- Oct 4 Avis Bunnage, British actress (Rising Damp, Coronation Street), dies at 67
- Oct 4 Jill Bennett, British actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle), overdoses at 58
- Oct 9 Richard Murdoch, actor (Lilli Marlene), dies of a heart attack at 83
- Oct 10 Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67
- Oct 11 Douglas Edwards, American newscaster (CBS Evening News, FYI), dies of cancer at 73
- Oct 11 Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56
- Oct 12 Max Tailleur, Dutch adjudant to Prince Bernhard and Jewish humorist, dies at 81
- Oct 13 Hans Freudenthal, German-Dutch mathematician and director (OW&OC), dies at 85
- Oct 15 Delphine Seyrig, French actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages), dies of lung disease at 58
- Oct 20 Joel McCrea, American actor (Foreign Correspondent, Sullivan's Travels), dies of pulmonary complications at 84
- Oct 26 William Samuel Paley, American president and CEO of CBS (1928-90), dies of a heart attack at 89
- Oct 27 Jacques Demy, French film director and screenwriter (Lola; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Donkey Skin), dies of AIDS at 59
- Oct 27 Ugo Tognazzi, Italian comedy actor, director and screenwriter (La Cage Aux Folles, The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 68
- Oct 30 Harry Lauter, American actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Waterfront), dies of heart failure at 76
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