- Oct 5 Joseph Vézina, Canadian conductor (Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, 1902-24), and composer (Le Rajah), dies at 75
- Oct 5 Tom Campbell, South African cricket wicket keeper (5 Tests, 8 dismissals), dies in a railway accident at 42
- Oct 6 Jacques Oppenheim, lawyer, dies at 75
- Oct 7 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie), 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