- Oct 6 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer, born in Cairo Montenotte, Italy (d. 1910)
- Oct 8 John Hay, American politician and statesman who was a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and US Secretary of State (1898-1905), born in Salem, Indiana (d. 1905)
- Oct 22 Carl Fuchs, German composer and musician, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1922)