- Oct 1 Charles Cros, French inventor and poet (Le Hareng Saur), born in Fabrezan, France (d. 1888)
- Oct 14 Joe Start, American baseball player, born in NYC, New York (d. 1927)
- Oct 24 Josef Nešvera, Czech composer, born in Praskolesy, Czech Republic (d. 1914)
- Oct 27 Giovanni Giolitti, 5x Prime Minister of Italy (1892-93, 1903-05, 1906-09, 1911-14, 1920-21), born in Mondovì, Kingdom of Sardinia (d. 1928)
- Oct 28 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, American Quaker orator, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, writer, and mountaineer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1932)
- Oct 28 Charles Boissevain, Dutch editor of Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908), born in Amsterdam (d. 1927)