Editing 1971 (section)

===October===
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* [[October 3]] – [[Leah Baird]], American actress (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Cyril Burt|Sir Cyril Burt]], British educational psychologist (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Chester Conklin]], American actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[October 12]]
** [[Dean Acheson]], 51st [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1893]])
** [[Gene Vincent]], American singer (b. [[1935]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Robert Accard]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Sergey Kavtaradze]], Soviet politician and diplomat (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Betty Bronson]], American actress (b. [[1906]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Raymond Hatton]], American actor (b. [[1887]])
** [[Naoya Shiga]], Japanese writer (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Carl Ruggles]], American composer (b. [[1876]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Duane Allman]], American rock guitarist, co-founder and leader of the [[Allman Brothers Band]] (b. [[1946]])
** [[Arne Tiselius]], Swedish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])