Editing 1969 (section)

===October===
[[File:Sonja Henie 1936.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sonja Henie]]]]
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* [[October 3]] – [[Skip James]], American blues singer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Tony |last=Russell |year=1997 |title=The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray |publisher=Carlton Books |location=Dubai |page=123 |isbn=1-85868-255-X}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[Walter Hagen]], American golf champion (b. [[1892]])
* [[October 7]]
** [[Natalya Lisenko]], Russian actress (b. [[1884]])
** [[Ture Nerman]], Swedish communist leader (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://snl.no/Ture_Nerman |title=Ture Nerman |first=Helge |last=Giverholt |date=August 23, 2023 |via=Store norske leksikon}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] – [[Sonja Henie]], Norwegian figure skater (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Leonard Chess]], Polish-American record company executive, co-founder of [[Chess Records]] (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Jack Kerouac]], American author (b. [[1922]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/what-hollywood-gets-wrong-about-jack-kerouac-and-the-beat-generation/280612/ |title=What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation |last=Larson |first=Jordan |work=The Atlantic |access-date=September 12, 2017}}</ref>
** [[Wacław Sierpiński]], Polish mathematician (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Vittorio Tur]], Italian admiral (b. [[1882]])<ref>[http://www.difesa.it/Area_Storica_HTML/editoria/2016/uomini-mm/Pagine/files/basic-html/page527.html Biographical Dictionary Men of the Navy.]</ref>
* [[October 23]] - [[Tommy Edwards]], American singer-songwriter (b. [[1922]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Gyula Mándi]], Hungarian footballer and manager (b. [[1899]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich]], 34th [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1907]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río]], 26th [[President of Ecuador]], leader during [[World War II]] (b. [[1893]])