page_title: 1853
section_title: July–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1853 / Deaths / July–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Daguerreotype of poet and abolitionist Maria White (1821-1853), wife of James Russell Lowell, photographed in Philadelphia in 1845. bMS Am 1054-1054.5, Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1853rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 853rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1853, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July 27 – Tokugawa Ieyoshi, 12th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1793)
  August 9 – Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Polish philosopher (b. 1776)
  August 19 – George Cockburn, British naval commander (b. 1772)
  August 21 - Maria Quitéria, Brazilian national heroine (b. 1792)
  August 23 – Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
  August 29 – Charles James Napier, British army general and colonial administrator (b. 1782)
  September 3 – Augustin Saint-Hilaire, French botanist, traveller (b. 1799)
  September 6 – George Bradshaw, English timetable publisher (b. 1800)
  October 2 – François Arago, French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (b. 1786)
  October 3 – George Onslow, French composer (b. 1784)
  October 5 – Mahlon Dickerson, American judge, politician (b. 1770)
  October 13 – Jan Cock Blomhoff, Dutch director of Dejima, Japan (b. 1779)
  October 22 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan military, political figure (b. 1784))
  October 27 – Maria White Lowell, American abolitionist (b. 1821)
  November 15 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
  December 15 – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist, philologist (b. 1775)
  December 23 – Juliette Bussière Laforest-Courtois, Haitian journalist (b. 1789)
caption: Maria White Lowell
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