page_title: 1850
section_title: October–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1850 / Deaths / October–December
caption_attribution_description: English: Sarah Biffen (October 1784 – 2 October 1850), also known as Biffin or Beffin,[1] was a Victorian English painter born with no arms. = painting from National Galleries Scotland
context_page_description: 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1850th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 850th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1850, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: October 2 – Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
  October 11 – Louise, Queen of the Belgians (b. 1812)
  October 29 – Marmaduke Williams, Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1774)
  November 2 – Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr., Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (b. 1796)
  November 3 – Thomas Ford, governor of Illinois (b. 1800)
  November 4 – Gustav Schwab, German classical scholar (b. 1792)
  November 9 – François-Xavier-Joseph Droz, French writer on ethics and political science (b. 1773)
  November 19 – Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
  November 22 – Lin Zexu, Chinese politician (b. 1785)
  November 30 – Germain Henri Hess, Swiss chemist, doctor (b. 1802)
  December 4
  Robert Gilfillan, Scottish poet (b. 1798)
  William Sturgeon, English physicist, inventor (b. 1783)
  December 10
  Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
  François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist, geologist (b. 1787)
  December 22 – William Plumer, American lawyer, lay preacher (b. 1759)
  December 24 – Frédéric Bastiat French author, economist (b. 1801)
  December 28 – Heinrich Christian Schumacher, German astronomer (b. 1780)
  December 29 – William Hamilton Maxwell, Scots-Irish novelist (b. 1792)
  December 30 – Pierre M. Lapie, French cartographer (b. 1777)
caption: Sarah Biffen
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