Editing 1851

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[[File:Crystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854.jpg|thumb|230px| [[May 1]]: The [[Great Exhibition]] of 1851 opens in London.]]
[[File:First NYTimes frontpage (1851-9-18).png|thumb|225px|right|[[September 18]]: ''[[The New York Times]]'' publishes its first issue]]
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== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Hong Xiuquan]] officially begins the [[Taiping Rebellion]] in China, one of the bloodiest revolts that would lead to 20 million deaths.
* [[January 15]] &ndash; Christian Female College, modern-day [[Columbia College (Missouri)|Columbia College]], receives its charter from the [[Missouri General Assembly]].
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The flip of a coin, subsequently named the [[Portland Penny]], determines whether a new city in the [[Oregon Territory]] will be named after [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], or [[Portland, Maine]], with [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] winning.
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Northwestern University]] is founded in [[Illinois]].
* [[February 1]] &ndash; ''[[Brandtaucher]]'', the oldest surviving [[submersible]] craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German [[port of Kiel]], but the designer, [[Wilhelm Bauer]], and the two crew escape successfully.
* [[February 6]] &ndash; [[Black Thursday (1851)|Black Thursday]] occurs in Australia as [[Bushfires in Australia|bushfires]] sweep across the state of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], burning about a quarter of its area.
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Edward Hargraves]] claims to have found [[gold]] in Australia.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; In [[Boston, Massachusetts]], members of the anti-slavery [[Boston Vigilance Committee]] rescue fugitive slave [[Shadrach Minkins]] from a courtroom, following his arrest by U.S. marshals.
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Victor Hugo]] uses the phrase ''[[European Federation|United States of Europe]]'', in a speech to the French National Assembly.
* [[March 11]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[Rigoletto]]'' is first performed at [[La Fenice]] in [[Venice]].
* [[March 27]] &ndash; The first European men reportedly see [[Yosemite Valley]].
* [[March 30]] &ndash; A [[United Kingdom Census 1851|United Kingdom Census]] is taken. The population has reached 21&nbsp;million. 6.3&nbsp;million live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales, and cities of 20,000 or more account for 35% of the total English population. It also shows that a [[legacy of the Great Irish Famine]] is that the population of Ireland has fallen to 6,575,000 – a drop of 1,600,000 in ten years, many having emigrated.<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Ross|year=2002|title=Ireland: History of a Nation|edition=New|location=New Lanark|publisher=Geddes & Grosset|isbn=1842051644|pages=[https://archive.org/details/irelandhistoryof0000ross/page/216 216, 313]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/irelandhistoryof0000ross/page/216}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Cormac|last=Ó Gráda|title=Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives|publisher=University College Dublin Press|year=2006|isbn=1-904558-57-7|page=3}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Western Union]] is founded, as the ''New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company''.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents|title=Pooling of Patents: Hearings Before the Committee on Patents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ou1sAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1912|year=1936|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=1912}}</ref> 
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[San Luis, Colorado|San Luis]], the oldest permanent settlement in the state of [[Colorado]], is founded by settlers from [[Taos, New Mexico]].
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Ramón Castilla]] loses power in [[Peru]].
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Anne Darwin]], daughter of [[Charles Darwin]] dies, sending him into a great depression. 
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Placer County, California]], is formed from parts of [[Sutter County, California|Sutter]] and [[Yuba County, California|Yuba]] Counties with [[Auburn, California|Auburn]] as the county seat.
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Santa Clara College]] is chartered in [[Santa Clara, California]].
* [[May 1]] &ndash; ''[[The Great Exhibition]] of the Works of Industry of All Nations'' in [[the Crystal Palace]], [[Hyde Park, London]] is opened by [[Queen Victoria]].
* [[May 15]]
** The first [[Australian gold rushes|Australian gold rush]] is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
** [[Alpha Delta Pi]] sorority, the first secret society for women, is founded at [[Wesleyan College]] in [[Macon, Georgia]] (U.S.)
