3rd Principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. (b. 1772) June 23 – Maria Pavlovna, Dowager Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1786) July–December July 8 King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799) Charlotte von Siebold, German gynecologist (b. 1788) July 16 – Charles Cathcart, 2nd Earl Cathcart, British army general and colonial administrator (b. 1783) July 17 – Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1837) July 30 – Richard Rush, United States Attorney General under James Madison, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams (b. 1780) August 2 – Horace Mann, American educator, abolitionist (b. 1796) August 4 – John Vianney, French saint known as the Curé de Ars (b. 1786) August 15 – Nathaniel Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777) August 28 Leigh Hunt, British critic, essayist (b. 1784) Sultan Abd al-Rahman of Morocco (b. 1788) September 15 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806) September 19 – George Bush (biblical scholar), American professor of Asian languages (b. 1796) September 28 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (b. 1779) October 4 – Karl Baedeker, German author, publisher (b. 1801) October 12 – Robert Stephenson, English civil engineer (b. 1803) October 22 – Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer (b. 1784) November 28 – Washington Irving, American author (b. 1783) December 2 – John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800) December 8 – Thomas de Quincey, English writer (b. 1785) December 16 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist, folklorist (b. 1786) References 5. ^ Meynell, P-J. (1976). Methane: Planning a Digester. New York: Schocken Books. pp. 3.