Famous Deaths for Year 1844
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Deaths 1 - 47 of 47
Jan 15th - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
Jan 31st - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
Feb 4th - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49
Feb 15th - Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86
Feb 16th - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1792)
Feb 27th - Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85
Feb 28th - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
Feb 28th - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
Feb 29th - Thaddaus Weigl, composer, dies at 67
Mar 8th - Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
Mar 21st - Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65
Apr 4th - Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80
Apr 8th - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer, dies at 72
Apr 22nd - Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76
May 8th - Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies
May 18th - Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
May 21st - Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68
May 24th - William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies
Jun 3rd - Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme, dies
Jun 15th - Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66
Jun 19th - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
Jun 27th - Hyrum Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob in Carthage Ill
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr (Jun 27th)
Jun 27th - Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob at 38
Jul 11th - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
Jul 12th - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63
Jul 13th - Johann Gansbacher, composer, dies at 66
Jul 15th - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
Jul 19th - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
Jul 23rd - Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
Jul 27th - John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
Jul 28th - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
Jul 29th - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, dies at 53
Aug 4th - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
Aug 11th - Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
Aug 14th - Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies
Aug 29th - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
Aug 30th - Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies
Sep 14th - Oliver Holden, composer, dies at 78
Sep 23rd - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
Sep 27th - Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
Sep 28th - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
Oct 12th - Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies
Nov 1st - August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45
Nov 14th - Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41
Nov 14th - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
Nov 21st - Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
Dec 2nd - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
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