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1848 deaths

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John Quincy Adams

President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Swedish chemist (1779–1848)

Vissarion Belinsky

Russian literary critic

Gaetano Donizetti

Italian opera composer (1797–1848)

George Stephenson

English civil and mechanical engineer and the "Father of Railways" (1781-1848)

Caroline Herschel

German-British astronomer (1750-1848)

Bernard Bolzano

Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848)

Christian VIII of Denmark

King of Norway 1814, King of Denmark 1839-1848

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

British politician (1779–1848)

19th-century American painter (1801-1848)

Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

Egyptian general and Wāli of Egypt (1789–1848)

John Jacob Astor I

German-American businessman (1763-1848)

Khachatur Abovian

Armenian writer, activist, academic (1809-1848)

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

German composer and writer (1797–1848)

Mohammad Shah Qajar

The third Shah of Iran Qajar (1834–1848)

Australian astronomer (1793–1848)

Frederick Marryat

British naval officer and novelist (1792–1848)

Austrian priest and composer (1792–1848)

Maria Isabella of Spain

Spanish infanta, Queen of the Two Sicilies

Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse

Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1777-1848)

Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini

German botanist (1797-1848)

Branwell Brontë

British artist (1817–1848)

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

English poet, hymnwriter (1805–1848)

French herpetologist and zoologist (1805–1848)

Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom

British princess; daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte (1777-1848)

Manto Mavrogeni

Greek revolutionary (1796-1848)

Steen Steensen Blicher

Danish writer (1782-1848)

Spanish philosopher (1810–1848)

German writer and journalist (1776-1848)

Georg August Goldfuss

German paleontologist, mineralogist, zoologist and botanist (1782-1848)

Kurdish poet (1805–1848)

English statesman (1764-1848)

Heinrich Zschokke

Swiss-German writer and politician

Christen Købke

Danish artist (1810-1848)

Japanese novelist in the late Edo period (1767 - 1848)

Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este

Archduchess of Austria

Duchess Amelia of Württemberg

Duchess of Württemberg (1799-1848)

President of Mexico (1787-1848)

Petros Mavromichalis

Greek notable of Mani, revolutionary army leader, and politician

Pellegrino Rossi

Italian economist, politician and jurist naturalized French (1787-1848)

French mathematician (1814–1848)

German democratic politician (1807-1848)

Russian architect (1769–1848)

Isaac D'Israeli

British writer (1766–1848)

Avdotia Istomina

Imperial Russian ballerina (1799–1848)

English medical doctor; father of naturalist Charles Darwin

American dentist and anaesthesia pioneer (1815-1848)

Yevgeny Grebyonka

Russian and Ukrainian poet (1812-1848)

German entomologist and botanist (1771–1848)

Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist

George W. Campbell

American politician (1769-1848)

Jean-Baptiste Debret

French painter (1768–1848)

Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann

German classical scholar and philologist

Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson

German entomologist and physician (1809–1848)

Martinus Rørbye

Danish artist (1803-1848)

Jean Antoine Letronne

French archaeologist

Danish painter and graphic artist (1818-1848)

Felix Lichnowsky

German politician (1814-1848)