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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1850 January 1 Raphael G Kiesewetter Austria musicologist, dies at age 76. [1] January 14 Anthony van Hoboken Rotterdam merchant/ship owner, dies at age 93. [1] January 22 Vincenzo Pallotti Italian saint, dies at age 54. [1] January 26 Francis Jeffrey Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies. [1] January 27 J Gottfried Schadow German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at age 85. [1] Philipp Roth composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 19 Adalbert Gyrowetz composer, dies at age 87. [1] March 27 Wilhelm Bear German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at age 53. [1] March 31 John Calhoun dies at age 68. [1] April 3 Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek organist/pianist/composer, dies at age 75. [1] April 7 William Lisle Bowles English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at age 87. [1] April 9 William Prout physician/chemist, dies. [1] April 16 Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud maker of wax figures, dies. [1] April 23 William Wordsworth poet, dies at age 80. [1] April 24 Louis Alexandre Piccinni composer, dies at age 70. [1] May 9 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac chemist/physicist, dies. [1] May 24 Jane Porter novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at age 74. [1] July 9 Báb [Bahá'í prophet] executed in Tabriz, Iran; Rahmat 16, 7. [1] Zachary Taylor 12th president of US, dies in White House served 16 mo. [1] August 17 José Francisco de San Martin South American revolutionary hero, dies. [1] 1851 January 12 Johan Herman Koekkoek painter, dies at age 72. [1] January 21 Gustav Albert Lortzing composer, dies at age 49. [1] January 24 Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini Italian composer, dies at age 76. [1] January 27 John James Audubon conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at age 65. [1] Karl Moser composer, dies at age 77. [1] February 1 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley novelist (Frankenstein), dies at age 53. [1] February 16 Anne Nagell van Ampsen Dutch politician, dies at age 95. [1] February 20 Josef Alois Ladurner composer, dies at age 81. [1] February 25 Ferdinand Simon Gassner composer, dies at age 53. [1] March 4 Michael Henkel composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 6 Alexander Aliabiev composer, dies at age 63. [1] April 8 John Parry composer, dies at age 75. [1] April 9 Antoine-Charles Glachant composer, dies at age 80. [1] May 17 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde journalist (Treason), dies at age 31. [1] May 23 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard architect, dies at age 69. [1] May 24 Stanko Vraz [Jakob Frass] Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at age 40. [1] December 19 J M William Turner British painter (Rain, Steam and Speed), dies at age 76. [1] 1852 January 22 George Rodwell composer, dies at age 51. [1] February 2 François Liberman French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at age 49. [1] February 17 Micha Joseph Levenson Hebrew poet, dies. [1] February 21 Nikolai Gogol Russian playwright (Dead Souls), dies. [1] February 25 Thomas Moore writer (Odes of Anacreon), dies. [1] February 27 Joseph Drechsler composer, dies at age 69. [1] February 29 John Landseer printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies. [1] March 4 Nikolai Gogol writer, dies at age 43. [1] March 12 Juan Bros y Bertomel composer, dies at age 75. [1] March 25 Alexis Garaude composer, dies at age 73. [1] April 2 Theodor Althaus writer, dies. [1] April 9 John Howard Payne actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies. [1] April 19 Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at age 69. [1] May 6 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer, dies at age 75. [1] May 12 John Richardson Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies. [1] June 29 Henry Clay the great compromiser, dies at age 75. [1] September 14 Arthur Wellesley General/Duke of Wellington, dies at age 83. [1] December 16 Andries H Potgieter South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at age 59. [1] Henri-Jean Rigel composer, dies at age 80. [1] 1853 January 3 Theodor Uhlig composer, dies at age 30. [1] January 9 Juan N Gallego Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), dies at age 75. [1] February 3 August Kopisch German writer (Mäuseturm), dies at age 53. [1] March 5 Georg A Kestner German art collector/diplomat, dies at age 75. [1] March 17 Christian Doppler physicist, dies. [1] April 8 Jan W Pieneman historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at age 73. [1] April 11 Louis Emmanuel Eadin composer, dies. [1] April 15 Johann Leopold Fuchs composer, dies at age 67. [1] April 18 William King US Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration. [1] April 23 Auguste Laurent chemist, dies. [1] April 25 William Beaumont physiologist, dies. [1] April 28 Ludwig Tieck writer, dies at age 79. [1] May 8 Joannes P Roothaan first Dutch Lieutenant Colonel-General of Jesuits, dies at age 67. [1] May 9 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt composer, dies at age 73. [1] December 5 Johann Peter Heuschkel composer, dies at age 80. [1] 1854 January 9 Filippo Traetta [Philip Trajetta], Italian composer, dies at age 77. [1] January 18 Birth of Thomas A Watson; inventor assistant (Telephone), dies 1934. [1] [5] Juda Turo American philanthropist, dies. [1] February 4 Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz composer, dies at age 66. [1] February 17 Hugues F R de Lamennais French priest/writer, dies at age 71. [1] March 6 Caspar GC Reinwardt German/Dutch biologist, dies at age 80. [1] April 6 William Strickland US architect, dies. [1] April 11 Karl Adolph von Basedow German Democratic Republic (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at age 55. [1] April 17 Gottlob Wiedebein composer, dies at age 74. [1] April 18 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner composer, dies at age 84. [1] May 3 William Beale composer, dies