Deaths Date 1851 | History by KabAstro

John James Audubon (1785-1851)

Jan 27 American ornithologist and painter (The Birds Of America), dies at 65

Feb 1 English novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumor at 53

Feb 16 Anne Willem Carel van Nagell, Dutch politician, dies at 95
Feb 18 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician, dies at 46
Feb 20 Josef Alois Ladurner, Austrian keyboardist, choral director, composer, and priest dies at 81
Feb 23 Joanna Baillie, Scottish poet and playwright, dies at 88
Feb 24 Sake Dean Mahomed, Indian traveler, opened 1st Indian restaurant in the UK, Shampooing Surgeon to George VI, dies at 91 or 92 [1]
Feb 25 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, Austrian composer, dies at 53
Mar 4 James Richardson, British explorer (Sahara Desert), dies of an illness near Lake Chad at 41
Mar 4 Michael Henkel, German composer and organist, dies at 70
Mar 6 Alexander Aliabiev, Russian composer remembered as one of the fathers of Russian art song, dies at 63

Mar 9 Danish physicist who discovered electromagnetism and chemist (View of Chemical Law), dies at 73

Mar 11 George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
Apr 8 John Parry [Bardd Alaw], Welsh composer and harpist, dies at 75
Apr 9 Antoine-Charles Glachant, French violinist, composer, and artillery commander, dies at 79
May 17 Adriaan van Bevervoorde, Dutch journalist (Treason), dies at 31
May 22 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
May 23 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69
May 24 Stanko Vraz [Jakob Frass], Slovenian-Croatian poet (Grammatica), dies at 40
Jul 4 Martin-Joseph Mengal, Belgian composer, and educator (Royal Conservatory of Ghent, 1835-51), dies at 67
Jul 5 Juanita, Mexican, lynched by California gold diggers
Jul 6 Thomas Davenport, American inventor (invented 1st commercial electric motor), dies at 48

Jul 17 Béni Egressy, Hungarian composer, librettist, and actor, dies at 37
Aug 1 William Joseph Behr, German writer, dies at 75
Aug 11 Lorenz Oken, German naturalist, dies at 72
Aug 19 Gioseffo Catrufo, Italian composer, dies at 80
Sep 10 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American pioneer of educating the deaf, dies at 63
Sep 11 Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and minister (Graham cracker) (b. 1794)

Sep 14 1st major American novelist (The Last of the Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61

Sep 28 Allen Frances Gardiner, British naval officer and Anglican missionary (Port Natal, Zululand; Patagonia), dies of starvation on Picton Island at about 57 [exact date unconfirmed]
Oct 4 Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
Oct 19 Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, dies of pneumonia at 72
Oct 31 Peter II, prince-bishop of Montenegro (1830-51) and poet (The Ray of The Microcosm), dies at 37
Nov 18 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
Nov 20 Wenzel Sedlak, Bohemian clarinetist and composer, dies at 75
Nov 26 Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal, 10th Prime Minister of France, dies at 82
Dec 16 Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician and ambassador to England, dies at 95