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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1820 January 17 Daniel W Wyttenbach Dutch classicist/historian, dies at age 73. [1] January 25 Joseph F Weigl German/Austria violin cellist, dies at age 79. [1] January 29 George III king of Great Britain (1760-1820), dies at age 81. [1] February 7 Samuel Adams Holyoke composer, dies at age 57. [1] February 8 Birth of William Tecumseh Sherman Major General (Union Army), dies in 1891 (War is hell). [1] February 12 Guillaume Albert Teniers composer, dies at age 71. [1] February 14 Charles F Duke of Berry, murdered at age 42. [1] February 15 Pierre-Joseph Cambon member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at age 63. [1] William Ellery US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at age 92. [1] March 11 Benjamin West British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at age 81. [1] March 22 Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at age 41. [1] March 26 Jean-Etienne Despreaux composer, dies at age 71. [1] April 5 Henrik C Cras lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii), dies at age 81. [1] April 20 Arthur Young author (Annals of Agriculture), dies. [1] May 10 Matthaus Stegmayer composer, dies at age 49. [1] May 14 Paul Friedrich Struck composer, dies at age 43. [1] September 26 Daniel Boone frontiersman, dies in Missouri at age 85. [1] December 21 Charles-François Dumonchau composer, dies at age 45. [1] 1821 January 4 Elizabeth Ann Seton first native-born American saint, dies in Maryland. [1] January 25 Johan Valckenier Dutch politician/patriot, dies at age 62. [1] February 8 Paul Anton Wineberger composer, dies at age 62. [1] February 23 John Keats Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at age 25 in Rome. [1] Marie-Anne Collot French sculptor, dies. [1] March 23 Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer, dies at age 56. [1] April 9 Felix Maximo Lopez composer, dies at age 78. [1] April 20 Franz K Achard German physicist/chemist, dies at age 67. [1] April 22 John Crome [Old Crome] English landscape painter/etcher, dies at age 52. [1] May 5 Napoleon I Bonaparte emperor France (1799-1815), dies in Saint Helena. [1] May 15 John Wall Calcott composer, dies at age 54. [1] December 16 Claire countess the Rémusat/Vergennes/author (Salon), dies at age 41. [1] December 20 Gian Francesco Fortunati composer, dies at age 75. [1] December 29 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael South Netherlands general, dies at age 61. [1] December 30 Angelo Maria Benincori composer, dies at age 42. [1] 1822 January 14 Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell German landscape painter, dies at age 72. [1] February 2 Jean-Baptiste Davaux composer, dies at age 79. [1] February 5 Ali Pasha of Janina (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about age 77. [1] February 10 Albert-Kasimir duke of Saxon-Teschen/Governor of Hungary, dies at age 83. [1] February 19 Jeronymo Francisco de Lima composer, dies at age 78. [1] February 22 Johann Ignaz Walter composer, dies at age 66. [1] March 2 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer, dies at age 40. [1] March 3 Franz Adam Veichtner composer, dies at age 81. [1] April 3 Friedrich Bertuch writer, dies. [1] April 6 Franz Xaver Partsch composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 13 Gaetano Valeri composer, dies at age 61. [1] April 25 Frederick "William" Herschel German/British astronomer, dies at age 83. [1] May 9 Charles Duquesnoy composer, dies at age 62. [1] May 15 Christian Ludwig Dieter composer, dies at age 64. [1] July 2 Denmark Vesey and five aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, South Carolina. [1] August 25 William Herschel discovered Uranus, dies at age 85. [1] December 15 Ferenc Verseghy composer, dies at age 65. [1] December 29 Albert Christoph Dies composer, dies at age 67. [1] 1823 January 17 Zacharius Werner German playwright, dies at age 36. [1] February 7 Ann Radcliffe (Ward) English poet/author of horror novels, dies at age 58. [1] February 16 Johann Gottfried Schict composer, dies at age 69. [1] February 26 John P Kemble English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies at age 66. [1] March 18 Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval composer, dies at age 69. [1] March 24 Cornelis van Foreest Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at age 66. [1] March 25 Coelestin Jungbauer composer, dies at age 75. [1] May 15 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky composer, dies at age 69. [1] June 1 Louis Nicholas Davout French field marshall, dies at age 53. [1] December 3 Joseph Pouteau composer, dies at age 84. [1] December 7 Johann Gottlieb Schwencke composer, dies at age 79. [1] December 14 Vincenzo Cuoco Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at age 53. [1] December 19 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel composer, dies at age 67. [1] December 24 Philipp Christoph Kayser composer, dies at age 68. [1] 1824 January 10 Victor Emanuel I king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at age 64. [1] January 26 Edward Jenner discoverer (vaccination), dies. [1] Théodore Géricault French painter (Grand Derby d'Epsom), dies. [1] January 29 Louise MC countess of Albany Henegouws salon owner, dies at age 71. [1] February 1 Maria Theresia von Paradis composer, dies at age 64. [1] February 8 Rhijnvis Feith Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at age 71. [1] February 9 Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich German poet, dies at age 49. [1] February 22 John Davy composer, dies at age 60. [1] March 3 Giovanni Battista Viotti Italian violist/composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 9 Jacobus J Cramer priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at age 79. [1] March 12 Heinrich Carl Ebell composer, dies at age 48. [1] March 22 Johann Melchior Dreyer composer, dies at age 76. [1] April 15 Theodorus F van Capellen Vice-Admiral (Algiers), dies at age 61. [1] April 18 Edward Jones composer, dies at age 72. [1] April 19 [George Gorden Noel] "Lord" Byron poet, dies at age 36. [1] April 24 Herman Muntinghe theologist (History of Mankind), dies at age 71. [1] May 15 Alexander Campbell composer, dies at age 60. [1] December 25 Barbara Krudener mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at age 60. [1] 1825 January 4 Ferdinand I King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at age 73. [1] January 8 Inventor Eli Whitney dies. [5] February 5 Pierre Gaveaux composer, dies at age 64. [1] February 10 Paul van Hemert Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at age 68. [1] February 16 George Gerson composer, dies at age 34. [1] February 24 Thomas Bowdler self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies. [1] March 24 Giovanni Domenico Perotti composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 25 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck Dutch patriot/earl, dies at age 63. [1] April 10 Paul-Louis Courier (Méré), French writer/interpreter, dies at age 53. [1] April 13 Josef Gelinek composer, dies at age 66. [1] April 16 John Henry Fuseli painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at age 84. [1] May 7 Antonio Salieri Italian composer, dies in Vienna at age 74. [1] May 12 Elias Mann composer, dies at age 75. [1] Stanislao Mattei composer, dies at age 75. [1] May 22 Domenico Corri composer, dies at age 80. [1] November 22 Ann Bailey pioneer, dies. [1] December 1 Aleksandr I P Romanov czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at age 47. [1] December 29 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini composer, dies. [1] Jacques-Louis David French painter (Death of Marat), dies at age 77. [1] December 30 Peter Gronland composer, dies at age 64. [1] 1826 January 17 Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga y Balzola Spanish composer, dies at age 19. [1] February 25 Piotr A von der Pahlen military governor of Saint Petersburg, dies at age 60. [1] March 1 J J Friedrich Weinbrenner German architect/archaeologist, dies at age 59. [1] March 10 Johan VI M L J King of Portugal (1816-26), dies at age 56. [1] March 11 Gervais-François Couperin composer, dies at age 66. [1] March 27 Jakob Haibel composer, dies at age 63. [1] March 29 J H Voß writer, dies at age 75. [1] April 3 Reginald Heber bishop and hymn writer, dies. [1] April 13 Franz Danzi composer, dies at age 62. [1] May 10 Giuseppe Sigismondo composer, dies at age 86. [1] May 24 Friedrich Fesca composer, dies at age 37. [1] May 25 Christian Friedrich Ruppe composer, dies at age 72. [1] July 22 Giuseppe Piazzi discoverer of first asteroid, dies. [1] December 7 John Flaxman English sculptor (tombs at Saint Paul's Cathedral), dies at age 71. [1] December 10 Benedikt Emanuel Schack composer, dies at age 68. [1] December 15 William