Notable Deaths - 1865
1865 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43 |
Jan 8 |
Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779) |
Jan 16 |
Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828) |
Jan 19 |
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809) |
Jan 28 |
Felice Romani, L'Elisir d'amore |
Feb 6 |
John Pegram, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33 |
Feb 7 |
John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64 |
Feb 10 |
Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804) |
Feb 15 |
Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies |
Feb 15 |
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, Fabiola |
Feb 25 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 |
Feb 25 |
Otto Ludwig, Der Erbförster |
Mar 1 |
Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70 |
Mar 2 |
Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819) |
Mar 10 |
William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj, dies at 48 |
Mar 20 |
Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833) |
Mar 26 |
Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies |
Mar 27 |
Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786) |
Mar 28 |
Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26 |
Apr 1 |
Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797) |
Apr 2 |
Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39 |
Apr 2 |
Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60 |
Apr 6 |
John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36 |
Apr 6 |
Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle |
Apr 8 |
John Park, composer, dies at 61 |
Apr 9 |
Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 |
Apr 15 |
Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56 |
Apr 15 |
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
Apr 16 |
Robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle |
Apr 22 |
Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries |
Apr 23 |
James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24 |
Apr 26 |
Charles J Sax, Belgium musician and father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at 74 |
Apr 26 |
John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27 |
Apr 28 |
Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787) |
Apr 30 |
Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805) |
May 30 |
William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27 |
Jun 2 |
John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59 |
Jun 2 |
Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783) |
Jun 3 |
Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838) |
Jun 8 |
Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies |
Jun 13 |
Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29 |
Jun 15 |
Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide |
Jun 15 |
Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61 |
Jun 17 |
François Joseph Méry, Don Carlos |
Jun 21 |
Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824) |
Jun 22 |
Duque de Rivas, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino |
Jul 7 |
Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged |
Jul 7 |
Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844) |
Jul 7 |
David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842) |
Jul 15 |
Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian, dies at 55 |
Jul 24 |
Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30 |
Jul 25 |
"James Barry", military surgeon, first womanin Great Britain to become a qualified medical doctor |
Jul 30 |
George Wright, US Union brig-general, dies at 61 |
Aug 12 |
William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies |
Aug 13 |
Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47 |
Aug 17 |
Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer, dies at 82 |
Aug 17 |
Mosby Munroe Parsons, US Confederate gen-maj, dies in battle |
Aug 26 |
Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73 |
Aug 26 |
Marcellus Monroe Crocker, US attorney/Union brig-general, dies at 35 |
Aug 27 |
Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64 |
Aug 29 |
John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 |
Sep 11 |
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806) |
Sep 16 |
Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792) |
Sep 20 |
William H Revere Jr, US Union brig-general, dies |
Sep 22 |
Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist, dies at 71 |
Sep 24 |
Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81 |
Sep 30 |
Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800) |
Oct 8 |
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51 |
Oct 12 |
William Vincent Wallace, composer, dies at 53 |
Oct 12 |
William Vincent Wallace, Maritana |
Oct 16 |
Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781) |
Oct 18 |
Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 |
Oct 20 |
Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821) |
Oct 31 |
William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies |
Nov 6 |
Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51 |
Nov 10 |
Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty |
Nov 12 |
Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810) |
Nov 12 |
Elizabeth Gaskell, Return to Cranford: Part One - August 1844 |
Nov 13 |
Philippe Dumanoir, Don César de Bazan |
Nov 17 |
James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (b. 1813) |
Nov 23 |
Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer, dies at 41 |
Nov 23 |
René E de Russy, West Indian/US brig-general, dies at about 75 |
Nov 25 |
Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies |
Nov 29 |
Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman, dies at 69 |
Nov 29 |
Ventura de la Vega, El hombre de mundo |
Dec 1 |
Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76 |
Dec 1 |
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796) |
Dec 6 |
Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56 |
Dec 6 |
Sebastián Yradier, Das Boot |
Dec 10 |
King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790) |
Dec 14 |
Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794) |
Dec 18 |
Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70 |
Dec 24 |
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793) |
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