Famous People Who Died in 1872

Apr 2 Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor of the electric telegraph and Morse Code, dies at 80

Apr 9 Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (Mayor of Albany, New York), dies at 77
Apr 12 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Italian-Greek composer, dies at 76
Apr 20 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62
Apr 27 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician & author, dies at 70
May 1 Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
May 15 Thomas Hastings, American composer, dies at 87
May 17 Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist and composer, dies at 63
May 19 Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
May 24 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and designer who figured importantly in the German Nazarene movement, dies at 78
May 29 John Gill Shorter, American politician (17th Governor of Alabama), dies at 54

Jun 1 James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76

Jun 3 Heinrich Esser, German composer and conductor, dies at 53
Jun 4 Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies
Jun 4 Stanisław Moniuszko, Polish conductor, composer (Straszny dwór - The Haunted Manor), and teacher, dies at 53
Jun 16 Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
Jun 28 Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, German composer, dies at 66
Jul 18 Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
Jul 26 Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
Jul 28 Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies at 64
Aug 2 Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
Aug 11 Lowell Mason, US organist/composer (Zebulo), dies at 80
Aug 19 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, French composer, dies at 63
Sep 2 N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher, dies at 88
Sep 7 Antoni Stolpe, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 21
Sep 13 Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
Sep 18 Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72), dies at 46
Sep 22 Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer, dies at 70
Oct 2 Eberhard Friedrich Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt A/M), dies at 78

Oct 10 William H. Seward, American politician (Secretary of State, 1861-69, Governor of New York, 1839-42), dies at 71

Oct 14 Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian colonel general, dies at 63
Oct 21 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78
Oct 23 Théophile Gautier, French writer, historian and poet (Albertus, La Chanson de Roland, Émaux et camées), dies at 61
Nov 5 Thomas Sully, American portrait painter (Queen Victoria), dies at 89
Nov 7 Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
Nov 23 Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), American poet/Comanche chief, dies
Nov 28 Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
Nov 29 Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian painter, dies at 56
Nov 29 Giovanni Tadolini, Italian composer, dies at 83
Nov 29 Horace Greeley, American founder and editor of the New-York Tribune ("Go west, young man"), dies at 61
Dec 11 Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (1863-72), dies at 42
Dec 12 Willem Anne Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
Dec 12 Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist, dies at 66
Dec 13 Helena Beeloo, a maid, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
Dec 13 W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
Dec 21 Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General, dies at 46
Dec 24 William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish mechanical engineer and physicist, dies at 52
Dec 28 James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
Dec 31 Aleksis Kivi, Finnish writer and poet (Kanervala), dies at 38