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1846 deaths

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Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846 (1765–1846)

Friedrich Bessel

German astronomer and mathematician

Louis Bonaparte

king of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846)

German economist

emperor of Japan (1800-1846)

Swedish poet, professor and bishop (1782–1846)

Adam Johann von Krusenstern

Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe (1770–1846)

Rodolphe Töpffer

Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist (1799-1846)

Otto von Kotzebue

Baltic German explorer (1787–1846)

Andrew Kim Taegon

Korean Catholic saint (1821–1846)

Francis IV of Modena

Wilhelm Kyukhelbeker

Russian writer (1797-1846)

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

French writer (1770-1846)

Thomas Clarkson

English abolitionist (1760-1846)

Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg

wife of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia; actingfirst lady of Prussia from 1810-40

Giuseppe Acerbi

Italian naturalist, explorer, composer (1773-1846)

Charles Alexandre Lesueur

French naturalist, artist, and explorer (1778–1846)

Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent

French naturalist, geographer and officer (1778-1846)

Domenico Dragonetti

Italian musician (1763-1846)

Jean-Gaspard Deburau

Bohemian-French mime (1796-1846)

Maria Severa Onofriana

Portuguese singer (1820–1846)

Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia

Alexander Chavchavadze

Georgian writer and military figure

Austrian composer

Jan Frans Willems

writer (1793–1846)

Bagyidaw (, ; also known as Sagaing Min, ; 23 July 1784 – 15 October 1846) was the seventh king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma from 1819 until his abdication in 1837. Prince of Sagaing, as he was commonly known in his day, was selected as crown prince by his grandfather King Bodawpaya in 1808, and became king in 1819 after Bodawpaya's death. Bagyidaw moved the capital from Amarapura back to Ava in 1823.

Dwarkanath Tagore

Indian businessman

Benjamin Haydon

English painter, specialising in grand historical pictures (1786-1846)

José María Calatrava y Peinado

Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of State

British artist and sculptor

Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck

Cardinal Archbishop of Milan

Georg Friedrich Puchta

German jurist (1798–1846)

Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont

French general (1773-1846)

Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy

French writer (1764-1846)

Joseph Leopold Eybler

Austrian composer

Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Homburg

Consort of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe

British colonial governor (1785-1846)

Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets

Russian artist (1816-1846)

German chess player (1795-1846)

Naum Veqilharxhi

Albanian inventor of writing system (1797-1846)

David Heinrich Hoppe

German botanist (1760-1846)

British Army general, politician and colonial administrator (1772-1846)

Helena Perpenti

Italian scientist (1764–1846)

Tharrawaddy Min

Christian Heinrich Rinck

German composer and organist

Giuseppe Zamboni

Italian Roman Catholic priest-physicist

Prince Henry of Prussia

(1781-1846); third son and sixth child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt

Nikolay Yazykov

Russian poet (1803-1847)

Samuel B. Moore

American politician (1779-1846)

Girolamo Crescentini

Italian singer castrato

William Lee D. Ewing

American politician (1795–1846)

Sir George Barlow, 1st Baronet

Governor-General of India

Louis-Pierre Baltard

French architect and engraver (1764-1846)

Austrian singer (1763-1846)

Franz Anton Ries

German violinist

Thomas Grenville

British politician (1755-1846)

Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Austrian general and Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Sree Padmanabhadasa Sree Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma

Maharajah of Travencore (1813-1846)

Benedict Joseph Fenwick

American Catholic bishop

Christian Ludwig Ideler

German chronologist and astronomer