Nekrolog 1878
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1878 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .
January
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1st | Dietrich Christian von Buttel | German lawyer and politician | 76 | |
| January 2nd | Edward Caswall | English clergyman and writer | 63 | |
| January 4th | Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Roller | German psychiatrist | 75 | |
| January 4th | Thomas Vernon Wollaston | British entomologist | 55 | |
| January 5th | Michael Domenec | Spanish religious, Bishop of Allegheny | 61 | |
| January 5th | Eduard Geselschap | German-Dutch painter of the Düsseldorf School | 63 | |
| January 5th | Alfonso La Marmora | Italian general and politician | 73 | |
| January 5th | George Monro | Canadian businessman, politician, and 6th Mayor of Toronto | ||
| January 5th | Wilhelm Mutzenbecher | German administrative lawyer and State Councilor in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg | 45 | |
| January 5th | Emil von Schwartzkoppen | Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry | 67 | |
| 6th January | August von Maltzan | German politician, MdR | 54 | |
| January 7th | François-Vincent Raspail | French botanist and politician | 83 | |
| January 7th | Friedrich Leopold Woeste | German linguist | 70 | |
| January 8th | Charles Cousin-Montauban | French general and statesman | 81 | |
| January 8th | Gauchito Gil | Argentine folk saint | ||
| January 8th | Theresia Haselmayr | German religious sister | 69 | |
| January 8th | Nikolai Alexejewitsch Nekrasow | Russian poet and publicist | 56 | |
| January 8th | Henry Wilson | American composer | 49 | |
| January 9th | Karl Theodor Krafft | German Council of Churches | 73 | |
| January 9th | Victor Emmanuel II | King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Italy | 57 | |
| 10. January | Andrew Murray | Scottish botanist, zoologist and biogeographer | 65 | |
| 10. January | William Stokes | Irish doctor | 73 | |
| 10. January | August Julius Streichenberg | German sculptor | 63 | |
| 10. January | Dimitrios Voulgaris | Greek politician and prime minister | 75 | |
| 11th January | John Rankin Franklin | American politician | 57 | |
| 11th January | Ferdinand Krumholz | Austrian portrait, genre and landscape painter | 67 | |
| January 12th | Lazarus from Mamula | Austrian Feldzeugmeister | 82 | |
| 13th January | August Hövemeyer | painter | 53 | |
| 13th January | Theodor Schloepke | German painter | 65 | |
| January 14th | Gerhard Grothusen | German administrative officer | 34 | |
| 15. January | Carlo Blasis | Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theorist | 80 | |
| 15. January | James Blundell | English gynecologist, professor of physiology and obstetrics | 87 | |
| 15. January | William Stirling-Maxwell | Scottish nobleman, politician, art historian, historian and collector | 59 | |
| January 17th | Mateo Benigno de Moraza | Spanish politician | 60 | |
| January 17th | Heinrich Adam Neeb | Frankfurt choir director and composer | 72 | |
| January 18th | Antoine César Becquerel | French physicist | 89 | |
| January 18th | Joseph Dietl | Polish-Austrian doctor, politician and university professor; Rector of the Jagiellonian University and Mayor of Krakow | 73 | |
| January 18th | Otto von Hinckeldey | German administrative officer | 39 | |
| January 19th | Doris Groth | Wife of the poet Klaus Groth | 47 | |
| January 19th | Henri Victor Regnault | French physicist and chemist | 67 | |
| January 19th | Ede Szigligeti | Hungarian playwright, actor, director, translator | 63 | |
| January 20th | Heinrich Rudolph Brinkmann | German civil lawyer, university lecturer and appellate judge | 89 | |
| 21th January | Georg Friedrich Mölling | German lawyer and politician | 81 | |
| 22nd of January | Sebastian Franz von Daxenberger | German lawyer and politician | 68 | |
| 22nd of January | Patricio de la Escosura Morrogh | Spanish diplomat | 70 | |
| 22nd of January | Charles S. Lewis | American politician | 56 | |
| 22nd of January | August Willich | Leader of the rebels during the Baden Revolution and General of the Northern States in the Civil War | 67 | |
| January 23 | Johann Joseph Hoffmann | German Japanologist, philosophical writer | 72 | |
| January 23 | Kirkpatrick Macmillan | Scottish blacksmith, was long considered the inventor of the rear-wheel drive bicycle | 65 | |
| January 23 | José María Medina | President of Honduras | 51 | |
| January 24th | Pieter Bleeker | Dutch doctor and ichthyologist | 58 | |
| January 26th | Ernst Friedrich Adickes | German politician, MdR | 66 | |
| January 26th | Ernst Heinrich Weber | German physiologist and anatomist | 82 | |
| January 27th | John Bozman Kerr | American politician | 68 | |
| January 27th | Karl Krazeisen | Bavarian officer and painter | 83 | |
| January 28th | Konstantin Decker | German pianist and composer | 67 | |
| January 28th | Friedrich Lieboldt | German physician and spa doctor in Travemünde | 71 | |
| January 28th | Julius of Seefeld | Courland state official | 75 | |
| January 28th | Johann August Weingart | Swiss politician | 80 | |
| January 29th | Bruno Hildebrand | German economist and politician | 65 | |
| January 29th | Franz Kugler | German journalist, editor of the National-Zeitung | ||
| January 30th | Raphael von Erlanger | Frankfurt politician and banker | 71 | |
| January 30th | Eduard Prosch | German administrative lawyer, director of the grand ducal collections in Mecklenburg-Schwerin | 73 | |
| 31 January | Franz Joseph von Buß | German lawyer and politician (center), MdR | 74 | |
| 31 January | Thomas George Montgomerie | British surveyor | 47 | |
| 31 January | Alexander von Uhden | German Minister of Justice and politician | 79 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1st | George Cruikshank | British cartoonist and illustrator | 85 | |
| February 1st | Eduard Gützloe | German judges and parliamentarians | 63 | |
| February 2nd | Adolphe Peschier | Swiss Romance studies, German studies and lexicographer based in Tübingen | 72 | |
| February 2nd | Josif Runjanin | Croatian-born composer | 56 | |
| February 4th | Ferdinand Guericke | German old Lutheran theologian | 74 | |
| February 7th | Ludwig tile | Baden Coin Council | 86 | |
| February 7th | Pius IX | Pope (1846-1878) | 85 | |
| February 8 | Ivan Alexandrowitsch Annenkov | Russian lieutenant and Decembrist | 75 | |
| February 8 | Elias Magnus Fries | Swedish mycologist who developed a system for classifying mushrooms | 83 | |
| February 8 | Arthur of Reventlow | German-Danish administrative lawyer | 61 | |
| February 9 | Adolf Theodor Hermann Fritzsche | German philologist | 59 | |
| February 9 | Nicolas Gosse | French painter | 90 | |
| February 9 | Theodore Roosevelt Sr. | American businessman and philanthropist | 46 | |
| February 9 | James Young | American politician | 77 | |
| February 10th | Claude Bernard | French physiologist | 64 | |
| February 10th | Heinrich Höfer | German landscape and portrait painter | 52 | |
| February 10th | Franz Anton Probst | Hessian businessman and member of the state parliament | 73 | |
| February 11th | Alexander Bachem | German lawyer, Mayor of Cologne | 72 | |
| February 11th | Charles Magill Conrad | American politician | 73 | |
| February 11th | Auguste Chicken Malassis | French publisher Charles Baudelaires | 52 | |
| February 11th | Myer Strouse | American politician | 52 | |
| February 11th | Gideon Welles | American politician | 75 | |
| February 12th | Josef Klucky | Austrian physician and politician | 71 | |
| 14th of February | Franz Martin Hämmerle | Austrian textile entrepreneur | 63 | |
| February 16 | Sigismund von Dzialowski | Landowner and politician, MdR | 34 | |
| February 18 | James Whelan | Irish religious, Bishop of Nashville | 54 | |
| 19th of February | Charles-François Daubigny | French painter | 61 | |
| 19th of February | François Marie Guyonneau de Pambour | French officer and engineer | ||
| 19th of February | Gottlieb Heileman | Founder of the G. Heileman Brewing Company | 54 | |
| 19th of February | Joseph Luke | Catholic clergyman and member of the Bavarian state parliament and customs parliament | 43 | |
| 19th of February | Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen | Dutch mathematician, physicist and professor | 55 | |
| 20. February | Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve | French botanist | 81 | |
| 21st of February | Andrew Scott Waugh | British engineer | 68 | |
| February 22 | Alexander Beyer | Lord Mayor of Potsdam, member of the manor house | 64 | |
| February 22 | Franz Hunten | German composer and pianist | 85 | |
| February 23 | Friedrich Joseph Ark | German architect | 70 | |
| February 23 | Adolph Schenck | German entomologist | 74 | |
| February 23 | William Workman | Irish-Canadian politician and entrepreneur | 70 | |
| February 24th | Engelbert von Landsberg-Velen and Steinfurt | Westphalian nobleman and German politician | 81 | |
| February 25 | Townsend Harris | American businessman and politician | 73 | |
| February 25 | Johann Gustav Stinnes | German merchant and shipowner | 51 | |
| February 25 | Robert Walker Tayler Sr. | American lawyer and politician | 65 | |
| February 26th | Alexandre Antigna | French painter | 60 | |
| February 26th | Carl Grüneisen | German poet and theologian | 76 | |
| February 26th | Angelo Secchi | Italian Jesuit, physicist and astronomer | 59 | |
| 27th of February | Mirzə Fətəli Axundov | Azerbaijani philosopher and writer | 65 | |
| 27th of February | William Charles Chamberlain | British rear admiral | 59 | |
| 27th of February | Carl Friedrich Hermann Klenze | German author, counselor, superintendent and syndic | 82 | |
| February 28 | Wilhelm Christian Friedrich Fraatz | German Lutheran theologian, general superintendent | 74 | |
| February 28 | Richard Examiner | German politician and mayor of the city of Dortmund | 41 | |
| February | Severino Albarracín Broseta | Spanish anarchist |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st March | Johann Baptist Alzog | German Roman Catholic theologian and church historian | 69 | |
| 1st March | Carl Ludwig Arndts von Arnesberg | German-Austrian lawyer, politician, university lecturer | 74 | |
| 1st March | Gustav von Meyern-Hohenberg | German lawyer and playwright | 57 | |
| 1st March | Charles Christian Nahl | American painter | 59 | |
| 2nd March | John Cochrane | scottish chess player | 80 | |
| 2nd March | Johann Heinrich zur Oeveste | German farmer's son and emigrant | 76 | |
| 2nd March | Benjamin Wade | American politician (United States Whig Party) | 77 | |
| 3 March | Joseph Bonomi the Younger | English draftsman, Egyptologist and museum curator | 81 | |
| 3 March | Vladimir Alexandrovich Cherkassky | Russian politician | 56 | |
| 4th of March | William Halstead | American politician | 83 | |
| 4th of March | Anton Franz Johann Russell | German lawyer and politician (center), MdR | 53 | |
| 6th March | Asa Biggs | American lawyer and politician | 67 | |
| 6th March | Georg Blohm | German merchant, patron and philanthropist in Venezuela and Lübeck | 76 | |
| 6th March | Harald Jerichau | Danish painter | 26th | |
| 6th March | Friedrich Rieck | German philologist and parliamentarian | ||
| 6th March | Gustav Heinrich Wilmanns | German ancient historian and epigraphist | 32 | |
| 7th March | Louis Asher | German painter | 73 | |
| 8th of March | Franz Karl of Austria | Imperial Prince and Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia | 75 | |
| 8th of March | Augustus C. Hand | American lawyer and politician | 74 | |
| 8th of March | Simon Quaglio | Painter, set designer and lithographer | 82 | |
