- Oct 8 Otto Winter-Hjelm, Norwegian musician and composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1931)
- Oct 14 Ellison Capers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1908)
- Oct 16 John Francis Barnett, British composer, born in London (d. 1916)
- Oct 18 Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg, German-Dutch sculptor and architect of church interiors, born in Cologne (d. 1919)
- Oct 26 James Lawlor Kieran, Irish-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Mountbellew, County Galway (d. 1869)
- Oct 28 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last shÅgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, born in Edo, Japan (d. 1913)
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
Oct 29 Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1901-05), born in Maassluis, Netherlands
- Oct 29 Harriet Powers, African-American slave and quilt maker (Bible Quilt 1886), born in Clarke County, Georgia (d. 1910)