Famous People Who Died in October 1809

Oct 11 American explorer, soldier and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies of gunshot wounds at 35 under mysterious circumstances that could have been murder or suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder's Stand

Oct 30 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Whig: 1783, 1807-09), dies after an operation to remove a kidney stone at 71