- Oct 3 Roy Webb, American film score composer (films of Val Lewton), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1982)
- Oct 6 Max Butting, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1976)
- Oct 7 Cecil Coles, Scottish organist and composer (Behind the Lines), born in Tongland, Scotland (d. 1918)
- Oct 11 Piero Coppola, Italian conductor, artistic director (La Voix de son Maître (The Gramophone Company - France), 1923-34). pianist, and composer, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1971)
- Oct 14 Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1942)
- Oct 31 Harold Vincent Milligan, American musician and composer, born in Astoria, Oregon (d. 1951)
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