Apr 4 Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver, dies at 73 Apr 8 Joseph Netherclift, English composer (We Happy Shepherd Swains), and lithographer, dies at 70 Apr 10 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77 Apr 15 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, Czech composer, dies at 90 Apr 17 Daniel Smith Donelson, American Confederate general and planter, raised by Andrew Jackson, dies of illness at 61 Apr 18 Job Plimpton, American composer and organ builder, dies at 79 Mar 1863 Famous Deaths by Year May 1863 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide