- Oct 12 John Ross, English composer and organist, born in Newcastle upon Tyne (d. 1837)
- Oct 24 Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (Florentin), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1839)
- Oct 27 William Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map), born in Ayr, Scotland (d. 1840)