List of people killed in duels
# List of people killed in duels

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

## 16th century

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

## 17th century

* Sir John Townshend, English politician, by Sir Matthew Browne on Hounslow Heath, London – 1603. 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
* Armand d'Athos, inspiration for the Alexandre Dumas character of the same name – 1643
* Charles Price, English politician, by Capt. Robert Sandys at Presteigne – 1645
* Sir Henry Bellasis (heir of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse), by Thomas Porter (dramatist) at Covent Garden, London – 1667
* Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham – 1668
* Walter Norborne, English politician, by an Irishman at the fountain at Middle Temple, London – 1684
* John Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton – 1686
* Sir Henry Hobart, English politician, by Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, Norfolk – 1698

## 18th century

* Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet, English politician – 1701
* Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, perennial duellist and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London. The Hamilton–Mohun Duel – 1712
* Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval officer, by Jakob Axel Staël von Holstein – 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 by Lachlan McIntosh near Savannah, Georgia – 1777
* Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet – 1794

## 19th century

* Philip Hamilton, son of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, by George I. Eacker, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 1801
* Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of North Carolina, by John Stanly – 1802
* Peter Lawrence Van Allen, lawyer, by William Harris Crawford, future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, at Fort Charlotte in South Carolina – 1802
* Alexander Hamilton, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, by U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 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 U.S. President Andrew Jackson – 1806
* Robert Case, naval officer, by naval surgeon William Bland at Cross Island, Bombay – 1813
* Charles Lucas, legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton – 1817
* Armistead Thomson Mason, U.S. Senator from Virginia – 1819
* Stephen Decatur, American naval hero, by James Barron – 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
* 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
* James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom – 1845
* John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor – 1846
* Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852
* 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
* 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