** [[Mongkut]]  is crowned as King (Rama IV) of [[Rattanakosin Kingdom|Siam]], at the [[Grand Palace]] in [[Bangkok]].
[[File:Rama4pic.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[May 15]]: [[Ramai IV of Thailand|Rama IV]] is crowned as the King of Siam.]]
* Mid-[[May]] to mid-[[July]] &ndash; Great [[Flood of 1851]]: Extensive flooding sweeps across the [[Midwestern United States]]. The town of [[Des Moines]] is virtually washed away, and many rainfall records hold for 160 years.
* [[June 2]]
** [[Maine]] passes the first state-wide prohibition [[Maine law|law]] in the United States.
** [[Castle & Cooke]], the predecessor of [[Dole Food Company]], is founded in [[Hawaii]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Castle and Cooke, Ltd|author2=Castle & Cooke|title=The First 100 Years: A Report on the Operations of Castle & Cooke for the Years 1851-1951|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ibRAAAAMAAJ|year=1951|page=11}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; The [[Immortal Game]], a famous [[chess]] match, is played between [[Adolf Anderssen]] and [[Lionel Kieseritzky]], during a break in the [[London 1851 chess tournament|first international tournament]], held in London.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]]
** [[Port Phillip District]] separates from [[New South Wales]] to become the  Colony of [[Victoria (Australia)]].
** Serial poisoner [[Hélène Jégado]] is arrested in [[Rennes]], France. Her trial opens on December 6; she is eventually sentenced to death and executed by [[guillotine]].
** Battle of Ras Tanoura, a collision occurs between the Bahrain blockading force off Kateef and the Arab fugitives at Kenn Island, who surprised and attacked the Bahrain fleet. Mubarak bin Abdulla bin Ahmed, along with his brother Rashid and Busher bin Rahma Al Jalahma were all killed in the battle.
* [[July 10]] &ndash; The [[University of the Pacific (United States)|University of the Pacific]] is chartered as California Wesleyan College, in [[Santa Clara, California]].
* [[July 28]] &ndash; Total [[solar eclipse]] visible in [[Canada]], [[Greenland]], [[Iceland]] and Northern [[Europe]], the first solar eclipse to be photographed.
* [[July 29]] &ndash;  [[Annibale de Gasparis]], in [[Naples]], Italy discovers asteroid ''[[15 Eunomia]]''.
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Virginia]] closes its Reform Constitutional Convention, deciding that all white men have the right to vote.
* [[August 3]] &ndash; The  [[filibuster (military)|filibustering]] [[Lopez Expedition]] sails from [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] heading to seize [[Captaincy General of Cuba|Spanish-ruled Cuba]].
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Isaac Singer]] is granted a United States patent for his improved sewing machine.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Invention That Spawned a Fashion Revolution |url=https://time.com/3985665/sewing-machine-invented/ |magazine=Time |access-date=26 June 2020}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] &ndash; The yacht ''[[America (yacht)|America]]'' wins the first [[America's Cup]] race, off the coast of England.[[Image:America (schooner yacht) by Bard.jpg|thumb|[[August 22]]: The yacht ''[[America (yacht)|America]]'', winner of the first America's Cup]]
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Narciso López]] is executed in [[Havana]] following the failure of his expedition in Cuba.
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Saint Joseph's University]] is founded in [[Philadelphia]].
* [[September 18]] &ndash; ''[[The New York Times]]'' is founded in New York City.
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[HSwMS Eugenie|HSwMS ''Eugenie'']] leaves from [[Karlskrona]], [[Sweden]] to begin its voyage as the first [[Swedish Royal Navy]] vessel to circumnavigate the world.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 15]] 
** The City of [[Winona, Minnesota]] is founded.
** The Great Exhibition in London closes.
* [[October 17]] &ndash; The first [[Parsi-Muslim riots|Parsi-Muslim riot]] begins in [[Bombay]], India.
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[Ariel (moon)|Ariel]] and [[Umbriel]], [[natural satellite|moon]]s of [[Uranus]], are discovered by [[William Lassell]].
