Famous people and celebrities who died in October 1918

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in October 1918. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Oct. 5 Roland Garros

  Renowned French tennis player who has a major tennis tournament named after him.

• Oct. 7 C Hubert H Parry

  Engl musicologist/composer (jerusalem), he dies at age 70

• Oct. 9 Michail V Alekseyev

  Russian general (wwi), killed at 60

• Oct. 10 Henry Dobson

  Australian politician, 17th premier of tasmania (b. 1841)

• Oct. 13 Gerrit Engelke

  German writer (briefer der liebe)

• Oct. 15 Sai Baba of Shirdi

  Indian religious figure (born c. 1838)

• Oct. 16 Felix Arndt

  29 years old, composer

• Oct. 17 Malak Hifni Nasif

  Egyptian poet and author (b. 1886)

• Oct. 19 Harold Lockwood

  American actor and director (d. 1918).

• Oct. 19 Joseph Lesage

  French painter/etcher (wwii), dies at 34

• Oct. 22 Myrtle Gonzalez

  American actress on stage and film (born in 1891)

• Oct. 24 Alexander Charles Lecocq

  Composer dies at 86

• Oct. 28 Ulisse Dini

  Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

• Oct. 29 Rudolf Tobias

  Estonian-german organist and composer (b. 1873)

• Oct. 31 Egon Schiele

  Austrian expressionist painter and draftsman, as well as a printmaker, is known for his eroticism in his figurative works.

• Oct. 31 Stephen Tisza

  Hungarian prime minister (1917), assassinated in a gun battle by soldiers