Famous Deaths Happened In 1864

Jan 04 Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Jan 07 Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808) died on this day in history.  

Jan 08 Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

Jan 13 On this day in history stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY  

Jan 15 Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792) died in the year 1864.  

Jan 16 Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 in the year 1864.  

Jan 23 In the year 1864 michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50  

Jan 24 Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1864.  

Jan 27 Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59 in the year 1864.  

Jan 28 In the year 1864 death of Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)  

Jan 31 In the year 1864 hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies  

Feb 15 On this day in history israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies  

Feb 16 In the year 1864 vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58  

Feb 19 William Edwin Baldwin, US Confederate brig-general, dies in the year 1864.  

Feb 21 Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle on this day in history.  

Feb 26 On this day in history death of louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)  

Mar 03 Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21 on this day in history.  

Mar 04 On this day in history thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies  

Mar 10 On this day in history maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52  

Mar 17 On this day in history alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53  

Mar 27 On this day in history death of jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)  

Mar 30 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52 in the year 1864.  

Apr 04 Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808) died in the year 1864.  

Apr 12 Thomas Green, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 50 on this day in history.  

Apr 13 Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1864.  

Apr 22 In the year 1864 joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76  

Apr 29 On this day in history charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80  

May 02 On this day in history giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72  

May 05 Alexander Hays, US Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44 on this day in history.  

May 06 Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle in the year 1864.  

May 08 James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56 on this day in history.  

May 09 In the year 1864 "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 50  

May 10 In the year 1864 james Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34  

May 12 Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 37 on this day in history.  

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Jan 01 Alfred Stieglitz, US photographer/art dealer (Camera Work) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05 Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911) was born in the year 1864.  

Jan 06 Ban Johnson, Norwalk Ct, baseball founder (American League) was born in the year 1864.  

Jan 08 In the year 1864 birth of prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)  

Jan 09 Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926) was born in the year 1864.  

Jan 10 George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist [or Jul 12] was born in the year 1864.  

Jan 10 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (d. 1931) was born in the year 1864.  

Jan 11 Thomas Dixon, US attorney/playwright (Flaming Sword) was born in the year 1864.