May 10 Matthäus Stegmayer, Austrian composer, dies at 49 May 12 Jacob Andries van Braam, Dutch merchant and colonial administrator (Suriname), dies at 49 May 14 Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43 Apr 1820 Famous Deaths by Year Jun 1820 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Car Crash Hanging Killed in Action Plane Crash Poisoning