October in Rock History

Last Updated on 1 March 2026

Birthdays: Richard Harris (1930), Herb Fame (1942), Jerry Martin (1942), Herbert “Tubo” Rhoad (1944), Martin Turner (1947), Cub Koda (1948), Brian Greenway (1951), Earl Slick (1952), Martin Cooper (1958)
Birthdays: Ron Meagher (1941), Don McLean (1945), Skip Konte (1947), Mike Rutherford (1950), Sting (1951), Philip Oakey (1955), Al Connelly (1960), James Root (1971), Tiffany Darwish (1971), Lene Nystrøm (1973), Maja Ivarsson (1979), Brittany Howard (1988)
Birthdays: Eddie Cochran (1938), Chubby Checker (1941), Antonio Martinez (1945), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), John Curulewski (1950), Jack Grondin (1951), Jack Harris (1951), Dawayne Bailey (1954), Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954), Allen Woody (1955), Robbie Jaymes (1961), Tommy Lee (1962), Frank Hannon (1966), Gwen Stefani (1969), Lajon Witherspoon (1972), Jake Shears (1978)
Birthdays: Marlena Davis (1944), Jim Fielder (1947), Jody Stephens (1952), Chris Lowe (1959), Jon Secada (1961)
Birthdays: Carlo Mastrangelo (1937), Richard Street (1942), Steve Miller (1943), Brian Connolly (1945), Richard Kermode (1946), Brian Johnson (1947), Tawl Ross (1948), “Fast” Eddie Clarke (1950), Bob Geldof (1951), Troy Luccketta (1959), James Valentine (1978)
Birthdays: Bobby Farrell (1949), Thomas McClary (1949), Kevin Cronin (1951), Tommy Stinson (1966), Daniel Cavanagh (1972)
Birthdays: Martin Murray (1941), Tony Silvester (1941), David Hope (1949), John Mellencamp (1951), Ricky Phillips (1952), Tico Torres (1953), Brian Mannix (1961), Toni Braxton (1967), Thom Yorke (1968)
Birthdays: Doc Green (1934), Butch Rillera (1945), Tony Wilson (1947), Johnny Ramone (1948), Hamish Stuart (1949), Robert ‘Kool’ Bell (1950), Clifford Adams (1952), Larry Crane (1956), C.J. Ramone (1965), Terry Balsamo (1972), Bruno Mars (1985)
Birthdays: John Lennon (1940), John Entwistle (1944), Nona Hendryx (1944), Jackson Browne (1948), Dennis Stratton (1952), Thomas Wydler (1959), Vickie Perks (1968), Sean Lennon (1975)
Birthdays: Denis D’Ell (1943), Alan Cartwright (1945), Cyril Neville (1948), David Lee Roth (1954), Eric Martin (1960), Martin Kemp (1961)
Birthdays: Daryl Hall (1946), Gary Mallaber (1946), Greg Douglass (1949), Andrew Woolfolk (1950), Blair Cunningham (1957), Jon Moss (1957), Petra Haden (1971), Mike Smith (1973)
Birthdays: Sam Moore (1935), Melvin Franklin (1942), Dave Shogren (1950), Pat DiNizio (1955), Jeff Keith (1958)
Albums released: Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd (1975)
Birthdays: Chris Farlowe (1940), Paul Simon (1941), Robert Lamm (1944), Sammy Hagar (1947), John Ford Coley (1948), Marie Osmond (1959)
Birthdays: Robert Parker (1930), Billy Harrison (1942), Colin Hodgkinson (1945), Dan McCafferty (1946), Justin Hayward (1946), Al Atkins (1947), Marcia Barrett (1948), Thomas Dolby (1958), A.J. Pero (1959), Usher (1978)
Birthdays: Barry McGuire (1935), Marv Johnson (1938), Don Stevenson (1941), Richard Carpenter (1946), Chris de Burgh (1948), Frank DiMino (1951), Tito Jackson (1953)
