3rd » American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his Death of Edgar Allan Poe or death.
6th » The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1849
7th » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (d. 1916)
26th » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917)
Famous Deaths for October 1849
7th » Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (b. 1809)
17th » Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)