Sep 15 Louise Farrenc (née Dumont), French pianist, composer and only female professor at the Paris Conservatory during the 19th century, dies at 71 Sep 24 William Walker, American composer (The Southern Harmony), dies at 66 Sep 28 Aleksei K. Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer, dies at 58 [OS] 1874 Famous Deaths by Year 1876