- Oct 4 John Lowry, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall), dies at 79
- Oct 17 (Henry) "Rubberlegs" Williams, American vaudeville dancer, and blues and jazz singer, dies at 55
- Oct 28 Pierre Froidebise, Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 48
- Oct 29 Siegfried Salomon, Danish composer, dies at 77
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