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Months in Year 1862: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 91 of 91

Jan 1st - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
Jan 5th - Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81
Jan 10th - Samuel Colt, American inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
Jan 18th - John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71
Jan 20th - Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines
Jan 24th - James McIntosh, US confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at about 33
Feb 3rd - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87
Feb 7th - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
Feb 11th - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
Feb 21st - Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75
Feb 24th - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
Feb 27th - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Ital Catholic youth, dies at 23
Mar 1st - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
Mar 2nd - Frederick West Lander, US Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40
Mar 7th - Ben McCulloch, US Confederate brig-general (KIA), dies at 50
Mar 7th - John Baillie McIntosh, US general-major (Union Army), dies at 32
Mar 7th - William Slack, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
Mar 8th - Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
Mar 8th - Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
US President John Tyler (Jan 18th) Mar 17th - Fromental Halevy, [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62
Mar 19th - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
Mar 23rd - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81
Apr 3rd - James Clark Ross, Arctic explorer, dies
Apr 4th - Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45
Apr 6th - Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 51
Apr 6th - Albert Sidney Johnston, US Confederate general, dies in battle at 59
Apr 7th - Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
Apr 9th - George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky), dies at about 50
Apr 10th - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, US lawyer/brig-general, dies at 40
Apr 19th - Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns
Apr 19th - Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies
Apr 25th - Charles Ferguson Smith, US Union Gen-Maj, dies of infection at 55
May 6th - Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
May 16th - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
Naturalist/Pacifist Henry David Thoreau (May 6th) May 18th - William H Keim, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 48
May 21st - John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
May 25th - Johann N Nestroy, Aust actor (Einmal Keine Sorgen Haben), dies at 60
May 28th - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16]
May 29th - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71
May 31st - Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34
Jun 6th - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
Jun 7th - William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason, at 42
Jun 17th - Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49
Jun 27th - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35
Jun 30th - Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48
Jul 3rd - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
Jul 5th - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
Jul 15th - David Emanuel Twiggs, US Confederate gen-mjr (Monterrey), dies at 72
Jul 24th - Martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79
Aug 5th - Thomas Williams, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
Aug 6th - Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71
Aug 9th - Joseph Bennett Plummer, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 42 or 46
Aug 10th - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
Aug 22nd - Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51
Aug 31st - George William Taylor, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
Aug 31st - Ignaz Assmayer, composer, dies at 72
Sep 1st - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
Sep 1st - Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
Sep 1st - Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
Sep 2nd - Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40
Sep 10th - Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71
Sep 14th - Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39
Sep 14th - Samuel Garland Jr, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
Sep 17th - Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
Sep 17th - William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
Sep 19th - [Lewis] Henry Little, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
Sep 29th - William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38
Sep 30th - Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union brig-gen, dies of injury at about 40
Oct 3rd - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
Oct 4th - William Duncan Smith, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 36
Oct 8th - James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
Oct 8th - William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
Oct 16th - George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31
Oct 18th - James Creighton, amateur American baseball player, dies of ruptured bladder from hitting home run on Oct 14th
Oct 30th - Ormsby Mcknight Mitchel, US astronomer/Union-general-major, dies at 53
Nov 6th - Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
Nov 9th - John Bordenave Villepigue, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 32
Nov 11th - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
Nov 13th - Ludwig Uhland, writer, dies at 75
Nov 17th - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
Dec 7th - Sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general, dies
Dec 13th - Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 49
Dec 13th - Maxcy Gregg, US Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 48
Dec 13th - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 39
Dec 14th - George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27
Dec 18th - Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35 of malarial fever
Dec 20th - Robert Knox Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist
Dec 24th - Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84
Dec 28th - Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54
Dec 31st - James Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate brig-gen, dies in Battle of Stone's River at 29
Dec 31st - Joshua Woodrow Sill, US Union brig-general, dies in Battle of Stone's River at 31

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