* [[October]] &ndash; The [[Reuters]] [[News agency|news service]] is founded in [[London]]
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway]] officially opened in Russia.
* [[November 13]]
** The [[Denny Party]] lands at [[Alki Point]], the first settlers of what later becomes [[Seattle]].
** The first protected [[Submarine communications cable|submarine telegraph cable]] is laid, across the [[English Channel]].
* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Herman Melville]]'s novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]; or The Whale'' is published in the U.S. by [[Harper & Brothers]], New York, after being first published on [[October 18]] in London, by [[Richard Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley]], in three volumes as ''The Whale''.
* [[November 21]] &ndash; Mutineers [[mutiny of Cambiazo|take control]] of the Chilean [[penal colony]] of [[Punta Arenas]] in the [[Strait of Magellan]].<ref name=Nagel>{{Citation
 |last         = Nagel Behnke
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 |title        = Capitán de fragata Benjamín Muñoz Gamero (1817–1851)
 |journal      = [[Revista de Marina]]
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 |year         = 1994
 |pages        = 1–8
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 |language     = Spanish
 |access-date  = September 25, 2022
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* [[November 26]]–[[November 27|27]] &ndash; [[Morocco]]: French naval forces [[Bombardment of Salé (1851)|bombard the Moroccan city]] of [[Salé]], in retaliation for looting of a French cargo ship.
* [[December 2]] &ndash; In what amounts to a [[French coup of 1851|coup d'etat]], President [[Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte]] of France dissolves the [[French National Assembly]], and declares a new constitution to extend his term. [[1852|A year later]] he declares himself as Emperor [[Napoleon III]], ending the [[French Second Republic|Second Republic]].
* [[December 9]] &ndash; The first [[YMCA]] in North America is established in [[Montreal]].
* [[December 22]] &ndash; The first railway operates in [[India]], hauling canal construction material in [[Roorkee]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; The [[Library of Congress]] in Washington, D.C., burns.
* [[December 26]]–[[December 27|27]] &ndash; A British [[Royal Navy]] warship bombards [[Lagos]] Island; [[Oba (ruler)|Oba]] [[Kosoko]] is wounded, and flees to [[Epe, Nigeria|Epe]].
* [[December 29]] &ndash; The first [[YMCA]] in the United States opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[1851 Chilean Revolution]]: At the [[Battle of Loncomilla]], Chilean rebels are defeated, ending the revolution.

===Ongoing===
* [[1851–1855 Yellow River floods]] in China.
* [[Nian Rebellion]] in China, 1851–68.
* [[Naga people|Naga]] raids on the [[East India Company]], 1851–65.
* [[Great Famine (Ireland)]], 1845–52.

== Births ==

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:ELLA A. GILES.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ella Giles Ruddy]]]]
[[File: Rose Coghlan.jpg|right|thumb|110px|Rose Coghlan, 1870s]]
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Rudolf von Brudermann]], Austro-Hungarian general (d. [[1941]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[William Hall-Jones]], English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. [[1936]])
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[A. B. Frost]], American illustrator (d. [[1928]])
* [[January 19]]
**[[David Starr Jordan]], American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (d. [[1931]])
**[[Jacobus Kapteyn]], Dutch astronomer (d. [[1922]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Pietro Frugoni]], Italian general (d. [[1940]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Ella Giles Ruddy]], American author and essayist (d. [[1917]])
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Joseph B. Murdock]], United States Navy admiral, New Hampshire politician (d. [[1931]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Antero Rubín]], Spanish general, politician (d. [[1935]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Frederick Warde]], English actor (d. [[1935]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[John Sebastian Little]], American politician, congressman (d. [[1916]])
* [[March 18]] 
** [[Rose Coghlan]], English actress (d. [[1932]])
** [[Julien Dupré]], French artist (d. [[1910]])
* [[March 19]]
**[[Pierre Ruffey]], French general (d. [[1928]])
**[[William Henry Stark]], American business leader (d. [[1936]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Friedrich von Scholtz]], German general (d. [[1927]])
* [[March 27]] &ndash; [[Vincent d'Indy]], French composer, teacher (d. [[1931]])
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Bernardino Machado]], Portuguese President (d. [[1944]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Francis Bell (New Zealand politician)|Francis Bell]], 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. [[1936]])
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Bruno von Mudra]], German general (d. [[1931]])
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy]], Irish lawyer, politician (d. [[1931]])
* [[April 13]]
