* February 26 – C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter ( b. 1842 )

* August 26 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher ( b. 1842 )

* September 26 – William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand ( d. 1842 )

Alfred Marshall ( 26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924 ) was one of the most influential economists of his time.

Marshall was born in Clapham, England, July 26, 1842.

Some population figures: 1647: 54, 1649: 26, 1662: 61, 1665: 30, 1675: 150, 1690: 40, 1738: 70-84, ( Bering expeditions ) 1775: 529, 1809: 921 1821: 1500-1600, ( port moved ) 1842: 800, 1855: 207, 1865: 100.

Grace Darling died of tuberculosis in 1842, aged 26.

The Missouri General Assembly had voted to establish an asylum for the insane in Fulton ( February 26, 1847 ), the first mental health facility west of the Mississippi ; the General Assembly agreed ( February 28, 1851 ) to establish a school for the education of the deaf in Fulton ; in 1842 the Presbyterian Church had opened a female seminary later known as Synodical College ; in the fall of 1851 the Presbyterian Church established the all-male Fulton College, now known as Westminster College ; and Fulton was the seat of county government.

According to the Sharpsburg town web site, http :// www. city-data. com / city / Sharpsburg-Pennsylvania. html, incorporation was March 26, 1842.

* April 26 – Josef Labor, pianist, organist and composer ( b. 1842 )

* August 26 – Eugen Gura, opera singer ( born 1842 )

Captain William Hobson RN ( 26 September 1792 – 10 September 1842 ) was the first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Paul Lafargue ( January 15, 1842 – November 26, 1911 ) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist ; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura.

During border skirmishes with Texas in the early 1840s, Ampudia commanded the 350 man garrison of Ciudad Mier which was attacked on December 26, 1842 by Texan militia.

* Maria Antoinetta Paine, b. Dec. 2, 1782 ; d. March 26, 1842 ; m. Deacon Samuel Greele.

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambronne, later Pierre, Viscount Cambronne ( 26 December 1770 – 29 January 1842 ), was a General of the French Empire.

François Edouard Joachim Coppée ( 26 January 1842 – 23 May 1908 ) was a French poet and novelist.

During 1842, the City Police moved its headquarters from Corporation's Guildhall to 26 Old Jewry, where it remained until it was relocated to Wood Street in 2002.

The earliest, on the South Eastern Railway ( SER ) route from Redhill to Tonbridge, was opened on 26 May 1842.

Josef Labor ( 29 June 1842 – 26 April 1924 ) was a Czech pianist, organist, and composer of late Romantic music.

Robert Smith ( November 3, 1757 – November 26, 1842 ) was the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811.

Robert Smith died in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 26, 1842.

On March 12, 1832, he married Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard ( May 27, 1809June 14, 1842 ), daughter of Francis Blanchard ( baptised February 1, 1784 – age estimated 29 at death, June 26, 1813 ) and wife ( m. August 29, 1808 ) Mary Ann Cabot ( baptised May 9, 1784July 25, 1809 ), with whom he had three children.

* Emma Livry ( 1842 – 26 ) French ballerina

Nicolas Camille Flammarion ( 26 February 1842 — 3 June 1925 ) was a French astronomer and author.

Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

About 1, 400 Mexican troops, led by the French mercenary general Adrián Woll, launched a second attack and captured San Antonio on September 11, 1842.

In September 1842 he lost the forefinger of his left hand in an accident while reloading a gun ; thereafter he wore a glove or finger sheath ( stall ).

* September 7 – Sidney Lanier, American writer ( b. 1842 )

* September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet ( b. 1842 )

* September 11 – Antero de Quental, Portuguese poet ( b. 1842 )

* September 8 – Clemens Brentano, German poet ( d. 1842 )

* September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer ( d. 1842 )

* September 30 – Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician ( d. 1842 )

On September 11, 1842, Woll's troops occupied San Antonio.

Hobson died in September 1842.

Charles Lapworth ( 20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920 ) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.

The pantomime under " review " was a fabrication ( though it inspired a hack to turn it into an actual pantomime, The Ol ’ Clo's Man, in which Deburau probably appeared < ref > Gautier's " review " appeared in the Revue de Paris on September 4, 1842, but the manuscript of The Ol ’ Clo's Man that was submitted for approval to the censor's office before production of the pantomime bears the date October 17, 1842.

In 1842, Berlioz embarked on a concert tour of Brussels, Belgium from September to October.

Sir James Dewar FRS ( 20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923 ) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.

After being checked by the Sikh forces, the Chinese and the Sikhs signed a treaty in September 1842, which stipulated no transgressions or interference in the other country's frontiers.

The figurehead of the ship the ' Caledonia ', which foundered in September 1842, marks the grave in Morwenstow churchyard of five of the nine-man crew.

Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano ( September 9, 1778 – July 28, 1842 ) was a German poet and novelist.

On September 11, 1842, the region of Soconusco joined Mexico as part of the department of Chiapas.

The original standard of was approved on September 12, 1842 with re-standardisation to 1520 mm taking place during the 1960s.

Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars | Dupetit Thouars taking over Tahiti on September 9, 1842.

Sidney Lanier ( February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881 ) was an American musician and poet.

He was granted the title of Rajah of Sarawak on 24 September 1841, partly attributed to his relationship with a daughter of the Sultan, although the official declaration was not made until 18 August 1842.