colonial administrator (b. 1777) May 28 – Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820) June 10 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France, duke of Isly (b. 1784) June 15 – James Knox Polk, 53, 11th president of the United States (b. 1795) July–December July 12 – Dolley Madison, 81, First Lady of the United States (b. 1768) July 28 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798) July 31 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet (b. 1823) August 2 – Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769) September 4 – Friedrich Laun, German novelist (b. 1770) September 6 – Andreas Joseph Hofmann, German philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1752) September 23 – Mary Elizabeth Lee, American writer (b. 1813) September 25 – Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804) October 6 – Lajos Batthyány, Hungarian statesman (executed) (b. 1807) October 7 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809) October 17 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician, composer (b. 1810) October 22 – William Miller, American Baptist preacher, leader of the Second Advent Movement (b. 1782) December 2 – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792) Date unknown Cynthia Taggart, American poet (b. 1801) References