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Months in Year 1859: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 45 of 45

Jan 8th - Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50
Jan 20th - B v Arnim, writer, dies at 73
Jan 20th - Bettina Brentano, composer, dies at 73
Jan 27th - Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad, dies at 74
Jan 28th - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
Feb 6th - Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer, dies at 45
Feb 23rd - Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)
Feb 26th - Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64
Mar 1st - Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
Apr 12th - John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84
Apr 16th - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
Apr 30th - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67
May 4th - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
May 5th - Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53
May 6th - Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
May 6th - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, dies at 89
May 10th - John Archduke of Austria, dies
May 22nd - Ferdinand II, [Re Bomba], Dutch King of Sicily, dies at 49
Jun 7th - David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (May 6th) Jun 18th - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65
Jun 27th - Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69
Jul 5th - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
Jul 8th - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59), dies at 60
Jul 20th - Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies
Jul 29th - Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer, dies at 63
Aug 2nd - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
Aug 4th - Jean Vianney, French parish priest (b. 1786)
Aug 10th - George Staunton, writer
Sep 5th - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
Sep 13th - Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer, dies at 71
Sep 15th - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72
Sep 15th - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
Sep 28th - Rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies
Oct 4th - Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
Oct 22nd - Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75
Nov 7th - Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61
Nov 22nd - Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
Nov 28th - Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies
Dec 2nd - John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
Dec 5th - Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82
Dec 8th - Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
Dec 16th - Wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73
Dec 21st - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66
Dec 28th - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies
Dec 31st - Luigi Ricci, composer, dies at 54

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