• 1207 King Henry III of England
• 1885 Louis Untermeyer
• 1893: Faith Baldwin
• 1924 Jimmy Carter

• 1965 - Edward E "Doc" Smith
• 1972 - Louis Leakey
• 1985 - Charlotte White

• 1452 King Richard III of England
• 1869 Mahatma Gandhi
• 1890 Groucho Marx
• 1904 Graham Greene

• 1517 - John Murmelius, school book writer
• 1955 - James Dean

• 1847: Lilian Whiting
• 1873 (or October 27, 1872): Emily Post
• 1900 Thomas Wolfe
• 1916 James Herriot
• 1925 Gore Vidal

• 1226 St. Francis of Assisi
• 1656 - Myles Standish
• 1967 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie

• 1582: Teresa of Ávila
• 1884 Damon Runyan
• Anne Rice, 1941

• 1859 - Karl Baedeker, German tour guide
• 1974: Anne Sexton
• 1991 - Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems

• 1928 Louise Fitzhugh

• 1799 - Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet

• 1820 - Jenny Lind
• 1887 Le Corbusier
• 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl

• 1892 - Alfred Tennyson

• 1849 - James Whitcomb Riley
• 1948 Diane Ackerman
• 1952 Vladimir Putin

• 1849 - Edgar Allen Poe

• 1794: Caroline Howard Gilman
• 1920 Frank Herbert
• 1943 R. L. Stine

• 1613 - Sebastien de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer
• 1754 - Henry Fielding

• 1813, VERDI, Giuseppe
• 1835, SAINT-SAENS, Charles-Camille
• 1890: Aimee Semple McPherson
• 1940 John Lennon

• 1978 - Jacques Brel

• 1830: Isabella II, queen of Spain
• 1930 Harold Pinter

• 1875 - Aleksei K Tolstoi
• 1965 - Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov

• 1884: Eleanor Roosevelt
  1925 Elmore Leonard

• 1809 - Meriwether Lewis

• 1537 King Edward VI
• 1935 Luciano Pavarotti

• 1870 - Robert E Lee
• 1969: Sonja Henie
• 1989 - Jay Ward

• 1925: Margaret Thatcher
• 1941 Paul Simon

• 0054 - Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poison mushrooms at 63
• 1995 - Henry Roth

• 1893 Lois Lenski
  1894 E. E. Cummings
  1906: Hannah Arendt

• 1536 - Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet
  1990 - Leonard Bernstein
  1995 - Edith Pargeter
  1997 - Harold Robbins

• 1830: Helen Hunt Jackson (pen names include Saxe Holm and H.H.)
  1844 Friedrich Nietsche
  1881 P.G. Wodehouse
  1920 Mario Puzo

• 1595 - Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E. Indies poet
  1917 - Mata Hari
  1964 - Cole Porter

• 1854 Oscar Wilde
  1928 Italo Calvino

• 1915 Arthur Miller
  1930 Jimmy Breslin
  1932 Shel Silverstein

• 1849 Frederic Chopin
  1910 - William V Moody
  1979 - S J Perelman

• 1404 Pope Pius II; wrote voluminously, creating a significant source of information about his times.
  1889: Fannie Hurst
  1946 Philip Pullman
  1948: Ntozake Shange

• 1216 - John, king of England
  1931 - Thomas Alva Edison
  1973 - Walt Kelly

• 1906 Crockett Johnson
  1931 John LeCarre

1745 - Jonathan Swift
1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay

• 1874 IVES, Charles

1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator)
1993 - James Leo Herlihy

• 1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1904 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton
• 1914 - Martin Gardner
• 1929 Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1952: Patti Ann Davis-Reagan

• 1805 - Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar
  1831 - Nat Turner, and 19 associates, hanged
  1969 - Jack Kerouac
  1984 - Indira Gandhi

• 1811 LISZT, Franz
  1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet/novelist
  1920 - Timothy Leary
  1919 - Doris Lessing

• 1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti
  1975 - Arnold Toynbee
  1995 - Kingsley Amis

• 1925 - Johnny Carson
  1942 Michael Crichton
  1959 "Weird" Al Yankovic

• 1456 St. John of Capistrano
  1950 - Al Jolson
  1996 - Diana Trilling

• 1632 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek
  1788: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

• 1537 Jane Seymour, twelve days after giving birth to the future Edward VI of England
• 1601 Tycho Brahe
• 1991 - Gene Roddenberry

1825 - Johann Baptist Strauss (the Waltz King)
1838, BIZET, Georges
1941 Anne Tyler

1154: King Stephen of England; the succession went to Henry Plantagenet, so his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, became Queen of England.
1400 Geoffrey Chaucer
1989 - Mary McCarthy
1902 - Frank Norris

1685, SCARLATTI, Giuseppe
1855 - Charles Post (Post Cereals)
1947: Hillary Rodham Clinton

• 1401: Catherine of Valois (wife of Henry V, mother of Henry VI, grandmother of Henry VII)
• 1469 Desiderius Erasmus
• 1872 (or October 3, 1873): Emily Post
• 1914 Dylan Thomas
• 1932 Sylvia Plath
• 1940: Maxine Hong Kingston
• 1950 Fran Leibowitz

1846 - Auguste Escoffier
1896 - Howard Hanson
1903 - Evelyn A Waugh
1955 - Bill [William Henry] Gates

1704 - John Locke
1818: Abigail Adams

• 1656 - Edmund Halley
  1884 - Bela Lugosi
  1891: Fannie Brice
  1906 - Fredric [William] Brown

• 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for treason
  1911 - Joseph Pulitzer

• 1821 - Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
  1877: Irma Rombauer
  1885 - Ezra Loomis Pound
  1907 - Albert Rice Leventhal, publisher (Little Golden Books)

• 1795 - John Keats
  1825: Charlotte Spence
  1920 - Dick Francis

• 1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici
  1984: Indira Gandhi assassinated

Benedict, abbot

Dominican Republic Jazz Festival (1-5th)
959 Edgar becomes King of All England
965 John XIII becomes Pope
1847: First comet named for a woman: Maria Mitchell
1880 - John Phillip Sousa becomes leader of Marine Corps Band
International Day for the Elderly

• Saint Leger (Leodegar)
• Guardian Angels (Worldwide)

World Farm Animals Day
1895 - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
1961 - "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV

Saint Teresa of Lisieux

1872 - Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
1913 - US Federal Income Tax signed into law
1954 - "Father Knows Best" premieres
1955 - "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres

Francis of Assisi

1582 Gregorian Calendar Reform (if you see duplicates of some events, it's because history records them both under their original calendar, and under our current calendar!)
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
America's Walk for Diabetes
Medina and Rabat Festival (Malta)

Galla, widow

1924: Little Orphan Annie comic strip first appeared
World Teachers Day
Padmasambhava Day (Buddhist)
Lailat-Ul-Bara’h (Muslim)
Republic Day (Portugal)

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, patriarchs

Bermuda Jazz Festival (6-10th)
National Children's Book Week (6-12th)(UK)
International Walk to School Day

Mary, of the Rosary

National Depression Screening Day
National Poetry Day (UK)

Amor, deacon, confessor

1391: St. Bridget of Sweden canonized
Jewish holiday of Sukkoth ends
Simchat Torah (Jewish)
Cheltenham Festival of Literature (8-17th), England

Dionysius (sometimes bishop or pope), and companions (Rusticus, Eleuterius), martyrs

Leif Ericsson Day
1446 - Korean Hangual alphabet devised
1946 - Eugene O'Neill's "Iceman Cometh," premieres in NYC

National School Lunch Week
World Mental Health Day

Augustine, bishop, confessor

1968 - Launch of Apollo 7
Thanksgiving Day in Canada
Columbus Day observed
Chung Yeung Festival (Hong Kong)

Our Lady Aparecida, Patron Saint of Brazil (Brazil)

1850: First lectures given at the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first women's medical school in the world
Columbus "discovers" America, 1492

• Edward, king, confessor
• Seven Friars Minor, martyrs

10th Conference of European Ministers for Sport (Hungary)
Solar Eclipse of the Sun (Earth)
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published

Donatian, bishop

1066 The Battle of Hastings
Pokrov Bogoroditsy - Intercession of Our Lady (Russian Orthodox)
Navaratri/Durga Puja/Dusserah (Hindu)

• Three Hundred Moors, martyrs
• Theresa (of Avila), virgin, Doctor of the Church

Ramadan
Orionids Meteor Shower (Space)
1842 - Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung
1951 - "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV

Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin

Queenstown International Jazz Festival (16th-24th), New Zealand
1793: Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, guillotined
Boss's Day (USA)
World Food Day
Anti-McDonalds Action Day

Michael, the archangel

Texas Jazz Festival (17-19th), Corpus Christi
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
1919 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

St. Luke the Evangelist

Armadillo Day
1878 - Edison makes electricity available for household usage (a boon to readers everywhere!)

Fritheswida, virgin

1714 - Georg Ludwig of Hannover crowned as King George I
1781 - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown

Adalbert, bishop (of Prague), martyr

1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
Anniversary of the Birth of the Bab (Baha'i)
Installation of Holy Scriptures as Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh)

Eleven thousand virgins, martyrs

1422 Henry VI proclaimed King of France (he was 10 months old)
1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard
1858 - In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1918: Margaret Owen set typing speed record: 170 words per minute

Mary James and Mary Salome

Guinness Jazz Festival (22-25th), Cork, Ireland
1746 - Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
1897 - World's 1st car dealer opens in London
1964 - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

• Oda, widow
• St. James

Remembrance Day (Hungary)
1760 - 1st Jewish prayer books printed in US
1824 - 1st steam locomotive is introduced
1958 - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Raphael, archangel

Glenelg Jazz Festival (24-26th), Adelaide, S. Aus.
United Nations Day
1901 - 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)

Boniface, pope, confessor

1415 Battle of Agincourt
1760 - George III ascends British throne
1854 - Charge of Light Brigade
Public Holiday (Ireland)

Bean, bishop, confessor

National Day (Austria)
1492 - Lead pencils 1st used
1787 - "Federalist Papers" published
1881 - Gunfight at OK Corral

St Nestor the Martyr

Navy Day (USA)
Lunar eclipse (Earth)
1904 World's 1st subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC

Simon and Jude, apostles

1216 Henry III of England crowned
1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded
Independence Day (Czech Republic)
Pavarana (Buddhist)

Bede (the Venerable), Doctor of the Church

1929 - "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
1947 - Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union
1958 - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature

Marcellus (the Centurion), martyr

Sarcastic Fringehead Day
1485 Henry VII Crowned King of England
1830: Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first novel, published

All Saints (Vigil)

1517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses
Daylight Savings time ends (USA)
Halloween