Mata Hari (1876-1917)
Oct 15 Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and convicted German WWI spy, executed by firing squad at 41
Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917)
Oct 22 English boxer (first 3-division world champion; Middleweight 1981-96, Light Heavyweight 1903, Heavyweight 1897-99), dies from pneumonia at 54
- Oct 27 Arthur Rhys-Davids, English flying ace (WW I), dies at 20
- Oct 28 Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
- Oct 31 Tibby Cotter, Australian cricket fast bowler and soldier (21 Tests, 49 wickets), dies in world's last successful cavalry charge, 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba at 33
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