Events in History
- Oct 1 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Historic Publication
Oct 15 Ernest Hemingway's novel "To Have & Have Not" published
Historic Event
Oct 21 Francisco Franco's troops occupy Gijon
Birthdays in History
- Oct 1 Hedy d'Ancona, Dutch minister of WVC (PvdA)
- Oct 4 Franz Vranitzky, Austrian politician, Chancellor, 1986-97, born in Vienna
- Oct 4 Jackie Collins, British-American romance novelist (The Stud; The Bitch; Lucky), born in London, England (d. 2015)
- Oct 4 Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
- Oct 7 Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician, born in Warsaw, Poland
- Oct 11 Georgi Vladimirovich Machinski, Russian cosmonaut, born in Moscow, Russia
- Oct 11 R. H. W. Dillard, American poet (The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele and Other Poems), born in Roanoke, Virginia
- Oct 12 Robert Mangold, American minimalist artist (Yellow/Gray Looped Line Zone), born in North Tonawanda, New York
- Oct 15 Anthony Hopkins, English clinical neurologist and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, born in Poole, Dorset (d. 1997)
Deaths in History
- Oct 9 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73
- Oct 16 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author (Babar the Elephant), dies at 37
- Oct 16 William Sealy Gosset, English statistician (Student's t-distribution), dies at 61
- Oct 19 Betty Carver, wife of English WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies
Ernest Rutherford
Oct 19 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel Prize 1908), dies at 66
- Oct 26 Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies, dies at 70
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