Death year 1862 celebrities
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He is sometimes confused with another composer by the same name who died in 1904Charles Mayer (21 March 1799 in Königsberg – 2 July 1862 in Dresden), also known as Carl Mayer or Charles Meyer, was a Prussian pianist and composer active in the earl
Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry and, in particular, his own expedition to Antarctica.
Edwin Pearce Christy (November 28, 1815 – May 21, 1862) was an American composer, singer, actor and stage producer. He is more commonly known as E. P. Christy, and was the founder of the blackface minstrel group Christy’s Minstrels.
Božena Němcová (4 February 1820 in Vienna – 21 January 1862 in Prague) was a Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement.
Dorothea von Biron, Princess of Courland, Duchess of Dino, Talleyrand and Sagan, known as Dorothée de Courlande or Dorothé de Dino (21 August 1793 – 19 September 1862), was a Baltic German noblewoman. Her mother was Dorothea von Medem, Duchess of
Fitz James O’Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; 31 December 1828 – 6 April 1862) was an Irish-American writer and poet often cited as an early writer of science fiction..
Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz (Auguste Reuss; 26 May 1822 – 3 March 1862) was the consort and first wife of Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Jeanne Duval (c.1820 – 1862) was a Haitian-born actress and dancer of mixed French and black African ancestry. For 20 years, she was the muse of French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. They met in 1842, when Duval left Haiti for France, and
Francisco Sanchez (April 11, 1805 – September 8, 1862) was Commandante of the San Francisco Presidio and the eighth alcalde of San Francisco, California in 1843, and grantee of the 8,926-acre (36.12 km2) Rancho San Pedro.
Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (German: Herzogin Marie Luise Friederike Alexandrine Elisabeth Charlotte Catherine Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 31 March 1803 – 26 October 1862) was daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Meckle
Princess Mária Antónia von Koháry (2 July 1797 – 25 September 1862) was a Hungarian noblewoman and the ancestress of several European monarchs. She was the heiress of the Koháry family and one of the three largest landowners in Hungary.
William Wallace “Willie” Lincoln (December 21, 1850 – February 20, 1862) was the third son of Abraham Lincol