Historical Events
1. X. 1905
Oct 1 František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to write his Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905.
Flyer III Flies a Circle
Oct 5 Orville and Wilbur Wright's make a circling flight on "Flyer III" of 24.2 miles (38.9 kms) in 39 minutes and 23 seconds
- Oct 9 First league sanctioned Baseball World Series begins; New York Giants (NL) beat Philadelphia A's (AL), 3-0 in Game 1 at Columbia Park
- Oct 14 Baseball World Series: NY Giants (NL) beat Philadelphia A's (AL), 2-0 in Game 5 at the Polo Grounds to win first league sanctioned WS, 4-1; Christy Mathewson's 3rd straight WS shutout
La Mer
Oct 15 Claude Debussy's symphonic sketch "La Mer" premieres in Paris
Polish Revolution
Oct 20 Russian Tsar Nicholas II allows the Poles to speak Polish to help quell the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland
- Oct 21 In early promotion of soccer in America, England Pilgrim Association XI beats All New York XI, 7-1 at the Polo Grounds, NY
- Oct 23 Edward Milton Royle's play "Squaw Man" premieres in NYC
- Oct 25 1st College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 17-0 in Annapolis
- Oct 26 First Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
- Oct 26 Union of Sweden & Norway ends
- Oct 29 Nama chief Hendrik Witbooi fatally injured fighting for independence against German colonists near Vaalgras (modern Namibia) [1]
- Oct 30 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament)
Mrs Warren's Profession
Oct 30 George Bernard Shaw's play "Mrs Warren's Profession" premieres in NYC
- Oct 31 Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St Petersburg
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 4 Leon Orthel, Dutch pianist and composer, born in Roosendaal, Netherlands (d. 1985)
- Oct 4 René Defossez, Belgian composer, born in Spa, Belgium (d. 1988)
- Oct 5 Harriet E MacGibbon, American actress, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
- Oct 5 John Hoyt, [Hoysradt] American stage and screen actor (Mercury Theatre; Gimme a Break!; Tom, Dick & Mary), and comedian, born in Bronxville, New York (d. 1991)
Helen Wills Moody (1905-1998)
Oct 6 American tennis player (19 Grand Slam titles), born in Centerville California
- Oct 7 Andy Devine, American character actor (Roy Roger's sidekick - "Cookie"; Stagecoach; Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, 1951-58), born in Flagstaff, Territory of Arizona (d. 1977)
- Oct 9 Howard St John, American actor (Born Yesterday, Li'l Abner), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1974)
- Oct 9 May Moxon, Scottish dance producer, born in Townhead, Glasgow (d. 1996)
- Oct 10 Jane Winton, American actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
- Oct 11 Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump, born in New York City (d. 1999)
Rick Ferrell (1905-1995)
Oct 12 American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (8 x MLB All Star; Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators), born in Durham, North Carolina
- Oct 15 Alexey Fedorovich Kozlovsky, Russian composer, born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1977)
- Oct 15 Charles P. Snow, English novelist (Death Under Sail, Strangers and Brothers) and physical chemist, born in Leicester, England (d. 1980)
- Oct 15 Dag Wirén, Swedish composer, born in Striberg, Sweden (d. 1986)
- Oct 15 Edna Deane (née Sewell) British dancer, choreographer and drama teacher, born in Orange Free State of South Africa (d. 1995)
- Oct 16 Wild Bill Elliott [Gordon Nance], American actor (Beyond the Sacramento), born in Pattonsburg, Missouri (d. 1965)
- Oct 17 Franco Albini, Italian Rationalist architect, industrial and furniture designer (Albini desk), born in Robbiate, Italy (d. 1977)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905-1993)
Oct 18 1st President of Ivory Coast (Democratic Party: 1960-93) known as the "Sage of Africa", born in Yamoussoukro, French West Africa
- Oct 21 Carleton Young, American actor (Reefer Madness, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), born in Westfield, New York (d. 1994)
- Oct 22 Joseph Kosma [József Kozma], Hungarian-French film composer (Les Enfants du Paradis; The Grand Illusion), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1969)
- Oct 22 Karl Jansky, American engineer (discovered cosmic radio emissions), born in Norman, Oklahoma (d. 1933)
- Oct 23 Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor and composer (Bol’shoy Theatre, 1931-62), born in Tblisi (d. 1964)
- Oct 23 Felix Bloch, Swiss-American nuclear physicist (1st Director of CERN, Nobel Prize for Physics 1952), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1983)
- Oct 23 Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (1st female English Channel 1926), born in New York City (d. 2003)
- Oct 24 Elizabeth Poston, English composer, born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire (d. 1987)
- Oct 24 Kristian Hauger, Norwegian pianist, orchestra leader and songwriter ("Charleston i Grukkedalen"), born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway (d. 1977)
- Oct 26 George Flahiff, Canadian Cardinal, born in Paris, Ontario, Canada (d. 1989)
- Oct 28 Harry Broadhurst, British Royal Air Force commander and flying ace of the Second World War, born in Frimley, Surrey, England (d. 1995)
- Oct 29 Laurence Dowdall, Scottish lawyer, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1996)
- Oct 30 Christian Darnton, British composer, born in Leeds, England (d. 1981)
Bumpy Johnson (1905-1968)
Oct 31 American crime boss, born in Charleston, South Carolina
Famous Weddings
Calvin Coolidge
Oct 4 30th US President Calvin Coolidge (33) weds Grace Anna Goodhue (26) in Burlington, Vermont
Famous Deaths
- Oct 2 José Maria de Heredia, Cuban-French sonnet poet (Les Trophées), dies at 62
- Oct 6 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and explorer, dies at 72
- Oct 13 Henry Irving [John Brodribb], British Victorian actor, 1st actor to receive a knighthood (knighted 1895) and the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, dies at 67
- Oct 21 José Teodor Vilar, Spanish organist and composer (La Rambla de les Flors), dies at 69
- Oct 28 Alphonse Allais, French humorist and author (Le chat noir), dies at 51
- Oct 29 Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
- Oct 29 Hendrik Witbooi, Nama chief (modern Namibia) who resisted German colonial control (pioneered ideas of Pan-Africanism), dies fighting (born c. 1835) [1]
