Famous People Who Died in 1850

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)

Mar 31 US Vice President (1825-32), dies of tuberculosis at 68

Apr 3 Václav Tomášek, Czech pianist, composer (Eclogues), and pedagogue, dies at 75
Apr 7 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87
Apr 9 William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
Apr 12 Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (b. 1788)

Madame Tussaud (1761-1850)

Apr 16 French founder of Madame Tussaud's wax museum, dies at 88

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Apr 23 English Romantic poet (The Prelude), dies at 80

Apr 24 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, Italian-French composer, dies at 70
May 9 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist & chemist, dies at 71
May 24 Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
Jun 4 Maurice, Prince of the Netherlands, second son of King William III, dies from meningitis at 6
Jun 12 Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, Swiss-Dutch army leader, dies at 77
Jun 16 William Lawson British-Australian surveyor who explored New South Wales (first route across Blue Mountains), dies at 76
Jun 18 Antoni Weinert, Polish flutist and composer, dies at 99

Robert Peel (1788-1850)

Jul 2 British Prime Minister (Tory/Conservative/Peelite: 1834-35; 1841-46), founder of the British Conservative Party and the modern police force (Bobbies), dies after falling from a horse at 62

Jul 4 William Kirby, English entomologist and original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, dies at 90
Jul 8 Prince Adolphus, British fieldmarshall1st Duke of Cambridge, 7th son of George III (b. 1774)
Jul 9 Bab [Shirazi, Sayyid Ali Muhammad], Persian founder of Babism, executed by firing squad on orders of the Persian government at 30

Jul 9 12th US President (1849-50) and major general in the Mexican–American War, dies in the White House of an unknown digestive ailment at 65 after reportedly consuming copious amounts of raw fruit and iced milk

Jul 12 Robert Stevenson, Scottish civil engineer (Bell Rock Lighthouse, Scotland), dies at 78
Jul 14 August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
Jul 19 Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis and revolutionary, dies in a shipwreck
Jul 19 Margaret Fuller (Ossoli), American feminist, activist and journalist (Women in the Nineteenth Century), dies in a shipwreck at 40
Jul 28 Stefano Pavesi, Italian opera composer (Ser Marcantonio), dies at 71
Aug 4 Frantisek Tucek, Czech composer, and music teacher, dies at 68
Aug 6 Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)

José de San Martín (1778-1850)

Aug 17 South American revolutionary hero and general, dies at 72

Aug 18 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (La Comédie Humaine), dies at 51
Aug 22 Nikolaus Lenau, Hungarian-German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser), dies at 48
Aug 26 Louis-Philippe, Duke of Chartres, the last King of France (1830-48), dies in exile in England at 76
Sep 23 José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan revolutionary leader and national hero who is regarded as the father of Uruguayan independence, dies at 86
Oct 2 Sarah Biffin [Beffin], English limbless miniature painter, dies at 65 or 66
Oct 11 Louise of Orléans, Queen of Belgium (1832-50), Wife of Leopold I, dies of TB at 38
Nov 4 Gustav Schwab, German writer, dies at 58
Nov 5 Ferdinand Karl Joseph, Archduke of Austria-Este, dies at 69
Nov 19 Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
Dec 8 Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian statesman, dies at 80
Dec 10 François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist, dies at 63