Famous Deaths for Year 1861
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Months in Year 1861: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Results 1 - 52 of 52
Jan 2nd - Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65
Jan 17th - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
Jan 31st - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
Feb 10th - Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies
Feb 12th - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer, dies at 72
Feb 18th - Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs, dies at 74
Mar 10th - Josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67
Mar 10th - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
Mar 14th - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
Mar 17th - Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 56
Apr 4th - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785)
Apr 8th - Elisha G Otis, US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50
Apr 11th - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
Apr 18th - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67
May 3rd - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
May 9th - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
May 12th - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50
May 24th - Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23
May 24th - James T Jackson, US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead)
Jun 1st - John Q Marr, US Union captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse
Jun 3rd - Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies
Jun 5th - John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle
Jun 5th - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55
Jun 6th - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
Jun 6th - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
Jun 25th - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
Jun 29th - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55
Jul 2nd - Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31
Jul 7th - John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
Jul 13th - Robert Selden Garnett, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
Jul 21st - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44
Jul 22nd - Barnard Elliot Bee, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 37
Jul 25th - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
Aug 10th - Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43
Aug 12th - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
Aug 17th - Alcée Louis la Branche, American Politician (b. 1806)
Aug 22nd - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
Aug 29th - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63
Sep 14th - Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83
Oct 5th - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
Oct 6th - Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84
Oct 21st - Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50
Oct 21st - John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies
Oct 25th - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82
Nov 11th - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24
Nov 28th - Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54
Dec 14th - Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42
Dec 14th - George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl min of Foreign affairs, dies at 76
Dec 14th - Heinrich August Marschner, composer, dies at 66
Dec 15th - Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45
Dec 16th - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71
Dec 26th - Philip St George Cocke, Confederate brig-gen, commits suicide at 52
