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Year '''1880''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCLXXX]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the 12-day slower [[Julian calendar]]). |
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|Ship caption=HMS ''Black Prince'', post-war May 1946, Just before transferring to the [[Royal New Zealand Navy]] - note post war paint. |
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==Events of 1880== |
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* [[February 2]] - The first electric [[streetlight]] is installed in [[Wabash, Indiana]]. |
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* [[March 31]] - [[Wabash, Indiana]] becomes the first electrically lit city in the world. |
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|Ship name=HMS ''Black Prince'' |
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|Ship namesake=[[Edward, the Black Prince]] |
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|Ship builder=[[Harland & Wolff]] ([[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]) |
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|Ship laid down=1 December 1939 |
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|Ship launched=27 August 1942 |
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|Ship commissioned=30 November 1943 |
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|Ship out of service=Loaned to the [[Royal New Zealand Navy]], 25 May 1946 |
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|Ship fate=Sold for scrapping in March 1962, arrived at [[Mitsui|Mitsui & Company]], [[Osaka]] breakage yards, [[Japan]], on 2 May 1962 for breaking up. |
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|Ship displacement=5,950 tons '''standard'''<br>7,200 tons '''full load''' |
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|Ship length={{convert|485|ft|m|abbr=on}} pp<br>512 oa (156 m) |
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|Ship propulsion=[[Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company|Parsons]] geared turbines<br>Four shafts<br>Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers<br>62,000 shp (46 MW) |
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|Ship speed={{convert|32.25|kn|km/h|0}} |
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|Ship range=2,414 km (1,500 miles) at 30 knots<br>6,824 km (4,240 miles) at 16 knots<br>1,100 tons fuel oil |
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'''Original configuration''': |
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<br>'''8''' x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual guns, |
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<br>'''6''' x 20 mm dual AA guns, |
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<br>'''3''' x 2 pdr (37 mm/40 mm) pom-poms quad guns, |
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<br>'''2''' x 21 in (533 mm) triple Torpedo Tubes. |
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'''Early 1945 - Mid 1946 configuration''': |
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* [[April 18]] - [[William Ewart Gladstone]] defeats [[Benjamin Disraeli]] in the [[United Kingdom general election, 1880|United Kingdom general election]] to become [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] for the second time.[http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/PrimeMinisters.htm] |
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<br>6 × 21 in (533 mm) Torpedo Tubes (2 × 3) |
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* [[May 13]] - In [[Menlo Park, New Jersey]], [[Thomas Edison]] performs the first test of his [[electric railway]]. |
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* [[June 29]] - [[France]] annexes [[Tahiti]]. |
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* [[July 22]] - [[Abdur Rahman Khan]] becomes [[Emir of Afghanistan]]. |
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'''Original configuration''': |
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<br>Belt: '''3''' inch, |
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<br>Deck: '''1''' inch, |
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<br>Magazines: '''2''' inch, |
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<br>Bulkheads: '''1''' inch. |
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|Ship notes=[[Pennant number]] 81 |
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{{otherships|HMS Black Prince}} |
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===October - December=== |
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'''HMS ''Black Prince''''' was a [[Dido class cruiser|''Dido''-class]] [[light cruiser]] of the [[Royal Navy]], of the ''Bellona'' subgroup. She was a modified ''Dido'' design, sometimes called ''Dido'' Group 2, with only 4 5.25 inch mounts instead of 5, and improved [[anti-aircraft]] armament. She was built by [[Harland & Wolff]] of [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], with her keel being laid down on 1 December 1939<ref name="janes">''Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II'', London: [[Random House|The Random House Group Ltd]]. ISBN 1-851-70494-9</ref><ref name="uboat">[http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4022.html HMS Black Prince at Uboat.net]</ref>. She was launched on 27 August 1942<ref name="janes" /><ref name="uboat" />, and commissioned on 30 November 1943<ref name="uboat" />. |
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* [[October]] - The "[[Blizzard]] of 1880" begins in [[North America]]. |
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* [[October 6]] - The [[University of Southern California]] opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty. |
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* [[October 15]] - [[Mexico|Mexican]] soldiers kill [[Victorio]], one of the greatest [[Apache Tribe|Apache]] military strategists. |
