Events in Film & TV
Country Music Association Awards
Oct 12 15th Country Music Association Award: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones wins
Wrack My Brain
Oct 27 Ringo Starr releases single "Wrack My Brain", written and produced by George Harrison, and album "Stop and Smell the Roses" in the US
- Oct 31 1st live US radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC)
Birthdays in Film & TV
- Oct 3 Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
- Oct 8 Ruby [Rania Hussein Muhammad Tawfiq], Egyptian singer ("Do You Know Why") and actress (The Baby Doll Night), born in Cairo, Egypt
- Oct 9 Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Aurora, Colorado
- Oct 10 Michael Oliver, American actor (Problem Child), born in Los Angeles, California
- Oct 11 Beau Brady, Australian actor (Home and Away), born in Sydney, Australia
- Oct 12 Sneha, Indian actress (Aanandham), born in Mumbai, India
- Oct 12 Tom Guiry, American actor (The Sandlot), born in Tom's River, New Jersey
- Oct 16 Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress (Alice, The November Man), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Oct 18 Richard Vuu, actor (Last Emperor)
- Oct 22 Michael Fishman, American actor (DJ in Roseanne), born in Long Beach, California
- Oct 24 Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress (Murder), born in Moth, Hisar district, Haryana, India
- Oct 24 Tila Tequila, American TV personality (A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila), born in Singapore
Guy Sebastian (41 years old)
Oct 26 Malaysian-born Australian pop and soul singer ("Angels Brought Me Here"'; "Battle Scars"), and television personality (The Voice Australia, 2019-), born in Klang, Malaysia
- Oct 26 Sam Brown, American comedian (The Whitest Kid U'Know), born in Sandwich, Massachusetts
- Oct 27 Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress (No Mercy), born in South Korea
- Oct 29 Reema Sen, Indian actress, born in Kolkata, India
- Oct 30 Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress (My Sassy Girl), born in Seoul, South Korea
Weddings in Film & TV
- Oct 5 "The Hollywood Knights" actress Michelle Pfeiffer (23) weds American actor Peter Horton (28) in Santa Monica, California; divorce in 1988
David Lean
Oct 28 Film director David Lean (73) weds fifth wife Sandra Hotz
Deaths in Film & TV
- Oct 5 Gloria Grahame, American actress (Crossfire, Sudden Fear, Rich Man Poor Man), dies of peritonitis and breast cancer at 55
- Oct 5 Jud Strunk, American singer and comedian (Laugh-In), dies in a plane crash at 48
- Oct 13 Nils Asther 'the male Greta Garbo', Swedish actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
- Oct 15 Frank DeKova, American actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies at 71
- Oct 16 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
- Oct 22 Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
- Oct 24 Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
- Oct 27 John Warburton, British actor (Saratoga Trunk, King Rat, Cavalcade), dies at 82
- Oct 30 Georges Brassens, French screenwriter, dies
