Famous People Who Died In 1859

• Thomas De Quincey

  Essayist

  England, United Kingdom

• Carl Ritter

  Entrepreneur

  Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• Alexander von Humboldt

  Geographer

  Berlin, Germany

• Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

  Mathematician

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Horace Mann

  Educator

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Washington Irving

  Writer

  New York, United States of America

• John Brown

  Abolitionist

  Connecticut, United States of America

• Leigh Hunt

  Essayist

  London, United Kingdom

• Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar

  Diplomat

  Georgia, United States of America

• Wilhelm Grimm

  Author

  Frankfurt am Main, Germany