Necrology 1820
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1820 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .
January
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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January 1st | Johann Friedrich Gottlob von Brause | Lutheran theologian, Superintendent von Freiberg | 56 | |
January 4th | Daniel Albert Albrecht Ernsting | German engraver and draftsman | ||
January 4th | Philip Key | American politician | ||
January 5th | Étienne Lauchery | French dancer, choreographer and ballet master | 87 | |
January 5th | Karol Sierakowski | Polish general in the Kościuszko uprising | ||
6th January | Gottlieb Hünerwadel | Swiss politician, industrialist and officer | 75 | |
January 8th | Demasduit | Newfoundland Indian, one of the last of the Beothuk people | ||
January 9th | Ferdinand Jagemann | German painter and brother of the actress Karoline Jagemann | 39 | |
11th January | Friedrich Wilhelm von Pelet | Prussian major general | 74 | |
January 14th | Wilhelmine Karoline of Denmark | Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel and Electress of Hessen | 72 | |
January 14th | Joseph Anton von Simbschen | Imperial-Austrian Feldzeugmeister | 73 | |
15. January | Theodor von Kretschmann | German politician, lawyer and publicist | 57 | |
January 16 | Paul Wolfgang Merkel | Kaufmann, first member of the city of Nuremberg in the Bavarian state parliament | 63 | |
January 17th | Daniel Wyttenbach | Swiss philologist | 73 | |
January 19th | Charles-Louis Clérisseau | French architect | ||
January 19th | Abraham Ten Broeck | American businessman, militia officer and politician | ||
January 19th | August Nicolaus Carl von Kardorff | German officer in the Danish service | 63 | |
January 20th | Friedrich V. | Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg | 71 | |
January 20th | John Nicholson | American lawyer and politician | ||
21th January | Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois | French scientist | 67 | |
22nd of January | Karl Anton von Bila | Prussian major general and chief of the Magdeburg fusilier brigade | 78 | |
January 23 | Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn | fourth son of King George III. of Great Britain and Ireland and the father of Queen Victoria | 52 | |
January 24th | Diego Innico Caracciolo | Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church | 60 | |
January 25 | Joseph Franz Weigl | First cellist in Prince Esterházy's orchestra | 79 | |
January 27th | Theodor Grünberger | Baroque composer | 63 | |
January 27th | Ephraim Joseph Hirschfeld | German-Jewish mystic of the Enlightenment period, Kabbalist and active Freemason | ||
January 28th | Ádam Pálóczi Horváth | Hungarian folk music collector, poet and composer | 59 | |
January 29th | George III | King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 81 | |
January 30th | Josepha Barbara Auernhammer | Austrian pianist and composer | 61 | |
31 January | Christian Friedrich Sintenis | German Protestant theologian, writer of edification and storyteller | 69 |
February
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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February 1st | Friedrich Rühs | German historian for Scandinavian and Germanic history | 38 | |
3 February | Gia Long | Vietnamese emperor, first emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1820) | 57 | |
February 4th | Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich Fielitz the Elder | German medic | 70 | |
February 5th | Tadeusz Brzozowski | 19. General of the Societas Jesu | 70 | |
February 5th | William Ellery | American politician, Founding Father of the United States | 92 | |
February 6th | Giovanni Battista Grazioli | Italian organist and classical composer | 73 | |
February 8 | Justus von Gruner | Prussian Privy Council of State and high-ranking statesman | 42 | |
February 8 | Wilhelm Ludwig von Puttkamer | Prussian major general and knight of the order Pour le Mérite | 80 | |
February 10th | Anna Elisabeth Luise of Brandenburg-Schwedt | Princess of Brandenburg-Schwedt, by marriage Princess of Prussia | 81 | |
February 11th | Karl von Fischer | German architect | 37 | |
February 11th | Heinrich Johann Otto König | German lawyer and professor | 71 | |
February 12th | Guillaume-Albert Teniers | Flemish composer and classical violinist | 71 | |
13th February | Peleg Arnold | American lawyer and politician | 68 | |
13th February | Karl Ferdinand von Langen | Prussian major general, commander of the Saarlouis fortress | 57 | |
14th of February | Charles Ferdinand d'Artois | Son of the future French king Charles X. | 42 | |
February 15th | Johann August von Harroy de Techreaux | royal Prussian lieutenant general and finally commander of the engineering corps | 66 | |
