Nekrolog 1861
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1861 . 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1st | Carl Johan Fahlcrantz | Swedish painter | 86 | |
| January 2nd | Friedrich Wilhelm IV. | King of Prussia (1840–1861) | 65 | |
| January 3rd | Arnold Adolf Berthold | German physiologist, zoologist and university professor | 57 | |
| January 3rd | Franz Richter | Austrian entrepreneur | ||
| January 5th | Heinrich Alexander von Arnim | Prussian statesman | 62 | |
| January 8th | Samuel Clegg | British chemist and engineer | 79 | |
| January 9th | Macgregor Laird | scottish traveler | ||
| 10. January | Leopold von Gerlach | Prussian infantry general and conservative politician | 70 | |
| 10. January | Heinrich Bruno von Steinaecker | Prussian major general | 72 | |
| January 12th | Václav Hanka | Czech linguist | 69 | |
| January 12th | Wilhelm von Kröcher | German manor owner and administrative officer | 78 | |
| January 12th | Friedrich Hermann de Leuw | German doctor | 68 | |
| January 12th | Joseph L. White | American politician | ||
| 13th January | Carlos Luis de Borbon | Count of Montemolín | 42 | |
| 13th January | Karl Gottlieb Prätzel | German poet and writer | 75 | |
| 15. January | Hillart Cropp | German lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly | 52 | |
| 15. January | Hendrick Heusken | Dutch-American interpreter | 28 | |
| January 16 | Georg Heinrich Lux | German school teacher, organist and composer | 81 | |
| January 16 | Charles Murphey | American politician | 61 | |
| January 16 | Wilhelm Zais | liberal Nassau politician | 62 | |
| January 17th | Julius von dem Bussche-Ippenburg | German administrative lawyer, Prussian district administrator and politician | 55 | |
| January 17th | Lola Montez | Irish impostor and dancer | 39 | |
| January 17th | Malla Montgomery-Silfverstolpe | Swedish writer | 78 | |
| January 18th | Leonhard Meck | actor | 73 | |
| January 18th | Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener | German entrepreneur, banker and patron | 78 | |
| January 19th | Gustav Adolf Keferstein | German pastor, critic, educator and music writer | ||
| January 19th | Albert Niemann | Pharmacist and chemist | 26th | |
| January 20th | Johann Ludwig Urban Blesson | Prussian military writer | 70 | |
| January 20th | Adolf Theodor Roscher | German industrialist | 79 | |
| January 20th | Martin von Wahrendorff | Swedish diplomat and inventor | 71 | |
| 21th January | Hinrich Middeldorpf | German orientalist and theologian; University professor in Wroclaw | 72 | |
| 22nd of January | Anton Friedrich Ludwig Pelt | German Protestant theologian | 61 | |
| 22nd of January | Friedrich Tiedemann | German anatomist and physiologist | 79 | |
| 22nd of January | Heinrich von Wedel | Prussian general of the cavalry | 76 | |
| January 24th | Robert Letcher | American politician | 72 | |
| January 24th | Hieronymus Müller | German philologist and translator | 75 | |
| January 24th | Johann Gottfried Stallbaum | German philologist and rector of the Thomas School | 67 | |
| January 25th | Heinrich Graeff | German lawyer and politician | 60 | |
| January 25th | Franz Hugo Hesse | Prussian civil servant, politician and diplomat | 56 | |
| January 25th | Charles Philipon | French caricaturist, graphic artist and journalist | 60 | |
| January 26th | Friedrich Wilhelm Otte | German painter | ||
| January 27th | Marc Caussidière | French republican revolutionary | 52 | |
| January 27th | Karl Huetlin | Mayor of Konstanz | 54 | |
| January 28th | Henri Murger | French author | 38 | |
| January 29th | Catherine Gore | English writer | ||
| January 29th | Johann Andreas Harmssen | German captain, circumnavigator | 78 | |
| January 30th | John Causin | American politician | ||
| January 30th | Christian Koehler | German painter | 51 | |
| January 30th | Christian Sörensen | Typesetter and inventor of the Tacheotype typesetting and filing machine | 42 | |
| 31 January | Ernst Meyer | German-Danish genre painter | 63 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1st | Augustus Hall | American politician | 46 | |
| February 1st | Elisha Harris | American politician | 69 | |
| February 1st | Joseph Ridgway | American politician | 77 | |
| February 1st | Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm Vogt | German-Swiss physician and pharmacologist | 71 | |
| 3 February | Friedrich von Wilczek | Austrian civil servant and politician | 70 | |
| February 5th | Pierre Bosquet | French general and Marshal of France | 50 | |
| February 6th | Caleb Burwell Rowan Kennerly | American doctor and naturalist | ||
| February 6th | Christian Gottlieb Pfretzschner | German pedagogue and politician, director of the trade school and honorary citizen of Plauen | 63 | |
| February 7th | Eduard Clemens Fechner | German painter and graphic artist | 61 | |
| February 7th | Borys Halpert | Polish theater director, librettist and musician | ||
| February 8 | Pierre-Bienvenu Noailles | French Catholic clergyman and founder of the order | 67 | |
| February 9 | August Achilles | German draftsman and lithographer | 62 | |
| February 9 | Karl Otto Ludwig von Arnim | German writer, diplomat and civil servant | 81 | |
| February 9 | Francis Danby | Irish landscape painter | 67 | |
| February 9 | Ignatz Uhrig | German entrepreneur, brewer and restaurateur | 40 | |
| February 10th | John A. Rockwell | American politician | 57 | |
| February 12th | Hippolyte Chelard | French composer | 72 | |
| 13th February | William Friedrich von Hammerstein | Austrian general | 75 | |
| 13th February | Ernst Pauer | Austrian Evangelical Lutheran clergyman | 69 | |
| 13th February | John C. Wright | American lawyer and politician | 77 | |
| 14th of February | Friedrich Arends | German geographer, economist and cultural historian | 78 | |
| 14th of February | Francisco Augusto Metrass | Portuguese painter | 36 | |
| February 16 | Karl von der Horst | German government official and member of parliament | 80 | |
| February 16 | Wilhelm Kirchhoff | German lawyer, poet and mayor of Grimmen | 60 | |
| February 16 | Ernst Casimir II of Ysenburg and Büdingen | Second prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen | 54 | |
| February 18 | Samuel Moore | American politician | 87 | |
| February 18 | Theodor Mügge | German author | 58 | |
| 19th of February | Syms Covington | Crew member of HMS Beagle (1831–1836), assistant and secretary to Charles Darwin | ||
| 19th of February | Theodor Rehbenitz | German painter and draftsman | 69 | |
| 20. February | Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence | American politician | 69 | |
| 20. February | Gustavo Modena | Italian stage actor and patriot | 58 | |
| 20. February | Eugène Scribe | French playwright and librettist | 69 | |
| 21st of February | Giovanni Brunelli | Italian cardinal | 65 | |
| 21st of February | Karl Wilhelm von Heideck | German painter | 72 | |
| 21st of February | Karl Klaunig | German educator | 36 | |
| 21st of February | Caspar de Latour | Swiss lawyer and politician | 34 | |
| 21st of February | Lars Levi Læstadius | Swedish revival preacher in Lapland | 60 | |
| 21st of February | Ernst Rietschel | German sculptor of late classicism | 56 | |
| February 22 | George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland | British nobleman and politician, member of the House of Commons | 74 | |
| February 23 | Conrad of Cucumus | German judge and jurist | 69 | |
| February 24th | Johann Friedrich Esperstedt | German court theater official | ||
| February 25 | Amalie Esperstedt | German theater actress | ||
| February 26th | Jacob Best | German entrepreneur and brewer | 74 | |
| February 26th | Wojciech Chrzanowski | Polish general | 68 | |
| February 26th | James Madison Hughes | American politician | 51 | |
| 27th of February | Prosper Ludwig | Duke of Arenberg | 75 |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st March | Gustav Haeser | German theater actor and opera singer (tenor) | 46 | |
| 1st March | George Washington Hopkins | American politician | 57 | |
| 1st March | Sigismund Schultes | Austrian religious, abbot of the Schottenstift | 59 | |
| 3 March | Joseph DuMont | German publisher | 49 | |
| 4th of March | August Friedrich Barkow | German lawyer, professor of law at the University of Greifswald | 70 | |
| 4th of March | Ippolito Nievo | Italian author | 29 | |
| 6th March | Conrad cruiser | Austrian draftsman and landscape painter | 50 | |
| 8th of March | Heinrich Rudolf Schinz | Swiss zoologist | 83 | |
| March 10th | Taras Shevchenko | Ukrainian poet | 47 | |
| March 12th | Carl Lossow | German history painter | 25th | |
| March 12th | Karl Reinhard Müller | German mathematician, music theorist and honorary citizen of the city of Marburg | 86 | |
| March 12th | Daniel Heinrich Willy | German lawyer and university professor | 74 | |
| the 14th of March | Ebenezer M. Chamberlain | American politician | 55 | |
| the 14th of March | Louis Niedermeyer | French composer | 58 | |
| March, 15 | Franz von Ensch | Austrian major general | 83 | |
| March 16 | Friedrich Wilhelm Böcker | German forensic doctor | 42 | |
| March 16 | Johann Christoph von Herdegen | Württemberg politician and finance minister | 73 | |
| March 16 | Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld | Mother of the British Queen Victoria and the aunt of the Prince Consort Albert | 74 | |
| 17. March | Per Conrad Boman | Swedish composer | 56 | |
| 17. March | Ernst von Heynitz | Saxon politician | 60 | |
| 17. March | Giovanni Patricolo | Italian painter | 71 | |
| March 18th | William Dunbar | American politician | ||
| March 18th | Paolo Ghiringhelli | Swiss Benedictine and governor | 82 | |
| March, 20th | Detlev von Einsiedel | Saxon statesman | 87 | |
| March 21st | Johann Michael Holder | Württemberg miniature painter and photographer | 65 | |
| March 21st | Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck | German private scholar and author of botanical works | 87 | |
| March 22 | Miguel Lerdo de Tejada | Mexican politician | 48 | |
| March 24th | George W. Scranton | American politician | 49 | |
| 26th of March | George Fisher | American lawyer and politician | 73 | |
| 26th of March | Karl Klunzinger | German pastor, writer and local researcher | 62 | |
| 27th of March | Heinrich Julius Pistorius | Lawyer, Pomeranian local politician, Mayor of Wolgast | 80 | |
| 28th March | Carl Haniel | German entrepreneur | 49 | |
| 28th March | Josef Staudigl | Austrian bass | 53 | |
| 28th March | James Turner | American politician | 77 | |
| March 29 | Adrianus Catharinus Holtius | Dutch lawyer | 74 | |
| March 29 | Daniel T. Jones | American doctor and politician | 60 | |
| March 29 | Ioan Lemeni | Bishop of Făgăraș | 80 | |
| March 30 | Louis Cordier | French geologist | 83 | |
| March 30 | Peter Franz Ignaz Deiters | German lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 | 57 | |
| March 31 | August von Stockhausen | Prussian Lieutenant General, Minister of War | 68 |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd of April | Peter Georg Bang | Danish lawyer, politician and minister | 63 | |
