Father Ferdinand Verbiest ( 9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688 ) was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty.

As a better means of evaluating Urban's true motivations in calling for a crusade to the Holy Lands, there are four extant letters written by Pope Urban II himself: one to the Flemish ( dated December 1095 ); one to the Bolognese ( dated September 1096 ); one to Vallombrosa ( dated October 1096 ); and one to the counts of Catalonia ( dated either 1089 or 1096 – 1099 ).

Andreas Vesalius ( 31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564 ) was a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Structure of the Human Body ).

* October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer

* October 15 – Vesalius, Flemish anatomist ( b. 1514 )

* October 30 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic ( b. 1616 )

* October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer ( b. 1504 )

* October – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystical writer ( d. 1566 )

* October 28 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat

* July 1 – October 25 – with the support of English and Flemish Crusaders, Afonso I of Portugal besieges and conquers Lisbon ( Siege of Lisbon ).

* October 1 – Frans Floris, Flemish painter ( b. 1520 )

* October 18 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter ( b. 1593 )

* October 14 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish artist ( d. 1633 )

* October 18 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist ( d. 1606 )

* October 1 – Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter

* October 5 – Joachim Patinir, Flemish painter ( b. c. 1480 )

* October 22 – Johannes Brassart, Flemish composer

Pieter Brueghel the Younger () ( 1564 or 1565, – 10 October 1636 ) was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Brueghel the Elder's paintings and nicknamed " Hell Brueghel " for his fantastic treatments of fire and grotesque imagery.

In Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, a Flemish Discovery Channel launched ( previously the Dutch version was available for IPTV, DVB-C and DVB-S ) on Cable ( and digital ) Television on October 1, 2009.

Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road, West Hampstead, London, of mixed Flemish, Dutch and Scottish ancestry, and baptised on 30 October at St. Mary's Church, Kilburn.

Jacob Jordaens ( 19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678 ) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting.

Abbot Louis de Blois, O. S. B., ( October 1506 – 7 January 1566 ) was a Flemish monk and mystical writer, generally known under the name of Blosius.

* October 18-Lucas van Uden, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes ( died 1672 )

Henry Clemens Van de Velde () ( 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957 ) was a Belgian Flemish painter, architect and interior designer.

The group's next recording was a remake of the Eurythmics ' " Sisters Are Doin ' It for Themselves " recorded with Natalia: this track spent sixteen weeks in the Top 20 of Belgium's Flemish chart from October 2005 with a peak of # 2.

(; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621 ) was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

In October 1874, his parents enrolled him in a new Jesuit school called Externat de la rue de Vienne, which was still under construction for his first five years there.

* October 14 – French troops under the command of Rear Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze land at Ganghwa Island, Korea as part of a punitive expedition against that kingdom for the execution of French Jesuit priests.

* October – John Gerard, a Jesuit priest, escapes from the Tower of London.

* October 23 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist ( b. 1715 )

* October 12 – Luis de Molina, Spanish Jesuit ( b. 1535 )

* October 18 – Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1607 )

* October 9 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French Jesuit missionary ( b. 1718 )

* October 7 – Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar ( b. 1559 )

* October 18 – Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil ( b. 1517 )

* October 8 – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary and historian ( b. c. 1603 )

* October 8 – Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist ( d. 1774 )

* October 28 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer ( d. 1793 )

* October 12 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit ( d. 1651 )

* October 6 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary to China ( d. 1610 )

( Interestingly, the St. Francis festivities in Magdalena are held in the beginning of October ( the anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi ), and not at the time of St. Francis Xavier, who was a Jesuit.

The township has a rich and varied history as far back as October 15, 1660, with the arrival of the first white man on record, French Jesuit priest Father René Menard.

Abbé Augustin Barruel ( October 2, 1741 – October 5, 1820 ) was a French Jesuit priest.

José de Acosta ( September / October 1540 – February 15, 1600 ) was a Spanish 16th-century Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America.

* October 25-Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit controversialist ( born 1617 )

* October 12 – Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit writer ( born 1535 )

During the rule of the Great Fifth, two Jesuit missionaries, the German Johannes Gruber and Belgian Albert Dorville, stayed in Lhasa for two months, October and November, 1661 on their way from Peking to Portuguese Goa, in India.

* October 8-Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist ( died 1774 )