Deaths in the 1850s

François Joseph Planzeaux

1772–1856 (age 84)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Auguste de Sayve

1790–1854 (age 64)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Auguste de Sayve was a French figure from Grenoble who lived during the Napoleonic and July Monarchy periods.

Philippe-Louis de Sainte Marie d'Agneaux

1787–1857 (age 70)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louise Leroux

1851–1851 (age 0)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French individual who died in 1851 and was buried in the Grave of Leroux.

Malka Kachwar

1805–1858 (age 53)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marițica Bibescu

1815–1859 (age 44)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Marițica Bibescu was a Romanian noblewoman from Bucharest who died in France and was buried in the Grave of Ghika.

Charles Lucien Bonaparte

1803–1857 (age 54)

Ajaccio

Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-1857) was a French-Italian ornithologist and nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who made signif...

Sir William Symonds

1782–1856 (age 74)

Marseille

Sir William Symonds was a distinguished British engineer whose innovations advanced maritime technology.

Georgiana Russell, Duchess of Bedford

1781–1853 (age 72)

Nice

Guillaume-Nicolas Lagon

1779–1858 (age 79)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Guillaume-Nicolas Lagon was a French soldier who served during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Étienne-Constant Hulot d'Osery

1783–1852 (age 69)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Étienne-Constant Hulot d'Osery was a French colonial administrator who served in Mauritius (Port Louis).

Hippolyte de Najac

1794–1854 (age 60)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Hippolyte de Najac was a French individual from Saint-Malo who lived during the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and July Mona...

Jules Exbrayat

1806–1857 (age 51)

Cimetière de Loyasse

Jean-Michel Dalgabio

1788–1852 (age 64)

Cimetière de Loyasse

Jean-Michel Dalgabio was a French architect whose works shaped the built environment of early 19th-century France.

Louis-Nicolas Périolas

1785–1859 (age 74)

Cimetière de Loyasse

Cécile Belle de Caux

1815–1850 (age 35)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French aristocrat of the nineteenth century.

Eglantyne Katherine Fordyce

1779–1851 (age 72)

Pau

Paul de Saint-Pierre

1798–1856 (age 58)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French gentleman of the nineteenth century.

Louis Chadabet

1785–1856 (age 71)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis Chadabet (1785-1856) was a French resident of Tulle who lived during the Napoleonic era and July Monarchy.

Honoré-Prosper d'Artois

1790–1858 (age 68)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Honoré-Prosper d'Artois was a Parisian nobleman who lived from 1790 to 1858.

Pierre Bellan

1775–1859 (age 84)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre Bellan (1775-1859) was a French individual who lived through the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Restoration perio...

Joseph Vauchelet

1854–1854 (age 0)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Infant who lived and died in 1854.

Jacques-André Mesnard

1792–1858 (age 66)

Viroflay

Louis Ordonneau

1770–1855 (age 85)

Autouillet

French military officer who served during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.

Pierre Vellet

1776–1855 (age 79)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Pierre Vellet was a French resident of Rouen who lived through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.

Franziska Bauer

1796–1858 (age 62)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Woman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Paul Tassaert

1792–1850 (age 58)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Konstanty Parczewski

1801–1855 (age 54)

Auxerre

Polish rebel who fought for national independence.

Jean-Baptiste Baudin

1811–1851 (age 40)

Pantheon

Louis Braille

1809–1852 (age 43)

Pantheon

French educator and inventor of the Braille tactile writing system.

Joseph Marie Lazare Duquesne

1804–1854 (age 50)

Issoudun

Philippe-François Durzy

1764–1851 (age 87)

Montargis

French military officer of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.

Léonard-Bernard Motard

1771–1852 (age 81)

Honfleur

Xavier de Portets

1786–1854 (age 68)

Samadet

Eugène Antoine François Merlin

1778–1854 (age 76)

Eaubonne

Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon

1783–1853 (age 70)

Bouray-sur-Juine

French politician and marquis who served during the Napoleonic era.

Alfred Tattet

1809–1856 (age 47)

Samois-sur-Seine

Auguste de Marmont

1774–1852 (age 78)

Châtillon-sur-Seine

French military officer and marshal who served during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

Jean-Antoine Brisset

1784–1856 (age 72)

Hirson

Jean-Joseph Ader

1796–1859 (age 63)

Ustaritz

French historian whose scholarly work documented French history and culture.

Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

1786–1856 (age 70)

Montparnasse Cemetery

Charles Sturm

1803–1855 (age 52)

Montparnasse Cemetery

Charles Sturm (1803-1855) was a Geneva-born French mathematician known for Sturm's theorem in algebra, buried at ossuair...

Édouard Biot

1803–1850 (age 47)

Montparnasse Cemetery

Desiré-Raoul Rochette

1790–1854 (age 64)

Montparnasse Cemetery

French art historian and archaeologist whose scholarly work advanced the study of classical and contemporary art.

Abel Hugo

1798–1855 (age 57)

Montparnasse Cemetery

François Rude

1784–1855 (age 71)

Montparnasse Cemetery

French sculptor whose monumental works, including the Arc de Triomphe relief, exemplified Romantic artistic achievement.

Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui

1798–1854 (age 56)

Montparnasse Cemetery

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu

1797–1853 (age 56)

Montparnasse Cemetery

French botanist and collector whose taxonomic work advanced nineteenth-century botanical science.

Augustin Thierry

1795–1856 (age 61)

Montparnasse Cemetery

Joseph Paul Gaimard

1793–1858 (age 65)

Montparnasse Cemetery

French naturalist and explorer whose scientific expeditions advanced nineteenth-century natural history.