Famous Deaths Happened In 1837

Jan 11 John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Jan 20 On this day in history john Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84  

Jan 23 On this day in history john Field, composer, dies at 54  

Jan 29 In the year 1837 death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07 In the year 1837 death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)  

Feb 10 In the year 1837 alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37  

Feb 12 On this day in history ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50  

Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died in the year 1837.  

Feb 19 In the year 1837 death of georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)  

Mar 13 Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66 in the year 1837.  

Mar 26 In the year 1837 joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53  

Mar 29 On this day in history maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies  

Mar 31 John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Apr 17 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies on this day in history.  

May 05 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

May 08 Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770) died on this day in history.  

May 31 Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57 on this day in history.  

Jun 14 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798) died in the year 1837.  

Jun 16 Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

Jun 19 In the year 1837 aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle  

Jun 20 On this day in history giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89  

Jul 24 In the year 1837 death of charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter  

Jul 28 On this day in history john Ross, composer, dies at 73  

Aug 01 Walter Geikie, painter, dies on this day in history.  

Aug 09 In the year 1837 death of xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)  

Sep 16 On this day in history pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies  

Sep 23 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1837.  

Oct 01 Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777) died in the year 1837.  

Oct 05 Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Oct 06 On this day in history jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77  

Oct 09 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies on this day in history.  

Oct 11 Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71 in the year 1837.  

Oct 12 Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 in the year 1837.  

Oct 15 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760) died in the year 1837.  

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Jan 02 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 04 In the year 1837 birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05 A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 12 In the year 1837 birth of adolf Jensen, composer  

Jan 12 In the year 1837 birth of carlos Troyer, composer  

Jan 16 James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 19 On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)  

Jan 20 In the year 1837 birth of david Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)