Editing 1951 (section)

===October===
[[File:Liaquat Ali Khan.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Liaquat Ali Khan]]]]
* [[October 4]] – [[Henrietta Lacks]], American originator of the [[HeLa]] [[cell (biology)|cell]] line (b. [[1920]])
* [[October 6]] 
** [[Will Keith Kellogg]], American industrialist, founder of the [[Kellogg Company]] (b. [[1860]])
** [[Otto Fritz Meyerhof]], German-born physician and biochemist (b. [[1884]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Leon Errol]], Australian-born actor and comedian (b. [[1881]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Herman Charles Bosman]], South African writer and journalist (b. 1905)
* [[October 16]]
** [[Liaquat Ali Khan]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (assassinated) (b. [[1895]])
** [[Saad Akbar Babrak]], Afghan assassin (b. [[1921]] or [[1922]])
* [[October 17]] – [[József Farkas (politician)|József Farkas]], Hungarian nobleman, jurist and politician (b. [[1857]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Fernando Poe Sr.]], Filipino actor (b. [[1916]])
* [[October 24]]
** [[Al Baker (magician)|Al Baker]], American magician (b. [[1874]])
** [[Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland]] (b. [[1861]])
** [[Clarence Stewart Williams]], American admiral (b. [[1863]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Amélie of Orléans]], [[Queen consort of Portugal]] (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 26]]
** [[William S. Finucane]], American businessman and politician (b. [[1888]])
** [[Óscar Pérez Solís]], Spanish artillery officer, engineer, jurist and politician (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Mady Christians]], Austrian actress (b. [[1892]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Nam Cao]], Vietnamese short story write and novelist (b. [[1915]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Gustav Smedal]], Norwegian jurist (b. [[1888]])