Oct 3 Fidel Molitor, Swiss composer, dies at 58 Oct 12 Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59 Oct 12 Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628) Oct 12 Gerard Brandt, Dutch theologist, poet and historian, dies at 59 Oct 30 Michel le Tellier, French statesman (b. 1603) 1684 Famous Deaths by Year 1686