page_title: 1854
section_title: July–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1854 / Deaths / July–December
caption_attribution_description: Painted while Earl was in the NY City Jail. Portrait of the wife of Alexander Hamilton, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Founding Father.
context_page_description: 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1854th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 854th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1850s decade. As of the start of 1854, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July 6 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
  July 16 – Abbas I, Pasha of Egypt (b. 1813)
  July 31 – Samuel Wilson, American thought to be the real-life basis for Uncle Sam (b. 1766)
  August – Conquering Bear, Lakota chief (b. c. 1800)
  August 2 – Heinrich Clauren (b. 1771)
  August 3 – Qi Shan (b. 1786)
  August 9 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (b. 1797)
  August 14 – Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
  August 20 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling,  German philosopher (b. 1775)
  August 21 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer, politician (b. 1777)
  September 8 – Angelo Mai, Italian cardinal, philologist (b. 1782)
  September 12 – Jarvis W. Pike, former Mayor of Columbus, Ohio (b. 1795)
  September 29 – Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, French general, Marshal of France, Minister of War (d. 1798)
  October 1 - Martín Perfecto de Cos, General of the Mexican Army (b. 1800)
  October 26 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen consort of Bavaria (b. 1792)
  November 2 – George Mogridge (Old Humphrey), British writer, poet (b. 1787)
  November 3 – Maxim Gauci, Maltese lithographer (b. 1774)
  November 9 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, philanthropist, wife of Alexander Hamilton (b. 1757)
  November 25 – John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish writer (b. 1794)
  December 9 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (b. 1799)
  December 11 – Matija Nenadović, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1777)
  December 15 – Kamehameha III, King of Hawaii (b. c. 1814)
caption: Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
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