| 2nd of April | David Alois Schmid | Swiss painter, draftsman and graphic artist | 70 | |
| 4. April | Michael Aigner | Austrian engraver | 55 | |
| 4. April | Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky | Austrian statesman | 83 | |
| 4. April | John McLean | American lawyer and politician | 76 | |
| April 5th | Ferdinand Joachimsthal | German mathematician | 43 | |
| April 6th | George McCulloch | American politician | 69 | |
| April 8th | Karl Julius Guyet | German legal scholar, university professor and judge | 59 | |
| April 8th | Elisha Graves Otis | American inventor | 49 | |
| April 8th | Sebastian Rinz | German city gardener in Frankfurt am Main | 79 | |
| 10th of April | Édouard Ménétries | French entomologist and zoologist | 58 | |
| 10th of April | George Tucker | American politician | 85 | |
| 10th of April | Louis-Joseph Vicat | French inventor | 75 | |
| 12. April | Tytus Działyński | Polish officer and patriot | 63 | |
| April 13th | Felix Mießl | Austrian civil servant, mayor of Wiener Neustadt | 82 | |
| April 14th | Jacques-Félix Jan de La Hamelinaye | French division general | 92 | |
| April 14th | Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Linsingen | German diplomat and court official | 74 | |
| April 14th | Gabriel Antonio Pereira | Uruguayan politician and two-time President of Uruguay | 67 | |
| April 15th | Joseph Chaley | French construction engineer and suspension bridge pioneer | ||
| April 15th | Sylvester Jordan | German-Austrian lawyer and politician | 68 | |
| April 15th | Joseph Christian Schliz | Wuerttemberg governor and temporary city director of Stuttgart | 80 | |
| April 16 | Friedrich von Blittersdorf | Baden official | 69 | |
| April 16 | William Henry | American politician | 73 | |
| 17th April | Robert Motherby | German doctor, landowner and parliamentarian | 53 | |
| 17th April | Alois Taux | Austrian Kapellmeister and composer | 43 | |
| April 18 | Joseph Augenstein | Baden politician | 60 | |
| April 18 | August Neithardt | German composer | 67 | |
| April 19th | Charles Ashe à Court-Repington | British general and politician | 75 | |
| 20th of April | Antoine Aymard | French Lieutenant General of the Infantry | 87 | |
| 20th of April | Johann Friedrich Möller | German Protestant clergyman | 71 | |
| April 22 | Christian Blom | Norwegian composer | 78 | |
| April 22 | Johann Heinrich Richartz | German merchant and patron | 64 | |
| April 23 | Alexei Petrovich Yermolov | Russian general and diplomat; War hero (1812); Governor General in the Caucasus | 83 | |
| April 23 | John Wurts | American politician | 68 | |
| April 24th | Daniel D. Barnard | American lawyer and politician | 63 | |
| April 24th | Ludwig Crophius | Austrian Cistercian | 68 | |
| April 24th | John Hill | American politician | 64 | |
| April 24th | Benjamin Jones | American politician (Democratic Party) | 74 | |
| April 24th | Anna Reuss-Gaudelius | German theater actress and singer (soprano) | 42 | |
| April 24th | Gustav Wilhelm Scharlau | German doctor | 51 | |
| April 25 | Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer | Orientalist and publicist | 70 | |
| April 25 | Heinrich Velte | Member of Parliament for the Duchy of Nassau | 78 | |
| 26th of April | John Munroe | American soldier | ||
| April 28 | Karl Lossen | Hüttenherr and member of the state parliament | 67 | |
| April 28 | Charles H. Pond | American politician and Connecticut Governor | 80 | |
| April 29 | Ludwig Becker | German painter, scientist and explorer | 52 | |
| April 29 | Maximilian von Witzleben | German bailiff | 58 | |
| April, 30th | Anna Zeiner | Austrian theater actress | 53 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st of May | Michael Martin Lienau | German businessman and local politician | 75 | |
| 2.May | Friedrich August Biener | German lawyer and university professor | 74 | |
| May 3rd | Albert Schindler | Austrian painter, draftsman and engraver | 55 | |
| May 3rd | Henry J. Seaman | American politician | 56 | |
| May 7th | Johann August Stöger | Austrian theater director and singer (tenor) | 69 | |
| May 9 | Ernst von Lasaulx | classical philologist, historical philosopher and politician | 56 | |
| 10th of May | Christian Christoph Andreas Lange | Norwegian historian | 50 | |
| 12th of May | Christian Heinrich Hohmann | Franconian composer, music teacher and Vionlin school writer | 50 | |
| May 13th | William Henry Fitton | Irish geologist | 81 | |
| May 13th | Wilson Nesbitt | American politician | ||
| May 14th | Hermann Wilhelm Soltau | German painter and graphic artist | 48 | |
| May 15 | Samuel A. Smith | American politician | ||
| May 16 | John Stevens Henslow | English botanist and geologist | 65 | |
| May 18 | August of Ammon | German ophthalmologist | 61 | |
| May 18 | Johannes Trümpy | Swiss politician, judge and doctor | 63 | |
| May 19th | Carl Anton Henschel | German entrepreneur, Oberbergrat and founder of the Henschel & Son machine factory in Kassel in 1817 | 81 | |
| May 19th | Heinrich of Quintus-Icilius | German administrative lawyer and politician | 63 | |
| May 20th | Henry Meigs | American lawyer and politician | 78 | |
| May 20th | Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf | German landscape painter | 82 | |
| May 21 | Christian von Knapp | Finance Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg | 61 | |
| May 21 | Eugene of Mazenod | catholic saint | 78 | |
| May 21 | Alexei Fyodorovich Orlov | Russian general and statesman | 74 | |
| May 22 | Godehard Brown | German auxiliary bishop | 62 | |
