Jan 10 Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64 Jan 24 Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, dies at 66 Jan 26 Théodore Géricault, French painter (The Raft of the Medusa), dies at 32 Jan 29 Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany, dies at 71 1823 Deaths in History 1825