- Oct 1 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor, dies at 67
- Oct 1 Lee Richmond, American baseball pitcher (first ever MLB perfect game, 1880), dies at 72
Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929)
Oct 3 German chancellor (1923) who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926, dies of a stroke at 51
- Oct 3 Jeanne Eagels, American actress and former Ziegfeld Girl (Rain, Under False Colors), dies of a drug overdose at 39
- Oct 12 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52
- Oct 20 José Batlle y Ordóñez, President of Uruguay (1899, 1903-7, 1911-15), dies at 73
- Oct 20 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms), dies at 76
- Oct 21 Owen Dunell, South African cricket batsman (South Africa's 1st Test captain; 2 Tests), dies at 73
- Oct 22 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), dies at 69
- Oct 23 Thomas Frederick Tout, British historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
- Oct 24 Moorfield Storey, American lawyer, pacifist, civil rights leader (co-founder of NAACP & president, 1909-29), dies at 84
- Oct 24 Peter J. Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People), dies at 74
- Oct 25 James Lillywhite, English cricket slow bowler (1st England Test captain; 2 Tests, 8 wickets; Sussex CCC) and umpire (6 Tests 1881–99), dies at 87
- Oct 26 Arno Holz, German writer (Phantasus), dies at 66
Bernhard von Bülow (1849-1929)
Oct 28 Chancellor of the German Empire (1900-09), dies at 80
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