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1860 January 5 Saint John Nepomucene Neumann first male US saint, dies. [1] January 12 Martinus J Niewindt bishop on Curaçao (christened slaves), dies at age 63. [1] January 27 Janó Bolyai Hungarian mathematician (parallel), dies at age 57. [1] January 30 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto composer, dies at age 44. [1] February 9 Edmond Willem van Dam van Isselt Dutch military/liberal politician, dies at age 63. [1] February 20 Henry Drummond English banker/religious leader, dies at age 69. [1] March 28 Johann Ludwig Bohner composer, dies at age 73. [1] April 16 Carolina duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies. [1] April 18 Count István Széchenyi statesman, commits suicide. [1] April 28 Isaac da Costa poet/writer (Réveil, Wachter!), dies at age 62. [1] May 4 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek composer, dies. [1] May 21 Johannes Frederick Frohlich composer, dies at age 53. [1] May 23 Albert Richard Smith author/lecturer, dies. [1] October 12 Sir Henry G W Smith leader of British-Indian forces, dies at age 73. [1] December 7 Constantine S Aksakov Russian historian/poet, dies at age 43. [1] December 28 Cornelius Broere Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman/poet, dies at age 57. [1] 1861 January 2 Death of Friedrich Wilhelm IV in Sanssoci Palace, Potsdam, Germany; King of Prussia (1840-61). [1] [37] January 12 Václav Hanka Czech author/translator/forger, dies at age 69. [1] January 31 Franciscus J van Vree Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at age 53. [1] February 10 Francis Danby Exmouth, painter, dies. [1] February 12 Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard composer, dies at age 72. [1] February 18 Louis C Luzac Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at age 74. [1] March 10 Josepf François Snel composer, dies at age 67. [1] March 14 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer composer, dies at age 58. [1] March 17 Petter Conrad Boman composer, dies at age 56. [1] April 8 Elisha G Otis US elevator builder (Otis), dies at age 50. [1] April 18 Heinrich August Neithardt composer, dies at age 67. [1] May 3 Anthony Philip Heinrich composer, dies at age 80. [1] May 8 Láseló Teleki Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide. [1] May 12 Christian Heinrich Hohmann composer, dies at age 50. [1] May 24 Elmer Ellsworth US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at age 23. [1] James T Jackson US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead). [1] December 14 Albert prince consort of England and husband of Queen Victoria, dies at age 42. [1] George HG earl of Aberdeen English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at age 76. [1] Heinrich August Marschner composer, dies at age 66. [1] December 15 Gualtiero Sanelli composer, dies at age 45. [1] December 16 Karol Joseph Lipinski composer, dies at age 71. [1] December 26 Philip Saint George Cocke Confederate Brigadier-General, commits suicide at age 52. [1] 1862 January 5 Joseph Frohlich composer, dies at age 81. [1] January 10 Samuel Colt inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at age 47. [1] January 18 John Tyler 10th US President (1841-45), dies in Richmond Virginia at age 71. [1] January 20 General Felix Zollicoffer killed after mistakenly riding into union lines. [1] January 21 Bozena Nemcová [Barnora Panklová], Czechoslovakian author, dies at age 41. [1] January 24 James McIntosh US confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at about age 33. [1] February 3 Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist/astronomer, dies at age 87. [1] February 7 Frantisek Jan Skroup composer, dies at age 61. [1] February 21 Justinus A C Kerner German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at age 75. [1] February 24 Bernard S Ingemann Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at age 72. [1] February 27 Gabriele dell' Addolorata patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at age 23. [1] March 2 Frederick West Lander US Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at age 40. [1] March 7 Ben McCulloch US Confederate Brigadier-General (KIA), dies at age 50. [1] John Baillie McIntosh US General-Major (Union Army), dies at age 32. [1] William Slack US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle. [1] Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Generals McCulloch and McIntosh killed. [1] March 8 Adrien de La Fage composer, dies at age 56. [1] Nat Gordon last pirate, hanged in New York City, New York for stealing 1,000 slaves. [1] March 17 Fromental Halevy [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at age 62. [1] March 19 F Wilhelm von Schadow German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at age 73. [1] March 23 Karl Robert von Nesselrode German chancellor, dies at age 81. [1] April 3 James Clark Ross Arctic explorer, dies. [1] April 4 Harmen S Sytstra Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at age 45. [1] April 6 Adley Hogan Gladden Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 51. [1] Albert Sidney Johnston US Confederate General, dies in battle at age 59. [1] April 7 Sydney Nelson composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 9 George W Johnson US planter/Confederate (Governor-Kentucky), dies at about age 50. [1] April 10 William Harvey Lamb Wallace US lawyer/Brigadier-General, dies at age 40. [1] April 19 Louis Powell Harvey US Governor of Wisconsin, drowns. [1] Simon Fraser Canadian explorer, dies. [1] April 25 Charles Ferguson Smith US Union General-Major, dies of infection at age 55. [1] May 6 Henry David Thoreau, American writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at age 44. [1] [5] May 16 Lev A Ms Russian nobleman/poet, dies at age 40. [1] May 18 William H Keim US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 48. [1] May 25 Johann N Nestroy Austria; actor (Einmal Keine Sorgen Haben), dies at age 60. [1] May 29 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki composer, dies at age 71. [1] May 31 Robert Hatton Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about age 34. [1] June 6 General Turner Ashby is killed near Harrisonburg, Virginia. [1] June 7 William Mumford first US citizen hanged for treason. [1] July 24 Martin Van Buren 8th pres, dies in Kinderhook New York. [1] August 9 Prelude to second Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mount, however General Charles S Winder is killed. [1] September 1 Oliver Tilden of the Bronx, killed in the Civil War in Virginia. [1] October 14 Baseballer James Creighton ruptures bladder hitting home run, dies 10/18. [1] October 18 James Creighton dies of ruptured bladder hitting home run on October 