- Oct 16 Gaetano Capocci, Italian organist and composer (Responsori), born in Rome (d. 1898)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Oct 22 Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), born in Raiding, Hungary
- Oct 24 Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1885)