Composers born in October
- Anton Cajetan Adlgasser (1729), Árpád Balázs (1937), Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724), Héctor Campos-Parsi (1922), Henry Clay Work (1832), Herman David Koppel (1908), Johannes Matthias Michel (1962), Johannes Rufinatscha (1819), John Mackey (1973), Karl Rankl (1898), Lajos Bárdos (1899), Leonid Sabaneyev (1881), Mogens Winkel Holm (1936), Morris Rosenzweig (1952), Ödön Pártos (1907), Paul Dukas (1865), Pierre Baillot (1771), Pozzi Escot (1953), Ricardo Castillo (1891), Sachin Dev Burman (1906), Shin’ichi Matsushita (1922), Sylvano Bussotti (1931), Theodor Albin Findeisen (1881), Vladimir Horowitz (1903)
- Bruce Montgomery (1921), Carsten Bo Eriksen (1973), Django Bates (1960), Evgeni Orkin (1977), Faye-Ellen Silverman (1947), Francis Jackson (1917), František Tůma (1704), Gunnar Wennerberg (1817), Günter Kochan (1930), Heinrich Werner (1800), Henry Février (1875), John W. Duarte (1919), Kenneth Leighton (1929), Leroy Shield (1893), Mary Jeanne van Appledorn (1927), Mauricio Sotelo (1961), Otmar Mácha (1922), Phill Niblock (1933), Pierre Cogen (1931), Walther Aeschbacher (1901), Will C. Macfarlane (1870)
- Alfred Janson (1937), Antoine Dauvergne (1713), Benjamin Boretz (1934), Cipriani Potter (1792), David MacBride (1951), Erik Hojsgaard (1954), Helmut W. Erdmann (1947), Jefferson Friedman (1974), Joseph Noyon (1888), Juan Sebastián Lach Lau (1970), Karol Szymanowski (1882), Masao Ohki (1901), Roy Webb (1888), Sebastian Anton Scherer (1631), Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1923), Steve Reich (1936), Tristan Keuris (1946), Woldemar Bargiel (1828)
- Alan Theisen (1981), Albert de Klerk (1917), Alfonso Letelier (1912), David Dzubay (1964), Domenico Corri (1746), Ernesto de Curtis (1875), Francisco Guerrero (1528), Jean-Louis Duport (1749), Jesse Jones (1978), Larry Alan Smith (1955), Richard Parry (1977), Steve Swallow (1940), Varvara Gaigerova (1903)
- Cyril Rootham (1875), Eduard Franck (1817), Ernst Haberbier (1813), Ethel Mary Boyce (1863), Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743), Halfdan Cleve (1879), Jean-Baptiste Robin (1976), João Noble (1916), John Carmichael (1930), John W. Downey (1927), Malcolm Lockyer (1923), Matilde Salvador (1918), Olallo Morales Wilskman (1874), Sharon Cheslow (1961), Thomas Clausen (1949)
- Albert Methfessel (1785), Balduin Dahl (1834), Benjamin de la Fuente (1969), Boris Mersson (1921), Efrem Podgaits (1949), Elinor Armer (1939), Glenn Branca (1948), Hozan Yamamoto (1937), Jenny Lind (1820), John Thow (1949), Masahiko Satoh (1941), Max Butting (1888), Milton Ager (1893), Otto Siegl (1896), Roland Wiltgen (1957), Settimia Caccini (1591), Stanley Myers (1930), Udo Zimmermann (1943), William Batchelder Bradbury (1816), William Russell (1777), William Vivanco (1975), Zoran Eric (1950)
- Charles Crozat Converse (1832), Feliksas Bajoras (1934), Felix Draeseke (1835), Gabriel Yared (1949), Jack Body (1944), Kenneth Atchley (1954), Luigi Gatti (1740), Marco Beltrami (1966), Phil Ohman (1896), Roman Padlewski (1915), Stephen Rucker (1948), Walter Kubiczeck (1931), William Billings (1746)
- Andrew Thomas (1939), Bruno Mantovani (1974), Carl Amand Mangold (1813), Carl Vine (1954), Clarence Williams (1893), Clemens Schmalstich (1880), Eivind Groven (1901), Emil von Sauer (1862), Friedrich Kiel (1821), Giulio Caccini (1551), Jaime de Casellas (1690), János Vajda (1949), Komitas (1869), Louis Vierne (1870), Michael Abels (1962), Michael Jarrell (1958), Otto Winter-Hjelm (1837), Pierre De Geyter (1848), René Guillou (1903), Rodolfo Sciammarella (1902), Svend Westergaard (1922), Toru Takemitsu (1930), Waldemar Thrane (1790), Walter Kittredge (1834), Walter Schumann (1913)
- Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Alexander Siloti (1863), Andreas Späth (1792), Bedřich Diviš Weber (1766), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Cyril Jenkins (1889), Denis Dufour (1953), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928), Jānis Mediņš (1890), Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727), Johannes S. Sistermanns (1955), Lene Grenager (1969), Rezső Sugár (1919), Roberto Sierra (1953), Roger Goeb (1914), Steve Jablonsky (1970), Susan T. Nelson (1954)
- Arthur De Greef (1862), Étienne Moulinié (1599), Gerónimo Giménez (1854), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Gloria Coates (1938), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), Johnny Green (1908), Lamar Stringfield (1897), Laurence Traiger (1956), Michael Giacchino (1967), Paul Creston (1906), Scott Huston (1916), Sergej Newsky (1972), Simon Lindley (1948), Sten Melin (1957), Stephen Scott (1944), Steve Martland (1959), Thelonious Monk (1917), Thomas Wilson (1927), Vernon Duke (1903), Walter Niemann (1876), Warren Burt (1949), William Augustine Ogden (1841)
- Angelo Mariani (1821), Bonifacius Amerbach (1495), Erwin Koch-Raphael (1949), Friedrich Hegar (1841), Gunnar Thyrestam (1900), Hee Yun Kim (1971), Hyacinthe Klosé (1808), Jakov Gotovac (1895), Jan van Vlijmen (1935), João do Vale (1934), John Cook (1918), John Parsons Beach (1877), Jon Asgeirsson (1928), Leff Pouishnoff (1891), Maurice Decelles (1905), Michael J. Nelson (1964), Pall Ísólfsson (1893), Paul Ambrose (1868), Per-Gunnar Alldahl (1943), Piero Coppola (1888), Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882), Simon Sechter (1788), Xavier Leroux (1863)
- Bernardo Pisano (1490), Carlos López Buchardo (1881), Daryl Runswick (1946), Healey Willan (1880), Henri Mulet (1878), Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen (1882), Jack Gottlieb (1930), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713), John Liptrot Hatton (1809), José Bragato (1915), Kasia Glowicka (1977), Léon Stekke (1904), Liv-Benedicte Bjørneboe (1965), Luis de Freitas Branco (1890), Peter Niedmann (1960), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Raoul Pleskow (1931), Søffren Degen (1816), Stephen Gorbos (1978), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Thomas James Powell (1897), Walter Jurmann (1903), Willy Hess (1906), Wolfgang Fortner (1907), Xosé Lois Foxo (1950)
- Albert Hague (1920), Alexander Keuk (1971), Anselm Hüttenbrenner (1794), Antonio Pasculli (1842), Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (1854), Chitti Babu (1936), Frank Felice (1961), Frans Linnavuori (1880), Gerald Marks (1900), Gösta Nystroem (1890), Harrison Kerr (1897), Hugo Weisgall (1912), Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells (1958), Jens Bjerre Jacobsen (1903), Loris Tjeknavorian (1937), Lyell Cresswell (1944), Marcelle de Manziarly (1899), Moritz Hauptmann (1792), Otto Joachim (1910), Paul Simon (1941), S. Pat Simmerud (1963)
- Alexander Zemlinsky (1871), Alfredo Buenaventura (1938), Anthony Iannaccone (1943), Aylton Escobar (1943), Bernard Hoffer (1934), Bill Justis (1926), Brian Head (1964), Carlo Conti (1796), Ciprian Porumbescu (1853), Constantine Koukias (1965), Ernest Pingoud (1887), Ernst Ludwig Leitner (1943), Hebert Vázquez (1963), José Serrano (1873), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Kalervo Tuukkanen (1909), La Monte Young (1935), Marcus Paus (1979), Pavel Zemek-Novak (1957)
- Alexander Dreyschock (1818), Andriy Shtoharenko (1902), Auguste Blondeau (1786), Augustin Kubizek (1918), Bernhard Crusell (1775), Dag Wirén (1905), Erotides Campos (1896), Frank Ezra Levy (1930), Frank Van der Stucken (1858), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Gordon Young (1919), James Clarke (1957), Jaan Rääts (1932), Kornél Ábrányi (1822), Mathias Spahlinger (1944), Muammer Sun (1932), Rafael Aponte-Ledée (1938), Ragnar Grippe (1951), Samuel Adams Holyoke (1762), Wilhelm Posse (1852)
- Bert Kaempfert (1923), Carlos Pedrell (1878), Cesar Bresgen (1913), Charles Harford Lloyd (1849), Derek Bourgeois (1941), Elise Wiel (1866) , Erkki Jokinen (1941), Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959), Franz Doppler (1821), Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy (1765), Gerardo Gandini (1936), Henryk Pachulski (1859), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), John Francis Barnett (1837), Joop Voorn (1932), Julia von Webenau (1813), Kaj Chydenius (1939), Kerry Turner (1960), Klaus-Peter Bruchmann (1932), Leonid Desyatnikov (1955), Otto Romanowski (1952), Pierre van Maldere (1729), Rui Penha (1981), William Reed (1910), Xin Huguang (1933)
- Andrián Pertout (1963), Blues Saraceno (1971), Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847), Christian Bruhn (1934), Christian Jost (1963), Domenico Zipoli (1688), Giovanni Mariani (1722), Herbert Howells (1892), Luiz Bonfá (1922), Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720), Martin Matalon (1958), Maurice Wright (1949), Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729), Theodore Marier (1912)
- Allyn Ferguson (1924), Baldassare Galuppi (1706), Camillo Togni (1922), Egil Hovland (1924), Feng-Hsu Lee (1977), Francis Thomé (1850), Friedrich Hollaender (1896), Gary Schocker (1959), Giovanni Tadolini (1789), Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Howard Shore (1946), Ilmari Hannikainen (1892), Jacques Charpentier (1933), John Biggs (1932), John Morris (1926), Jordi Cervelló (1935), Lasse Thoresen (1949), Luca Marenzio (1553?), Miguel Llobet (1878), Wynton Marsalis (1961), Zhu Jian’er (1922)
- Chester Biscardi (1948), Clarence Lucas (1866), Domenico Gabrielli (1659), Eberhard Werdin (1911), Farid al-Atrash (1910), Fiorenzo Carpi (1918), Geirr Tveitt (1908), George Fenton (1950), Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916), Kazuo Yamada (1912), Patrick Heeney (1881), Robert Morris (1943), Robin Holloway (1943), Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907), Roland Dyens (1955), Theodoro Valcárcel (1902), Vittorio Giannini (1903), Will Trachsel (1988), Yoko Shimomura (1967)
- Adolph Deutsch (1897), Alexander Krein (1883), Alexandra Gardner (1967), Anton Bernhard Fürstenau (1792), Billy Baskette (1884), Charles Ives (1874), Enzo Gragnaniello (1954), Fini Henriques (1867), Francisco de Paula Aguirre (1875), Frank Churchill (1901), Fredrik Sixten (1962), Hilda Herrera (1933), Karol Mikuli (1819), Ofer Ben-Amots (1955), Rodolfo Halffter (1900), Steve Orich (1954), Thomas Newman (1955), Thomas Pasatieri (1945), Trond Kverno (1945), Wijnand van Klaveren (1975), William Albright (1944)
- Bart Visman (1962), Carl Wiltse (1944), Daniel E. Gawthrop (1949), Dimitri Nicolau (1946), Donald Patriquin (1938), Egon Wellesz (1885), Emilio Arrieta (1823), Erik Santos (1967), Francesco Ruggi (1767), Fred Hersch (1955), Giuseppe Baini (1775), Harry Breuer (1901), Hilarión Eslava (1807), Howard Ferguson (1908), János Bihari (1764), Jarmil Burghauser (1921), Joseph Canteloube (1879), Lera Auerbach (1973), Luna Alcalay (1928), Malcolm Arnold (1921), Rafael Calleja Gómez (1870), Shulamit Ran (1949), Tomojiro Ikenouchi (1906), Virko Baley (1938)
- August Labitzky (1832), Blas Emilio Atehortúa (1943), Clare Fischer (1928), Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (1962), Daniel Steibelt (1765), Ed Welch (1947), Eduard Schütt (1856), Federico Ricci (1809), Fidelio Fritz Finke (1891), Frank La Forge (1879), Franz Liszt (1811), Georges Lentz (1965), Grigori Gamburg (1900), Hikaru Hayashi (1931), James A. Bland (1854), Joseph Kosma (1905), Kang Sukhi (1934), Kees van Baaren (1906), Manfred Trojahn (1949), Manos Loïzos (1937), Marc Shaiman (1959), Marcel Mihalovici (1898), Neil Rolnick (1947), Ralph Yaw (1898), Salvatore Di Vittorio (1967), Svante Henryson (1963), Tadeáš Salva (1937), Tapani Länsiö (1953), Thérèse Brenet (1935), Valeri Kikta (1941), Victor Jacobi (1883), Vincenzo Manfredini (1737), William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071)
- Albert Lortzing (1801), Alex De Taeye (1898), Alexander Archangelsky (1846), Brett Dean (1961), Carlo Forlivesi (1971), Gary McFarland (1933), Gerhard Bronner (1922), Graeme Revell (1955), Guillaume Couture (1851), Harald Böhmelt (1900), Jean Absil (1893), Johann Bernhard Staudt (1654), Jonathan Wolff (1958), Manos Hadjidakis (1925), Maury Yeston (1945), Miriam Gideon (1906), Ned Rorem (1923), Otmar Nussio (1902), Pietro Generali (1773), Toshio Hosokawa (1955), “Weird Al” Yankovic (1959)
