Historical Events
Music History
Oct 1 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of US Marine Corps Band
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 2 George Alexander Russell, American organist, composer and the first Frick Professor of Music for Princeton University, born in Franklin, Tennessee (d. 1953)
Damon Runyon (1880-1946)
Oct 4 American journalist and writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work), born in Manhattan, Kansas
- Oct 4 Young Corbett II (William J. Rothwell), American boxer (world featherweight champion 1901-02), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1927)
- Oct 6 Julia Culp, Dutch mezzo-soprano, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1970)
- Oct 7 Jaime Pahissa, Spanish-born composer and musicologist (d. 1969)
- Oct 8 Ernest Douwes Dekker, Indo-Dutch nationalist and founder of National-India Party, born in Pasuruan, Malang, Indonesia (d. 1950)
- Oct 12 (James) Healey Willan, British-Canadian organist, composer, and educator, born in Balham, London, England (d. 1968)
- Oct 12 Louis Hémon, French novelist (Maria Chapdelaine), born in Brest, France (d. 1913)
- Oct 13 Sasha Chorny [Alexander Mikhailovich Glikberg], Russian poet, born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1932)
- Oct 14 Vilhelm Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Sak och sken) (d. 1940)
- Oct 21 Reggie Spooner, English cricket batsman (10 Tests; dual cricket/rugby union international), born in St Helens, Lancashire (d. 1961)
- Oct 21 Viking Eggeling, Swedish artist/filmmaker (Symphonie Diagonale), born in Lund, Sweden (d. 1925)
- Oct 23 Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (Banjo; David Copperfield; The Invisible Man), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1959)
- Oct 26 Andrei Bely [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev], Russian writer (Petersburg), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1934)
- Oct 29 Abram F. Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), born in Romny, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1960)
- Oct 30 Sara Allgood, Irish-American stage and screen actress (Peg o' My Heart; Blackmail; How Green Was My Valley), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950)
Famous Weddings
Theodore Roosevelt
Oct 27 Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday
Famous Deaths
- Oct 4 William Lassell, British astronomer who discovered satellites of Uranus and Neptune, dies at 81
- Oct 5 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffman), dies at 61
- Oct 6 Benjamin Pierce, American mathematician and astronomer (Peirce's criterion for outliers), dies at 71
- Oct 14 Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army
- Oct 16 Edward Wolff, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 64