Browser revolting slave, executed in New York City, New York. [1] 1827 January 5 Frederick of York English duke/bishop/General , dies at age 63. [1] January 6 Death of Charlotte von Stein in Weimar. Von Stein was a very close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. She inspired the characters Iphigenie in Iphigenie auf Tauris and Natalie in Wilhelm Meister. After 1788 when Goethe met and later married Christiane Vulpius, the "Seelenbund" with Frau von Stein weakened and dissolved. [37] January 30 Johann Philipp Christian Schulz composer, dies at age 53. [1] February 2 Johann Nepomuk Kalcher composer, dies at age 62. [1] February 7 Franz Anton Dimmler composer, dies at age 73. [1] February 17 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Swiss educator, dies at age 81. [1] February 26 David Moritz Michael composer, dies at age 75. [1] March 5 Alessandro Volta Italian physicist (made first battery), dies at age 82. [1] March 9 Franz Xaver Gerl composer, dies at age 62. [1] March 26 Ludwig van Beethoven German composer (Appassionata), dies in Wien (Vienna) at age 56. [1] April 22 Thomas Rowlandson caricaturist, dies. [1] April 23 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at age 65. [1] April 24 Pierre Joseph Candielle composer, dies at age 82. [1] April 26 Bernardo Ottani composer, dies at age 90. [1] May 5 Frederik Augustus I Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at age 76. [1] November 28 Dov Baer Schneersohn Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies. [1] December 9 François Leonard Rouwyzer composer, dies at age 90. [1] December 26 Jan David Holland composer, dies at age 81. [1] 1828 January 9 Pieter Hoen Dutch journalist/patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at age 83. [1] January 13 Alexandre-Auguste Robineau composer, dies at age 80. [1] January 31 Alexandros Ypsilanti Greek resistance fighter, dies at age 35. [1] February 2 Frederik Sigismund Earl of Bylandt Vice-Admiral, dies at age 78. [1] February 23 Mihály Fazekar Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies. [1] March 8 Johann Anton Sulzer composer, dies at age 75. [1] April 12 Jean Henri Appelius Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at age 60. [1] April 16 Francisco Goya y Lucientes Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at age 82. [1] April 25 John Goldberg Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at age 64. [1] April 30 Shaka the great Zulu king, killed. [1] June 14 Charles Duke of Prussia, dies at age 70. [1] December 2 Simon Paap Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at age 39. [1] December 22 Rachel Jackson wife of 7th US President Andrew Jackson, dies. [1] December 30 Waldemar Thrane composer, dies at age 38. [1] 1829 January 3 Robert Archibald Smith composer, dies at age 48. [1] January 12 Death of Friedrich von Schlegel in Hannover, Germany; literary critic, cultural philosopher, poet. [1] [37] Michael Gottard Fischer composer, dies at age 55. [1] January 25 William Shield composer, dies at age 80. [1] January 28 William Burke murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh. [1] February 10 Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at age 68. [1] February 16 François-Joseph Gossec Belgian/French composer (Messe of Morts), dies at age 95. [1] February 18 Jan Krtitel Kuchar composer, dies at age 77. [1] February 22 Adam A earl von Neipperg Austrian General, dies at age 53. [1] February 24 Auguste Chouteau Saint Louis co-founder, dies. [1] April 6 Niels H Able Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at age 26. [1] April 30 George Washington Adams son of John Q Adams, dies on City Island New York City, New York. [1] May 8 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani composer, dies at age 47. [1] May 10 Thomas Young physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies. [1] May 16 William Congreve English officer, dies at age 56. [1] May 18 Bernardo Bittoni composer, dies at age 72. [1] May 29 Humphry Davy scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at age 84. [1] June 27 James Smithson dies, his will established Smithsonian Institute. [1] December 7 Johann Christoph Kienlen composer, dies at age 45. [1] December 14 Luigi Marchesi composer, dies at age 74. [1] December 17 Bernard Jumentier composer, dies at age 80. [1] December 18 Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck French nature investigator, dies at about age 85. [1]