Apr 7 Henrik Anker Bjerregaard, Norwegian writer and poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 Apr 11 Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, Hungarian Tibetan scholar (first Tibetan-English Dictionary), dies at 58 Apr 11 John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies Mar 1842 Famous Deaths by Year May 1842 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide