Oct 4 Louis Massonneau, composer, dies at 82 Oct 5 Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781) Oct 26 Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic, dies at 36 Oct 27 Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, Russian composer, dies at 46 1847 Famous Deaths by Year 1849