Events in Music
- Oct 21 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres
Birthdays in Music
- Oct 3 Boldizsar Csiky, composer
- Oct 3 Ton de Kruyf, composer
- Oct 9 Pat Burke, rocker (Foundations)
- Oct 16 Emile Ford, singer and engineer (first black male singer to top UK charts), born in Castries, St Lucia (d. 2016)
- Oct 20 Wanda Jackson, Maud Oklahoma, country singer (Let's Have a Party)
- Oct 21 Norman Wright, rocker (Del-Vikings)
- Oct 22 Tadeas Salva, composer
- Oct 22 Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
- Oct 24 Miguel Angel Coria, composer
- Oct 29 Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
- Oct 31 Tom Paxton, American folk singer and songwriter (Forest Lawn), born in Chicago, Illinois
Deaths in Music
- Oct 9 August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72