- Oct 2 R. Nathaniel Dett, Canadian-American pianist, organist, choral director, and composer (In The Bottoms), dies of a heart attack while on tour with the USO at 60
- Oct 5 Leon Roppolo, American early jazz clarinetist, dies at 41
- Oct 22 Josef Venantius von Woss, Austrian composer, dies at 80
- Oct 27 Béla Reinitz, Hungarian composer, dies at 64
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