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== Deaths == === January–June === [[File:Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Heinrich Hertz]]]] [[File:Jekatyerina Mihajlovna of Russia.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia]]]] [[File:Myra Bradwell 1870.png|thumb|110px|[[Myra Bradwell]]]] [[File:Adolphe Sax.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Adolphe Sax]]]] [[File:Caillebotteautoportrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gustave Caillebotte]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[Heinrich Hertz]], German physicist (b. [[1857]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Nadezhda von Meck]], Russian patron of Peter Tchaikovsky (b. [[1831]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Robert Halpin]], Irish mariner and transoceanic cable layer (b. [[1836]]) * [[January 28]] – [[Elise Hwasser]], Swedish actress (b. [[1831]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Adolphe Sax]], Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. [[1814]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Auguste Vaillant]], French anarchist (b. [[1861]]) (executed) * [[February 6]] – [[Maria Deraismes]], French feminist (b. [[1828]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Robert Michael Ballantyne]], [[List of Scottish novelists|Scottish novelist]] (b. [[1825]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Rennie |first=Neil |contribution=Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825–1894) |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |edition=online |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/123|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1232}}</ref> * [[February 12]] – [[Hans von Bülow]], German conductor, pianist and composer (b. [[1830]]) * [[February 14]] ** [[Myra Bradwell]], American lawyer, political activist, (b. [[1831]]) ** [[Eugène Charles Catalan]], French and Belgian mathematician (b. [[1814]])<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-20397-12664-80?cc=2139860&wc=9DB1-GP8:1009438301,1009621001|title = Familysearch birth register| website=[[FamilySearch]] }}</ref> * [[February 15]] – [[May Brookyn]], American actress (b. [[1854]]/[[1859]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Gustave Caillebotte]], French painter (b. [[1848]]) * [[February 27]] ** [[Hilarión Daza]], President of Bolivia (assassinated) (b. [[1840]]) ** [[Carl Schmidt (chemist)|Carl Schmidt]], Baltic German chemist (b. [[1822]]) * [[March 2]] ** [[Jubal Early]], American Confederate general (b. [[1816]]) ** [[William H. Osborn]], American railroad executive (b. [[1820]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Ned Williamson]], American baseball player (b. [[1857]]) * [[March 14]] – [[John T. Ford]], American theater manager (b. [[1829]]) * [[March 20]] – [[Lajos Kossuth]], Hungarian politician (b. [[1802]]) * [[March 30]] – [[Jane Goodwin Austin]], American popular story writer (b. [[1831]]) * [[April 1]] – [[Remigio Morales Bermúdez]], 19th President of Peru (b. [[1836]]) * [[April 8]] – [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]], Bengali poet (b. [[1838]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia]], granddaughter of Tsar [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]] (b. [[1827]]) * [[May 19]] – [[Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer]], American biographier (b. [[1812]]) * [[June 3]] – [[Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal]], German jurist, expert on Byzantine law (b. [[1812]]) * [[June 7]] – King [[Hassan I of Morocco]] (b. [[1836]]) * [[June 8]] –[[William M. Dalton]], American Old West outlaw (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-daltonbrothers/|title=The Dalton Brothers – Lawmen & Outlaws – Legends of America|website=www.legendsofamerica.com}}</ref> * [[June 23]] ** [[Marietta Alboni]], Italian opera singer (b. [[1826]]) ** [[Władysław Czartoryski]], Polish political activist and art collector (b. [[1828]]) * [[July 24]] – [[George Peter Alexander Healy]], American portrait painter (b. [[1813]]) * [[June 25]] ** [[Marie François Sadi Carnot]], French statesman (assassinated) (b. [[1837]]) ** [[Charles Romley Alder Wright]], British chemist who synthesized heroin (b. [[1844]]) * [[June 27]] – [[Giorgio Costantino Schinas]], Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. [[1834]]) === July–December === [[File:Hermann von Helmholtz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Hermann von Helmholtz]]]] [[File:Robert Louis Stevenson Knox Series.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Robert Louis Stevenson]]]] [[File:Christina Rossetti 3.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Christina Rossetti]]]] * [[July 1]] – [[Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt]], Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. [[1819]]) * [[July 3]] – [[Paul Lecreux]], French sculptor (b. c. [[1826]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Julius von Bose]], Prussian general (b. [[1809]]) * [[July 30]] – [[Walter Pater]], English essayist, critic (b. [[1839]])<ref name="oxforddnb.com">{{Citation | contribution-url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=21525&back=&version=2004-09 | contribution = Walter Pater | title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/}}</ref> * [[August 1]] – [[Joseph Holt]], Union Army general (b. [[1807]]) * [[August 10]] – [[Cynthia Roberts Gorton]], blind American poet and author (b. [[1826]]) * [[September 1]] – [[Nathaniel P. Banks]], American politician, general (b. [[1816]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Josiah Parsons Cooke]], American scientist (b. [[1827]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Hermann von Helmholtz]], German physician, physicist (b. [[1821]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Emmanuel Chabrier]], French composer (b. [[1841]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Mary Jane Patterson]], first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree in 1862. (b. [[1840]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], American author (b. [[1809]])<ref name="oxforddnb.com"/> * [[October 9]] – [[Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey]], British politician (b. [[1802]]) * [[October 20]] – [[James Anthony Froude]], English historian (b. [[1818]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=October 4, 2022|archive-date=January 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[October 22]] – [[Gillis Bildt]], 5th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. [[1820]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Mary Brayton Woodbridge]], American temperance reformer and newspaper editor (b. [[1830]]) * [[October 30]] – [[Juan Cortina]], Mexican folk hero (b. [[1824]]) * [[November 1]] – Emperor [[Alexander III of Russia]] (b. [[1845]]) * [[November 20]] – [[Anton Rubinstein]], Russian pianist, composer (b. [[1829]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Solomon Caesar Malan]], Swiss-born orientalist (b. [[1812]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Juan N. Méndez]], interim [[List of heads of state of Mexico|President of Mexico]] from 1876 to 1877. (b. [[1820]])<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/juan-n-mendez/|title=JUAN N. MÉNDEZ|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528055920/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/juan-n-mendez/|archive-date=May 28, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[December 3]] – [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], Scottish author (b. [[1850]])<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour | volume= 25 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse| pages = 907–910 }}</ref> * [[December 8]] – [[Pafnuty Chebyshev]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1821]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Mary Bell Smith]], American educator, social reformer and writer (b. [[1818]]) * [[December 12]] – [[John Sparrow David Thompson|Sir John Thompson]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1845]]) * [[December 28]] – [[Chamarajendra Wadiyar X]], Maharajah of Mysore (b. [[1863]]) * [[December 29]] – [[Christina Rossetti]], English poet (b. [[1830]])<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Rossetti, Christina Georgina | volume= 23 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse| pages = 746–747 |short = 1}}</ref>
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