Historical Events
- Oct 1 Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
- Oct 1 Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
- Oct 1 Jews are expelled from Kyiv, Ukraine
- Oct 1 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
- Oct 1 Tsar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities
Vienna Philharmonic
Oct 6 Gustav Mahler conducts his first Vienna Philharmonic concert
- Oct 6 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts
- Oct 8 First Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
- Oct 12 Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
- Oct 18 American flag raised in Puerto Rico
- Oct 20 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Karl Rankl, Austrian-British conductor (Covent Garden Opera Company, 1946-51), and composer (Deirdre of the Sorrows), born in Gaaden, Austria (d. 1968)
- Oct 3 Leo McCarey, American film director (The Awful Truth), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1969)
- Oct 5 Linus McAtee, American Hall of Fame jockey (Preakness Stakes 1916; Kentucky Derby 1927, 29; US Champion Jockey by earnings 1928), born in Frenchtown, New Jersey (d. 1963)
- Oct 7 Alfred Wallenstein, American cellist and conductor (Chicago Symphony 1922-29), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1983)
- Oct 8 Clarence Williams, American composer, born in Plaquemine, Louisiana (d. 1965)
- Oct 9 Joe Sewell, American Baseball HOF infielder (World Series 1920, 32; Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees; MLB record 167.7 at-bats per strikeout 1932), born in Titus, Alabama (d. 1990)
- Oct 10 Conrad Leonard, British composer and pianist, born in South Norwood, England (d. 2003)
- Oct 10 Lilly Daché, French-American milliner and fashion designer, born in Bègles, France (d. 1989)
- Oct 14 Cruys Voorbergh [Ernest Pieter Coningh], Dutch actor and director (De vliegende Hollander, Flying Dutchman), born in Bagoe, Dutch East Indies (d. 1963)
- Oct 14 Maurice Martenot, French cellist, WWI radio telegrapher, and instrument inventor (ondes Martenot), born in Paris, France (d. 1980) [1]
- Oct 15 Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (Olympic gold marathon 1928), born in Ouled Djellal, Algeria (d. 1959)
- Oct 15 Gunther Ramin, German organist and composer, born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1956)
- Oct 16 Arthur H. Dean, American lawyer, ambassador and presidential advisor (1963 nuclear test ban treaty), born in Ithaca, New York (d. 1987) [1]
- Oct 16 William O. Douglas, American 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75), born in Maine (d. 1980)
- Oct 17 Mildred O. Knopf, American cookbook writer (Food of Italy), born in New York (d. 1993)
- Oct 17 Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method), born in Nagoya, Japan (d. 1998)
- Oct 17 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer and poet (5th Seal), born in Harlingen, Netherlands (d. 1971)
- Oct 18 Bob Custer [Raymond Glenn], American silent and sound screen actor (The Fighting Hombre; The Law of the Wild), born in Frankfort, Kentucky (d. 1974)
- Oct 18 Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian-American singer, muse and wife of Kurt Weill, and actress (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone; From Russia with Love), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1981)
- Oct 21 Amedeo, Italian Duke of Aosta, military officer and Viceroy and Governor-General of Italian East-Africa (1937-43), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1942)
- Oct 21 Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960)
- Oct 22 (John) "Peck" Kelley, American jazz pianist and bandleader (Peck's Bad Boys), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1980)
- Oct 22 Dámaso Alonso, Spanish linguist and poet (Hijos de la ira), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1952)
- Oct 22 Marcel Mihalovici, French composer (Cascando; Krapp, ou, La dernière bande), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1985)
- Oct 25 Sidney James van den Bergh, Dutch businessman and politician, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1977)
- Oct 26 Beryl Rubinstein, American pianist and composer, born in Athens, Georgia (d. 1952)
- Oct 29 Emmanuel Bondeville, French composer, born in Rouen, France (d. 1987)
Bill Terry (1898-1989)
Oct 30 American Baseball HOF first baseman (MLB All-Star 1933–35; World Series 1933; NL batting champion 1930; NY Giants) and manager (NY Giants 1932-41), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Oct 31 Alfred Sauvy, French statistician (Affluence & Population), born in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, France (d. 1990)
