Timothy Thomas Fortune
Oct 3 Timothy Thomas Fortune, American orator, civil rights leader, writer and publisher (New York Age), born in Marianna, Florida (d. 1928)
Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Oct 9 Sylvain Dupuis, Belgian conductor, composer, and music educator (Le Chant de la Création), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1931)
- Oct 15 Robert Nivelle, French military officer, born in Tulle, France (d. 1924)
- Oct 25 Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (discovery and descriptions of the Neandertal remains from the Huŝnjakova rock shelter at Krapina in northwestern Croatia), born in Zagreb, Croatia (d. 1936)
- Oct 28 Franz Xavier Arens, American composer, born in Neef, Germany (d. 1932)