october

• 1 Paul Dukas, composer, b. Paris 1865
  
• 2 Graham Greene, novelist, b. Berkhapstead, Hertfordshire, 1904
  
• 3 Gore Vidal, novelist, b. West Point, NY, 1925
  
• 4 Buster Keaton, film comedian, b. Kansas 1895
  
• 5 Joshua Logan, director, b. Texakarna, TX 1908
  
• 6 Thor Heyerdahl, ethnologist and archaeologist, b. Norway 1914
  
• 7 Niels Bohr, atomic physicist, b. Copenhagan 1885
  
• 8 John Cowper Powys, novelist, b. Shirley, Derbyshire 1872
  
• 9 Jacques Tati, actor and director, b. Le Pedq, France 1908
  
• 10 Helen Hayes, actor, b. Washington DC 1900
  
• 11 Richard Burton, actor, b. Wales 1925
  
• 12 Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, b. Ampney, Gloucestershire 1872
  
• 13Lillie Langtry, actor, b. Jersey 1853
  
• 14 Lilian Gish, film actor, b. Ohio 1896
  
• 15 Florence Nightingale, hospital reformer, b. Florece, Italy 1820
  
• 16 Oscar Wills Wilde, dramatist, poet, novelist, b. Dublin 1854
  
• 17 Rita Hayworth, actor, b. New York, NY 1918
  
• 18 Antonio Canaletto, painter, b. Venice 1697
  
• 19 Leigh Hunt, poet, b. Southgate, Middlesex 1784
  
• 20 Arthur Rimbaud, poet, b. Charleville, France 1854
  
• 21 Dizzy Gillespie, jazz musician, b. South Carolina 1917
  
• 22 Sarah Bernhardt, actor, b. Paris 1844
  
• 23 Louis Riel, Mètis leader, b. St Boniface, Manitoba, Canada 1844
  
• 24 Dame Sybil Thorndike, actor, b. Gainsborough, Lincolnshire 1882
  
• 25 Pablo Picasso, artist, b. Malaga, Spain 1881
  
• 26 Mahalia Jackson, singer, b. New Orleans 1911
  
• 27 Dylan Thomas, poet, b. Swansea, Wales 1914
  
• 28 Evelyn Waugh, novelist, b. London 1903
  
• 29 Fanny Brice, actor, b. 1891
  
• 30 Louis Malle, film director, b. Thumeries, France 1932
  
• 31 John Keats, poet, b. London 1795