Historical Events
Panic of 1907
Oct 1 A downturn in the stock market leads to a run on the dollar; US President Theodore Roosevelt later calls on financier J. P. Morgan to help manage the financial crisis
- Oct 1 Plaza Hotel at 5th Avenue & 59th Street opens in New York
- Oct 5 Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays first game; Montreal beats Toronto, 17-8 in Montreal
Farman's Biplane Takes Off
Oct 7 France's Henri Farman flies 30m in a Voisin biplane
Transatlantic Wireless
Oct 17 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
Ringling Bros. Buys Barnum & Bailey
Oct 22 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 1 Barbara Morrison, English actress (Project Moonbase), born in Weston-Super-Mare (d. 1992)
- Oct 1 Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer, actor (world light heavyweight champion 1932-34), born in Leonard's Bridge, Connecticut (d. 1976)
- Oct 1 Oedoen Partos, Hungarian-Israeli violist (Israel Philharmonic, 1938-56), composer, and teacher, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1977)
- Oct 2 Alexander Robertus Todd, British organic chemist (Nobel Prize 1957), born in Glasgow (d. 1997)
- Oct 5 Mrs. Miller [Elva Ruby Connes], American singer (A Lover's Concerto), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1997)
- Oct 7 Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American spy writer (Agent in Place; The Salzburg Connection), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1985)
- Oct 7 Tutta Rolf, Norwegian actress (Whalers), born in Kristiania, Norway (d. 1994)
- Oct 7 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001)
- Oct 8 Howard Joslin, American actor (Quebec, Detective Story), born in Georgia (d. 1975)
- Oct 9 Jacques Tati, French director (Traffic, Playtime), born in La Pecq, France (d. 1982)
- Oct 9 Klaes Karppinen, Finnish athlete, 4 X 10K relay (Olympic gold 1936), born in Iisalmi, Finland (d. 1992)
- Oct 9 Quintin Hogg, British politician, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, born in London (d. 2001)
- Oct 12 Wolfgang Fortner, German composer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1987)
- Oct 13 Yves Allégret, French film director, born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France (d. 1987)
- Oct 14 Allan Jones, American actor and singer (A Day at the Races, Showboat), born in Old Forge, Pennsylvania (d. 1992)
- Oct 14 Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter and actor (Zeskamp, Oebele), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1981)
- Oct 14 Pert Kelton, American actress (Cavalcade of Stars), born in Great Falls, Montana (d. 1968)
- Oct 15 John Dearden, American cardinal (1969-88) and archbishop of Detroit, born in Valley Falls, Rhode Island (d. 1988)
- Oct 15 Varian Fry, American journalist and recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations", born in New York (d. 1967)
- Oct 15 Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer, born in Königsberg, East Prussia (d. 1980)
- Oct 16 Roger Vailland, French author (Drôle de jeu, La loi) and screenwriter, born in Acy-en-Multien, Oise, France (d. 1965)
- Oct 17 John Marley [Mortimer Marlieb], American actor (Cat Ballou; Love Story; The Godfather), born in New York City (d. 1984)
- Oct 18 Alexander Hardie Williamson, British designer (Kilner jar) (d. 1994)
- Oct 19 Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader ("I'm Sitting On Top Of The World"), and aviator, born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1962)
- Oct 20 Arlene Francis, American actress and radio and television personality (What's My Line?), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2001)
- Oct 21 Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek surrealist painter and poet (Do Not Distract the Driver), born in Athens, Greece (d. 1985)
- Oct 21 Pieter Van der Bijl, South African cricket batsman (5 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 125; Western Province, Oxford University CC), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 1973)
- Oct 22 Henriette Wyeth, American artist known for her portraits, born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1997)
Jimmie Foxx (1907-1967)
Oct 22 American Baseball HOF first baseman (9 x MLB All Star; World Series 1929, 30; AL MVP 1932, 33, 38; Triple Crown 1933; Philadelphia A's, Boston RS), born in Sudlersville, Maryland
- Oct 26 Giovanni Salviucci, Italian composer, born in Rome (d. 1937)
- Oct 27 Helmut Walcha, a blind German organist (church music), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1991)
- Oct 27 Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez, 1st Prime Minister of Dutch Antilles (d. 1966)
- Oct 28 John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 1987)
- Oct 28 Lew Parker [Austin Lewis Jacobs], American actor (Are You with It?, That Girl), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1972)
- Oct 29 Edwige Feuillère, French film actress, born in Haute-Saône, Franche-Comté, France (d. 1998)
- Oct 30 Albert Rice Leventhal, American publisher (Little Golden Books), born in New York City (d. 1976)
- Oct 30 Renzo Cesana, Italian-American TV host (First Date, Continental), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1970)
- Oct 30 Sol Tax, American anthropologist (founded the journal Current Anthropology), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1995)
- Oct 31 Helen Lessore, English artist, born in London (d. 1994)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 3 Alfred Reisenauer, German pianist and composer, dies at 43
- Oct 4 Alfredo Keil, Portuguese composer, dies at 57
- Oct 8 Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
- Oct 9 Romualdo Marenco, Italian composer, chiefly of ballet music (Excelsior), and conductor, dies at 66
- Oct 20 Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
- Oct 21 Jules Chevalier, French Roman Catholic priest (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart), dies at 83
- Oct 25 Edmund Hart Turpin, English composer, dies at 72
