Events in Music
- Oct 4 "All the Right Reasons", fifth studio album by Nickelback, is released
Weddings in Music
- Oct 2 Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter Evhenya Tymoshenko weds "Death Valley Screamers" musician Sean Carr at 11th century Vydubychi Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine
- Oct 9 Savage Garden musician Daniel Jones (32) weds "Hi-5" member Kathleen De Leon at Avica Weddings and Resort on the Gold Coast in Queensland
Wedding of Interest
Oct 9 Italian pop singer Alexia (38) weds Giorgio Armani's nephew Andrea Camerana at Church of San Martino in Piacenza, Italy
Giorgio Armani
Deaths in Music
- Oct 4 Michael "Mike" Gibbins, Welsh musician (Badfinger), dies from a brain aneurysm at 56
- Oct 16 "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
- Oct 16 David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
- Oct 19 Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
- Oct 20 Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
- Oct 22 Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
- Oct 28 Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
- Oct 31 John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)