- Oct 1 Robert Clark, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1819-21), dies at 60
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837)
Oct 5 French Queen of Holland (1806-10), dies at 54
- Oct 6 Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer, noted for his operas and oratorios, dies at 77
- Oct 9 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
- Oct 10 Charles Fourier, French philosopher and early Socialist (credited with inventing term 'feminism'), dies at 65
- Oct 11 Samuel Wesley, British organist and composer referred to as "The English Mozart" (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
- Oct 12 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1815-37), dies at 62
- Oct 15 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (Minister of Justice, 1810-14), and poet ("Liberation of Moscow"), dies at 77
- Oct 17 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
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