Born
- Anne Rice – 4th October 1941 – New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Jackie Collins – 4th October 1937 – London
- Michael Morpurgo – 5th October 1943 – St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
- R.L Stine – 8th October 1943 – Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Nora Roberts – 10th October 1950 – Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- P.G. Wodehouse – 15th October 1881 – Guildford, Surrey, England
- Oscar Wilde – 16th October 1854 – Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- John Le Carré – 19th October 1931 – Poole, Dorset, England
- Doris Lessing – 22nd October 1919 – Kermanshah, Iran
- Michael Crichton – 23rd October 1942 – Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Derek Landy – 23rd October 1974 – Lusk, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Gilbert Patten – 25th October 1866 – Corinna, Maine, United States
- Zadie Smith – 25th October 1975 – London Borough of Brent, London
- Sylvia Plath – 27th October 1932 – Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Evelyn Waugh – 28th October 1903 – Hampstead, London, England
Died
- Edgar Allen Poe – 7th October 1849, aged 40 – Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Orson Welles – 10th October 1985, aged 70 – Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Harold Robbins – 14th October 1997, aged 81 – Palm Springs, California, United States
- Herman Charles Bosman – 14th October 1951, aged 46 – Edendale, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Johnathan Swift – 19th October 1745, aged 76 – Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Zane Grey – 23rd October 1939, aged 67 – Altadena, California
- Geoffrey Chaucer – 25th October 1400, aged unknown (around 56/57)- London
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