* October 1-Louis Leakey ( b. 1903 ), British paleontologist.

Leakey ) ( 7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972 ) was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa.

* October 1 – Louis Leakey, British paleontologist ( b. 1903 )

() ( 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943 ) was a Hungarian-British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia.

* October 19 – Vere Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist ( b. 1892 )

* October 23 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist ( d 1992 )

* October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old.

* October 11 – Harriet Boyd-Hawes, American archaeologist ( d. 1945 )

* October 13 – John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist ( b. 1805 )

* October 26 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, author of many books on ancient Dacia ( d. 1909 )

Vere Gordon Childe ( 14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957 ), better known as V. Gordon Childe, was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory.

Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (; 23 October 1813 – 18 May 1900 ) was a French philosopher and archaeologist.

Pierre Henri Larcher ( 12 October 1726 – 22 December 1812 ) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist.

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford ( 28 October 1886 – 28 November 1957 ) was an English archaeologist and a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaeological understanding of the landscape.

Théodore Reinach ( July 3, 1860 – October 28, 1928 ) was a French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician.

Jules Pierre François Stanislaus Desnoyers ( 8 October 1800 – 1887 ) was a French geologist and archaeologist.

Józef Kostrzewski ( February 25, 1885 – October 19, 1969 ) was a Polish archaeologist.

* October 31-W. F. Grimes, Welsh archaeologist ( died 1988 ).

Professor William Francis Grimes ( 31 October 1905 – 25 December 1988 ) was a Welsh archaeologist who devoted his career to the archaeology of London and the prehistory of Wales.

Jules Étienne Joseph Quicherat ( 13 October 1814 – 8 April 1882 ) was a French historian and archaeologist.

Jérémie Jacques Oberlin ( 8 August 1735 – 10 October 1806 ) was an Alsatian philologist and archaeologist.

Harriet Boyd Hawes ( October 11, 1871 – March 31, 1945 ) was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker.

Manfred Bietak ( born 6 October 1940, Vienna ) is an Austrian archaeologist.

Richard John Copland Atkinson ( 22 January 1920 – 10 October 1994 < sup ></ sup >) was a British prehistorian and archaeologist.

Similarly, famous archaeologist Abbé Breuil excavated with Morlet and was impressed with the site, but on 2 October, Breuil wrote that " everything is false except the stoneware pottery.

In October 2008, Israeli archaeologist, Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has discovered what he says to be the earliest known Hebrew text.

Fritz Eichler ( October 12, 1887-January 16, 1971 ) was an Austrian archaeologist.

* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

He also befriended the archaeologist and practicing Pagan Alexander Keiller, known for his excavations at Avebury, who would encourage Gardner to join in with the excavations at Hembury Hill in Devon, also attended by Aileen Fox and Mary Leakey.

** Mary Leakey, British archaeologist ( b. 1913 )

** Louis Leakey, British archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

From there, she obtained work as a secretary, and acting on her friend's advice she telephoned Louis Leakey, a Kenyan archaeologist and paleontologist, with no other thought than to make an appointment to discuss animals.

* August 7-Louis Leakey ( died 1972 ), British archaeologist.

The term " Oldowan " is taken from the site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, where the first Oldowan tools were discovered by the archaeologist Louis Leakey in the 1930s.

Mary Leakey ( 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996 ) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge.

Mary Leakey was a direct descendant of antiquarian, John Frere, and cousin to archaeologist, Sheppard Frere, on her mother's side.

In 1994, the London-born Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and archaeologist Alan Walker excavated the Allia Bay site and uncovered several additional fragments of the hominid, including one complete lower jaw bone which closely resembles that of a common chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ) but whose teeth bear a greater resemblance to those of a human.

In 1959 Louis Leakey, while at the British Museum of Natural History in London, received a visit from Ruth DeEtte Simpson, an archaeologist from California.

The archaeologist Jeffrey Goodman who worked at the site with Leakey had also claimed the stone artifacts to be human made.

* Jonathan Leakey, businessman and former archaeologist

* Louis Leakey ( 1903 – 1972 ), Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist

* Mary Leakey ( 1913 – 1996 ), British archaeologist

* Richard Leakey ( b. 1944 ), Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist

* December 9-Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist ( b. 1913 ).

* 19 December: Richard Leakey physical anthropologist & archaeologist