29–31 October – 1831 Bristol riots ("Queen Square riots") in Bristol (England), in connection with the Great Reform Act controversy: 100 city centre properties are destroyed (including the Bishop's palace), at least 120 are estimated to have been killed, 31 of the rioters will be sentenced to death and a colonel facing court-martial for failure to control the riot commits suicide.[9]
8 June – Sarah Siddons, actress (born 1755 in Wales)
17 August – Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (born 1787)
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