* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851

* October 13 – Beryl Reid, British actress ( b. 1919 )

* October 22 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist ( b. 1818 )

* October 7 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher ( b. 1710 )

Lady Godiva statue by Sir William Reid Dick unveiled at midday on 22 October 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, a £ 20, 000 gift from Mr WH Bassett-Green, a Coventrian.

Reid was posthumously awarded the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander on 15 October 2007.

In October 2003, the Trappers ' fate in Edmonton was sealed when the team, then owned by the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos, was sold to a group led by Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan and his son Reid.

John Reid was accused of stealing nineteen or so sheep on 6 October 1773.

Richard Gavin " Dick " Reid ( 17 January 1879 – 17 October 1980 ) was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935.

In 1930 Brownlee secured Alberta's long-sought control over its natural resources from the federal government, and he appointed Reid Alberta's first Minister of Lands and Mines on 10 October 1930.

Richard Reid died in Edmonton 17 October 1980 at the age of 101.

Following his dismissal by Manchester City, in October 1993 Reid was persuaded by Ian Branfoot to resume his playing career with Southampton who were then in the middle of a crisis: the Saints fans were calling for Branfoot to be sacked with the club having lost eight of their first nine games.

Reid was let go in October 2002 after nearly eight years as Sunderland manager.

On October 9, 2010, as part of the Canadian leg of the tour, Dan Roberts and Mitch Dorge joined Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid in the band's hometown of Winnipeg for the first performance by the original line-up in a decade.

Long before the merger, in October 1996, a focus group conducted by Angus Reid for the government warned Municipal Affairs Minister Al Leach that there would be " considerable public resistance " to the creation of a unified Toronto.

For Sharron Angle's debate with Harry Reid on October 14, 2010, Ensign played Reid during one day of her debate preparation at the Trump Plaza in Las Vegas.

* October 17-Richard Gavin Reid, politician and 7th Premier of Alberta ( b. 1879 )

Following the results of the October 18 Angus Reid Public Opinion Poll, Smitherman and Ford were practically tied for first place, with Ford at 41 % and Smitherman at 40 %.

He and O ' Leary had both been mentioned as candidates for the job at Sunderland twice during the 2002 – 03 season following the departure of Peter Reid in October and Howard Wilkinson in March.

In October 2003, Manchester asked Paul Reid, a friend and writer for COX Newspapers, to complete the Churchill biography.

An October 1993 survey by Brian Reid reported an estimated worldwide readership for the < tt > alt. sex </ tt > newsgroup of 3. 3 million, that being 8 % of the total Usenet readership, with 67 % of all Usenet " nodes " ( news servers users log into to access the system ) carrying the group.

* " The Aversion Project: Human rights abuses of gays and lesbians in the SADF by health workers during the apartheid era " by Mikki van Zyl, Jeanelle de Gruchy, Sheila Lapinsky, Simon Lewin, and Graeme Reid, Simply Said and Done, Cape Town, October 1999.

On January 7, 1905, the Harmsworth's and Robert Gillespie Reid, owner of the Newfoundland Railway, formed the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, and the mill was constructed and opened on October 9, 1909.

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.

FM-2030 ( October 15, 1930, Brussels – July 8, 2000, New York ) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant.

George Edward Moore OM, FBA ( 4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958 ) was an English philosopher.

Portrait by Friedrich Engels. Johann Kaspar Schmidt ( October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856 ), better known as Max Stirner ( the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow, in German ' Stirn '), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism.

John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952 ) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

John Abercrombie FRSE FRCSE FRCPE ( 12 October 1780, Aberdeen – 14 November 1844, Edinburgh ) was a Scottish physician and philosopher.

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945 ) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher.

* October 18 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher

* October 16 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist ( b. 1781 )

* October 18 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1941 )

* October 20 – John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist, and educator ( d. 1952 )

* October 6 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher ( b. 1900 )

* October 27 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist ( b. 1917 )

* October 22 – Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher ( b. 1905 )

* September 27, 1722 ( in Boston )- Samuel Adams-American statesman, political philosopher and Founding Father of the U. S .. Died on October 2, 1803.

* October 18 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher ( b. 1883 )

* October 1 – Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist ( d. 1950 )

* October 23 – Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher ( d. 2009 )

* October 10 – Charles Fourier, philosopher ( b. 1772 )

* October 26 – Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher ( b. 1801 )

* October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher ( d. 1900 )

* October 19 – Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher ( d. 1682 )