Events in Sport
- Oct 2 Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon 7-4 as the New York Giants complete an unlikely Baseball World Series sweep of the powerful Cleveland Indians; Cleveland season record of 111-43 sets American League mark for regular season wins
- Oct 5 6th NHL All-Star Game, Detroit Olympia: 1st Team ties 2nd Team, 1-1; second year format - 1st v 2nd All-Star Teams, with additional players
- Oct 7 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
- Oct 7 Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
- Oct 12 Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s v N Zone (India) his 1st first class cricket centuries
Golf Tournament
Oct 19 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament
Louise Suggs
Birthdays in Sport
- Oct 1 Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
- Oct 3 Gary Troup, cricketer (NZ lefty pace bowler in 15 Tests 1976-86)
- Oct 4 Anita Luceete Defrantz, rower (Olympic bronze 1976), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Oct 5 Imran Khan, 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018- ) and cricket all-rounder (88 Tests, 3,807 runs, 362 wickets), born in Lahore, Pakistan
- Oct 7 Graham Yallop, cricketer (Australian capt in 7 Tests, won 1 lost 6)
- Oct 7 Ludmila Tourischeva, USSR, gymnast (Olympic gold 1972)
- Oct 12 Trevor Chappell, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, underarm bowling controversy), born in Adelaide, South Australia
- Oct 14 Nikolai Adrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (Olympic-4 gold/2 silver/bronze-1976), born in Vladimir, Russia (d. 2011)
- Oct 18 Roy Dias, cricketer (pioneering Sri Lankan Test batsman)
- Oct 18 Jerry Royster, American baseball player
- Oct 19 Alexander Leibkind, German judo (Olympic 76)/WLAF GM (Rhein Fire)
- Oct 20 Dave Collins, baseball player
- Oct 20 Dave McLelland, Canadian NHL goaltender (Vancouver Canucks), born in Penticton, British Columbia
- Oct 25 Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
- Oct 28 Flavian Aponso, cricketer (rebel Sri Lankan 1982, Neth World Cup 1996)
- Oct 29 Beth Solomon, LPGA golfer