List of people killed in duels
This is a list of people killed in duels by date:
- 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
- Sir John Townsend, English politician, by Sir Thomas Browne on Hounslow Heath, London —1603
- 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
- Charles Mohun, 3rd Baron Mohun of Okehampton, acting as second to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire — 1677
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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
- John Hampden Pleasants, American newspaper editor; 1846
- Edward Gilbert, U.S. newspaper editor, by James W. Denver near Sacramento — 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
- Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer — 1909