October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of the year.

Births on First October

* 1207 – King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
* 1507 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
* 1540 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
* 1577 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (d. 1622)
* 1620 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
* 1644 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
* 1671 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
* 1685 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
* 1691 – Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
* 1730 – Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
* 1760 – William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
* 1771 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
* 1791 – Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
* 1800 – Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
* 1835 – Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (d. 1920)
* 1842 – Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
* 1865 – Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
* 1881 – William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
* 1885 – Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
* 1878 – Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
* 1890 – Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
* 1893 – Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
* 1893 – Yip Man, Martial Arts Master d.(1972)
* 1896 – Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
* 1896 – Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
* 1899 – Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
* 1900 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
* 1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1989)
* 1904 – Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
* 1904 – A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
* 1909 – Maurice Bardèche, French fascist, (d. 1998)
* 1909 – Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
* 1910 – Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
* 1910 – José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
* 1910 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
* 1914 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
* 1920 – Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1921 – James Whitmore, American actor
* 1924 – Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1924 – William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
* 1925 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1926 – Roger Williams, American pianist
* 1927 – Tom Bosley, American actor
* 1927 – Sandy Gall, Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster
* 1928 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
* 1928 – George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
* 1928 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
* 1928 – Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
* 1929 – Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby league identity
* 1930 – Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
* 1930 – Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
* 1930 – Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
* 1930 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
* 1931 – Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
* 1932 – Albert Collins, American guitarist (d. 1993)
* 1935 – Dame Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
* 1936 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
* 1936 – Stella Stevens, American actress
* 1939 – George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
* 1939 – Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor
* 1942 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French race car driver
* 1943 – Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director
* 1943 – Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1943 – Jerry Martini, American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
* 1945 – Rod Carew, Panamanian-born baseball player
* 1945 – Donny Hathaway, American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
* 1945 – Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
* 1945 – Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
* 1946 – Tim O’Brien, American writer
* 1947 – Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist
* 1947 – Stephen Collins, American actor
* 1947 – Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician
* 1947 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (d. 2006)
* 1948 – Cub Koda, American singer (Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
* 1949 – Isaac Bonewits, American author
* 1950 – Randy Quaid, American actor
* 1950 – Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
* 1952 – Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
* 1953 – John Hegley, British poet
* 1953 – Pete Falcone, American baseball player
* 1953 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete
* 1954 – Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
* 1955 – Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb
* 1955 – Howard Hewett, R & B Singer
* 1956 – Theresa May, British politician
* 1957 – Stelios Mainas, Greek actor
* 1958 – Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician
* 1959 – Youssou N’Dour, Senegalese singer
* 1961 – Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
* 1961 – Robert Rey, Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
* 1961 – Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
* 1962 – Esai Morales, American actor
* 1962 – Paul Walsh, English footballer
* 1963 – Jean-Denis Délétraz, Swiss race car driver
* 1963 – Mark McGwire, American baseball player
* 1964 – Harry Hill, British comedian
* 1964 – Max Matsuura, Japanese record producer
* 1964 – Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
* 1965 – Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
* 1965 – Cindy Margolis, American model and spokesmodel
* 1965 – Cliff Ronning, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1965 – Ted King, American Actor
* 1965 – Chris Reason, Australian journalist
* 1966 – Christopher Titus, American actor/comedian
* 1966 – George Weah, Liberian politician and footballer
* 1966 – Cuco Ziganda, Spanish footballer
* 1967 – Scott Young, American ice hockey player
* 1967 – Mike Pringle, American football player
* 1968 – Jon Guenther, American author
* 1968 – Rob Collard, British racing driver
* 1969 – Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
* 1969 – Ori Kaplan, Israeli jazz musician
* 1970 – Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor
* 1970 – Simon Davey, Barnsley football manager
* 1970 – Alexei Zhamnov, Russian ice hockey player
* 1971 – Andrew O’Keefe, Australian television personality
* 1971 – Song Il Gook, Korean actor
* 1971 – Gigi Lai, Hong Kong actress
* 1973 – Jana Henke, German swimmer
* 1973 – Rachid Chékhémani, French runner
* 1973 – John Thomson, American baseball player
* 1974 – Mats Lindgren, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1974 – Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone) and actor
* 1974 – Christian Borle, American actor
* 1975 – Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
* 1975 – Zoltán Sebescen, German footballer
* 1975 – Kim Suna, Korean actress
* 1976 – Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
* 1976 – Denis Gauthier, Canadian hockey player
* 1976 – Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic film actress
* 1976 – Ümit Karan, Turkish footballer
* 1977 – Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian race car driver
* 1978 – Andrew JC Jackson, Australian surf lifesaver
* 1978 – Leticia Cline, American model and TV Personality
* 1979 – Cameron Bruce, Australian rules footballer
* 1979 – Rudi Johnson, American football player
* 1979 – Gilberto Martínez, Costa Rican footballer
* 1979 – Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union footballer
* 1981 – Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
* 1981 – Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1981 – Arnau Riera, Spanish footballer
* 1982 – Haruna Babangida, Nigerian footballer
* 1982 – Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer
* 1983 – Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer
* 1984 – Matt Cain, American baseball player
* 1984 – Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
* 1985 – Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
* 1985 – Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
* 1985 – Revazi Zintiridis, Greek judoka
* 1985 – Tim Deasy, English footballer
* 1986 – Jurnee Smollett, American actress
* 1986 – Sayaka, Japanese singer
* 1986 – Ricardo Vaz Té, Portuguese footballer
* 1987 – Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor, singer
* 1988 – Cariba Heine, Australian actress
* 1989 – Brie Larson, American pop singer & actress
* 1990 – Charlie McDonnell, British YouTube Personality
EVENTS of 1 October

* 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
* 911 – During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
* 959 – Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
* 1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
* 1787 – Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
* 1788 – Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Vietnam.
* 1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
* 1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
* 1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
* 1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
* 1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
* 1827 – The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
* 1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
* 1843 – News of the World began publication in London.
* 1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
* 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
* 1869 – Austria issues the world’s first postcards.
* 1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.
* 1880 – First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
* 1885 – United States begins special-delivery mail service.
* 1886 – The U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada, closes.
* 1887 – Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
* 1890 – The Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
* 1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
* 1894 – First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
* 1898 – Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
* 1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
* 1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
* 1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
* 1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
* 1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
* 1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a “Lawrence of Arabia”) capture Damascus.
* 1920 – Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
* 1926 – An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
* 1926 – Arirang premiers in Seoul.
* 1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
* 1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
* 1931 – The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
* 1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
* 1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
* 1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
* 1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
* 1942 – USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
* 1942 – First flight of the Bell XP-59 “Aircomet”.
* 1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
* 1946 – Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
* 1947 – The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
* 1949 – The People’s Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
* 1957 – First appearance of “In God We Trust” on U.S. paper currency.
* 1958 – NASA created to replace NACA.
* 1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1961 – East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
* 1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
* 1964 – Japanese Shinkansen (“bullet trains”) begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
* 1965 – Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou.
* 1965 – General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
* 1968 – The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
* 1969 – The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
* 1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
* 1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
* 1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
* 1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
* 1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
* 1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
* 1982 – EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
* 1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
* 1985 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
* 1987 – The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.
* 1989 – Denmark: World’s first legal modern same-sex civil union called “registered partnership”
* 1992 – National Council of the Slovak Republic is arose
* 1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations trusteeship administered by the United States of America.
* 1998 – Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
* 2004 – Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler’s 84-year-old single-season record.
* 2005 – Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
* 2006 – Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the United Kingdom.