Births
- October 1 – Bruno Klopfer, German psychologist (d. 1971)
- October 1 – Tom Goddard, legendary English cricketer, in Gloucester (d. 1966)
- October 3 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 1938)
- October 6 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer famed as all-rounder, at Newark-on-Trent; (d. 1961)
- October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Reichsführer-SS, in Munich; committed suicide following arrest, (d. 1945)
- October 14 – W. Edwards Deming, the "Father of Quality Management", in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 1993)
- October 15 – Mervyn LeRoy, award winning film director, in San Francisco; (d. 1987)
- October 20 – Wayne Morse, United States Senator from Oregon (1945–1969), one of the original opponents of the Vietnam War; in Madison, Wisconsin (d. 1974)
- October 30 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967, in Vantaa; (d. 1991)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)