February 15th | Joseph Cambon | French politician | 63 | |
February 16 | Georg Carl von Döbeln | Swedish general | 61 | |
February 16 | Nikolaus Michael Oppel | German herpetologist and animal painter | 37 | |
February 17th | Franz Regis Clet | Missionary in China | 71 | |
February 23 | Alojzy Feliński | Polish writer | ||
February 26th | Maria Teresa de Vallabriga | Consort of the Infante Luis de Borbón y Farnesio | 60 | |
February 29th | Johann Joachim Eschenburg | German literary historian | 76 | |
February 29th | Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen the Younger | Prussian lieutenant general, governor of the province of Silesia | 53 | |
February 29th | Johann Christian Rosenmüller | German surgeon, anatomist and university professor | ||
February 29th | Hermann Schlichthorst | German theologian, educator and historian | 53 |
March
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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1st March | David Walker | American politician | 56 | |
3 March | Heinrich Ernst Bornemann | German lawyer | 39 | |
4th of March | Hermann Doormann | German council syndicate and diplomat | 67 | |
4th of March | Samuel Gustaf Ermine | Swedish geologist, entrepreneur and cartographer | 75 | |
5. March | Arnoldine Wolf | German poet | 51 | |
7th March | Ludwig Engelbert | Duke of Arenberg | 69 | |
8th of March | Jean-Melchior d'Abadie | French military and politician | 72 | |
9th March | Christian Balthasar von Hartmannsdorff | Judge at the Greifswald court | 74 | |
March 10th | Joan Antoni Desvalls i d'Ardena | Catalan scientist | 79 | |
March 11 | Benjamin West | English painter | 81 | |
March 12th | Ernst Maria Ferdinand von Bissingen | last auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Constance | 69 | |
March 12th | Alexander MacKenzie | Scottish explorer in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company | ||
March, 15 | Klemens Maria Hofbauer | Austrian preacher, member of the Redemptorist Order and patron saint of Vienna | 68 | |
March 16 | Johann Immanuel Bossert | Mayor of Tübingen | 77 | |
17. March | Friedrich von Graffen | German lawyer and mayor | 74 | |
March 21st | Carl von Isenburg-Birstein | German prince | 53 | |
March 21st | Ambrosius Eichhorn | German Benedictine, priest and writer | 61 | |
March 22 | Stephen Decatur junior | United States Navy officer | 41 | |
March 24th | Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet | French natural philosopher | 84 | |
26th of March | Charles Blagden | British physician and naturalist | 71 | |
26th of March | Jean-Étienne Despréaux | French composer and actor | 71 | |
27th of March | Gerhard von Kügelgen | German painter | 48 | |
28th March | Josef Speckbacher | Tyrolean freedom fighter | 52 | |
March 29 | Salomé de Gélieu | Swiss teacher and educator (governess) | 77 | |
March 30 | Hans Georg Alexander Friedrich von Köller | Prussian manor owner and senior official | 67 | |
March 30 | Heinrich von Zawadzky | Prussian major general | 62 | |
March 31 | Johann Friedrich Krause | German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and general superintendent in Weimar | 49 | |
March 31 | Johann Volkmar Sickler | German pomologist | ||
March | Johann Christian Partzschefeldt | German draftsman and university drawing teacher | 63 |
April
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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April 1st | Isaac Milner | British mathematician and inventor | 70 | |
4. April | Christian Ludwig Schübler | Mayor of Heilbronn | 66 | |
4. April | Thiery de Vaux | Austrian Feldzeugmeister and fortress builder | 71 | |
April 5th | Hendrik Constantijn Cras | Dutch lawyer and librarian | 81 | |
7th of April | Carl Olof Cronstedt | Finland-Swedish naval officer | 63 | |
April 8th | Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk | Scottish philanthropist | 48 | |
April 8th | John Wentworth | British governor of two colonies | 82 | |
9th April | Angelo Anelli | Italian librettist and writer | 58 | |
April 13th | Johan Ludvig Mansa | Danish gardener and garden designer, author of a garden book | 79 | |
April 14th | Levi Lincoln | American lawyer and politician | 70 | |
April 19th | Christoph Friedrich Elsner | German medic | 71 | |
April 19th | Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff | Prussian lieutenant general and diplomat | 68 | |
20th of April | Alessandro Mattei | Cardinal of the Catholic Church | 76 | |
20th of April | Arthur Young | English agronomist and publicist | 78 | |
April 25 | Patrick Colquhoun | Scottish businessman, statistician, politician and diplomat | 75 | |
April 25 | Constantin François Volney | French traveler, orientalist and philosopher of history | 63 | |
April 25 | Johann Peter Bucher | German legal scholar | 79 | |
26th of April | Christian Zais | German architect and urban planner of classicism | 50 | |
April 27 | Johann Martin Fischer | Austrian sculptor | 79 | |
April 29 | Otto von Arnim | German government official | 34 |
May
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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1st of May | Lorenzo Litta | Italian clergyman, cardinal to the curia | 64 | |
10th of May | Matthäus Stegmayer | Austrian playwright, composer, librettist, music publisher and actor | 49 | |
May 11th | Ursula Wolf-Zellweger | Member of the Zellweger family from Trogen | 84 | |
May 14th | Paul Struck | composer | 43 | |
17th of May | Vincenzo Brenna | Italian-Russian architect and painter | ||
17th of May | Christian Hieronymus Esmarch | German civil servant | 67 | |
17th of May | Carl Philipp von Kropff | German forester | 71 | |
May 20th | Karl Ludwig Sand | radical fraternity | 24 | |
May 21 | Johann Chiossich | Austrian soldier with 110 years of service | 116 | |
May 21 | Jakob Moralt | German musician | 39 | |
May 24th | Jørgen Frantz Hammershaimb | Løgmaður of the Faroe Islands (1805–1816) | 52 | |
25. May | Eric Ruuth | Swedish count, politician and marshal | 73 | |
May 26 | Arnold Robens | Secret scribe of the Jülich knighthood | 61 | |
May 29th | Christian Konrad Wilhelm von Dohm | German politician and writer | 68 | |
31. May | Friedrich von Coelln | German politician, economist and author |
June
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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June 1st | August Ferdinand Bernhardi | German linguist and writer | 50 | |
3rd of June | Winthrop Sargent | American politician and governor of the Mississippi Territory (1798–1801) | 67 | |
6th of June | Henry Grattan | Irish politician | 73 | |
June 7th | Pierre Louis Louvel | Assassin of Charles Ferdinand de Bourbon | 36 | |
June 9th | Wilhelmine of Lichtenau | Beloved of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia | 66 | |
June 9th | Wilhelmine of Prussia | Inheritance holder of the Netherlands | 68 | |
June 9th | Carl August von Stutterheim | Prussian major general | 60 | |
June 10th | Franz Heinrich Bispink | German writer | 70 | |
June 13th | Johann Michael Bach III | German composer, son of Johann Elias Bach | 74 | |
15th June | Adam Weisweiler | German cabinet maker and cabinet maker | 73 | |
18th of June | Johann Heinrich Stein | German banker | 47 | |
June 19th | Joseph Banks | English naturalist | 77 | |
20th June | Manuel Belgrano | Argentinian lawyer, politician and general | 50 | |
June 21st | Caspar Oechsle | German imperial prelate, last abbot of the imperial abbey of Salem | 68 | |
June 21st | Alexis Thérèse Petit | French physicist | 28 | |
23rd June | Luise Karoline von Hochberg | second wife of the Margrave and later Grand Duke Karl Friedrich von Baden | 52 | |
25th June | Aaron Kitchell | American politician | 75 | |
June 28th | Joachim Friedrich Gotthelf von Zezschwitz | Saxon general of the cavalry | 80 | |
June 30th | Maurice Duplay | French carpenter and Jacobin | 83 | |
June 30th | Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart | Prince Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna | 90 | |
June | Philippe Etienne La Fosse | French veterinarian | 81 |
July
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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2nd July | Peter Dollond | English optician | 90 | |
2nd July | Johann Gottlieb Wolstein | German medic | 82 | |
July 6th | Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly | Austrian publisher and cartographer | 53 | |
7th of July | Carl Gotthilf Tilebein | German merchant and shipowner | 60 | |
10th of July | William Wyatt Bibb | American politician | 38 | |
July 11th | Frederick Traugott Pursh | German-Canadian botanist and gardener | 46 | |
16th of July | Anton Schneider | Lawyer, freedom fighter, commander in chief of the Vorarlberg people's uprising | 42 | |
17th July | Georg Prochaska | Czech-Austrian medic | 71 | |
July 18th | George Hancock | American politician | 66 | |
July 28th | Filippo Gragnani | Italian composer and guitarist | 51 | |
July 28th | Giuseppe Thaon di Revel | Piedmontese general, first in command of the Carabinieri | 63 | |
30th July | Ewald Georg von Massow | Prussian minister of state and governor for Silesia | 66 |
August
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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August 2nd | Maria Carolina Benda | Singer, pianist, composer and chamber singer at the court of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach | ||
3rd August | Jakob Friedrich von Holtzendorff | Prussian lieutenant general, chief of the cuirassier regiment No. 9 | 79 | |
6th of August | Friederike of Prussia | Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, by marriage Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and Duchess of York and Albany | 53 | |
