Editing 1921 (section)

===October===
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[[File:Mihai.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Michael I of Romania|Michael I]]]]
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[James Whitmore]], American actor (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joshua Kondek|title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOfjraScrBEC|date=September 1985|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-0241-9|page=337}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Robert Runcie]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Adrian Hastings|title=Robert Runcie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9HccAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Mowbray|isbn=978-0-264-67209-0|page=8}}</ref>
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Ray Lindwall]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1996]]) 
* [[October 4]] &ndash;[[Francisco Morales-Bermúdez]], President of Peru (d. [[2022]])<ref>
{{ cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4fh_Gmas8YC |chapter=Profile of Francisco Morales Bermúdez
|title=Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture | volume=4 | page=116 |editor1=Barbara A. Tenenbaum |author=Georgette Magassy Dorn |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons (Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall) | year=1996 |isbn=9780684192536
}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] 
** [[Joseph Lowery]], American minister and civil rights activist (d. [[2020]])
** [[Joop Sanders]], Dutch-born American painter and educator (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 7]] 
** [[Beth Bentley]], American poet (d. [[2021]])
** [[Richard L. Duchossois]], American businessman (d. [[2022]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Abraham Sarmiento]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist (d. [[2010]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Dot Wilkinson]], American softball player (d. [[2023]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[James Clavell]], British novelist (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite web |title=James Du Maresq or Charles Edmund Clavell, California, Southern District Court (Central) Naturalization Index, 1915–1976 |url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KXQM-CFM |publisher=FamilySearch |access-date=26 January 2014}} Date of birth often given as 10 October 1924.</ref> 
* [[October 11]]
** [[Manuel Costa (cyclist)|Manuel Costa]], Spanish road racing cyclist
** [[Shaw McCutcheon]], American cartoonist (d. [[2016]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash;  [[Yves Montand]], French singer and actor (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Donnelley|title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7984-0|page=421}}</ref>
* [[October 14]]
** [[José Arraño Acevedo]], Chilean historian (d. [[2009]])
** [[Jeffrey G. Smith]], American general (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Sita Ram Goel]], Indian historian, publisher and author (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sita Ram Goel|title=India's Only Communalist: In Commemoration of Sita Ram Goel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEYqAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Voice of India|isbn=978-81-85990-78-1|page=1}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] 
** [[Edel Hætta Eriksen]], Norwegian schoolteacher and politician (d. [[2023]])
** [[Maria Gorokhovskaya]], Soviet gymnast (d. [[2001]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Gunnar Nordahl]], Swedish footballer (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Malcolm Arnold]], British music composer (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stewart R. Craggs|title=Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNCLqUq4F94C&pg=PA3|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29254-5|pages=3}}</ref>
** [[Mohammad Mohammadullah]], 3rd President of Bangladesh (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Hundred Years of Bangabhaban, 1905-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBFuAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Press Wing Bangabhaban|isbn=978-984-32-1583-3|page=343}}</ref>
** [[Zorawar Chand Bakhshi]], Indian Army General (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld]], Dutch astronomer (d. [[2015]])
** [[Wu Zhong (general)|Wu Zhong]], Chinese general (d. [[1990]])
* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Georges Brassens]], French singer-songwriter (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ekoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-0-312-03877-9|page=595}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] 
** [[Denise Duval]], French operatic soprano (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/07/denise-duval-obituary|title=Denise Duval obituary|date=7 February 2016|author=Patrick O'Connor|website=The Guardian|access-date=22 November 2020}}</ref>
** [[Archie Lamb]], English ambassador and writer (d. [[2021]])
** [[André Turcat]], French aviator, first pilot of [[Concorde]] (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kev Darling|title=Concorde|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=to4gAQAAIAAJ|date=5 August 2004|publisher=Crowood Press UK|isbn=978-1-86126-654-5|page=33}}</ref>
** [[İlhan Usmanbaş]], Turkish composer (d. [[2025]])
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Sena Jurinac]], Bosnian operatic soprano (d. [[2011]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; King [[Michael I of Romania]] (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familiaregala.ro/familia-regala/prezentare/ms-regele-mihai|title=MS Regele Mihai I|access-date=22 November 2020|archive-date=September 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908112257/http://www.familiaregala.ro/familia-regala/prezentare/ms-regele-mihai|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Ted Bassett (executive)|Ted Bassett]], American executive (d. [[2025]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Eugene Chelyshev]], Russian indologist and academician (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 29]] &ndash; [[Santiago Fierro Fierro]], Mexican politician and medical doctor (d. [[2009]])
* Unknown &ndash; [[Cao Keqiang]], Chinese diplomat