Mary Shelley Feb 1 Mary Shelley, English novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumour at 53 Frankenstein AuthorMary Shelley 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 1850 Famous Deaths by Year 1852