- Oct 2 José Mariano Elízaga, Mexican composer, dies at 56
- Oct 2 William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian preacher and clergyman, dies at 62
- Oct 8 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (Ludlam’s Hule), dies at 68
- Oct 19 Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
- Oct 20 Grace Darling, English heroine who saved shipwreck survivors, dies of tuberculosis at 26
- Oct 24 Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (Supreme Director of Chile 1817-23), dies at 64
- Oct 30 Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author, dies at 57
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