Editing 1853

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[[File:Japanese 1854 print Commodore Perry.jpg|275px|thumb|[[July 14]]: Japan welcomes the first U.S. envoys from the [[Perry Expedition]], begins to end isolation.]]
[[File:BattleOfSinop.jpg|thumb|275px|[[November 30]] (November 18 O.S.): The [[Battle of Sinop]] is fought in the [[Crimean War]] as the Russian Empire destroys the Ottoman Turkish fleet in the last major naval battle involving sailing warships.]]
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== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 6]] – 
**[[Florida Governor]] [[Thomas Brown (Florida politician)|Thomas Brown]] signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the [[University of Florida]].
**U.S. President-elect [[Franklin Pierce]]'s only living child, Benjamin "Benny" Pierce, is killed in a [[Train wreck|train accident]].
* [[January 8]] – [[Taiping Rebellion]]: [[Zeng Guofan]] is ordered to assist the governor of [[Hunan]] in organizing a militia force to search for local bandits.
* [[January 12]] – Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army occupies [[Wuchang, Hubei|Wuchang]].
* [[January 19]] – [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[Il Trovatore]]'' premieres in performance at [[Teatro Apollo]] in Rome.
* [[February 10]] – Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces assemble at [[Hanyang District|Hanyang]], [[Hankou District|Hankou]], and [[Wuchang District|Wuchang]], for the march on [[Nanjing]].
* [[February 12]] – The city of [[Puerto Montt]] is founded in the [[Reloncaví Sound]], [[Chile]].
* [[February 22]] – [[Washington University in St. Louis]] is founded as Eliot Seminary.
* [[March 5]] &ndash; Saint Paul Fire and Marine, as predecessor of [[The Travelers Companies]], a worldwide [[Insurance|insurance service]], founded in [[Minnesota]], United States.
* [[March 20]] – Taiping Rebellion: A rebel army of around 750,000 seizes Nanjing, killing 30,000 Imperial troops.
* [[March 29]] – [[Manchester]] is granted [[city status in the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21426|pages=950–951|date=1853-04-01}}</ref>
* [[March]] – The clothing company [[Levi Strauss & Co.]] is founded in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.levistrauss.com/sites/default/files/librarydocument/2010/4/History_Levi_Strauss_Biography.pdf |first=Lynn |last=Downey |title=Levi Strauss: a short biography |publisher=Levi Strauss & Co. |year=2008 |access-date=1 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723005530/http://www.levistrauss.com/sites/default/files/librarydocument/2010/4/History_Levi_Strauss_Biography.pdf |archive-date=July 23, 2011 }}</ref>