** [[Robert Abbe]], American surgeon (d. [[1928]])
** [[Helen M. Winslow]], American editor, author, and publisher (d. [[1938]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Auguste Dubail]], French general (d. [[1934]])
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Young Tom Morris]], Scottish golfer (d. [[1875]])
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Charles Barrois]], French geologist (d. [[1939]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Aristide Bruant]], French cabaret singer, comedian  (d. [[1925]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Adolf von Harnack]], German Lutheran theologian, church historian (d. [[1930]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Madre Teresa Nuzzo]], Maltese nun, foundress of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart (d. [[1923]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Anna Laurens Dawes]], American author, suffragist (d. [[1938]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Lillian Resler Keister Harford]], American church organizer, editor (d. [[1935]])
[[File:Emile Berliner.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Emile Berliner]]]]
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Simon Kahquados]], Potawatomi political activist (d. [[1930]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[Emile Berliner]], German-born American telephone and recording pioneer (d. [[1929]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Léon Bourgeois]], French statesman, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1925]])
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Ture Malmgren]], Swedish journalist, politician (d. [[1922]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; Sir [[Oliver Lodge]], British physicist (d. [[1940]])
* [[June 13]] &ndash; [[Anton Haus]], Austro-Hungarian admiral (d. [[1917]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Georg Jellinek]], Austrian legal philosopher (d. [[1911]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Dora Montefiore.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Dora Montefiore]]]]
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Hannibal di Francia]], Italian priest, saint (d. [[1927]])
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Arthur Evans]], British archaeologist (d. [[1941]])
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Eduardo Gutiérrez]], Argentinian author (d. [[1889]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Arnold Pick]], Czech-German neurologist, psychiatrist (d. [[1924]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Sam Bass (outlaw)|Sam Bass]], American outlaw (d. [[1878]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov]], Russian general (d. [[1919]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Doc Holliday]], American gambler, gunfighter (d. [[1887]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Stefania Wolicka]], Polish historian (d. [[1937]])
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Carl Kellner (mystic)|Carl Kellner]], Austrian mystic (d. [[1905]])
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[David King Udall]], American politician (d. [[1938]])
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Walter Reed]], American army physician, bacteriologist (d. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Dean |title=Immunologists and Virologists |date=1 January 2014 |publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |isbn=978-1-62712-562-8 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1tmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Evgeny Aleksandrovich Radkevich]], Russian general (d. [[1930]])
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Arthur Schuster]], German-British physicist (d. [[1934]])
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Hardwicke Rawnsley]], English clergyman, poet, writer of hymns and conservationist (d. [[1920]])
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Foch]], French commander of Allied forces in World War I (d. [[1929]])
* [[October 5]]  &ndash; [[Thomas Pollock Anshutz]], American painter, educator (d. [[1912]]) 
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[George Gandy]], American entrepreneur (d. [[1946]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Charles Dupuy]], 3-time prime minister of France (d. [[1923]])
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[José Maria de Yermo y Parres]], Mexican [[Roman Catholic]] priest and saint (d. [[1904]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Klemens Bachleda]], Polish [[Tatra Mountains|Tatra]] guide and mountain rescuer (d. [[1910]])
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[William Elbridge Sewell]], American naval officer, [[Governor of Guam]] (d. [[1904]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Sixt von Armin]], German general (d. [[1936]])
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Melvil Dewey]], American librarian, inventor of [[Dewey Decimal Classification]] (d. [[1931]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Dora Montefiore]], English suffragist, socialist (d. [[1933]])
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau]], French general (d. [[1944]])
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Asa Griggs Candler]], American businessman, politician (d. [[1929]])