at age 70. [1] May 31 Vatroslav Lisinski composer, dies at age 34. [1] August 16 Duncan Phyfe furniture maker, dies. [1] 1855 January 9 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies. [1] January 10 Mary Russell Mitford English playwright/poet (Julian), dies at age 67. [1] January 25 Dorothy Wordsworth writer, dies at age 83. [1] January 26 Gérard de Nerval [Labrunie], French poet/writer, dies at age 46. [1] February 20 Joseph Hume social reformer, dies. [1] February 23 Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematician, dies. [1] March 2 Nicholas I Pavlovitch tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at age 58. [1] March 17 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle composer, dies at age 65. [1] March 31 Charlotte Brontë English author (Jane Eyre), dies at age 38. [1] April 18 Jean-Baptiste Isabey painter, dies. [1] April 24 Walenty Karol Kratzer composer, dies at age 75. [1] April 30 Henry Rowley Bishop British composer/conductor, dies at age 68. [1] May 4 Camille Pleyel Austria piano builder/composer, dies at age 66. [1] May 15 Jan Mazereeuw Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at age 75. [1] May 27 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev Russian writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies. [1] 1856 January 5 Pierre J David [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at age 67. [1] January 11 Nikolai I Nadezjdin Russian archaeologist, dies. [1] January 12 L'udovít Stúr Slovaaks author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at age 40. [1] January 17 Thomas Attwood Walmisley composer, dies at age 41. [1] February 17 Heinrich Heine German poet, dies at age 58 in Paris. [1] John Braham singer/composer, dies at age 81. [1] March 28 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov composer, dies at age 76. [1] May 3 Adolfo Fumagalli composer, dies at age 27. [1] Adolphe Charles Adam French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at age 52. [1] May 6 William Hamilton metaphysicist, dies. [1] 1857 January 20 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam composer, dies at age 32. [1] January 27 Dorothea von Benckendorff Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at age 72. [1] February 7 Félix PBOG Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at age 65. [1] February 14 Johannes B van Bree Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at age 56. [1] February 15 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Russian composer, dies at age 53. [1] February 16 Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers French engraver, dies at age 77. [1] Elisha Kent Kane Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at age 37. [1] February 26 Ole Andreas Lindeman composer, dies at age 88. [1] March 11 Manuel José Quintana Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at age 84. [1] March 17 Adolph Trube composer, dies at age 42. [1] March 21 Abraham J van der Aa lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at age 64. [1] May 2 LC Alfred the Musset French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies. [1] May 11 E François Vidocq French criminalogist/police officer, dies at age 81. [1] December 3 Christian D Rauch German sculptor, dies at age 80. [1] December 11 François Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze composer, dies at age 73. [1] 1858 January 3 Rachel [Elisabeth Rachel-Félix], French singer/actress (Muse), dies at age 36. [1] January 5 Johann Radetzky von Radetz Austrian earl/field marshal, dies at age 91. [1] January 7 Willem Broes vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at age 91. [1] January 8 Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt composer, dies at age 48. [1] January 27 Gerrit van der Linde Jz Dutch "Principal", poet, dies at age 49. [1] February 16 Georg F Creuzer German philological/historian, dies at age 86. [1] February 19 Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini composer, dies at age 78. [1] March 3 József Bajza Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at age 54. [1] April 3 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm Austrian composer, dies at age 79. [1] April 7 Anton Diabelli Austria publisher/composer, dies at age 76. [1] April 8 Anton Diabelli Austrian composer/publisher, dies at age 76. [1] April 16 Johann Baptist Cramer German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at age 87. [1] December 16 Richard Bright British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at age 69. [1] December 18 Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees composer, dies at age 81. [1] December 27 Alexandre Pierre François Boely composer, dies at age 73. [1] 1859 January 8 Antoine GB Schayes Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at age 50. [1] January 20 B v Arnim writer, dies at age 73. [1] Bettina Brentano composer, dies at age 73. [1] January 27 Carl A Agardh Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at age 74. [1] February 6 Johannes Josephus Viotta composer, dies at age 45. [1] February 26 Ferdinand Lukas Schubert composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 1 Josef Theodor Krov composer, dies at age 61. [1] April 12 John Emde German evangelist, dies at about age 84. [1] April 30 Sergei T Aksakov Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at age 67. [1] May 5 Peter G L Dirichlet German mathematician, dies at age 53. [1] May 6 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander explorer/scientist, dies. [1] May 10 Johan archduke of Austria (Firechief and Housewife), dies. [1] May 22 Ferdinand II [Re Bomba] Dutch King of Sicily, dies at age 49. [1] December 2 John Brown US abolitionist, hanged in Charles Town West Virginia at age 59. [1] December 5 Louis Poinsot French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at age 82. [1] December 16 Wilhelm Grimm writer (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at age 73. [1] December 21 Nicolaas C Kist Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at age 66. [1] December 28 Thomas Babington Macaulay English essayist/historian, dies. [1] December 31 Luigi Ricci composer, dies at age 54. [1]