1861 deaths

French journalist and artist (1806-1862)

British politician (1779-1861)

Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church

British Tory politician and bankrupt (1797–1861)

German mathematician (1818-1861)

German physician (1808–1861)

Dutch writer (1829-1861)

Czech conductor and composer (1798-1861)

German writer (1806–1861)

Patriarch of Venice (1800–1861)

British peer (1788-1861)

United States Army officer and Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War (1824-1861)

German botanist (1774-1861)

German philologist and politician (1805-1861)

Dutch zoologist (1801-1868)

German musicologist (1794–1861)

Italian Catholic cardinal

British noble, mistress of King George IV

Polish poet and writer

British architect (1799-1861)

Mexican imperial consort

botany professor, taxonomist (1799-1861)

American sailor

Italian composer and choir director

Catholic cardinal (1780-1861)

Qing Dynasty regent (1816-1861)

American politician in Virginia (1775–1861)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1782-1861)

Namibian politician (1785–1861)

American politician (1808-1861)

American politician (1805-1861)

Prussian statesman (1798-1861)

French Provençal poet (1816–1861)

Norwegian archivist and historian (1810–1861)

Spanish dramatist and pedagogue. Spanish diplomat, general director of public education, and counselor of state (1793-1861)

American botanist and geologist (1797-1861)

Duke of Arenberg (1785-1861)

British historian

Swiss politician and lawyer (1776-1861)

English philosopher, writer, inventor, and social reformer (1783/4–1861)

British engineer

Dutch painter (1798-1862)

early archaeologist in Derbyshire

American politician (1780–1861)

Adandozan was a king of the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1797 until 1818. His rule ended with a coup by his brother Ghezo who then erased Adandozan from the official history resulting in high uncertainty about many aspects of his life. Adandozan took over from his father Agonglo in 1797 but was quite young at the time and so there was a regent in charge of the kingdom until 1804. Dealing with the economic depression that had defined the administrations of his father Agonglo and grandfather Kpengla, Adandozan tried to reduce slavery to decrease European trade, and when these f

Danish painter (1797-1861)

British Royal Navy officer (1802-1861)

Irish operatic soprano (1818-1861)

Union Army officer (1828–1861)

American politician (1775-1861)

failed assassin of Andrew Jackson (c. 1800–1861)

German general (1788-1861)

German classical historian (1786–1861)

French composer and conductor

American governor of Kentucky (1788-1861)

Italian composer and music educator (1801-1861)

British gardener and botanist (1773-1861)

German surgeon, ophthalmologist

physician

Spanish painter (1798-1861)