- Oct 5 Halfdan Cleve [née Klewe], Norwegian pianist and composer, born in Kongsberg, Norway (d. 1951)
- Oct 7 Joe Hill [Joel Hägglund], Swedish-American labor activist and protest songwriter ("The Preacher and the Slave"; "There Is Power in a Union"), born in Jevla, Sweden (d. 1915)
- Oct 7 Joseph Bovet, Swiss composer and conductor (Fribourg folk music), born in Sâles, Switzerland (d. 1951)
- Oct 13 Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor and composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), born in Zaltbommel, the Netherlands (d. 1954)
- Oct 18 Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish violinist/conductor/composer, born in Daugavpils, Russian Empire (now Latvia); (d. 1953)
- Oct 21 Joseph Canteloube, French composer and musicologist (collected French folksongs), born in Annonay, France (d. 1957)
- Oct 25 Jean Rogister, Belgian virtuoso violist and composer, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1964)
- Oct 25 Mayhew Lester Lake, American composer, born in Southville, Massachusetts (d. 1955)
- Oct 28 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, Spanish composer, born in Madrid (d. 1953)
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