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Months in Year 1864: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 113 of 113

Jan 4th - Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75
Jan 7th - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
Jan 8th - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer, dies at 83
Jan 13th - Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
Jan 15th - Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
Jan 16th - Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68
Jan 23rd - Michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50
Jan 24th - Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54
Jan 24th - Stephen Gardner Champlin, brig-general (Union), dies at about 36
Jan 27th - Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59
Jan 28th - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
Jan 31st - Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
Feb 15th - Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies
Feb 15th - William Dyce, painter, dies
Feb 16th - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58
Feb 19th - William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies
Feb 21st - Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
Feb 26th - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
Mar 3rd - Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
Mar 4th - Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies
Mar 10th - Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52
Mar 17th - Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
Mar 27th - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
Mar 30th - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52
Apr 4th - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
Apr 12th - Thomas Green, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 50
Apr 13th - Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74
Apr 22nd - Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76
Apr 29th - Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
May 2nd - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72
May 5th - Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44
May 5th - John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43
May 5th - Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42
May 6th - Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
May 6th - Micah Jenkins, Confederate brig-general (friendly fire), dies at 28
May 8th - James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56
May 9th - "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50
May 9th - Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident
May 10th - James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34
May 10th - Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brig-general, dies at about 27
May 12th - Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37
May 12th - J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
May 13th - Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
May 14th - William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies
May 16th - Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
May 17th - N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
May 18th - James Byron Gordon, Confederate brig-gen, dies at 41
May 19th - Nathaniel Hawthorne, US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies
May 20th - John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70
May 26th - Ch Sealsfield, writer, dies at 71
May 28th - Henry H Giesy, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle
May 28th - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and liberal politician (b. 1808)
May 30th - James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
Jun 1st - Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC
Jun 1st - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812)
Jun 2nd - George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brig-general, dies at 34
Jun 3rd - James P McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in battle
Jun 3rd - Peter A Porter, US Union colonel (8th NY), dies in battle
Jun 5th - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 39
Jun 14th - Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt
Jun 19th - George Lincoln Prescott, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries
Jun 27th - Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26
Jul 6th - Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36
Jul 16th - Victor JB Girardey, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 27
Jul 17th - Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29
Jul 17th - Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71
Jul 22nd - James Birdseye Mcpherson, US Union gen-major, dies in battle at 35
Jul 22nd - William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle at 47
Jul 25th - Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 42
Jul 27th - Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies
Jul 28th - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67
Jul 28th - Samuel Benton, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 44
Jul 31st - Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64
Aug 5th - Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26
Aug 7th - Li Xiucheng, late Taiping's Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823)
Aug 12th - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
Aug 15th - Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
Aug 16th - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31
Aug 20th - Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies
Aug 20th - John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
Aug 21st - John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
Aug 31st - Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician (ADA), dies at 39
Sep 4th - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
Sep 15th - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
Sep 16th - John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
Sep 17th - Walter Savage Landor, author, dies
Sep 19th - Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
Sep 19th - David Allen Russell, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 43
Sep 19th - Robert Emmet Rodes, US Confederate gen-major, dies in battle at 35
Sep 29th - Hiram Burnham, US Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle
Oct 1st - John Dunovant, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
Oct 1st - Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
Oct 4th - Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
Oct 7th - Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
Oct 7th - John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36
Oct 8th - Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34
Oct 10th - David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever
Oct 12th - Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87
Oct 18th - David Bell Birney, US lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39
Oct 18th - Jacques Francois Gallay, composer, dies at 68
Oct 19th - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/brig-general, dies in battle at 45
Oct 20th - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate gen-major, dies at 27
Oct 24th - James Jay Archer, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 46
Oct 26th - "Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
Oct 27th - Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58
Nov 3rd - Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
Nov 30th - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
Nov 30th - John Adams, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39
Nov 30th - Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
Nov 30th - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
Dec 2nd - Archibald Gracie III, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at Siege of Petersburg, Virginia aged 32
Dec 8th - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
Dec 21st - William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51

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