- Oct 6 Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42
- Oct 18 Harry Parry, Welsh jazz clarinetist and bandleader (BBC's Radio Rhythm Club), dies at 44
- Oct 19 Isham Jones, American saxophonist, bandleader ("Star Dust") and songwriter ("It Had To Be You"; "I'll See You in My Dreams"), dies of cancer at 62
- Oct 26 Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist, composer, and lepidopterist, dies at 60
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