- December 12
- Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at age 83. [1]
- December 15
- Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at age 76. [1]
- December 22
- George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday. [1]
1881
- February 2
- Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at age 59. [1]
- February 6
- Pieter Mijer, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1866-72), dies at age 68. [1]
- February 9
- Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at age 59. [1]
- February 27
- George Colley, British governor of Natal/General, dies in battle at age 46. [1]
- March 13
- Sophia Perovskaya detonates a bomb, killing Tsar Aleksandr II of Russia, at age 62. [1] [1265.110]
- March 15
- Emory Upton, Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at age 42. [1]
- March 16
- Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at age 42. [1]
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- March 24
- Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at age 69. [1]
- April 7
- Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican Member of Parliament, dies at age 65. [1]
- April 11
- Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at age 40. [1]
- April 19
- Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies. [1]
- April 27
- Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian General, dies at age 76. [1]
- April 28
- Robert W Ollinger, US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies. [1]
- May 3
- Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies. [1]
- May 10
- Death of American bank note engraver Joseph Ourdan. [408.32]
- May 11
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at age 59. [1]
- June 3
- Japanese giant salamander dies in Dutch zoo at age 55; oldest amphibian. [1]
- July 15
- Sherriff Patrick F. Garrett of Lincoln County, New Mexico, shoots to death outlaw William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid" at the home of Peter Maxwell. [1] [645.46]
- September 19
- Death of James Garfield in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA from a gunshot wound two months previous; 20th President of the USA. [718.50] [1265.109] [1566.66]
- October 26
- In Tombstone, Arizona, USA, the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a shootout at the OK Corral. The Earp brothers consist of bank security guard Wyatt, town marshal Virgil, and Morgan. The Clantons (Ike, Billy) and McLaurys (Tom, Frank) and Billy Claiborne are cowboys, cattle rustlers, thieves, and murderers. The 30-second shootout ends with Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers dead, and Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday wounded. (The three are arrested by the county sheriff and charged with murder, but found not guilty a month later.) [1] [187.265] [129]
- November 29
- Death of Tracy Robinson Edson in New York City, New York USA; engraver of bank notes, president of American Bank Note Company 1960-63, owned patent to green ink of greenbacks. [958.830]
- December 7
- Julius FA Bahnsen, German philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at age 51. [1]
- December 13
- August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at age 43. [1]
- December 17
- Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-Indians), dies at age 62. [1]
1882
- January 3
- William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at age 76. [1]
- February 13
- Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia, Liberia at age 66. [1]
- March 18
- Morgan Earp, brother of Wyatt Earp, is shot and killed while playing billiards in Tombstone, Arizona. [1]
- March 24
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at age 75. [1]
- April 3
- Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at age 34, in Saint Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford. [1] [5]
- April 9
- Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist (Mélanges), dies at age 66. [1]
- April 19
- Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist (On the Origin of Species), dies at age 73 in England. [1]
- April 25
- Johann CF Zöllner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies. [1]
- April 27
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies. [1]
- May 6
- Lord Frederick Cavendish is assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin, Ireland. [1]
- Thomas Henry Burke is assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin, Ireland. [1]
- June 2
- Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at age 74. [1]
- June 30
- Death of Charles Guiteau by hanging, for the assassination of President James Garfield. [718.54]
- July 16
- Death of Mary Todd Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, USA; spouse of President Abraham Lincoln. [419.58] [547.66]
- August 1
- Henry Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at age 43. [1]
- December 31
- Léon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at age 44. [1]
1883
- January 24
- Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at age 70. [1]
- February 13
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner, German composer (Die Walküre), dies in Venice at age 69. [1]
- March 4
- Alexander H Stephens, Vice President of Confederate States of America, dies at age 71. [1]
- March 12
- Murrumgunarriman [Twopenny], cricket player (Aboriginal team 1868), dies. [1]
- March 14
- Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at age 64. [1] [5]
- April 4
- Death of Peter Cooper, US presidential candidate for Greenback Party in 1876. [397.52]
- May 17
- Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies. [1]
- May 23
- Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies. [1]
- May 26
- Abd el-Kader, Algerian sultan/religious ruler, dies at about age 74. [1]
- May 29
- Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at age 73. [1]
- WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies. [1]
- July 27
- Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at age 70. [1]
- August 12
- The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam. [5]
- November 26
- Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies. [1]
1884
- January 6
- Death of Gregor Mendel in Brunn, Austria-Hungary at age 61; Augustinian monk, pioneer of the science of genetics. [1] [37]
- February 23
- Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attraction, dies at age 23. [1]
- March 31
- Jan T Beelen, Netherlands/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at age 77. [1]
- April 5
- John Wisden, publisher/cricket player (prominent Sussex player), dies. [1]
- April 7
- Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at age 80. [1]
- May 7
- Judah P Benjamin, Confederate States of America minister of War, dies at age 72. [1]
- May 12
- Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, composer (Two Widows), dies at age 60. [1]
- September 4
- Death of Charles Folger; US Treasury Secretary. [545.36]
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