Birthdays: Fred Turner (1943), Bob Weir (1947), Cordell Mosson (1952), Gary Kemp (1959), Bob Mould (1960), Flea (1962), Wendy Wilson (1969), John Mayer (1977), Ethan Luck (1978)
Birthdays: Alan Howard (1941), Jim Seals (1942), Jim Tucker (1946), Michael Hossack (1946), Allen West (1967)
Birthdays: Chuck Berry (1926), Ronnie Bright (1938), Billy Cox (1941), Russ Giguere (1943), Gary Richrath (1949), Simon Rix (1977)
Birthdays: Gloria Jones (1945), Jeannie C. Riley (1945), Keith Reid (1946), Patrick Simmons (1948), Annie Golden (1951), Nino DeFranco (1956), Karl Wallinger (1957), Dan Woodgate (1960), Joe Duplantier (1976), Pete Loeffler (1976)
Birthdays: Jay Siegel (1939), Raymond Jones (1939), Ric Lee (1945), Tom Petty (1950), Al Greenwood (1951), Mark King (1958), Ricky Byrd (1956), Lepa Brena (1960), Fred Coury (1967)
Birthdays: Michael Lubowitz (1940), Steve Cropper (1941), Elvin Bishop (1942), Ron Elliott (1943), Lee Loughnane (1946), Brent Mydland (1952), Charlotte Caffey (1953), Eric Faulkner (1953), Steve Lukather (1957), Nick Oliveri (1971)
Birthdays: Annette Funicello (1942), Bobby Fuller (1942), Eddie Brigati (1945), Stiv Bators (1949), Greg Hawkes (1952), Bobby Blotzer (1958), Cris Kirkwood (1960), Darryl Jenifer (1960), Shaggy (1968), Jon Foreman (1976), Ed Droste (1978), Garrett Tierney (1980)
Birthdays: Freddie Marsden (1940), Kim Larsen (1945), Greg Ridley (1947), Würzel (1949), Pierre Moerlen (1952), “Weird Al” Yankovic (1959), Robert Trujillo (1964), Dale Crover (1967), Jessicka (1975)
Birthdays: Bill Wyman (1936), Santo Farina (1937), Jerry Edmonton (1946), Dale Griffin (1948), Steven Greenberg (1950), Perry Lee “Tiny” Tavares (1954), Mathilde Santing (1958)
Birthdays: Earl Palmer (1924), Helen Reddy (1941), Jon Anderson (1944), Taffy Nivert (1944), Glenn Tipton (1947), Chris Norman (1950), Matthias Jabs (1955), Robbie McIntosh (1957), Chad Smith (1961), Nick Thorp (1964), Ed Robertson (1970), Austin John Winkler (1981), Katy Perry (1984)
Birthdays: Al Casey (1936), Michael Piano (1944), Keith Hopwood (1946), Bootsy Collins (1951), David Was (1952), Keith Strickland (1953), Natalie Merchant (1963), Keith Urban (1967)
Birthdays: Lee Greenwood (1942), Dick Dodd (1945), Byron Allred (1948), Garry Tallent (1949), K.K. Downing (1951), Simon Le Bon (1958), Scott Weiland (1967)
Birthdays: Charlie Daniels (1936), Curtis Lee (1939), Hank Marvin (1941), Rickie Lee Reynolds (1948), Telma Hopkins (1948), Gerald Woodroffe (1951), Dave Wyndorf (1956), Neville Henry (1959), Aki Hakala (1979)
Birthdays: Denny Laine (1944), Peter Green (1946), Guy Gelso (1951), Kevin DuBrow (1955), Randy Jackson (1961), Einar Örn (1962), Steven Sweet (1965), Chris Baio (1984)
Birthdays: Grace Slick (1939), Otis Williams (1939), Chris Slade (1946), Timothy B. Schmidt (1947), David Green (1949), John Custer (1962), Gavin Rossdale (1965)
Birthdays: Rik Kenton (1945), Russ Ballard (1945), Bob Siebenberg (1949), Bernard Edwards (1952), Larry Mullen, Jr (1961), Mikkey Dee (1963), Ad-Rock (1966), Vanilla Ice (1967), Linn Berggren (1970), Mitch Harris (1969), Rogers Stevens (1970)