Elizabeth Fry Oct 12 Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, social reformer and Quaker Minister, dies of a stroke at 65 English Social Reformer Elizabeth Fry Oct 18 Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer, dies at 97 Oct 25 Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral, dies at 81 Oct 27 Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, French Physicist (Peltier effect 1834), dies at 60 1844 Famous Deaths by Year 1846