List of people killed in duels
This is a list of people killed in duels by date:
16th century
- Cadeguala, Mapuche toqui, by Alonso García de Ramón at Purén, Chile – 1585[1]
- Sir William Drury, English politician and soldier, by Sir John Borough, died from wound received in duel in France – 1590[2]
- Gabriel Spenser, Elizabethan actor, by Ben Jonson on Hoxton Fields, London – 1598[3]
17th century
- Sir John Townshend, English politician, by Sir Matthew Browne on Hounslow Heath, London – 1603[4]. 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[5]
- Armand d'Athos, inspiration for the Alexandre Dumas character of the same name – 1643[6]
- Charles Price, English politician, by Capt. Robert Sandys at Presteigne – 1645[7]
- Sir Henry Bellasis (heir of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse), by Thomas Porter (dramatist) at Covent Garden, London – 1667[8]
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham – 1668[9]
- Walter Norborne, English politician, by an Irishman at the fountain at Middle Temple, London – 1684[10]
- John Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton – 1686[11]
- Sir Henry Hobart, English politician, by Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, Norfolk – 1698[12]
18th century
- Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet, English politician – 1701[13]
- Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, perennial duellist and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London. The Hamilton–Mohun Duel – 1712[14]
- Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval officer, by Jakob Axel Staël von Holstein – 1720[15]
- George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy – 1731[16]
- Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, by Capt. George Reilly at Marlborough Bowling Green, Dublin – 1761[17]
- Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence by Lachlan McIntosh near Savannah, Georgia – 1777[18]
- Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet – 1794[19]
19th century
- Philip Hamilton, son of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, by George I. Eacker, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 1801[20]
- Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of North Carolina, by John Stanly – 1802[21]
- Peter Lawrence Van Allen, lawyer, by William Harris Crawford, future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, at Fort Charlotte in South Carolina – 1802[22]
- Alexander Hamilton, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, by U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 1804[23]
- Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, English peer and naval officer, by his friend Thomas Best near Holland House, London – 1804[24]
- Charles Dickinson, by future U.S. President Andrew Jackson – 1806[25]
- Charles Lucas, legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton – 1817[26]
- Armistead Thompson Mason, U.S. Senator from Virginia – 1819[27]
- Stephen Decatur, American naval hero, by James Barron – 1820[28]
- John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine – 1821[29]
- Joshua Barton, first Missouri Secretary of State – 1823[30]
- Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician – 1827[31]
- Évariste Galois, mathematician – 1832[32]
- Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality – 1833[33]
- Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era, by Georges d'Anthès – 1837[34]
- Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. Graves – 1838[35]
- Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era – 1841[36]
- George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana – 1843[37]
- John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor; 1846[38]
- Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852[39]
- David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California – 1859[40]
- Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general – 1863[41]
- Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist leader – 1864[42]
- Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician – 1884[43]
- Felice Cavallotti, Italian radical leader – 1898[44]
20th century
- Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer – 1909[45]
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See also
- Lists of people by cause of death
- List of famous duels
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