Editing 1941 (section)

===October===
[[File:WIKI CHUBBY CHECKER 1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chubby Checker]]]]
[[File:Duhalde23012007.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eduardo Duhalde]]]]
[[File:Jesse Jackson 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jesse Jackson]]]]
[[File:Paul Simon at the 9-30 Club (b).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul Simon]]]]
[[File:Helen Reddy 1975.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Helen Reddy]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Vyacheslav Vedenin]], Soviet cross-country skier
* [[October 3]]
** [[Chubby Checker]], American singer (''[[The Twist (song)|The Twist]]'')
** [[Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca]], Romanian historian and philologist (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rador.ro/2017/04/10/nicolae-serban-tanasoca-in-memoriam/|title=Nicolae-Șerban Tanașoca, In Memoriam|first=Adi|last=Mondiru|publisher=[[Agenția de presă RADOR]]|date=10 April 2017|language=ro}}</ref>
* [[October 4]]
** [[Mighty Shadow]], Trinidadian calypsonian (d. [[2018]])
** [[Roy Blount Jr.]], American writer, comedian
** [[Elizabeth Eckford]], African-American activist (''[[Little Rock Nine]]'')
** [[Anne Rice]], American writer (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Eduardo Duhalde]], 50th [[President of Argentina]]
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Jesse Jackson]], African-American clergyman, civil rights activist and presidential candidate
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Trent Lott]], American politician and author
* [[October 10]]
** [[Peter Coyote]], American actor
** [[Hanan Goldblatt]], Israeli actor
** [[Ken Saro-Wiwa]], Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Valerii Postoyanov]], Soviet Olympic sport shooter (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Paul Simon]], American singer, composer (''[[Simon and Garfunkel]]'')
* [[October 15]] 
** [[Rosie Douglas]], 4th Prime Minister of Dominica (d. [[2000]])
** [[Joan Antoni Solans Huguet]], Spanish urban planner (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Tim McCarver]], American baseball player and sportscaster (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Earl Thomas Conley]], American country music singer (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Peter Thornley]], English professional wrestler best known for the ring character [[Kendo Nagasaki]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tYPCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT53|title=The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant|first1=Bertrand|last1=Hébert|first2=Pat|last2=Laprade|first3=Tony|last3=Stabile|date=April 28, 2020|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781773054766 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Anneke Wills]], British actress
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Dickie Pride]], British [[rock and roll]] singer (d. [[1969]])
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Mel Winkler]], American actor (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Frank Aendenboom]], Belgian actor (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Helen Reddy]], Australian singer, actress (''[[I Am Woman]]'') (d. [[2020]])
** [[Anne Tyler]], American novelist
* [[October 27]] 
** [[Gerd Brantenberg]], Norwegian feminist author, gay rights activist
** [[Dick Trickle]], American race car driver (d. [[2013]])
* [[October 28]]
** [[John Hallam]], Irish actor
** [[Hank Marvin]], British guitarist, singer and songwriter (''[[The Shadows]]'')
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Theodor W. Hänsch]], German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Sally Kirkland]], American actress