October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. It has 31 days.
Births[]
- October 1 — John Brennan Crutchley is born in 1946.
- October 1 — Anthony LaRette is born in 1951.
- October 1 — Vernon Brown is born in 1953.
- October 1 — Vladimir Khudyakov is born in 1959.
- October 1 — Fa Ziying is born in 1964.
- October 1 — Abdelkader Salhi is born in 1967.
- October 1 — Darci Warde (victim) is born in 1973.
- October 2 — Ernst-Dieter Beck died in 1940.
- October 2 — Gianfranco Stevanin is born in 1960.
- October 2 — Tammy Corbett is born in 1965.
- October 4 — Marion Albert Pruett is born in 1949.
- October 4 — Beverley Allitt is born in 1968.
- October 4 — Peter Bryan is born in 1969.
- October 4 — Artyom Anoufriev is born in 1992.
- October 5 — Harvey Collins is born in 1925.
- October 5 — Angelo Buono is born in 1934.
- October 5 — Bruce M. Davis is born in 1942.
- October 5 — Maureen Feeney is born in 1963.
- October 5 — Beate Schmidt is born in 1966.
- October 6 — Jarvis Catoe is born in 1905.
- October 6 — Diane Wilder (victim) is born in 1951.
- October 7 — Jeanne Weber is born in 1874.
- October 7 — Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira is born in 1915 or 1916.
- October 7 — Arwed Imiela is born in 1929.
- October 7 — Gary Evans is born in 1954.
- October 7 — Mikhail Moskalyov is born in 1970.
- October 7 — Trent Benson is born in 1971.
- October 7 — Juan Arreola-Murillo is born in 1980.
- October 8 — Johann Eichhorn is born in 1906.
- October 8 — Pedro López is born in 1948.
- October 8 — Bruce McArthur is born in 1951.
- October 9 — Hester Rebecca Nepping is born in 1774.
- October 9 — William Thoresen (Suspect) is born in 1937.
- October 9 — Thomas Maupin is born in 1949.
- October 9 — Lamont Marshall is born in 1954.
- October 9 — Claudette Kibble is born in 1971.
- October 9 — Takahiro Shiraishi is born in 1990.
- October 10 — Karl Svensson-Sjögren is born in 1929.
- October 10 — Charlene Gallego is born in 1956.
- October 10 — Clyde Gibson is born in 1957.
- October 10 — David Mmbengwa is born in 1966.
- October 10 — Kang Ho-sun is born in 1969.
- October 10 — Terry Hankins is born in 1974.
- October 11 — William Pierce is born in 1931.
- October 11 — Clyde Wilkerson is born in 1938.
- October 11 — Oba Chandler is born in 1946.
- October 11 — Michael Ihde is born in 1958.
- October 11 — Jon Dunkle is born in 1960.
- October 11 — Craig Price is born in 1973.
- October 12 — Aleksandr Berlizov is born in 1946.
- October 12 — Susan Rancourt (victim) is born in 1955.
- October 12 — David Villarreal is born in 1955.
- October 12 — Frank A. Walls is born in 1967.
- October 12 — Antonie Stašková is born in 1969.
- October 12 — Michael Shane Townson is born in 1969.
- October 13 — John Sweeney is born in 1956.
- October 13 — Mark Smich is born in 1987.
- October 14 — Bobby Joe Long is born in 1953.
- October 14 — Raul Meza is born in 1960.
- October 14 — Fyodor Prodan is born in 1976.
- October 15 — Maria LaPine is born in 1939.
- October 15 — Manuel Octavio Bermúdez is born in 1961.
- October 15 — Steven Zelich is born in 1961.
- October 15 — Guy Georges is born in 1962.
- October 15 — Lesley Warren is born in 1967.
- October 15 — Michael Madison is born in 1977.
- October 16 — Lyda Southard is born in 1892.
- October 16 — Andrei Chikatilo is born in 1936.
- October 17 — Juan Díaz de Garayo is born in 1821.
- October 17 — Samuel Dieteman is born in 1975.
