Editing 1868 (section)

=== July&ndash;December ===
[[File:Rossini c. 1850-litho-F Perrin.jpeg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gioachino Rossini]]]]
[[File:Adah Isaacs Menken, age 19, 1854-55.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Adah Isaacs Menken]]]]
[[File:King Mongkut of Siam.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mongkut]]]]
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Harada Sanosuke]], [[Shinsengumi]] Captain (b. [[1840]])
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Okita Sōji]], [[Shinsengumi]] Captain (b. [[1842]] or [[1844]])
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[William Bland]], Australian politician (b. [[1789]])
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth]], English [[Lord Chancellor|Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain]] (b. [[1791]])
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[John Elliotson]], English physician (b. [[1791]])
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Edward Welch (architect)|Edward Welch]], Welsh architect (b. [[1806]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Pedro de Ampudia]], Mexican General (b. [[1805]])
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Adah Isaacs Menken]], American actress (b. [[1835]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Thaddeus Stevens]], American politician (b. [[1792]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer]], German actress, writer and theater director (b. [[1799]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Christian Friedrich Schönbein]], German chemist (b. [[1799]])
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Ferenc Gyulay]], Hungarian nobleman, general and governor (b. [[1799]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Mzilikazi]], first king of [[Mthwakazi]] (b. c.1790)
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Maria James (poet)|Maria James]], Welsh-born American poet (b. [[1793]])
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[William Sprague (Michigan politician)|William Sprague]], American minister and politician from Michigan (b. [[1809]])
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[August Ferdinand Möbius]], German mathematician and astronomer (b. [[1790]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Franceschetti | first = Donald | title = Biographical encyclopedia of mathematicians | publisher = Marshall Cavendish | location = New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780761470717 | page=377}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Mongkut]] (Rama IV), [[King of Siam]] ([[Thailand]]) (b. [[1804]])
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Howell Cobb]], American politician (b. [[1815]])
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Laura Secord]], Canadian patriot (b. [[1775]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Charles Longley]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1794]])
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Gioachino Rossini]], Italian composer (b. [[1792]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Ledger|title=The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZJAAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA22|year=1874|publisher=Era|pages=2}}</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[James Mayer de Rothschild]], German-born banker (b. [[1792]])
* [[November 27]] &ndash; Chief [[Black Kettle]], Southern Cheyenne Peace Chief, Survivor of [[Sand Creek massacre]] (b. [[1803]])
* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[August Schleicher]], German linguist (b. [[1821]])
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Herbert Benjamin Edwardes|Sir Herbert Edwardes]], British army general and colonial administrator (b. [[1819]])
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Linus Yale, Jr.]], American inventor (b. [[1821]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Day | first = Lance | title = Biographical dictionary of the history of technology | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 9781134650194 | page=1345}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Cyrus Kingsbury]], American missionary and Choctaw linguist (b.1786)