List of people killed in duels

Last updated March 29, 2024

14th century

Jacques le Gris, by Jean de Carrouges in a wooden arena outside the Abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in Paris – 1386^[1]

16th century

Cadeguala, Mapuche toqui, by Alonso García de Ramón at Purén, Chile – 1585^[2]
Sir William Drury, English politician and soldier, by Sir John Borough, died from wound received in duel in France – 1590^[3]
Gabriel Spenser, Elizabethan actor, by Ben Jonson on Hoxton Fields, London – 1598^[4]

17th century

Sir John Townshend, English politician, by Sir Matthew Browne on Hounslow Heath, London – 1603.^[5] 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^[6]
Armand d'Athos, inspiration for the Alexandre Dumas character of the same name – 1643^[7]
Charles Price, English politician, by Capt. Robert Sandys at Presteigne – 1645^[8]
Sir Henry Bellasis (heir of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse), by Thomas Porter (dramatist) at Covent Garden, London – 1667^[9]
Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham – 1668^[10]
Walter Norborne, English politician, by an Irishman at the fountain at Middle Temple, London – 1684^[11]
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^[12]
John Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton – 1686^[13]
Sir Henry Hobart, English politician, by Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, Norfolk – 1698^[14]

18th century

Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet, English politician – 1701^[15]
Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, perennial duellist and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London. The Hamilton–Mohun Duel – 1712^[16]
Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval officer, by Jakob Axel Staël von Holstein – 1720^[17]
George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy – 1731^[18]
Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, by Capt. George Reilly at Marlborough Bowling Green, Dublin – 1761^[19]
Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence by Lachlan McIntosh near Savannah, Georgia – 1777^[20]
Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet – 1794^[21]

19th century

Philip Hamilton, son of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, by George I. Eacker, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 1801^[22]
Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of North Carolina, by John Stanly – 1802^[23]
Peter Lawrence Van Allen, lawyer, by William Harris Crawford, future U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, at Fort Charlotte in South Carolina – 1802^[24]
Alexander Hamilton, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, by U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 1804^[25]
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, English peer and naval officer, by his friend Thomas Best near Holland House, London – 1804^[26]
Charles Dickinson, by future U.S. President Andrew Jackson – 1806^[27]
Robert Case, naval officer, by naval surgeon William Bland at Cross Island, Bombay – 1813^[28]
Charles Lucas, legislator in Missouri Territory, by U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton – 1817^[29]
Armistead Thomson Mason, U.S. Senator from Virginia – 1819^[30]
Stephen Decatur, American naval hero, by James Barron – 1820^[31]
John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine – 1821^[32]
Joshua Barton, first Missouri Secretary of State – 1823^[33]
Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician – 1827^[34]
Thomas Biddle & Spencer Darwin Pettis (both killed in the same duel) - 1831
Évariste Galois, mathematician – 1832^[35]
Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality – 1833^[36]
Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era, by Georges d'Anthès – 1837^[37]
Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Representative from Maine, by William J. Graves – 1838^[38]
Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and writer of the Romantic era – 1841^[39]
George A. Waggaman, U.S. Senator from Louisiana – 1843^[40]
James Alexander Seton, the last British person to die in a duel in the United Kingdom – 1845
John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor – 1846^[41]
Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento – 1852^[42]
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^[43]
Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general – 1863^[44]
Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist leader – 1864^[45]
Manuel Corchado y Juarbe, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician – 1884^[46]
Felice Cavallotti, Italian radical leader – 1898^[47]

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