- October 17 — LaMarques McWilliams is born in 1975.
- October 18 — Leroy McGahuey is born in 1920.
- October 18 — Zdzisław Marchwicki is born in 1927.
- October 18 — Francisc Trombițaș is born in 1936 (Suspect).
- October 18 — Marvin Gabrion is born in 1953.
- October 18 — Wayne Nance is born in 1955.
- October 18 — Mark Martin is born in 1979.
- October 18 — Rebecca Auborn is born in 1982.
- October 19 — Sally Hallett (victim) is born in 1913.
- October 20 — Ane Cathrine Andersdatter is born in 1829.
- October 20 — Kau Kobayashi is born in 1908.
- October 20 — Gregory Bowen is born in 1953.
- October 20 — Timothy O'Rourke (victim) is born in 1957.
- October 20 — Gaddafi Farag is born in 1971.
- October 20 — Yevgeny Kolesnikov is born in 1984.
- October 21 — Winona Freeman is born in 1901.
- October 21 — Charles Rodman Campbell is born in 1954.
- October 21 — Michael Swango is born in 1954.
- October 21 — Kevin Haley is born in 1963.
- October 21 — Kimi-Kai Pitsor (victim) is born in 1966.
- October 22 — John Ingvar Lövgren is born in 1930.
- October 22 — Jurijus Kadamovas is born in 1966.
- October 22 — Shojiro Nishimoto is born in 1976.
- October 23 — Leo Hannan is born in 1900.
- October 23 — Diane Louise Spencer is born in 1967.
- October 23 — Dmitry Karimov is born in 1978.
- October 24 — Edmund Kolanowski is born in 1947.
- October 24 — Robert Pickton is born in 1949.
- October 24 — Adrian Stroe is born in 1959.
- October 24 — Bryan Patrick Miller is born in 1972.
- October 24 — Shannan Gilbert (suspected victim) is born in 1986.
- October 24 — Adrian Grigoraş died in 2012.
- October 25 — Fritz Haarmann is born in 1879.
- October 25 — Arnfinn Nesset is born in 1936.
- October 25 — Nathaniel Cook is born in 1958.
- October 25 — Mauricio Silva is born in 1959.
- October 25 — Maury Travis is born in 1965.
- October 25 — Lucien-Gilles de Vallière is born in 1967.
- October 25 — Gilberto Ortega Ortega is born in 1969.
- October 25 — Nikolai Kozlenya is born in 1971.
- October 26 — Anthony Wimberly is born in 1962.
- October 27 — Guy Muldavin is born in 1923.
- October 27 — Henderson Williams is born in 1927.
- October 27 — Monte Seager is born in 1960.
- October 27 — Timur Nedogon is born in 1981.
- October 28 — Thomas Ley is born in 1880.
- October 28 — Karen Mandic (victim) is born in 1956.
- October 28 — Antonio Rodriguez is born in 1988.
- October 29 — J. Frank Hickey is born in 1865.
- October 29 — Velma Barfield is born in 1932.
- October 29 — Leonard Lake is born in 1945.
- October 29 — Mike Mageau (victim) is born in 1949.
- October 29 — Anita Mary Luchessa (victim) is born in 1953.
- October 30 — Dellen Millard is born in 1985.
- October 31 — Mary Ann Cotton is born in 1832.
- October 31 — Amy Archer-Gilligan is born in 1873.
- October 31 — Cayetano Santos Godino is born in 1896.
- October 31 — Robert Charles Browne is born in 1952.
- ? — Catalina de los Ríos y Lísperguer is born in 1604.
- ? — Thomas Griffiths Wainewright is born in 1794.
- ? — Xu Renzhong is born in 1923.
Deaths[]
- October 1 — Ricardo Caputo died in 1997.
- October 1 — Leroy Snyder died in 2001.
- October 1 — Alfredo Prieto died in 2015.
- October 1 — Garcia Glen White died in 2024.
- October 2 — Gordon Stewart Northcott died in 1930.
- October 2 — Robert Howard died in 2015.
