Famous people died in October - page 18

Nathan Bedford Forrest served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War

Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet and writer

Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, politician and soldier

Jean Le Rond d’Alembert was a famous French mathematician, philosopher, and music theorist, and also the co-editor of the Encyclopédie

Max Plank was a German physicist who gave the quantum theory of physics

Lyman Hall was an American physician and statesman, best known as one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence

John Reed was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist

John Hancock was one of the signers of the U.S

James Prescott Joule was an English physicist, who studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work

Jacques Derrida was a famous French philosopher