- Anna Amalia (1739), Carl Baermann (1810), Elizabeth Poston (1905), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Ernst Mielck (1877), Ernst Richter (1808), Ferdinand Hiller (1811), Franco Leoni (1864), George Crumb (1929), George Tsontakis (1951), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), John Hartmann (1830), Kathleen Lockhart Manning (1890), Liu Zhuang (1932), Luciano Berio (1925), Mary Dickenson-Auner (1880), Ney Rosauro (1952), Otto Abel (1905), Pavel Chesnokov (1877), Pierre Sancan (1916), Pino Donaggio (1941), Ramon Carnicer (1780), Robert W. Smith (1958), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Warren Foster (1904), William Henry Gill (1839)
- Albert E. Brumley (1905), Alexander Gretchaninov (1864), Alfredo Diez Nieto (1918), Björn J:son Lindh (1944), Cemal Resit Rey (1904), Charlie Smalls (1943), David Worrall (1954), Diana Burrell (1948), Don Banks (1923), Georg Gebel (1709), Georg Schumann (1866), Georges Bizet (1838), Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825), Nikolaus Brass (1945), Patrick Peter Sacco (1928), Peter Lieberson (1946), Philipp Fahrbach the elder (1815), Toni Edelmann (1945), Wolfgang Jacobi (1894)
- Beryl Rubinstein (1898), Bob Cobert (1924), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Erica Muhl (1961), Giovanni Salviucci (1907), Hans Buchner (1483), Hans-Joachim Roedelius (1934), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Hendrik Waelput (1845), Henry Smart (1813), Jakub Jan Ryba (1765), Joaquin Martinez Oxinaga (1719), Johan Helmich Roman (1694), Kenneth Ascher (1944), Masaharu Iwata (1966), Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795), Pawel Sydor (1970), Thomas Daniel Schlee (1957), Winsome Evans (1941)
- Anat Pick (1955), Anestis Logothetis (1921), Arild Andersen (1947), Conlon Nancarrow (1912), Dominick Argento (1927), Elliot del Borgo (1938), Fabio Nieder (1957), Felix Wurman (1958), Frank Sturchio (1894), Jean-Claude Wolff (1946), Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703), Karol Beffa (1973), Luigi Hugues (1836), Niccolò Paganini (1782), Pompeyo Camps (1924), Sam Rydberg (1885),
- Andrés Isasi (1890), Argentino Valle (1901), Carl Davis (1936), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Don Walker (1907), Ernst Anschütz (1780), Folke Rabe (1935), Franz Ignaz von Beecke (1733), Frank La Rocca (1951), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Gilbert Trythall (1930), Hans Asselbergs (1953), Hendrik Thyssen (1862), Henri Bertini (1798), Howard Blake (1938), Howard Hanson (1896), Jo Kondo (1947), Jobst von Brandt (1517), John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820), John Mayer (1930), Karl Heinrich Ernst Hauer (1828), Ronald LoPresti (1933), Šimon Brixi (1693), Toshio Masuda (1959)
- Carlos Bonnet (1892), Cary Boyce (1955), Daniel Emmett (1815), David Chesky (1956), Emmanuel Bondeville (1898), Harold Darke (1888), James Dillon (1950), Kerstin Jeppsson (1948), Natalie Sleeth (1930), Neal Hefti (1922), Nelson Cavaquinho (1910), Ramon Sender (1934), Richard Ayres (1965), Vicente Asencio (1908), Vivian Ellis (1904)
- Anatoly Novikov (1896), Antenógenes SIlva (1906), Armin Kaufmann (1902), Catterino Cavos (1775), Charles Fox (1940), Christian Darnton (1905), Edward Miller (1735), Erik Baumann (1889), Germán Alcántara (1863), Horacio Fontova (1946), Johannes Berauer (1979), Karol Lipinski (1790), Luciano Sgrizzi (1910), Manfred Stahnke (1951), Masanori Hikichi (1969), Paul Smith (1906), Peter Warlock (1894), Pierre Wissmer (1915), Reza Namavar (1980), Richard E. Holz (1914), Sven-David Sandström (1942), Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692)
- Andrew Norman (1979), Charles-Louis Triebert (1810), Daniel Roth (1942), David Lumsdaine (1931), Eric Ball (1903), Howard Skempton (1947), Jørgen Malling (1836), Joseph Gelineau (1920), Léonce de Saint-Martin (1886), Louise Talma (1906), Marc Steckar (1935), Naji Hakim (1955), Philippe de Vitry (1291), Ralph Erwin (1896), Robert Graettinger (1923), Walter Steffens (1934)