13 – William Bradley, British naval officer, cartographer (b. 1757) April 6 – Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (b. 1748) April 7 Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775) Jacques Réattu, French artist (b. 1760) April 22 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771) May 5 – Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (b. 1777) May 15 – Edmund Kean, British actor (b. 1787) May 23 – Francesca Anna Canfield, American linguist, poet, and translator (b. 1803) June 1 – Oliver Wolcott Jr., American lawyer, politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1760) June 2 – Simon Byrne, Irish prizefighter (b. 1806) July–December July 2 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757) July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer (b. 1765) July 11 – Yagan, Noongar indigenous Australian warrior (killed) (b. c. 1795) July 12 – Samuel Sterett, American politician (b. 1758) July 19 – George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, British landowner (b. 1758) July 20 – Ninian Edwards, American politician, Governor of and Senator from Illinois (b. 1775) July 22 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist (b. 1757) July 23 – Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean political figure (b. 1777) July 26 – Thomas Knapton, English mariner, executed (b. c. 1816) July 29 – William Wilberforce, English politician, abolitionist (b. 1759) August 9 – Godfrey Higgins, English archaeologist (b. 1772) August 14 – Placidus a Spescha, Swiss mountain climber (b. 1752) September – James Farquhar, Scottish politician (b. 1764) September 7 – Hannah More, English religious writer, Romantic, and philanthropist (b. 1745) September 15 – Arthur Hallam, English poet (b. 1811) September 27 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (b. 1772) September 29 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784) October 3 – François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754) October 4 – Maria Jane Jewsbury, English poet and literary reviewer (b. 1800) October 16 Andrey Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (b. 1738) Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver (b. 1752) November 16 – John McMillan, Presbyterian minister, missionary in Pennsylvania (b. 1752) November 23 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762) December 17 – Kaspar Hauser, German youth of uncertain origin (stabbed) (b. 1812?) References