42 Famous and Notable Deaths in 1851

Jan 27 John James Audubon, American ornithologist,painter (The Birds Of America), dies at 65

Feb 1 Mary Shelley, English novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumour at 53

Feb 16 Anne Willem Carel van Nagell, Dutch politician, dies at 95
Feb 18 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician, dies at 46
Feb 20 Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81
Feb 23 Joanna Baillie, Scottish poet and playwright, dies at 88
Feb 25 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53
Mar 4 Michael Henkel, German composer and organist, dies at 70
Mar 4 James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
Mar 6 Alexander Aliabiev, Russian composer remembered as one of the fathers of Russian art song, dies at 63

Mar 9 Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, dies at 73

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 Adriaan van Bevervoorde, Dutch 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], Slovenian-Croatian poet (Grammatica), dies at 40
Jul 4 Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
Jul 5 Juanita, Mexican, lynched by California gold diggers
Jul 6 Thomas Davenport, American iventor (invented 1st commercial electric motor), dies at 48

Jul 10 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), dies at 63

Jul 17 Béni Egressy, Hungarian composer, dies at 37
Aug 1 William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
Aug 11 Lorenz Oken, German naturalist, dies at 72
Aug 19 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
Sep 10 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American pioneer of educating the deaf, dies at 63
Sep 11 Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist and minister (Graham cracker) (b. 1794)

Sep 14 James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61

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, Bohemian clarinetist and 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. W. Turner, English landscape painter (Shipwreck, Rain, Steam & Speed), dies at 76

Famous Deaths in 1851