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Famous People Who Died in September 1806

  • Sep 8 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish showman, first known eight-foot-tall person (stood 8-feet, 1-inch (246cm), dies from strain of gigantism at 46 [1]
  • Sep 9 William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
  • Sep 10 Johann Christoph Adelung, German linguist, librarian, translator and lexicographer, dies at 74
  • Sep 12 Christian Gottfried Thomas, German composer, publisher, and musicologist, dies at 58
  • Sep 13 Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)