Famous Deaths In 1865

Jan 03 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

Jan 08 Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779) died on this day in history.  

Jan 16 Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828) died on this day in history.  

Jan 19 On this day in history death of pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)  

Feb 06 John Pegram, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33 in the year 1865.  

Feb 07 On this day in history john Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64  

Feb 10 On this day in history death of heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)  

Feb 15 On this day in history nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies  

Feb 25 In the year 1865 otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47  

Mar 01 Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

Mar 02 In the year 1865 death of carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)  

Mar 10 In the year 1865 william Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj, dies at 48  

Mar 20 In the year 1865 death of keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)  

Mar 26 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies on this day in history.  

Mar 27 In the year 1865 death of petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)  

Mar 28 Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26 on this day in history.  

Apr 01 In the year 1865 death of giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)  

Apr 02 On this day in history death of ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39  

Apr 06 John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36 on this day in history.  

Apr 08 On this day in history john Park, composer, dies at 61  

Apr 09 On this day in history thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32  

Apr 16 Robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle in the year 1865.  

Apr 22 Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries in the year 1865.  

Apr 23 James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24 on this day in history.  

Apr 26 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Apr 28 Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787) died in the year 1865.  

Apr 30 Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805) died in the year 1865.  

May 30 On this day in history william Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27  

Jun 02 On this day in history john E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59  

Jun 03 On this day in history death of okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)  

Jun 08 Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies on this day in history.  

Jun 13 Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29 in the year 1865.  

Jun 15 Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide died in the year 1865.  

Jun 21 On this day in history death of frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)  

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Jan 01 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 03 Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936) was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)  

Jan 10 Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 13 On this day in history birth of princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)  

Jan 17 Gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 20 Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 22 Friedrich Paschen, German physicist was born on this day in history.