Austria, Austrian general (b. 1771) May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (b. 1805) May 15 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician who promoted the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (b. 1775) May 16 – Vicente Rocafuerte, 2nd President of Ecuador (b. 1783) May 29 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766) May 31 – Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Azerbaijani writer (b. 1794) June 11 – Sir John Franklin, British explorer (b. 1786) July–December July 7 – Thomas Carpenter, American glassmaker (b. 1752) July 16 – Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (b. 1776) September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, Czech patriot (b. 1769) September 13 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767) October 22 Henriette Herz, German salonnière (b. 1764) Negus Sahle Selassie of Shewa (b. c. 1795) November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809) November 18 - Zebulon Crocker, American congregationalist pastor (b. 1802) December 14 Dorothy Ann Thrupp, British psalmist (b. 1779) Manuel José Arce, Central American politician (b. 1787) Barbarita Nieves, Venezuelan mistress of José Antonio Páez (b. 1803) Unknown: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, French balloonist and parachutist (b. 1775) References Historic Letters of 1847 Turtle Bunbury, 1847 – A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery, Gill, 2016.