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1865 January 3 Jozef Lies Flemish painter, dies at age 43. [1] February 6 John Pegram, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at age 33. [1] February 7 John Henry Winder, US Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal, dies at age 64. [1] February 15 Nicholas Wiseman first Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies. [1] February 25 Otto Ludwig German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at age 47. [1] March 1 Anna Paulowna Romanova great monarch of Russia, dies at age 70. [1] March 10 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confederate General-Major, dies at age 48. [1] March 26 Thomas Hancock pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies. [1] March 28 Albert G Bilders Dutch landscape painter, dies at age 26. [1] April 2 Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate General, killed in action at age 39. [1] Richard Cobden founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at age 60. [1] General A P Hill is killed by a Federal Picket. [1] April 6 John Austin Wharton, US Confederate General-Major, dies at age 36. [1] Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalry Colonel, dies in battle. [1] April 8 John Park composer, dies at age 61. [1] April 9 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union General-Major, dies at age 32. [1] April 15 President Abraham Lincoln dies, at 7:22 am, morning after being shot by John Wilkes Booth. [1] [5] April 16 Robert C Tyler, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle. [1] April 22 Francis Washburn, US Union Colonel/General Major, dies of injuries. [1] April 23 James Dearing, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at age 24. [1] April 26 Charles J Sax Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at age 74. [1] John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at age 27. [1] May 13 South Brownsville, Texas, (Palmito Ranch) final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed. [1] May 30 William Clarke Quantrill criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at age 27. [1] July 7 Four Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, hanged. [1] October 31 William Parson third Earl of Rosse and maker of large telescopes, dies. [1] November 10 Henry Wirzm Confederate prison superintendant executed for excessive cruelty. [1] December 1 Constant van Crombrugghe Flemish monastery founder, dies at age 76. [1] December 6 Sebastian de Iradier Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at age 56. [1] December 18 Francisco Manuel da Silva composer, dies at age 70. [1] 1866 January 15 M T d'Azeglio writer, dies. [1] January 27 John Gibson sculptor, dies. [1] March 4 Alexander Campbell Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at age 77. [1] March 10 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini composer, dies at age 87. [1] March 19 Louis Clapisson composer, dies at age 57. [1] March 20 Rikard Nordraak composer, dies at age 23. [1] March 24 Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies. [1] March 29 Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies. [1] April 1 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne composer, dies at age 98. [1] Johannes C H de Meijere Dutch zoologist, dies. [1] April 15 William Jackson composer, dies at age 51. [1] May 17 Adolf Bernhard Marx composer, dies at age 70. [1] December 3 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda composer, dies at age 65. [1] December 26 Samuel Ryan Curtis Union General-Major, dies at age 49. [1] 1867 January 12 Victor Cousin French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at age 74. [1] February 5 Salomon Munk published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies. [1] February 23 George Thomas Smart composer, dies at age 90. [1] March 2 French A Durlet Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at age 50. [1] March 6 Wiktor Kazynski composer, dies at age 54. [1] March 16 Benjamin Hanby composer, dies at age 33. [1] March 22 Ferdinando Giorgetti composer, dies at age 70. [1] April 18 Robert Smirke architect, dies. [1] April 19 Robert Smirke British architect, dies. [1] May 23 Archibald Alison Scottish historian, dies at age 74. [1] June 19 Maximilian Mexican emperor, executed, Mexican republic restored. [1] August 6 Faustin-Élie Soulouque emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown). [1] August 7 Ira Aldridge actor dies at age 63 in Lodes Poland. [1] August 10 Ira Frederick Aldridge US Negro tragedian, dies (birth date unkn). [1] December 6 Giovanni Pacini composer, dies at age 71. [1] December 7 Rudolf Viole composer, dies at age 42. [1] December 19 Jean-Georges Kastner composer, dies at age 57. [1] December 22 Jean-Victor Poncelet French mathematician (kinematics), dies at age 79. [1] 1868 January 3 Moritz Hauptmann composer, dies at age 75. [1] January 7 William Batchelder Bradbury composer, dies at age 51. [1] January 14 Heinrich Schenker Austrian musicologist (Ursatz), dies at age 66. [1] January 22 Moritz Ganz composer, dies at age 61. [1] January 28 Adalbert Stifter Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at age 62. [1] February 11 Léon Foucault discovers first physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies. [1] February 29 [Charles] Louis I [Augustus] King of Bavaria (L Montez), dies at age 81. [1] March 2 Carl Eberwein composer, dies at age 81. [1] March 28 James Thomas Brudenell 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about age 70. [1] April 3 Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer, dies at age 71. [1] April 13 Theodorus [Kasa] emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide. [1] May 3 Olof Wilhelm Udden composer, dies at age 68. [1] May 22 Julius Plücker German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies. [1] May 23 Kit Carson, American frontiersman, dies. [5] (1881 [1]) May 26 Michael Barrett Irish nationalist, last British public execution. [1] August 11 Thaddeus Stevens architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at age 76. [1] October 26 B F Randolph South Carolina state senator, assassinated. [1] November 13 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at age 76. [1] December 25 Linus Yale developer of cylinder lock, dies. [1] 1869 January 17 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky composer, dies at age 55. [1] January 28 Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley composer, dies at age 72. [1] February 1 Frederik W Conrad hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at age 68. [1] February 4 Johan M Dautzenberg Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at age 60. [1] March 1 Alphonse MLP de Lamartine Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at age 78. [1] March 8 Louis Hector Berlioz French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at age 65. [1] March 19 Guillaume Nerenburger Belgian General (triangulatie), dies at age 64. [1] March 23 Charles Lucas composer, dies at age 60. [1] April 1 Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard Minister of Reformed Worship, dies at age 69. [1] April 5 Daniel Bakeman last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War, dies at age 109. [1] April 20 Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe composer, dies at age 72. [1] Piotr Studzinski composer, dies at age 42. [1] May 10 Wilhelm Bernard Molique composer, dies at age 66. [1] May 29 Philippe Vandermaelen Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at age 73. [1] July 15 A J Hayne black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated. [1] October 8 Franklin Pierce 14th president of US, dies in Concord, NH. [1] December 6 Jan de Liefde II Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at age 54. [1] December 18 Louis Moreau Gottschalk composer, dies at age 40. [1] December 24 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at age 55. [1]