Oct 8 Théodore Chassériau, Dominican-French Romantic painter, muralist, and youngest artist exhibited at the Louvre museum, dies at 37 Oct 10 Mikhail Vielgorsky, Russian composer, dies at 67 Oct 19 William Sprague III, American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)), dies at 56 Oct 23 Alexander Ross, Canadian fur trader, dies at 73 Oct 29 Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director, dies at 68 Sep 1856 Famous Deaths by Year Nov 1856 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
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