Editing 1956 (section)

=== October ===
[[File:Risto Ryti.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Risto Ryti]]]]
* [[October 2]] – [[George Bancroft (actor)|George Bancroft]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Charles E. Merrill]], American banker, co-founder of [[Merrill Lynch]] (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-E-Merrill|title=Charles E. Merrill &#124; American businessman &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=October 15, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[October 9]] – [[Marie Doro]], American actress (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Lorenzo Perosi]], Italian composer (b. [[1872]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Jules Richard (mathematician)|Jules Richard]], French mathematician (b. [[1862]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Jules Rimet]], French football administrator, 3rd [[president of FIFA]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Anne Crawford]], British actress (b. [[1920]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Isham Jones]], American musician (b. [[1894]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Hannah Mitchell]], English socialist and suffragette (b. [[1872]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Risto Ryti]], 23rd [[Prime Minister of Finland|prime minister of Finland]] and 5th [[president of Finland]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Walter Gieseking]], French-born German pianist (b. [[1895]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Pío Baroja]], Spanish novelist (b. [[1872]])