Notable Deaths - 1864
1864 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 4 |
Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75 |
Jan 7 |
Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808) |
Jan 8 |
Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer, dies at 83 |
Jan 13 |
Stephen Foster, American composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in New York |
Jan 13 |
Stephen Foster, Batman |
Jan 15 |
Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792) |
Jan 16 |
Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 |
Jan 23 |
Michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50 |
Jan 24 |
Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54 |
Jan 24 |
Stephen Gardner Champlin, brig-general (Union), dies at about 36 |
Jan 26 |
Otto Lindblad, Episode #2.6 |
Jan 27 |
Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59 |
Jan 28 |
Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799) |
Jan 31 |
Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies |
Feb 15 |
Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies |
Feb 15 |
William Dyce, painter, dies |
Feb 16 |
Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58 |
Feb 19 |
William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies |
Feb 21 |
Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle |
Feb 26 |
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807) |
Mar 3 |
Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21 |
Mar 4 |
Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies |
Mar 10 |
Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52 |
Mar 17 |
Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53 |
Mar 27 |
Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800) |
Mar 30 |
Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52 |
Apr 4 |
Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808) |
Apr 12 |
Thomas Green, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 50 |
Apr 13 |
Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74 |
Apr 22 |
Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76 |
Apr 29 |
Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80 |
Apr 29 |
Abraham Gesner, Canadian geologist (inventor of kerosene), dies at 66 |
May 2 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72 |
May 2 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Maytime |
May 5 |
Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44 |
May 5 |
John Marshall Jones, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 43 |
May 5 |
Leroy A Stafford, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 42 |
May 6 |
Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle |
May 6 |
Micah Jenkins, Confederate brig-general (friendly fire), dies at 28 |
May 8 |
James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56 |
May 9 |
"Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 |
May 9 |
Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Col, dies in an accident |
May 10 |
James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34 |
May 10 |
Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brig-general, dies at about 27 |
May 12 |
Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 37 |
May 12 |
J.E.B. Stuart [James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart], Confederate General, dies at 31 |
May 13 |
Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35 |
May 14 |
William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies |
May 16 |
Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered |
May 17 |
N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59 |
May 18 |
James Byron Gordon, Confederate brig-gen, dies at 41 |
May 19 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (Scarlet Letter), dies at 59 |
May 19 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter |
May 20 |
John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70 |
May 26 |
Ch Sealsfield, writer, dies at 71 |
May 28 |
Henry H Giesy, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle |
May 28 |
Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and liberal politician (b. 1808) |
May 30 |
James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 26 |
Jun 1 |
Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC |
Jun 1 |
Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (b. 1812) |
Jun 2 |
George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brig-general, dies at 34 |
Jun 3 |
James P McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in battle |
Jun 3 |
Peter A Porter, US Union colonel (8th NY), dies in battle |
Jun 5 |
William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 39 |
Jun 14 |
Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt |
Jun 19 |
George Lincoln Prescott, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries |
Jun 27 |
Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26 |
Jul 6 |
Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36 |
Jul 16 |
Victor JB Girardey, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 27 |
Jul 17 |
Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29 |
Jul 17 |
Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71 |
Jul 22 |
James Birdseye Mcpherson, US Union gen-major, dies in battle at 35 |
Jul 22 |
William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle at 47 |
Jul 25 |
Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 42 |
Jul 26 |
András Fáy, A külföldiek |
Jul 27 |
Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies |
Jul 28 |
Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67 |
Jul 28 |
Samuel Benton, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 44 |
Jul 31 |
Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64 |
Aug 5 |
Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 |
Aug 7 |
Li Xiucheng, late Taiping's Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823) |
Aug 8 |
Antonio Somma, Un ballo in maschera |
Aug 12 |
Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811) |
Aug 15 |
Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies |
Aug 16 |
John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31 |
Aug 20 |
Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies |
Aug 20 |
John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 |
Aug 21 |
John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 |
Aug 31 |
Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician (ADA), dies at 39 |
Sep 4 |
John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825) |
Sep 15 |
John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827) |
Sep 16 |
John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827) |
Sep 17 |
Walter Savage Landor, author, dies |
Sep 19 |
Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle |
Sep 19 |
David Allen Russell, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 43 |
Sep 19 |
Robert Emmet Rodes, US Confederate gen-major, dies in battle at 35 |
Sep 29 |
Hiram Burnham, US Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle |
Oct 1 |
John Dunovant, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle |
Oct 1 |
Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817) |
Oct 4 |
Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802) |
Oct 4 |
Imre Madách, Angyali üdvözlet |
Oct 7 |
Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle |
Oct 7 |
John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36 |
Oct 8 |
Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34 |
Oct 10 |
David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever |
Oct 12 |
Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87 |
Oct 18 |
David Bell Birney, US lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39 |
Oct 18 |
Jacques Francois Gallay, composer, dies at 68 |
Oct 19 |
Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/brig-general, dies in battle at 45 |
Oct 20 |
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate gen-major, dies at 27 |
Oct 24 |
James Jay Archer, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at 46 |
Oct 26 |
"Bloody Bill" Anderson, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (b. 1839) |
Oct 27 |
Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58 |
Nov 3 |
Antonio Goncalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea |
Nov 13 |
Gonçalves Dias, Delicate Crime |
Nov 30 |
Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33 |
Nov 30 |
John Adams, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39 |
Nov 30 |
Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33 |
Nov 30 |
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33 |
Dec 2 |
Archibald Gracie III, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at Siege of Petersburg, Virginia aged 32 |
Dec 8 |
George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815) |
Dec 21 |
William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51 |
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