Famous Deaths Happened In 1837

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

Jan 20 John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Jan 23 John Field, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Jan 29 On this day in history death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died in the year 1837.  

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 On this day in history death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809  

Feb 19 On this day in history 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 Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 in the year 1837.  

Mar 29 Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies in the year 1837.  

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

Apr 17 On this day in history edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies  

May 05 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 in the year 1837.  

May 08 On this day in history death of alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jun 19 On this day in history aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle  

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

Jul 24 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter died on this day in history.  

Jul 28 John Ross, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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

Aug 09 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787) died in the year 1837.  

Sep 16 In the year 1837 pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies  

Sep 23 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

Oct 01 On this day in history death of robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)  

Oct 05 Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1837.  

Oct 11 In the year 1837 samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71  

Oct 12 Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

Oct 15 On this day in history death of ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)  

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

Jan 04 On this day in history birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05 On this day in history birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]  

Jan 12 Adolf Jensen, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 12 On this day in history 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 William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 20 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born in the year 1837.