6th of August | Johann Georg Schmidt | German Lutheran clergyman | 56 | |
6th of August | Anton Wranitzky | Austrian composer | 59 | |
August 7th | Elisa Bonaparte | Sister of Napoleon Bonaparte | 43 | |
August 9 | Sparrman is different | Swedish doctor, botanist and ornithologist | 72 | |
August 10 | Johann Heinrich Dambeck | Austrian writer and university professor | 46 | |
August 11th | Peter Josef Cramer from Clausagh | Official in Cologne | 67 | |
August 11th | Charles Drayton | American settlers in the thirteen colonies | 76 | |
August 11th | János Lavotta | Hungarian violinist and composer | 56 | |
12. August | Nathaniel Pearce | British adventurer, African traveler and travel writer | 41 | |
August 14th | Martin Neumann | Member of Parliament for the Duchy of Nassau | 59 | |
August 16 | Johann Georg Scheffner | German writer | 84 | |
August 24th | Joseph von Bretfeld | Bohemian lawyer and university professor | 90 | |
August 24th | Ion Budai-Deleanu | Romanian writer, historian, linguist, Romanist and Romanist | 60 | |
26th of August | Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu | German businessman and entrepreneur in Braunschweig | ||
August 27 | Christian Philipp Wolff | German sculptor | 48 | |
August 28th | Karl August Stupid | Secret finance councilor, scientist, author and namesake of the Blödit crystal | 47 | |
August 28th | Anton Kraft | Bohemian cellist and classical composer | 67 | |
August 31 | László Ungvárnémeti Tóth | Hungarian poet | 32 |
September
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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September 2nd | Jiaqing | Emperor of China | 59 | |
September 2nd | Home Riggs Popham | British naval officer and politician | 57 | |
September 3 | Benjamin Latrobe | American architect of the United States Capitol | 56 | |
7th of September | Ignaz Liebel | Austrian philologist, writer and professor in Vienna | 66 | |
13.september | Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym | Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Hereditary Princess of Lübeck and Princess of Holstein-Oldenburg by marriage | 20th | |
September 14th | François-Joseph Lefebvre | Marshal of France | 64 | |
13.september | Johann Josef Nehr | Bohemian monastery doctor and patron of Marienbad | 68 | |
September 15th | Giovanni Battista Quarantotti | Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church | 86 | |
16th September | Marie Bigot | French pianist and composer | 34 | |
17th of September | Giovanni Francesco Compagnoni Marefoschi | Italian Curia Bishop | 62 | |
September 18 | Giovanni Devoti | Italian clergyman, Bishop of Anagni and Curia Bishop | 76 | |
September 19th | Johann Georg Meusel | German historian, lexicographer and bibliographer | 77 | |
21st September | Joseph Rodman Drake | American poet | 25th | |
21st September | Georg Heinrich von Müller | University professor and prelate and general superintendent of Heilbronn | 70 | |
September 22 | Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin | German draftsman and engraver | 59 | |
September 23rd | Friedrich Leopold Abel | German violinist, pianist, music teacher and composer | ||
September 23rd | François-Christophe Kellermann | French general, peer and marshal of France | 85 | |
September 26th | Daniel Boone | American pioneer and explorer | 85 | |
September 27th | Andreas von Below | Livonian country marshal | 57 | |
September 28th | Anton Maria Karl von Belderbusch | Lord Mayor in Bonn | 62 |
October
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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October 3 | Ludovit Václav Lachnit | Czech composer | 74 | |
5th October | Augustin Barruel | French Jesuit and conspiracy theorist | 79 | |
5th October | Claudius James Rich | British orientalist and traveler, resident (roughly equivalent to a consul) of the East India Company in Baghdad | 34 | |
8th October | Henri Christophe | King of Northern Haiti (1811-1820) | 53 | |
October 10th | Wilson Cary Nicholas | American politician | 59 | |
October 10th | Uragami Gyokudō | Japanese painter, musician and poet | ||
October 11th | James Keir | Scottish chemist and industrialist industrialist | 85 | |
October 14th | Johann Daniel Ramberg | German architect and painter | 87 | |
15th October | Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg | Austrian field marshal from the Schwarzenberg family | 49 | |
October, 16th | Patritius Benedict Room | Catholic clergyman | 68 | |
October 17th | Alexander von der Schulenburg-Emden | German landowner | 58 | |
October 19th | Samuel Hämmerli | Swiss leveler | ||
the 20th of October | Franz Joseph Bodmann | German lawyer, historian, librarian and historian | 66 | |
