* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

* October 20 – October 21 – The Donaueschinger Musiktage new-music festival takes place with a memorial concert featuring the music of Arthur Honegger, and also concerts with compositions of ( amongst others ) Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Claude Debussy, Gottfried von Einem, Hans Werner Henze, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Maurice Jarre, Olivier Messiaen, and Igor Stravinsky

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (; born 11 October 1961 ) is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music ; he is the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music.

1710 – 14 October 1740 ) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901 ) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera.

* October 15 – Cole Porter, American composer ( You're The Top ) ( b. 1891 )

* October 29 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian composer ( b. 1873 )

* October 26 – Harold Rome, American composer ( b. 1908 )

* October 19 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer ( d. 1981 )

* October 3 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer ( b. 1865 )

* October 24 – Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer ( b. 1870 )

* October 27 – Conlon Nancarrow, American composer ( d. 1997 )

* October 8 – Wilhelm Kuhe, composer

* October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer ( b. 1842 )

* October 1 – Paul Dukas, French composer ( d. 1935 )

* October 23 – Award-winning composer and Hollywood songwriter Ralph Rainger (" Thanks for the Memory ") is among 12 people killed in the mid-air collision between an American Airlines DC-3 airliner and a U. S. Army bomber near Palm Springs, California.

* October 23 – Ralph Rainger, American composer and Hollywood songwriter ( b. 1901 )

* October 13 – Paul Simon, American singer and composer

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

* October 1 – Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer ( d. 1977 )

* October 15 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer ( b. 1850 )

* October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer & pianist

* October 29 – Tsunku, Japanese singer, music producer, and song composer

* October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer

* October 28 – Howard Hanson, American composer ( d. 1981 )

* October 15 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist ( b. 1892 )

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

He went north of the Pyrenees in October 1130 to protect the Val d ' Aran.

# Maria Theresia ( b. and d. Dresden, 15 October 1799 ).

# Frederick ( b. Torgau, 26 October 1474 – d. Rochlitz, 14 December 1510 ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.

Bardot's other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs ( 14 July 1966 – 1 October 1969 ) and Bernard d ' Ormale ( 16 August 1992 – present ).

Ivoirian members of the French Troupes de Marine who had been born in Côte d ' Ivoire were transferred to Abidjan in October 1961 to start establishing the armed forces.

* Jan ( d. 28 October 1383 ).

In October 1905 Satie enrolled in Vincent d ' Indy's Schola Cantorum de Paris to study classical counterpoint while still continuing his cabaret work.

Following the October 2001 American invasion and the Bonn Agreement the new government under the leadership of Hamid Karzai started to re-establish diplomatic relationships with many countries who had held close diplomatic relations before the communist coup d ' état and the subsequent civil war.

In October 1894, the French government awarded him the Grand-Croix de la Legion d ' Honneur.

During the following decades, the military of Honduras carried out several coups d ' état, starting in October 1955.

On 28 October 1836, Prince Louis-Napoleon, son of Napoleon's brother, Louis, King of Holland attempted to overthrow the July Monarchy in a coup d ' état.

Cozy Baker ( d. October 19, 2010 )— founder of The Brewster Kaleidoscope Society — collected kaleidoscopes and wrote books about many of the artists making them in the 1970s through 2001.

In 1948 Schaeffer formally initiated “ research in to noises ” at the Club d ' Essai ( Palombini 1993, 14 ) and on the 5th October 1948 the results of his initial experimentation were premiered at a concert given in Paris ( Chion 1983 ).

This was followed by the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks, who seized control in a quick coup d ' état against the Provisional Government, resulting in the formation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ), the first country in history committed to the establishment of communism.

* 1790 – Thursday October Christian ( d. 1831 )

** 20 December 1947 – 29 October 1955 Johannes Hoffmann ( b. 1890 – d. 1967 ), CVP

** 29 October 1955 – 10 January 1956 Heinrich Welsch ( b. 1888 – d. 1976 ), Non-party

His assassination was quickly followed by a military coup d ' état on October 21, 1969 ( the day after his funeral ), in which the Somali Army seized power without encountering armed opposition — essentially a bloodless takeover.

During the power vacuum that followed the assassination of Somalia's second president, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, the military staged a coup d ' état on 21 October 1969 ( the day after Shermarke's funeral ) and took over office.

The immediate followers of Pretorius now became extremely incensed at the action of the Lydenburg party, and a mass meeting was held at Potchefstroom ( October 1860 ), where it was resolved that: ( a ) the volksraad no longer enjoyed its confidence ; ( b ) that Pretorius should remain president of the South African Republic, and have a year's leave of absence to bring about union with the Free State ; ( c ) that Schoeman should act as president during the absence of Pretorius ; ( d ) that before the return of Pretorius to resume his duties a new volksraad should be elected.

On 28 October a coup d ' état took place, as a group of army commanders took control over the national radio station, broadcasting a message stating that Chiluba was no longer president.

* October 22 – Drazen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player ( d. 1993 )

* October 26 – Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer ( d. 1989 )