Famous People Who Died in 1865

Mar 28 Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26
Apr 1 Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano, dies at 67
Apr 2 A. P. Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39
Apr 2 Richard Cobden, English politician and manufacturer (founder of the Anti-Corn-Law League), dies at 60
Apr 6 Colonel Reuben B Boston, US Confederate cavalry, killed in action during Battle of High Bridge in Farmville, Virginia at 30
Apr 6 John Austin Wharton, American lawyer and Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 36
Apr 8 John Park, Scottish composer, dies at 61
Apr 9 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
Apr 14 Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician, and piano maker, dies at 65

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Apr 15 16th US President (Republican: 1861-65), dies from gunshot wounds at 56

Apr 16 Robert C. Tyler, US Confederate brigadier general, dies during the Battle of West Point, at 32
Apr 22 Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
Apr 22 William McKean, American naval officer (Union Navy), dies at 64
Apr 23 James Dearing, U.S. Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 24
Apr 26 Charles J Sax, Belgium musician & father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at 74

John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865)

Apr 26 American stage actor & assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, shot and killed at 26 by Union soldier Boston Corbett

Apr 28 Samuel Cunard, Canadian-British shipping magnate & founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line), dies at 77
Apr 30 Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and scientist, dies at 59
May 21 Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish Archaeologist, created Stone, Bronze, Iron age system, dies at 76
May 25 Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint and founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, dies at 85
Jun 2 Johannes Elias Feisser, Dutch theologist and founder of 1st Dutch baptist church, dies at 59
Jun 2 Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician, dies at 81
Jun 3 Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
Jun 6 William Quantrill, American guerrilla leader in the Confederate Army who led Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre, dies of wounds at 27
Jun 8 Joseph Paxton, English architect, gardener and MP (Crystal Palace), dies at 61
Jun 10 Lydia Sigourney (née Huntley), American poet and writer (How to Be Happy; Letter of Life), known as "the Sweet Singer of Hartford", dies at 73
Jun 13 Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brigadier general, dies at about 29
Jun 15 Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide
Jun 15 Jakob Zeugheer, Swiss composer, dies at 61
Jun 21 Frances Adeline Seward, American First Lady of New York (1839-42) and wife of US Secretary of State William H. Seward, dies of a heart attack at 59
Jun 23 Samuel Francis DuPont, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 61
Jul 7 David Herold, American pharmacist's assistant who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, executed by hanging at 23
Jul 7 George Atzerodt, American conspirator who failed to attempt an assassination of Vice President Andrew Johnson on the night Abraham Lincoln was murdered, executed by hanging at 30
Jul 7 Lewis Powell, American Confederate soldier who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and who attempted to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, executed by hanging at 21
Jul 7 Mary Surratt, American boarding house owner who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, executed by hanging at 42 or 45. She becomes the first woman executed by the US government.
Jul 15 Reinier C. Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian, dies at 55
Jul 24 Johan Filip von Schantz, Finnish composer, dies at 30
Jul 25 James Barry [Margaret Ann Bulkley], British military surgeon and the 1st woman in Great Britain to become a qualified medical doctor, dies at 66 or 67
Jul 30 George Wright, US Union brigadier general, dies at 61
Aug 12 William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and director (Kew Gardens), dies at 80
Aug 13 Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of puerperal (childbed) fever and introduced antisepsis into medical practice, dies at 47
Aug 17 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, Bavarian composer, dies at 82
Aug 17 Mosby Munroe Parsons, United States officer in the Mexican–American War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army, dies in battle at 42
Aug 26 Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73
Aug 26 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, US attorney/Union brigadier general, dies at 35
Aug 27 Józef Nowakowski, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 64
Aug 27 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville), dies at 68
Aug 29 John Brough, US publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54
Sep 11 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general during conquest of Algeria, dies at 59
Sep 16 Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
Sep 22 Heinrich Christian Pander, Baltic German biologist and embryologist, dies at 71
Sep 24 Frantiszek Sołtyk, Polish composer, dies at 81
Sep 30 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar, dies at 65
Oct 8 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer, dies at 51
Oct 12 William Vincent Wallace, Irish-American violinist (known as the 'Australian Paganini'), and composer (Maritana), dies at 53
Oct 16 Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)

Henry John Temple (1784-1865)

Oct 18 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British Prime Minister (1855-58 and 1859-65), dies of fever at 80

Oct 20 Champ Ferguson, American Confederate guerrilla, found guilty of war crimes during US Civil War, executed and hung at 43
Oct 31 William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies
Nov 1 John Lindley, English botanist (Elements of Botany), dies at 66
Nov 6 Thérèse Wartel, French pianist and composer, dies at 51
Nov 10 (Heinrich) "Henry" Wirz, Swiss American Confederate army officer (Commander of Camp Sumter prisoner-of-war facility), hanged after being found guilty of excessive cruelty at 41
Nov 12 Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (North and South), dies of a heart attack at 55
Nov 12 Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (1857-63), dies at 59
Nov 17 James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist, dies at 52
Nov 23 Josef Leopold Zvonař, Czech organist and composer, dies at 41
Nov 23 René E. de Russy, West Indian US brigadier general, dies at about 75
Nov 25 Heinrich Barth, German explorer, historian and geographer (Central Africa), dies at 44
Nov 29 Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer and statesman, dies at 69
Dec 1 Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
Dec 1 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76
Dec 6 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56
Dec 10 Leopold I, King of Belgium (1831-65), dies at 74
Dec 14 Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist, dies at 71
Dec 18 Francisco Manuel da Silva, Brazilian composer (Brazilian National Anthem), dies at 70
Dec 24 Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)
Dec 30 Henry Winter Davis, American politician and unionist, dies at 48