| 112891 | October 2 | Birth | 1987 – Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player |
| 112892 | October 2 | Birth | 1987 – Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player |
| 112893 | October 2 | Birth | 1987 – Joel Reinders, American football player |
| 112894 | October 2 | Birth | 1987 – Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., American race car driver |
| 112895 | October 2 | Birth | 1989 – George Christopher Nash, English rower |
| 112896 | October 2 | Birth | 1990 – Samantha Barks, Manx-English actress and singer |
| 112897 | October 2 | Birth | 1990 – Dean Bouzanis, Australian footballer |
| 112898 | October 2 | Birth | 1992 – Sirje Roops, Estonian footballer |
| 112899 | October 2 | Birth | 1993 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress |
| 112900 | October 2 | Birth | 1993 – Luke Thomas, Welsh chef |
| 112901 | October 2 | Birth | 1993 – Aaro Vainio, Finnish race car driver |
| 112902 | October 2 | Birth | 1994 – Joana Eidukonytė, Lithuanian tennis player |
| 112903 | October 2 | Birth | 1997 – Hana Sugisaki, Japanese actress |
| 112904 | October 2 | Death | 534 – Athalaric, Italian king (b. 516) |
| 112905 | October 2 | Death | 829 – Michael II, Byzantine emperor (b. 770) |
| 112906 | October 2 | Death | 939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (b. 890) |
| 112907 | October 2 | Death | 1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French-Italian composer (b. 1483) |
| 112908 | October 2 | Death | 1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (b. 1567) |
| 112909 | October 2 | Death | 1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584) |
| 112910 | October 2 | Death | 1629 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian (b. 1575) |
| 112911 | October 2 | Death | 1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638) |
| 112912 | October 2 | Death | 1708 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650) |
| 112913 | October 2 | Death | 1709 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639) |
| 112914 | October 2 | Death | 1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian and author (b. 1644) |
| 112915 | October 2 | Death | 1746 – Josiah Burchett, English admiral and politician (b. 1666) |
| 112916 | October 2 | Death | 1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720) |
| 112917 | October 2 | Death | 1775 – Fukuda Chiyo-ni, Japanese nun and poet (b. 1703) |
| 112918 | October 2 | Death | 1780 – John André, English soldier (b. 1750) |
| 112919 | October 2 | Death | 1782 – Charles Lee, English-American general (b. 1732) |
| 112920 | October 2 | Death | 1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725) |