Dec 10 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, Belgian composer, dies at 79 Dec 16 Friedrich August Kanne, Austrian-German composer, dies at 55 Dec 17 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe (who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell), murdered at 21 Nov 1833 Famous Deaths by Year Jan 1834 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide