Editing 1856 (section)

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
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* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury]], British politician (b. [[1773]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Janko Drašković]], Croatian politician, reformer (b. [[1770]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Thaddeus William Harris]], American naturalist (b. [[1795]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama]] (b. [[1838]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Anna Gottlieb]], Austrian operatic soprano (b. [[1774]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Heine]], German writer (b. [[1797]])
* [[May 3]] 
** [[Adolphe Charles Adam]], French composer (b. [[1803]])
** [[Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis]], Arab-French memoir writer and servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Ivan Kireyevsky]], Russian literary critic, philosopher (b. [[1806]])
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Max Stirner]], German philosopher (b. [[1806]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Avogadro Amedeo.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Amedeo Avogadro]]]]
[[File:Schumann-photo1850.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Robert Schumann]]]]
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Amedeo Avogadro]], Italian chemist (b. [[1776]])
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Norberto Ramírez]], Central American politician
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Edward Vernon Utterson]], English lawyer, literary antiquary, collector and editor (b. [[1775]]/[[1776]])
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Anna Nielsen (1803–1856)|Anna Nielsen]], Danish mezzo-soprano (b. [[1803]])
* [[July 29]]
** [[Karel Havlíček Borovský]], Czech politician, writer (b. [[1821]])
** [[Robert Schumann]], German composer, pianist (b. [[1810]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Robert Lucas de Pearsall]], English composer; setting of "In dulce jubilo" (b. [[1795]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[William Buckland]], English geologist, palaeontologist (b. [[1784]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Anna Maria Rüttimann-Meyer von Schauensee]], politically active Swiss salonist (b. [[1772]]) 
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck]], British Christian writer (b. [[1778]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Gilbert Abbott à Beckett]], English writer (b. [[1811]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná]], Brazilian politician (b. [[1801]])
* [[October 19]]
** [[Josceline Percy (Royal Navy officer)|Josceline Percy]], British admiral (b. [[1784]])
** [[William Sprague III]], American politician from Rhode Island (b. [[1799]])
** [[Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman]] (b. [[1797]])
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete]], Mexican archaeologist and Archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monterrey]] (d. June 2, [[1920]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://museodezamora.wixsite.com/museozam/single-post/2017/09/08/FRANCISCO-PLANCARTE-Y-NAVARRETE-PIONERO-DE-LA-ARQUEOLOG%C3%8DA-NACIONAL|title=Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Pionero de la Arqueología Nacional|date=September 8, 2017|publisher=Consejo Ciudadano de la Cronica de Zamora|access-date=February 10, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Pioneer of National Archaeology}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Manuela Sáenz]], Colombian national heroine  (b. [[1797]])
* [[December 20]] &ndash; [[Francesco Bentivegna]], Italian revolutionary (b. [[1820]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Enriqueta Favez]], Swiss physician, surgeon (b. [[1791]])
* [[Juana Ramírez]], "La Avanzadora", Venezuelan heroine (b. [[1790]])
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