Editing 1942 (section)

===October===
[[File:Britt Ekland 2 Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Britt Ekland]]]]
[[File:Joybeharpic (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joy Behar]]]]
[[File:Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Amitabh Bachchan]]]]
[[File:MichaelCrichton 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Crichton]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Günter Wallraff]], German investigative journalist
**[[Jean-Pierre Jabouille]], French [[Formula One|F1]] driver (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Asha Parekh]], Indian actress, film director and producer
* [[October 3]]
** [[Earl Hindman]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
** [[Roberto Perfumo]], Argentine footballer and sports commentator (d. [[2016]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Britt Ekland]], Swedish actress
* [[October 7]]
** [[Ronald Baecker]], American computer scientist
** [[Joy Behar]], American comedian and television personality
* [[October 8]]
** [[Stanley Bates]], British actor and screenwriter
** [[Nguyễn Minh Triết]], 6th [[President of Vietnam]]
* [[October 9]] – [[Shukri Ghanem]], Libyan politician (d. [[2012]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Janis Hansen (singer)|Janis Hansen]], American singer and author (d. [[2017]])
** [[Radu Vasile]], Prime Minister of Romania (d. [[2013]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Amitabh Bachchan]], Indian actor, film producer, and television host
* [[October 12]] – [[Daliah Lavi]], Israeli actress and singer (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[Rutanya Alda]], Latvian-American actress
** [[Jerry Jones]], American football team owner
* [[October 19]] – [[Andrew Vachss]], American author and attorney (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 20]]
** [[Christel DeHaan]], German-American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. [[2020]])
** [[Arto Paasilinna]], Finnish writer (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wsoy.fi/uutiset/arto-paasilinna-20-4-1942-15-10-2018 |title=Arto Paasilinna 20.4.1942–15.10.2018 |publisher=WSOY |language=fi |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016165851/https://www.wsoy.fi/uutiset/arto-paasilinna-20-4-1942-15-10-2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[October 21]] – [[Judy Sheindlin]], American retired judge turned television personality (''[[Judge Judy]]'')
* [[October 22]]
** [[Bobby Fuller]], American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (d. [[1966]])
** [[Annette Funicello]], American actress and singer (d. [[2013]])
** [[Pedro Morales]], Puerto Rican professional wrestler (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 23]] 
** [[Michael Crichton]], American author (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Paul T. Hellmann |title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA278 |date=14 February 2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1-135-94859-3 |pages=278}}</ref>
** [[Anita Roddick]], British businesswoman, human rights activist and campaigner (d. [[2007]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Frank Delaney]], Irish-born novelist, journalist and broadcaster (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Gloria Katz]], American screenwriter and film producer (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Bob Hoskins]], British actor (d. [[2014]])
* [[October 27]] 
** [[Philip Catherine]], Belgian jazz guitarist
** [[Lee Greenwood]], American country singer and songwriter
* [[October 28]] – [[Kees Verkerk]], Dutch speed skater
* [[October 29]] – [[Bob Ross]], American painter and television presenter (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 31]]
** [[George Brizan]], 8th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. [[2012]])
** [[David Ogden Stiers]], American actor and voice-over artist (d. [[2018]])