* October 23 – Eugène Grasset, Swiss artist ( b. 1845 )

Eugène Samuel Grasset ( 25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917 ) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque.

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

In Nax Mont-Noble, a little ski resort situated on 1300 metres in the Swiss Alps, construction for the Maya Guesthouse started in October 2011.

In October 2008, the Swiss Hornet fleet reached the 50, 000 flight hour milestone.

* October 10 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor ( died 1966 )

* October 17 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian ( d. 1687 )

* October 30 – Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, Nobel laureate ( b. 1828 )

* October 12 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1873 )

* October 23 – Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1857 )

* October 6 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect ( d. 1965 )

* October 6 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor ( d. 1960 )

* October 21 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1759 )

* October 10 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer ( in battle ) ( born 1484 )

* October 1 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman ( d. 1617 )

* October 25 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer ( d. 1830 )

* October 11 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist ( b. 1724 )

* October 17 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist ( b. 1723 )

* October 3 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman ( b. 1576 )

* October 16 – Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist ( d. 1777 )

* October 14 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer ( b. 1488 )

In the afternoon of October 23, volunteers consisting of about 300 " foreign police " officers ( mostly Swiss ) for about an hour defended themselves in the midst of vineyards and twice counterattacked with the bayonet.

After an 11-year engagement, Vittorio Emanuele married Swiss biscuit heiress and world-ranked water skier Marina Ricolfi-Doria in Tehran on 7 October 1971, at the occasion of the 2, 500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy.

Opening October 31, 1962, Willem de Kooning's New York art dealer, the Sidney Janis Gallery, organized the groundbreaking International Exhibition of the New Realists, a survey of new to the scene American Pop, French, Swiss, Italian New Realism, and British Pop art.

Johann Georg Baiter ( May 31, 1801 – October 10, 1877 ) was a Swiss philologist and textual critic.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ( 11 October 1825 – 28 November 1898 ) was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of realism chiefly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like " Die Füße im Feuer " ( The Feet in the Fire ).

Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through October 2011 are at 68, 561, 000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era ( since 1991 ), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles.

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

Maya Ying Lin ( born October 5, 1959 ) is an American architectural designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art.

Falk was an accomplished artist, and in October 2006 he had an exhibition of his artwork at the Butler Institute of American Art.

Ronald William " Josh " Kirby ( 27 November 1928 – 23 October 2001 ) was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside.

Nixon continued drawing it until his death in October 2002, though due to the strips being drawn months in advance, his strips continued appearing in the Beano until the end of January 2003 when artist Barrie Appleby took over.

His first marriage was to artist Deborah Lee on October 3, 1965.

William Morris ( 24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896 ) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement.

* October 5 – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic artist

* October 28 – Onofrio Catacchio, Italian artist

* October 31 – Egon Schiele, Austrian artist ( b. 1890 )

* October 12 – Piero della Francesca, Italian artist ( b. c. 1412 )

* October 11 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist and writer ( d. 2011 )

* October 31 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor and voice-over artist

* October 8 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist ( b. 1907 )

* October 24 – Mark Walton ( story artist ) American story artist, actor

* October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist ( b. 1887 )

* October 6 – Mark Shasha, American artist, author, illustrator

* October 11 – Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and builds Mississippi's first permanent rodeo arena at Columbia, Mississippi.

* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist ( b. 1863 )

* October 4 – Frederic S. Remington, cowboy artist and sculptor ( d. 1909 )

* October 13 – Terry Frost, English artist ( d. 2003 )