People who died in the 1840s
137 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1840s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.
- Anthony Carlisle (1768–1840), surgeon, physician · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Carl Ludvig Engel (1778–1840), visual artist, painter, architect · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
- Catterino Cavos (1775–1840), music educator, conductor, composer · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
- Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765–1840), military leader, diplomat, military officer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Felix Grundy (1777–1840), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)
- Francisco de Paula Santander (1792–1840), politician, military personnel · buried at Central Cemetery of Bogotá
- Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840), psychiatrist, physician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- John Adair (1757–1840), registrar, politician, military personnel · buried at Frankfort Cemetery
- Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1796–1840), chess player · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Pierre Antoine Dupont (1765–1840), linguist, translator, military officer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Pierre Claude François Daunou (1761–1840), archivist, historian, professor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Sidney Smith (1764–1840), military commander, naval officer, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840), statistician, university teacher, physicist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Agustín Gamarra (1785–1841), politician, military personnel · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
- Alexander Shishkov (1754–1841), lexicographer, linguist, philosopher · buried at Lazarevskoe Cemetery
- Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), journalist, playwright, poet · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Charles Barbier de La Serre (1767–1841), cryptographer, inventor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno (1764–1841), envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, major general, governor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Félix Savart (1791–1841), physicist, professor, engineer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781–1841), draftsperson, sculptor, painter · buried at Highgate Cemetery
- Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), explorer, mountaineer, botanist · buried at Raadi cemetery
- Ignaz von Seyfried (1776–1841), non-fiction writer, conductor, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Jean Victor Audouin (1797–1841), arachnologist, entomologist, botanist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- John Forsyth (1780–1841), foreign minister, diplomat, jurist · buried at Congressional Cemetery
- John Gilchrist (1759–1841), lexicographer, linguist, philologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Juan Lavalle (1797–1841), politician, military personnel · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), draftsperson, furniture designer, theatre designer · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
- Pierre-Augustin Hulin (1758–1841), military officer, military personnel · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval (1767–1842), librettist, theatre manager, musician · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), musicologist, archaeologist, numismatist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Amos Eaton (1776–1842), mineralogist, botanical collector, botanist · buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)
- Archibald Menzies (1754–1842), scientific collector, pteridologist, bryologist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764–1842), diplomat, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (1766–1842), memoirist, author, historian · buried at Passy Cemetery
- Francisco Morazán (1792–1842), soldier, politician, writer · buried at Cemetery of Distinguished Citizens
- Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (1763–1842), librettist, children's writer, lyricist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Jean-Victor Bertin (1767–1842), painter · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Joseph Desha (1768–1842), politician · buried at Georgetown Cemetery (Georgetown, Kentucky)
- Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), expedition leader, scientific collector, traveler · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Leona Vicario (1789–1842), journalist, politician · buried at Panteón de Dolores
- Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), music theorist, music educator, musicologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Maria Graham (1785–1842), scientific collector, children's writer, botanist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Peter Fendi (1796–1842), lithographer, caricaturist, art collector · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Pierre Baillot (1771–1842), violinist, composer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788–1842), biochemist, botanist, university teacher · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Robert Ker Porter (1777–1842), landscape painter, traveler, botanist · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
- Robert Smith (1757–1842), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
- Stendhal (1783–1842), diarist, autobiographer, novelist · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- William Ellery Channing (1780–1842), Christian minister, theologian, pastor · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
- William Hobson (1792–1842), explorer · buried at Symonds Street Cemetery
- Wojciech Żywny (1756–1842), piano teacher, music educator, violinist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
- Alexis Bouvard (1767–1843), astronomer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843), librettist, playwright, librarian · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), poet lawyer, lyricist, poet · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick, Maryland)
- Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792–1843), university teacher, physicist, mathematician · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- John Claudius Loudon (1782–1843), non-fiction writer, pteridologist, garden designer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Joseph Lanner (1801–1843), violinist, conductor, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Juan José Viamonte (1774–1843), politician, military personnel · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
- Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), cartomancer, fortune teller, writer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Noah Webster (1758–1843), linguist, opinion journalist, lexicographer · buried at Grove Street Cemetery
- Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843), bibliophile, aristocrat, politician · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), court counsel, homeopath, pharmacologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Smith Thompson (1768–1843), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
- Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765–1843), university teacher, mathematician, professor · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770–1843), freedom fighter, resistance fighter, politician · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
- Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Congressional Cemetery
- Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778–1844), botanist, physician · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
- Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), politician, architect · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Charles Nodier (1780–1844), lexicographer, philologist, essayist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Claude Charles Fauriel (1772–1844), scholar, linguist, philologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), anatomist, ornithologist, botanical collector · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Ivan Krylov (1769–1844), linguist, children's writer, fabulist · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
- Jacques Laffitte (1767–1844), banker, governor, minister · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Jernej Kopitar (1780–1844), slavist, linguist, philologist · buried at Navje Memorial Park
- José Rondeau (1773–1844), diplomat, politician, military personnel · buried at Central Cemetery of Montevideo
- Joseph Smith (1805–1844), theologian, founder of religion, prophet · buried at Smith Family Cemetery
- Nicolas Chopin (1771–1844), language teacher, French teacher · buried at Powązki Cemetery
- Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844), poet · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
- Constance de Salm (1767–1845), literary scholar, salonnière, playwright · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- François Joseph Bosio (1768–1845), draftsperson, printmaker, sculptor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegarde (1756–1845), general field marshal, military officer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (1784–1845), lithographer, painter · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (1785–1845), meteorologist, physicist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Josef Danhauser (1805–1845), painter, artist · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Joseph Story (1779–1845), legal scholar, university teacher, jurist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Karl Julius Perleb (1794–1845), botanist · buried at Old Cemetery (Freiburg im Breisgau)
- Klementyna Hoffmanowa (1798–1845), children's writer, novelist, translator · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), lithographer, draftsperson, painter · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Nikoloz Baratashvili (1817–1845), poet, writer · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
- Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780–1845), entomologist, ornithologist, zoologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Sydney Smith (1771–1845), ecclesiastic, journalist, politician · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Dwarkanath Tagore (1794–1846), entrepreneur · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- George Murray (1772–1846), politician · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846), linguist, ethnomusicologist, musicologist · buried at Campo Santo, Ghent
- Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846), scientific illustrator, explorer, entomologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796–1846), stage actor, mime artist, actor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Joseph Weigl (1766–1846), conductor, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets (1816–1846), portrait painter, painter, artist · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
- Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847), historian of science, mineralogist, botanist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847), barrister, politician, writer · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
- Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy (1766–1847), soldier, marshal, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Frédéric Soulié (1800–1847), novelist, critic, journalist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847), scholar, soldier, botanist · buried at Passy Cemetery
- Manuel Menéndez (1793–1847), politician, businessperson · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
- Marie Duplessis (1824–1847), demi-mondaine · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- Pierre Amédée Jaubert (1779–1847), linguist, explorer, orientalist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Prince Jules de Polignac, 3rd Duke of Polignac (1780–1847), diplomat, politician · buried at Picpus Cemetery
- Robert Liston (1794–1847), surgeon, inventor · buried at Highgate Cemetery
- Samuel Linde (1771–1847), lexicologist, slavist, lexicographer · buried at Evangelical Augsburg Cemetery, Warsaw
- Vicente Rocafuerte (1783–1847), diplomat, politician, writer · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
- Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822–1847), writer · buried at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
- George W. Campbell (1769–1848), finance minister, diplomat, politician · buried at Nashville City Cemetery
- Hermann von Boyen (1771–1848), general field marshal, marshal, politician · buried at Invalids' Cemetery
- Horace Wells (1815–1848), dentist, scientist · buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
- Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848), philologist, anthropologist, archaeologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768–1848), lithographer, painter, artist · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- John Jacob Astor I (1763–1848), wholesaler, merchant, entrepreneur · buried at Trinity Church Cemetery
- Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (1775–1848), lithographer, painter, artist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777–1848), aristocrat · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Stephen W. Kearny (1794–1848), Brigadegeneral, governor, politician · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
- Vasily Stasov (1769–1848), architect · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
- Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), writer, linguist, peace activist · buried at Trinity Church Cemetery
- Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), architect · buried at Lazarevskoe Cemetery
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), short story writer, essayist, literary critic · buried at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
- Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849), critic, philosopher, literary critic · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- François Habeneck (1781–1849), music educator, violinist, conductor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), piano teacher, pedagogue, musician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Jacob Perkins (1766–1849), inventor, physicist, engineer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791–1849), lexicographer, botanist, mineralogist · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
- Johann Strauss I (1804–1849), conductor, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Juliette Récamier (1777–1849), salonnière, socialite, writer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
- Lajos Batthyány (1807–1849), economist, politician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
- Marc Isambard Brunel (1769–1849), civil engineer, engineer, architect · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Moritz Michael Daffinger (1790–1849), miniature painter, porcelain painter, draftsperson · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
- Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849), archaeologist, philosopher, art critic · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
- Stephan Endlicher (1804–1849), bryologist, sinologist, scientific collector · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery