The county was officially organized on October 1, 1812 and is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Giradot, a French official.

Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties and is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot ( also spelled Girardeau or Girardat ), a French officer originally stationed at Kaskaskia, Illinois from 1704-1720 who later developed a trading post on the site on the present-day city of Cape Girardeau around 1733.

On 17 October, he bore a great part in the victory of Cholet, and on began his friendship with Jean Baptiste Kléber while on the field of battle.

* October 27-A Great Western Railway passenger train collides with the tail end of gravel train at Baptiste Creek, Canada West.

At the end of October 1816, Marcellin visited the dying Jean Baptiste Montage.

John Baptiste Bernadou ( November 14, 1858 – October 2, 1908 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War.

John Baptiste Bernadou died at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on October 2, 1908 and is buried with his wife Florence Whiting in Arlington National Cemetery Section S. Div Site 2004 W. S

Jean Baptiste Vuillaume ( October 7, 1798 – March 19, 1875 ) was an illustrious French violin maker.

Bryan J. Baptiste ( October 15, 1955 – June 22, 2008 ) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party.

Jean Baptiste Marius Augustin Challamel ( March 18, 1818 – October 20, 1894 ) was a French historian.

Merri Jean Baptiste Franquin ( b. October 19, 1848, Lançon, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, d. 1934 ) was a French trumpeter, cornetist, and flugelhornist who was professor of trumpet at the Paris Conservatory from 1894 until 1925.

Jean Baptiste Marie Franceschi-Delonne ( 1767-23 October 1810, Cartagena ) was a French General, who served throughout the Revolutionary campaign on the Rhine, took part in the campaign of Zurich in 1799, and distinguished himself very greatly by his escape from, and subsequent return to, Genoa, when in 1800 Masséna was closely besieged in that city.

According to the character's backstory, Baptiste was signed from A. S. Monaco in October 1999.

* October 19 – Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor ( d. 1974 )

Arthur " Art " Tatum, Jr. (, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956 ) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso who played with phenomenal facility despite being nearly blind since birth.

* October 12-Herbert L. Clarke, cornet virtuoso and composer ( d. 1945 )

Reed virtuoso Al Gallodoro appeared briefly with Jones in 1933, taking part in a record date October 3.

* October 17 – Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso ( born c. 1748 )

Karol Józef Lipiński ( 30 October 1790 – 16 December 1861 ) was a Polish virtuoso violinist and composer.

Ernesto Camillo Sivori, ( October 25, 1815 – February 18, 1894 ) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer.

Shlomo Mintz ( born October 30, 1957 ) is an Israeli violin virtuoso, violist and conductor.

Michel Blavet ( March 13, 1700 – October 28, 1768 ) was a French composer and flute virtuoso.

14, by Polish violin virtuoso Henryk Wieniawski was first performed on October 27, 1853 in Leipzig.

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower ( 11 October 1778 – 29 February 1860 ) was an Afro-Polish-born virtuoso violinist, who lived in England for much of his life.

Fănică Luca ( born Ştefan Luca Iordache ; 5 April 1894-26 October 1968 ) was a Romani-Romanian musician and a pan pipe ( nai or musical in Romanian ) virtuoso, who was the first to make this instrument popular outside his own country.

Also in October, they toured various Australian cities in support of violinist André Rieu and his symphony orchestra.

* October 22 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer ( b. 1784 )

* October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist ( b. 1908 )

* October 27 – Nicolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1840 )

* October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, French composer and violinist ( murdered ) ( b. 1697 )

* October 27 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean violinist

* October 16 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist ( b. 1921 )

* October 8 – Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer ( b. 1711 )

His first wife died in October 1923, and in August of the next year Schoenberg married Gertrud Kolisch ( 1898 – 1967 ), sister of his pupil, the violinist Rudolf Kolisch ( Neighbour 2001 ; Silverman 2010, 223 ).

Covington had met veteran jazz-blues violinist Papa John Creach in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s ; he invited Creach to sit in with the Airplane for a concert at Winterland in San Francisco on October 5, 1970.

Carl August Nielsen (), ( 9 June 18653 October 1931 ), widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist.

* October 31 – Arvid Andersen, violinist, conductor and composer

* October 24 – David Oistrakh, violinist, 66

* October 27 – Xavier Cugat, violinist, bandleader and arranger, 90

* October 10 – Charles Dancla, violinist and composer, 89

After being invited by violinist Stuff Smith to record the song " Time and Again " in October, Vaughan was offered a contract to record for the Musicraft label by owner Albert Marx, although she would not begin recording as a leader for Musicraft until May 7, 1946.

* October 11 – Leo Reisman, violinist and bandleader ( died 1961 )

* October 23-Ludwig Straus, violinist, 64

* October 17-Prosper Sainton, violinist ( b. 1813 )

* October 18-Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish conductor, violinist and composer ( d. 1953 )

* October 8-Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer ( b. 1814 )

* October 5-Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer ( b. 1799 )

Sir William George Cusins ( 14 October 183331 August 1893 ) was an English pianist, violinist, organist, conductor and composer.

They approached classical trained violinist Miles Golding, reed player Mike Howard and together with Chunn they formed a five-piece acoustic group called Split Ends in October 1972.

Louis Spohr ( 5 April 178422 October 1859 ), born Ludwig Spohr, was a German composer, violinist and conductor.