- Oct 3 Alfred Reisenauer, German pianist and composer, dies at 43
- Oct 4 Alfredo Keil, Portuguese composer, dies at 57
- Oct 8 Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
- Oct 9 Romualdo Marenco, Italian composer, chiefly of ballet music (Excelsior), and conductor, dies at 66
- Oct 20 Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
- Oct 21 Jules Chevalier, French Roman Catholic priest (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart), dies at 83
- Oct 25 Edmund Hart Turpin, English composer, dies at 72
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