Birthdays
Samuel Aaron
Turns 61 on this date
Benjamin Hickman Bunn
Turns 17 on this date
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Turns 51 on this date
R. Wickliffe Cooper
Turns 30 on this date
Samuel McGowan
Turns 42 on this date
William Weston Patton
Turns 40 on this date
Rufus Saxton
Turns 37 on this date
James Falconer Wilson
Turns 33 on this date
William Henry Zimmerman
Turns 23 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Boiler explosion kills two workers in Philadelphia | 10/19/1861 |
| Crime/Disasters | In Australia, aboriginals kill seventeen settlers in a remote area of Queensland | 10/19/1861 |
| Personal | Thomas Wildey, founder of the Order of Odd Fellows in the United States, dies at his home in Baltimore | 10/19/1861 |