Birthdays in History Oct 23 Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston) Oct 24 Sarah Josepha Hale, American author (Mary Had a Little Lamb), born in Newport, New Hampshire (d. 1879) Deaths in History Oct 13 Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702) Oct 15 Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735) 1787 On This Day in History 1789