Editing 1885 (section)

=== October ===
[[File:Niels Bohr.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Niels Bohr]]]]
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Sophie Treadwell]], American playwright, journalist (d. [[1970]])
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Niels Bohr]], Danish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1962]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[François Mauriac]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{cite book|author=K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar|title=Francois Mauriac: Novelist & Moralist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ay4nAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Asia Publishing House|page=2}}</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Charles E. Merrill]], American banker, co-founder of [[Merrill Lynch]] (d. [[1956]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Rachel Katznelson-Shazar]], Zionist political figure, wife of third President of Israel (d. [[1975]])
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Per Albin Hansson]], 2-time prime minister of Sweden (d. [[1946]])
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Ezra Pound]], American poet (d. [[1972]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lawrence S. Rainey|title=Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture: Text, History, and the Malatesta Cantos|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajVbyQLNRLwC&pg=PA43|date=15 December 1991|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-70316-9|pages=43}}</ref>