from organ damage at 47
- Oct 14 Edith Evans, English actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk Garden), dies at 88
- Oct 31 Linda Watkins, American actress (From Hell it Came, Harpy), dies at 68
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