Fred Stolle (85 years old)
Oct 8 Australian tennis player, broadcaster (French C'ship 1965, US Nat C'ship 1966), born in Sydney, Australia
Dawn Wells (1938-2020)
Oct 18 American actress (Gilligan's Island -"Mary Ann"), born in Reno, Nevada [1]
Christopher Lloyd (85 years old)
Oct 22 American Emmy Award-winning actor (Taxi - "Reverend Jim"; Back to the Future films), born in Stamford, Connecticut
- Oct 22 Derek Jacobi, British Tony, BAFTA, and Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor and director (I, Claudius; Much Ado About Nothing; Dead Again), born in London, England
- Oct 23 Jordan Christopher, American actor (Secrets of Midland Heights), born in Youngstown, Ohio
- Oct 26 Bernadette Lafont, French actress (Perils of Gwendoline), born in Nimes, France (d. 2013)
- Oct 28 Anne Perry [Juliet Marion Hulme], English-born crime writer (convicted of murder as a child as filmed in "Heavenly Creatures"), born in London, England (d. 2023) [1]
- Oct 28 David Dimbleby, English TV presenter and political commentator, born in Surrey, England
- Oct 29 Ralph Bakshi, Krymchak-American animator and film maker (Fritz the Cat; Lord of the Rings (1978); Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures), born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
- Oct 30 Ed Lauter, American actor (The Artist, The Number 23), born in Long Beach, New York (d. 2013)
About October 1938
How Old? 85 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Leap Year: No