Deaths Date 1837 | History by KabAstro

Jan 20 John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs, Soane Museum), dies at 84
Jan 23 John Field, Irish pianist and composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54

Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837)

Feb 7 King of Sweden (1792-1809), dies of a stroke at 58

Feb 10 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (Eugene Onegin), killed in a duel at 37
Feb 12 Ludwig Borne [Loeb Baruch], German-Jewish writer, dies at 50
Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and romantic writer, commits suicide by gunshot at 27
Feb 19 Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
Mar 13 Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat and minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
Mar 26 Joseph Lincke, German cellist and composer, dies at 53
Mar 29 Maria Fitzherbert, English morganatic wife of King George IV, dies at 80
Mar 31 John Constable, English landscape painter (Hay Wain), dies at 60
Apr 17 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker and politician, dies at 78
May 5 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (Andromeda), dies at 85
May 8 Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman, dies at 66

May 31 English pantomimist and the "greatest clown in history", dies at 57

Jun 14 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (The Poems of Leopardi), dies at 38
Jun 16 Valentino Fioravanti, Italian composer, dies at 72
Jun 19 Aleksander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author, dies in battle at 39
Jun 20 Giovanni Furno, Italian composer and famous music teacher in Naples, dies at 89
Jun 20 William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1830-37), dies at 71
Jul 24 Charles Hodges, English-Dutch portrait painter
Jul 28 John Ross, British composer and organist, dies at 73
Aug 1 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter, dies at 41
Aug 9 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
Sep 23 Richard John Samuel Stevens, English composer, dies at 80
Sep 30 Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama, dies at 21
Oct 1 Robert Clark, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1819-21), dies at 60

Oct 5 French Queen of Holland (1806-10), dies at 54

Oct 6 Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer, noted for his operas and oratorios, dies at 77
Oct 9 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
Oct 10 Charles Fourier, French philosopher and early Socialist (credited with inventing term 'feminism'), dies at 65
Oct 11 Samuel Wesley, British organist and composer referred to as "The English Mozart" (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
Oct 12 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1815-37), dies at 62
Oct 15 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (Minister of Justice, 1810-14), and poet ("Liberation of Moscow"), dies at 77
Oct 17 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
Nov 4 Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
Nov 7 Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, murdered at 34
Nov 30 Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary, dies at 50
Dec 13 Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
Dec 26 Martinus van Marum, Dutch physician and inventor (constructed largest electrostatic machine in the world), dies at 87