Deaths in the 1850s

Charles Athanase Walckenaer

1771–1852 (age 81)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852) was a French naturalist and arachnologist from Paris known for his studies of sp...

Louis-Joseph Duhamel

1777–1859 (age 82)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis-Joseph Duhamel (1777-1859) was a French resident of Bordeaux who lived through eight decades of French history.

Émilie de Beauharnais

1781–1855 (age 74)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot

1763–1850 (age 87)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot was a celebrated French goldsmith and master craftsman.

Joachim Charles Napoléon Clary

1802–1856 (age 54)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Joachim Charles Napoléon Clary (1802-1856) was a Parisian-born member of the Clary family connected to Napoleon's circl...

John Doveton

1783–1857 (age 74)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

John Doveton was a British colonial administrator who served in Saint Helena during the early 19th century.

Joseph Desbassayns

1780–1850 (age 70)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Joseph Desbassayns was a prominent French colonial figure in Réunion (Saint-Denis) during the early 19th century.

Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac

1773–1855 (age 82)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jacques-Marie, vicomte Cavaignac was a French military officer and nobleman.

Jacques Ardoin

1779–1854 (age 75)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jacques Ardoin was a French person from Embrun who lived from 1779 to 1854.

Jean-Baptiste Sallerin

1781–1856 (age 75)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Baptiste Sallerin was a French individual who lived through the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and July Monarchy eras.

Louis-Nicolas-Marie Destouches

1788–1850 (age 62)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles-Philippe Neveu

1793–1859 (age 66)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles-Philippe Neveu was a French citizen who lived through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras until the mid-19th c...

Henri Amédée Mercure de Turenne d'Aynac

1776–1852 (age 76)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Henri Amédée Mercure de Turenne d'Aynac (1776-1852) was a French nobleman from Pau, likely descended from the illustri...

Hippolyte Bis

1789–1855 (age 66)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Hippolyte Bis (1789-1855) was a French individual from Douai who lived during the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic periods...

Léon Faucher

1803–1854 (age 51)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Léon Faucher was a French economist and politician from Limoges who lived from 1803 to 1854.

Charles Nicolas Fabvier

1782–1855 (age 73)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Nicolas Fabvier was a French general from Pont-à-Mousson who lived from 1782 to 1855.

Hugues-Frédéric Leconte

1791–1859 (age 68)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French individual who lived during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Michał Tyszkiewicz

1820–1853 (age 33)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Michał Tyszkiewicz was a Polish nobleman (1820–1853) whose life was marked by cultural engagement.

Maria de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Cardenas de Jaruco

1789–1852 (age 63)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Joseph-Gabriel Pissarro

1777–1858 (age 81)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Joseph-Gabriel Pissarro was a French merchant from Bordeaux who lived from 1777 to 1858 and was the father of Impression...

Hardouin Tarbé de Vauxclairs

1803–1859 (age 56)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Hardouin Tarbé de Vauxclairs (1803-1859) was a French figure from Brest whose aristocratic surname suggests noble linea...

Anne-Henry-Ferdinand Sencier

1790–1853 (age 63)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Anne-Henry-Ferdinand Sencier was a French resident of Neuilly-sur-Seine who lived during the Revolutionary and post-Napo...

Jules Devilliers

1815–1854 (age 39)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jules Devilliers (1815-1854) was a French individual who died at the relatively young age of 39.

Alexandre-Victor Fontaine

1815–1855 (age 40)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Alexandre-Victor Fontaine was a French painter (1815–1855) active in nineteenth-century artistic circles.

Azéma-Aimée Guillot

1825–1855 (age 30)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jules-Romain Joyant

1803–1854 (age 51)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jules-Romain Joyant was a French painter (1803–1854) engaged in nineteenth-century artistic traditions.

Ferdinand Petit de la Bourserie

d. 1855

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Ferdinand Petit de la Bourserie was a French individual who died in 1855 in Amiens.

Édouard Pils

1823–1850 (age 27)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Édouard Pils was a French person who lived briefly from 1823 to 1850 in Paris.

Adolphe Cichowski

1794–1854 (age 60)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Adolphe Cichowski (1794-1854) was a Warsaw-born individual who settled in France and was buried at the Grave of Cichowsk...

Jeanne Charlotte Saint-Aubin

1764–1850 (age 86)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jeanne Charlotte Saint-Aubin was a Parisian woman who lived through the Ancien Régime, Revolution, and into the 19th ce...

Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie

1775–1851 (age 76)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Guillaume Dode de la Brunerie was a French military officer who served during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Жан-Жак Прадье

1790–1852 (age 62)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-Jacques Pradier was a French painter (1790–1852) active in nineteenth-century artistic circles.

Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy

1795–1856 (age 61)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy was a French statesman, historian, and politician from Condom who served as Minister of Pub...

Jean Zuléma Amussat

1796–1856 (age 60)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean Zuléma Amussat (1796-1856) was a French surgeon who pioneered techniques in urological and rectal surgery.

Camille Pleyel

1788–1855 (age 67)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Camille Pleyel was a French piano manufacturer and composer who lived from 1788 to 1855, continuing his father's legacy ...

John Beasley Greene

1832–1856 (age 24)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

John Beasley Greene was an American photographer whose innovative work in the 1850s helped establish photography as a se...

Aimé-Auguste-Jean-François Berger de Castellan

1774–1855 (age 81)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Aimé-Auguste-Jean-François Berger de Castellan (1774-1855) was a French nobleman from Thionville who lived through the...

Charles Bourgeois

1789–1856 (age 67)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Charles Bourgeois (1789-1856) was a resident of Reims, France during the first half of the 19th century.

Anne-Marie-Hortense Perregaux

1779–1857 (age 78)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Anne-Marie-Hortense Perregaux was a French noblewoman who lived from 1779 to 1857 and was connected to the Raguse family...

Pierre-Claude Prousteau de Montlouis

1761–1851 (age 90)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre-Claude Prousteau de Montlouis was a French individual who lived from 1761 to 1851 in Paris.

Marguerite-Cécile Kellermann

1773–1850 (age 77)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marguerite-Cécile Kellermann was a French woman from Metz, likely connected to the prominent Kellermann military family...

François-Alexandre Lock

1776–1854 (age 78)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

François-Alexandre Lock (1776-1854) was a French figure whose life spanned the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.

Konstanty Linowski

1807–1858 (age 51)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Konstanty Linowski was a Polish exile from Warsaw who died in France in 1858.

Benoit Mozin

1769–1857 (age 88)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Benoit Mozin was a French composer whose works contributed to the musical heritage of late 18th and early 19th-century F...

Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé

1782–1859 (age 77)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

1764–1853 (age 89)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, was a French military officer and nobleman who served during the revol...

Louis-Toussaint de La Moussaye

1778–1854 (age 76)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart

1788–1858 (age 70)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart (1788-1858) was a French nobleman from Paris belonging to one of France's oldest aris...

Louis Duport

1781–1853 (age 72)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis François Élie Pelletier

1771–1854 (age 83)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis François Élie Pelletier was a French resident of Boury-en-Vexin who lived through the French Revolution and Napo...