John James Audubon
Jan 27 John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65
John James Audubon
- Jan 27 Karl Moser, German composer, dies at 77
Mary Shelley
Feb 1 Mary Shelley, English novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumour at 53
Mary Shelley
- Feb 16 Anne Willem Carel van Nagell, Dutch politician, dies at 95
- Feb 18 Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
- Feb 20 Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81
- Feb 25 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53
- Mar 4 Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 70
- Mar 4 James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
- Mar 6 Alexander Aliabiev, composer, dies at 63
Hans Oersted
- Mar 11 George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
- Apr 8 John Parry [Bardd Alaw], Welsh composer and harpist, dies at 75
- Apr 9 Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80
- May 17 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31
- May 22 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
- May 23 Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69
- May 24 Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40
- Jul 4 Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
- Jul 5 Juanita, Mexican, lynched by California gold diggers
Louis-Jacques Daguerre
Jul 10 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), dies at 63
Louis-Jacques Daguerre
- Jul 17 Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
- Aug 1 William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- Aug 11 Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
- Aug 19 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
- Sep 10 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
- Sep 11 Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and minister (Graham cracker) (b. 1794)
James Fenimore Cooper
Sep 14 James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61
James Fenimore Cooper
- Oct 4 Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
- Oct 19 Marie Thérèse Charlotte (b. 1778)
- Oct 31 Peter II, prince-bishop of Montenegro (1830-51) and poet (The Ray of The Microcosm), dies at 37
- Nov 18 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51), dies at 80
- Nov 20 Wenzel Sedlak, composer, dies at 75
- Nov 26 Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal, 10th Prime Minister of France, dies at 82
- Dec 19 J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies at 76
- Dec 19 J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter (Shipwreck), dies at 76