Editing 1926 (section)

===October===
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* [[October 1]] – [[Max Morath]], American musician (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 2]] 
** [[Jan Morris]], born James Morris, British travel writer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Lea |first=Richard |title=Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94 |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=20 November 2020 |access-date=20 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120160325/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94 |archive-date=20 November 2020}}</ref>
** [[John Ross (chemist)|John Ross]], Austrian-born American chemist (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Phar Lap]], New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. [[1932]])
* [[October 7]] 
** [[Uri Lubrani]], Israeli diplomat and military official (d. [[2018]])
** [[Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski]], Polish mathematician (d. [[2015]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Carmencita Lara]], Peruvian singer (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Ruth Ellis]], British murderess (d. [[1955]])
* [[October 11]] 
** [[Yvon Dupuis]], Canadian politician (d. [[2017]])
** [[Thích Nhất Hạnh]], Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist<ref>{{cite book |last = Ford |first = James Ishmael |author-link = James Ishmael Ford |title = Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen |page = [https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame/page/90 90] |year = 2006 |publisher = Wisdom Publications |isbn = 0-86171-509-8 |url = https://archive.org/details/zenmasterwhoguid00jame/page/90 }}</ref><ref name="Taylor2007">{{cite book |last = Taylor |first = Philip |title = Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mtU4H21wdFoC&pg=PA299 |access-date = October 9, 2018 |year = 2007 |publisher = Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |isbn = 9789812304407 |page = 299 }}</ref> (d. [[2022]])
** [[Zohurul Hoque]], Indian Islamic scholar (d. [[2017]])
** [[Shin Sang-ok]], South Korean film producer and director (d. [[2006]])
* [[October 12]] – [[César Pelli]], Argentine-American architect (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[Jesse L. Brown]], first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d. [[1950]])
** [[Kazuo Nakamura]], Japanese-Canadian painter, part of the [[Painters Eleven]] (d. [[2002]])
* [[October 15]]
** [[Michel Foucault]], French philosopher (d. [[1984]])
** [[Jean Peters]], American actress (d. [[2000]])
** [[Karl Richter (conductor)|Karl Richter]], German conductor (d. [[1981]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Charles Dolan]], American billionaire (d. [[2024]])
* [[October 17]]
** [[Julie Adams]], American actress (d. [[2019]])
** [[Beverly Garland]], American actress and businesswoman (d. [[2008]])
* [[October 18]]
** [[Chuck Berry]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. [[2017]])
** [[Klaus Kinski]], German actor (d. [[1991]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Marjorie Tallchief]], American ballerina (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Vsevolod Murakhovsky]], Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Waldir Pires]], Brazilian politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Chan Sui-kau]], Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 25]] 
** [[María Concepción César]], Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. [[2018]])
** [[Jimmy Heath]], American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Galina Vishnevskaya]], Russian soprano (d. [[2012]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Henri Fertet]], [[French Resistance]] fighter (d. [[1943]])<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/fr/compagnons/henri-fertet |title = Henri Fertet |website = [[Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération]] |language = fr |access-date = 2019-12-01 }}</ref>
* [[October 28]] – [[Bowie Kuhn]], American Commissioner of Baseball (d. [[2007]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Necmettin Erbakan]], 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. [[2011]])
** [[Jon Vickers]], Canadian operatic tenor (d. [[2015]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Richard Hu]] – Singaporean politician, [[Ministry of Finance (Singapore)|Minister for Finance]] (d. [[2023]])