1752) René Just Haüy, French "father of modern crystallography" (b. 1743) June 15 – Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (b. 1752) June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic author (b. 1776) July–December July 8 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, British poet (b. 1792) July 15 – Manuel Torres, first Colombian ambassador to the United States (b. 1762) August 4 – Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (b. 1801) August 12 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary (suicide) (b. 1769) August 25 – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (b. 1738) September 8 – Sophie de Condorcet, politically active French salonist, feminist (b. 1764) October 13 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (b. 1757) October 16 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-born English ballet dancer, known as La Violette (b. 1724) October 26 – Mahmud Dramali Pasha, Ottoman vizier (b. c. 1780) October 31 – Jared Ingersoll, U.S. presidential candidate (b. 1749) November 6 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748) November 24 – Zofia Potocka, Greek-Polish noble and agent (b. 1760) November 26 – Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (b. 1750) December 7 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer (b. 1747) December 17 – Giovanni Fabbroni, Italian scientist (b. 1752) date unknown Manuela Medina, Mexican national heroine (b. 1780) Sara Oust, Norwegian lay minister (b. 1778) References