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Thursday 2 October 2031

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2 OctoberMartin Hellman, born 1945

2 OctoberPeter Medawar, died 1987

2 OctoberSvante Arrhenius, died 1927

3 OctoberÉmile Benveniste, died 1976

3 OctoberErnest H. Volwiler, died 1992

3 OctoberHenry Bryant Bigelow, born 1879

3 OctoberHermann Irving Schlesinger, died 1960

3 OctoberLeon M. Lederman, died 2018

3 OctoberLouis Hjelmslev, born 1899

3 OctoberWalter Alvarez, born 1940

4 OctoberMax Planck, died 1947

4 OctoberShrinivas Kulkarni, born 1956

4 OctoberVitaly Ginzburg, born 1916

5 OctoberBernard Bolzano, born 1781

5 OctoberGeorge S. Hammond, died 2005

5 OctoberJames H. Wilkinson, died 1986

5 OctoberJoachim Barrande, died 1883

5 OctoberKeith Campbell, died 2012

5 OctoberLars Onsager, died 1976

5 OctoberM. King Hubbert, born 1903

5 OctoberMaurice Wilkins, died 2004

5 OctoberWilliam Lassell, died 1880

6 OctoberAmina Helmi, born 1970

6 OctoberDavid Baker, born 1962

6 OctoberFerdinand von Richthofen, died 1905

6 OctoberGeorge Gaylord Simpson, died 1984

6 OctoberJorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, born 1950

6 OctoberMario Capecchi, born 1937

6 OctoberMeghnad Saha, born 1893

6 OctoberRiccardo Giacconi, born 1931

6 OctoberRichard Dedekind, born 1831

7 OctoberGeorge Emil Palade, died 2008

7 OctoberJesse Douglas, died 1965

7 OctoberJohn Gurdon, died 2025

7 OctoberJohn Hopcroft, born 1939

7 OctoberMario Molina, died 2020

7 OctoberNiels Kaj Jerne, died 1994

7 OctoberWilliam Thomas Blanford, born 1832

8 OctoberCésar Milstein, born 1927

8 OctoberHenry Louis Le Chatelier, born 1850

8 OctoberLuna B. Leopold, born 1915

Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.