| 115921 | October 10 | Birth | 1923 – Nicholas Parsons, English actor and game show host |
| 115922 | October 10 | Birth | 1923 – Murray Walker, English journalist and sportscaster |
| 115923 | October 10 | Birth | 1924 – James Clavell, Australian-American director, producer, screenwriter, and author (d. 1994) |
| 115924 | October 10 | Birth | 1924 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French actress, ballerina, and choreographer (d. 2004) |
| 115925 | October 10 | Birth | 1924 – Ed Wood, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 1978) |
| 115926 | October 10 | Birth | 1925 – Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman, wrestler, and actor (d. 2001) |
| 115927 | October 10 | Birth | 1925 – Johnny Stompanato, American soldier and bodyguard (d. 1958) |
| 115928 | October 10 | Birth | 1926 – Oscar Brown, American singer-songwriter, playwright, and actor (d. 2005) |
| 115929 | October 10 | Birth | 1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 115930 | October 10 | Birth | 1927 – Dana Elcar, American actor and director (d. 2005) |
| 115931 | October 10 | Birth | 1927 – Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Indian singer (d. 2014) |
| 115932 | October 10 | Birth | 1927 – Jon Locke, American actor (d. 2013) |
| 115933 | October 10 | Birth | 1927 – Thomas Wilson, American-Scottish composer and educator (d. 2001) |
| 115934 | October 10 | Birth | 1928 – Sheila Walsh, English author (d. 2009) |
| 115935 | October 10 | Birth | 1929 – Ayten Alpman, Turkish singer (d. 2012) |
| 115936 | October 10 | Birth | 1929 – Herb Levinson, American actor (d. 2012) |
| 115937 | October 10 | Birth | 1929 – Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic (d. 2014) |
| 115938 | October 10 | Birth | 1930 – Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957) |
| 115939 | October 10 | Birth | 1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) |
| 115940 | October 10 | Birth | 1930 – Harold Pinter, English actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) |
| 115941 | October 10 | Birth | 1932 – Harry Smith, English footballer |
| 115942 | October 10 | Birth | 1933 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and businessman (d. 1969) |
| 115943 | October 10 | Birth | 1935 – Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (d. 1988) |
| 115944 | October 10 | Birth | 1935 – André Bureau, Canadian lawyer and businessman |
| 115945 | October 10 | Birth | 1936 – Judith Chalmers, English television host and actress |
| 115946 | October 10 | Birth | 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 115947 | October 10 | Birth | 1937 – Bruce Devlin, Australian golfer and sportscaster |
| 115948 | October 10 | Birth | 1937 – Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (d. 2014) |
| 115949 | October 10 | Birth | 1938 – Gloria Coates, American-German composer and painter |
| 115950 | October 10 | Birth | 1938 – Oleg Gordievsky, Russian intelligence officer and author |