Oct 12 Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816) Oct 24 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter, dies at 73 Oct 30 Yakov Petrovich Polonsky Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 Sep 1898 Famous Deaths by Year Nov 1898 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide