- October 12
- Robert E Lee, General of the Confederate Army, dies at age 63. [1] [5]
- December 5
- Alexandre Dumas, writer (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), dies at age 68. [1]
1871
- January 21
- John J Rochussen, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1845-51), dies at age 73. [1]
- March 22
- Johnny Cuzens, cricket player (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868), dies. [1]
- March 30
- W F A A Louisa/Lovisa, Queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at age 42. [1]
- April 7
- Alexander, grandson of English Queen Victoria, dies at one day old. [1]
- Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at age 43. [1]
- April 18
- Omar Pasha [Michael Lats], Croatian Governor, dies at age 64. [1]
- May 12
- John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies at age 79. [1]
- November 22
- Oscar J Dunn (Lieutenant Governor-Louisiana), dies suddenly, possibly was poisoned. [1]
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- December 16
- Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at age 73. [1]
1872
- January 21
- Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at age 81. [1]
- February 21
- Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at age 82. [1]
- March 10
- Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane, Italy), dies at age 66. [1]
- April 2
- Death of Samuel Finley Breese Morse in New York City, New York, USA at age 80; painter, founder and president of the National Academy of Design, inventor of the telegraph. [1] [129] (April 12 [408.148])
- April 20
- Ljudwit Gaj Croatian, writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at age 62. [1]
- May 1
- Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies. [1]
- May 19
- Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at age 44. [1]
- July 18
- Benito Juárez, Mexican president, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at age 66. [1] [450.86]
- August 24
- Death of Leona Vicario in Mexico; "Sweet Mother of the Fatherland", aided the Mexican War of Independence. [446.50]
- October 10
- Death of William Henry Seward in Auburn, New York, USA; American lawyer, governor of New York (1838-42), US Senator (1849-61), Secretary of State (1861-), negotiated purchase of Alaska. [474.144]
- December 31
- Aleksis Kivi [Stenvall], Finnish writer/poet (Kanervala), dies at age 38. [1]
1873
- March 30
- Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at age 63. [1]
- May 1
- David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at age 60. [1] [5]
- May 8
- John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at age 66. [1]
- May 15
- Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at age 53. [1]
- December 6
- Manuel Acuña, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadáver), dies at age 24. [1]
- December 14
- J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist, dies. [1]
1874
- February 9
- Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at age 75. [1]
- February 17
- Lambert Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian astronomer/sociologist, dies at age 77. [1]
- March 8
- Death of Millard Fillmore at age 74 of a stroke in Buffalo, New York, USA; New York State Assembly member (1929-31), US House of Representatives member (Whig, 1833-43), New York state comptroller (1848-49), US Vice President (1849-50), 13th US President (1850-53). [709.5] [710.64]
- April 14
- Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curaçao, dies at age 86. [1]
- June 22
- Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies. [1]
- October 8
- John Michael Eckfeldt, former San Francisco Mint coiner, shoots himself in the head with a pistol and kills himself. (Cause of the suicide was never determined. In 1891 movers of the house of Eckfeldt discover a box containing an estimated $100,000-150,000 in gold ingots and granulations, which may be the missing $152,000 of gold unaccounted for at the Mint in 1857.) [684.44]
- November 9
- Israel Bak, created first hebrew printing press, dies. [1]
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