- October 4 — Larry Bell died in 1996.
- October 5 — Yoshio Kodaira died in 1949.
- October 6 — Jean-Christophe Marchal died in 1854.
- October 6 — Caroline Grills died in 1960.
- October 7 — Polly Bartlett died in 1868.
- October 7 — David Birnie died in 2005.
- October 8 — Robert Berdella died in 1992.
- October 8 — Javed Iqbal died in 2001.
- October 8 — Peter Tobin died in 2022.
- October 9 — Leo Hannan died in 1962.
- October 9 — Aileen Wuornos died in 2002.
- October 9 — Michael Ihde died in 2005.
- October 10 — Viktória Fődi died in 1940.
- October 11 — Margaret Waters died in 1870.
- October 11 — Rhonda Belle Martin died in 1957.
- October 11 — Doug Clark died in 2023.
- October 12 — Linwood Earl Briley died in 1984.
- October 12 — Vladimir Romanov died in 2006.
- October 13 — Arlie Ray Davis died in 2002.
- October 13 — Brian Alpress Hunt died in 2009.
- October 14 — Genzo Kurita died in 1959.
- October 14 — Fernando Cota died in 1984.
- October 14 — Jerry Walter McFadden died in 1999.
- October 14 — Donald Miller died in 2005.
- October 14 — Alvin Andrew Kelly died in 2008.
- October 15 — Leonarda Cianciulli died in 1970.
- October 15 — Pierre Chanal died in 2003.
- October 15 — Masten Wanjala died in 2021.
- October 16 — James P. Watson died in 1939.
- October 16 — Gregory Peyton died in 1984.
- October 16 — Milena Quaglini died in 2001.
- October 17 — Joseph Baldi died in 2009.
- October 17 — Marco Bergamo died in 2017.
- October 17 — Imran Ali died in 2018.
- October 19 — Michaiah Shobek died in 1976.
- October 19 — Ray Copeland died in 1993.
- October 19 — Fritz Honka died in 1998.
- October 20 — Emma Heppermann died in 1968.
- October 20 — Émile Louis died in 2013.
- October 21 — Alvin Neelley died in 2005.
- October 21 — James Miller died in 2008.
- October 21 — Francisc Trombițaș died in 2009 (suspect).
- October 21 — Thomas Dillon died in 2011.
- October 21 — Valentin Şlepac died in 2011.
- October 22 — Martha Needle died in 1894.
- October 22 — Eugene Butler died in 1913.
- October 24 — José Antonio Rodríguez Vega died in 2002.
- October 24 — Gary Lewingdon died in 2004.
- October 25 — Frank J. Leaver died in 1981.
- October 25 — Willie Williams died in 2005.
- October 25 — Danny Rolling died in 2006.
- October 26 — Xu Renzhong died in 1956.
- October 26 — Melvin Rees died in 1995.
- October 26 — Lê Thanh Vân died in 2005.
- October 27 — Ivan Milat died in 2019.
- October 28 — Anatoly Nagiyev died in 1981.
- October 28 — Joachim Knychała died in 1985.
- October 29 — William Dale Archerd died in 1977.
- October 29 — Dennis Ray Anderson died in 2010.
- October 30 — Herman Allen died in 1942.
- October 30 — Larry Bell is born in 1949.
- October 30 — Winona Freeman died in 1974.
- October 31 — Peter Stumpp died in 1589.
- October 31 — William Dean Christensen died in 1990.
- October 31 — Vincent Groves died in 1996.
- ? — Daniel Andreas died in 1865.
- ? — Johannes Mashiane died in 1989.
- ? — Ernest Broadnax died in 2022.
Captures[]
- October 2 — Warren Forrest is apprehended in 1974.
- October 3 — Richard Delage is apprehended in 1975.
- October 3 — Koos Hertogs is apprehended in 1980.
- October 4 — Konstantin Burov is apprehended in 1995.
- October 4 — Valery Skoptsov is apprehended in 1996.
- October 4 — Irineu Carlos Nórdio is apprehended in 2000.
