2 October 1869
150th
anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.
4 October 1669
350th
anniversary of the death of Rembrandt.
7 October 1849
170th anniversary of the death of Edgar Allan Poe.
8 October 1949
70th anniversary of Sigourney Weaver.
15 October 1844
175th
anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Nietzsche.
17 October 1849
170th anniversary of the death of Frédéric Chopin.
20 October 1994
25th
anniversary of the death of Burt Lancaster.
22 October 1844
175th
anniversary of the birth of Sarah Bernhardt.
22 October 1919
100th
anniversary of the birth of Doris Lessing.
28 October 1909
110th anniversary of the birth of Francis Bacon.
