- Oct 10 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (Prince Serebrenni), dies at 58
- Oct 12 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
- Oct 19 Charles Wheatstone, English scientist (sound transmission), and inventor (English concertina; stereoscope; Playfair cipher), dies at 75
- Oct 24 Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
- Oct 28 William Howard Glover, English composer, dies at 56