- Oct 5 Charles Napier, American actor (Night Stalker, Rambo), dies at 75
- Oct 6 Diane Cilento, Australian actress (Agony & Ecstasy, Wicker Man), dies at 79
- Oct 7 George Baker, Bulgarian-born British actor (I, Claudius, Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly), dies at 80
- Oct 9 Mark Kingston, English actor (Intimate Contact), dies at 77
- Oct 12 Heinz Bennent, German actor (Possession, The Serpent's Egg), dies at 90
- Oct 12 Patricia Breslin, American television and film actress dies at 80
- Oct 12 Peter Hammond, British actor and director (The Buccaneers, King of the Castle), dies at 87
- Oct 13 Barbara Kent, Canadian born - U.S. silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars (b.1907)
- Oct 15 Elizabeth "Betty" Driver, British singer and actress (Coronation Street; Pardon the Expression), dies from pneumonia at 91
- Oct 18 Norman Corwin, American screenwriter for radio drama, dies at 101
- Oct 23 Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry (Nobel 1985), dies at 94
- Oct 25 Anna van Beers [Graeve], Dutch actress (A Woman like Eve, Diary of a Hooker), dies at 95
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