- Oct 2 Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord-Lt of Somerset
- Oct 2 Shirley Clarke, film director
- Oct 3 Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, [John Boyd], American sci-fi author (IQ Merchant)
- Oct 3 Walter Gieseler, composer
- Oct 3 Jean Lefebvre, French actor (Diabolical, Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?), born in Valenciennes, Nord, France (d. 2004)
- Oct 3 James M. Buchanan, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, economist (Nobel Memorial 1986), (d. 2013)
- Oct 5 Allen Ludden, Mineral Point Wisc, TV host (Password)
- Oct 5 Donald Pleasence, British actor (You Only Live Twice, Escape from New York, Halloween), born in Worksop, England (d. 1995)
- Oct 5 Luis H P Daal, Antillean literary
- Oct 5 Robin Bailey, British actor (See No Evil, I Didn't Know You Cared), born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1999)
- Oct 7 Gabriel Dell, American actor (The Bowery Boys, Steve Allen Show), born in NYC, New York (d. 1988)
- Oct 7 George Duby, historian
- Oct 7 Sir Zelman Cowen, Australian politician
- Oct 8 Bill Anderson, cricketer (played in 1st NZ-Aust Test 1946)
- Oct 8 Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (1991-93), born in Tokyo (d. 2007)
- Oct 9 Rezso Sugar, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest (d. 1988)
- Oct 10 Gerald Etheridge Gomez, cricketer (post-war WI all-rounder)
- Oct 11 Art Blakey, drummer (Billy Eckstine Band, Jazz Messengers), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Oct 11 Jean Vander Pyl, American voice, radio and film actress (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
- Oct 12 Andre Casanova, composer, born in Paris (d. 2009)
- Oct 12 Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (d. 2007)
- Oct 14 Edward L Feightner, US rear-admiral (WW II-Santa Cruz Islands)
- Oct 15 Edwin C Tubb, Brits sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall)
- Oct 15 Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head (MI5)
- Oct 15 Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (d. 1985)
- Oct 16 Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
- Oct 17 John Moroney, cricketer (Australian opener 1949-51)
- Oct 17 Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
Pierre Trudeau
Oct 18 Pierre Trudeau, 15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2000)
Pierre Trudeau
- Oct 18 Anita O'Day (born Anita Belle Colton), jazz singer , born in Chicago, Illinois
- Oct 18 Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
- Oct 18 Camilla Williams, Danville, Virginia, operatic soprano, (d. 2012)
- Oct 20 Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
- Oct 21 Claire Sterling, journalist
- Oct 21 Daniel John Chapman Cunningham, physiologist
- Oct 22 Doris Lessing, Iranian novelist (Adore, Memoirs of a Survivor, Golden Notebook), born in Kermanshah, Iran (d. 2013)
- Oct 22 Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001)
- Oct 23 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist who discovered ancient royal Macedonian tombs in northern Greece, born in Bursa, Ottoman Empire (d. 1992)
- Oct 23 Katie Lee, American folk singer, environmentalist and author (Colorado River Songs), born in Aledo, Illinois (d. 2017)
- Oct 24 Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Oct 25 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran (Persia) (1941-79), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 1980)
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Edward W. Brooke
Oct 26 Edward W. Brooke, 1st African American senator in over 80 yrs (Sen-R-Mass), born in Washington D.C. (d. 2015)
Edward W. Brooke