- October 4 — Julio Pérez Silva is apprehended in 2001.
- October 4 — Juan Carlos Hernández is apprehended in 2018.
- October 4 — Patricia Martínez is apprehended in 2018.
- October 5 — Ibrahiem Hamza Allam-Zobel is apprehended in 1984.
- October 5 — Ogunnaike Philip is apprehended in 2024.
- October 6 — Ivan Panchenko is apprehended in 2008.
- October 7 — Polly Bartlett is apprehended in 1868.
- October 7 — Ian Brady is apprehended in 1965.
- October 7 — Mikhail Moskalyov is apprehended in 1990.
- October 8 — Vladimir Mirgorod is apprehended in 2010.
- October 8 — Brian Steven Smith is apprehended in 2019.
- October 9 — Judith Neelley is apprehended in 1982.
- October 9 — Kevin Haley and Reginald Haley are apprehended in 1984.
- October 9 — Gustavo Romero Tercero is apprehended in 2003.
- October 9 — Daniela Poggiali is apprehended in 2014.
- October 9 — Francis Alimoso and Day Kaseke are apprehended in 2018.
- October 10 — Johannes-Andreas Hanni is apprehended in 1982.
- October 10 — Michael Player died in 1986.
- October 10 — William Sapp is apprehended in 1996.
- October 10 — Sergey Shipilov is apprehended in 1999.
- October 11 — Myra Hindley is apprehended in 1965.
- October 11 — Michael Lefthand is apprehended in 1990.
- October 12 — David Likens is apprehended in 1978.
- October 12 — Wu Yinghong is apprehended in 1999.
- October 12 — Reinaldo Rivera is apprehended in 2000.
- October 12 — Patrick Soultana is apprehended in 2011.
- October 13 — Hugh Morse is apprehended in 1961.
- October 13 — Dmitry Golubev is apprehended in 2008.
- October 14 — Anthony Cook is apprehended in 1981.
- October 14 — Alvin Neelley is apprehended in 1982.
- October 14 — Franklin Lynch is apprehended in 1987.
- October 14 — Jacques Rançon is apprehended in 2014.
- October 15 — John Rodney McRae is apprehended in 1997.
- October 15 — Lê Thanh Vân is apprehended in 2001.
- October 15 — Wesley Brownlee is apprehended in 2022.
- October 16 — Marie Becker is apprehended in 1936.
- October 16 — John Taylor is apprehended in 2001.
- October 16 — Luis Aguilar Perez is apprehended in 2005.
- October 16 — Homero Arriola Sotelo is apprehended in 2020.
- October 17 — Thomas Whisenhant is apprehended in 1976.
- October 17 — Marion Albert Pruett is apprehended in 1981.
- October 17 — Ray Copeland and Faye Copeland are apprehended in 1989.
- October 17 — Sergey Lozovoi is apprehended in 2008.
- October 17 — Anthony McKnight died in 2019.
- October 18 — Joan Vila Dilmé is apprehended in 2010.
- October 18 — Darren Vann is apprehended in 2014.
- October 20 — Joël Matencio is apprehended in 1976.
- October 20 — Steven Hobbs is apprehended in 2011.
- October 21 — Rudolfo Infante and Anna Villeda are apprehended in 1991.
- October 21 — Thomas Huskey is apprehended in 1992.
- October 22 — Houston Roberts is apprehended in 1949.
- October 22 — Angelo Buono is apprehended in 1979.
- October 22 — Wayne Garrison is apprehended in 1999.
- October 23 — John Ewell is apprehended in 2010.
- October 23 — Viktor Metlinsky is apprehended in 2018.
- October 24 — Vladimir Vinnichevsky is apprehended in 1939.
- October 24 — Anatoly Biryukov is apprehended in 1977.
- October 24 — David Martin Long is apprehended in 1986.
- October 24 — John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo ("Beltway snipers") are apprehended in 2002.
- October 24 — Anthony Allen Shore is apprehended in 2003.
- October 25 — Jairo Humberto Giraldo is apprehended in 2002.
