Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 3 Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (Later Day Saint apostle), born in Wells, Vermont (d. 1850)
- Oct 6 Andreas Randel, Swedish composer, born in Ramdala, Blekinge, Sweden (d. 1864)
- Oct 11 Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1842-58), born in Topola, Serbia (d. 1885)
- Oct 14 Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (1857-63), born in Ogdensburg, New York (d. 1865)
- Oct 16 William Pitt Fessenden, American politician, Secretary of the Treasury during Civil War (Union), born in Boscawen, New Hampshire (d. 1869)
- Oct 18 John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), (d. 1861)
- Oct 25 Max Stirner [Johann Kaspar Schmidt], German philosopher (Der Einzige), born in Bayreuth, Bavaria (d. 1856)
- Oct 28 Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, French-Swiss botanist, born in Paris (d. 1893)
Famous Weddings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oct 14 German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar
Famous Deaths
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Oct 9 African American astronomer, mathematician and surveyor of Washington, D.C., dies at 74
Henry Knox (1750-1806)
Oct 25 American general (Continental Army and later the United States Army) and 1st US Secretary of War (1785-94), dies at 56 after swallowing a chicken bone which lodged in his throat and caused a fatal infection
- Oct 26 John Graves Simcoe, British Army general and 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1791-96), dies at 54
- Oct 28 Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
- Oct 31 Sophie Mereau, German writer, dies at 36
- Oct 31 Utamaro Kitagawa, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e movement, dies at about 53
