Sep 14 Oliver Holden, American composer, dies at 78 Sep 23 Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783) Sep 27 Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies at 63 Sep 28 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769) 1843 Famous Deaths by Year 1845