List of people killed in duels
This is a list of people killed in duels by date:
- Sir John Townsend, English politician, by Sir Thomas Browne on Hounslow Heath, London—1603
- Peter Legh, English politician, by Valentine Browne —1640
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham — 1668
- Sir Henry Hobart, English politician, by Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, Norfolk — 1698
- Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, perennial duellist and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London — 1712
- Peder Tordenskjold — 1720
- George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy — 1731
- Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, by Capt. George Reilly at Marlborough Bowling Green, Dublin — 1761
- Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence — 1777
- Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of North Carolina, by John Stanly — 1802
- Alexander Hamilton, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, by Vice President Aaron Burr — 1804
- Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, English peer and naval officer, by his friend Thomas Best near Holland House, London — 1804
- Charles Dickinson, by future President Andrew Jackson — 1806
- Charles Lucas, legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton—1817
- Armistead Thompson Mason, U.S. Senator from Virginia — 1819
- Stephen Decatur, American naval hero — 1820
- John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine — 1821
- Joshua Barton, first Missouri Secretary of State — 1823
- Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician — 1827
- Évariste Galois, mathematician — 1832
- Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality — 1833
- Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era, by Georges d'Anthès — 1837
- Peter Simpson, English Painter— 1837
- Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. Graves — 1838
- Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era — 1841
- George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana — 1843
- Samuel Hamilton Walker, Texas Ranger and U.S. Army officer — 1847
- David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California — 1859
- Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general — 1863
- Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist leader — 1864
- Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician — 1884
- Felice Cavallotti, Italian radical leader — 1898
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