German physician (b. 1799) April 15 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist (b. 1773) April 22 Nicolás Bravo, 3-time President of Mexico (b. 1786) Domingo Eyzaguirre, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1775) April 29 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, British general (b. 1768) June 7 – Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1784) June 13 – Rosina Regina Ahles, German actor (b. 1799) July–December July 6 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789) July 16 – Abbas I, Pasha of Egypt (b. 1813) July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam (b. 1766) August – Conquering Bear, Lakota chief (b. c. 1800) August 2 – Heinrich Clauren (b. 1771) August 3 – Qi Shan (b. 1786) August 9 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (b. 1797) August 14 – Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787) August 20 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (b. 1775) August 21 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer, politician (b. 1777) September 8 – Angelo Mai, Italian cardinal, philologist (b. 1782) September 12 – Jarvis W. Pike, former Mayor of Columbus, Ohio (b. 1795) September 29 – Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, French general, Marshal of France, Minister of War (d. 1798) October 1 - Martín Perfecto de Cos, General of the Mexican Army (b. 1800) October 26 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen consort of Bavaria (b. 1792) November 2 – George Mogridge (Old Humphrey), British writer, poet (b. 1787) November 3 – Maxim Gauci, Maltese lithographer (b. 1774) November 9 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, philanthropist, wife of Alexander Hamilton (b. 1757) November 25 – John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish writer (b. 1794) December 9 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799) December 11 – Matija Nenadović, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1777) December 15 – Kamehameha III, King of Hawaii (b. c. 1814) Undated Concepción Mariño, Venezuelan heroine (b. 1790) Úrsula Goyzueta, Bolivian heroine (b. 1787) Su Sanniang, Chinese rebel (b. 1830) References Further reading The Annual register of world events: Volume 96 (1855), highly detailed coverage of events in British Empire and worldwide full text online