page_title: 1837
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1837 / Deaths / January–June
caption_attribution_description: English: Osgood Johnson, 5th Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
context_page_description: 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1837th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 837th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1837, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 8 – Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Great-grandfather of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1752)
  January 20 – John Soane, British architect (b. 1753)
  January 23 – John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
  February 7 – Gustav IV Adolf, ex-King of Sweden (b. 1778)
  February 10 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian author (b. 1799)
  February 13 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish author (b. 1809)
  February 19 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
  March 31 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
  April 4 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, French chemist, physicist, and inventor (b. 1757)
  April 28 – Joseph Souham, French general (b. 1760)
  May 5 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (b. 1752)
  May 9 – Osgood Johnson, 5th Principal of Phillips Academy (b. 1803)
  May 20 – Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1747)
  June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
  June 29 – Nathaniel Macon, American politician (b. 1757)
  June 20 – King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
caption: Osgood Johnson
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