People who died in 1859
Alexander von Humboldt
1769
– 1859
· Age 89
Deceased
Alexis de Tocqueville
1805
– 1859
· Age 53
Deceased
Washington Irving
1783
– 1859
· Age 76
Deceased
Klemens von Metternich
1773
– 1859
· Age 86
Deceased
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
1800
– 1859
· Age 59
Deceased
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
1805
– 1859
· Age 54
Deceased
John Brown
1800
– 1859
· Age 59
Deceased
Oscar I of Sweden
1799
– 1859
· Age 60
Deceased
Thomas De Quincey
1785
– 1859
· Age 74
Deceased
Bettina von Arnim
1785
– 1859
· Age 73
Deceased
Wilhelm Grimm
1786
– 1859
· Age 73
Deceased
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
1806
– 1859
· Age 53
Deceased
Carl Ritter
1779
– 1859
· Age 79
Deceased
Jean-Marie Vianney
1786
– 1859
· Age 73
Deceased
Zygmunt Krasiński
1812
– 1859
· Age 47
Deceased
Sergey Aksakov
1791
– 1859
· Age 67
Deceased
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
1810
– 1859
· Age 49
Deceased
Josip Jelačić
1801
– 1859
· Age 57
Deceased
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
1782
– 1859
· Age 76
Deceased
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
1786
– 1859
· Age 73
Deceased
Robert Stephenson
1803
– 1859
· Age 55
Deceased
Louis Spohr
1784
– 1859
· Age 75
Deceased
Horace Mann
1796
– 1859
· Age 63
Deceased
Leigh Hunt
1784
– 1859
· Age 74
Deceased
Louis Poinsot
1777
– 1859
· Age 82
Deceased