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Famous People Who Died in October 1877

  • Oct 3 James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 63
  • Oct 10 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, dies at 76
  • Oct 14 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, French composer, dies at 68
  • Oct 16 John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
  • Oct 16 Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
  • Oct 28 Johann Herbeck, Austrian composer and conductor (conducted premiere of Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony"), dies at 45
  • Oct 28 Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)

Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877)

Oct 29 American slave trader, Confederate lieutenant general and KKK Grand Wizard, dies of complications from diabetes at 56