1812 deaths

vice president of the United States from 1805 to 1812 (1739–1812)

19th-century prime minister of the United Kingdom (1762–1812)

General of the Imperial Russian Army (1765–1812)

Sacagawea ( or ; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May 1788 – December 20, 1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone or Hidatsa woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.

French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician (1775-1812)

German banker (1744–1812)

German botanist (1765-1812)

German actor and singer

Dutch diplomat (1745 - 1812)

Czech composer and pianist (1760–1812)

Irish geologist and chemist (1733-1812)

historian and philosopher (1750-1812)

German classical philologist (1729-1812)

American poet, diplomat, politician and businessman (1754–1812)

Lithuanian Orthodox Rabbi and first Rebbe of Chabad (1745–1812)

British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada

Scottish architect (1745–1812)

Prince-bishop (1732-1812)

German duke (1784-1812)

Russian architect

Austrian singer, pianist and composer

American politician (1747–1812)

German artist (1788-1812)

Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor (1741-1812)

French general (1754–1812)

German composer and music publisher

Franco-British painter of Swiss descent (1740–1812), born in Alsace region

German prince (1767-1812)

German prince (1769-1812)

Austrian composer and pianist (1773-1812)

German painter (1750-1812)

Argentine lawyer and politician

Portuguese and Spanish infante

Russian general

Spanish guerilla fighter

Tatar theologian, religious reformer, Islamic scholar and educator

Chief of the Miami people (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812)

Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, then Prince of Waldeck

Austrian musician

Prussian historian

French army commander (1758–1812)

German theologian (1745-1812)

French general (1770-1812)

Dutch chess master

French historian (1730-1812)

Roman Catholic archbishop (1739-1812)

German mathematician and physicist

Russian mathematician

Austrian double bass player and composer (1750–1812)

Scottish noble (1746–1812)

British publisher; founder of The Times newspaper of London (1738-1812)

polish-Lithuanian nobleman, writer and politician

French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (1768–1812)

Russian general

French pamphleteer, diplomat, spy and political adventurer (1753–1812)

German prince

Polish writer (1739–1812)

British military officer and colonial administrator

English Anglican priest and missionary in India and Persia

English assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval