Portal:The arts/Selected anniversaries/October


 * 4 October 1974 – American poet Anne Sexton dies by suicide at her home in Weston, Massachusetts
 * 10 October 1881 – London's Savoy Theatre, built by the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte to showcase the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, opens with a production of Patience
 * 11 October 1910 – Italian composer and musicologist Francesco Balilla Pratella completes his Manifesto of Futurist Musicians, one of the earliest signs of Futurism's influence in fields outside the visual arts
 * 17 October 1896 – The first performance of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull is booed by the audience, after which Chekhov decides to give up writing plays
 * 25 October 1881 – Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (pictured), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, is born in Málaga
 * 4 October 1927 - Gutzon Borglum began working on Mt. Rushmore