- Oct 17 Jane Poupelet, French sculptor and graphic artist (la bande à Schnegg), dies at 58
- Oct 18 Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
- Oct 18 William E. Upjohn, American physician who invented dissolvable pills (Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company), dies at 79 [1]
- Oct 19 Arthur Friedheim, Russian composer, dies at 72
- Oct 19 Lindley M. Garrison, American lawyer and 46th U.S. Secretary of War (1913-16), dies at 67
- Oct 22 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, American Quaker orator, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, writer, and mountaineer, dies of a stroke at 89
- Oct 29 Joseph Babinski, Polish-French neurologist (Babinski reflex), dies at 74
- Oct 30 Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, English army officer (Governor of Natal and Malta) dies at 87
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