- Oct 5 Gloria Grahame [Hallward], American actress (Crossfire; Sudden Fear; Rich Man, Poor Man), dies of peritonitis and cancer at 57
- Oct 5 Jud Strunk, American singer-songwriter ("Daisy a Day"), and comedian (Laugh-In), dies of aheart attack while piloting a private plane in Maine at 45
- Oct 13 Nils Asther 'the male Greta Garbo', Swedish actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
- Oct 15 Frank DeKova, American actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies at 71
- Oct 16 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
- Oct 21 Karel Šrom, Czech composer, musicologist, critic, and broadcaster, dies at 77
- Oct 22 Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies
- Oct 24 Deborah Baltzell, actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
- Oct 27 John Warburton, British actor (Saratoga Trunk, King Rat, Cavalcade), dies at 82
- Oct 30 Georges Brassens, French poet and singer-songwriter (Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète), dies of cancer at 60
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