| 8th of March | Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel | German classical philologist | 57 | |
| March 11 | Albert Forbiger | German philologist and educator | 79 | |
| March 11 | Gustav Kulenkampff | German businessman and politician | 67 | |
| March 11 | Benjamin Davis Wilson | American politician | 66 | |
| March 13th | Robert Hardy Smith | American politician | 64 | |
| the 14th of March | Joseph Audo | Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldean Catholic Church | ||
| the 14th of March | Carl Baumann | German draftsman, lithographer and photographer | 80 | |
| the 14th of March | Robert Hamilton | American politician | 68 | |
| the 14th of March | Eduard Wilhelm pose | German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School | 65 | |
| March, 15 | George Sydney Hawkins | American lawyer and politician | ||
| March, 15 | John E. Leonard | American politician | 32 | |
| March, 15 | Carl August Schöll | Swiss geoplastic | 67 | |
| March 16 | William Banting | English author | ||
| March 16 | William Bernard O'Donoghue | Irish-American rebel | ||
| 17. March | Emil Dursy | German medic and zoologist | 49 | |
| 17. March | Franz Gustav Joachim Forsmann | German architect and builder | 82 | |
| 17. March | Charles Sitgreaves | American politician | 74 | |
| March 18th | Charles Frederic Hartt | Canadian naturalist | 37 | |
| March, 20th | Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter | German Protestant theologian, university professor and dept | 63 | |
| March, 20th | Claude Auguste Lamy | French chemist and physicist | 57 | |
| March, 20th | Robert Mayer | German doctor and physicist | 63 | |
| March 21st | Peter Hansen | German administrative officer, judge and politician | 46 | |
| March 21st | Charles Liedts | Belgian politician | 75 | |
| March 21st | Josef Wallach | German doctor | 64 | |
| March 22 | George Clarkson Stanfield | British landscape and marine painter | 49 | |
| March 23 | John Allison | American politician | 65 | |
| March 23 | Marie Bergmann | German theater actress | ||
| March 23 | Ernst Wedge | German bookseller and founder of the family magazine "Die Gartenlaube" | 61 | |
| March 24th | Amalie Hohenester | German faith healer | 50 | |
| March 24th | Jehu Glancy Jones | American politician | 66 | |
| March 24th | Johann Friedrich Sülmann | German farmer and politician | 78 | |
| 25th March | Jaspar von Bülow | German administrative lawyer and court marshal of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 41 | |
| 26th of March | Wilhelm Brummerstaedt | German classical philologist, teacher and 1848/49 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives | 74 | |
| 26th of March | Wilhelm Ludwig Demme | German lawyer and writer | 77 | |
| 26th of March | Rudolf Hercher | German classical philologist | 57 | |
| 27th of March | William Gilbert Puckey | British missionary in New Zealand | 72 | |
| 27th of March | George Gilbert Scott | English architect (neo-Gothic) | 66 | |
| 27th of March | Daniel Wardwell | American lawyer and politician | 86 | |
| 28th March | Heinrich Frank | Judge and Member of Parliament for the Grand Duchy of Hesse | 73 | |
| 28th March | Margarethe von Ziegler | German-Austrian theater actress | 24 | |
| March 29 | Mark Hopkins | American railroad manager | 64 | |
| March 29 | Albrecht Wolters | German theologian | 55 | |
| March 30 | Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso | Italian clergyman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church | 81 |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1st | John Davis | American politician | 89 | |
| April 1st | Israel G. Lash | American politician | 67 | |
| April 1st | Josef Sattler | German poacher | 47 | |
| 2nd of April | Claude Jacquand | French painter | 74 | |
| 2nd of April | Louis de Loménie | French literary scholar, biographer and essayist | 62 | |
| 2nd of April | Cuthbert Ottaway | English soccer player | 27 | |
| 3rd of April | Giovanni Spano | Italian cleric, archaeologist, historian, Romanist and sardologist | 75 | |
| 4. April | Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin | German diplomat, writer and translator | 89 | |
| 4. April | Ludwig Martini | German medic | 73 | |
| 4. April | Buckshot Roberts | American cowboy and outlaw | ||
| April 5th | Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg | Polish businessman and entrepreneur | 66 | |
| April 5th | Wilhelm Speyer | German composer | 87 | |
| April 6th | Giuseppe Berardi | Italian lawyer and cardinal | 67 | |
| April 6th | Heinrich von Idler | German politician and senior bailiff | 76 | |
| April 6th | Johannes zum Sande | German lawyer and politician | 76 | |
| 7th of April | Antonin Lego | Czech teacher, musician and composer | 76 | |
| 7th of April | Heinrich Schwarzschild | German doctor, publicist and poet | 75 | |
| 7th of April | Maksymilian Siemianowski | Polish painter and Austrian civil servant | ||
| 7th of April | William B. Small | American politician | 60 | |
| April 8th | Eugène Belgrand | French civil engineer | 67 | |
| April 8th | Moritz August Seubert | German botanist | 59 | |
| April 8th | Jetty Treffz | Viennese soprano and first wife of Johann Strauss' son | 60 | |
| April 8th | Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer | Austrian optician and photography pioneer | 65 | |
| 10th of April | Pierre-Ignace Aubry | Swiss politician | 81 | |
| 10th of April | August Julius Albert Borsig | German entrepreneur | 49 | |
| 10th of April | Hermann von Holleben | Prussian general of the infantry | 74 | |
| 11 April | Heinrich Girard | German geologist and mineralogist | 63 | |
| 11 April | Napoléon Lucien Murat | French politician | 74 | |
| 11 April | George Augustus Selwyn | first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand and Bishop of Lichfield | 69 | |
| 12. April | Gustav Heckenast | Austrian bookseller, publisher and printer | 66 | |
| 12. April | Christian Friedrich Kiefer | Republican MP in Baden | 74 | |
| 12. April | François Schubert | German composer and violinist | 69 | |
| 12. April | William Tweed | American Democratic Party politician | 55 | |
| April 13th | Henri de Dion | French Comte, civil engineer, university director and professor | 49 | |
| April 13th | Maximilian Albert Landerer | German Protestant theologian | 68 | |
| April 15th | James S. Brown | American politician | 54 | |
| April 15th | Alfred Groote | Judge, member of the Reichstag | 65 | |
| April 15th | Woldemar Hermann | German painter and architect | 70 | |
| April 16 | August Hoffmann | German businessman, freight forwarder and politician | 75 | |
| April 16 | Raphael Kühner | German classical philologist | 76 | |
| April 16 | Johann Baptist Schiedermayr the Younger | Austrian clergyman | 70 | |
| 17th April | Michael Bach | German botanist, malacologist and entomologist | 70 | |
| 17th April | Luigi Bienaimé | Italian sculptor | 83 | |
| 17th April | Gustav Heinrich Wagner | German classical philologist and high school teacher | 57 | |
| April 18 | Thomas Thomson | English botanist | 60 | |
| April 19th | Peter Tidemand Malling | Norwegian printer, publisher and bookseller | 70 | |
| April 19th | Wladyslaw Tarnowski | Polish composer and writer | 41 | |
| April 21 | Temistocle Solera | Italian poet and librettist | 62 | |
| April 22 | William Orton | American government official and politician | 63 | |
| April 22 | Jakob Philipp Wolfers | German astronomer and mathematician | 74 | |
| April 23 | Jaroslav Čermák | Czech painter | 47 | |
| April 23 | Friedrich Preller the Elder | German art teacher | 73 | |
| April 24th | Heinrich Leo | German historian and Prussian politician | 79 | |
| April 24th | Albín Mašek | Czech composer | 73 | |
| April 25 | Coles Bashford | American politician | 62 | |
| April 25 | Ulises Francisco Espaillat | President of the Dominican Republic | 55 | |
| April 25 | Lodovico Frapolli | Italian-Swiss geologist and politician | ||
| April 25 | Anna Sewell | British writer | 58 | |
| April 25 | Johann Georg Siemens | German legal advisor, lawyer and politician | 73 | |
| 26th of April | August from Bibra | German forester and member of the state parliament | 60 | |
| 26th of April | William Moore | American politician | 67 | |
| April 28 | Justus Wilhelm Karl Glinzer | German romantic painter | 76 | |
| April, 30th | Julius von Hartmann | Prussian general | 61 | |
| April, 30th | Heinrich Kampschulte | Priests, historians, politicians (center) | 55 |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st of May | Friedrich Haberlandt | Austrian agricultural scientist | 52 | |
| 1st of May | John Morrissey | American politician and boxer | 47 | |
| 1st of May | Friedrich Ernst von Schönfels | German officer, manor owner and liberal politician | 81 | |
| 1st of May | Charles-Frédéric Soehnée | French painter and manufacturer of varnishes | 88 | |
| 2.May | Francis Henry Goldsmid | English politician | 70 | |
| May 3rd | William Whiting | English poet | 52 | |
| May 4th | Ferdinand Höfer | German-French writer | 67 | |
| May 4th | Roberto de Visiani | Croatian-Italian botanist | 78 | |
| May 4th | Julián de Zulueta y Amondo | Cuban entrepreneur, politician, Alcalde of Havana | 64 | |
| 5th of May | Leopold von Brese-Winiary | Prussian general of the infantry, inspector general of the Prussian fortresses and chief of the engineering corps | 90 | |
| May 6th | François Benoist | French organist, organ teacher and composer | 83 | |
| May 6th | Ludwig von dem Bongart | German manor owner and court official | 59 | |
| May 7th | Adolph Reuss | German-American doctor and zoologist (herpetologist, arachnologist) | 73 | |
| May 7th | Benno von Tschirschky-Reichell | Landowner and Prussian politician | 67 | |
| 8th of May | Meir Auerbach | Polish rabbi | 63 | |
| 8th of May | Charles Morgan | American rail and transportation tycoon | 83 | |
| 8th of May | Théophile Tilmant | French violinist and conductor | 78 | |
| 10th of May | Philipp Enders | German doctor and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Weimar Parliament | 70 | |
| 10th of May | Ottobald von Werthern | German landowner, member of the Prussian manor house | 83 | |
| May 11th | Maximilian Joseph Auer | German porcelain painter, glass painter and watercolor painter | 72 | |
| May 11th | Pierre Marie Philippe Aristide Denfert-Rochereau | French colonel, defender of Belfort | 55 | |
| May 11th | Domenico Guadalupi | Italian clergyman and Archbishop of Salerno | 66 | |
| May 11th | Georg Haindl | German entrepreneur and founder of the Haindl'schen paper mills in Augsburg | 61 | |
| 12th of May | Catherine Esther Beecher | American writer | 77 | |
| 12th of May | Henry Lot | Dutch figure, animal and landscape painter | 55 | |
| May 13th | Joseph Henry | American scientist and professor at Princeton University | 80 | |
| May 14th | Wilhelm Behn | German anatomist and zoology as well as President of the Leopoldina (1870–1878) | 69 | |
| May 14th | Ōkubo Toshimichi | Japanese interior minister of the Meiji period | 47 | |
| May 15 | Georg Christian Tegtmeyer | Merchant and Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | 85 | |
| 17th of May | Joseph Ambros Michael von Albrecht | Bavarian politician and legal scholar | 70 | |
| May 18 | Carl Gustav Bernoulli | Swiss doctor, botanist and explorer | 44 | |
| May 22 | Eduard Haenel | German engineer and chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) | 59 | |
| May 22 | Franz von Holstein | German composer | 52 | |
| 23. May | Francisco Júlio de Caldas Aulete | Portuguese politician, didactician, Romanist, Lusitanist and lexicographer | ||