14th. [1] December 7 Sylvester Churchill US Union Brigadier-General, dies. [1] December 13 Conrad Feger Jackson US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 49. [1] Maxcy Gregg US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 48. [1] Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 39. [1] December 14 George Dashiell Bayard Union Brigadier-General, dies at age 27. [1] December 18 Johnson Kelly Duncan architect/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 35. [1] December 24 Joseph Funk composer, dies at age 84. [1] December 28 Joaquim Casimiro Junior composer, dies at age 54. [1] December 31 James Edward Rains lawyer/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 29. [1] Joshua Woodrow Sill US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 31. [1] 1863 January 2 Roger Weightman Hanson Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at age 35. [1] January 9 Ferdinand Huber composer, dies at age 71. [1] January 17 E J Horace Vernet French painter, dies at age 73. [1] March 17 John Pelham US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at age 24. [1] March 21 Edwin Vose Sumner US Union-General-Major (Fair Oaks), dies at age 66. [1] March 28 James Cooper US attorney/senator/Union-Brigadier-General, dies at age 52. [1] April 8 Joseph Netherclift composer, dies at age 70. [1] April 10 Giovanni B Amia Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at age 77. [1] April 15 Jan Nepomuk Kanka composer, dies at age 90. [1] April 17 Daniel Smith Donelson Confederate General/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at age 61. [1] May 1 Edward Dorr Tracy, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 29. [1] May 3 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 35. [1] May 7 Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union general-major, dies of injuries at age 46. [1] May 10 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate General (Civil War), dies from wounds received at Chancellorsville. [1] May 14 Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent composer, dies at age 46. [1] May 16 Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 47. [1] May 27 Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at age 31. [1] May 28 Edmund Kirby Jr Union-Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at age 23. [1] July 10 Clement Clarke Moore ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at age 83. [1] July 26 Sam Houston, president of Texas, dies at age 70. [1] December 13 Friedrich Hebbel writer, dies at age 50. [1] December 22 Michael Corcoran Union Brigadier-General, dies at age 36. [1] December 24 W M Thackeray writer, dies at age 52. [1] 1864 January 4 Mateo Ferrer composer, dies at age 75. [1] January 8 Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen composer, dies at age 83. [1] January 13 Stephen Foster composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies in a New York hospital at age 37. [1] January 16 Anton Schindler German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at age 68. [1] January 23 Michele Puccini composer, dies at age 50. [1] January 24 Otto Jonas Lindblad composer, dies at age 54. [1] Stephen Gardner Champlin Brigadier General (Union), dies at about age 36. [1] January 27 Franz von Klenze German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at age 59. [1] January 31 Hamilton Rowan Gamble US judge/Governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies. [1] February 15 Israel Zangwill writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies. [1] William Dyce painter, dies. [1] February 16 Vaclav Jindrich Veit composer, dies at age 58. [1] February 19 William Edwin Baldwin US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies. [1] February 21 Jeffery Forrest US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle. [1] March 3 Ulric Dahlgren Union Colonel, dies in battle at age 21. [1] March 4 Thomas Starr King Unitarian clergyman (Christianity and Humanity), dies. [1] March 10 Maximilian II Jozef King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at age 52. [1] March 17 Alexandre Calamo Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at age 53. [1] March 30 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser composer, dies 52. [1] April 12 Thomas Green, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 50. [1] April 13 Johann Schneider composer, dies at age 74. [1] April 22 Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union General-Major, dies at age 76. [1] April 29 Charles-Julien Brianchon math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at age 80. [1] April 30 Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas; General William Read Scurry is killed. [1] May 2 Giacomo Meyerbeer composer, dies at age 72. [1] May 5 Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at age 44. [1] John Marshall Jones, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 43. [1] Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 42. [1] May 6 Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle. [1] Micah Jenkins, Confederate Brigadier-General (friendly fire), dies at age 28. [1] May 8 James Samuel Wadsworth, General-Major (Union), dies in battle at age 56. [1] May 9 "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at age 50. [1] Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Colonel, dies in an accident. [1] May 10 James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 34. [1] Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about age 27. [1] May 12 Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 37. [1] J.E.B. Stuart, Confederate General, dies at age 31. [1] May 13 Junius Daniel, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 35. [1] May 14 William N Green Jr, Union Brigadier-General, dies. [1] May 16 Lean Bear Cheyenne chief, murdered. [1] May 17 N Hawthorne writer, dies at age 59. [1] May 18 James Byron Gordon, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 41. [1] May 19 Nathaniel Hawthorne US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies. [1] May 20 John Clare English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at age 70. [1] May 26 Ch Sealsfield writer, dies at age 71. [1] May 28 Henry H Giesy, US Union-Brigadier-General, dies in battle. [1] May 30 James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 26. [1] June 5 General William E "Grumble" Jones killed at Piedmont. [1] June 14 Battle of Pine Mount, General Leonidas Polk killed in action. [1] October 12 Roger Taney Supreme Court Chief Justice, dies at age 87. [1] November 3 Antonio Gonsalves Dias Brazilian national poet, dies at sea. [1] December 2 Archibald Gracie Jr, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 31. [1] December 21 William Henry Fry composer, dies at age 51. [1]