Oct 3 James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 63 Oct 10 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, dies at 76 Oct 14 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, French composer, dies at 68 Oct 16 John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83 Oct 16 Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823) Oct 28 Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45 Oct 28 Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835) Nathan Bedford Forrest Oct 29 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general, dies at 56 Confederate General and KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest 1876 Famous Deaths by Year 1878
