- Oct 9 John Heemskerk, Dutch politician (Minister of the Interior 1866-88), dies at 79
- Oct 11 Leon Boelmann, French organist/composer (Suite Gothique), dies at 35
- Oct 17 Isidor Dannström, Swedish composer, dies at 84
- Oct 19 George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
- Oct 21 Paul Kuczynski, Polish composer, dies at 50
- Oct 24 Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet (Golden Treasury), dies at 73
- Oct 27 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, granddaughter of George III, grandmother of Edward VIII and George VI and great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, dies at 63
- Oct 28 Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (Ceylon, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa), dies at 72