List of people killed in duels
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This is a list of people killed in duels:
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham — 1668
- perennial duellist Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London — 1712
- Peder Tordenskjold — 1720
- George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy; 1731; key supporter of the Acts of Union 1707, but later repented and revealed the extent of English bribery.
- Button Gwinnett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence — 1777
- Alexander Hamilton, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary, by Aaron Burr — 1804
- Charles Dickinson, by US President Andrew Jackson — 1806
- US Senator Armistead Thompson Mason — 1819
- Stephen Decatur, Hero of War in Tripoli — 1820
- John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine — 1821
- Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician — 1827
- Thomas E. Burnside, Georgia House Representative, by George W. Crawford — 1828
- Évariste Galois, Mathematician — 1832
- Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality — 1833
- Aleksandr Pushkin, Poet — 1837
- Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. Graves — 1838
- Mikhail Lermontov, Poet — 1841
- George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana — 1843
- David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California — 1859
- Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general — 1863
- Ferdinand Lassalle German socialist leader, 1864
