Zulu king (d. 1884) Deaths January–June January 3 Marie Le Masson Le Golft, French naturalist (b. 1750) Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770) January 17 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806) January 23 – Abraham Woodhull, Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (b. 1750) February 17 – John Manners-Sutton, British politician (b. 1752) March 10 – King John VI of Portugal (b. 1767) March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751) April 11 – Anton Walter, Austrian piano maker (b. 1752) April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757) May 4 – Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, Spanish colonial governor in Cuba (b. 1757) May 7 – Sophie Hagman, Swedish ballerina, royal mistress (b. 1758) May 16 Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, consort of Alexander I of Russia (b. 1779) Joseph Holt, 1798 United Irish rebel general (b. 1756) June 3 – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian language reformer (b. 1766) June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786) June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (b. 1787) July–December July 4 John Adams, 90, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735) Thomas Jefferson, 83, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743) July 5 Joseph Proust, French chemist (b. 1754) Stamford Raffles, British colonial governor, founder of Singapore (b. 1781) July 8 – Luther Martin, delegate to the American Constitutional Convention (b. 1746) July 22 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746) July 25 – Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Russian Army officer (b. 1796) July 26 – James Winchester, American general and politician (b. 1752) August 2 – George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, English cricketer (b. 1752) August 13 – René Laennec, French physician (b. 1781) August 15 – Hanne Tott, Danish circus artist, manager (b. 1771) August 28 – Józef Zajączek, Polish general, politician (b. 1752) September 7 – Robert Wright (politician), American politician (b. 1752) September 12 – Eliphalet Pearson, American educator (b. 1752) October 25 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (b. 1745) November 17 – Caroline Müller, Danish opera singer (b. 1755) November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747) December 11 – Queen-Empress Maria Leopoldina, consort of Pedro IV of Portugal & I of Brazil (b. 1797) References