Deaths Date 1836 | History by KabAstro

Jan 3 Friedrich Witt, German cellist and composer (Jena Symphony; The Suffering Saviour), dies at 65
Jan 11 John Molson, Canadian brewer (founded Montreal brewery Molsons), dies at 72

Betsy Ross (1752-1836)

Jan 30 American seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag, dies at 84

Feb 10 Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, French chemist (worked with husband Antoine Lavoisier), dies at 78
Feb 22 John Clarke-Whitfeld, English organist and composer, dies at 65

Mar 6 American frontiersman, adventurer and politician, killed at the Battle of the Alamo at 49

Mar 6 James "Jim" Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (Texas Revolution), dies during Battle of Alamo at 39
Mar 6 James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
Mar 6 William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier, dies at the Battle of the Alamo, at 26
Mar 9 Antoine Destutt de Tracy, French Enlightenment philosopher, dies at 81
Mar 27 James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
Apr 7 William Godwin, English philosopher and political writer (Caleb Williams), dies at 80
Apr 20 Johan I Jozef, Monarch of Liechtenstein and fieldmarshal, dies at 75
Apr 21 Samuel Slater, English-American industrialist who brought the textile industrial revolution to America, dies at 67
May 6 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, English clergyman and composer (Selection of Sacred Music), dies at 78
May 7 Norbert Burgmuller, German composer, drowns during an epileptic seizure at 26
May 28 Anton Reicha, Czech-French composer, and pedagogue, dies at 66
Jun 6 Anthony of Saxony, King of Saxony (1827-36), dies at 80
Jun 9 Supply Belcher, American composer and singer (The Harmony of Maine), dies at 85
Jun 10 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
Jun 23 James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, dies at 63
Jun 26 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French author and composer (Marseillaise), dies at 76

Jun 28 4th US President (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85

Jul 26 José Melchor Gomis, Spanish Romantic composer, dies of tuberculosis at 45 [some source date death as 4 August]
Aug 16 Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (Parseval's theorem), dies at 81
Aug 21 Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer and physicist who specialized in mechanics (Navier–Stokes equations), dies at 51
Sep 5 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
Sep 12 Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer and dramatist, dies from the effects of syphilis at 34

Sep 14 3rd US Vice President (D-R: 1801-05) who killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel, dies at 80

Sep 14 Vincenzo Lavigna, Italian composer, dies at 60
Sep 17 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (Classification of flowering plants), dies at 88
Sep 19 Carl Friedrich Ebers, German composer and conductor, dies at 66
Sep 21 John Stafford Smith, British organist, and composer ("The Anacreontic Song", later used for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"), dies at 86
Sep 23 María Malibran (née García) Spanish operatic contralto and soprano, dies from head injuries several months after falling from a horse at 28
Oct 10 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, Flemish composer, dies at 61
Oct 10 Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson the 3rd President of the U.S., dies at 64
Oct 16 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33
Oct 17 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
Nov 5 Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)

Nov 6 King of France (1824-30), dies of cholera at 79

Nov 12 Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
Nov 16 Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
Nov 26 John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder who created macadam road surface (asphalt), dies at 80
Nov 27 Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer, dies at 78
Nov 30 Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (fluid mechanics), dies at 71
Dec 4 Daniel Read, American composer, dies at 79
Dec 12 Giuseppe Farinelli, Italian composer, dies at 67
Dec 26 Hans Georg Nägeli, Swiss composer, dies at 63