governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (b. 1796) November 3 – Thomas Ford, governor of Illinois (b. 1800) November 4 – Gustav Schwab, German classical scholar (b. 1792) November 9 – François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, French writer on ethics and political science (b. 1773) November 19 – Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780) November 22 – Lin Zexu, Chinese politician (b. 1785) November 30 – Germain Henri Hess, Swiss chemist, doctor (b. 1802) December 4 – William Sturgeon, English physicist, inventor (b. 1783) December 10 Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794) François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist, geologist (b. 1787) December 22 – William Plumer, American lawyer, lay preacher (b. 1759) December 24 – Frédéric Bastiat French author, economist (b. 1801) December 28 – Heinrich Christian Schumacher, German astronomer (b. 1780) December 30 – Pierre M. Lapie, French cartographer (b. 1777) Date unknown Mary Anne Whitby, English scientist (b. 1783) References