Famous Deaths for Year 1863
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Months in Year 1863: January March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 73 of 73
Jan 2nd - Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in Battle of Murfreesboro at 35
Jan 9th - Ferdinand Huber, composer, dies at 71
Jan 10th - Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
Jan 17th - E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73
Mar 11th - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
Mar 17th - John Pelham, US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24
Mar 21st - Edwin Vose Sumner, US Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66
Mar 28th - James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52
Apr 4th - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
Apr 8th - Joseph Netherclift, composer, dies at 70
Apr 10th - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
Apr 15th - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90
Apr 17th - Daniel Smith Donelson, Confederate general/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61
May 1st - Edward Dorr Tracy, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 29
May 3rd - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 35
May 7th - Amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46
May 10th - Thomas Jackson, ["Stonewall"], Confederate general (Civil War), dies at 39
May 14th - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46
May 16th - Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47
Confederate General Thomas Jackson (May 10th)
May 27th - Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31
May 28th - Edmund Kirby Jr, Union-brig-gen, dies of injuries at 23
Jun 7th - Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75
Jun 9th - Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30
Jun 17th - Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
Jun 26th - Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral, dies
Jun 27th - Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot dead at 38
Jul 1st - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42
Jul 2nd - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
Jul 3rd - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
Jul 3rd - Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate brigadier general Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
Jul 3rd - Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
Jul 3rd - Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
Jul 3rd - Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
Jul 3rd - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
Jul 4th - Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
Jul 6th - Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general, dies
Jul 8th - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
Jul 10th - Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
Jul 10th - Paul Jones Semmes, US businessman/Confederate brig-general, dies at 48
Jul 13th - John S Bowen, US architect/Confederate gen-major, dies at 32
Jul 17th - James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35
Jul 18th - William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
Jul 22nd - Carl Schuberth, composer, dies at 52
Jul 26th - Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70
Jul 27th - William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
Jul 28th - James Deshler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 30
Jul 29th - Edward Needle Kirk, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at about 35
Jul 30th - George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
Aug 5th - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53
Aug 8th - Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)
Aug 13th - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
Aug 14th - Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70
Aug 18th - Thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39
Aug 26th - John Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general, dies
Sep 6th - Lucius March Walker, Confederate brig-general (in duel), dies at 33
Sep 17th - Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies
Sep 17th - Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies
Sep 19th - Preston Smith, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
Sep 20th - Benjamin Hardin Helm, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies at 33
Sep 20th - Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78
Oct 2nd - Justinus van de Brugghen, lawyer/minister of Justice, dies
Oct 4th - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69
Oct 21st - Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55
Oct 31st - Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51
Nov 2nd - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
Nov 13th - Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 50
Nov 15th - Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies
Nov 20th - James Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, governor Jamaica, dies at 52
Nov 21st - Joseph Mayseder, composer, dies at 74
Nov 24th - Claudius Charles Wilson, Confederate brig-gen during American Civil War, dies of fever at camp in Ringgold, Georgia
Dec 13th - Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50
Dec 22nd - Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36
Dec 24th - W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52
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