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* [[October 28]] - The first stone is laid for the [[Clarkson Memorial]] in [[Wisbech]]. |
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* [[November]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1880]]: [[James Garfield]] defeats [[Winfield S. Hancock]]. |
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* [[November 4]] - The first [[cash register]] is patented by [[James Ritty|James]] and John Ritty of [[Dayton, Ohio]]. |
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* [[November 11]] - [[Australian]] bushranger and bank robber [[Ned Kelly]] is hanged in [[Melbourne]]. |
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* [[November 22]] - [[Vaudeville]] actress [[Lillian Russell]] makes her debut at [[Tony Pastor]]'s Theatre in [[New York City]]. |
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* [[December 20]] - [[First Boer War]]: The [[Action at Bronkhorstspruit]] results in a Boer victory over the British. |
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* [[December 30]] - The [[Transvaal]] becomes a republic and [[Paul Kruger]] becomes its first president. |
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===Undated=== |
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''Black Prince'' was named after [[Edward, the Black Prince|Prince Edward]] (1330-1376), the eldest son of [[King Edward III]]. |
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* [[Piezoelectricity]] is discovered by [[Pierre Curie]] and [[Jacques Curie]]. |
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* [[Cologne Cathedral]] is completed. |
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* The journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' is founded by [[Thomas Edison]]. |
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* [[Cocaine]] is isolated. |
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* The [[Capuchin catacombs of Palermo]] are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards). |
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* The [[Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction]] of the [[Women's Christian Temperance Union]] is established. |
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* 4 million [[Jews]] of Europe's 7 million live in the [[Russian Empire]]. |
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* [[Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza]] signs a treaty of protection with the chief on the large [[Teke]] tribe and begins to establish a French [[protectorate]] on the north bank of the [[Congo River]]. |
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* More than 100,000 Chinese men and 3,000 Chinese women are living in the western [[USA]]. |
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==Ongoing== |
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After commissioning, ''Black Prince'' served on [[Arctic convoys]] and then came south in preparation for the invasion of [[Europe]], being employed on offensive sweeps against German coastal [[convoy]] traffic. On the night of 25 April to 26 April 1944, accompanied by [[destroyer]]s, she was involved in the action which sank the torpedo boat [[German destroyer T29|''T29'']] and damaged [[German destroyer T24|''T24'']] and [[German destroyer T27|''T27'']] off the north [[Brittany]] coast. |
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* [[Aceh War]] (1873-1904) |
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* [[War of the Pacific]] (1879-1884) |
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==Births== |
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During the [[Normandy landings]] she was part of Force "A" of [[Task Force 125]] in support of [[Utah Beach]]. Task Force 125 at this time consisted of the battleship [[USS Nevada (BB-36)|USS ''Nevada'']], the [[cruiser|cruisers]] [[USS Quincy (CA-71)|USS ''Quincy'']], [[USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37)|USS ''Tuscaloosa'']], and ''Black Prince'', the [[Monitor (warship)|monitor]] [[HMS Erebus (I02)|HMS ''Erebus'']], and several destroyers and destroyer escorts<ref>{{nl icon}} [http://www.go2war2.nl/artikel/1091/Overlord-Assault-Force-U-Utah.htm Go2War2.nl - Overlord, Assault Force U (Utah)]</ref>. Her target was the battery of [[Morsalines]]<ref>Buffetaut Y. (1994). ''D-Day Ships'', London: [[Conway Maritime Press]]. ISBN 0-85177-639-6</ref><ref>[http://www.jeroenkoppes.com/ww2/ships/hms_blackprince.asp HMS Black Prince]</ref>. In August 1944 she moved to the [[Mediterranean Theatre of World War II|Mediterranean]] for the [[Operation Dragoon|invasion of Southern France]]<ref name="nh.net">[http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-06CL-BlackPrince.htm Naval-History.net - HMS Black Prince]</ref>. She was then sent to the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] waters in September 1944. On 8 September 1944 ''Black Prince'' arrived at [[Alexandria, Egypt]], where she was ordered sweep the area around [[Scarpanto]] and the [[Gulf of Salonica]]. On one occasion she bombarded the [[airfield]] at [[Maleme]] on the island of [[Crete]] to prevent [[Germany|German]] [[aircraft]] from taking off. |
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{{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 13}} |
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===January - June=== |
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On 21 November 1944 ''Black Prince'' left [[Alexandria]], passed through the [[Suez Canal]] into the [[Red Sea]], and then on into the [[Indian Ocean]]. She arrived at [[Colombo]] in [[Ceylon]] on 30 November to join the [[British Pacific Fleet|East Indies Fleet]], where she covered the [[aircraft carrier]] raids against [[Japan]]ese oil installations and airfields in [[Sumatra]] and [[British Malaya|Malaya]] ([[Operation Meridian]]). |
