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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 31st of October 0475 | EVENT | Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor. |
| 31st of October 1517 | EVENT | Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. |
| 31st of October 1587 | EVENT | Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575. |
| 31st of October 1822 | EVENT | Emperor Agustin de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire. |
| 31st of October 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army. |
| 31st of October 1863 | EVENT | The Maori Wars resumes as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato. |
| 31st of October 1864 | EVENT | Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state. |
| 31st of October 1876 | EVENT | A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths. |
| 31st of October 1913 | EVENT | Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States. |
| 31st of October 1913 | EVENT | The Indianapolis Street Car Strike and subsequent riot begins. |
| 31st of October 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Beersheba : "last successful cavalry charge in history". |
| 31st of October 1918 | EVENT | Banat Republic is founded |
| 31st of October 1923 | EVENT | The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia. |
| 31st of October 1924 | EVENT | World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks). |
| 31st of October 1926 | EVENT | Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured. |
| 31st of October 1938 | EVENT | Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public. |
| 31st of October 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Britain ends : the United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion. |
| 31st of October 1941 | EVENT | After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed. |
| 31st of October 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII. |
| 31st of October 1941 | EVENT | A fire in a clothing factory in Huddersfield, England kills 49 |
| 31st of October 1943 | EVENT | World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception. |
| 31st of October 1944 | EVENT | Dr. jur. Erich Gostl, a member of the Waffen SS, is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy. |
| 31st of October 1954 | EVENT | Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule. |
| 31st of October 1956 | EVENT | Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. |
| 31st of October 1959 | EVENT | Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR. |
| 31st of October 1961 | EVENT | In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb. |
| 31st of October 1963 | EVENT | An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The explosion also injures 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand is blamed. |
| 31st of October 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1. |
| 31st of October 1973 | EVENT | Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard. |
| 31st of October 1984 | EVENT | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two security guards. Riots soon break out in New Delhi and nearly 10,000 Sikhs are killed. |
| 31st of October 1994 | EVENT | An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 68 passengers and crew. |
| 31st of October 1996 | EVENT | A Fokker F100 operating as TAM Transportes Aereos Regionais Flight 402 crashes into several houses in Sao Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground. |
| 31st of October 1997 | EVENT | 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison. |
| 31st of October 1998 | EVENT | Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors. |
| 31st of October 1999 | EVENT | Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted. |
| 31st of October 1999 | EVENT | EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board. |
| 31st of October 2000 | EVENT | A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members. |
| 31st of October 2000 | EVENT | A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50. |
| 31st of October 2000 | EVENT | Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since. |
| 31st of October 2002 | EVENT | A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer. |
| 31st of October 2003 | EVENT | A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy. |
| 31st of October 2003 | EVENT | Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power. |
| 31st of October 1291 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361) |
| 31st of October 1345 | BIRTHDAY | King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383) |
| 31st of October 1391 | BIRTHDAY | King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438) |
| 31st of October 1424 | BIRTHDAY | King W?adys?aw III of Poland (d. 1444) |
| 31st of October 1538 | BIRTHDAY | Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (d. 1607) |
| 31st of October 1599 | BIRTHDAY | Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680) |
| 31st of October 1620 | BIRTHDAY | John Evelyn, English diarist (d. 1706) |
| 31st of October 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694) |
| 31st of October 1632 | BIRTHDAY | (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675) |
| 31st of October 1636 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679) |
| 31st of October 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765) |
| 31st of October 1705 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774) |
| 31st of October 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (d. 1778) |
| 31st of October 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805) |
| 31st of October 1737 | BIRTHDAY | James Lovell, American educator (d. 1789) |
| 31st of October 1795 | BIRTHDAY | John Keats, British poet (d. 1821) |
| 31st of October 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (d. 1897) |
| 31st of October 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892) |
| 31st of October 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Morris Hunt, American educator (d. 1895) |
| 31st of October 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910) |
| 31st of October 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Adelbert Ames, American general, 27th and 30th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1933) |
| 31st of October 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917) |
| 31st of October 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Krisjanis Barons, Latvian writer (d. 1923) |
| 31st of October 1838 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis of Portugal (d. 1889) |
| 31st of October 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876) |
| 31st of October 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Lovisa of Sweden, queen of Denmark (d. 1926) |
| 31st of October 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (d. 1889) |
| 31st of October 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts (d. 1927) |
| 31st of October 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (d. 1954) |
| 31st of October 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950) |
| 31st of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Allgood, Irish actress (d. 1950) |
| 31st of October 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956) |
| 31st of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, former Republic of China president (d. 1975) |
| 31st of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1970) |
