when did he die?
27 June 1829.
James Smithson
Smithson died in Genoa, Italy on 27 June 1829. 
is harvard extension school the same as harvard It is the extension school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. where is the school based? Cambridge, Massachusetts. what is taught in the school? It offers liberal arts and professional courses. mention a few programs offered for degree over there? Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies (ALB) and the Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies (ALM). with whom does the school have partnership? Smithsonian Institution. what is the institute for? It is a trust instrumentality of the United States composed as a group of museums and research centers. when was it founded? August 10, 1846 who founded it? James Smithson who was he? An English chemist and mineralogist. mention a few of his works? His first paper was presented at the Royal Society on 7 July 1791, "An Account of Some Chemical Experiments on Tabasheer".
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James Smithson [SEP] Later life and death
Smithson died in Genoa, Italy on 27 June 1829. He was buried in Sampierdarena in a Protestant cemetery. In his will written in 1826, Smithson left his fortune to the son of his brother – that is, his nephew, Henry James Dickenson. Dickenson had to change his surname to Hungerford as a condition of receiving the inheritance. In the will Smithson stated that Henry James Hungerford, or Hungerford's children, would receive his inheritance, and that if his nephew did not live, and had no children to receive the fortune, it would be donated to the United States to establish an educational institution to be called the Smithsonian Institution.