1840 deaths
Category: 1840 deaths

Meerza Delawar Hosaen Ahmed

John Strange
English cricketer

Antoine Jacques Le Carlier d'Herlye
Naval officer

St. Agatha Yi Kyong-i
Korean saint and martyr

Peter Edes
American printer

Robert Henry Thomas Torrens
British Army officer

Eleanor Macomber
American missionary

Maung O
Prince of Salin

Chourmouzios the Archivist
Music teacher

Yakov Smirnov
18th and 19th-century Russian Orthodox priest and diplomat

Wanyang Budaebuin
Grand Internal Princess Consort of Joseon

Eleazer Early
American hotelier

Diego Ballesteros
Spanish military officer

William Domville Stanley Monck
Anglo-Irish politician

Antonio Cano
Sardinian sculptor and architect

Adolf Weissenberg
Bavarian architect and archaeologist

George Cathey
American Revolution captain

John Speed
American jurist

Mary Bateman Clark
American woman who resisted slavery

Thomas Swann
Attorney and member of the Virginia House of Delegates

William Hewett (died 1840)
Naval Officer and surveyor

John Balmanno

Eugeniya Fedorovna Shakhovskaya-Glebova-Streshneva

Sampson Edwards
British admiral

Semyon Grigorievich Zimin
Russian Entrepreneur

Juan Severino Mallari
Filipino serial killer

Sir James Webster-Wedderburn
British Regency-period army officer and dandy

William Singer
Scottish minister

Thomas Casey
Irish politician and barrister

Robert Halliday

John Blackwell

Jashar Pasha Gjinolli
Albanian feudal lord

John Wylde
Scottish advocate and antiquarian
Ana Gallum
American businesswoman

William Garret Forbes

William Ferris Pell
American horticulturist

Carl Hummel
Austrian painter and lithographer, ca. 1769-1840

Mary Lundie Duncan
Scottish poet and hymnwriter

John Adair
Adair, John; class of 1861

Thomas Hinds
Person who owned merchant ships