naval officer, by naval surgeon William Bland at Cross Island, Bombay – 1813 Charles Lucas, legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton 1817 Armistead Thomson Mason, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1819 Stephen Decatur, American naval hero, by James Barron 1820 John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine 1821 Joshua Barton, first Missouri Secretary of State 1823 Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician 1827 Évariste Galois, mathematician 1832 Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality 1833 Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era, by Georges d'Anthès 1837 Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. Graves 1838 Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era 1841 George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana 1843 James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom 1845 John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor 1846 Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento 1852 Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary. Killed by Frenchman, Emmanuel Barthélemy in the last duel in the United Kingdom 1852 David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California 1859 Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general 1863 Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist leader 1864 Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician 1884 Felice Cavallotti, Italian radical leader 1898 References See also Lists of people by cause of death List of famous duels