Famous Deaths for Year 1839
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Deaths 1 - 45 of 45
Jan 12th - Joseph A Koch, Aust painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70
Jan 19th - Georg Abraham Schneider, composer, dies at 38
Feb 1st - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76
Feb 7th - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
Feb 15th - Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (b. 1803)
Mar 4th - Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist/composer, dies at 72
Mar 13th - Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
Mar 29th - Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/gen-major (Maastricht), dies at 56
Apr 1st - Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
Apr 11th - John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
Apr 20th - Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
Apr 22nd - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
Apr 23rd - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768)
May 3rd - Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67
May 13th - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
May 13th - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
May 17th - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
May 18th - Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), dies at 57
Jun 2nd - Wijnand YY Nuijen, painter/lithographer (Wrecked), dies at 26
Jun 9th - Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89
Jun 10th - Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
Jun 13th - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer, dies at 66
Jun 15th - Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41
Jun 27th - Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore, dies
Jun 30th - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
Jul 1st - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53
Jul 10th - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer, dies at 61
Jul 12th - Christian Traugott Tag, composer, dies at 62
Jul 15th - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies
Jul 29th - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
Aug 3rd - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
Aug 10th - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
Aug 23rd - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57
Aug 28th - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
Sep 10th - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
Sep 17th - Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies
Sep 20th - Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74
Sep 21st - Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
Oct 11th - Leonor de Almeida marquesa de Alorna, Portuguese poet, dies at 88
Oct 18th - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68
Nov 6th - Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
Dec 3rd - Frederik VI, king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies at 71
Dec 7th - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer, dies at 69
Dec 15th - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66
Dec 18th - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75
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