Dec 5 August von Platen, German poet, dies at 39 Dec 13 John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760) Dec 18 Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, Austrian composer, dies at 82 Dec 29 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, French composer, dies at 29 Nov 1835 Famous Deaths by Year Jan 1836 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide