Famous Deaths Happened In 1837

Jan 11 John field: Irish pianist/composer (nocturnes),  

Jan 20 John soane: English architect (book of designs),  

Jan 23 John field: Composer,  

Jan 29 Aleksandr pushkin: Poet/novelist (golden cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07 King gustav iv adolf of sweden: King gustav iv adolf of sweden (b. 1778)  

Feb 10 Alexander s pushkin: Writer,  

Feb 12 Ludwig borne: Writer,  

Feb 13 Mariano josé de larra: Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809  

Feb 19 Georg büchner: German playwright (b. 1813)  

Mar 13 Nikita p panin: Russian diplomat/min of foreign affairs,  

Mar 26 Joseph lincke: Composer,  

Mar 29 Maria fitzherbert: Morganatic wife of king george iv,  

Mar 31 John constable: English painter/water colors painter,  

Apr 17 Edouard viscount de walckiers: Very wealthy slave trader,  

May 05 Niccolo antonio zingarelli: Italian composer/bandmaster,  

May 08 Alexander balashov: Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)  

May 31 Joseph grimaldi: Greatest clown (king of pantomime),  

Jun 14 Giacomo leopardi: Italian writer (b. 1798)  

Jun 16 Valentino fioravanti: Composer,  

Jun 19 Aleksander a bestoezjev-marlinsky: Russian writer,  

Jun 20 Giovanni furno: Composer,  

Jul 24 Charles hodges: English/dutch portrait painter  

Jul 28 John ross: Composer,  

Aug 01 Walter geikie: Painter,  

Aug 09 Xavier sigalon: French painter (b. 1787)  

Sep 16 Pedro v van alcantara: King of portugal (1853-61),  

Sep 23 Richard john samuel stevens: Composer,  

Oct 01 Robert clark: American politician (b. 1777)  

Oct 05 Hortense de beauharnais: French queen of neth (1806-10),  

Oct 06 Jean-francois le sueur: Composer,  

Oct 09 Charles fourier: French utopian socialist (harmony universal),  

Oct 11 Samuel wesley: Composer (exultate deo),  

Oct 12 Frederica louisa wilhelmina: Queen of netherlands,  

Oct 15 Ivan dmitriev: Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)  

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Jan 02 Mili alexeyevich balakirev: Nizhny-novgorod, russia, composer (tamara)  

Jan 04 Casimiro de abreu: Brazil, poet (camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05 A ch swinburne: Writer [or apr 5]  

Jan 12 Adolf jensen: Composer  

Jan 16 James phillip simms: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1887  

Jan 19 William williams keen: Surgeon (brain)  

Jan 20 David josiah brewer: U.s. supreme court justice  

Feb 05 Dwight lyman moody: Us, evangelist (student volunteer movement)