Nat Turner (1800-1831)
Oct 2 American leader of a major slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831, born in Southampton County, Virginia
George Bancroft (1800-1891)
Oct 3 American historian (History of the United States), born in Worcester Massachusetts
- Oct 25 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet (Ivy), historian (The History of England), and politician (British India education reform), born in Leicestershire, England (d. 1859)
- Oct 26 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian general and fieldmarshal, born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1891)
- Oct 27 Benjamin Franklin Wade, American politician, US Senator from Ohio (1851-69), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1878)