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Famous People Who Died in October 1841

George Childress (1804-1841)

Oct 6 American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide at 37

  • Oct 9 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect, city planner and painter (Altes Museum, Neue Wache), dies at 60
  • Oct 28 Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)