- Oct 2 José Maria de Heredia, Cuban-French sonnet poet (Les Trophées), dies at 62
- Oct 6 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and explorer, dies at 72
- Oct 13 Henry Irving [John Brodribb], British Victorian actor, 1st actor to receive a knighthood (knighted 1895) and the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, dies at 67
- Oct 21 José Teodor Vilar, Spanish organist and composer (La Rambla de les Flors), dies at 69
- Oct 28 Alphonse Allais, French humorist and author (Le chat noir), dies at 51
- Oct 29 Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
- Oct 29 Hendrik Witbooi, Nama chief (modern Namibia) who resisted German colonial control (pioneered ideas of Pan-Africanism), dies fighting (born c. 1835) [1]
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