- Oct 5 Joseph Vezina, composer, dies at 75
- Oct 5 Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1), dies
- Oct 6 Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
- Oct 7 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71
- Oct 9 Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
- Oct 12 Monroe Althouse, American composer, dies at 71
- Oct 12 Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault], French writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921), dies at 80
- Oct 21 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, Belgian composer, dies at 76
- Oct 29 Frances Hodgson Burnett, British born American playwright and children's author ("Little Lord Fauntleroy"), dies at 74