** Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer in microcredit and microfinance ( b. 1914 )

** Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah a Pakistani religious leader, of Allo Mahar Shrif.

** 24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.

** Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer

** Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress ( d. 2000 )

** Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician ( d. 1997 )

** Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and leader

** Sultan Rahi, Pakistani film actor ( b. 1938 )

** Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Pakistani journalist, theologian, and philosopher ( d. 1979 )

** Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist ( b. 1920 )

** Shooting of Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini, leader of Pakistani Shia Muslims, in Peshawar.

** Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist ( d. 1998 )

** Pakistani – Indian peace negotiations end successfully in Tashkent.

** Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang, a poet and a prominent Indian / Pakistani Muslim leader ( d. 1952 )

** Pakistani President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending National Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.

** Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani ' Mother of the Nation ' ( b. 1893 )

** Fighting resumes between Indian and Pakistani troops.

** Yasir Hameed, Pakistani Cricketer

** Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini, Pakistani author

** Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani Poet and Scholar ( b. 1938 )

** Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani politician

** Dalia or Daliya, an Indian and Pakistani maize porridge.

** Strings ( album ), debut album of the Pakistani pop band Strings

** Pakistani cuisine

** If S is a set of sentences of first-order logic and B is a consistent subset of S, then B is included in a set that is maximal among consistent subsets of S. The special case where S is the set of all first-order sentences in a given signature is weaker, equivalent to the Boolean prime ideal theorem ; see the section " Weaker forms " below.

** Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras needs the Boolean prime ideal theorem.

** ( n / p ), the Legendre symbol, considered as a function of n where p is a fixed prime number.

** In number theory, Ω ( n ) is the number of prime divisors of n.

** In number theory, ω ( n ) is the number of distinct prime divisors of n.

** Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of France.

** Pierre Bérégovoy, former prime minister of France, commits suicide.

** After Demirel becomes the president the acting prime minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of SHP for 40 days.

** PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D. C., after signing a peace accord.

** Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic prime minister ( d. 1970 )

** In Zaire, Etienne Tshiksekedi is appointed prime minister ; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.

** Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, ending the Sandline affair.

** Kevin Rudd, Australian prime minister

** Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.

** In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour Party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14.

** William Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected as Canadian prime minister.

** Hideki Tōjō, Japanese prime minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide to avoid facing a war crimes tribunal.

** Yury Yarov, Russian politician and a former deputy prime minister

** Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.

** Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister and dictator ( b. 1882 )

** The New Zealand general election is won by the New Zealand National Party, and its leader, Jim Bolger, becomes prime minister.

** Begum Khaleda Zia is reelected as prime minister of Bangladesh.

** The former prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov, is assassinated.

** İsmet İnönü of CHP forms the new government of Turkey ( 28th government, coalition partners ; independents, İnönü has served 10 ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government )