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Famous People Who Died in 1813

  • Jan 3 Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
  • Jan 6 Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general, dies at 48
  • Jan 20 Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer (Oberon), dies at 79
  • Jan 23 George Clymer, American merchant and Founding Father (signed US Declaration of Independence and US Constitution), dies at 73
  • Jan 28 Ján Josef Rösler, Czech composer, dies at 41
  • Feb 13 Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)

Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813)

Feb 26 US Founding Father who delivered the oath of office to George Washington, dies at 66

  • Mar 23 Princess Augusta Frederica of Great Britain, dies at 75
  • Apr 10 Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (number theory, celestial mechanics), dies at 77
  • Apr 14 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, Swedish violinist and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 34
  • Apr 19 Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 67
  • Apr 27 Zebulon Pike, American brigadier general and explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34
  • Apr 28 Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (Battle of Borodino), dies at 67
  • Apr 29 Christian Danner, German violinist and composer, dies at 55
  • May 1 Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
  • May 23 Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
  • Jun 6 Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
  • Jun 17 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician, dies at 86
  • Jun 28 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussia general and Minister of War (1808-10) who reformed the Prussian army, dies at 57 after being wounded in the foot during battle
  • Jul 6 Granville Sharp, English abolitionist, dies at 77
  • Jul 13 Johann Friedrich Peter, Dutch-born American composer, dies at 67
  • Jul 22 George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist, dies at 61
  • Jul 29 Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
  • Aug 1 Carl Stenborg, Swedish composer, dies at 60
  • Aug 11 Henry James Pye, English poet, British Poet Laureate (1790-1813), dies at 68
  • Aug 19 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, German composer, dies at 54
  • Aug 19 Josef Blažej Smrček, Czech organist and composer, dies at 61
  • Aug 20 Jan Krtitel Vanhal, Czech organist, cellist, and composer, dies at 74
  • Aug 20 Johann Baptist Wanhal [Jan Křtitel Vaňhal], Czech organist, cellist, composer, and teacher, dies at 74
  • Aug 21 Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Queen consort of Sweden, dies at 67
  • Aug 23 Alexander Wilson, Scottish ornithologist and naturalist, dies at 47
  • Aug 26 Daniel Gottlob Turk, German composer, dies at 63
  • Aug 26 Theodor Körner, German soldier and poet (Zriny, Sword Song), dies fighting in the Napoleonic wars at 21
  • Sep 2 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general, mortally wounded in battle at 50
  • Sep 13 Hezqeyas, Emperor of Ethiopia (1789-94), dies
  • Sep 24 André Grétry, French opera composer, dies at 72
  • Sep 25 Braz Francisco de Lima, Portuguese composer, organist, mestre de capela, and pedagogue, dies at 61
  • Oct 5 Etienne Ozi, French composer, dies at 58

Tecumseh (c. 1768-1813)

Oct 5 Shawnee Chief (Battle of Thames), dies in battle at 45

  • Oct 19 Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish general and marshal of France, dies in battle at 50
  • Oct 22 August Harder, German composer, dies at 38
  • Nov 21 William Russell, English composer and organist, dies at 36
  • Nov 22 Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer, dies at 63
  • Nov 29 Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer (Bodoni), printer and publisher, dies at 73
  • Nov 30 Friedrich August Baumbach, German composer, dies at 60
  • Dec 1 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer, dies at 88
  • Dec 19 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, dies at 69
  • Dec 24 Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)