- Oct 3 Hamilton Prioleau Bee, American politician in Texas and Brigadier Confederate Army general, dies at 75
- Oct 8 Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter, dies at 67
- Oct 8 Martin Pluddemann, German composer, dies at 43
- Oct 9 John Heemskerk, Dutch politician (Minister of the Interior 1866-88), dies at 79
- Oct 11 Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (Variations Symphoniques; Suite Gothique), dies at 35
- Oct 17 Isidor Dannström, Swedish composer, dies at 84
- Oct 19 George Pullman, American industrialist and inventor (railway sleeping car), dies at 66
- Oct 21 Paul Kuczynski, Polish composer, dies at 50
- Oct 24 Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet (Golden Treasury), dies at 73
- Oct 27 Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, granddaughter of George III, grandmother of Edward VIII and George VI and great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, dies at 63
- Oct 28 Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (Ceylon, Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa), dies at 72
- Oct 29 Henry George, American politician economist and land reformer (Progress & Poverty), dies after a stroke at 58
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