The Year of Death Game

1800: Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer

1801: Benedict Arnold, American Revolution hero and traitor

1802: Martha Washington

1803: Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer

1804: Alexander Hamilton, slain in a duel by Aaron Burr

1805: Spread Eagle, thoroughbred racehorse

1806: Henry Knox, US Secretary of War, namesake of Fort Knox.

1807: John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (Amazing Grace)

1808: Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer

1809: Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis & Clark

1810: Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist

1811: Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal

1812: Sacagawea

1813: Tecumseh

1814: Marquis de Sade

1815: Lady Hamilton, Nelson’s mistress

1816: Samuel Hood, admiral

1817: I want to post Jane Austen, but I figure she’s been posted before. I can’t find the list, though. The board is slow for some reason, and I keep getting script errors. If she’s been posted before, just do 1817 again.

I don’t think we’ve done 1817 before.

1818: Paul Revere

1819: James Watt