- October 25 — Elizabeth Wettlaufer is apprehended in 2016.
- October 25 — Rebecca Auborn is apprehended in 2023.
- October 26 — Billy Mansfield is apprehended in 1981.
- October 27 — Robert Hansen is apprehended in 1983.
- October 27 — Amos Robinson and Abron Scott are apprehended in 1983.
- October 27 — Vernon Brown is apprehended in 1986.
- October 27 — David Wood is apprehended in 1987.
- October 27 — Alexander Anisimov is apprehended in 2000.
- October 27 — Viktor Karamarkov is apprehended in 2009.
- October 27 — Mario Normore is apprehended in 2017.
- October 28 — Joseph Paul Franklin is apprehended in 1980.
- October 28 — Nathaniel Harvey is apprehended in 1985.
- October 28 — Teet Härm is apprehended in 1987.
- October 28 — Joaquín Villalón Díez is apprehended in 1992.
- October 28 — Larry Hall is apprehended in 1994.
- October 29 — Jane Toppan is apprehended in 1901.
- October 29 — John Cannan is apprehended in 1987.
- October 29 — Vadim Ershov is apprehended in 1995.
- October 30 — Jake Bird is apprehended in 1947.
- October 30 — Joseph Ture Jr. is apprehended in 1980.
- October 30 — Alexander Spesivtsev is apprehended in 1996.
- October 31 — Marcel Petiot is apprehended in 1944.
- October 31 — Harvey Glatman is apprehended in 1958.
- October 31 — Robert Reldan is apprehended in 1975.
- October 31 — Bruce Davis is apprehended in 1982.
- October 31 — Robert Rozier is apprehended in 1986.
- October 31 — Anthony Sowell is apprehended in 2009.
- October 31 — Takahiro Shiraishi is apprehended in 2017.
- ? — Mary Bateman is apprehended in 1808.
- ? — Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins are apprehended in 1883.
- ? — Matti Haapoja is apprehended in 1890.
- ? — John Makin and Sarah Makin are apprehended in 1892.
- ? — Madeleine Mouton is apprehended in 1944.
- ? — Nannie Doss is apprehended in 1954.
- ? — Milton Taylor Vest is apprehended in 1962.
- ? — Yuri Raevsky is apprehended in 1971.
- ? — Edgar Antonsen is apprehended in 1974.
- ? — Bryan Maurice Jones is apprehended in 1986.
- ? — Joseph Robert Miller is apprehended in 1993.
- ? — John Frank Brown is apprehended in 1995.
- ? — Sukhwinder Dhillon is apprehended in 1997.
- ? — András Pándy is apprehended in 1997.
- ? — Farit Gabidullin is apprehended in 2000.
- ? — Timur Gabidullin is apprehended in 2000.
- ? — John David Smith III is apprehended in 2000.
- ? — Nikolay Shubin is apprehended in 2006.
- ? — José Luis Calva is apprehended in 2007.
- ? — Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha is apprehended in 2014.
- ? — Gennady Laletin is apprehended in 2015.
- ? — Sabrina Kauldhar is apprehended in 2024.
Victims Murdered[]
- October 11 — Paul Stine is murdered by the "Zodiac Killer" in 1969.
- October 26 — Mauricio Cordero López and Ileana Álvarez Blandón are murdered by "El Psicópata" in 1996.
Other Events[]
- October 2 — Pierre Bodein is sentenced to Life imprisonment in 2008.
- October 4 — Leola Bryant is discovered in 1977.
- October 6 — Lesley Warren is sentenced to Death in 1995.
- October 11 — "Green River Killer"'s victim, Andrea Childers is found in 1989.
- October 15 — "Green River Killer"'s victim, Shelly Antosh is found in 1983.
- October 25 — Giancarlo Giudice is paroled in 2008.
- October 26 — William Suff is sentenced to Death in 1995.
- October 29 — Alexander Pichushkin is sentenced to Life imprisonment in 2007.
- ? — Leola Bryant is identified in 2024.