- Oct 1 Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
- Oct 3 Tula, leader of Curacaose slave uprising, executed
- Oct 7 Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Swiss philosophical author and physician, dies at 66
- Oct 8 Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, dies at 70
- Oct 10 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian, dies at 81
- Oct 13 William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier ("Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes"), dies at 69