Famous Deaths for Year 1857
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Deaths 1 - 44 of 44
Jan 20th - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer, dies at 32
Jan 27th - Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
Feb 7th - Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
Feb 9th - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
Feb 10th - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
Feb 14th - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 56
Feb 15th - Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53
Feb 16th - Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77
Feb 16th - Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37
Feb 26th - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer, dies at 88
Feb 28th - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
Mar 11th - Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84
Mar 17th - Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42
Mar 21st - Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64
Apr 8th - Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827)
May 2nd - LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
May 11th - E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81
May 23rd - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
Jun 8th - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
Jun 28th - Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53
Jun 30th - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
Jul 2nd - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)
Jul 4th - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
Jul 15th - Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66
Jul 16th - Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies
Jul 19th - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
Jul 25th - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54
Jul 29th - Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54
Jul 29th - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
Aug 1st - Charles Turner, engraver, dies
Aug 3rd - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
Aug 10th - John Wilson Croker, politician
Aug 12th - William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies
Aug 27th - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1812)
Sep 3rd - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77
Sep 3rd - John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
Sep 5th - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
Sep 18th - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72
Oct 14th - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer, dies at 33
Oct 28th - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
Nov 7th - Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62
Nov 26th - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
Dec 3rd - Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80
Dec 11th - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73
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