Famous Deaths Happened In 1865

Jan 03 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43 in the year 1865.  

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 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809) died in the year 1865.  

Feb 06 On this day in history john Pegram, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 33  

Feb 07 John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64 in the year 1865.  

Feb 10 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804) died on this day in history.  

Feb 15 Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies on this day in history.  

Feb 25 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 02 Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819) died on this day in history.  

Mar 10 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj, dies at 48 on this day in history.  

Mar 20 On this day in history death of keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)  

Mar 26 On this day in history thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies  

Mar 27 On this day in history death of petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)  

Mar 28 On this day in history albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26  

Apr 01 Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797) died in the year 1865.  

Apr 02 Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39 died on this day in history.  

Apr 06 John Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36 in the year 1865.  

Apr 08 In the year 1865 john Park, composer, dies at 61  

Apr 09 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 in the year 1865.  

Apr 16 On this day in history robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle  

Apr 22 On this day in history francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries  

Apr 23 James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24 in the year 1865.  

Apr 26 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74 in the year 1865.  

Apr 28 On this day in history death of samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)  

Apr 30 In the year 1865 death of robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)  

May 30 William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27 on this day in history.  

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

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

Jun 08 In the year 1865 joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies  

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 on this day in history.  

Jun 21 In the year 1865 death of frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)  

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Jan 01 On this day in history birth of giuseppe Ferrata, composer  

Jan 03 Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05 Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 10 On this day in history birth of mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)  

Jan 13 In the year 1865 birth of princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)  

Jan 17 Gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951) was born in the year 1865.  

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.