1831 deaths

Royal Navy officer and scientist

British surgeon

French general in the service of the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars (1763-1831)

Pitcairn Island leader (1790-1831)

Dutch-British writer, designer and architect (1769–1831)

Italian general and historian

American minister, educator, writer (1760-1831)

Russian composer (1757-1831)

prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Scottish lawyer and writer; (1745-1831)

Italian botanist and politician (1765-1831)

Indian writer (1809-1831)

British naval officer (1772–1831)

Belgian entomologist (1797-1831)

Hungarian general & statesman (1763-1831)

German botanist (1764-1831)

English painter (1746-1831)

Italian anatomist

Argentine politician and businessman (1765-1831)

Muslim activist

painter from the United States (1749-1831)

Swedish field marshal (1764-1831)

Japanese writer (1765–1831)

German composer and theologian (1748-1831)

Polish noble (1795–1831)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1744-1831)

Russian army general, Governor General of Finland. Discoverer of pargasite and cordierite, var. steinheilite (1762-1831)

German theologian and philosopher (1775-1831)

Haitian flag designer

German artist, writer and Salonist

British engineer

serial killer

German novelist (1758–1831)

American politician (1756-1831)

Syed Mir Nisar Ali (27 January 1782 – 19 November 1831), better known as Titumir, was one of the first Bengali-speaking revolutionaries in British India who developed a strand of Islamic revivalism, sometimes also for Bengali nationalism coupled with agrarian and political consciousness. He is famed for having built a large bamboo fort to resist the British, which passed into Bengali Muslim folk legend.

Portuguese writer (1761-1831)

German writer (1777-1831)

Ottoman governor (1771-1831)

Italian patriot (1798-1831)

archbishop

British Army general (1755-1831)

British politician

Princess consort of Liechtenstein (1768-1831)

Italian priest (1751-1831)

Austrian general (1759-1831)

Russian admiral

Spanish composer and priest (1755-1831)

French sculptor (1757–1831)

French painter (1751–1831)

American artist (1761-1831)

Argentine general of Spanish origin (1770-1831)

Venezuelan revolutionary (1782-1831)

Lithuanian noble (1744-1831)

French general and politician (1757-1831)

German gardener, botanist and naturalist (1789-1831)

American politician and military officer (1753–1831)

American politician (1760-1831)

French botanist (1748-1831)

Italian opera librettist

German writer (1773-1831)