1856 deaths
Category: 1856 deaths

J. W. Sharp
English singer and comic entertainer

Bhai Maharaj Singh
Sikh revolutionary who led an anti-British movement in Punjab and was deported to Singapore in 1850

Elise Schmezer
German singer

Bernard C. Whittemore
American politician

Isabella Fenwick
19th-century British amanuensis

Marie Lourdais
Smuggler, messenger, spy and nurse/medic

Alexander Vintulov

Concubine Yun
Consort of Xianfeng Emperor

Christos Davelis
Greek bandit

Muddu Narasimham Naidu
Indian author

Philo Orton
American politician and judge

Alfred Joseph Lowe
1 Aug 1789 - 10 Aug 1856

Jeppe Strokirk
Swedish ironmaster and landowner

David Stewart Wylie
Scotch Baptist minister in Liverpool

Shelomo Salem Shurrabi

Robert A. New
American politician

John G. Shields
American politician in Iowa

George Buchan of Kelloe
Secretary to Governor of Madras, Scottish church leader

Samuel Melcher
American architect

Isaac Minis

Eliza Ann Jewett
American real-estate investor

Amos Scudder
American architect, builder and freemason

Mohammed bin Said

Chanku Mahato
British India freedom fighter

Samuel Blackburn
Scottish artist

Nanaki Kaur Atariwala
Queen Consort of Sikh Empire

David Carment

Marianne Celeste Dragon
Creole Socialite and Subject of Painting by José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza

William Macdonald Mackenzie
Scottish architect, 1797–1856

Henry Hart
British naval officer and diplomat

Archibald Alexander Ritchie
American businessman

William Ryrie
Scottish-born Australian pastoralist

Isaac Gompertz
English Jewish poet

Barnett Nathan
English impresario and entertainer

E. J. Eames
American poet

Thomas Alcock
English soldier

Joseph H. Jackson
American lawyer and politician

Robert Wilson
Texas politician and entrepreneur

Thatcher Magoun

Marie Desbrosses
French operatic mezzo-soprano