1851 deaths

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)

American writer (1789–1851)

English painter and draftsman (c.1775–1851)

French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)

French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)

German mathematician (1804–1851)

French Madame Royale (1778–1851)

German inventor of early form of bicycle and typewriter (1785-1851)

King of Hanover from 1837 to 1851

Prime Minister of France (1832–1834, 1834–1839, 1840–1847) and French Marshal (born 1769–1851)

Russian fleet commander and explorer (1788-1851)

Prince-Bishop of Montenegro

Third king of Siam of the Chakri Dynasty

Prime Minister of Spain (1767-1851)

German opera composer (1801-1851)

Italian composer and conductor

German naturalist and botanist

German naturalist (1779-1851)

Bavarian princess, duchess consort of Leuchtenberg

Russian composer

German philologist and critic (1793-1851)

Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist

Chilean politician (1787-1851)

Italian poet

German prince (1785-1851)

Mexican politician (1789-1851)

French zoologist and botanist (1777–1851)

American Presbyterian minister and dietary reformer

Slovene-Croatian writer

German missionary in China (1803-1851)

US Supreme Court justice from 1845 to 1851

American educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf

Scottish poet and dramatist (1762-1851)

soldier, diplomat (1772-1851)

German botanist (1786-1851)

youngest child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1783-1851)

Swedish naturalist (1780-1851)

Indian author

Princess of Saxony and Carignano (1770-1851)

American physician and naturalist (1799–1851)

Sovereign of the Principality of Lippe

prince of Salerno (1790–1851)

Mexican politician (1787-1851)

Peshwa of the Maratha empire (1776–1851)

French painter (1786-1851)

French physician (1786-1851)

Austrian hydrotherapist (1799–1851)

politician and diplomat (1779-1851)

Mamluk ruler of Iraq (1774-1851)

German and Russian numismatist and historian

American inventor (1802–1851)

German-Austrian piano maker

Half-sister of Lord Byron (1783–1851)

French naturalist and collector (1778-1855)

German general and cartographer (1775–1851)

British children's author

Scottish geologist and physicist (1770-1851)

Ottoman vizier (1783-1851)

German botanist (1793–1851)