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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1830 January 7 Charlotte J T infant of Portugal's ex, dies at age 53. [1] January 14 Johann G Repsold German instrument maker, dies at age 59. [1] January 17 W Waiblinger writer, dies. [1] January 19 Wenzel Thomas Matiegka composer, dies at age 56. [1] January 20 Michal Bogdanowicz composer, dies at age 50. [1] February 7 Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal Portuguese composer, dies at age 67. [1] February 18 Charles G G Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at age 67. [1] April 1 Carl Borromaus Neuner composer, dies at age 51. [1] April 18 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 22 Knud L Rahbek Danish literary/historian, dies at age 69. [1] May 16 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier mathematician, dies. [1] December 8 H Benjamin Constant French politician/writer, dies at age 63. [1] December 17 Simon Bolivar President of Colombia, dies at age 47 in Colombia. [1] December 28 Adrien-Joseph van Helmont composer, dies at age 83. [1] 1831 January 4 Nikola P Neofit Rilski Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at age 37. [1] January 6 Rodolphe Kreutzer French composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at age 64. [1] January 8 Franz Vinzenz Krommer composer, dies at age 71. [1] January 21 Achim vs Arnim writer, dies at age 49. [1] February 5 John CJ van Speijk commits suicide at age 29. [1] February 14 Vincente Guerrero Mexican revolutionary hero, dies. [1] February 15 Henry Maudslay inventor (metal lathe), dies. [1] March 4 Georg Michael Telemann composer, dies at age 82. [1] March 9 Friedrich M Klinger German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at age 79. [1] March 12 Johann Franz Volkert composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 26 Richard Allen AME Church Bishop, dies at age 71. [1] April 2 Charles Felix blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at age 74. [1] April 13 Ferdinand Kauer composer, dies at age 80. [1] May 1 Antonius van Alphen apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at age 82. [1] May 5 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel composer, dies at age 65. [1] May 13 Christian G Körner German lawyer, dies at age 74. [1] May 24 Benjamin Carr composer, dies at age 62. [1] May 26 Georg Hermes German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies. [1] July 4 James Monroe 5th president, dies. [1] November 11 Nat Turner former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in Virginia. [1] December 2 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein composer, dies at age 56. [1] December 8 James Hoban architect who designed the White House, dies. [1] December 11 John George Schetky composer, dies at age 55. [1] December 15 Paul R Cantzlaar Governor of Saba/Curaçao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at age 60. [1] December 18 Willem Bilderdijk Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at age 75. [1] 1832 February 1 Ecco Epkema Dutch classic linguist (Frisian/Old Frisian), dies at age 71. [1] February 3 George Crabbe English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at age 77. [1] February 10 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini composer, dies at age 84. [1] February 15 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck composer, dies at age 85. [1] March 10 Muzio Clementi Italian composer, dies at age 79. [1] March 12 Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau German/Danish opera composer, dies at age 45. [1] March 22 J W Goethe writer, dies at age 82. [1] March 23 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer, dies at age 41. [1] April 1 Robert the Hermit US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies. [1] May 13 Georges Cuvier French zoologist (La Règne Animal), dies at age 62. [1] May 15 Carl Friedrich Zelter composer, dies at age 73. [1] May 18 Bonafacio Asioli composer, dies at age 62. [1] May 26 François-Louis Perne composer, dies at age 59. [1] May 31 Évariste Galois French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at age 20. [1] July 25 First railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies. [1] December 22 Ishmail Spicer composer, dies at age 72. [1] December 30 Colonel Abijah Hammond owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies. [1] 1833 January 7 Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba composer, dies at age 55. [1] January 10 Adrien Marie Legendre dies. [1] Antoinio da Silva Leite composer, dies at age 73. [1] January 12 Marie-Antoine Carème author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at age 48. [1] January 17 James Ball Antyne Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about age 60. [1] William Rush Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies. [1] January 19 Louis-J-Ferdinand Hérold French composer (Pré aux clercs), dies at age 41. [1] February 18 Georg Johann Schinn composer, dies at age 64. [1] Ignac Ruzitska composer, dies at age 55. [1] March 7 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin German author, dies at age 61. [1] March 11 Fridolin Weber composer, dies at age 71. [1] April 7 Antoni Henryk Radziwill Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at age 57. [1] April 22 Richard Trevithick inventor (steam locomotive), dies at age 62. [1] May 10 François Andrieux French writer/politician, dies at age 74. [1] May 14 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow composer, dies at age 88. [1] May 15 Edmund Kean English actor (Shylock), dies at age 46. [1] May 28 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner composer, dies at age 74. [1] May 29 William Marshall composer, dies at age 84. [1] May 30 Josef Slavik composer, dies at age 27. [1] September 28 Lemuel Haynes Revolutionary War veteran, dies at age 88. [1] December 10 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain composer, dies at age 79. [1] December 16 Friedrich August Kanne composer, dies at age 55. [1] December 17 Kaspar Hauser German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at age 21. [1] 1834 February 4 Amelie Julia Candielle composer, dies at age 66. [1] February 12 Friedrich Schleiermacher German theologist/philosopher, dies at age 65. [1] February 16 Lionel Lukin life boat pioneer, dies. [1] March 12 Karl W Feuerbach mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at age 33. [1] May 20 Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier nobleman, dies. [1] Marquis de Lafayette