Editing 1873 (section)

===January&ndash;June===
[[File:Alexandre Cabanel 002.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Napoleon III]]]]
[[File:Justus von Liebig NIH.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Justus von Liebig]]]]
[[File:David Livingstone by Thomas Annan.jpg|thumb|110px|[[David Livingstone]]]]
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Napoleon III]], last [[List of French monarchs|Emperor of the French]] (b. [[1808]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton]], English novelist (b. [[1803]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Basil Moreau]], French founder of the [[Congregation of Holy Cross]] (b. [[1799]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Ramalinga Swamigal]], Hindu religious leader (b. [[1823]])
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Amélie of Leuchtenberg|Empress Amélie]], consort of [[Pedro I of Brazil]] (b. [[1812]])
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Isaac Baker Brown]], English gynaecologist, surgeon (b. [[1811]])
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Sheridan Le Fanu]], Irish writer (b. [[1814]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Melada | first = Ivan | title = Sheridan Le Fanu | publisher = Twayne Publishers | location = Boston | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780805769371 | page=12}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[Vasil Levski]], Bulgarian revolutionary (executed) (b. [[1837]])
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Jakob von Hartmann]], Bavarian general (b. [[1795]])
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[John Torrey]], American botanist (b. [[1796]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Mary Ann Cotton]], English [[serial killer]] (executed) (b. [[1832]])
* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Marstrand]], Danish painter (b. [[1810]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge|publisher=D. Appleton|year=1881|page=203}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; Prince [[Unakan Ananta Norajaya]] Prince of Siam (b. [[1856]])
* [[March 31]] 
** [[Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter]], Swedish [[Sámi people|Sámi]] educator (b. [[1835]])
** [[Hugh Maxwell]], American lawyer, politician (b. [[1787]])
* [[April 11]] 
** [[Edward Canby]], American general (b. [[1817]])
** [[Christopher Hansteen]], Norwegian geophysicist (b. [[1784]])
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Justus von Liebig]], German chemist (b. [[1803]])
* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[William Charles Macready]], English actor (b. [[1793]])
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Hortense Globensky-Prévost]], Canadian heroine (b. [[1804]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[David Livingstone]], Scottish explorer of Africa (b. [[1813]])
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Jerónimo Carrión]], 8th president of Ecuador (b. [[1804]])
* [[May 6]] &ndash; [[José Antonio Páez]], first [[president of Venezuela]] (b. [[1790]])
* [[May 7]]
** [[Salmon P. Chase]], [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. [[1808]])
** [[John Stuart Mill]], British philosopher (b. [[1806]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Bruce Mazlish |title=James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century |publisher=Transaction Books |year=1988 |page=111}}</ref>
*[[May 13]] &ndash; [[Charles Lucy]], English painter (b. [[1814]])<ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB |last=Robertson |first=David |date=September 23, 2004 |title=Lucy, Charles |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-17147 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/17147}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza]], first ruler of Romania (b. [[1820]])
* [[May 20]] &ndash; [[George-Étienne Cartier]], Canadian statesman (b. [[1814]])
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Manzoni]], Italian poet and novelist (b. [[1785]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Manzoni | first = Alessandro | title = Alessandro Manzoni's The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press | location = Baltimore | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780801878817 | page=5}}</ref>
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[Édouard de Verneuil]], French palaeontologist (b. [[1805]])
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Karamat Ali Jaunpuri]], Indian Muslim scholar (b. [[1800]])<ref name="bp">{{cite Banglapedia|article=Jaunpuri, Karamat Ali|writer=Hoque, Muhammad Inamul}}</ref>
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Joseph Howe]], Canadian politician (b. [[1804]])