List of people killed in duels
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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 ParisTemplate:Snd 1386<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
16th century
- Cadeguala, Mapuche toqui, by Alonso García de Ramón at Purén, ChileTemplate:Snd 1585<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Sir William Drury, English politician and soldier, by Sir John Borough, died from wound received in duel in FranceTemplate:Snd 1590<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Gabriel Spenser, Elizabethan actor, by Ben Jonson on Hoxton Fields, LondonTemplate:Snd 1598<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
17th century
- Sir John Townshend, English politician, by Sir Matthew Browne on Hounslow Heath, LondonTemplate:Snd 1603.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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 BrowneTemplate:Snd 1640<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Armand d'Athos, inspiration for the Alexandre Dumas character of the same nameTemplate:Snd 1643<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Charles Price, English politician, by Capt. Robert Sandys at PresteigneTemplate:Snd 1645<ref>Template:Cite DWB</ref>
- Sir Henry Bellasis (heir of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse), by Thomas Porter (dramatist) at Covent Garden, LondonTemplate:Snd 1667<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of BuckinghamTemplate:Snd 1668<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Walter Norborne, English politician, by an Irishman at the fountain at Middle Temple, LondonTemplate:Snd 1684<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- 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<ref>Drummer Adam Wheeler, Iter Bellicosum, in David G. Chandler, Sedgemoor 1685: An Account and an Anthology, London: Anthony Mott, 1985, ISBN 0-907746-43-8, pp. 130–7.</ref>
- John Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of GraftonTemplate:Snd 1686<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Sir Henry Hobart, English politician, by Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, NorfolkTemplate:Snd 1698<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
18th century
- Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet, English politicianTemplate:Snd 1701<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, perennial duellist, and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London. The Hamilton–Mohun duelTemplate:Snd 1712<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval officer, by Jakob Axel Staël von HolsteinTemplate:Snd 1720<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spyTemplate:Snd 1731<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, by Capt. George Reilly at Marlborough Bowling Green, DublinTemplate:Snd 1761<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence by Lachlan McIntosh near Savannah, Georgia. The Gwinnett–McIntosh duelTemplate:Snd 1777<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Sir Barry Denny, 2nd BaronetTemplate:Snd 1794<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
19th century
- Philip Hamilton, son of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, by George I. Eacker, in Weehawken, New JerseyTemplate:Snd 1801<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of North Carolina, by John StanlyTemplate:Snd 1802<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Peter Lawrence Van Allen, lawyer, by William Harris Crawford, future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, at Fort Charlotte in South CarolinaTemplate:Snd 1802<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Alexander Hamilton, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, by U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, in Weehawken, New JerseyTemplate:Snd 1804<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, English peer and naval officer, by his friend Thomas Best near Holland House, LondonTemplate:Snd 1804<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Charles Dickinson, by future U.S. President Andrew JacksonTemplate:Snd 1806<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Robert Case, naval officer, by naval surgeon William Bland at Cross Island, Bombay – 1813<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Charles Lucas, legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator Thomas Hart BentonTemplate:Snd 1817<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Armistead Thomson Mason, U.S. Senator from VirginiaTemplate:Snd 1819<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Stephen Decatur, American naval hero, by James BarronTemplate:Snd 1820<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- John Scott, founder and editor of the London MagazineTemplate:Snd 1821<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Joshua Barton, first Missouri Secretary of StateTemplate:Snd 1823<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politicianTemplate:Snd 1827<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Thomas Biddle & Spencer Darwin Pettis (both killed in the same duel) - 1831
- Évariste Galois, mathematicianTemplate:Snd 1832<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatalityTemplate:Snd 1833<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era, by Georges d'AnthèsTemplate:Snd 1837<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. GravesTemplate:Snd 1838<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic eraTemplate:Snd 1841<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from LouisianaTemplate:Snd 1843<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom Template:Snd 1845
- John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editorTemplate:Snd 1846<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near SacramentoTemplate:Snd 1852<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Frédéric Constant Cournet, French revolutionary. Killed by Frenchman, Emmanuel Barthélemy in the last duel in the United KingdomTemplate:Snd 1852
- David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from CaliforniaTemplate:Snd 1859<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War generalTemplate:Snd 1863<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist leaderTemplate:Snd 1864<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politicianTemplate:Snd 1884<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Felice Cavallotti, Italian radical leaderTemplate:Snd 1898<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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