| 115741 | October 9 | Death | 1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (b. 1885) |
| 115742 | October 9 | Death | 1967 – Che Guevara, Argentinian physician and guerrilla leader (b. 1928) |
| 115743 | October 9 | Death | 1967 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) |
| 115744 | October 9 | Death | 1967 – André Maurois, French soldier and author (b. 1885) |
| 115745 | October 9 | Death | 1967 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness trainer, developed Pilates (b. 1883) |
| 115746 | October 9 | Death | 1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress and singer (b. 1902) |
| 115747 | October 9 | Death | 1974 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908) |
| 115748 | October 9 | Death | 1976 – Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894) |
| 115749 | October 9 | Death | 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929) |
| 115750 | October 9 | Death | 1982 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893) |
| 115751 | October 9 | Death | 1985 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905) |
| 115752 | October 9 | Death | 1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903) |
| 115753 | October 9 | Death | 1987 – William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) |
| 115754 | October 9 | Death | 1988 – Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902) |
| 115755 | October 9 | Death | 1989 – Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1921) |
| 115756 | October 9 | Death | 1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940) |
| 115757 | October 9 | Death | 1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, English-Scottish cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903) |
| 115758 | October 9 | Death | 1996 – Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913) |
| 115759 | October 9 | Death | 1999 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923) |
| 115760 | October 9 | Death | 1999 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914) |
| 115761 | October 9 | Death | 2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945) |
| 115762 | October 9 | Death | 2000 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918) |
| 115763 | October 9 | Death | 2001 – Dagmar, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1921) |
| 115764 | October 9 | Death | 2001 – Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927) |
| 115765 | October 9 | Death | 2002 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931) |
| 115766 | October 9 | Death | 2002 – Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) |
| 115767 | October 9 | Death | 2002 – Bruno O'Ya, Estonian-Polish actor (b. 1933) |
| 115768 | October 9 | Death | 2002 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956) |
| 115769 | October 9 | Death | 2003 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926) |
| 115770 | October 9 | Death | 2004 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1930) |