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1862 deaths

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Martin Van Buren

president of the United States from 1837 to 1841

Henry David Thoreau

American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

president of the United States from 1841 to 1845

19th-century American industrialist and inventor (1814–1862)

Jean-Baptiste Biot

French scientist (1774-1862)

Bahadur Shah Zafar

18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857

Božena Němcová

Czech writer (1820-1862)

German poet and politician (1787–1862)

James Clark Ross

British explorer and naval officer (1800–1862)

Austrian playwright, actor and singer (1801–1862)

Mikhail Ostrogradsky

Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)

Henry Thomas Buckle

English historian (1821–1862)

Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo

Spanish dramatist and politician (1787-1862)

Carlos Antonio López

President of Paraguay (1792-1862)

Fromental Halévy

French composer

Karl Nesselrode

Russian diplomat of Baltic German origin (1780-1862)

Carl Ludwig Blume

German-Dutch botanist (1796-1862)

British mathematician and physicist

Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning

British politician (1812-1862)

Elizabeth Siddal

Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829-1862)

Albert Sidney Johnston

Confederate States Army officer (1803–1862)

Ignacio Zaragoza

Mexican political and military leader (1829–1862)

Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz

Austrian marshall (1787-1862)

Scottish physician, anatomist, zoologist and ethnologist (1791-1862)

Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Italian Passionist student and Catholic saint (1838–1862)

Justinus Kerner

German poet and medical writer (1786-1862)

José María Bocanegra

Mexican politician (1787-1862)

Władysław Syrokomla

Polish poet (1823–1862)

Leopold Schefer

German poet, novelist and composer

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

German nobleman

Hungarian painter, pioneer of women's education (1806–1862)

Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Danish novelist and poet, lyricist (1789–1862)

Honinbo Shusaku

Japanese professional Go player from the 19th century

politician and historian (1777-1862)

Romanian politician (1807-1862)

Francisco Balagtas

Filipino writer

Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, 2nd Princess of Koháry

Hungarian noblewoman

Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz

German princess (1822–1862)

Sofia Adlersparre

Swedish painter (1808-1862)

Edme-François Jomard

French cartographer, engineer and archaeologist (1777–1862)

German painter (1786–1862)

French actress (1818–1868)

Juana Azurduy de Padilla

argentine/bolivian military leader

Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria

Bavarian princess (1813–1862)

Anton Martin Slomšek

Slovene bishop and poet (1800–1862)

Pauline Jaricot

19th-century French tertiary of the Order of Dominicans, foundress and blessed

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

British surgeon

František Škroup

Czech composer and conductor (1801–1862)

Félix de Mûelenaere

Belgian noble and politician (1793-1862)

Russian writer (1822-1862)

Manuel Robles Pezuela

Mexican politician (1817-1862)

Alexandru II Ghica

Ruler of Wallachia

Fitz James O'Brien

Irish-American writer

Pedro José Ramón Gual Escandón

President of Venezuela

François Sudre

1787-1862 French author and musician

Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov

Russian politician (1786-1862)

Heinrich Georg Bronn

German scientist (1800-1862)

Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker

German astronomer