Editing 1941 (section)

===October===
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Louis Brandeis]], U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. [[1856]])
* [[October 8]]
** [[Gus Kahn]], German songwriter (b. [[1886]])
** [[Valentine O'Hara]], Irish author (b. [[1875]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Helen Morgan (singer)|Helen Morgan]], American singer and actress (b. [[1900]])
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Eileen Andjelkovitch]], British violinist, music educator, and musical director (b. [[1896]])
* [[October 16]] 
** [[Sergei Efron]], Russian poet and secret police operative (executed) (b. [[1893]])
** [[Žanis Bahs]], Latvian military general (b.[[1885]])
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Manuel Teixeira Gomes]], 7th President of Portugal (b. [[1860]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Robert Delaunay]], French painter (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 26]]
** [[Arkady Gaidar]], Russian soldier and children's story writer (killed in action) (b. [[1904]])
** [[Victor Schertzinger]], American composer, director (b. [[1888]])
* [[October 28]]
** 20 Soviet military officers and politicians executed in Kuybyshev:
*** [[Pavel Rychagov]] (b. [[1911]])
*** [[Grigori Shtern]] (b. [[1900]])
*** [[Yakov Smushkevich]] (b. [[1902]])
*** [[Filipp Goloshchekin]] (b. [[1876]])
*** [[Mikhail Kedrov (politician)|Mikhail Kedrov]] (b. [[1878]])
*** [[Aleksandr Loktionov]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Károly Huszár]], 25th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. [[1882]])
** [[Alexander Afinogenov]], Russian and Soviet playwright (b. [[1904]])