Historical Figures Who Died in 1832

Mar 22 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and social philosopher (Faust), dies at 82

Mar 30 Stephen Groombridge, English Astronomer, dies at 77
Apr 1 Robert the Hermit, US ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies
Apr 12 Shadrach Bond, American politician (1st Governor of Illinois, 1818 to 1822), dies of pneumonia at 58
May 4 Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church

May 13 Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], French naturalist and zoologist, dies at 62

May 14 John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried
May 31 Évariste Galois, French mathematician (Group theory), dies at 20
Jun 6 Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
Jun 23 James Hall, Scottish geologist, dies at 70
Jul 22 Napoleon II of France (b. 1811), son of Napoleon I dies of tuberculosis
Jul 30 Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
Aug 24 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
Sep 2 Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer, dies at 78
Sep 21 Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet (The Lady of the Lake, Ivanhoe), dies at 61
Sep 27 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher, dies at 51
Nov 14 Charles Carroll, Wealthy Maryland planter who was the last signer of the Declaration of Independence to pass away, dies at 95
Nov 14 Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist and philologist (Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language), dies of tuberculosis at 44
Nov 15 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
Dec 30 Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies