- Oct 2 Anton Emil Titl, composer
- Oct 4 Albrecht F H, prince of Prussia
- Oct 4 Robert Cumming Schenck, American Major General (Union Army), born in Franklin, Ohio (d. 1890)
- Oct 11 Orson Squire Fowler, American phrenologist and lecturer, born in Cohocton, New York (d. 1887)
- Oct 22 Federico Ricci, composer
- Oct 22 Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
- Oct 27 Peter Donders, Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Suriname, born in Tilburg, Netherlands (d. 1887)