=== April–June ===
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany|Prince Leopold]], the youngest son and the eighth child of [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale|Prince Albert]], is born.
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Indian Railways]]: The first passenger railway in India opens from [[Bombay]] to [[Thana, Maharashtra]], {{convert|22|mi|km}}.
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Perpetual Maritime Truce]] comes into force between the United Kingdom and the rulers of the Sheikhdoms of the Lower Gulf, later known as the [[Trucial States]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lorimer|first=John|title=Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf|publisher=British Government|location=Bombay|year=1915}}</ref>
* [[May 12]]–[[October 31]] &ndash; The [[Great Industrial Exhibition (1853)|Great Industrial Exhibition]] is held in [[Dublin]], Ireland.
* [[May 23]] &ndash; The first [[plat]] for [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]], is laid out.
* [[May]]
** The world's first [[public aquarium]] opens, as a feature of the [[London Zoo]].
** An outbreak of [[yellow fever]] kills 7,790 people in [[New Orleans]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pritchett|first1=Jonathan B.|last2=Tunali|first2=Insan|year=1995|title=Strangers' Disease: Determinants of Yellow Fever Mortality during the New Orleans Epidemic of 1853|journal=Explorations in Economic History|volume=32|issue=4|pages=517–539|doi=10.1006/exeh.1995.1022}}</ref>
** [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] accepts [[John Scott Russell]]'s tender for construction of the {{SS|Great Eastern}} passenger steamer.
*[[June 22]] – [[Guimarães]] is elevated to city status by Queen [[Maria II of Portugal|Maria II]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guimarães foi elevada a cidade há 170 anos. Junta realiza sessão solene |url=https://jornaldeguimaraes.pt/noticias/170-anos-de-cidade/#:~:text=A%2022%20de%20junho%20de,S%C3%A3o%20Sebasti%C3%A3o%20assinala%20a%20efem%C3%A9ride. |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=jornaldeguimaraes.pt}}</ref>
* [[June 27]] &ndash; [[Taiping Rebellion]]: The Northern Expeditionary Force crosses the [[Yellow River]].
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]] is selected as ''[[Prefect (France)|préfect]]'' of the [[Seine (department)]] to begin the re-planning of Paris.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 1]] – The Swiss watch company [[Tissot]] is founded.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tissot - The Watch Brand 2020|website = [[YouTube]]| date=January 10, 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY5PW_JJQGc#t=50s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/VY5PW_JJQGc| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[July 8]] – U.S. Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry]] arrives in Edo Bay, Japan, with a request for a trade treaty.
* [[July 14]] – Japan allows U.S. Commodore Perry to come ashore and begin negotiations.
* [[July 25]] – Outlaw and bandit [[Joaquin Murrieta]] is killed in [[California]].
* [[July 27]] – [[Tokugawa Iesada|Iesada]] succeeds his father [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi|Ieyoshi]] as Japanese ''[[shōgun]]''. The [[Late Tokugawa shogunate]] (the last part of the [[Edo period]] in Japan) begins.
* [[August 12]] – New Zealand acquires self-government.
* [[August 23]] – The first true [[International Meteorological Organization]] is established in Brussels, Belgium.
* [[August 24]]
** [[Potato chips]] are first prepared, by [[George Crum]] at [[Saratoga Springs, New York]], according to popular accounts.
** The [[Royal Norwegian Navy Museum]] is founded at [[Karljohansvern]] in [[Horten (town)|Horten]], perhaps the world's first naval museum.
* [[September 19]] – [[Hudson Taylor]] first leaves for China.
* [[September 20]] &ndash; Otis Elevator, as predecessor of [[Otis Worldwide]], was founded in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Otis Opened Elevator Factory|url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_otis_1.html|access-date=2021-01-18|website=www.americaslibrary.gov}}</ref>

=== October–December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[C. Bechstein]]'s piano factory is founded, one of three established in a "golden year" in the history of the [[piano]] ([[Julius Blüthner]] and [[Steinway & Sons]] being the others).
* [[October 4]]&ndash;[[October 5|5]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: The [[Ottoman Empire]] begins war with Russia.
* [[October 4]] &ndash; On the east coast of the United States, [[Donald McKay]] launches the ''[[Great Republic]]'', the world's biggest [[sailing ship]], which at 4,500 tons is too large to be successful.
* [[October 25]] &ndash; In [[Munich]], the art museum [[Neue Pinakothek]] opened.
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: The Ottoman army crosses the [[Danube]] into [[Vidin]]/[[Calafat]], [[Wallachia]].
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Taiping Rebellion]]: The Taiping Northern Expeditionary Force comes within {{convert|3|mi|km}} of [[Tianjin]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; Troops of [[William Walker (filibuster)|William Walker]] capture [[La Paz, Baja California Sur|La Paz]] in [[Baja California Territory]] and declare the (short-lived) [[Republic of Sonora]].
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: [[Battle of Oltenitza]] – Turkish forces defeat the Russians.
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Maria II of Portugal]] is succeeded by her son [[Pedro V of Portugal|Pedro V]].
* [[November 30]] ([[November 18]] [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: [[Battle of Sinop]] &ndash; The Russian fleet destroys the [[Turkey|Turkish]] fleet.
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Taiping Rebellion]]: French [[Minister (diplomacy)|minister]] de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital, aboard the ''Cassini''.
* [[December 14]] &ndash; Compagnie Générale des Eaux, predecessor of [[Vivendi]] and [[Veolia]], a global media [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]], is founded in [[Paris]], France.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Gadsden Purchase]]: The United States buys approximately {{convert|77,000|km2|sqmi}} of land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.

=== Date unknown ===
* The Independent Santa Cruz [[Maya peoples|Maya]] of Eastern [[Yucatán Peninsula|Yucatán]] is recognized as an independent nation by the [[British Empire]].
* [[Arthur de Gobineau]] begins publication of his ''[[An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races]]'' (''Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines'').
* [[Charles Pravaz]] and [[Alexander Wood (physician)|Alexander Wood]] independently invent a practical hypodermic [[syringe]].
* [[Wheaton Academy]] is founded in [[West Chicago, Illinois]].
* The [[Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China]] is incorporated in London by [[Scottish people|Scotsman]] [[James Wilson (UK politician)|James Wilson]], under a [[Royal Charter]] from [[Queen Victoria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.standardchartered.com/about-us/history/en/index.html|publisher=Standard Chartered|title=Our History|access-date=2012-08-07}}</ref>
* [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]], now the largest sports stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, officially opens.
* 1853–[[1873]] – More than 130,000 Chinese laborers come to [[Cuba]].

== Births ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Vincent van Gogh - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project (454045).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Vincent van Gogh]]]]
[[File:Ella Eaton Kellogg, age 60.png|thumb|110px|[[Ella Eaton Kellogg]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Karl von Einem]], German general (d. [[1934]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Henning von Holtzendorff]], German admiral (d. [[1919]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer C. |title=World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection |date=2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1851099658 |pages=767–768|author1-link=Spencer C. Tucker }}</ref>
* [[January 16]]
**[[Johnston Forbes-Robertson]], English actor (d. [[1937]])
**[[Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton|Sir Ian Hamilton]], British general (d. [[1947]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Eusebio Hernández Pérez]], Cuban eugenicist, obstetrician, and guerrilla (d. [[1933]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[John Marks Moore]], American politician (d. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Daniell|first=Lewis E.|title=Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, Embracing the Executive Staff, Heads of Departments, United States Senators and Representatives, Members of the XXth legislature|date=1887|publisher=Press of the City Printing Company|publication-place=Austin|lccn=19016834|page=19|quote=The Secretary of State, was born in Houston county, Texas, on the twenty-third day of January, 1853.}}</ref>
* [[January 28]]
** [[José Martí]], Cuban revolutionary (d. [[1895]])
** [[Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)|Vladimir Solovyov]], Russian philosopher (d. [[1900]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Kitasato Shibasaburō]], Japanese physician, bacteriologist (d. [[1931]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Kaneko Kentarō]], Japanese politician, diplomat (d. [[1942]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Ernest Fenollosa]], Catalan-American philosopher (d. [[1908]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Annie Le Porte Diggs]], Canadian-born state [[librarian]] of [[Kansas]] (d. [[1916]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Ella Loraine Dorsey]], American author, journalist, and translator (d. [[1935]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Howard Pyle]], American artist, fiction writer (d. [[1911]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Thomas Mackenzie]], 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. [[1930]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Robert William Felkin]], British writer (d. [[1926]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Ferdinand Hodler]], Swiss painter (d. [[1918]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]], 5th Qajarid Shah of Persia (d. [[1907]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Yakov Zhilinsky]], Russian general (d. [[1918]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Elihu Thomson]], English-American engineer, inventor, co-founder of [[General Electric]] (d. [[1937]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Vincent van Gogh]], Dutch painter (d. [[1890]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Emil Jellinek]], German automobile entrepreneur (d. [[1918]])
* [[April 7]]
** [[Ella Eaton Kellogg]], American pioneer in dietetics (d. [[1920]])
** [[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany]] (d. [[1884]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Alphonse Bertillon]], French police officer, forensic scientist (d. [[1914]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Alexey Abaza]], Russian admiral and politician (d. [[1917]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Marie Robinson Wright]], American travel writer (d. [[1914]])
* [[May 20]]
**[[Ella Hoag Brockway Avann]], American educator (d. [[1899]])
**[[Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov]], Russian general (d. [[1920]])
* [[May 26]] - [[Placido Moreira Dias]], Brazilian military commander (d. ?)
* [[May 28]] – [[Carl Larsson]], Swedish painter (d. [[1919]])
* [[June 3]] – [[William Flinders Petrie]], English Egyptologist (d. [[1942]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Chester Adgate Congdon]], American mining magnate (d. [[1916]])

