Historical Figures Who Died in 1834

Jan 12 William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Whig: 1806-07), dies at 74

Jan 16 Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
Jan 17 Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist, dies at 71
Feb 6 Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer, dies from his injuries sustained by a musket ball at 29
Feb 12 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 65
Feb 16 Lionel Lukin, British life boat pioneer, dies at 91
Mar 12 Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
May 20 Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, dies

May 20 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot and French revolutionary, dies at 76

Jun 9 William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
Jun 10 Antonius van Gils, Dutch Roman Catholic theologist (against Relief), dies at 75
Jun 28 Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
Jul 14 Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)

Jul 25 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British romantic poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), dies of heart failure at 61

Jul 26 Jonathan Jennings, American politician (Governor of Indiana, 1816–1822; Congressman for Indiana, 1822–1831), dies at 50
Aug 1 Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
Aug 5 Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, Dutch count and Minister of Foreign affairs (1813-14), dies at 71
Aug 7 Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
Aug 17 Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general, dies at 31
Sep 2 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (designed and constructed Menai Bridge, Wales in 1819-26), dies at 77
Sep 16 Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies
Sep 24 Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31) and King of Portugal (1826), dies at 35
Oct 10 Thomas Say, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, dies from typhoid fever at 47
Oct 19 Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant and poet (Volkswoede), dies at 69
Oct 31 Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French-American chemist and industrialist (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company), dies at 63
Nov 5 Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24
Dec 6 Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54

Dec 23 Thomas Malthus, British economist and demographer (Law of Malthus), dies of heart disease at 68