Death year 1822 celebrities

Death year 1822

E. T. A. Hoffmann Facts

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann; born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and ca

Giacomo Berger Facts

Giacomo Berger or Jacques Berger (Chambéry, France, 1754 – Naples, 1822) was a French-Italian painter, active in a Neoclassical style, depicting historical subjects and portraits.

Zofia Potocka Facts

Zofia Potocka (Ukrainian: Софія Костянтинівна Потоцька; 11 January 1760 – 24 November 1822) was a courtesan of Greek origin who married into the Polish nobility as the spouse of Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki. Compatriots he

Kunta Kinte Facts

Kunta Kinte (1750-1822; also known as “Toby Waller”) was a Gambian–born American slave. The outline of his life story was the basis for the novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley, and the television miniseries Roo

Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan Facts

Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan (née Genet; 6 October 1752, Paris – 16 March 1822, Mantes) was a French educator, writer and lady-in-waiting. In the service of Marie Antoinette before and during the French Revolution, she was afterwards headmistre

Sophie de Condorcet Facts

Sophie de Condorcet (born 1764 in Meulan, died 8 September 1822 in Paris), best known as Madame de Condorcet, was a prominent salon hostess from 1789 to the Reign of Terror, and again from 1799 until her death in 1822. She was the wife, then widow, o

William Logan Facts

William Logan (December 8, 1776 – August 8, 1822) was a United States Senator from Kentucky.

Bathilde d'Orléans Facts

Bathilde d’Orléans (Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde; 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822) was a French princess o

Allegra Byron Facts

Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822), initially named Alba, meaning “dawn”, or “white”, by

Percy Bysshe Shelley Facts

Percy Bysshe Shelley (/ˈpɜrsi ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛli/; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major Englis