Editing 1842 (section)

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
* [[January 12]] – [[Johanna Stegen]], German heroine (b. [[1793]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon|Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme]], French jurist and politician (b. [[1749]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo]], Corsican politician, Russian diplomat (b. [[1764]])
* [[March 4]] – [[James Forten]], African American abolitionist
* [[March 6]] – [[Constanze Mozart]], German-born wife of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] (b.[[1762]])
* [[March 13]]
** [[Samuel Eells]], American founder of [[Alpha Delta Phi]] fraternity (b. [[1810]])
** [[Henry Shrapnel]], English army officer, inventor (b. [[1761]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Luigi Cherubini]], Italian composer (b. [[1760]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Stendhal]], French novelist (b. [[1783]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun]], French painter (b. [[1755]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Jules Dumont d'Urville]], French explorer (b. [[1790]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Walenty Wańkowicz]], Polish painter (b. [[1799]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Maria Dalle Donne]], [[Bologna|Bolognese]] [[physician]] (b. [[1778]])
* [[June 18]] – [[François-André Baudin]], French admiral (b. [[1774]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Clemens Brentano2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Clemens Brentano]]]]
[[File:Grace Darling Thomas Musgrave Joy.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Grace Darling]]]]
* [[July 13]] – Prince [[Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans]], French prince (b. [[1810]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Laura M. Hawley Thurston]], American poet and educator (b. [[1812]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Dominique Jean Larrey]], French surgeon (b. [[1766]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Clemens Brentano]], German poet (b. [[1778]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Leona Vicario]], leader of [[Mexican War of Independence]] and wife of [[Andrés Quintana Roo]] (b. [[1789]])<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/v/vicario.htm|title=Leona Vicario|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|access-date=May 30, 2019|language=es|archive-date=May 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530234629/https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/v/vicario.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 10]]
** [[William Hobson]], Irish-born officer in the British Royal Navy, first [[Governor-General of New Zealand]] and co-author of [[Treaty of Waitangi]] (b. [[1792]])
** [[Letitia Christian Tyler]], [[First Lady of the United States]] 1841–1842 (b. [[1790]])<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=10|title=First Lady Biography: Letitia Tyler|publisher=National First Ladies Library|access-date=May 30, 2019|archive-date=September 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930130947/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=10|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] – [[Francisco Morazán]], Honduran-born politician, President of [[Federal Republic of Central America]] (b. [[1792]])
* [[October 2]] – [[William Ellery Channing]], American Unitarian theologian, minister (b. [[1780]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Grace Darling]], English heroine (b. [[1815]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Bernardo O'Higgins]], first Chilean head of state after independence (b.[[1778]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Sampson Salter Blowers]], American lawyer, jurist (b. [[1742]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Philip Spencer (sailor)|Philip Spencer]], American founder of [[Chi Psi]] fraternity, [[midshipman]] aboard the {{USS|Somers|1842|6}}, hanged for [[mutiny]].<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/memmott/2017/11/20/jim-memmott-high-seas-mutiny-canandaigua-connection/881514001/|title=Jim Memmott: A high-seas mutiny with a Canandaigua connection|newspaper=Democrat & Chronicle (USA Today)|location=Rochester|last=Memmott|first=Jim|date=November 20, 2017|access-date=May 30, 2019|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810225112/https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/memmott/2017/11/20/jim-memmott-high-seas-mutiny-canandaigua-connection/881514001/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 12]] – [[Robert Haldane]], British theologian (b. [[1764]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies]], Scottish judge (b. [[1760]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Nodira]], Uzbek poet, stateswoman (b. [[1792]])