Famous Deaths Happened In 1865

Jan 03 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1865.  

Jan 19 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809) died on this day in history.  

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 On this day in history death of heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)  

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

Feb 25 In the year 1865 otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47  

Mar 01 In the year 1865 anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70  

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 Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833) died in the year 1865.  

Mar 26 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies in the year 1865.  

Mar 27 Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786) died in the year 1865.  

Mar 28 In the year 1865 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 in the year 1865.  

Apr 06 In the year 1865 john Austin Wharton, US Confederate general-major, dies at 36  

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 Robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle on this day in history.  

Apr 22 Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries in the year 1865.  

Apr 23 In the year 1865 james Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24  

Apr 26 Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74 on this day in history.  

Apr 28 Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787) died in the year 1865.  

Apr 30 On this day in history death of robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)  

May 30 William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27 in the year 1865.  

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

Jun 03 In the year 1865 death of okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)  

Jun 08 On this day in history joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies  

Jun 13 On this day in history cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29  

Jun 15 Edmun Ruffin, US secessionist/writer, commits suicide died on this day in history.  

Jun 21 Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824) died in the year 1865.  

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

Jan 03 On this day in history birth of henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)  

Jan 05 In the year 1865 birth of julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)  

Jan 10 In the year 1865 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 In the year 1865 birth of gen Sir Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)  

Jan 20 Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck was born in the year 1865.  

Jan 22 In the year 1865 birth of friedrich Paschen, German physicist