46 Famous and Notable Deaths in 1836

Jan 30 Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], American seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag, dies at 84

Mar 6 Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, adventurer and politician, killed at the Battle of the Alamo at 49

Mar 6 James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
Mar 6 Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
Mar 6 James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (Texas Revolution), dies at 39
Mar 9 Antoine Destutt de Tracy, French Enlightenment philosopher, dies at 81
Mar 27 James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
Apr 7 William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
Apr 20 Johan I Jozef, Monarch of Liechtenstein and fieldmarshal, dies at 75
May 6 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, English clergyman and composer (Selection of Sacred Music), dies at 78
May 7 Norbert Burgmuller, German composer, drowns during an epileptic seizure at 26
May 28 Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66
Jun 6 Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80

Jun 9 Supply Belcher, American composer and singer (The Harmony of Maine), dies at 85
Jun 10 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
Jun 23 James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian, dies at 63
Jun 26 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French author and composer (Marseillaise), dies at 76

Jun 28 James Madison, 4th US President (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85

Jul 26 Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45
Aug 16 Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (Parseval's theorem), dies at 81
Aug 21 Claude-Louis Navier, French engineer and physicist who specialized in mechanics (Navier–Stokes equations), dies at 51
Sep 5 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
Sep 12 Grabbe, writer, dies at 34

Sep 14 Aaron Burr, 3rd US Vice President (D-R: 1801-05) who killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel, dies at 80

Sep 14 Vincenzo Lavigna, composer, dies at 60
Sep 17 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (Classification of flowering plants), dies at 88
Sep 19 Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer, dies at 66
Sep 21 John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86
Oct 10 Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, Flemish composer, dies at 61
Oct 10 Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson the 3rd President of the U.S., dies at 64
Oct 16 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33
Oct 17 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
Nov 5 Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
Nov 6 Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
Nov 12 Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
Nov 16 Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
Nov 26 John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder who created macadam road surface (asphalt), dies at 80
Nov 27 Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer, dies at 78
Dec 4 Daniel Read, American composer, dies at 79
Dec 12 Giuseppe Farinelli, Italian composer, dies at 67
Dec 26 Hans Georg Nägeli, Swiss composer, dies at 63

Dec 27 Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of the US State of Texas, dies at 43

Famous Deaths in 1836