Editing 1849 (section)

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Maria Edgeworth by John Downman 1807.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Maria Edgeworth]]]]
* [[January 14]] – [[Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière]], French admiral (b. [[1772]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Panoutsos Notaras]], Greek politician (b. [[1752]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Jonathan Alder]], American settler (b. [[1773]])
* [[February 8]] – [[France Prešeren]], Slovenian poet (b. [[1800]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Regina von Siebold]], German physician, [[obstetrician]] (b. [[1771]])
* [[March 14]] – King [[Willem II of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1792]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti]], Italian Catholic cardinal, linguist (b. [[1774]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Antonin Moine]], French sculptor (b. [[1796]])
* [[March 20]] – [[James Justinian Morier]], British diplomat, author (b. [[1780]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner]], German chemist (b. [[1780]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Mary Short]] queen consort of Awadh (b. 1802)
* [[April 11]] – [[Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros]], Argentine statesman, priest (b. 1777)
* [[May 10]] – [[Hokusai]], Japanese Ukiyo-e Artist (b. 1760)
* [[May 11]]
** [[Juliette Récamier]], French socialite (b. [[1777]])
** [[Otto Nicolai]], German composer, conductor (b. [[1810]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Maria Edgeworth]], [[List of Irish novelists|Irish novelist]] (b. [[1767]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Benjamin D'Urban]], British general, colonial administrator (b. [[1777]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Anne Brontë]], English author (b. [[1820]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Brontë {{!}} British author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bronte |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] – [[Thomas Robert Bugeaud]], [[Marshal of France]], duke of Isly (b. [[1784]])
* [[June 15]] – [[James Knox Polk]], 53, 11th president of the United States (b. [[1795]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Edgar Allan Poe]]]]
[[File:Frédéric Chopin by Bisson, 1849.png|thumb|110px|[[Frédéric Chopin]]]]
* [[July 12]] – [[Dolley Madison]], 81, [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1768]])
* [[July 28]] – King [[Charles Albert of Sardinia]] (b. [[1798]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Sándor Petőfi]], Hungarian poet (b. [[1823]])
* [[August 1]] – [[José de Urrea]], Mexican General (b. [[1797]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt]] (b. [[1769]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Edward Hicks]] American folk artist (b. [[1780]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Friedrich Laun]], German novelist (b. [[1770]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Andreas Joseph Hofmann]], German philosopher and revolutionary (b. [[1752]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Mariano Paredes (President of Mexico)|Mariano Paredes]], Mexican President and General
* [[September 23]] – [[Mary Elizabeth Lee]], American writer (b. [[1813]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Johann Strauss I|Johann Strauss, Senior]], Austrian composer (b. [[1804]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Randel |first1=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=30 October 2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-25572-2 |page=866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXILEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT866 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[Lajos Batthyány]], Hungarian statesman (executed) (b. [[1807]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Edgar Allan Poe]], American writer (b. [[1809]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Frédéric Chopin]], Polish-French musician, composer (b. [[1810]])
* [[October 22]] – [[William Miller (preacher)|William Miller]], American Baptist preacher, leader of the Second Advent Movement (b. [[1782]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen]], queen of [[William IV of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1792]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Kyai Maja]], Javanese ulama and commander of Java War (b. [[1792]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Raditya |first1=Iswara N |title=Pecah Kongsi Pangeran Diponegoro dan Kyai Mojo |url=https://tirto.id/pecah-kongsi-pangeran-diponegoro-dan-kyai-mojo-cwyp |website=tirto.id |publisher=Tirto |access-date=28 March 2025}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Cynthia Taggart]], American poet (b. [[1801]])
* [[Old Owl|Mupitsukupʉ (Old Owl)]], Comanche Civil Chief