List of people killed in duels explained

This is a list of people killed in duels by date:

14th century

• Jacques le Gris, by Jean de Carrouges in a wooden arena outside the Abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in Paris 1386^[1]

16th century

• Cadeguala, Mapuche toqui, by Alonso García de Ramón at Purén, Chile 1585^[2]
• Sir William Drury, English politician and soldier, by Sir John Borough, died from wound received in duel in France 1590^[3]
• Gabriel Spenser, Elizabethan actor, by Ben Jonson on Hoxton Fields, London 1598^[4]

17th century

• Sir John Townshend, English politician, by Sir Matthew Browne on Hounslow Heath, London 1603.^[5] Browne himself was killed on the spot by Townshend, who in turn died of his wounds the following day.
• Peter Legh, English politician, by Valentine Browne 1640^[6]
• Armand d'Athos, inspiration for the Alexandre Dumas character of the same name 1643^[7]
• Charles Price, English politician, by Capt. Robert Sandys at Presteigne 1645^[8]
• Sir Henry Bellasis (heir of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse), by Thomas Porter (dramatist) at Covent Garden, London 1667^[9]
• Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham 1668^[10]
• Walter Norborne, English politician, by an Irishman at the fountain at Middle Temple, London 1684^[11]
• Major Sharington Talbot, Member of Parliament for Chippenham, at the White Hart Inn, Glastonbury, by Captain Love, a fellow-officer of the Wiltshire Militia – 8 July 1685^[12]
• John Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton 1686^[13]
• Sir Henry Hobart, English politician, by Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, Norfolk 1698^[14]

18th century

• Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet, English politician 1701^[15]
• Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, perennial duellist and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London. The Hamilton–Mohun Duel 1712^[16]
• Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval officer, by Jakob Axel Staël von Holstein 1720^[17]
• George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy 1731^[18]
• Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, by Capt. George Reilly at Marlborough Bowling Green, Dublin 1761^[19]
• Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence by Lachlan McIntosh near Savannah, Georgia 1777^[20]
• Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet 1794^[21]

19th century

• Philip Hamilton, son of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, by George I. Eacker, in Weehawken, New Jersey 1801^[22]
• Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of North Carolina, by John Stanly 1802^[23]
• Peter Lawrence Van Allen, lawyer, by William Harris Crawford, future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, at Fort Charlotte in South Carolina 1802^[24]
• Alexander Hamilton, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, by U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, in Weehawken, New Jersey 1804^[25]
• Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, English peer and naval officer, by his friend Thomas Best near Holland House, London 1804^[26]
• Charles Dickinson, by future U.S. President Andrew Jackson 1806^[27]
• Robert Case, naval officer, by naval surgeon William Bland at Cross Island, Bombay – 1813^[28]
• Charles Lucas, legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton 1817^[29]
• Armistead Thomson Mason, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1819^[30]
• Stephen Decatur, American naval hero, by James Barron 1820^[31]
• John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine 1821^[32]
• Joshua Barton, first Missouri Secretary of State 1823^[33]
• Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician 1827^[34]
• Thomas Biddle & Spencer Darwin Pettis (both killed in the same duel) - 1831
• Évariste Galois, mathematician 1832^[35]
• Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality 1833^[36]
• Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era, by Georges d'Anthès 1837^[37]
• Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. Graves 1838^[38]
• Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era 1841^[39]
• George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana 1843^[40]
• James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom 1845
• John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor 1846^[41]
• Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento 1852^[42]
• Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary. Killed by Frenchman, Emmanuel Barthélemy in the last duel in the United Kingdom 1852
• David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California 1859^[43]
• Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general 1863^[44]
• Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist leader 1864^[45]
• Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician 1884^[46]
• Felice Cavallotti, Italian radical leader 1898^[47]

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See also

• Lists of people by cause of death
• List of famous duels