== Deaths ==

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Rothwell.tif|thumb|110px|right|[[Mary Shelley]]]]
[[File:Carl Jacobi.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]]]]
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Karl Freiherr von Müffling]], Prussian field marshal (b. [[1775]])
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Esteban Echeverría]], Argentine poet, writer (b. [[1805]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Albert Lortzing]], German composer (b. [[1801]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny]], Scottish politician (b. [[1809]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[John James Audubon]], French-American naturalist, illustrator (b. [[1785]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[David Spangler Kaufman]], Congressman from Texas (b. [[1813]])
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Mary Shelley]], English author (b. [[1797]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Williams Crowninshield]], Congressman from Massachusetts, secretary of U.S. Navy (b. [[1772]])
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]], German mathematician (b. [[1804]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Joanna Baillie]], Scottish poet, dramatist (b. [[1762]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie]], [[Marshal of France]] (b. [[1775]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Henry Smith (Texas governor)|Henry Smith]], Texas governor (b. [[1788]])
* [[March 9]] &ndash; [[Hans Christian Ørsted]], Danish scientist (b. [[1777]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Nangklao]] (Rama III), [[King of Siam]] ([[Thailand]]) (b. [[1788]])
* [[April 15]] &ndash; [[Andrés Quintana Roo]], Mexican politician and lawyer, husband of [[Leona Vicario]] (b. [[1787]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lhistoria.com/biografias/andres-quintana-roo|publisher=L'historia|title=Biografia de Andrés Quintana Roo|date=March 10, 2015|language=es}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Mor Sæther]], Norwegian herbalist (b. [[1793]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Princess Augusta of Bavaria]], Duchess of Leuchtenberg (b. [[1788]])
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Manuel Gómez Pedraza]], 6th [[President of Mexico]], 1832-1833 (b. [[1789]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/manuel-gomez-pedraza/|publisher=Presidencia de la Republica|title=MANUEL GÓMEZ PEDRAZA|language=es|access-date=May 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530225802/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/manuel-gomez-pedraza/|archive-date=May 30, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Mordecai Manuel Noah]], American writer, journalist (b. [[1785]])
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[John Brown Russwurm]], [[Americo-Liberian people|Americo-Liberian]] journalist and governor of the African [[Republic of Maryland]] (b. [[1799]])<ref>{{cite book |last=James |first=Winston |title=The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm |year=2010 |location=New York, NY |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=978-0-8147-4289-1 |pages=25, 90, 105}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; [[Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville]], British politician (b. [[1771]])

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Louis Daguerre 2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis Daguerre]]]]
[[File:KarlDrais.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Karl Drais]]]]
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Louis Daguerre]], French artist, chemist (b. [[1787]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Roger Hale Sheaffe|Roger Sheaffe]], British general (b. [[1763]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[James Broadwood]], English piano manufacturer (b. [[1772]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[James McDowell]], American politician (b. [[1795]])
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet]], American educator (b. [[1787]])
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Sylvester Graham]], American nutritionist, inventor (b. [[1794]])
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[James Fenimore Cooper]], American writer (b. [[1789]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Manuel Godoy]], Spanish statesman (b. [[1767]])
* [[October 19]] &ndash; ''Madame Royale'' [[Marie Thérèse of France]] (b. [[1778]])
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Giorgio Pullicino]], Maltese painter, and architect (b. [[1779]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Petar II Petrović-Njegoš]], Montenegrin statesman, religious leader and poet (b. [[1813]])
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Jean-de-Dieu Soult]], French marshal, politician (b. [[1769]])
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[William Thornhill (British Army officer)|William Thornhill]], British Army officer (b. [[1768]])
* [[December 19]]
** [[J. M. W. Turner]], English painter (b. [[1775]])
** [[Karl Drais]], German inventor (b. [[1785]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Gustafva Lindskog]], Swedish athlete (b. [[1794]])

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