Events in Music
Music Awards
Oct 3 25th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker & Vince Gill wins
Garth Brooks
- Oct 9 "On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 99 performances
Film Release
Oct 18 "My Own Private Idaho" directed and written by Gus van Sant starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves is released
River Phoenix
Keanu Reeves
- Oct 20 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 9 performances
- Oct 23 "Les Miserables" opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris
- Oct 24 "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances
- Oct 27 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 performances
- Oct 27 "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Oct 2 Beau Grayson, American son of country singer Tanya Tucker
- Oct 10 Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer and songwriter (Lessons To Be Learned), born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Oct 10 Lali Espósito, Argentine actress, singer and model, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Oct 11 Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer, born in San Diego, California
Weddings in Music
Deaths in Music
- Oct 9 Roy Black, German singer/actor (Kinderarzt Dr Froehlich), dies
- Oct 16 Boris Papandopulo, Croatian composer, dies at 78
- Oct 16 Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies
- Oct 17 Tennessee Ernie Ford, American country music singer and actor (Sixteen Tons), dies of liver disease at 72
- Oct 25 Bill Graham, rock concert promoter (Filmore, Dylan), dies at 60
- Oct 25 Margo J. Sylvia, rocker (Tune Weavers), dies of heart attack and stroke at 55
- Oct 27 Andrzej Panufnik, Polish composer (Tragic Overture), dies at 77
- Oct 28 Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78