Famous Deaths for Year 1855
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Deaths 1 - 39 of 39
Jan 6th - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
Jan 10th - Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67
Jan 25th - Dorothy Wordsworth, writer, dies at 83
Jan 26th - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
Feb 6th - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
Feb 20th - Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies
Feb 23rd - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies
Mar 2nd - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
Mar 8th - William Poole, Infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
Mar 17th - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65
Mar 20th - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
Mar 29th - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)
Mar 31st - Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
Apr 13th - Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
Apr 18th - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies
Apr 24th - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75
Apr 30th - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor, dies at 68
May 4th - Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
May 5th - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
May 15th - Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75
May 23rd - Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797)
May 27th - Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
Jun 16th - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
Jun 28th - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86
Jun 29th - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
Jul 7th - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
Jul 8th - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
Jul 9th - Lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War
Aug 7th - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
Aug 16th - Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?)
Aug 27th - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36
Sep 24th - Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86
Oct 6th - August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln), dies at 75
Oct 13th - Gottfried Rieger, composer, dies at 91
Oct 25th - Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84
Nov 11th - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
Nov 26th - Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
Dec 6th - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
Dec 15th - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
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