Sep 8 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, Russian musical teacher to Tchaikovsky and composer, dies at 58 Sep 12 Peter Arnold Heise, Danish organist, composer (Drot og Marsk (King and Marshal); Jylland mellem tvende), and teacher, dies at 49 Sep 14 Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist, dies at 70 Sep 17 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (restored medieval monuments including city of Carcassonne), dies at 65 Sep 28 Nathan Cook Meeker, American journalist and social reformer, murdered by Ute Indians at 62 Aug 1879 Famous Deaths by Year Oct 1879 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Car Crash Hanging Killed in Action Plane Crash Poisoning
Assassination
Car Crash
Hanging
Killed in Action
Plane Crash
Poisoning