| 31st of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (d. 1944) |
| 31st of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946) |
| 31st of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | B. H. Liddell Hart, British military historian (d. 1970) |
| 31st of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977) |
| 31st of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1950) |
| 31st of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Muriel Duckworth, Canadian activist (d. 2009) |
| 31st of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Evans, American singer and actress (d. 2001) |
| 31st of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008) |
| 31st of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (d. 1988) |
| 31st of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (d. 1995) |
| 31st of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Johan Bernadotte, former Prince of Sweden |
| 31st of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007) |
| 31st of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Wenninger, American priest, author of Polyhedron models |
| 31st of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Gelineau French composer (d. 2008) |
| 31st of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (d. 2010) |
| 31st of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004) |
| 31st of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002) |
| 31st of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (d. 1957) |
| 31st of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 31st of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoli Papanov, Soviet actor (d. 1987) |
| 31st of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004) |
| 31st of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia |
| 31st of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | John Pople, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004) |
| 31st of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Savile, English entertainer |
| 31st of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Grant, American actress |
| 31st of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hill, Canadian actor (d. 2009) |
| 31st of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Cleo Moore, American actress (d. 1973) |
| 31st of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Spencer, Italian actor |
| 31st of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 2004) |
| 31st of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Collins, American astronaut |
| 31st of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Rather, American television journalist |
| 31st of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Fillie Lyckow, Swedish actress |
| 31st of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | David Harvey, British-American academic |
| 31st of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Graham, American mathematician |
| 31st of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 31st of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter |
| 31st of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Rifkin, American actor |
| 31st of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Tom O'Connor, British comedian |
| 31st of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Farka Toure, Malian musician (d. 2006) |
| 31st of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Alderson, American scientist |
| 31st of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Spilios Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician |
| 31st of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Krieglstein, Czech-American philosopher |
| 31st of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Bell, British racing driver |
| 31st of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dave McNally, American baseball player (d. 2002) |
| 31st of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | David Ogden Stiers, American actor |
| 31st of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Aristotelis Pavlidis, Greek politician |
| 31st of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Frampton, English physicist |
| 31st of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Piccolo, American football player (d. 1970) |
| 31st of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kinky Friedman, American musician and novelist |
| 31st of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Kirkland, American actress |
| 31st of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor |
| 31st of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Ballard, English rock singer/songwriter, guitarist (Argent) |
| 31st of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Rea, Irish actor |
| 31st of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Lovett, British actor |
| 31st of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Deidre Hall, American actress |
| 31st of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Shorter, American runner |
| 31st of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian politician |
| 31st of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kitchen, British actor |
| 31st of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Siebenberg, American drummer (Supertramp) |
| 31st of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994) |
| 31st of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Stolorz, Polish art painter |
| 31st of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Pauley, American news anchor |
| 31st of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Taguba, US Army Major General |
| 31st of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Zaha Hadid, British architect |
| 31st of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Saban, American college football coach |
| 31st of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Trembley, American baseball manager |
| 31st of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Edwards, American bass guitarist (Chic) (d. 1996) |
| 31st of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Michael J. Anderson, American actor |
| 31st of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Lucas II, American basketball player and coach |
| 31st of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Wahl, American actor |
| 31st of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Chrysohoidis, Greek politician |
| 31st of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Lago, Swedish Social Democratic politician |
| 31st of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Pollard, American rocker (Guided by Voices) |
| 31st of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Stokes Mitchell, American singer and actor |
| 31st of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Phelps-Roper, American attorney |
| 31st of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jeannie Longo, French cyclist |
| 31st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Stephenson, American author |
| 31st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michael DeLorenzo, American actor, director and musician |
| 31st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mats Naslund, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 31st of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Arnaud Desplechin, French film director |
| 31st of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gallego, American baseball player |
