Romania (b. 1807) July–December July 23 – José María Bocanegra, 3rd President of Mexico (b. 1787) July 24 – Martin Van Buren, 79, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782) August 18 – Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (b. 1776) August 20 – Javiera Carrera, Chilean independence fighter (b. 1771) September 3 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829) September 6 – John Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780) September 10 – Carlos Antonio López, president of Paraguay (b. 1792) September 14 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant murdered in Japan (b. 1834) September 24 Judith Montefiore, British linguist (b. 1784) Anton Martin Slomšek, Slovene Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1800) October 8 – James Walker, Scottish engineer (b. 1781) October 15 – Hans Daniel Ludwig Friedrich Hassenpflug, German statesman (b. 1794) November 7 – Bahadur Shah II, 19th and Last mughal emperor (b. 1775) November 13 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (b. 1787) November 17 – Mary Whitwell Hale, American school founder (b. 1810) December 4 – James Bennett (minister), English congregational minister (b. 1774) December 13 – Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American Confederate general (killed during the battle of Fredericksburg) (b. 1823) December 18 – Barbara Fritchie, American Civil War patriot (b. 1766) References