Famous Deaths In 1838

Jan 13 On this day in history ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53  

Jan 16 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS] in the year 1838.  

Jan 20 On this day in history pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64  

Jan 23 On this day in history arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67  

Jan 28 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS] in the year 1838.  

Jan 30 In the year 1838 osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail  

Feb 01 Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Feb 05 Philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

Feb 22 Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70 in the year 1838.  

Mar 16 On this day in history nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64  

Mar 22 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73 in the year 1838.  

Mar 24 Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

Apr 03 In the year 1838 francesco Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician on St Helena, dies at 57  

Apr 06 Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74 in the year 1838.  

Apr 11 In the year 1838 death of pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40  

Apr 17 In the year 1838 j Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71  

Apr 23 John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

May 17 In the year 1838 death of charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)  

May 23 On this day in history john W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony), dies at 75  

May 28 On this day in history thomas Busby, composer, dies  

Jun 25 On this day in history death of françois Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)  

Jul 10 Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43 in the year 1838.  

Jul 17 John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 in the year 1838.  

Jul 19 On this day in history frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72  

Jul 28 In the year 1838 bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62  

Jul 29 Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

Aug 21 A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 in the year 1838.  

Sep 01 On this day in history william Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 68  

Sep 05 On this day in history death of charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)  

Sep 07 Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43 in the year 1838.  

Sep 08 Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.  

Oct 01 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768) died on this day in history.  

Oct 03 On this day in history death of black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)  

Oct 04 On this day in history eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79  

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Jan 01 In the year 1838 birth of william Hugh Young, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901  

Jan 04 Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05 Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) was born in the year 1838.  

Jan 06 On this day in history birth of max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer  

Jan 16 Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917) was born in the year 1838.  

Feb 06 In the year 1838 birth of henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)  

Feb 06 In the year 1838 birth of yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)  

Feb 12 Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898 was born on this day in history.