| 23. May | Samuel Stokely | American politician (United States Whig Party) | 65 | |
| May 24th | Adele Elise Allram | Austrian actress | 34 | |
| May 26 | Karl von Rodt | Swiss founder of the Free Evangelical Congregation | 55 | |
| May 26 | Ludwig Stock | German archivist and historian | 82 | |
| May 27th | Susanne Schinkel | Wife of Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) | ||
| May 27th | Georg Joseph Sidler | Swiss politician | 78 | |
| 28th of May | Christian Koch | German educator and philologist | 79 | |
| May 29th | August Bercht | German publicist | 70 | |
| May 29th | Joachim Lelewel | Polish historian and freedom fighter | 75 | |
| 30th May | Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov | Field Marshal of the Russian Army and Commander in Chief in the Crimean War | 69 |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd of June | Stephen A. Douglas | American politician | 48 | |
| 3rd of June | Richard Saunders Dundas | British admiral | 59 | |
| June 5th | Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth | German botanist | 87 | |
| 6th of June | Camillo Benso by Cavour | Italian statesman and first prime minister | 50 | |
| 6th of June | Giuseppe Concone | Italian singing master | 59 | |
| 6th of June | Eberhard von Mylius | Lawyer and politician | 47 | |
| 6th of June | Albert Schott | Württemberg lawyer and politician | 79 | |
| June 7th | Patrick Brontë | Clergyman and author | 84 | |
| June 7th | Theodor Bülau | German architect | 60 | |
| 8th June | Nathan Cutler | Governor of Maine | 86 | |
| June 10th | Bernhard Heinrich Frister | German politician and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck | 82 | |
| June 10th | Leo Victor Felix Henckel von Donnersmarck | Prussian Chamberlain and Privy Councilor | 75 | |
| June 10th | José Cayetano Heredia | Peruvian medic | 63 | |
| June 10th | George May Germ | American politician | 56 | |
| June 10th | Theodore Winthrop | American author | 32 | |
| June 11th | August Schnitzler | German entrepreneur | 66 | |
| June 13th | Johann August Mau | German Protestant theologian | 84 | |
| 14th June | Ludwig von Mühlenfels | German lawyer, literary historian, appellate judge and Reich commissioner | 67 | |
| 15th June | Robert Friedrich Froriep | German anatomist | 57 | |
| 15th June | Josef Wartinger | Austrian archivist | 88 | |
| 15th June | Joseph R. Williams | American politician | 52 | |
| June 16 | Nathanael G. Pendleton | American politician (United States Whig Party) | 67 | |
| 17th of June | Johann Wilhelm Heinrich Conradi | German medic | 80 | |
| 17th of June | Lott Warren | American politician | 63 | |
| 18th of June | Eaton Hodgkinson | English mathematician and engineer | 72 | |
| June 19th | Peter Friedrich Conerus | Mayor of the City of North | ||
| June 19th | Louis-Eugène Favre | Swiss politician and judge | 45 | |
| 20th June | Richard Hanson Weightman | American politician | 44 | |
| June 21st | Jean-Marc Mousson | Swiss Federal Chancellor | 85 | |
| June 21st | Ludwig Preller | German classical philologist | 51 | |
| June 21st | Philipp Safe | German doctor, founder of the Gräßle Society | 58 | |
| June 22 | Johann Paul Kaltenbaeck | Austrian historian | 57 | |
| June 22 | George Peter | American politician | 81 | |
| 23rd June | Wilhelm Lachmann | German doctor, naturalist and founder of the Braunschweig Institute for the Blind | 59 | |
| June 24th | John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell | British politician, Member of the House of Commons and lawyer | 81 | |
| 25th June | Abdülmecid I. | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | 38 | |
| 25th June | Felix Schadow | German painter | 42 | |
| 25th June | William L. Storrs | American politician | 66 | |
| June 26th | Philipp von Krauss | Austrian Finance Minister | 69 | |
| June 26th | Gayton P. Osgood | American politician | 63 | |
| June 26th | John Holmes Prentiss | American politician | 77 | |
| June 26th | Pavel Jozef Šafárik | Slovak scientist and poet | 66 | |
| June 29th | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | English poet | 55 | |
| June 30th | Robert O'Hara Burke | Expedition leader of the first south-north crossing of Australia | ||
| June 30th | Friedrich Wilhelm Roetig | German watchmaker | 79 | |
| June | Johann Heinrich Fischer | Swiss innkeeper and politician | ||
| June | Henry Gray | English anatomist, surgeon and author | ||
| end of June | William John Wills | English surveyor | 27 |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Bernhard Beer | Scholar | 59 | |
| 2nd July | James Abercrombie | American lawyer, judge, and politician | 69 | |
| 2nd July | Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius | German Protestant theologian and educator; Rector of the Thomas School in Leipzig | 56 | |
| 2nd July | August Tilling | Courland lawyer | 64 | |
| 3rd of July | Alexander by François | District Administrator of the Demmin district | 48 | |
| July 4th | Heinrich von Pechmann | German architect and hydraulic engineer | 87 | |
| July 4th | Francisco del Rosario Sánchez | Dominican politician | 44 | |
| 5th July | Wilhelm Herbig | German painter | 73 | |
| July 6th | August Friedrich Gfrörer | Historian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly | 58 | |
| July 6th | Francis Palgrave | British historian | ||
| 7th of July | John Willis Ellis | American politician | 40 | |
| 7th of July | Valentin von Siebeneicher | Austrian major general | 78 | |
| 8th of July | Balthasar von Simunich | Austrian general | 76 | |
| July 9 | William H. Hammett | American politician | 62 | |
| July 11th | George Jacobus Johannes van Os | Dutch painter | 78 | |
| July 11th | Tieleman Franciscus Suys | Flemish architect | 78 | |
| July 11th | Marcus Tönsen | German theologian and legal scholar | 88 | |
| July 13th | Jan Ackersdijck | Dutch lawyer, statistician and political economist | 70 | |
| July 13th | James Hopkins Adams | Governor of south carolina | 49 | |
| July 13th | Robert Selden Garnett | American officer in the U.S. Army, Confederate General in the Civil War | 41 | |
| July 13th | Henry King | American politician | 71 | |
| July 13th | David Meldola | Chasan (Cantor) | ||
| July 13th | Karl Nietzki | German Protestant theologian and writer | 48 | |
| July 14th | Nathan Appleton | American politician | 81 | |
| July 14th | Alfred von Croÿ | Spanish grandee and German gentleman, entrepreneur and politician | 71 | |
| July 14th | Joshua Jewett | American politician | 45 | |
| July 14th | Frédéric de Lafresnaye | French ornithologist and entomologist | 77 | |
| July 14th | Franz Raffelsperger | Austrian geographer, cartographer and civil servant | ||
| 15th of July | Adam Jerzy Czartoryski | Russian foreign minister and head of the Polish revolutionary government (1830) | 91 | |
| 16th of July | Margarethe Bernbrunn | German soprano, actress and writer | 72 | |
| 16th of July | Ludwig Pernice | German legal scholar and curator in Halle | 62 | |
| 17th July | James Bland | English opera singer (tenor) | 63 | |
| July 18th | Johann Ludwig Choulant | German medical historian and doctor | 69 | |
| July 18th | Karl von Gärttner | Württemberg civil servant | 72 | |
| July 19 | Eduard Crusius | German pastor, writer and historian | 64 | |
| July 19 | Michael Kahn | German industrialist | 63 | |
| July 19 | Michele Tenore | Italian botanist | 81 | |
| 20th of July | Rudolf Sigmund von Holzschuher | German lawyer and politician | 84 | |
| 20th of July | Ferdinand Wachter | German historian and university professor | 67 | |
| 21 July | Francis Stebbins Bartow | American lawyer, politician, and officer in the Confederate Army | 44 | |
| 21 July | Johann Konrad Oertli | Swiss politician, doctor and journalist | 44 | |
| 22nd of July | Barnard Elliott Bee | General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War | 37 | |
| 22nd of July | Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch | philologist | 70 | |
| July 23 | Ernst Baedeker | German publisher | 27 | |
| July 25th | Jonas Furrer | Swiss politician | 56 | |
| July 25th | August Uhde | German astronomer, mathematician and university professor | 54 | |
| July 25th | Carl Vasquez-Pinas von Löwenthal | Austrian cartographer | 63 | |
| July 28th | Sullivan Ballou | American lawyer, politician and major in the Northern United States in the Civil War | 32 | |
| July 28th | Wilhelm Girtanner | German legal scholar | 38 | |
| July 28th | Christoph Trefurt | Baden lawyer and politician | 71 | |
| 29th of July | Wilhelm Drumann | German historian | 75 |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1st | Johann Philipp Abresch | German Democrat | 57 | |
| August 2nd | Aaron Clark | American politician | 73 | |
| August 2nd | William Harrison Dimmick | American politician | 45 | |
| August 2nd | Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea | British politician, member of the House of Commons, supporter of Florence Nightingale | 50 | |
| 4th of August | Joseph Trumbull | Connecticut attorney and governor | 78 | |
| 5th of August | Josef von Althann | Prussian-Austrian landowner and politician | 63 | |
| 8th August | Maximilian von Ditfurth | Elector of Hesse officer and military historian, member of the Electorate of Hesse assembly of estates | 55 | |
| August 9 | Adolf zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg | German nobleman, head of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg family | 55 | |
| August 9 | Vincent Novello | English musician and music publisher | 79 | |
| August 10 | Nathaniel Lyon | American Civil War General | 43 | |
| August 10 | Friedrich Julius Stahl | German legal philosopher, lawyer, politician | 59 | |
| August 11th | Catherine Hayes | Irish opera singer | 42 | |
| August 11th | Louis Wenger | Swiss architect and politician (FDP) | 52 | |
| 12. August | John McNair | American politician | 61 | |
| 13 August | Thomas Witlam Atkinson | English travel writer | 62 | |
| 15th of August | Adolphe Dumas | French poet, playwright and Provençalist | 55 | |
| August 16 | Johann Heinrich Hintze | German painter | 61 | |
| August 16 | Johann Friedrich Hohlfeld | German politician, editor and publisher, MdNV, MdL | 52 | |
| August 16 | Ranavalona I. | Ruler of the Merina, Madagascar | ||
| 17th August | Alcée Louis la Branche | American politician | ||
| 17th August | Johann David Passavant | German painter and art historian | 73 | |
| 17th August | Giacomo Piccolomini | Cardinal of the Catholic Church | 66 | |
| 18th of August | Jonker Africans | Captain of the ǃGû-ǃgôun | ||
| 18th of August | Johann Wilhelm Ebel | German theologian | 77 | |
| 18th of August | Ignaz von Kürsinger | Austrian civil servant, writer, topographer and mountaineer | 65 | |
| 18th of August | Franz Ferdinand Schiller | Austrian mining officer | 88 | |
| 20th of August | John Thomas Quekett | British medic | 46 | |
| 20th of August | Heinrich Friedrich Wedemeyer | Göttingen haberdashery, porcelain and glass painter | 77 | |
| August 21 | Josef Kastan | Austrian builder | 66 | |
| August 22nd | Xianfeng | Emperor of China | 30th | |
| August 23 | Heinrich Gentner | German homeland researcher | 42 | |
| August 23 | Friedrich Windischmann | German Catholic theologian and philologist | 49 | |
| August 24th | Pierre Berthier | French geologist and mineralogist | 79 | |
| August 24th | Karl August Milde | Prussian entrepreneur and politician | 55 | |
| August 24th | Adolf Eduard von Thile | Prussian general of the infantry | 77 | |
| 26th of August | Johan Fredrik Berwald | Swedish composer | 73 | |
| August 28th | William Lyon Mackenzie | Scottish-Canadian politician and first Mayor of Toronto in 1834 | 66 | |
| 29th August | Franz glasses | Austrian opera composer and conductor | 63 | |
| August 31 | James Adams Stallworth | American lawyer and politician | 39 | |
| August 31 | Johann Georg Wolff | German architect and master builder | 72 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2nd | Werner von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg | German landowners and politicians | 69 | |
| September 3 | Ernest Augustus Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | British nobleman and politician, member of the House of Commons | 64 | |
| September 3 | Christian Heinrich Tramm | German architect | 42 | |
| September 6th | Karl newborn | Transylvanian lawyer and historian | 72 | |
| September 6th | Eduard Rosenhain | German composer and university professor | 42 | |
| 7th of September | Willie Person Mangum | American politician | 69 | |
| September 10 | Ben Caunt | British boxer | 46 | |
| September 10 | Henry Graybill Lamar | American politician | 63 | |
| September 11 | Karl Gottlieb Anton | German classical philologist | 83 | |
| September 11 | George N. Briggs | American politician | 65 | |
| September 11 | Zacharias Dase | German high-speed calculator and mathematician | 37 | |
| 13.september | Valentin Anton Noodt | German officer in the Wars of Liberation and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman | 74 | |
| 13.september | Toussaint Poisson | French composer and music teacher | ||
| September 14th | Karl Ludwig Kannegiesser | German Romance studies and translator | 80 | |
| September 14th | Fortunato Santini | Italian clergyman, composer and music collector | 83 | |
| 16th September | Julius Deuschle | German high school teacher and historian of philosophy | 32 | |
| 16th September | Theodoor Willem Johannes Juynboll | Dutch Reformed theologian and oriental philologist | 59 | |
| 17th of September | Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs | German philosopher and Protestant theologian | ||
| 17th of September | Rodolphe Weck-Bussy | Swiss politician and State Councilor for the Canton of Friborg | 35 | |
| September 18 | Georg Felber | Swiss politician | 56 | |
| September 18 | Georg Geisenhof | German monk and author | 80 | |
| September 18 | Jan Müller | chief administrator of the Nachod estate, chronicler, author of an autobiography | ||
| September 20th | Henry Francis Fynn | English traveler and trader | 58 | |
| September 20th | Maximilien Simon | French composer and civil servant | 64 | |
| September 22 | Rose Cheri | french actress | 36 | |
| September 22 | Carl Friedrich Goeschel | Prussian church lawyer and philosophical-theological writer of the Hegelian school | 79 | |
| September 22 | James G. Hampton | American politician | 47 | |
| September 22 | Ernst Friedrich Zwirner | German architect, Cologne cathedral builder | 59 | |
| September 23rd | Therese Brunsvik | Hungarian countess, confidante of Beethoven and founder of the kindergartens in Hungary | 86 | |
| September 23rd | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser | German historian | 84 | |
| September 24th | Christoph Flach | German judge | 72 | |
| September 24th | Angelo Ramazzotti | Italian bishop and cardinal-designate of the Roman Catholic Church | 61 | |
| 25th of September | Julius Theodor Schmidt | German politician | 47 | |
| September 26th | Joseph of Barco | Austrian field marshal lieutenant | 63 | |
| September 26th | Friedrich Bernhard Adam Gross | German architect and Württemberg senior building officer as well as speaker | 78 | |
| September 29th | Tekla Bądarzewska | Polish musician | ||
| September 29th | Friedrich Everhard von Mering | German historian | 62 | |
| September 29th | Alexandre Abel de Pujol | French history painter | 76 | |
| 30. September | Joaquín María Ferrer Cafranga | Prime Minister of Spain | 83 |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | John Scott | American politician | 76 | |
| October 3 | Christian Friedrich Callisen | Evangelical Lutheran theologian, general superintendent of Schleswig | 84 | |
| 5th October | Kinsley S. Bingham | American politician | 52 | |
| 5th October | Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski | Archbishop of Warsaw | 83 | |
| 5th October | Matthias Ward | American politician | 55 | |
| 9th October | Dieterich von Bocholtz | German manor owners and parliamentarians | 64 | |
| October 10th | Franziska Batthyány | Austro-Hungarian nobles | 77 | |
| October 10th | Joseph Healy | American politician | 85 | |
| October 10th | Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen | Hessian judge and member of the Grand Duchy of Hesse | 60 | |
| October 11th | Elizabeth Conyngham, Countess of Conyngham | Mistress of King George IV of Great Britain | 92 | |
| October 11th | Karl Friedrich Weber | German classical philologist | 67 | |
| October 13th | Wilhelm Gayling of Altheim | Baden General of the Cavalry, Governor of the Federal Fortress of Rastatt | 75 | |
| 15th October | William A. Lake | American politician | 53 | |
