- Oct 9 Jackie Milburn, English soccer striker (13 caps; Newcastle United 353 games), dies from lung cancer at 64
- Oct 13 Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY
- Oct 14 Vic Raschi, American baseball pitcher (4 × MLB All-Star; 6 × World Series; AL strikeout leader 1951; NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 69
- Oct 24 Henry Armstrong, American boxer (world featherweight, lightweight, welterweight [19 x title defences] champion), dies at 75
- Oct 24 Sumner White, American sailor (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 58
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