23rd October | Christian Gottfried Becker | German textile manufacturer | 49 | |
October 25 | John Bacon | American politician | 82 | |
28th of October | Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Bredow | German landowner | 57 | |
October 29th | Tobias Hempel | German lawyer, councilor, bailiff and mayor | 82 | |
30th of October | Christian Friedrich Hoffmann | German mathematician, educator and archaeologist |
November
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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November 1st | Pierre Martin | French admiral | 68 | |
November 2 | Vincenc Tuček | Czech composer | 47 | |
November 4th | Johannes Künzle | Swiss politician | 70 | |
November 5th | William Richardson Davie | American politician, governor of North Carolina | 64 | |
November 6th | Carl Ludwig Murtfeldt | German engineer captain, architect and cartographer | ||
November 13th | Karl Bellino | German orientalist and interpreter, secretary of the East India Company in Baghdad | 29 | |
November 16 | Jean Lambert Tallien | French revolutionary | 53 | |
November 18 | Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay | German poet | 82 | |
November 19th | Franz Anton Dreher | Austrian entrepreneur | 84 | |
20th November | James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury | English diplomat | 74 | |
22nd of November | Jakob Placidus old mother | Austrian painter | 40 | |
November 26th | Duncan Stewart | American politician | ||
November 27th | Joseph-Philibert Desblanc | French engineer and inventor of a steamship | ||
November 29th | Adolph von Danckelmann | German adventurer | 41 | |
November 29th | Joseph of Smola | Austrian officer | 56 | |
30th of November | Johann Jakob Cella | German lawyer | 64 |
December
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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2. December | Johann Jürgen Busch | German sculptor | ||
2. December | Marie-Victoire Lemoine | French painter of classicism | ||
December 4th | Franz Jakob Schwanthaler | German sculptor | 60 | |
6th of December | Karl Christian Tittmann | German Protestant theologian | 76 | |
December 7th | Denis Decrès | French admiral and politician of the First Empire | 59 | |
9th of December | William Tierney Robarts | British politician and businessman | ||
10th of December | Johann Samuel Klein | Historian and theologian | 72 | |
10th of December | Carl von Plotho | Prussian lieutenant colonel of the infantry as well as military historian and writer | 40 | |
11th December | Franz Joseph Salffekt | Engraver and medalist | 58 | |
12th of December | Friedrich Daniel Wilhelm von Irwing | Prussian Major General and Chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 3 | 80 | |
13th December | Ferenc Széchényi | Hungarian nobleman and politician | 66 | |
December 17th | Samuel S. Conner | American politician | ||
December 17th | Nathaniel Hazard | American politician | ||
20th of December | Jesse Slocumb | American politician | ||
December 22 | Vincenzo Chiarugi | Italian doctor | 61 | |
23rd of December | Adamson Tannehill | American politician | 70 | |
25 December | James Burrill | American politician | 48 | |
December 26th | Joseph Fouché | French politician | 61 | |
December 27th | Thomas Gage, 7th Baronet | British botanist | 39 | |
December 27th | Abraham Tictin | Chief rabbi in Breslau | 56 | |
December 28th | Johann Hartmann Christoph Graef | German Protestant theologian | 76 | |
December 29th | Konrad Erckenbrecht | Mayor in Eppingen | 69 | |
December 29th | Pauline | Regent of the Principality of Lippe. Founder of the first day care center in Germany | 51 |
Date unknown
Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
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José Pinto Alcoforado de Azevedo e Sousa | Portuguese governor of Portuguese Timor | |||
Paul Philipp Barraud | English watchmaker | |||
Jean Duplessis-Bertaux | French draftsman, etcher and painter | |||
Stubbins Ffirth | American doctor | |||
Georg Friedrich Grohe | German businessman | |||
John Haverfield | English gardener and landscape architect | |||
Mary Hoare | English painter | |||
Aloys Keßler | German engraver | |||
Manuel Lisa | Spanish fur trader in the USA | |||
James Lloyd | American politician | |||
Johann Friedrich von Luxburg | Palatine of Zweibrücken and Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Privy Councilor and Oberschenk | |||
Pierre Denys de Montfort | French naturalist and malacologist | |||
Dildar Ali Nasirabadi | Indian twelve Shiite scholar and Ayatollah | |||
Nguyễn you | Vietnamese poet and writer | |||
Carlo Rossetti | European merchant and consul in Cairo | |||
Henri Salembier | French painter, draftsman and ornament engraver | |||
John Stewart | American politician | |||
Johann Conrad Ulmer | German etcher and engraver |