Famous Deaths for Year 1872
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Deaths 1 - 54 of 54
Jan 7th - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
Jan 21st - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81
Feb 21st - Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
Mar 4th - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
Mar 10th - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
Mar 12th - Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
Mar 30th - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76
Apr 1st - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
Apr 1st - William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (b. 1843)
Apr 2nd - Samuel Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80
Apr 9th - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
Apr 12th - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
Apr 20th - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
Apr 27th - Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70
May 1st - Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
May 15th - Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87
May 17th - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
May 19th - Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
May 24th - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies
Inventor Samuel Morse (Apr 2nd)
Jun 3rd - Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53
Jun 4th - Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies
Jun 4th - Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53
Jun 16th - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
Jun 28th - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66
Jul 18th - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
Jul 26th - Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
Jul 28th - Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies
Aug 2nd - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
Aug 11th - Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
Aug 19th - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
Sep 2nd - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
Sep 7th - Antoni Stolpe, composer, dies at 21
Sep 13th - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
Sep 14th - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48
Sep 18th - Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies
Sep 22nd - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
Oct 2nd - Eberhard F Walcker, organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies
Oct 10th - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
Oct 14th - Albrecht FH, prince of Prussia, dies at 63
Oct 21st - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
Oct 23rd - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
Nov 7th - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
Nov 23rd - Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief, dies
Nov 28th - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
Nov 29th - Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian, dies
Nov 29th - Giovanni Tadolini, composer, dies at 83
Nov 29th - Horace Greeley, US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), dies at 61
Dec 11th - Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
Dec 12th - Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
Dec 13th - Helena Beeloo, a maid, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
Dec 13th - W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
Dec 24th - William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)
Dec 28th - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
Dec 31st - Aleksis Kivi, [Stenvall], Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at 38
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