- Oct 6 Henri Christophe, President of Haiti (1807-11) and King of Haiti (1811-20), born in Grenada (d. 1820)
- Oct 21 Francesco Ruggi, composer
- Oct 23 H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer
- Oct 28 Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel, queen consort of Denmark and Norway, born in Hanau, Hesse, Germany (d. 1852)