People who died in the 1850s

184 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1850s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.

• Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763–1850), composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), Christian missionary, Bible translator, lexicographer · buried at Burial Hill
• Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850), poet, writer · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (1798–1850), philologist, university teacher, ethnologist · buried at Raadi cemetery
• Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), mineralogist, chemist, physician · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
• Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850), herpetologist, anatomist, entomologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), prose writer, essayist, novelist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776–1850), politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850), art educator, lithographer, printmaker · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), board member, university teacher, chemist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Juan Martín de Pueyrredon (1777–1850), politician, military personnel · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), newspaperperson, women's rights activist, autobiographer · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Richard Mentor Johnson (1780–1850), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Frankfort Cemetery
• Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), army officer, statesperson, military officer · buried at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
• Augusta Leigh (1783–1851) · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Christian Martin Frähn (1782–1851), philologist, numismatist, university teacher · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
• Esteban Echeverría Mamani (1805–1851), poet, writer · buried at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo
• John Kirk Townsend (1809–1851), explorer, botanist, ornithologist · buried at Congressional Cemetery
• Karl Dietrich Eberhard König (1774–1851), mineralogist, museologist, Keeper of Mineralogy · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Karl Gützlaff (1803–1851), sinologist, Protestant theologian, linguist · buried at Hong Kong Cemetery
• Kölemen Davut Paşa (1774–1851), statesperson, politician, military personnel · buried at Al-Baqi Cemetery
• Manuel Godoy (1767–1851), head of government, military officer, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), anthropologist, botanist, ethnologist · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Stanko Vraz (1810–1851), linguist, literary critic, translator · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851), Christian minister, educator, teacher · buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852), short story writer, essayist, playwright · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Carl Borivoj Presl (1794–1852), pteridologist, bryologist, botanist · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Carlos María de Alvear (1789–1852), diplomat, politician, military personnel · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Casimir Lefaucheux (1802–1852), gunsmith, inventor, engineer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852), arachnologist, novelist, philosopher · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Emmanuil Xanthos (1772–1852), merchant · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852), Indologist, linguist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Frances Wright (1795–1852), social reformer, feminist, philosopher · buried at Spring Grove Cemetery
• Georg August Wallin (1811–1852), linguist, explorer, professor · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Gideon Mantell (1790–1852), scientific collector, obstetrician, botanist · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• Grigory Langsdorff (1774–1852), scientific collector, zoological collector, traveler · buried at Old Cemetery (Freiburg im Breisgau)
• Henry Clay (1777–1852), diplomat, jurist, politician · buried at Lexington Cemetery
• Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), landscape architect, sculptor, artist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• John Howard Payne (1791–1852), librettist, stage actor, lyricist · buried at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
• John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852), traveler, explorer, anthropologist · buried at New York City Marble Cemetery
• Karl Bryullov (1799–1852), graphic artist, painter, architect · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Margaret Taylor (1788–1852), First Lady of the United States · buried at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
• Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852), linguist, librettist, playwright · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), prose writer, librettist, opinion journalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Pavel Fedotov (1815–1852), draftsperson, painter, artist · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Q1362889 (1790–1852), sculptor, painter · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852), linguist, literary critic, librettist · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Walter Forward (1786–1852), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Allegheny Cemetery
• Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852), painter, military personnel, writer · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
• Abigail Fillmore (1798–1853), politician · buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)
• Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), botanist, botanical collector · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Amelia Opie (1769–1853), novelist, abolitionist, biographer · buried at Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich
• Christian Dopplerr (1803–1853), academic, pedagogue, university teacher · buried at San Michele Cemetery, Venice
• François Arago (1786–1853), university teacher, biographer, physicist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Friedrich Joseph Haass (1780–1853), physician · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771–1853), Staatsrat, entomologist, anatomist · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Hyacinth (1777–1853), Eastern Orthodox priest, explorer, monk · buried at Lazarevskoe Cemetery
• János Garay (1812–1853), journalist, playwright, librarian · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (1776–1853), philosopher, economist, mathematician · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• Louis Visconti (1791–1853), architect · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Mathieu Orfila (1787–1853), forensic scientist, toxicologist, pharmacologist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Nils Blommér (1816–1853), painter · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853), visual artist, painter, artist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• William Beaumont (1785–1853), military physician, physiologist, surgeon · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• William R. King (1786–1853), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Old Live Oak Cemetery
• August Borsig (1804–1854), industrialist, mechanical engineer, entrepreneur · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757–1854), philanthropist, hymnwriter · buried at Trinity Church Cemetery
• Émile Souvestre (1806–1854), children's writer, science fiction writer, novelist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Félicité de La Mennais (1782–1854), philosopher, theologian, translator · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Harriet Smithson (1800–1854), stage actor, composer, actor · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• James Montgomery (1771–1854), poet, writer · buried at Sheffield General Cemetery
• Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798–1854), journalist, political economist, economist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Józef Elsner (1769–1854), independent publisher, music theorist, music educator · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Justo Figuerola (1771–1854), politician, lawyer · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Léon Faucher (1803–1854), journalist, economist, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Marcellin Marbot (1782–1854), army officer, military officer, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Nathaniel Wolff Wallich (1786–1854), scientific collector, mycologist, pteridologist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Pietro Nobile (1776–1854), general contractor, architect · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Samuel Wilson (1766–1854), butcher · buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)
• Vatroslav Lisinski (1819–1854), academic musician, composer · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Charles Sturm (1803–1855), university teacher, mathematician, physicist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Feargus O'Connor (1794–1855), socialist, politician, lawyer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• François Magendie (1783–1855), physiologist, neurologist, professor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• George Bellas Greenough (1778–1855), geologist, politician · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Guglielmo Pepe (1783–1855), soldier, military officer, military personnel · buried at Cemetery of Poggioreale
• Henry Bishop (1787–1855), conductor, composer · buried at East Finchley Cemetery
• Henry De la Beche (1796–1855), plantation owner, paleontologist, geologist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855), miniature painter, portraitist, lithographer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• John C. Spencer (1788–1855), politician, lawyer, judge · buried at Albany Rural Cemetery
• Mariano Arista (1802–1855), politician, military personnel · buried at Panteón de Dolores
• Mihály Vörösmarty (1800–1855), linguist, editing staff, member of parliament · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Piotr Michałowski (1800–1855), philanthropist, land owner, painter · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Q191305 (1808–1855), short story writer, librettist, novelist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Thomas Mitchell (1792–1855), scientific collector, surveying engineer, explorer · buried at Camperdown Cemetery
• Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), philosopher, medievalist, university teacher · buried at Pyatnitskoye Cemetery
• Adolphe Adam (1803–1856), music educator, critic, music critic · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Augustin Thierry (1795–1856), librarian, historian, writer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• David d'Angers (1788–1856), medalist, sculptor, illustrator · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), journalist, lawyer, writer · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), theatre critic, opinion journalist, essayist · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786–1856), mathematician, professor, physicist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Janko Drašković (1770–1856), patron of the arts, ensign, national revival activist · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• John Eaton (1790–1856), diplomat, jurist, ambassador · buried at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
• John M. Berrien (1781–1856), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery
• John Ross (1777–1856), polar explorer, explorer, naval officer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Lev Perovski (1792–1856), patron of the arts, mineralogist, minister · buried at Lazarevskoe Cemetery
• Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy (1795–1856), historian, diplomat, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (1789–1856), music educator, musicologist, harpist · buried at Camperdown Cemetery
• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Arskoe Cemetery
• Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), philosopher, politician · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), painter · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Théodore Guérin (1798–1856), nun · buried at Sisters of Providence Convent Cemetery
• Vicente López y Planes (1784–1856), politician, lawyer, writer · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), librettist, novelist, chess composer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Auguste Comte (1798–1857), philosopher, sociologist, repetitor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Carl Czerny (1791–1857), piano teacher, music educator, music theorist · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Christian Daniel Rauch (1777–1857), visual artist, art historian, sculptor · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Daniele Manin (1804–1857), freedom fighter, politician, military personnel · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• David Thompson (1770–1857), map maker, explorer, canoeist · buried at Mount Royal Cemetery
• Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857), writer · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), explorer, botanical collector, naval surgeon · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Franz Krüger (1797–1857), exlibrist, portraitist, lithographer · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Frederick Scott Archer (1813–1857), sculptor, inventor, photographer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Ignacio Álvarez Thomas (1787–1857), soldier, diplomat, politician · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Josef Ressel (1793–1857), technician, forester, inventor · buried at Navje Memorial Park
• Karol Kurpiński (1785–1857), music educator, musicologist, violinist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Louis McLane (1786–1857), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Green Mount Cemetery
• Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802–1857), military officer, politician · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Michael Glinka (1804–1857), composer · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy (1792–1857), mineralogist, geologist, professor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857), musicographer, chansonnier, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857), anthologist, literary critic, publisher · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857), diarist, philosopher, salonnière · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• Thomas Crawford (1813–1857), sculptor, painter · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776–1857), draftsperson, painter · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857), dictionary author, Bible translator, linguist · buried at Abney Park Cemetery
• William Brown (1777–1857), admiral, military personnel · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• William Colgate (1783–1857), philanthropist, entrepreneur, businessperson · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• William L. Marcy (1786–1857), diplomat, jurist, politician · buried at Albany Rural Cemetery
• Alexander Ivanov (1806–1858), painter · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Alois Negrelli (1799–1858), civil engineer, engineer, architect · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Antal Reguly (1819–1858), dictionary author, linguist, Finno-Ugrist · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Arthur P. Bagby (1794–1858), diplomat, jurist, governor · buried at Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama)
• Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), pastellist, lithographer, draftsperson · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Auguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), art historian, architect · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795–1858), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Charles-Louis Havas (1783–1858), opinion journalist, journalist, banker · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Dred Scott (1799–1858), activist, slave · buried at Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
• Francisco Antonio Pinto (1785–1858), foreign minister, diplomat, politician · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Franz Theodor Kugler (1808–1858), draftsperson, etcher, archaeologist · buried at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
• Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), zoological collector, ethnographer, explorer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807–1858), science fiction writer, novelist, editor · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858), dialect writer, feminist, autobiographer · buried at Brookwood Cemetery
• John Snow (1813–1858), epidemiologist, physician, anesthesiologist · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• José de la Riva Agüero (1783–1858), memoirist, military officer, politician · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793–1858), scientific collector, explorer, ichthyologist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Józef Sękowski (1800–1858), sinologist, science fiction writer, literary critic · buried at Volkovo Cemetery
• József Bajza (1804–1858), theatre critic, literary critic, journalist · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Rachel Félix (1821–1858), stage actor, actor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Richard Bright (1789–1858), anatomist, pathologist, geologist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Robert Brown (1773–1858), scientific collector, bryologist, pteridologist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858), politician, lawyer, writer · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859), autobiographer, portrait painter, art historian · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• David Cox (1783–1859), graphic artist, painter, artist · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• Delia Bacon (1811–1859), writer · buried at Grove Street Cemetery
• Faddey Bulgarin (1789–1859), science fiction writer, literary critic, publisher · buried at Raadi cemetery
• George M. Bibb (1776–1859), politician, lawyer, judge · buried at Frankfort Cemetery
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), railway engineer, civil engineer, mechanical engineer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• James Ward (1769–1859), portraitist, lithographer, draftsperson · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Juan Bautista Ceballos (1811–1859), politician, lawyer, judge · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), autobiographer, literary critic, journalist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Louis Joseph Antoine de Potter (1786–1859), newspaper editor, revolutionary, historian · buried at Brussels Cemetery
• Louis Poinsot (1777–1859), university teacher, mathematician, physicist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859), novelist, opera singer, stage actor · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Richard Rush (1780–1859), diplomat, minister, politician · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Rufus Choate (1799–1859), politician, lawyer, writer · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859), theatre critic, prose writer, memoirist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Sydney, Lady Morgan (1783–1859), novelist, art historian, governess · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Walter Hunt (1796–1859), designer, mechanic, inventor · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Washington Irving (1783–1859), essayist, novelist, journalist · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), collector of fairy tales, mythographer, literary scholar · buried at Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof
• William Cranch Bond (1789–1859), meteorological observer, meteorologist, watchmaker · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859), hispanist, historian, jurist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery