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Famous People Who Died in May 1814

  • May 6 George Joseph Vogler, German composer, dies at 64
  • May 7 Franz Volrath Buttstett, German composer, dies at 79
  • May 12 Robert Treat Paine, American judge and Founding Father (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 83

Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814)

May 29 Empress of France (1804-14) and Queen of Italy (1805-10) as the first wife of Napoleon I, dies of pneumonia aged 50