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* [[January 6]] - [[Tom Mix]], American actor (d. [[1940]]) |
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* [[January 11]] - [[Rudolph Palm]], Curaçao born composer (d. [[1950]]) |
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* [[January 17]] - [[Mack Sennett]], Canadian director and producer (d. [[1960]]) |
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* [[January 26]] - [[Douglas MacArthur]], American general (d. [[1964]]) |
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* [[January 28]] - [[Herbert Strudwick]], English cricketer (d. [[1970]]) |
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* [[January 29]] - [[W.C. Fields]], American actor (d. [[1946]]) |
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* [[February 5]] - [[Gabriel Voisin]], French aviation pioneer (d. [[1973]]) |
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* [[February 8]] - [[Franz Marc]], German artist (d. [[1916]]) |
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* [[February 12]] |
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** [[George Preca]], 1st Maltese saint (d. [[1962]]) |
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** [[John L. Lewis]], American labor union leader (d. [[1969]]) |
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* [[February 16]] - [[Frank Burke (baseball)|Frank Burke]], American baseball player (d. [[1946]]) |
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* [[February 21]] - [[Waldemar Bonsels]], German writer (d. [[1952]]) |
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* [[February 22]] - [[Frigyes Riesz]], Hungarian mathematician (d. [[1956]]) |
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* [[March 1]] - [[Giles Lytton Strachey]], British writer and biographer (d. [[1932]]) |
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* [[March 4]] - [[Channing Pollock (writer)]], American playwright and critic (d. [[1946]]) |
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* [[March 10]] - [[Bronco Billy Anderson]], American actor (d. [[1971]]) |
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* [[March 11]] - [[Harry H. Laughlin]], [[United States|American]] [[Eugenics|eugenicist]] (d. [[1943]]) |
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* [[March 22]] - [[Kuniaki Koiso]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1950]]) |
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* [[March 23]] - [[Heikki Ritavuori]], Finnish Minister of the Interior (d. [[1922]]) |
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* [[March 30]] - [[Sean O'Casey]], Irish writer (d. [[1964]]) |
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* [[April 13]] - [[Charles Christie]], Canadian-born film studio owner (d. [[1955]]) |
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* [[April 15]] - [[Max Wertheimer]], father of Gestalt Theory (d. [[1943]]) |
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* [[April 18]] - [[Sam Crawford]], [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r (d. [[1968]]) |
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* [[May 6]] - [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]], German painter (d. [[1938]]) |
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* [[May 14]] - [[B.C. Forbes]], Scottish-born financial publisher (d. [[1954]]) |
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* [[May 21]] - [[Tudor Arghezi]], Romanian writer (d. [[1967]]) |
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* [[May 25]] |
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** [[Jean Alexandre Barré]], French neurologist (d. [[1967]]) |
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** [[Alf Common]], English footballer (d. [[1946]]) |
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* [[May 29]] - [[Oswald Spengler]], German philosopher (d. [[1936]]) |
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* [[June 3]] - [[Didier Bonvitesse]], Belgian painter and sculptor (d. [[1945]]) |
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* [[June 6]] - [[W. T. Cosgrave]], Irish politician (d. [[1965]]) |
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* [[June 17]] - [[Carl Van Vechten]], American writer and photographer (d. [[1964]]) |
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* [[June 21]] - [[Josiah Stamp]], 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist and economist (d. [[1941]]) |
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* [[June 27]] - [[Helen Keller]], American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. [[1968]]) |
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===July - December=== <!-- BIRTHS --> |
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On 16 January 1945 she sailed as part of the [[British Pacific Fleet]], seeing action off [[Okinawa]] and in the final bombardments of the Japanese mainland before withdrawing to reoccupy [[Hong Kong]] in September 1945. |
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* [[July 5]] - [[Jan Kubelík]], Czech violinist (d. [[1940]]) |
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* [[July 12]] - [[Tod Browning]], American motion picture director, horror film pioneer (d. [[1962]]) |
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* [[July 21]] - [[Milan Rastislav Štefánik]], Slovak General, politician, and astronomer (d. [[1919]]). |
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* [[July 24]] |
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** [[Ernest Bloch]], Swiss-born composer (d. [[1959]]) |
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** [[Kristian Hellström]], Swedish athlete (d. [[1946]]) |
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* [[August 6]] - [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]], Austrian actor (d. [[1964]]) |