French general, dies. [1] May 23 Charles Wesley composer, dies at age 76. [1] December 6 Jonas Daniel Meyer Dutch lawyer, dies at age 54. [1] December 7 Ludwig Schuncke composer, dies at age 23. [1] 1835 January 3 Willem F Röell Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at age 67. [1] February 15 Henry Hunt British politician, dies. [1] March 25 Friederike Blum writer, dies. [1] April 17 William Henry Ireland forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies. [1] May 13 John Nash British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies. [1] May 16 Felicia Dorothea Hemans poet/hymn writer, dies. [1] August 25 Ann Rutledge said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Illinois at age 22. [1] December 5 August von Platen writer, dies at age 39. [1] December 18 Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus composer, dies at age 82. [1] December 29 Charles-Joseph Tolbecque composer, dies at age 29. [1] 1836 January 3 Friedrich Witt composer, dies at age 65. [1] February 22 John Clarke-Whitfeld composer, dies at age 65. [1] February 24 Dániel Berzsenyi Hungarian poet, dies at age 59. [1] March 6 Davy Crockett US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at age 49. [1] April 20 Johan I Jozef monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at age 75. [1] May 6 Christian Ignatius Latrobe composer, dies at age 78. [1] May 7 Norbert Burgmuller composer, dies at age 26. [1] May 28 Anton Reicha composer, dies at age 66. [1] June 28 James Madison fourth US pres, dies in Montpelier, Virginia. [1] September 14 US Vice President Aaron Burr dies. [1] [5] December 4 Daniel Read composer, dies at age 79. [1] December 12 Giuseppe Farinelli composer, dies at age 67. [1] December 26 Hans Georg Nageli composer, dies at age 63. [1] December 27 Stephen Fuller Austin founder of state of Texas, dies at age 43. [1] December 29 Johann Baptist Schenk composer, dies at age 83. [1] 1837 January 11 François Gérard French baron/painter, dies at age 66. [1] John Field Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at age 54. [1] January 20 John Soane English architect (Book of Designs), dies at age 84. [1] January 23 John Field composer, dies at age 54. [1] January 29 Aleksandr Pushkin poet/novelist/dramatist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel. [1] February 10 Alexander S Pushkin writer, dies at age 37. [1] February 12 Ludwig Börne writer, dies at age 50. [1] February 19 Georg Büchner German playwright (Leonce und Lena), dies at age 23. [1] March 13 Nikita P Panin Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at age 66. [1] March 26 Joseph Lincke composer, dies at age 53. [1] March 29 Maria Fitzherbert morganatic wife of King George IV, dies. [1] March 31 John Constable English painter/water colors painter, dies at age 60. [1] April 17 Edouard viscount de Walckiers very wealthy slave trader, dies. [1] May 5 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at age 85. [1] May 9 "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Mississippi; 175 dies. [1] May 31 Joseph Grimaldi greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at age 57. [1] June 20 King William IV of England, dies. [1] November 7 Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by mob at Alton, Illinois. [1] December 26 Martinus van Marum chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at age 87. [1] 1838 January 13 Ferdinand Reis composer, dies at age 53. [1] January 16 Aleksandr I Polezjajev Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at age 33. [1] January 20 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges composer, dies at age 64. [1] January 23 Arnold A Buyskes Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director, dies at age 67. [1] January 28 Aleksandr I Polezjajev Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at age 33. [1] January 30 Osceola chief of Seminole Indians, dies in jail. [1] February 1 Abraham de Veer Dutch Governor-General of Suriname (1822-28), dies at age 71. [1] February 5 Philippe Libon composer, dies at age 62. [1] February 22 Friedrich Johann Eck composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 16 Nathaniel Bowditch astronomer and navigation expert, dies at age 64. [1] March 22 Hendrik Fagel Dutch/English baron, dies at age 73. [1] March 24 Thomas Attwood composer, dies at age 72. [1] April 3 Francesco Antommarchi Napoleon's physician on Saint Helena, dies at age 57. [1] April 6 José B de Andrada e Silva premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at age 74. [1] April 11 Pieter L Uys South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at age 40. [1] April 17 J Schopenhauer writer, dies at age 71. [1] April 23 John W Janssens Governor-General of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at age 75. [1] May 17 Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-Périgord French bishop, dies at age 84. [1] May 23 John W Janssens Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at age 75. [1] May 28 Thomas Busby composer, dies. [1] September 1 William Clark second lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at age 68. [1] 1839 January 12 Joseph A Koch Austrian painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at age 70. [1] January 19 Georg Abraham Schneider composer, dies at age 38. [1] February 1 Giuseppe Valadier Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at age 76. [1] March 4 Ignace Antoine Ladurner pianist/composer, dies at age 72. [1] March 13 Robert Gallenberg composer, dies at age 55. [1] March 29 Bernardus JC Dibbets Dutch baron/General-Major (Maastricht), dies at age 56. [1] April 11 John Galt Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at age 59. [1] April 20 Giuseppe Rossini father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies. [1] May 3 Ferdinando Paer composer, dies at age 67. [1] May 13 Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies. [1] Joseph Fesch French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies. [1] May 18 Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona) dies at age 57. [1] June 10 Nathaniel Pryor sgt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies. [1] November 6 Rabbi Hayim Rapoport of Ostrowiec author (Maxim Chayyim), dies. [1] December 3 Frederik VI king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies at age 71. [1] December 7 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek composer, dies at age 69. [1] December 15 Matthijs I van Bree Flemish court-painter, dies at age 66. [1] December 18 Charles-Henri Plantade composer, dies at age 75. [1]