Famous Deaths Happened In 1837

Jan 11 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Jan 20 John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Jan 23 John Field, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

Jan 29 On this day in history death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07 In the year 1837 death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)  

Feb 10 Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

Feb 12 In the year 1837 ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50  

Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died in the year 1837.  

Feb 19 In the year 1837 death of georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)  

Mar 13 On this day in history nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66  

Mar 26 In the year 1837 joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53  

Mar 29 Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies on this day in history.  

Mar 31 John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Apr 17 On this day in history edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies  

May 05 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 in the year 1837.  

May 08 Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770) died in the year 1837.  

May 31 On this day in history joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57  

Jun 14 In the year 1837 death of giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)  

Jun 16 In the year 1837 valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72  

Jun 19 In the year 1837 aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle  

Jun 20 Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89 in the year 1837.  

Jul 24 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter died on this day in history.  

Jul 28 On this day in history john Ross, composer, dies at 73  

Aug 01 Walter Geikie, painter, dies in the year 1837.  

Aug 09 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787) died on this day in history.  

Sep 16 Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies in the year 1837.  

Sep 23 On this day in history richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80  

Oct 01 Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777) died on this day in history.  

Oct 05 In the year 1837 hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54  

Oct 06 Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

Oct 09 On this day in history charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies  

Oct 11 On this day in history samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71  

Oct 12 On this day in history frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62  

Oct 15 On this day in history death of ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)  

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Jan 02 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 04 In the year 1837 birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05 A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 12 Adolf Jensen, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 12 On this day in history birth of carlos Troyer, composer  

Jan 16 In the year 1837 birth of james Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887  

Jan 19 On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)  

Jan 20 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born in the year 1837.