- July 9
- Zachary Taylor, 12th president of US, dies in White House of unknown cause, after serving 16 months. [1] [5] [573.82]
- August 17
- José Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies. [1]
1851
- January 27
- John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at age 65. [1]
- February 1
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at age 53. [1]
- May 17
- Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at age 31. [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
- February 21
- Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Souls), dies. [1]
- February 25
- Thomas Moore, writer (Odes of Anacreon), dies. [1]
- February 29
- John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies. [1]
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- 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 12
- John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies. [1]
- August 18
- Death of Margaret Taylor in Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA; spouse of US President Zachary Taylor. [573.86]
- September 14
- Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at age 83. [1]
- October 24
- Death of Daniel Webster in Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA; lawyer, Representative (1813-17, 1823-27), US Senator (1827-41, 1843-50), Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), presidential candidate (1852). [605.178]
- December 16
- Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at age 59. [1]
1853
- 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 30
- Death of Abigail Powers in Washington, DC, USA; spouse of US President Millard Fillmore. [710.70]
- April 8
- Jan W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at age 73. [1]
- April 18
- US Vice President William King dies a month after his inauguration. [1]
- May 8
- Joannes P Roothaan, first Dutch Lieutenant Colonel-General of Jesuits, dies at age 67. [1]
1855
- January 10
- Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright/poet (Julian), dies at age 67. [1]
- March 2
- Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at age 58. [1]
- March 31
- Charlotte Brontë, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at age 38. [1]
- May 27
- Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russian writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies. [1]
1856
- January 12
- L'udovít Stúr Slovaaks, author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at age 40. [1]
- May 3
- Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at age 52. [1]
1857
- 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 16
- Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at age 37. [1]
- March 11
- Manuel José Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at age 84. [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]
- July 5
- Death of English Major General Sir Henry Barnard, of cholera, at seige of Delhi India. [857.51]
- July 31
- Death of Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, in Paris, France. [811.144]
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]
- December 16
- Richard Bright, British doctor (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at age 69. [1]
1859
- January 27
- Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at age 74. [1]
- April 17
- Death of Jacqueline Smith Mills AKA Jacqueline Pendleton, at age 45, confidential emmisary between governments of US and France. [819.141]
- April 30
- Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at age 67. [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, Virginia at age 59. Brown had been found guilty of murder, treason, and inciting a slave insurrection. [1458.10]
- December 16
- Wilhelm Grimm, writer (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at age 73. [1]
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