October 22: World-famous actress Sarah Bernhardt was born on this date in Paris in 1844: she would journey to New York City many times, and would often go to the studio of photographer-to-the-stars Napoleon Sarony to have her portrait taken.

October 21: In 1849, on this date, David Bates Douglass, who designed Green-Wood Cemetery with winding paths and roads, high banks and ponds, died.