Famous Deaths for Year 1866
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Months in Year 1866: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 42 of 42
Jan 10th - Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
Jan 15th - M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
Jan 23rd - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
Jan 27th - John Gibson, sculptor, dies
Feb 3rd - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
Mar 4th - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
Mar 6th - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794)
Mar 10th - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87
Mar 19th - Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57
Mar 20th - Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23
Mar 24th - Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies
Mar 28th - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
Mar 29th - Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies
Apr 1st - Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
Apr 1st - Johannes C H de Meijere, Dutch zoologist, dies
Apr 15th - William Jackson, composer, dies at 51
May 13th - Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
May 17th - Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
May 29th - Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
Jun 5th - John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
Jun 7th - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
Jun 16th - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
Jun 18th - Jacobus T Abels, painter, dies at 62
Jun 23rd - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam physician/social activist, dies at 53
Jun 25th - Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
Jul 20th - Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide
Jul 20th - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies
Jul 23rd - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
Jul 25th - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
Aug 1st - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
Aug 6th - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
Aug 22nd - George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies
Sep 3rd - Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
Sep 9th - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65
Sep 26th - Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72
Oct 26th - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company) (b. 1803)
Nov 14th - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)
Nov 26th - Adrien Francois Servais, composer, dies at 59
Nov 26th - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72
Dec 1st - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790)
Dec 3rd - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer, dies at 65
Dec 26th - Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49
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