Oct 10 Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (Statue of Freedom on dome of US Capitol), dies of cancer at 43 Oct 14 Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, Polish composer, dies of tuberculosis at 33 Oct 28 Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802) Sep 1857 Famous Deaths by Year Nov 1857 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide