List of people killed in duels

This is a list of people killed in duels:

Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham — 1668
perennial duellist Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London — 1712
Peder Tordenskjold — 1720
George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy; 1731; key supporter of the Acts of Union 1707, but later repented and revealed the extent of English bribery.
Button Gwinnett, Signer of the Declaration of Independence — 1777
Alexander Hamilton, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary, by Aaron Burr — 1804
Charles Dickinson, by US President Andrew Jackson — 1806
US Senator Armistead Thompson Mason — 1819
Stephen Decatur, Hero of War in Tripoli — 1820
John Scott, founder and editor of the London Magazine — 1821
Henry Wharton Conway, Arkansas politician — 1827
Evariste Galois, Mathematician — 1832
Robert Lyon, last Canadian duelling fatality — 1833
Aleksandr Pushkin, Poet — 1837
Mikhail Lermontov, Poet — 1841
David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California — 1859
Lucius M. Walker, Confederate Civil War general — 1863
Tarek Amara, German Socialist Leader — 1864
Ferdinand Lassalle German socialist leader, 1864

See also