Editing 1948 (section)

===October===
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[[File:Margot Kidder Gaily, Gaily.png|thumb|100px|[[Margot Kidder]]]]
[[File:Kushida anime friends 2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Akira Kushida]]]]
[[File:Kate Jackson 1976.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Kate Jackson]]]]
* [[October 1]] 
** [[Mark Landon]], American actor (d. [[2009]])
** Sir [[Peter Blake (sailor)|Peter Blake]], New Zealand yachtsman (d. [[2001]])
* [[October 2]]
** [[Avery Brooks]], American actor, musician
** [[Persis Khambatta]], Indian actress, model (''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'') (d. [[1998]])
** [[Chris LeDoux]], American singer, rodeo star (d. [[2005]])
** [[Donna Karan]], American fashion designer
* [[October 4]] 
** [[Meg Bennett]], American soap opera writer
** [[Iain Hewitson]], New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television personality 
*[[October 5]] &ndash; [[Russell Mael]], American singer ([[Sparks (band)|Sparks]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7n515ucve20C&pg=PT17|title=Talent Is An Asset: The Story of Sparks|first=Daryl|last=Easlea|date=April 7, 2010|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857122377 }}</ref>
*[[October 6]]
** [[Wendell Ladner]], American basketball player (d. [[1975]])
** [[Gerry Adams]], Northern Irish politician
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Diane Ackerman]], American poet, essayist
* [[October 8]]
** [[Johnny Ramone]], American guitarist ([[Ramones]]) (d. [[2004]])
** [[Baldwin Spencer (politician)|Baldwin Spencer]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda]]
* [[October 9]]
** [[Jackson Browne]], American rock musician ("[[Running on Empty (song)|Running on Empty]]")
** [[Ciarán Carson]], Northern Irish poet, novelist
** [[Oliver Hart (economist)|Oliver Hart]], English-born economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[October 11]]
** [[Margie Alexander]], American gospel, soul singer (d. [[2013]])
** [[Cynthia Clawson]], American gospel singer
* [[October 12]] 
** [[Rick Parfitt]], English musician ([[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]]) (d. [[2016]])
** [[Stephen Shepich]], American politician and former member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]] in 1993 and 1994 (d. [[2013]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[John Ford Coley]], American rock musician ("[[I'd Really Love to See You Tonight]]")
** [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], Pakistani musician (d. [[1997]])
* [[October 14]]
** [[Engin Arık]], [[Turkey|Turkish]] [[Nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]] (d. [[2007]])
** [[David Ruprecht]], American actor, writer (''[[Supermarket Sweep]]'')
* [[October 15]]
** [[Renato Corona]], Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. [[2016]])
** [[Chris de Burgh]], born Christopher Davison, Argentine-born Anglo-Irish singer, songwriter
* [[October 16]]
** [[Leo Mazzone]], American baseball coach
** [[Hema Malini]], Indian actress, writer, director, producer, dancer and politician
* [[October 17]]
** [[Robert Jordan]], American novelist (d. [[2007]])
** [[Margot Kidder]], Canadian actress (''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]'') (d. [[2018]])
** [[Akira Kushida]], Japanese singer 
** [[Ng Jui Ping]], Singaporean entrepreneur, previously army general (d. [[2020]])
** [[George Wendt]], American actor (''[[Cheers]]'')
* [[October 18]] 
** [[Hans Köchler]], Austrian philosopher
** [[Ntozake Shange]], African-American playwright and poet (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Patrick Simmons]], American musician ([[The Doobie Brothers]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Tom Everett]], American actor
** [[Allen Vigneron]], [[Archdiocese of Detroit|Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit]]
* [[October 22]] 
** [[Lynette Fromme]], American attempted assassin of [[Gerald Ford]]
** [[Debbie Macomber]], American author
* [[October 23]] &ndash; Sir [[Gerry Robinson]], Irish-born British businessman (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Dave Cowens]], American basketball player, coach
** [[Dan Gable]], American wrestler, coach
** [[Dan Issel]], American basketball player and coach
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Toby Harrah]], American baseball player
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Telma Hopkins]], African-American actress, singer ([[Tony Orlando and Dawn]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Giuseppe Chirichiello]], Italian economist and university professor<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ricerca.economiaefinanza.luiss.it/centri-di-ricerca/CESARE|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713202712/http://ricerca.economiaefinanza.luiss.it/centri-di-ricerca/CESARE|url-status=dead|title=Centro di Economia Sperimentale a Roma est (Cesare): Introduzione|archive-date=July 13, 2012}}</ref>
** [[Frans de Waal]], Dutch primatologist. (d. [[2024]])
** [[Kate Jackson]], American actress (''[[Charlie's Angels]]'')
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Garry McDonald]], Australian actor, satirist and comedian