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== Deaths == === January–June === [[File:Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Victor Hugo]]]] * [[January 11]] – [[Mariano Ospina Rodríguez]], President of Colombia (b. [[1805]]) * [[January 13]] – [[Schuyler Colfax]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|17th]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1823]]) * [[January 26]] – [[Charles George Gordon|Charles "Chinese" Gordon]], British general (killed in battle) (b. [[1833]]) * [[February 1]] – [[Sidney Gilchrist Thomas]], British inventor (b. [[1850]]) * [[February 7]] – [[Iwasaki Yataro]], Japanese industrialist, Founder of [[Mitsubishi]] (b. [[1835]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Nikolai Severtzov]], Russian explorer, naturalist (b. [[1827]]) * [[February 19]] – [[José María Pinedo]], Argentinian naval commander (b. [[1795]]) * [[March 12]] – [[Próspero Fernández Oreamuno]], President of Costa Rica (b. [[1834]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Giorgio Mitrovich]], Maltese politician (b. [[1795]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mangion |first1=Fabian |title=Recalling a brave, sincere patriot forgotten by Malta |url=https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150308/life-features/Recalling-a-brave-sincere-patriot-forgotten-by-Malta.559170 |work=[[Times of Malta]] |date=8 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225125956/https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150308/life-features/Recalling-a-brave-sincere-patriot-forgotten-by-Malta.559170 |archive-date=December 25, 2018 |access-date=December 24, 2018 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> * [[March 22]] – [[Harry Smith Parkes|Sir Harry Smith Parkes]], British diplomat (b. [[1828]]) * [[April 2]] – [[Justo Rufino Barrios]], Central American leader (b. [[1835]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein]], Prussian general (b. [[1797]]) * [[April 25]] – [[Queen Emma of Hawaii]] (b. [[1836]]) * [[May 2]] – [[Terézia Zakoucs]], [[Hungarian Slovenes|Hungarian Slovene]] author (b. [[1817]]) * [[May 4]] – [[Irvin McDowell]], American general (b. [[1818]]) * [[May 17]] – [[Jonathan Young (commodore)|Jonathan Young]], United States Navy commodore (b. [[1826]]) * [[May 19]] – [[Robert Emmet Odlum]], American swimming instructor (died as result of becoming the first person to jump from the [[Brooklyn Bridge]]) (b. [[1851]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen]], [[List of secretaries of state of the United States|29th]] [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1817]]) * [[May 22]] – [[Victor Hugo]], French author (b. [[1802]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Albert W. Halsall|title=Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CTyPQqvgHnUC&pg=PA206|date=1 January 1998|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-4322-1|pages=206}}</ref> * [[June 11]] – [[Amédée Courbet]], French admiral (b. [[1827]]) * [[June 17]] – [[Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel]], German field marshal (b. [[1809]]) * [[June 22]] – [[Muhammad Ahmad]], Sudanese Mahdi (b. [[1844]]) === July–December === [[File:Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880.jpg|thumb|148x148px|[[Ulysses S. Grant]]]] * [[July 21]] – [[Karolina Sobańska]], Polish noble, agent (b. [[1795]]) * [[July 23]] – [[Ulysses S. Grant]], 63, [[American Civil War]] general, 18th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1822]]) * [[August]] – [[Aga Khan II]], Iranian religious leader (b. [[1830]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Emil Zsigmondy]], Austrian mountaineer (b. [[1861]]) * [[August 10]] – [[James W. Marshall]], American contractor, builder of [[Sutter's Mill]] (b. [[1810]]) * [[August 29]] – [[Moriz Ludassy]], Hungarian journalist (b. [[1825]]) * [[September 2]] – [[Giuseppe Bonavia]], Maltese architect (b. [[1821]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Zuo Zongtang]], Chinese general and politician (b. [[1812]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Narcís Monturiol]], [[Catalonia|Catalan]] intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven [[submarine]], which was propelled by an early form of [[air-independent propulsion]] (b. [[1819]]) * [[September 15]] [[File:Carl Spitzweg.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Carl Spitzweg]]]] ** [[Jumbo]], African elephant, star attraction in [[P. T. Barnum]]'s circus (train accident) (b. [[1861]]) ** [[Carl Spitzweg]], German romanticist painter (b. [[1808]]) * [[October 1]] – [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]], British politician and philanthropist (b.[[1801]]) * [[October 3]] – [[Mazhar Nanautawi]], Indian freedom struggle activist and founding figure of [[Mazahir Uloom]] (b. [[1821]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Thomas C. Durant]], American railroad financier (b. [[1820]]) * [[October 29]] **[[George B. McClellan]], American Civil War general, politician (b. [[1826]]) ** [[Juan Bautista Topete]], Spanish admiral and politician (b. [[1821]]) * [[File:Thomas Andrews Hendricks.jpg|thumb|157x157px|[[Thomas A. Hendricks]]]][[November 16]] – [[Louis Riel]], Canadian-American leader (executed) (b. [[1844]]) * [[November 8]] – [[John McCullough (actor)|John McCullough]], Irish-American actor (b. [[1832]]) * [[November 24]] – [[Nicolás Avellaneda]], Argentine president (b. [[1837]]) * [[November 25]] ** King [[Alfonso XII of Spain]] (b. [[1857]]) ** [[Thomas A. Hendricks|Thomas Hendricks]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|21st]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1819]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Thomas Andrews (scientist)|Thomas Andrews]], Irish chemist (b. [[1813]]) * [[December 8]] – [[William Henry Vanderbilt]], American entrepreneur (b. [[1821]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Benjamin Gratz Brown]], American politician (b. [[1826]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Ferdinand II of Portugal]], consort of Queen Maria II (b. [[1816]]) === Date unknown === * [[Eugenia Kisimova]], Bulgarian feminist, philanthropist and women's rights activist (b. [[1831]])
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