- Oct 1 Geoff Stephens, English songwriter and record producer (The New Vaudeville Band - "Winchester Cathedral", "There's a Kind of Hush), born in New Southgate, England (d. 2020)
- Oct 3 Benjamin Boretz, American composer, and musicologist, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Oct 7 Amiri Baraka [Everett Leroy Jones], American poet (Somebody Blew Up America), writer (Black Music), and music critic, born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2014)
- Oct 7 Feliksas Bajoras, Lithuanian composer (Mourning Music; Exodus I), born in Alytus, Lithuania
- Oct 13 Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer (Try to Remember), born in Chania, Crete, Greece
- Oct 15 Alan Elsdon, British jazz trumpeter, flugel horn player (Midnite Follies Orchestra), and bandleader, born in London, England (d. 2016)
- Oct 15 N. Ramani, Indian flutist, born in Tiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2015)
- Oct 17 Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez, Jamaican ska trombonist (The Specials), born in Kingston (d. 2015)
- Oct 19 Dave Guard, American folk singer, songwriter and arranger (Kingston Trio - "Tom Dooley"), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1991)
- Oct 20 Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist and composer ("Freedom Jazz Dance"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1996)
- Oct 22 Donald McIntyre, New Zealand operatic bass-baritone (Das Rheingold - "Wotan"), born in Auckland, New Zealand
- Oct 23 Lewis Merenstein, American record producer (Miriam Makeba; Van Morrison's Astral Weeks; Glass Harp), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2016)
- Oct 26 Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster; Harmonia), born in Berlin
- Oct 26 Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer who created jazz arrangements of Bach and other classical music, born in Angers, France (d. 2019)
- Oct 27 Barre Phillips, American jazz double bassist, based in France, born in San Francisco, California
- Oct 27 Ivan Jullien, French jazz and session trumpeter and bandleader, born in Vincennes, France (d. 2015)
- Oct 29 Pim Jacobs, Dutch jazz pianist, TV host and actor (Gilas), born in Hilversum, Netherlands (d. 1996)
- Oct 29 Ramon Sender, Spanish composer and visual artist (San Francisco Tape Music Center), born in Madrid, Spain
- Oct 29 Robert E Hughes, American conductor and composer (Rich Little Show), born in Buffalo, New York
- Oct 30 Frans Brüggen, Dutch flautist, recorder player, and conductor (Orchestra of the 18th Century), born in Amsterdam (d. 2014)
- Oct 31 Walter Steffens, German composer, born in Burtscheid, Aachen, Germany
About October 1934
How Old? 89 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Leap Year: No
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