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1841 deaths

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William Henry Harrison

president of the United States in 1841

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)

French inventor of airtight food preservation (1749–1841)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Prussian architect, city planner and painter (1781–1841)

Johann Friedrich Herbart

German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)

Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle

Swiss botanist (1778–1841)

British mathematical physicist (*1793 – †1841)

French physicist (1791–1841)

Vietnamese emperor (1791–1841)

Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno

French soldier and military commander (1764-1841)

Johan August Arfwedson

Swedish chemist (1792-1841)

Caroline of Baden

Queen consort of Bavaria

Aloysius Bertrand

French poet (1807–1841)

Friedrich Sertürner

German pharmacist (1783–1841)

Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Prussia, Solms-Braunfels & Great Britain, Queen of Hanover (1778-1841)

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

British nobleman and diplomat (1766–1841)

Friedrich Parrot

Baltic German explorer (1791-1841)

Tokugawa Ienari

Japanese shogun

Franz Xaver von Baader

German philosopher and theologian (1765-1841)

Agustín Gamarra

President of Peru (1785-1841)

Bertrand Barère

French politician, freemason and journalist

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Polish poet, playwright and statesman (1758–1841)

Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr (1803-1841)

Louis de Freycinet

French navigator

American politician (1780–1841)

Ferdinando Carulli

Italian composer

Jean Victor Audouin

French naturalist, an entomologist, ornithologist and malacologist (1797-1841)

Luis Eduardo Pérez

president of Uruguay (1774-1841)

Alexander Burnes

British explorer and political officer in British India (1805-1841)

Princess Augusta of Prussia

youngest daughter and fifth child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1780-1841)

Scottish painter (1785-1841)

Honoré V, Prince of Monaco

Prince of Monaco (1778-1841)

Scottish botanist (1799-1841)

Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde

Hungarian countess (1812-1841)

Jørgen Jørgensen

self declared King of Iceland, defied the crown of Denmark. Reigned for a short period (1780-1841)

Francis Legatt Chantrey

English artist (1781-1841)

Peter Andreas Heiberg

Danish author and philologist

English surgeon and anatomist

Georg Anton Friedrich Ast

German philosopher

Joseph Blanco White

Spanish journalist, poet and theologian

Alessandro Rolla

Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher

Alexander Shishkov

Russian admiral

Poet and calligrapher

Ignaz von Seyfried

Austrian musician (1776–1841)

Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann

German zoologist (1802-1841)

Francesco Morlacchi

Italian composer (1784-1841)

Felice Pasquale Baciocchi

French military general (1762–1841)

Princess Amalie of Nassau-Weilburg

German noblewoman, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1776-1841)

Charles Barbier de La Serre

inventor of raised-point writing

Argentine politician (1797-1841)

Albertine Necker de Saussure

Genevan writer (1766-1841)

French midwife, inventor, and writer (1773-1841)

Bernhard Romberg

German cellist and composer

Pierre-Augustin Hulin

French general (1758–1841)

member of the United States House of Representatives (1786-1841)

Fernando Errázuriz Aldunate

provisional president of Chile (1777-1841)

Ignaz Döllinger

German physiologist and anatomist (1770-1841)

Princess Maria Antonia of Parma

Auguste de Forbin

French painter, director of the Louvre Museum (1777-1841)