Events in History
Devil's Disciple
Oct 4 George Bernard Shaw's play "Devil's Disciple" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Oct 15 King Leopold II takes Belgian crown
Birthdays in History
- Oct 3 Josephine Riley Matthews "Mama Jo" , African-American midwife (delivered over 1300 babies), born in Aiken, South Carolina (d. 1993)
- Oct 3 Louis Aragon, French poet and writer (Les Lettres françaises, Pour un réalisme socialiste), born in Paris, France (d. 1982)
Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975)
Oct 7 American religious leader, and Black separatist (Nation of Islam, 1934-75), born in Sandersville, Georgia
- Oct 11 Nathan Farragut Twining, U.S. Air Force general, born in Monroe, Wisconsin (d. 1982)
- Oct 16 Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man (oldest survivor from WWI), born in Saint-Georges-d'Aurac, France (d. 2008)
- Oct 18 Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
- Oct 19 Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
- Oct 20 Yevsei Liberman, Ukrainian Soviet economist (Plan, profit, bonuses), born in Slavuta, Russia (d. 1983)
- Oct 20 Yi Un of Korea, last crown prince of Korea, born at Deoksu Palace, Seoul (d. 1970)
- Oct 28 Hans Speidel, German general and NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), born in Metzingen, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire (d. 1984)
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)
Oct 29 German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany (1933-45), born in Rheydt, Germany
Deaths in History
- Oct 8 Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter, dies at 67
- Oct 9 John Heemskerk, Dutch politician (Minister of the Interior 1866-88), dies at 79
- Oct 19 George Pullman, American industrialist and inventor (railway sleeping car), dies at 66
- Oct 24 Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet (Golden Treasury), dies at 73
- Oct 27 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, granddaughter of George III, grandmother of Edward VIII and George VI and great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, dies at 63
- Oct 28 Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (Ceylon, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa), dies at 72
- Oct 29 Henry George, American politician economist and land reformer (Progress & Poverty), dies after a stroke at 58
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