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* [[August 8]] - [[Earle Page]], eleventh [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1961]]) |
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* [[August 10]] - [[Robert L. Thornton]], American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. [[1964]]) |
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* [[August 22]] - [[George Herriman]], American cartoonist (d. [[1944]]) |
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* [[August 23]] - [[Wyndham Standing]], British actor of stage & film (d. [[1963]]) |
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* [[August 26]] - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (d. [[1918]]) |
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* [[August 29]] - [[Marie-Louise Meilleur]], verified as longest-lived Canadian ever (d. [[1998]]) |
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* [[August 30]] - [[Nikolai Astrup]], Norwegian painter (d. [[1928]]) |
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* [[August 31]] - Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]] (d. [[1962]]) |
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* [[September 12]] - [[H. L. Mencken]], American journalist (d. [[1956]]) |
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* [[September 14]] |
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** [[Benjamin (Fedchenkov)|Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov)]], [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox]] [[missionary]] and writer, [[Exarch]] of [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Church]] in North America (d. [[1961]]) |
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** [[Archie Hahn]], American athlete (d. [[1955]]) |
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* [[September 16]] - [[Alfred Noyes]], English poet (d. [[1958]]) |
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* [[September 22]] - [[Christabel Pankhurst]], English suffragette (d. [[1958]]) |
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* [[September 23]] - [[John Boyd Orr]], Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1971]]) |
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* [[September 24]] - [[Sarah Knauss]], verified as longest-lived American ever (d. [[1999]]) |
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* [[October 23]] - [[Una O'Connor]], Irish actress (d. [[1959]]) |
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* [[November 1]] |
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** [[Grantland Rice]], American sportswriter (d. [[1954]]) |
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** [[Alfred Wegener]], German scientist and meteorolog$2 (d. [[1930]]) |
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* [[November 2]] - [[John Foulds]], British classical music composer (d. [[1939]]) |
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* [[November 5]] - [[Richard Oswald]], Austrian film director (d. [[1963]]) |
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* [[November 6]] - [[Robert Musil]], Austrian novelist (d. [[1942]]) |
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* [[November 10]] - [[Jacob Epstein]], American-born sculptor (d. [[1959]]) |
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* [[November 25]] - [[Elsie J. Oxenham]], British children's novelist (d. [[1960]]) |
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* [[December 1]] - [[Joseph Trumpeldor]], Russian Zionist (d. [[1920]]) |
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* [[December 4]] - [[Garfield Wood]], American motorboat racer (d. [[1971]]) |
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* [[December 10]] - [[Jessie Aspinall]], Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]] (d. [[1953]]) |
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* [[December 11]] - [[Frank Tarrant]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1951]]) |
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* [[December 24]] - [[Johnny Gruelle]], American cartoonist and children's book author (d. [[1938]]) |
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* [[December 31]] - [[George Marshall]], [[United States Secretary of State]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1959]]) |
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*''date unknown'' |
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** [[William J. Simmons]], founder of the second [[Ku Klux Klan]] (d. [[1945]]) |
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** [[Reginald Farrer]], English botanist (d. [[1920]]) |
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**[[Li Shutong]], Chinese artist and art teacher (d. [[1942]]) |
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==Deaths== |
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After the Japanese surrender she remained in the [[Far East]] and was transferred to the [[Royal New Zealand Navy]] on 25 May 1946. She reverted to [[Royal Navy]] control, still in an un-modernised condition, on 1 April 1961. |
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** <!--January 4-->[[Anselm Feuerbach]], German painter (b. [[1829]]) |
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** <!--January 4-->[[Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet]], French statesman (b. [[1801]]) |
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* [[January 8]] - [[Joshua A. Norton]], self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. [[1811]]) |
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* [[January 14]] - [[Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] (b. [[1829]]) |
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* [[January 12]] - [[Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn]], author (b. [[1805]]) |
