- Oct 15 Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese film score composer (Rashomon; Seven Samurai), dies of tuberculosis at 41
- Oct 20 Eino Roiha, Finnish pianist, composer, and musicologist dies at 51
- Oct 26 Arne Eggen, Norwegian composer, dies at 74
- Oct 27 Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer, dies at 66
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