| 31st of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Reza Pahlavi, former crown prince of Iran |
| 31st of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Fortuno, Puerto Rican delegate to Congress |
| 31st of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director |
| 31st of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2) |
| 31st of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Alonzo Babers, American runner |
| 31st of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Campbell, American musician |
| 31st of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mikkey Dee, Swedish musician, drummer for Motorhead |
| 31st of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Fred McGriff, American baseball player |
| 31st of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dunga, Brazilian footballer and manager |
| 31st of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Marr, English guitarist and songwriter (The Smiths, Modest Mouse) |
| 31st of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dermot Mulroney, American actor |
| 31st of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Allen, English drummer (Def Leppard) |
| 31st of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Schneider, American actor |
| 31st of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Colm O Ciosoig, Irish drummer (My Bloody Valentine, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions) |
| 31st of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl Worley, American country singer |
| 31st of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer and manager |
| 31st of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Wright, American professional wrestler |
| 31st of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Blue Edwards, American basketball player |
| 31st of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Irwin, Irish footballer |
| 31st of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Rackstraw, voice actor |
| 31st of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Boyden, Canadian novelist |
| 31st of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Horovitz (Adrock), American rapper (Beastie Boys) |
| 31st of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Annabella Lwin, British singer (Bow Wow Wow) |
| 31st of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Kanemoto, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 31st of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mike O'Malley, American actor |
| 31st of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Irina Pantaeva, Russian model and actress |
| 31st of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Vanilla Ice, American rapper |
| 31st of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Davis, American basketball player |
| 31st of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Coburn, American actor/voice actor |
| 31st of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Wu, Taiwanese actor and martial arts expert |
| 31st of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Linn Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base) |
| 31st of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rogers Stevens, American guitarist (Blind Melon) |
| 31st of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Harris, American guitarist (Napalm Death, among others) |
| 31st of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Trachsel, American baseball player |
| 31st of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Moeller, American blues guitarist |
| 31st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (d. 2004) |
| 31st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Walker, English footballer |
| 31st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Smith, Scottish rugby player |
| 31st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Anstis, British radio presenter |
| 31st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Bartlett, South African footballer |
| 31st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Dawson, English rugby union footballer |
| 31st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Grigoris Georgatos, Greek footballer |
| 31st of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Grigorios Georgatos, Greek footballer |
| 31st of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | David Dellucci, American baseball player |
| 31st of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Byrdak, American baseball player |
| 31st of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Lynne, American erotic film actress |
| 31st of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer |
| 31st of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Natasja Saad, Danish hip hop and reggae artist (d. 2007) |
| 31st of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Manganelli, Brazilian musician (Less Than Jake) |
| 31st of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Jardine, MMA fighter |
| 31st of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Celestini, Swiss footballer |
| 31st of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Guti, Spanish footballer |
| 31st of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Piper Perabo, American actress |
| 31st of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sylviane Felix, French athlete |
| 31st of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Severine Ferrer, French singer |
| 31st of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Inka Grings, German footballer |
| 31st of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zachary Knighton, American actor |
| 31st of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Izonritei, Nigerian boxer |
| 31st of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Verkerk, Dutch tennis player |
| 31st of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Saaphyri Windsor, American reality TV figure |
| 31st of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Simao Sabrosa, Portuguese footballer |
| 31st of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Fuller, Jamaican footballer |
| 31st of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Samaire Armstrong, American actress |
| 31st of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor |
| 31st of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Meeuwis, Dutch footballer |
| 31st of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Alondra de la Parra, Mexican founder and artistic director of the New York : based Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas |
| 31st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer |
| 31st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Hunter, American basketball player |
| 31st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Selina (Chia-Hsuan) Jen, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E) |
| 31st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Iero, American musician (My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, Pencey Prep; founder of Skeleton Crew (record label)) |
| 31st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lollie Alexi Devereaux, French actress & writer |
| 31st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Napoli, MLB catcher and first baseman |
| 31st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Chatwin, Canadian actor |
| 31st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Bannister, Australian rules footballer |
| 31st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Plekanec, Czech ice hockey player |
| 31st of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Katy French, Irish model (d. 2007) |
| 31st of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Murray, American football player |
| 31st of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Christie Hayes, Australian actress |
| 31st of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Corrigan, American pornographic actor |
| 31st of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Alajajian, Australian racing driver |
| 31st of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer |
| 31st of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Buemi, Swiss racing driver |
| 31st of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Brooks, British motocross racer |
| 31st of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lil' JJ, American comedian and actor |
| 31st of October 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Willow Smith, American actress and singer |
| 31st of October 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Infanta Leonor of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and Letizia, Princess of Asturias |
| 31st of October 1147 | DEATH | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (Born c.1090) |
| 31st of October 1214 | DEATH | Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (Born 1162) |
| 31st of October 1448 | DEATH | John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1390) |
| 31st of October 1517 | DEATH | Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (Born 1472) |
| 31st of October 1641 | DEATH | Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (Born 1597) |
| 31st of October 1659 | DEATH | John Bradshaw, English judge (Born 1602) |
| 31st of October 1723 | DEATH | Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1642) |
| 31st of October 1732 | DEATH | Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (Born 1666) |
| 31st of October 1733 | DEATH | Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Wurttemberg (Born 1676) |
| 31st of October 1744 | DEATH | Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (Born 1694) |
| 31st of October 1765 | DEATH | Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (Born 1721) |
| 31st of October 1768 | DEATH | Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (Born 1690) |
| 31st of October 1860 | DEATH | Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (Born 1775) |
| 31st of October 1879 | DEATH | Joseph Hooker, American General (Born 1814) |
| 31st of October 1879 | DEATH | Jacob Abbott, American author (Born 1803) |
| 31st of October 1883 | DEATH | Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual figure (Born 1824) |
| 31st of October 1884 | DEATH | Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (Born 1858) |
| 31st of October 1913 | DEATH | William Evans-Gordon, British politician (Born 1857) |
| 31st of October 1916 | DEATH | Charles Taze Russell, American religious figure (Born 1852) |
| 31st of October 1918 | DEATH | Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (Born 1890) |
| 31st of October 1920 | DEATH | Alphonse Desjardins, Quebecois journalist and credit union executive (Born 1854) |
| 31st of October 1925 | DEATH | Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (Born 1883) |
| 31st of October 1926 | DEATH | Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American magician (Born 1874) |
| 31st of October 1929 | DEATH | Antonio Jose de Almeida, Portuguese politician (Born 1866) |
| 31st of October 1939 | DEATH | Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (Born 1884) |
| 31st of October 1946 | DEATH | Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (Born 1887) |
| 31st of October 1952 | DEATH | U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (Born 1879) |
| 31st of October 1959 | DEATH | Jean Cabannes, French physicist (Born 1885) |
| 31st of October 1972 | DEATH | Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1916) |
| 31st of October 1973 | DEATH | Malek Bennabi, Algerian thinker (Born 1905) |
| 31st of October 1975 | DEATH | SD Burman, Indian musician (Born 1906) |
| 31st of October 1980 | DEATH | Jan Werich, czech actor, playwright and writer (Born 1905) |
| 31st of October 1983 | DEATH | George Halas, American professional football coach and team owner (Born 1895) |
| 31st of October 1984 | DEATH | Indira Gandhi, Indian politician (Born 1917) |
| 31st of October 1984 | DEATH | Eduardo de Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (Born 1900) |
| 31st of October 1985 | DEATH | Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (Born 1913) |
| 31st of October 1985 | DEATH | Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (Born 1907) |
| 31st of October 1985 | DEATH | Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (Born 1918) |
| 31st of October 1986 | DEATH | Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1896) |
| 31st of October 1987 | DEATH | Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (Born 1904) |
| 31st of October 1988 | DEATH | John Houseman, Romanian-born American actor and director (Born 1902) |
| 31st of October 1988 | DEATH | Alfred Pellan, Quebecois painter (Born 1906) |
| 31st of October 1991 | DEATH | Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (Born 1933) |
| 31st of October 1991 | DEATH | Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (Born 1921) |
| 31st of October 1993 | DEATH | Federico Fellini, Italian director (Born 1920) |
| 31st of October 1993 | DEATH | River Phoenix, American actor (Born 1970) |
| 31st of October 1995 | DEATH | Rosalind Cash, American actress (Born 1938) |
| 31st of October 1996 | DEATH | Marcel Carne, French film director (Born 1906) |
| 31st of October 1998 | DEATH | Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1935) |
| 31st of October 1999 | DEATH | Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (Born 1975) |
| 31st of October 2000 | DEATH | Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (Born 1915) |
| 31st of October 2001 | DEATH | Regine Cavagnoud, French skier (Born 1970) |
| 31st of October 2002 | DEATH | Lionel Poilane, French baker and entrepreneur (Born 1945) |
| 31st of October 2002 | DEATH | Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (Born 1903) |
| 31st of October 2002 | DEATH | Raf Vallone, Italian actor (Born 1916) |
| 31st of October 2003 | DEATH | Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (Born 1908) |
| 31st of October 2003 | DEATH | Richard Neustadt, American political historian (Born 1919) |
| 31st of October 2005 | DEATH | Mary Wimbush, English actress (Born 1924) |
| 31st of October 2005 | DEATH | Hal Anger, American biophysicist (Born 1920) |
| 31st of October 2006 | DEATH | P. W. Botha, South African politician (Born 1916) |
| 31st of October 2006 | DEATH | Peter Fryer, English writer and journalist (Born 1927) |
| 31st of October 2007 | DEATH | Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby footballer (Born 1951) |
| 31st of October 2008 | DEATH | Studs Terkel, American author and radio personality (Born 1912) |
| 31st of October 2009 | DEATH | Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (Born 1911) |
| 31st of October 2009 | DEATH | Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman (Born 1922) |
| 31st of October 2010 | DEATH | Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (Born 1952) |
| 31st of October 2010 | DEATH | Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer and special counsel to John F. Kennedy (Born 1928) |