Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Corsican politician, Russian diplomat (b. 1764) March 4 – James Forten, African American abolitionist March 6 – Constanze Mozart, German-born wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b.1762) March 13 Samuel Eells, American founder of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity (b. 1810) Henry Shrapnel, English army officer, inventor (b. 1761) March 15 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760) March 23 – Stendhal, French novelist (b. 1783) March 30 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (b. 1755) May 8 – Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) May 12 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799) June 9 – Maria Dalle Donne, Bolognese physician (b. 1778) June 18 – François-André Baudin, French admiral (b. 1774) July–December July 13 – Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, French prince (b. 1810) July 21 – Laura M. Hawley Thurston, American poet and educator (b. 1812) July 25 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766) July 28 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778) August 24 – Leona Vicario, leader of Mexican War of Independence and wife of Andrés Quintana Roo (b. 1789) September 10 William Hobson, Irish-born officer in the British Royal Navy, first Governor-General of New Zealand and co-author of Treaty of Waitangi (b. 1792) Letitia Christian Tyler, First Lady of the United States 1841-1842 (b. 1790) September 15 – Francisco Morazán, Honduran-born politician, President of Federal Republic of Central America (b. 1792) October 2 – William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian theologian, minister (b. 1780) October 20 – Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815) October 24 – Bernardo O'Higgins, first Chilean head of state after independence (b.1778) October 25 – Sampson Salter Blowers, American lawyer, jurist (b. 1742) December 1 – Philip Spencer, American founder of Chi Psi fraternity, midshipman aboard the , hanged for mutiny. December 12 – Robert Haldane, British theologian (b. 1764) December 24 – Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, Scottish judge (b. 1760) Date unknown Nodira, Uzbek poet, stateswoman (b. 1792) References