- Oct 20 Victor de Stuers, Dutch art historian (saved Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pear Earring"), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1916)
- Oct 21 Mark Antokolsky, Russian sculptor (Peter the Great monument), born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1902)
- Oct 22 Stephen Babcock, American agricultural chemist (Babcock test and father of scientific dairying), born in Oneida County, New York (d. 1931)