Notable Deaths - 1852
1852 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 6 |
Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809) |
Jan 22 |
George Rodwell, composer, dies at 51 |
Jan 25 |
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778) |
Jan 25 |
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, Russian Explorer who discovered the continent of Antarctica, dies at 72 |
Feb 2 |
Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49 |
Feb 17 |
Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies |
Feb 25 |
Thomas Moore, Irish poet and musician, dies aged 72 |
Feb 25 |
Thomas Moore, Gettysburg |
Feb 27 |
Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69 |
Feb 27 |
Josef Drechsler, Der Bauer als Millionär |
Feb 29 |
John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies |
Mar 4 |
Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright, dies at 43 |
Mar 4 |
Nikolai Gogol, Black Sunday |
Mar 7 |
Jacopo Ferretti, La Cenerentola |
Mar 12 |
Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75 |
Mar 25 |
Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73 |
Apr 2 |
Theodor Althaus, writer, dies |
Apr 9 |
John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning), dies |
Apr 10 |
John Howard Payne, The Family Stone |
Apr 19 |
Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 |
Apr 21 |
Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787) |
Apr 24 |
Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783) |
May 6 |
Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 |
May 12 |
John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies |
Jun 5 |
Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer, dies at 45 |
Jun 6 |
Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79 |
Jun 11 |
Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799) |
Jun 29 |
Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies of tuberculosis at 75 |
Jul 5 |
Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69 |
Jul 9 |
Thompson McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior, dies at 58 |
Jul 17 |
Salvatore Cammarano, Il trovatore |
Jul 19 |
Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83 |
Jul 22 |
Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774) |
Aug 5 |
Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53 |
Aug 11 |
Nicolaas Plomp, Dutch architect (Strugle), dies at 70 |
Aug 15 |
Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 |
Sep 4 |
William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796) |
Sep 14 |
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) dies at 83 |
Sep 14 |
James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62 |
Sep 14 |
Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812) |
Sep 20 |
Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775) |
Sep 22 |
William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783) |
Sep 28 |
Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer, dies at 60 |
Oct 11 |
Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823) |
Oct 22 |
Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86 |
Oct 24 |
Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70 |
Oct 28 |
Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57 |
Nov 2 |
Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782) |
Nov 12 |
Georg Hellmesberger, composer, dies at 22 |
Nov 18 |
Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60 |
Nov 22 |
August Alexander Klengel, composer, dies at 69 |
Nov 27 |
Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815) |
Nov 28 |
Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799) |
Dec 16 |
Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59 |
Dec 16 |
Henri-Jean Rigel, composer, dies at 80 |
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