Famous People Who Died in 1825

Jan 4 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73

Eli Whitney (1765-1825)

Jan 8 American inventor (Cotton Gin), dies of prostate cancer at 59

Jan 14 George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
Feb 5 Pierre Gaveaux, French composer, dies at 64
Feb 6 William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (1823-25), dies at 71
Feb 10 Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist and philosopher (Kant), dies at 68
Feb 16 Georg Gerson, Danish composer, dies at 34
Feb 24 Thomas Bowdler, British physician and writer (Family Shakespeare), dies at 70
Mar 4 Raphaelle Peale, American painter (After the Rain, 1823), dies at 51
Mar 9 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), dies at 81
Mar 24 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer, dies at 64
Mar 25 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (Grand Pensionary of Batavia), dies at 63
Apr 6 Vladimir Borovikovsky [Vоlоdymyr Borovyk], Russian painter, died at 67
Apr 10 Paul-Louis Courier, (de Mere), French classical scholar and pamphleteer, dies at 53
Apr 13 Joseph Gelinek, Czech composer, dies at 66
Apr 16 Henry Fuseli, Swiss-born painter and art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84
Apr 21 Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)

Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

May 7 Italian composer (Tarare; La Fiera), opera director (Habsburg Court, 1774-92), and Kapellmeister (Austrian Imperial Court, 1788-1824), dies in Vienna at 74

May 12 Elias Mann, American composer, dies at 75
May 12 Stanislao Mattei, Italian composer, teacher, musicologist, and monk dies at 75
May 19 Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
May 20 Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
May 22 Domenico Corri, Italian composer, dies at 80
May 23 Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
Jun 4 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies
Jun 5 Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence (Chani of Gravia,), executed for supposedly collaborating with the Ottomans at 37
Jun 9 Pauline Bonaparte, Corsican duchess of Parma and Guastalla, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 44
Jun 11 Daniel D. Tompkins, American politician, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 50
Jun 13 Johann Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82

Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825)

Jun 14 French-born American architect who laid out Washington, D.C., dies at 70

Jul 11 Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
Jul 20 Joseph-Denis Doche, French composer, dies at 58
Jul 29 Micah Hawkins, American poet and composer, dies at 48
Aug 3 Ambrogio Minoja, Italian classical composer, dies at 72
Aug 20 Richard Wainwright, composer and church organist, dies at 68
Aug 20 William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland, dies at 72
Aug 23 Amos Bull, American hymn composer, dies at 81
Sep 25 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
Sep 29 Daniel Shays, American officer in the American Revolution and leader of Shay's Rebellion, dies
Oct 10 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky, Russian-Ukrainian harpsichordist and composer (Tantum Ergo), dies at 73
Oct 13 Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria, dies at 69
Oct 17 Peter Winter, German composer, dies at 71
Nov 1 Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, dies at 49
Nov 14 Jean Paul, writer, dies at 62
Nov 19 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer, dies of respiratory arrest at 34
Nov 22 Anne Bailey (née Herris), British-American revolutionary war scout and messenger, and pioneer woman, known as 'Mad Anne", dies at 85

Alexander I (1777-1825)

Dec 1 Tsar of Russia (1801-25), dies of typhus at 47

Dec 29 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies
Dec 29 Jacques-Louis David, French Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77
Dec 30 Peter Grønland, Danish composer, dies at 64