List: 1812 deaths

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•  Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz

  Johann Wilhelm Archenholz was born in Langfuhr near Danzig on September 3, 1741. He was a Prussian officer, Professor of History and a publicist. His book about the history of the Seven Years of Silesian War (1756–63) was the basis for many reprints, as well as for school books. Archenholz commissioned a Berlin artist, Johann Friedrich Bolt, to produce a copper etching for Archenholz's History of Gustav Vasa of the famous Swedish Nobility.

  

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•  Little Turtle

  Little Turtle or Mishikinakwa (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812) was a chief of the Miami tribe in what is presently Indiana, and one of the most successful Native American military leaders of his era. He led his followers in several victories over the United States in the 1790s, but was an advocate for peace with the U.S. in the years leading up to the War of 1812.

  

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•  Isaac Brock

  Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB (6 October 1769 – 13 October 1812) was a British Army officer and administrator. Brock was assigned to Canada in 1802. Despite facing desertions and near-mutinies, he commanded his regiment in Upper Canada successfully for many years. He was promoted to major general, and became responsible for defending Upper Canada against the United States.

  

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•  Pyotr Bagration

  Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a Russian general. He was a descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations.

  

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•  George Clinton (vice president)

  George Clinton (July 26, 1739 – April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was the first Governor of New York, and then the fourth Vice President of the United States, serving under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He holds two distinctions: he was the first Vice President to serve under two different Presidents (the other being John C.

  

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•  Joel Barlow

  Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 – December 26, 1812) was an American poet and politician

  

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•  Christian Gottlob Heyne

  Christian Gottlob Heyne (September 25, 1729 – July 14, 1812) was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library.

  

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•  Étienne-Louis Malus

  Etienne-Louis Malus (23 July 1775 – 24 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. Malus was born in Paris, France. He participated in Napoleon's expedition into Egypt (1798 to 1801) and was a member of the mathematics section of the Institut d'Égypte. Malus became a member of the Académie des Sciences in 1810. In 1810 the Royal Society of London awarded him the Rumford Medal. His mathematical work was almost entirely concerned with the study of light.

  

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•  Shneur Zalman of Liadi

  Shneur Zalman of Liadi, also known as the Baal HaTanya, (September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O.S. ), was an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia. He was the author of many works, and is best known for Shulchan Aruch HaRav, Tanya and his Siddur Torah Or compiled according to the Nusach Ari.

  

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•  Johann Jakob Griesbach

  Johann Jakob Griesbach (January 4, 1745 – March 24, 1812), German biblical textual critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse, where his father, Konrad Kaspar (1705–1777), was pastor. Griesbach's fame rests upon his work in New Testament criticism, in which he inaugurated a new epoch. His solution to the synoptic problem bears his name, but the Griesbach hypothesis has been largely discredited in favor of the two-source hypothesis.

  

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•  Carl Gustaf Nordin

  Carl Gustaf Nordin (1749–1812) was a Swedish statesman, historian and ecclesiastic.

  

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•  Anton Stadler

  Anton Stadler (28 June 1753, Bruck an der Leitha – 15 June 1812, Vienna) was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and Clarinet Concerto. He was reputed to have a beautiful tone, with exceptional mastery of the low register of the basset clarinet and basset horn playing.

  

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•  Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse

  Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (29 May 1750 - 24 July 1812) was a French admiral.

  

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•  Spencer Perceval

  Spencer Perceval, KC (1 November 1762 – 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and Prime Minister. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. He is the only Solicitor General or Attorney General, and one of very few lawyers, to have been Prime Minister. The younger son of a minor nobleman, Perceval was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.

  

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•  Pierre Henri Larcher

  Pierre Henri Larcher (October 12, 1726 – December 22, 1812) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist. Born at Dijon, and originally intended for the law, he abandoned it for the classics. His (anonymous) translation of Chariton's Callirhoe (1763) marked him as an excellent Greek scholar. His attack upon Voltaire's Philosophie de l'historie (published under the name of l'Abbé Bazin) created considerable interest at the time.

  

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•  Henry Martyn

  Henry Martyn (18 February 1781 – 16 October 1812) was an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he was educated at Truro Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. A chance encounter with Charles Simeon led him to become a missionary. He was ordained a priest in the Church of England and became a chaplain for the British East India Company.

  

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•  Peter Gansevoort

  Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 – July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort is also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville.

  

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•  John Horne Tooke

  John Horne Tooke (25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812) was an English politician and philologist.

  

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•  Edmond Malone

  Edmond Malone (October 4, 1741 – April 25, 1812) was an Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare. His first name is sometimes spelled Edmund.

  

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•  Thomas Blount

  Thomas Blount (May 10, 1759 – February 7, 1812) was an American Revolutionary War veteran and statesman from the state of North Carolina.

  

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•  Gunning Bedford, Jr.

  Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1747 – March 30, 1812) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, as a Continental Congressman from Delaware and as a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. He is often confused with his cousin, Gunning Bedford, Sr. an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Governor of Delaware.

  

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•  John Bellingham

  John Bellingham (c. 1769 – May 18, 1812) was the assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. This murder was the only successful attempt on the life of a British Prime Minister. It is believed after this the family changed its name to Bellingall as he brought shame to the family.

  

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•  James Henry Craig

  General Sir James Henry Craig KB (1748 – 12 January 1812) was a British military officer and colonial administrator.

  

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•  Jan Ladislav Dussek

  Jan Ladislav Dussek (baptized Václav Jan Dusík, his surname was written also Duschek or Düssek; February 12, 1760 in Čáslav – March 20, 1812 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century. In some of his piano writing, Dussek anticipated features of musical Romanticism. Dussek was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe.

  

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•  Mayer Amschel Rothschild

  Mayer Amschel Rothschild (23 February 1744 – 19 September 1812) was the founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty that became one of the most successful business families in history. In 2005, he was ranked 7th on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen Of All Time". The business magazine referred to him as a "founding father of international finance".

  

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