Famous People Who Died In 1850
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1850. This list includes people like William Wordsworth, Zachary Taylor, John C. Calhoun, Robert Peel, Honoré de Balzac and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, prime ministers, physicists and emperors & kings who died in 1850. This list includes people from United States, France, United Kingdom and many more countries.
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Birthdate: April 7, 1770
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Kingdom of Great Britain
Died: April 23
Birthdate: November 24, 1784
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Barboursville, Virginia, United States
Died: July 9
Birthdate: March 18, 1782
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Abbeville
Died: March 31
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Honoré de Balzac(French Novelist and Playwright Known for His Magnum Opus 'La Comédie humaine')
Birthdate: May 20, 1799
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Tours, France
Died: August 18
Birthdate: March 10, 1846
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Springfield, Illinois, United States
Died: February 1
Birthdate: February 25, 1778
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Yapeyú
Died: August 17
7
Louis Philippe I
(The Last King and Penultimate Monarch of France)
Birthdate: October 6, 1773
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Domaine National du Palais-Royal, Paris, France
Died: August 26
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Marie Tussaud(French Wax Sculpture Artist and Founder of 'Madame Tussauds', the Wax Museum in London)
Birthdate: December 1, 1761
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Strasbourg, France
Died: April 16
9
Robert Peel(Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834 – 1835, 1841 – 1846))
Birthdate: February 5, 1788
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Bury, Lancashire, England
Died: July 2
10
Margaret Fuller(American Journalist, Critic, Editor, and Women's Rights Advocate)
Birthdate: May 23, 1810
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Died: July 19
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac(French Chemist and Physicist Who Discovered That Water is Made of Two Parts Hydrogen and One Part Oxygen)
Birthdate: December 6, 1778
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, France
Died: May 9
Birthdate: October 17, 1780
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Died: November 19
Birthdate: August 9, 1788
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Malden
Died: April 12
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Frédéric Bastiat
(Member of the National Assembly of France (1848 - 1850))
Birthdate: June 30, 1801
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Bayonne, France
Died: December 24
Birthdate: August 30, 1785
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Fuzhou, China
Died: November 22
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Robert Stevenson
(Scottish Civil Engineer, and Designer and Builder of Lighthouses)
Birthdate: June 8, 1772
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Died: July 12
17
José Gervasio Artigas
(Politician, Military general)
Birthdate: June 19, 1764
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Montevideo, Uruguay
Died: September 23
18
Johann Heinrich von Thünen
(German Economist Known for His Theory of The Isolated State)
Birthdate: June 24, 1783
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Wangerland, Germany
Died: September 22
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William Sturgeon
(Physicist, Inventor)
Birthdate: May 22, 1783
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Whittington
Died: December 4
Birthdate: March 14, 1794
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Tarnów, Poland
Died: December 10
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Louise of Orléans
(Queen consort of the Belgians)
Birthdate: April 3, 1812
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Palermo
Died: October 11
Birthdate: January 2, 1767
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Gazir, Iran
Died: 1850 AD
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William Kirby
(Founder of Entomology)
Birthdate: September 19, 1759
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Witnesham, Suffolk, England
Died: July 4
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Hone Heke
(Warrior and a Leader)
Birthdate: 1807 AD
Birthplace: Pakaraka
Died: August 6
Birthdate: January 15, 1785
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Horton, England
Died: April 9
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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
(Judge)
Birthdate: October 23, 1773
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: January 26
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Jacob Jones
(Naval officer)
Birthdate: 1768
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Smyrna, Delaware, United States
Died: August 3
28
Daoguang Emperor
(Former Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1820 - 1850))
Birthdate: September 16, 1782
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Forbidden City, Beijing, China
Died: February 26
29
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
(Marshal)
Birthdate: February 24, 1774
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Buckingham Palace, London, England
Died: July 8
30
William Reid Clanny
(Physician)
Birthdate: 1776 AD
Birthplace: Bangor, Northern Ireland
Died: January 10
31
Pedro Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil
(Second son and youngest child of Emperor Dom Pedro II and Dona Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies)
Birthdate: July 19, 1848
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Palácio Imperial de São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: January 10
Birthdate: 1773 AD
Birthplace: Vilnius, Lithuania
Died: December 3
33
Adam Oehlenschläger
(Poet)
Birthdate: November 14, 1779
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: January 20
Birthdate: October 3, 1806
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Wells
Died: March 3
35
Nikolaus Lenau
(Austrian Poet)
Birthdate: August 13, 1802
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Lenauheim, Romania
Died: August 22
36
Germain Henri Hess
(Swiss-Russian Chemist Who Formulated Hess’s Law)
Birthdate: August 7, 1802
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
Died: December 30
37
Gottfried Schadow
(Sculptor)
Birthdate: May 20, 1764
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: January 27
38
Charles Knowlton
(Physician)
Birthdate: May 10, 1800
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Templeton, Massachusetts, United States
Died: February 20
Birthdate: 1782 AD
Birthplace: Edinburgh
Died: February 23
40
William Joseph Chaminade
(Catholic priest)
Birthdate: April 8, 1761
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Kingdom of France
Died: January 22
41
William Lisle Bowles
(Poet)
Birthdate: September 24, 1762
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Kings Sutton, England
Died: April 7
42
Pedro de Sousa Holstein, duque de Palmela
(Portuguese statesman)
Birthdate: May 8, 1781
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Turin, Italy
Died: October 12
43
Wilhelm Beer
(German Banker and Astronomer Who Constructed the Most Complete Map of the Moon of His Time ‘Mappa Selenographica')
Birthdate: January 4, 1797
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: March 27
44
Jean-Pierre Boyer
(President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843)
Birthdate: February 15, 1776
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Died: July 9
Birthdate: May 12, 1809
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Monsummano Terme, Italy
Died: March 31
46
Satō Nobuhiro
(Japanese Political Scientist Who is Considered the Founder of the 'Greater East Asia' Concept)
Birthdate: July 18, 1769
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Nishimonai, Japan
Died: February 17
47
Benedict Joseph Flaget
(Bishop)
Birthdate: November 7, 1763
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Contournat, France
Died: February 11
48
Nicolas François, Count Mollien
(Financier)
Birthdate: February 28, 1758
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rouen, France
Died: April 20
49
Ntare IV of Burundi
(King of Burundi)
Birthplace: Mugera
Died: 1850 AD
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Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin
(Rabbis)
Birthdate: October 5, 1796
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Pohrebyshche, Ukraine
Died: October 9