- Oct 2 Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them
- Oct 12 Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
- Oct 18 Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63
- Oct 18 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque painter, dies at 85
- Oct 26 John Jenkins, English composer, dies at about 86