Editing 1945 (section)

===October===
* [[October 1]]
** [[Rod Carew]], Panamanian-American baseball player
** [[Donny Hathaway]], African-American soul singer-songwriter (d. [[1979]])
** [[Ram Nath Kovind]], 14th [[President of India]]
* [[October 2]] 
** [[Regina Torné]], Mexican actress, singer and television presenter
** [[Don McLean]], American singer-songwriter ("[[American Pie (song)|American Pie]]")
* [[October 3]] – [[Viktor Saneyev]], Soviet athlete and Olympic champion (d. [[2022]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Ivan Graziani]], Italian singer-songwriter (d. [[1997]])
* [[October 9]]
** [[Vijaya Kumaratunga]], Sri Lankan actor and politician (d. [[1988]])
** [[Archbishop Nikon of Boston]], Albanian bishop (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 12]]
** [[Aurore Clément]], French actress
** [[Dusty Rhodes]], American wrestler (d. [[2015]])
* [[October 18]]
** [[Norio Wakamoto]], Japanese voice actor
** [[Yıldo]], Turkish showman, footballer
* [[October 19]]
** [[Angus Deaton]], Scottish-born economist, recipient of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]]
** [[John Lithgow]], American actor (''[[Third Rock from the Sun]]'')
* [[October 22]] – [[Yvan Ponton]], Canadian actor, sportscaster
* [[October 23]] – [[Kim Larsen]], Danish rock musician (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 24]]
** [[Eugenie Scott]], American Executive Director of the [[National Center for Science Education]]
** [[Sean Solomon]], American Principal Investigator of NASA's [[MESSENGER]] mission to [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] and director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the [[Carnegie Institution for Science]]
* [[October 25]]
** [[Peter Ledger]], Australian artist (d. [[1994]])
** [[David Schramm (astrophysicist)|David Schramm]], American astrophysicist and educator (d. [[1997]])
** [[Keaton Yamada]], Japanese voice actor
* [[October 26]]
** [[Pat Conroy]], American author (d. [[2016]])
** [[Jaclyn Smith]], American actress, businesswoman (''[[Charlie's Angels]]'')
* [[October 27]]
** [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]], [[List of Presidents of Brazil|35th]] [[President of Brazil]]
** [[Carrie Snodgress]], American actress (d. [[2004]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Ching Li]], Taiwanese actress (d. [[2017]])
** [[Melba Moore]], African-American singer, actress 
* [[October 30]] – [[Henry Winkler]], American actor, producer and director (''[[Happy Days]]'')