Events in Music
- Oct 1 "Oba Oba '93" opens at Marquis Theater, NYC; runs for 22 performances
Music History
Oct 3 Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live"
- Oct 4 "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
- Oct 4 "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
- Oct 18 "Oba Oba '93" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances
- Oct 21 Madonna's book "Sex" goes on sale
- Oct 25 "Dancing at Lughnasa" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 421 performances
- Oct 25 "Jake's Women" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 245 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Oct 3 Billy Strings [William Apostol], American bluegrass guitarist (Home), born in Lansing, Michigan
Deaths in Music
- Oct 1 Harry Ray, American soul singer (Ray, Goodman, Brown), dies of a stroke at 45
- Oct 4 Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer
- Oct 5 Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations, 1960-71 - "I Can't Get Next To You"; "Just My Imagination"), dies of lung cancer at 52
- Oct 5 Paul Acket, Dutch music promoter and impresario (Music Express, North Sea Jazz Festival), dies of lung cancer at 69
- Oct 7 Ed Blackwell, American jazz drummer (Ornette Colman Quartet), dies at 62
- Oct 19 Maurice Le Roux, French conductor and film score composer (Kamouraska), dies at 69
- Oct 20 Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (New Orleans Symphony, 1963-77; Bangor Symphony, 1981-92), dies of cancer at 66
- Oct 22 Josef Veselka, Czech choral conductor (Prague Philharmonic Choir, 1959-81), and pedagogue, dies at 82
Roger Miller
Oct 25 Roger Miller, American country singer ("King of the Road"; "Dang Me"), dies at 56
