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Famous People Who Died in October 1845

Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845)

Oct 12 English prison reformer, social reformer and Quaker Minister, dies of a stroke at 65

  • Oct 18 Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer, dies at 97
  • Oct 25 Carel Hendrik Verhuell, Dutch-French vice-admiral who served Holland then France, dies at 81
  • Oct 27 Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, French Physicist (Peltier effect 1834), dies at 60