– Moulvi Syed Qudratullah, Bengali judge (b. 1750) March 2 – Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I of France (b. 1802) March 20 – Caspar Voght, German businessman (b. 1752) April 1 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757) April 2 – Hezekiah Niles, American editor, publisher (b. 1777) April 4 – Queen Kaahumanu II of Hawaii April 11 – John Galt, Scottish novelist (b. 1779) April 22 Denis Davydov, Russian general, poet (b. 1784) Samuel Smith (Maryland politician), American politician (b. 1752) May 11 Thomas Cooper, American political philosopher (b. 1759) William Farquhar, First British Resident and Commandant of colonial Singapore (b. 1774) May 17 – Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) June 23 – Lady Hester Stanhope, English archaeologist (b. 1776) June 27 – Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of The Punjab (Sikh Empire) (b. 1780) July–December July 1 – Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785) July 8 – Fernando Sor, Spanish guitarist, composer (b. 1778) July 15 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English politician, poet (b. 1802) July 16 – Chief Bowles, Cherokee leader (b. ~1756) July 19 – Maurice de Guérin, French poet (b. 1810) August 10 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English fossil collector (b. 1758) August 22 – Benjamin Lundy, American abolitionist (b. 1789) August 28 – William Smith, English geologist, cartographer (b. 1769) September 10 – James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Scottish politician (b. 1759) September 29 – Friedrich Mohs, German geologist, mineralogist (b. 1773) October 6 – William Light, British Army colonel, first Surveyor-General of South Australia (b. 1786) October 11 – Leonor de Almeida Portugal, 4th Marquise of Alorna, Portuguese painter, poet (b. 1750) November 15 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (b. 1754) December 3 – Frederick VI, King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (b. 1768) December 4 – John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757) December 15 – Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, Hungarian court councillor, minister to Alexander I (b. 1756) December 26 – Laurent Jean François Truguet, French admiral (b. 1752) References