Editing 1947 (section)

===October===
[[File:Max Planck 1933.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Max Planck]]]]

* [[October 1]] 
** [[Olive Borden]], American actress (b. [[1907]])
** [[Gregorio Martinez Sierra]], Spanish writer, poet, dramatist and director (b. [[1881]])
* [[October 2]] – [[P. D. Ouspensky]], Soviet mathematician (b. [[1878]])
* [[October 3]]
** [[Ernest L. Riebau]], American politician (b. [[1895]])
** [[Traian Brăileanu]], [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]]-born Romanian sociologist and politician (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Max Planck]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1858]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Leevi Madetoja]], Finnish composer (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Arshak Fetvadjian]], Armenian artist, painter and designer (b. [[1866]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Jo Mora]], Uruguayan-born American cartoonist (b. [[1876]])
* [[October 12]]
** [[James Farley (actor)|James Farley]], American actor (b. [[1882]])
** [[Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton|Sir Ian Hamilton]], British general (b. [[1853]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield]], British economist, social reformer (b. [[1859]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Osmond Brock]], British Royal Navy officer (b. [[1869]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Anna B. Eckstein]], German peace campaigner (b. [[1868]])
* [[October 17]] – [[John Halliday (actor)|John Halliday]], American actor (b. [[1880]])
* [[October 18]] 
** [[Harry C. Bradley (actor)|Harry C. Bradley]], American actor (b. [[1869]])
** [[Massimo Terzano]], Italian cinematographer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Murder of Gay Gibson|Gay Gibson]], British actress and murder victim (b. [[1926]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Albert Howard|Sir Albert Howard]], English botanist and organic farming pioneer (b. [[1873]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[Carl Shelton]], American gangster (b. [[1888]])
** [[Martin Fiebig]], German [[Luftwaffe]] general convicted of war crimes (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Dudley Digges (actor)|Dudley Digges]], Irish actor (b. [[1879]])
* [[October 27]] – [[María Teresalina Sánchez]], Spanish [[Franciscan]] religious sister, missionary and martyr (b. [[1918]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Frances Cleveland]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[October 30]] – [[John Joseph Cantwell]], Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church (b. [[1874]])