=== July–December ===
[[File:Cecil Rhodes ww.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Cecil Rhodes]]]]
[[File:Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Hendrik Lorentz]]]]
[[File:Albrecht Kossel nobel.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Albrecht Kossel]]]]
[[File:Kamerlingh Onnes signed.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]]]]
[[File:Teresa Carreño, 1916.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Teresa Carreño]]]]
* [[July 4]] – [[Ernst Otto Beckmann]], German chemist (d. [[1923]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Cecil Rhodes]], English businessman (d. [[1902]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Percy Scott]], British admiral (d. [[1924]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Hendrik Lorentz]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1928]])
* [[July 24]] – [[William Gillette]], American actor, playwright and stage-manager (d. [[1937]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Philip Cowen]], American Jewish publisher and author (d. [[1943]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Ioan Culcer]], Romanian general and politician (d. [[1928]])
* [[August 23]] – [[João Marques de Oliveira]], Portuguese painter (d. [[1927]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Vladimir Shukhov]], Russian engineer, polymath, scientist and architect (d. [[1939]])
** [[Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein]] (d. [[1938]])
* [[September 1]] – [[Aleksei Brusilov]], Russian general (d. [[1926]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Wilhelm Ostwald]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1932]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Katherine Eleanor Conway]], American journalist, editor, poet, and [[Laetare Medal]]ist (d. [[1927]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Albrecht Kossel]], German physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1927]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Chulalongkorn]], Rama V, King of Siam (d. [[1910]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1926]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Fritz von Below]], German general (d. [[1918]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Jane Maria Read]], American poet and teacher (unknown year of death)
* [[October 13]] – [[Lillie Langtry]], Jersey-born stage actress and royal mistress (d. [[1929]])
* [[October 14]] – [[John William Kendrick]], American railroad executive (d. [[1924]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Thadeus von Sivers]], [[Baltic German]]-born Russian general (death date unknown)
* [[October 17]] – [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia]], wife of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (d. [[1920]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Tokugawa Akitake]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'', the last lord of [[Mito Domain]], younger brother of the last ''[[shōgun]]'' [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] (d. [[1910]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Louise Abbéma]], French painter, sculptor, and designer of the ''Belle Époque'' (d. [[1927]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Stanford White]], American architect (d. [[1906]])
* [[November 13]] – [[John Drew, Jr.]], American stage actor (d. [[1927]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Leopold Poetsch]], Austrian history teacher, high school teacher of [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Adolf Eichmann]] (d. [[1942]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Oskar Potiorek]], Austro-Hungarian general (d. [[1933]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Panagiotis Danglis]], Greek general, politician (d. [[1924]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mgsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT79 |title=Kleine Geschichte Griechenlands: Von der Staatsgründung bis heute |first=Ioannis |last=Zelepos |publisher=[[C.H.Beck]] |date=29 September 2017 |page=79 |isbn=9783406714825}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – [[Hara Prasad Shastri]], Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature (d. [[1931]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Errico Malatesta]], Italian anarchist (d. [[1932]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Émile Roux]], French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist (d. [[1933]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Noda Utarō]], Japanese entrepreneur and politician (d. [[1927]])
* [[December 22]]
** [[Sarada Devi]], Indian mystic and saint (d. [[1920]])
** [[Teresa Carreño]], Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor (d. [[1917]])
* [[December 23]] – [[William Henry Moody]], 35th [[United States Secretary of the Navy]], 45th [[United States Attorney General]], and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1917]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Tasker H. Bliss]], American general (d. [[1930]])

