Deaths 1865

abraham lincoln



john wilkes booth



january 14 – marie-anne libert, belgian botanist (b. 1782)
january 19 – pierre-joseph proudhon, french philosopher, anarchist (b. 1809)
january 28 – felice romani, italian poet, librettist (b. 1788)
february 6 – isabella beeton, british cook, household management expert (b. 1836)
march 1 – anna pavlovna of russia, queen consort of netherlands (b. 1795)
march 20 – yamanami keisuke, japanese samurai (b. 1833)
march 30 – alexander dukhnovich, russian priest, writer , social activist (b. 1803
april 1

john milton, governor of florida (b. 1807)
giuditta pasta, italian soprano (b. 1798)


april 2 – a. p. hill, american confederate general (b. 1825)
april 13 – achille valenciennes, french zoologist (b. 1794)
april 15 – abraham lincoln, 16th president of united states (b. 1809)
april 18 – léon jean marie dufour, french medical doctor, naturalist (b. 1780)
april 24 – nicholas alexandrovich, tsarevich of russia (b. 1843)
april 26 – john wilkes booth, american actor, assassin of abraham lincoln (b. 1838)
april 28 – sir samuel cunard, canadian businessman, founder of cunard line (b. 1787)

july–december

henry john temple



léopold of belgium



july – dimitris plapoutas, greek military leader (b. 1786)
july 6 – princess sophie of sweden, grand duchess of baden (b. 1801)
july 7 – lincoln assassination conspirators (executed)

lewis powell (b. 1844)
david herold (b. 1842)
george atzerodt (b. 1835)
mary surratt (b. 1823)


july 25 – james barry, british military surgeon (b. 1795)
august 4 – percival drayton, united states navy officer (b. 1812)
august 12 – william jackson hooker, english botanist (b. 1785)
august 13 – ignaz semmelweis, hungarian physician (b. 1818)
august 27 – thomas chandler haliburton, canadian author (b. 1796)
august 29 – robert remak, german embryologist, physiologist, , neurologist (b. 1815)
september 2 – william rowan hamilton, irish mathematician (b. 1805)
september 10 – maria silfvan, finnish actor (b. 1802)
october 16 – andrés bello, venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher , sociologist (b. 1781)
october 18 – henry john temple, 3rd viscount palmerston, prime minister of united kingdom (b. 1784)
november 10 – henry wirz, confederate military officer, prisoner-of-war camp commander (executed) (b. 1823)
november 12 – elizabeth gaskell, british novelist, biographer (b. 1810)
november 28 – william machin stairs, canadian businessman, statesman (b. 1789)
december 6 – sebastián iradier, spanish composer (b. 1809)
december 10 – king leopold of belgium (b. 1790)
december 14 – johan georg forchhammer, danish geologist (b. 1794)
december 17 – luigi ciacchi, italian cardinal (b. 1788)