(b. 1752) May 14 – Carl Ludvig Engel, German-Finnish architect (b. 1778) May 26 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764) May 25 – Louisa Capper, English writer, philosopher and poet (b. 1776) May 27 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist, composer (b. 1782) June 7 – King Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770) July–December July 7 – Nikolai Stankevich, Russian philosopher, poet (b. 1813) August 25 – Karl Leberecht Immermann, German novelist, dramatist (b. 1796) September 11 – John Gabriel Perboyre, French Catholic missionary, martyr in China (b. 1802) September 14 – Joseph Smith, Sr., American father of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1771) September 18 – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Constantinople-born French polymath (b. 1783) September 20 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, first leader of independent Paraguay (b. 1766) September 22 – Anne Lister, English landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (b. 1791) November 2 – Józef Kossakowski (colonel), Polish-Lithuanian statesman (b. 1771) December 11 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771) date unknown Haji Shariatullah, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1781) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar