Famous People Who Died In 1849
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1849. This list includes people like Edgar Allan Poe, Frédéric Chopin, Delphine LaLaurie, James K. Polk, Anne Brontë and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, composers and artists who died in 1849. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Poland & France and many more countries.
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Edgar Allan Poe(Writer and Poet - Widely Regarded as a Central Figure of Romanticism in the United States)
Birthdate: January 19, 1809
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 7
2
Frédéric Chopin(Polish Composer and Virtuoso Pianist of the Romantic Period)
Birthdate: March 1, 1810
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Żelazowa Wola, Poland
Died: October 17
Birthdate: November 2, 1795
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Pineville, North Carolina, United States
Died: June 15
Birthdate: October 31, 1760
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Edo, Tokyo, Japan
Died: May 10
Birthdate: January 17, 1820
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Thornton, West Yorkshire
Died: May 28
Birthdate: March 4, 1769
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kavala, Greece
Died: August 2
7
Dolley Madison(Wife of James Madison, the Fourth President of the United States)
Birthdate: May 20, 1768
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Guilford County
Died: July 12
8
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
(Former Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover (1830 - 1837))
Birthdate: August 13, 1792
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Meiningen, Germany
Died: December 2
Birthdate: December 6, 1792
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: The Hague, Netherlands
Died: March 17
10
France Prešeren
(Poet, Lawyer, Writer, Poet lawyer)
Birthdate: December 3, 1800
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Vrba
Died: February 8
11
Sándor Petőfi
(Former Hungary’s National Poet, and Was One of the Key Figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848)
Birthdate: January 1, 1823
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kiskőrös, Hungary
Died: July 31
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Albert Gallatin
(Politician, Diplomat)
Birthdate: January 29, 1761
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Geneva
Died: August 12
Birthdate: January 1, 1768
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Blackbourton, England
Died: May 22
14
Juliette Récamier
(Socialite)
Birthdate: December 3, 1777
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Lyon, France
Died: May 11
Birthdate: February 28, 1797
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Buckland
Died: March 5
16
Juliusz Słowacki
(Polish Romantic Poet)
Birthdate: September 4, 1809
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Kremenets', Ukraine
Died: April 3
17
Jacob Perkins
(American Inventor, Mechanical Engineer and Physicist Known for His Inventing of 'Refrigerator')
Birthdate: July 9, 1766
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
Died: July 30
18
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este
(Politician)
Birthdate: July 20, 1821
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Modena, Italy
Died: December 15
19
Delphine LaLaurie(New Orleans Socialite and Serial Killer Who Tortured and Murdered Slaves in Her Household)
Birthdate: March 19, 1780
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Died: December 7
20
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
(German Chemist Best Known for Inventing the First Lighter)
Birthdate: December 13, 1780
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Hof, Germany
Died: March 24
21
Hartley Coleridge
(British Poet, Biographer and Essayist Best Known for His Sonnets and for a Lyrical Play Entitled Prometheus)
Birthdate: September 19, 1796
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Clevedon, Somerset, England
Died: January 6
Birthdate: September 5, 1827
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Genoa, Italy
Died: July 6
Birthdate: June 8, 1810
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Königsberg
Died: May 11
24
James Clarence Mangan
(Poet)
Birthdate: May 1, 1803
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: June 20
25
Johann Strauss I
(composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music)
Birthdate: March 14, 1804
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: September 25
26
Thomas Robert Bugeaud
(Marshal of France)
Birthdate: October 15, 1784
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Limoges, France
Died: June 10
27
János Damjanich
(Former general of the Hungarian Revolutionary Army in 1848)
Birthdate: December 8, 1804
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Sunja, Croatia
Died: October 6
Birthdate: January 6, 1798
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Lorient, France
Died: May 20
29
Anita Garibaldi
(Giuseppe Garibaldi's wife)
Birthdate: August 30, 1821
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Laguna, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Died: August 4
30
Lajos Batthyány
(Statesman)
Birthdate: February 10, 1807
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Bratislava, Slovakia
Died: October 6
31
Elias Parish Alvars
(Composer)
Birthdate: February 28, 1808
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Devon, England
Died: January 25
32
Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia
(Duchess)
Birthdate: August 30, 1842
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: July 10
33
Nathan Read
(Former United States Representative, Engineer and Inventor of the High-Pressure Steam Engine)
Birthdate: July 2, 1759
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Warren, Massachusetts, United States
Died: January 20
34
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia
(Aristocrat)
Birthdate: February 8, 1798
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russian
Died: September 9
35
Friedrich Kalkbrenner
(First Pianist to Introduce Long and Rapid Octave Passages in Both Hands)
Birthdate: November 2, 1785
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: near Kassel, Germany
Died: June 10
36
John Fielden
(Industrialist)
Birthdate: January 17, 1784
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Todmorden, England
Died: May 29
Birthdate: February 15, 1782
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
Died: December 20
38
Charles Albert of Sardinia
(King)
Birthdate: October 2, 1798
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Turin, Italy
Died: July 28
39
Benjamin D'Urban
(General)
Birthdate: February 16, 1777
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Halesworth, England
Died: May 25
40
Domenico Barberi
(Italian Theologian and Saint)
Birthdate: June 22, 1792
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Viterbo, Italy
Died: August 27
41
Marc Isambard Brunel
(French-British Engineer Who Constructed the 'Thames Tunnel')
Birthdate: April 25, 1769
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Hacqueville, Normandy, France
Died: December 12
Birthdate: March 10, 1787
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: York
Died: November 13
Birthdate: December 31, 1779
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: London, England
Died: July 12
44
James Justinian Morier
(Diplomat)
Birthdate: August 15, 1782
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Smyrna, Turkey
Died: March 19
Birthdate: February 21, 1764
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Yizheng, China
Died: November 27
Birthdate: January 21, 1784
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Stone, England
Died: January 30
47
François Marius Granet
(Painter)
Birthdate: December 17, 1775
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Aix-en-Provence, France
Died: November 21
48
Elijah Johnson
(Colonial agent)
Birthdate: 1789 AD
Birthplace: Liberia
Died: April 3
49
Stephan Endlicher
(Botanist)
Birthdate: June 24, 1804
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Bratislava, Slovakia
Died: March 28
50
Amariah Brigham
(Psychiatrist)
Birthdate: December 26, 1798
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Massachusetts, United States
Died: September 8