George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

* October 2 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1720 )

* October 9 – Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi ( b. 1720 )

* October 28 – Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero ( d. 1720 )

* October 21 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor ( b. 1720 )

* October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist ( b. 1720 )

Bolton was incorporated in October 1720 and is governed by town meeting.

In the Battle of Point Pleasant ( October 10, 1774 ), fought on the future site of the town, over one thousand Virginia militiamen, led by Colonel Andrew Lewis ( 1720 – 1781 ), defeated a roughly equal force of an Algonquin confederation of Shawnee and Mingo warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk ( ca.

Giovanni Battista ( also Giambattista ) Piranesi (; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778 ) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric " prisons " ( Carceri d ' Invenzione ).

* October 21-Samuel Foote, English dramatist ( born 1720 )

Margaret " Peg " Woffington ( 18 October 1720 – 28 March 1760 ) was a well-known Irish actress in Georgian London.

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC ( 8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764 ), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729 and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Bonny was aboard Calico Jack Rackham's sloop, cruising off Jamaica in October 1720, at the same time that Roberts, on the Royal Fortune, was in the mid-Atlantic trying to reach the Cape Verde islands.

William Murdock ( c. 1720 – October 17, 1769 ) was a Scottish-born American statesman in colonial Maryland.

John Woolman ( October 19, 1720 – October 7, 1772 ) was a North American itinerant Quaker preacher who traveled throughout much of British North America and in England, advocating against cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, conscription, military taxation, and particularly slavery and the slave trade.

Samuel Foote ( January 1720 – 21 October 1777 ) was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall.

Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer, () known as the Vilna Gaon or Elijah of Vilna and simply by his Hebrew acronym Gra (" Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu ") or Elijah Ben Solomon, ( Vilnius April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797 ), was a Talmudist, halachist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of non-hasidic Jewry of the past few centuries.

On 8 October 1720, Onslow married Anne Bridges ( 1703 – 1763 ), daughter of John Bridges of Thames Ditton, Surrey, and the niece and coheir of Henry Bridges of Imber Court.

A descendant of the Georgian Kings, with Georgia already annexed by the Russian Empire at the death of King George XII Bagration of Georgia in 1801, ( with the Russian conquest of Ossetia in 1802 ), successor of King Erekle II Bagration, ( Georgian: ერეკლე II ) ( 7 November 1720 or 7 October 1721 – 11 January 1798 ) reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.

Peter Jansen Wessel Tordenskiold ( October 28, 1690 – November 12, 1720 ), commonly referred to as Tordenskjold ( lit.

It commemorates an event on 17 October 1720 when Nichol Muschat, a surgeon, dragged his wife to a nearby spot and brutally murdered her.

Charles Antoine Coysevox ( September 29, 1640 – October 10, 1720 ), French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Spain.

Coysevox died in Paris, 10 October 1720.

Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.

The work culminated in a consultation on episkope in St. Louis in October 2006 involving the heads of communion of the members of CUIC.

While St. Louis University completed the first legal forward pass in the first half of September, this accomplishment was in part because most schools did not begin their football schedule until early October.

The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.

Meanwhile, in October 1685 Louis signed the Edict of Fontainebleau ordering the destruction of all Protestant churches and schools in France.

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.

* Louis Dunn, 1946 – October 1, 1954

On 14 October 1750, Louis XV agreed and sanctioned a display of 96 pieces from the royal collection, mounted in the Galerie royale de peinture of the Luxembourg Palace.

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

Mark David McGwire ( born October 1, 1963 ), nicknamed " Big Mac ", is an American former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.

| St. Louis / Phoenix / Arizona Cardinals || 12 || 14 || 0 ||. 462 || L 20 – 30 || October 10, 2010 || Glendale, AZ || 1 – 0 postseason ;

Louis Rams || 31 || 39 || 0 ||. 443 || L 21-31 || October 30, 2011 || St. Louis, MO || 1 – 0 postseason

* 1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October

The ambassador of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) succeeded in procuring his election on 6 October 1689, as successor to Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ); nevertheless, after months of negotiation Alexander VIII finally condemned the declaration made in 1682 by the French clergy concerning the liberties of the Gallican church.

In July 1461, Pius II canonized Saint Catherine of Siena, and in October of the same year he gained at first what appeared to be a brilliant success by inducing the new King of France, Louis XI, to abolish the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, by which the Pope's authority in France had been grievously impaired.

He excommunicated him after protracted negotiations on 13 April 1346 and directed the election of Charles IV, who received general recognition after the death of Louis in October 1347, ending the schism which had long divided Germany.

The following year ( October 830 ), after a brief rebellion and reconciliation between Louis and his sons, Gregory declared that Louis ’ second wife Judith was to be released from the convent where she had been forced to take the veil, and to be returned to Louis.

It was agreed that pope and emperor should meet at the Château de Mousson, near Rheims, and in October the new Pope opened the council at Rheims attended by Louis VI of France with most of the barons of France and more than four hundred bishops and abbots.

In early October, the Pope and Emperor met at Rheims, where Louis prostrated himself three times before Stephen.

At Mass on Sunday, 5 October 816, Stephen consecrated and anointed Louis as emperor, placing a crown on his head that was claimed to belong to Constantine the Great.

The Padres opened the 2006 National League Division Series at home against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday, October 3, 2006.

Versailles was again the unofficial capital of France from June 1722, when Louis XV returned to Versailles, until October 1789, when a Parisian mob forced Louis XVI and the royal family to move to Paris.