| October 18 | Michael Koller | German doctor and member of parliament | 52 | |
| October 18 | John M. Landrum | American politician | 46 | |
| October 19th | Thomas Wildey | English craftsman and founder of the Odd Fellow Order (IOOF) | 79 | |
| the 20th of October | William Woodbridge | American politician | 81 | |
| October 21 | Edward Dickinson Baker | American politician | 50 | |
| October 22nd | Georg Gottlob von Gutbrod | Lord Mayor of Stuttgart | 70 | |
| October 22nd | Johann Michael Knapp | German architect | 70 | |
| 23rd October | Jorge Cordova | Bolivian President | 39 | |
| 23rd October | Rudolf Leubuscher | German doctor, pathologist, psychologist and psychiatrist | 38 | |
| 23rd October | José María Linares | Bolivian President | 53 | |
| October 25 | Gotthard Emanuel von Aderkas | German-Baltic diplomat and administrative officer | 87 | |
| October 25 | James Robert George Graham | British politician, member of the House of Commons | 69 | |
| October 25 | Friedrich Carl von Savigny | German legal scholar and legal historian | 82 | |
| October 26th | John I. Slingerland | American politician | 57 | |
| October 27 | Caspar von Siebold | German gynecologist | 60 | |
| 28th of October | Edwin James | American botanist, geologist, non-fiction author, and Bible translator | 64 | |
| 28th of October | Ivan Savvich Nikitin | Russian lyric poet | 37 | |
| 28th of October | Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf | Historian and dialect researcher | 71 | |
| October 29th | Thank God Heinrich Bergmann | German psychiatrist | 80 | |
| October 29th | Franz Xaver Zenner | Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna | 66 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1st | Eduard von Glöden | Mecklenburg freemason and art collector | 60 | |
| November 1st | Oldwig from Natzmer | Prussian general | 79 | |
| November 1st | Joseph Whitehill | American farmer and politician | 74 | |
| November 4th | Paul Uhle | German pathologist | 34 | |
| November 6th | Joseph Heicke | Austrian landscape painter | 50 | |
| November 6th | Jordaki Wassilko from Serecki | Austrian politician | 66 | |
| November 8th | Josiah M. Anderson | American politician | 53 | |
| November 8th | Moses Präger | German rabbi and author | 44 | |
| November 10th | James Cumming | English chemist | 84 | |
| November 10th | Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | French zoologist and ethologist | 55 | |
| November 10th | Moritz Schreber | German doctor, educator and university lecturer | 53 | |
| November 11th | Johann Joseph Müller | Swiss politician, editor and journalist | 46 | |
| November 11th | Peter V. | King of Portugal | 24 | |
| November 12th | Albert Dufour-Féronce | German merchant and banker | 62 | |
| November 13th | Arthur Hugh Clough | British writer | 42 | |
| November 13th | Heinrich Ferdinand Schuberth | German engineer | ||
| 14th November | Antun Mihanović | Author of the Croatian national anthem | 65 | |
| 15th of November | Joel Barlow Sutherland | American politician | 69 | |
| November 16 | Georg Wilhelm Freytag | German orientalist | 73 | |
| November 17th | Eduard Herrmann Volkmar Ficker | Saxon theologian | 60 | |
| November 17th | John Robert Godley | Founder of the Canterbury Colony in New Zealand | 47 | |
| November 17th | George Gurnett | Canadian journalist, politician and mayor | ||
| November 17th | Giusto Recanati | Italian religious and cardinal | 72 | |
| 20th November | Christian Friedrich Brendel | German mining engineer | 84 | |
| 20th November | Karl August Groos | German evangelical clergyman, editor of song collections and composer | 72 | |
| 20th November | Louis Albert Necker | Swiss crystallographer, geologist, zoologist and delegate to the Diet | 75 | |
| 20th November | Pierre Frédéric Sarrus | French mathematician | 63 | |
| 21st November | Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire | French Dominican, preacher and theologian | 59 | |
| 21st November | Peter Martin Pirquet from Cesenatico | Austrian Feldzeugmeister | 80 | |
| November 23 | Wilhelm von Harnier | German Africa explorer | ||
| November 24th | Ferdinand von Eckstein | Danish writer and French civil servant | 71 | |
| November 24th | Dietrich Martin Luther | Baltic German businessman, notary, publisher and journalist | 89 | |
| November 24th | David Abel Russell | American lawyer and politician | ||
| November 26th | Wilhelm Hensel | German painter and portraitist | 67 | |
| November 27th | Anne Bignan | French writer and translator | 66 | |
| November 27th | John Goddard Watmough | American politician | 67 | |
| November 27th | Jeanette Wohl | German friend and correspondent Ludwig Börnes | 78 | |
| November 28th | Manuel Antônio de Almeida | Brazilian poet doctor | 30th | |
| November 28th | Robert leader | Bohemian church musician and composer | 54 | |
| November 28th | August from Geyso | German politician | 59 | |
| November 28th | Richard M. Young | American lawyer and politician | 63 | |
| November 29th | Silas Condit | American politician | 83 | |
| November 29th | Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov | Russian man of letters and revolutionary democrat | 25th | |
| 30th of November | Theodor Mundt | German writer | 53 | |
| 30th of November | Julius Rudolf of the East | German administrative officer and manor owner | 60 |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Friedrich von Schäffer-Bernstein | General of the Infantry and Minister of War, Grand Duchy of Hesse | 70 | |
| 2. December | Friedrich of the ceiling | Mecklenburg landowner and politician | 70 | |
| 2. December | Lewis Gompertz | Animal rights activist and inventor of a hand crank drive for draisines | ||
| 3rd of December | Heinrich Geffcken | Hamburg senator and businessman | 69 | |
| 3rd of December | David Gray | Scottish poet | 23 | |
| December 4th | José María Bustamante | Mexican composer | 84 | |
| December 4th | Julius Hintz | German landscape and marine painter | ||
| December 5th | Johann Nikolaus Conrad Gotze | Music director and choir repeater at the grand ducal court theater in Weimar | 70 | |
| December 5th | Robert Heinrich Hiecke | German philologist | 56 | |
| 6th of December | Herrmann Gerson | Wholesaler, clothing manufacturers | 48 | |
| December 7th | Ferdinand Wilcke | German author | 61 | |
| December 8th | Jacob Pinhas | German publicist | 73 | |
| 10th of December | Karl Friedrich Ludwig zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg | Württemberg nobleman | 81 | |
| 12th of December | Franciszek Morawski | Polish general and writer | 78 | |
| December 14th | Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Husband of Victoria I of Great Britain and Ireland | 42 | |
| December 14th | Heinrich Marschner | German composer | 66 | |
| December 14th | Tommaso Mossi | Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, Cistercian, abbot and abbot general | 82 | |
| 15th December | Thomas Scott Williams | American politician | 84 | |
| 15th December | Ludwig usurers | German entrepreneur | 71 | |
| December 16 | Karol Lipiński | Polish violinist, composer and conductor | 71 | |
| December 16 | James Xavier McLanahan | American politician | ||
| December 17th | Ignaz Maria Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz | Austrian politician | 87 | |
| December 17th | Johann Andreas Wagner | German zoologist | 64 | |
| December 18th | Ernst Anschütz | German theologian, educator and author of many folk and children's songs | 81 | |
| December 18th | Albert of Pourtalès | Prussian diplomat | 49 | |
| December 18th | William A. Walker | American politician | 56 | |
| 20th of December | Carl Proske | German church musician and clergyman | 67 | |
| 20th of December | Vincenzo Pucitta | Italian opera composer | ||
| 21st December | Friedrich von Bothmer | German judge and minister of the Kingdom of Hanover | 65 | |
| 23rd of December | William Clayton Anderson | American politician | 34 | |
| 24th of December | Carl Gottlieb Bellmann | German musician | 89 | |
| 24th of December | Solomon G. Haven | American politician | 51 | |
| 24th of December | Christoph Carl Pfeuffer | German engraver and medalist | 60 | |
| 25 December | Natale Abbadia | Italian composer and singing teacher | 69 | |
| 25 December | Jakob Josef Eeckhout | Belgian painter | 68 | |
| 25 December | Theodor Sockl | Austrian painter and photographer | 46 | |
| December 26th | Philip St. George Cocke | Brigadier General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War | 52 | |
| December 26th | Francis E. Rives | American politician | 69 | |
| December 27th | Johann Maria of Portugal | Duke of Beja | 19th | |
| December 27th | Wilhelm von Merckel | German lawyer and author | 58 | |
| December 27th | Eberhard Müller | German administrative lawyer | ||
| December 27th | Karl von Roser | Württemberg civil servant | 74 | |
| December 28th | Anton Stephan from Martini | Vice-admiral, Feldzeugmeister and diplomat of the Austrian Empire | ||
| 30th of December | Joseph Geiger | Austrian pianist and composer | 51 | |
| December 31 | Pierre Louis Ravené | German industrialist, patron | 68 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Altmann | German painter | |||
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard | Hessian organ builder | |||
| Wenceslas Cavallo | German church musician and composer | |||
| Khalid ibn Saud | Imam of the Wahhabis (1837–1841) | |||
| Ferdinand Deppe | German gardener, naturalist, collector and painter | |||
| Rice Garland | American politician | |||
| Traugott Große | Saxon master mason and master carpenter | |||
| Wilhelm von Hodenberg | German civil servant and politician | |||
| Antoni Aleksander Iliński | Polish-Ottoman officer and general | |||
| Dimitrios Karatasos | Greek freedom fighter and partisan leader | |||
| Kirello IV of Alexandria | Coptic Pope of Alexandria (1854–1861); Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark (Coptic Church) | |||
| Philipp Lindemann | German lawyer | |||
| Friedrich Wilhelm Martens | German administrative officer and parliamentarian | |||
| Moses Mendelsohn | German author | |||
| Karl Theodor Menke | German doctor and malacologist | |||
| Henri Mouhot | French naturalist and explorer | |||
| Paul de Musset | French author | |||
| Ferdinand Pelzer | German guitarist and music teacher | |||
| Zoë Prévost | French opera singer (soprano) | |||
| Albert von Puttkamer | German politician, MdA and district administrator | |||
| Diedrich Christian Rutenberg | German builder | |||
| Ludwig Karl von Schaezler | German banker | |||
| Johann Caspar Schlimbach | Organ and instrument builder | |||
| Simon Georg Schmidt | German choir director, violinist and composer | |||
| Johann Joachim Schümann | Lübeck captain | |||
| Johann Gottfried Schuncke | German horn player at the Stuttgart court | |||
| Wilhelm Severin | Prussian builder | |||
| Mikhail Ivanovich Skotti | Russian painter | |||
| Karl Friedrich Gottlob Strebel | German porcelain manufacturer | |||
| Utagawa Kuniyoshi | Japanese printmaker, master of Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e) |