===Date unknown===
* [[William O'Malley (politician)|William O'Malley]], Irish politician (d. [[1939]])

== Deaths ==

=== January–June ===
[[File:Christian Doppler.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Christian Doppler]]]]
* [[January 8]] – [[Mihály Bertalanits]], [[Slovenes|Slovene]] ([[Prekmurje Slovenes|Prekmurje Slovene]]) poet in the [[Kingdom of Hungary]] (b. [[1788]])
* [[January 16]]
** [[Matteo Carcassi]], Italian composer (b. [[1792]])
** [[Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria]], Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (b. [[1783]])
** [[Robert Lucas (governor)|Robert Lucas]], governor of Ohio, United States (b. [[1781]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Karl Faber]], German historian (b. [[1773]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Méry von Bruiningk]], Estonian democrat (b. [[1818]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil]], daughter of Emperor [[Pedro I of Brazil]] (b. [[1831]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Anastasio Bustamante]], 4th [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1780]])
* [[February 15]] – [[August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen]] (b. [[1784]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Christian Doppler]], Austrian mathematician (b. [[1803]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Abigail Fillmore]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1798]])
* [[April 18]] – [[William R. King]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|13th]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1786]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Ludwig Tieck]], German writer (b. [[1773]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Lionel Kieseritzky]], Baltic-German chess player (b. [[1806]])
* [[June 2]]
** [[Lucas Alamán]], Mexican statesman, historian (b. [[1792]])
** [[Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre]], British peer, soldier (b. [[1777]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis]], Italian opera singer (b. [[1800]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Howard Vyse]], English soldier and Egyptologist (b. [[1784]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Lewis Brian Adams]], English painter (b. [[1809]])

=== July–December ===
[[Image:Georg Friedrich Grotefend.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georg Friedrich Grotefend]]]]
[[File:Harvard Daguerreotypes - bMS Am 1054-1054.5 - Maria White.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Maria White Lowell]]]]
* [[July 27]] – [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]], 12th ''[[shōgun]]'' of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] of Japan (b. [[1793]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński]], Polish philosopher (b. [[1776]])
* [[August 19]] – [[George Cockburn]], British naval commander (b. [[1772]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Maria Quitéria]], Brazilian national heroine (b. [[1792]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Alexander Calder (Beaumont, Texas)|Alexander Calder]], first mayor of [[Beaumont, Texas]] (b. [[1806]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Charles James Napier]], British army general and colonial administrator (b. [[1782]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Augustin Saint-Hilaire]], French botanist, traveller (b. [[1799]])
* [[September 6]] – [[George Bradshaw]], English timetable publisher (b. [[1800]])
* [[October 2]] – [[François Arago]], French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (b. [[1786]])
* [[October 3]] – [[George Onslow (composer)|George Onslow]], French composer (b. [[1784]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Mahlon Dickerson]], American judge, politician (b. [[1770]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Jan Cock Blomhoff]], Dutch [[Opperhoofd#In Asia|director]] of [[Dejima]], Japan (b. [[1779]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Juan Antonio Lavalleja]], Uruguayan military, political figure (b. [[1784]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Maria White Lowell]], American abolitionist (b. [[1821]])
* [[November 15]] – Queen [[Maria II of Portugal]] (b. [[1819]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Georg Friedrich Grotefend]], German epigraphist, philologist (b. [[1775]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Juliette Bussière Laforest-Courtois]], Haitian journalist (b. [[1789]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Barnard E. Bee Sr.|Barnard E. Bee, Sr.]], American Attorney and Texan Anti-Annexation Politician (b. [[1787]])
* [[Meta Forkel-Liebeskind]], German writer and scholar (b. [[1765]])
* [[Qiu Ersao]], Chinese rebel and military commander (b. [[1822]])
* [[Ferdinando Quaglia]], Italian painter of portrait miniatures (b. [[1780]])

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