Editing 1847 (section)

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Fanny Hensel 1842.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Fanny Mendelssohn]]]]
* [[January 19]] – [[Charles Bent]], first Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. [[1799]]) (assassinated)
* [[February 3]] – [[Marie Duplessis]], French courtesan (b. [[1824]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Luis José de Orbegoso]], Peruvian general and politician, 11th and 12th [[President of Peru]] (b. [[1795]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Mary Anning]], British paleontologist (b. [[1799]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Charles Hatchett]], English chemist (b. [[1765]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Hatchett {{!}} British chemist {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Hatchett |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=27 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – [[Barbara Spooner Wilberforce]], wife of British abolitionist William Wilberforce (b. [[1777]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Archduke Charles of Austria]], Austrian general (b. [[1771]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Fanny Mendelssohn]], German composer, pianist (b. [[1805]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Daniel O'Connell]], Irish politician who promoted the [[Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829]] (b. [[1775]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Vicente Rocafuerte]], 2nd President of Ecuador (b. [[1783]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy]], French marshal (b. [[1766]])
* [[June 11]] – [[John Franklin|Sir John Franklin]], British explorer (b. [[1786]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Mendelssohn Bartholdy.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Felix Mendelssohn]]]]
* [[July 7]] – [[Thomas Carpenter (glassmaker)|Thomas Carpenter]], American glassmaker (b. [[1752]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Karl Friedrich Burdach]], German physiologist (b. [[1776]])
* [[September 4]] – [[František Vladislav Hek]], Czech patriot (b. [[1769]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Nicolas Oudinot]], French marshal (b. [[1767]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Vasil Aprilov]], Bulgarian educator, merchant and writer (b. [[1789]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Raymond Detrez |title=The A to Z of Bulgaria |date=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810872028 |page=17}}</ref>
* [[October 22]]
** [[Henriette Herz]], German salonnière (b. [[1764]])
** Negus [[Sahle Selassie]] of [[Shewa]] (b. c. [[1795]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Felix Mendelssohn]], German composer (b. [[1809]])
* November 18 – [[Zebulon Crocker]], American congregationalist pastor (b. 1802)
* [[December 14]]
** [[Dorothy Ann Thrupp]], British psalmist (b. [[1779]])
** [[Manuel José Arce]], Central American politician (b. [[1787]])
** [[Barbarita Nieves]], Venezuelan mistress of [[José Antonio Páez]] (b. [[1803]])
* Unknown: [[Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse]], French balloonist and parachutist (b. [[1775]])