“Born Today”
- Shiba Inu 6 (8)
- Holland Roden (30)
- Bree Olson (30)
- Amber West (30)
- Edison Chen (36)
- Aaron Ashmore (37)
- Shawn Ashmore (37)
- Alesha Dixon (38)
- Omar Benson Miller (38)
- Taylor Hicks (40)
- Nicole Ari Parker (46)
- Thom Yorke (48)
- Toni Braxton (49)
- Dan Savage (52)
- Ann Curless of Expose (53)
- Matthew Roloff (55)
- Dylan Baker (57)
- Simon Cowell (57)
- Judy Landers (58)
- Michael W. Smith (59)
- Jayne Torvill (59)
- Yo-Yo Ma (61)
- Tico Torres (63)
- John Mellencamp (65)
- Jill Larson (69)
- Oliver North (73)
- Joy Behar (74)
- Desmond Tutu (85)
- June Allyson (RIP)
“Died Today”
- Edgar Allan Poe (Born: January 19, 1809 / Died: October 7, 1849)
- Leo Durocher (Born: July 27, 1905 / Died: October 7, 1991)
- Ed Blackwell (Born: October 10, 1929 / Died: October 7, 1992)
- Agnes de Mille (Born: September 18, 1905 / Died: October 7, 1993)
“Movies”
- 1959 – Pillow Talk
- 1964 – Fail-Safe
- 1965 – The Agony and the Ecstasy
- 1968 – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
- 1977 – Oh, God!
- 1977 – A Piece of the Action
- 1983 – Never Cry Wolf
- 1983 – Never Say Never Again
- 1987 – Baby Boom
- 1987 – Like Father Like Son
- 1988 – Alien Nation
- 1988 – Clara’s Heart
- 1988 – Punchline
- 1994 – Only You
- 1994 – The Specialist
- 1994 – A Troll in Central Park
“Music”
- 1967 – The Box Tops had the #1 song with “The Letter”
- 1967 – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass had the #1 Adult Contemporary song with “A Banda”
- 1969 – “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5 was released on this date
- 1971 – Michael Jackson released the single “Got to Be There”
- 1972 – Three Dog Night’s “Black and White” was the #1 Adult Contemporary song
- 1974 – Barry Manilow released “Mandy”
- 1974 – Helen Reddy released “Angie Baby”
- 1978 – The Dire Straits released their first album Birmingham at Barbarella
- 1991 – Garth Brooks’s “Ropin’ the Wind” was the #1 Country song
“TV/Radio”
- 1952 – Bandstand was broadcast in Philadelphia (An earlier version of the later popular American Bandstand with Dick Clark)
- 1960 – Route 66 premiered on CBS
“Other Important Events…”
- 1982 – Cats made its Broadway debut at the Winter Garden Theater
- 1993 – Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature