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Famous People Who Died in June 1858

  • Jun 3 Julius Reubke, German organist, pianist, and composer (Sonata on the 94th Psalm in c), dies of tuberculosis at 24
  • Jun 4 J. Pinckney Henderson, American lawyer and politician (1st Governor of Texas, 1846-47; US Senator from Texas, 1857-58), dies at 50
  • Jun 10 Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (discovered 'Brownian Motion'), dies at 84
  • Jun 12 Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder, dies at 74
  • Jun 12 William Horsley, English musician and composer, dies at 83
  • Jun 15 Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor, dies at 63

John Snow (1813-1858)

Jun 16 English physician who studied cholera and is considered the 'Father of modern epidemiology', dies of a stroke at 45

  • Jun 17 Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
  • Jun 18 Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen of the princely state of Jhansi in North India and leader of the Indian Mutiny (1857-58), dies at 23