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* [[January 20]] - [[Captain Moonlite]], Australian bushranger (b. [[1842]]) (hanged) |
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* [[January 31]] - [[Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac]], French politician (b. [[1806]]) |
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* [[April 23]] - [[Raden Saleh]], Indonesian painter (b. [[1807]]) |
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* [[March 14]] - [[Pagan Min]], King of Ava (b. [[1811]]) |
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* [[March 31]] - [[Henryk Wieniawski]], Polish composer (b. [[1835]]) |
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* [[May 4]] - [[Edward Clark (governor)|Edward Clark]], Confederate Governor of Texas (b. [[1815]]) |
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* [[May 8]] - [[Gustave Flaubert]], French novelist (b. [[1821]]) |
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* [[May 20]] - [[Károly Alexy]], Hungarian sculptor (b. [[1816]]) |
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* [[June 8]] - [[Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)]], Empress Consort of [[Czar]] [[Alexander II of Russia]] (b. [[1824]]) |
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* [[June 28]] - [[Texas Jack Omohundro]], American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. [[1846]]) |
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===July - December=== <!-- DEATHS --> |
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She was sold for scrapping in March 1962; she was towed from [[Auckland]] on 5 April 1962 to the [[Mitsui|Mitsui & Company]], [[Osaka breakage yards]], [[Japan]], by the [[Japanese tug Benten Maru|Japanese tug ''Benten Maru'']], arriving there on 2 May 1962 for breaking up<ref name="uboat" />. |
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* [[July 7]] - [[Lydia Maria Child]], American novelist and abolitionist (b. [[1802]]) |
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* [[July 17]] - [[Tomasz Chołodecki]], Polish political activist (b. [[1813]]) |
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* [[July 21]] - [[Hiram Walden]], American politician (b. [[1800]]) |
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* [[August 15]] - [[Adelaide Neilson]], English actress (b. [[1848]]) |
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* [[August 17]] - [[Ole Bull]], Norwegian violinist (b. [[1810]]) |
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* [[August 24]] - [[Chief Ouray]], Native American leader (b. c. [[1833]]) |
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* [[October]] - [[Victorio]], Apache chief |
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* [[October 4]] - [[Jacques Offenbach]], German-born composer (b. [[1819]]) |
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* [[November 11]] - [[Ned Kelly]], Australian bush ranger (hanged) (b. c. [[1855]]) |
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* [[November 28]] - [[Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos]], ([[Portuguese people|Portuguese]]) [[Archbishop]] of [[Goa]] (b. [[1837]]) |
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* [[December 22]] - [[George Eliot]], English writer (b. [[1819]]) |
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==Notes== |
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==References== |
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*{{Colledge}} |
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*[http://www.world-war.co.uk/index.php3 WWII cruisers] |
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*[http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4022.html HMS Black Prince at Uboat.net] |
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Revision as of 06:32, 13 October 2008
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Template:C19YearInTopicX Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1880
January - March
- February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
- March 31 - Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lit city in the world.
April - July
- April 18 - William Ewart Gladstone defeats Benjamin Disraeli in the United Kingdom general election to become Prime Minister for the second time.[1]
- May 13 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
- June 29 - France annexes Tahiti.
- July 22 - Abdur Rahman Khan becomes Emir of Afghanistan.
October - December
- October - The "Blizzard of 1880" begins in North America.
- October 6 - The University of Southern California opens its doors to 53 students and 10 faculty.
- October 15 - Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
- October 28 - The first stone is laid for the Clarkson Memorial in Wisbech.
- November - U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.
- November 4 - The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
- November 11 - Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
- November 22 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
- December 20 - First Boer War: The Action at Bronkhorstspruit results in a Boer victory over the British.
- December 30 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.
Undated
- Piezoelectricity is discovered by Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
- Cologne Cathedral is completed.
- The journal Science is founded by Thomas Edison.
- Cocaine is isolated.
- The Capuchin catacombs of Palermo are officially closed (there will be some burials afterwards).
- The Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is established.
- 4 million Jews of Europe's 7 million live in the Russian Empire.
- Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty of protection with the chief on the large Teke tribe and begins to establish a French protectorate on the north bank of the Congo River.
- More than 100,000 Chinese men and 3,000 Chinese women are living in the western USA.
Ongoing
- Aceh War (1873-1904)
- War of the Pacific (1879-1884)
Births
Gregorian calendar | 1880 MDCCCLXXX |
Ab urbe condita | 2633 |
Armenian calendar | 1329 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6630 |
Baháʼí calendar | 36–37 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1801–1802 |
Bengali calendar | 1287 |
Berber calendar | 2830 |
British Regnal year | 43 Vict. 1 – 44 Vict. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2424 |
Burmese calendar | 1242 |
Byzantine calendar | 7388–7389 |
Chinese calendar | 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4577 or 4370 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4578 or 4371 |
Coptic calendar | 1596–1597 |
Discordian calendar | 3046 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1872–1873 |
Hebrew calendar | 5640–5641 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1936–1937 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1801–1802 |
- Kali Yuga | 4980–4981 |
Holocene calendar | 11880 |
Igbo calendar | 880–881 |
Iranian calendar | 1258–1259 |
Islamic calendar | 1297–1298 |
Japanese calendar | Meiji 13 (明治13年) |
Javanese calendar | 1808–1809 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4213 |
Minguo calendar | 32 before ROC 民前32年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 412 |
Thai solar calendar | 2422–2423 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 2006 or 1625 or 853 — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 2007 or 1626 or 854 |
January - June
- January 6 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
- January 11 - Rudolph Palm, Curaçao born composer (d. 1950)
- January 17 - Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (d. 1960)
- January 26 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
- January 28 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
- January 29 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
- February 5 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
- February 8 - Franz Marc, German artist (d. 1916)
- February 12
- George Preca, 1st Maltese saint (d. 1962)
- John L. Lewis, American labor union leader (d. 1969)
- February 16 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- February 21 - Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
- February 22 - Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
- March 1 - Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer and biographer (d. 1932)
- March 4 - Channing Pollock (writer), American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
- March 10 - Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
- March 11 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (d. 1943)
- March 22 - Kuniaki Koiso, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1950)
- March 23 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of the Interior (d. 1922)
- March 30 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964)
- April 13 - Charles Christie, Canadian-born film studio owner (d. 1955)
- April 15 - Max Wertheimer, father of Gestalt Theory (d. 1943)
- April 18 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968)
- May 6 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
- May 14 - B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born financial publisher (d. 1954)
- May 21 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
- May 25
- Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
- Alf Common, English footballer (d. 1946)
- May 29 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
- June 3 - Didier Bonvitesse, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
- June 6 - W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
- June 17 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
- June 21 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist and economist (d. 1941)
- June 27 - Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
July - December
- July 5 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
- July 12 - Tod Browning, American motion picture director, horror film pioneer (d. 1962)
- July 21 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak General, politician, and astronomer (d. 1919).
- July 24
- Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born composer (d. 1959)
- Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
- August 6 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
- August 8 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
- August 10 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
- August 22 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
- August 23 - Wyndham Standing, British actor of stage & film (d. 1963)
- August 26 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (d. 1918)
- August 29 - Marie-Louise Meilleur, verified as longest-lived Canadian ever (d. 1998)
- August 30 - Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (d. 1928)
- August 31 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
- September 12 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (d. 1956)
- September 14
- Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (d. 1961)
- Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
- September 16 - Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)
- September 22 - Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1958)
- September 23 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1971)
- September 24 - Sarah Knauss, verified as longest-lived American ever (d. 1999)
- October 23 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
- November 1
- Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (d. 1954)
- Alfred Wegener, German scientist and meteorolog$2 (d. 1930)
- November 2 - John Foulds, British classical music composer (d. 1939)
- November 5 - Richard Oswald, Austrian film director (d. 1963)
- November 6 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
- November 10 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (d. 1959)
- November 25 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist (d. 1960)
- December 1 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (d. 1920)
- December 4 - Garfield Wood, American motorboat racer (d. 1971)
- December 10 - Jessie Aspinall, Australian doctor, first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (d. 1953)
- December 11 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
- December 24 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's book author (d. 1938)
- December 31 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
- date unknown
- William J. Simmons, founder of the second Ku Klux Klan (d. 1945)
- Reginald Farrer, English botanist (d. 1920)
- Li Shutong, Chinese artist and art teacher (d. 1942)
Deaths
January - June
- January 4
- Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (b. 1829)
- Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, French statesman (b. 1801)
- January 8 - Joshua A. Norton, self-anointed Emperor Norton I of the United States of America (b. 1811)
- January 14 - Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1829)
- January 12 - Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, author (b. 1805)
- January 20 - Captain Moonlite, Australian bushranger (b. 1842) (hanged)
- January 31 - Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, French politician (b. 1806)
- April 23 - Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter (b. 1807)
- March 14 - Pagan Min, King of Ava (b. 1811)
- March 31 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
- May 4 - Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- May 8 - Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
- May 20 - Károly Alexy, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1816)
- June 8 - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Empress Consort of Czar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1824)
- June 28 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
July - December
- July 7 - Lydia Maria Child, American novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802)
- July 17 - Tomasz Chołodecki, Polish political activist (b. 1813)
- July 21 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
- August 15 - Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848)
- August 17 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
- August 24 - Chief Ouray, Native American leader (b. c. 1833)
- October - Victorio, Apache chief
- October 4 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
- November 11 - Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
- November 28 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
- December 22 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)
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