Editing 1862 (section)

=== January&ndash;June ===
[[File:Samuel Colt engraving by John Chester Buttre, c1855.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Samuel Colt]]]]
[[File:John Tyler Photographic Portrait Extracted.png|thumb|110px|[[John Tyler]]]]
[[File:Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored - greyscale - straightened.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Henry David Thoreau]]]]
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Samuel Colt]], American firearms inventor (b. [[1814]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Samuel Colt {{!}} American inventor and manufacturer |website=Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Colt |access-date=10 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[John Tyler]], 71, 10th President of the United States (b. [[1790]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Harriet Auber]], English poet (b. [[1773]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]], French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1774]])
* [[February 7]]
** [[Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo]], Prime Minister of Spain (b. [[1787]])
** [[Prosper Ménière]], French scientist (b. [[1799]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Francisco Balagtas]], Filipino poet (b. [[1788]])
** [[William Wallace Lincoln|William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln]], third son of U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] (b. [[1850]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Justinus Kerner]], German physician (b. [[1786]])
* [[February 24]] &ndash; [[Bernhard Severin Ingemann]], Danish novelist, poet (b. [[1789]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Hine]], English hosiery manufacturer (b. [[1778]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Manuel Robles Pezuela]], former President of Mexico (executed) (b. [[1817]])
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Albert Sidney Johnston]], American Confederate general (b. [[1803]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[John Thomas (sculptor)|John Thomas]], English Victorian sculptor (b. [[1813]])
* [[April 10]] &ndash; [[W. H. L. Wallace]], [[American Civil War]] Union general (died of wounds) (b. [[1821]])
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[Louis P. Harvey]], Governor of Wisconsin (b. [[1820]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[Henry David Thoreau]], American author, philosopher (b. [[1817]])
* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Edward Gibbon Wakefield]], English theorist of colonization (b. [[1796]])
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[John Drew (actor)|John Drew Sr.]], Irish-American actor, manager (b. [[1827]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Juana Azurduy de Padilla]], South American guerrilla military leader (b. c. [[1781]])
* [[May 29]]
**[[Henry Thomas Buckle]], English historian sometimes called "the father of scientific history" (b. [[1821]])
**[[Franciszek Mirecki]], Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (b. [[1791]])
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[John Lea (epidemiologist)|John Lea]], American epidemiologist (b. [[1782]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning]], English Viceroy of India (b. [[1812]])
* [[June 20]] &ndash; [[Barbu Catargiu]], 1st Prime Minister of Romania (b. [[1807]])