page_title: 1862
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1862 / Deaths / January–June
caption_attribution_description: English: A photographic portrait of John Tyler by Matthew Brady. An extracted image.
context_page_description: 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1862nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 862nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1862, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 10 – Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (b. 1814)
  January 18 – John Tyler, 71, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
  January 20 – Harriet Auber, English poet (b. 1773)
  February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1774)
  February 7
  Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
  Prosper Ménière, French scientist (b. 1799)
  February 20
  Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (b. 1788)
  William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln (b. 1850)
  February 21 – Justinus Kerner, German physician (b. 1786)
  February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist, poet (b. 1789)
  March 22 – Manuel Robles Pezuela, former President of Mexico (executed) (b. 1817)
  April 6 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
  April 10 – W. H. L. Wallace, American Civil War Union general (b. 1821)
  April 19 – Louis P. Harvey, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1820)
  April 30 - Jameson Adams, British Antarctic explorer (b. 1880)
  May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American author, philosopher (b. 1817)
  May 16 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English theorist of colonization (b. 1796)
  May 21 – John Drew Sr., Irish-American actor, manager (b. 1827)
  May 25 – Juana Azurduy de Padilla, South American guerrilla military leader (b. c. 1781)
  May 29 – Franciszek Mirecki, Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (b. 1791)
  June 17 – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, English Viceroy of India (b. 1812)
  June 20 – Barbu Catargiu, 1st Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1807)
caption: John Tyler
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