| 25. May | Andreas von Ettingshausen | Austrian mathematician and physicist | 81 | |
| 25. May | John Scott Harrison | American politician (United States Whig Party) | 73 | |
| May 27th | Basilio Calafati | Magician, carousel and inn owners | 78 | |
| May 27th | Ferdinand Schur | German-Austrian botanist, chemist and manufacturer | 79 | |
| 28th of May | Ludwig Josef Bleser | German doctor | 67 | |
| 28th of May | William Chapman Hewitson | British entomologist | 72 | |
| 28th of May | Georg Ludwig Kriegk | German historian and archivist | 73 | |
| 28th of May | John Septimus Roe | Australian explorer and politician | 81 | |
| May 29th | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | British Prime Minister | 85 | |
| 30th May | Julius of the East | German manor owner and politician, member of the manor house, MdR | 70 | |
| 31. May | Israel Daniel Rupp | American writer | 74 | |
| May | Wilhelm Stiehler | German lawyer and civil servant | 80 | |
| May | Mélanie Hahnemann | French painter and homeopathic doctor | 78 |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1st | Johann Fritz | German lawyer, professor of Roman law | 79 | |
| 3rd of June | William Fitch Allen | American lawyer and politician | 69 | |
| 3rd of June | Gottlieb Gassen | German painter | 72 | |
| June 4th | Charles Ready | American politician | 75 | |
| June 5th | Ernst von Bibra | German naturalist and writer | 71 | |
| 6th of June | Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers | French general and statesman, Marshal of France | 82 | |
| 6th of June | Gottfried Herrmann | German organist and composer | 70 | |
| 6th of June | Christian Heinrich Plaß | German educator and politician | 65 | |
| 6th of June | Robert Stirling | Scottish priest and engineer | 87 | |
| June 7th | Andreas Fleischmann | German copper, steel and mezzotint glasses | 66 | |
| 8th June | Elisabeth Concordia Crola | German painter and draftsman | 68 | |
| 8th June | Manoliki Tashev | Bulgarian businessman and politician | ||
| June 9th | Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier | Belgian botanist and member of the Chamber of Deputies | 81 | |
| June 9th | Karl Lehrs | German classical philologist | 76 | |
| June 9th | Januarius MacGahan | American journalist | 33 | |
| June 9th | Adolf von Selchow | Prussian administrative officer and district administrator | 67 | |
| June 11th | Johannes Friedrich Müller | Saxon lawyer and politician | 65 | |
| June 12 | William Cullen Bryant | American poet and journalist | 83 | |
| June 12 | Julius Faucher | German journalist and politician (free trader and Manchester liberal) | 57 | |
| June 12 | George V. | last King of Hanover, 2nd Duke of Cumberland | 59 | |
| June 12 | Martin Anton Niendorf | German writer, parliamentarian, founder of the Agrarian Party | 51 | |
| June 13th | Carl Stål | Swedish entomologist | 45 | |
| 14th June | Franz Joseph Holzwarth | German Catholic clergyman and author | 51 | |
| 15th June | Henry Blundell | Irish journalist and founder of The Evening Post in Wellington, New Zealand | ||
| 15th June | Thomas Duffus Hardy | English historian writer | 74 | |
| 15th June | Antonius Mathijsen | Dutch medic | 72 | |
| 15th June | Shiv Dayal Singh | Indian mystic | 59 | |
| June 16 | William Branwhite Clarke | British-Australian clergyman, geologist and paleontologist | 80 | |
| June 16 | Kikuchi Yosai | Japanese painter | 96 | |
| June 16 | Crawford W. Long | American doctor, pioneer of ether anesthesia | 62 | |
| June 16 | Karl Eduard Paulus | Württemberg topographer | 75 | |
| 17th of June | Karl Radish | Austrian actor | 73 | |
| 17th of June | Christian Schibsted | Norwegian publisher | 66 | |
| 18th of June | William Collins | American lawyer and politician | 60 | |
| 18th of June | Terence J. Quinn | American politician | 41 | |
| June 19th | Martin Bider | Swiss doctor | 66 | |
| June 19th | Charles Hodge | American theologian | 80 | |
| June 19th | Joseph Rütten | German publisher and patron | 72 | |
| June 21st | Johann Jakob Rychner | Swiss veterinary | 75 | |
| June 22 | Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow | British industrialist and politician | 71 | |
| June 22 | Maximilian Reinganum | German lawyer, politician and publicist | 79 | |
| 23rd June | George Back | British naval officer and polar explorer | 81 | |
| 23rd June | Gustav Boehm | Hungarian conductor, dramaturge and opera director | 55 | |
| 23rd June | Christophe Joachim Marro | Swiss politician and judge | 78 | |
| 25th June | Julius Lange | German painter | 60 | |
| 25th June | Johann Schweminski | German author and teacher | 65 | |
| 25th June | Henriette von Seckendorff-Gutend | German benefactress and "healer" | 59 | |
| June 26th | Maria de las Mercedes d'Orléans-Montpensier | Spanish-French princess from the House of Orléans and Queen of Spain by marriage | 18th | |
| June 26th | Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen | Brazilian historian, diplomat and writer | 62 | |
| June 27th | Sidney Breese | American lawyer and politician | 77 | |
| June 27th | Alexander von Busse | German officer, most recently lieutenant general | 64 | |
| June 27th | Moses Hampton | American politician | 74 | |
| June 28th | Johannes Franz August of Devivere | German local politician and district administrator | 79 | |
| June 28th | Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch | German numismatist, heraldist, genealogist and historian | 83 | |
| June 29th | Ludwig Heller | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman | 73 | |
| June 30th | Karl Weigand | German Germanist | 73 |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Pietro Casaretto | Italian abbot and founder of the Congregation of Subiaco | 68 | |
| July 1 | Catherine Winkworth | English translator | 50 | |
| 2nd July | François Bazin | French composer | 61 | |
| 2nd July | Josef Gunkel | Austrian master tailor | 75 | |
| 3rd of July | Isidore Didion | French general | 80 | |
| 3rd of July | Marie north | German writer | 65 | |
| 3rd of July | Daniel Sturgeon | American politician | 88 | |
| July 4th | Rudolf Bayer | Austrian architect and engineer | 53 | |
| July 4th | Felix Bockhorni | German landscape painter, royal Bavarian court painter | 77 | |
| July 4th | Henri-François Gaultier de Claubry | French chemist (toxicologist) | 85 | |
| July 4th | Vital Maria Conçalves de Oliveira | Bishop of Olinda | 33 | |
| 5th July | Giles W. Hotchkiss | American lawyer and politician | 62 | |
| June 5th | Wilhelmine Mutzenbecher | German founder of the Martha Foundation | 76 | |
| July 6th | Lorenz Bob | German watchmaker | 72 | |
| July 6th | Maria Locke | first aboriginal to marry a white man | ||
| 8th of July | Juan Pedro Esnaola | Argentine composer | 69 | |
| July 9 | Jakob Friedrich Bengel | Mayor in Treschklingen and member of the Baden state parliament | 60 | |
| July 13th | Heinrich Blochmann | German orientalist and university professor | 40 | |
| 16th of July | Laura Gonzenbach | Swiss fairy tale collector | 35 | |
| 16th of July | Maurice Joly | French lawyer and writer | ||
| 16th of July | Karl Friedrich August Nobbe | German educator and philologist | 87 | |
| 17th July | Bertold von Bibra | Forester and member of the state parliament, Grand Duchy of Hesse | 74 | |
| 17th July | Thomas Oldham | Irish geologist | 62 | |
| July 19 | Rudolph Siebeck | German-Austrian garden designer and garden theorist | 66 | |
| July 19 | Yegor Ivanovich Zolotaryov | Russian mathematician | 31 | |
| 20th of July | William Cain | American politician | 85 | |
| 20th of July | Gustav Wallis | German botanist | 48 | |
| 21 July | Honorius Burger | Austrian Benedictine abbot, historian and draftsman | 89 | |
| 21 July | Johann Baptist special country | German painter and etcher | 73 | |
| 22nd of July | Robert L. Tillotson | American lawyer and politician | ||
| July 23 | Jean Pierre Cornets de Groot van Kraaijenburg | Dutch politician | 70 | |
| July 23 | Miguel Hilarión Eslava | 19th century Spanish composer, music researcher and music teacher | 70 | |
| July 23 | Anton Jussel | Liberal lawyer and governor of Vorarlberg | 61 | |
| July 23 | Carl von Rokitansky | Austrian pathologist, politician and philosopher | 74 | |
| 24th July | Ludwig Mayer | German medic | 39 | |
| July 25th | Friedrich Wilhelm Möller | German entrepreneur and member of parliament | 73 | |
| July 25th | Carl Wilhelm Louis Preuss | first acting apostle of the general Christian apostolic mission | 51 | |
| July 26th | Mustafa Khaznadar | Tunisian politician | ||
| July 27th | Theodor Beise | German-Baltic administrative lawyer | 60 | |
| July 27th | Gustav Knak | German Lutheran theologian, revival preacher, promoter of the concept of mission and hymn poet | 72 | |
| July 28th | George Law Curry | Governor of Oregon | 58 | |
| July 28th | Christian Eduard Langethal | German crop scientist, botanist and agricultural historian | 72 | |
| 30th July | Johannes Heinrich Beckmann | German Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Osnabrück | 76 | |
| 30th July | Alessandro Franchi | Cardinal Secretary of State | 59 | |
| 30th July | George F. Shepley | American politician and general in the Union Army | 59 |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1st | Johann Gustav Grunewald | German-American painter | 72 | |
| 4th of August | Maurice Barman | Swiss politician | 69 | |
| 4th of August | Adam Hammer | Military doctor, revolutionist | 59 | |
| 4th of August | Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio | Italian politician and freedom fighter during the Risorgimento | 82 | |
| 6th of August | Adolf Hermann Robert Feeder | German civil servant, chief dike inspector and dike captain of the Oderbruch (1870–1876) | 48 | |
| August 7th | Cay Dietrich Lienau | Lübeck businessman and politician | 57 | |
| August 9 | Johann Nicolaus Haage | German art and trade gardener | ||
| August 9 | Arthur von Saurma-Jeltsch | German politician, MdR | 47 | |
| August 10 | John Bragg | American lawyer, judge, and politician | 72 | |
| August 10 | Friedrich Adolph Brüggemann | German entrepreneur and insurance agent as well as founder of the Aachen reinsurance company | 81 | |
| 13 August | Petrus van Oeckelen | Organ builder | 85 | |
| 13 August | Conrad Heinrich Schöffer | Coffee merchant | 62 | |
| August 14th | Adolf Wilhelm Hillingh | German administrative officer and politician | 70 | |
| August 14th | Wilhelm Heinrich Jobelmann | Citizen representative | 77 | |
| August 14th | Wilhelm Riistow | German revolutionary military writer | 57 | |
| 15th of August | Georg von Hippel | Prussian administrative officer | 76 | |
| August 16 | Max Hödel | German assassin | 21st | |
| August 16 | Nikolai Vladimirovich Mesentsov | Russian general and statesman | 51 | |
| August 16 | William Muhlenberg Hiester | American military and politician | 60 | |
| August 16 | Richard Upjohn | American architect | 76 | |
| 17th August | Garnett Adrain | American politician | 62 | |
| 17th August | Theodor Döring | German actor | 75 | |
| 17th August | Karl Bernhard Moll | German Protestant theologian | 71 | |
| 17th August | Daniel Schillock | Lithuanian-German attorney and senator in Minnesota | ||
| 18th of August | Balie Peyton | American politician | 74 | |
| August 19th | Mihály Horváth | Hungarian chronicler, Catholic bishop, politician | 68 | |
| August 19th | William Landlord Vaughan | American politician | 47 | |
| 20th of August | Thomas Boch | Official, victim of the reaction as a 1848 patriot | 67 | |
| 20th of August | Heinrich Smidt | German lawyer, politician, Bremen senator and archivist | 72 | |
| August 21 | Magnus Ivanovich von Brevern | Russian major general in the Imperial Russian Army | 52 | |
| August 21 | Carl Grundmann | Austrian inventor and entrepreneur | 60 | |
| August 21 | Conrad Martens | English painter | ||
| August 22nd | Gustav Albrecht | German politician | 50 | |
| August 22nd | Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily | Queen and Regent of Spain | 72 | |
| August 22nd | Favell Lee Mortimer | English author of non-fiction books for children | 76 | |
| August 23 | Adolf Fredrik Lindblad | Swedish composer | 77 | |
| August 24th | Wilhelm Bernhardi | German writer | 78 | |
| August 24th | Stephen A. Cobb | American politician | 45 | |
| August 24th | Franz von Fleischer | German botanist | 76 | |
| August 24th | Eduard Lintz | German doctor | 59 | |
| August 24th | Rudolph Willmers | German composer and pianist | 56 | |
| August 25 | Johann Mannhardt | German watchmaker | 79 | |
| 26th of August | Miriam of Abellin | Palestinian Carmelite and saint | 32 | |
| 26th of August | Friedrich Alexander Leopold Cranz | German Protestant clergyman | 71 | |
| 26th of August | Seth Padelford | American politician | 70 | |
| August 28th | Robert von Lehmann | Member of Parliament for the Grand Duchy of Hesse | 60 | |
| August 30th | John Adams Jackson | American sculptor | 52 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1 | Adolf Breymann | German sculptor | 39 | |
| September 1 | Georg jug | Member of Parliament for the Grand Duchy of Hesse | 77 | |
| September 2nd | Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy | French orientalist | 84 | |
| September 2nd | Henry Huntly Haight | Governor of California | 53 | |
| September 2nd | Alexander Ivanovich Villoing | Russian piano teacher | 70 | |
| September 2nd | Carl Zedelius | Oldenburg politician | 78 | |
| September 3 | William S. Morgan | American politician | 76 | |
| September 4th | Frank Welch | American politician | 43 | |
| 5th September | Ernst Wirth | German lawyer and politician (DP), MdR | 58 | |
| September 6th | Gottlieb Kyllmann | Landowner, district deputy and Prussian district administrator | 75 | |
| September 6th | Benjamin D. Nabers | American politician | 65 | |
| 7th of September | Mehmed Ali Pasha | Ottoman field marshal of German origin | 50 | |
| September 8th | Miguel García Granados Zavala | Guatemalan general and president | 68 | |
| September 8th | William WJ Kelly | American politician and the first lieutenant governor of the state of Florida | 64 | |
| September 10 | Friedrich Georg Bering | German judges and parliamentarians | 74 | |
| September 10 | Karl Eduard Nobiling | German assassin who carried out an assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I. | 30th | |
| September 10 | Ludwig von Oertzen | Mecklenburg landowner, district administrator and politician | 77 | |
| September 10 | Friedrich Snell | Nassau pastor and politician | 65 | |
| 12th September | Friedrich von Alberti | German geologist | 83 | |
| 13.september | Franz Liebieg | bohemian industrialist | 79 | |
| September 14th | Thomas Conrad von Baldenstein | Swiss naturalist | 94 | |
| 16th September | Ernst Reissner | German-Baltic physician and anatomist | 53 | |
| 16th September | Emil zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | Imperial Russian General | 54 | |
| 16th September | Ferdinand Stiehl | Official in the Prussian Ministry of Culture | 66 | |
| 17th of September | Jakob Anderegg | Swiss mountain guide | 49 | |
| 17th of September | Robert M. Anderson | American politician | 53 | |
| September 18 | Johann Joseph peasant band | German lawyer, university professor and member of the Prussian National Assembly in 1848 | 78 | |
| September 18 | Friedrich Held | Member of Parliament for the Duchy of Nassau | 77 | |
| September 19th | Orélie Antoine de Tounens | French lawyer, adventurer and self-proclaimed King of Araucaria and Patagonia | 53 | |
| September 20th | William Field | American politician | 88 | |
| 21st September | Thomas Belt | English geologist | 45 | |
| 21st September | Giulio Curioni | Italian geologist | 82 | |
| September 22 | Richard John Griffith | Irish geologist | 94 | |
| September 22 | Wilhelm Zimmermann | German Protestant theologian, poet, historian and politician | 71 | |
| September 23rd | Gustav von Habermann | German manor owner and politician (center), MdR | 60 | |
| September 24th | Odoardo Agnelli | Italian clergyman, Curia Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church | 64 | |
| September 24th | Alexandre André Jacob | French author | ||
| September 24th | Addison H. Laflin | American politician | 54 | |
| 25th of September | August Petermann | German geographer and cartographer | 56 | |
| September 27th | Julius Muller | German Protestant theologian | 77 | |
| September 27th | Benjamin Thomas | American lawyer and politician | 65 | |
| September 28th | Karl August Muffat | Bavarian historian, archivist and numismatist | 73 | |
| September 29th | Heinrich Johann Wilhelm Bentinck | British general | 82 |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Mindon Min | King of Burma | 70 | |
| October 2nd | Gustav of German | German-American officer | 53 | |
| October 2nd | Ferdinand Friedrich August Klusemann | German civil engineer and entrepreneur | 56 | |
| 4th of October | Robert Harkness | British geologist and paleontologist | 62 | |
| 4th of October | Wilhelm Schröder | Low German writer and publisher | 70 | |
| 5th October | Jacob P. Chamberlain | American politician | 76 | |
| 5th October | Alexandre Félix Gustave Achille Leymérie | French geologist and mineralogist | 77 | |
| 5th October | Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford | British lawyer and politician | 84 | |
| October 6th | Konrad Albiez | German organ builder | 72 | |
| October 6th | Gottlieb Wagner (restaurateur) | German vineyard worker and innkeeper in the Saale valley | 83 | |
| 8th October | Oviatt Cole | American politician | 69 | |
| 8th October | Malcolm Duncan Graham | American lawyer and Confederate politician and officer | 51 | |
| 8th October | Moses tear | German rabbi | 75 | |
| 8th October | Gustav von Roeder | German lawyer | 73 | |
| 8th October | Karl Hermann von Somnitz | German manor owner, court official and parliamentarian | 65 | |
| 9th October | Abraham Oppenheim | German banker | 74 | |
| October 11th | Brutus J. Clay | American politician | 70 | |
| October 11th | Félix Dupanloup | Roman Catholic Bishop of Orléans | 76 | |
| October 12th | William Thomas Ward | American officer and politician | 70 | |
| October 12th | Hartmann von Witzleben | Prussian civil servant, Upper President of the Province of Saxony | 72 | |
| October 13th | Seligmann Bear Bamberger | German rabbi | 70 | |
| October 13th | Gabriel Delafosse | French mineralogist and crystallographer | 82 | |
| October 13th | Ambrose Kingsland | American politician | 74 | |
| October 18 | Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi | Italian malacologist, herpetologist, botanist and geologist | 69 | |
| October 18 | Gustav Friedrich Hänel | German lawyer and legal historian | 86 | |
| October 19th | Irénée-Jules Bienaymé | French probability theorist and statistician | 82 | |
| October 19th | Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II | American civil engineer, railway bridge construction | 71 | |
| October 19th | Gotthard by Vietinghoff | Courland state official | 76 | |
| October 21 | Friedrich of Nerly | German painter | 70 | |
| October 21 | Louis Thomas | German pedagogue, Leipzig school director | 63 | |
| October 22nd | Davis Carpenter | American politician | 78 | |
| October 22nd | Hugh Alexander Kennedy | English chess player | ||
| October 22nd | Gaudenz Taverna | Swiss draftsman and portrait painter | 64 | |
| October 24th | John S. Carlile | American politician | 60 | |
| October 24th | Paul Cullen | Irish cardinal | 75 | |
| October 24th | Karl | Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg | 65 | |
| October 24th | Luise Reinhardt | German writer | 71 | |
| October 25 | Carl Justus Heckmann | German coppersmith and industrialist | 92 | |
| October 25 | Ludwig Maurer | German violinist, composer and conductor | 89 | |
| October 25 | Carl August Schwerdgeburth | Engraver and painter | 93 | |
| 28th of October | Karl Hecker | German physician and university professor | 65 | |
| 28th of October | Julius Huebner | German theater actor | 39 | |
| 28th of October | Johann Georg Kohl | German travel writer | 70 | |
| 28th of October | Georg Pezolt | Austrian painter | 68 | |
| 28th of October | Johann Wöbcken | German politician | 76 | |
| October 29th | August Theodor von Grimm | German pedagogue, writer, musician and Russian State Councilor who served the Russian tsars | 72 | |
| October 31 | Johann Samuel Ferdinand Blumröder | Evangelical Lutheran clergyman in Thuringia | 85 | |
| October 31 | Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès | French politician | 75 | |
| October 31 | Ferdinand Weyhe | German agricultural scientist | 82 | |
| October | Wilhelm Schimper | German naturalist, traveler and botanist | 74 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1st | Carl Flemming | German bookseller and publisher | 71 | |
| November 4th | Wilhelm Eduard Hyppolite | German politician and tobacco manufacturer | 79 | |
| November 4th | Ludwig Meyn | German geologist and scientist | 58 | |
| November 5th | Heinrich Kaehler | German sculptor | 74 | |
| November 5th | Jakob Sengler | German philosopher, Catholic theologian | 79 | |
| November 5th | Wilhelm Weissenborn | German theologian, historian, philologist and politician | 74 | |
| November 6th | Carl Anton Bretschneider | German mathematician and lawyer | 70 | |
| November 6th | James Fazy | Swiss politician and publicist | 84 | |
| November 6th | Albert of Thimus | German appellate judge, pioneer of harmony and politician (center), MdR | 72 | |
| November 8th | John Retcliffe | German writer | 63 | |
| November 8th | Rosa Warrens | Swedish-German poet and translator of folk songs | 57 | |
| November 9th | Anton Riemerschmid | Bavarian spirits manufacturer and politician | 76 | |
| November 10th | Adalbert von der Recke-Volmerstein | Founding father of Diakonie | 87 | |
| November 11th | Robert Havell the Younger | English engraver and painter | 84 | |
| November 11th | Norman B. Judd | American politician | 63 | |
| November 12th | Berthold von Freydorf | Officer, general | 57 | |
| November 13th | Carl Heissler | Austrian violinist and violist | 55 | |
| November 13th | Sigmund von Reischach | Austrian officer and diplomat | 69 | |
| 15th of November | Georg Hiltl | German poet and actor | 52 | |
| 15th of November | Fidel Kuen | German administrative officer | ||
| November 16 | Anton Dominik von Fernkorn | German-Austrian sculptor and sculptor | 65 | |
| November 16 | Marie of Hessen-Darmstadt | Princess of Hessen-Darmstadt | 4th | |
| November 16 | Johann Adolf Karl van Heusde | Dutch philologist and literary scholar | 66 | |
| November 16 | Đura Jakšić | Serbian realistic poet, teacher, painter, speaker and navigator | 46 | |
| November 16 | Friedrich Koester | Lutheran theologian and university professor; Bremen-Verden general superintendent | 87 | |
| November 16 | Frederick A. MacDougal | American politician | ||
| November 16 | Charles Vilain XIIII | Belgian politician | 75 | |
| November 17th | Florian Dorfner | Bavarian politician | 76 | |
| November 17th | Karl Theodor Keim | German Protestant theologian (New Testament scholar) and church historian | 62 | |
| November 17th | Adolph Methfessel | German composer | 71 | |
| November 17th | Gustav Adolf Wolff | German journalist and publisher | 59 | |
| November 18 | Eduard Rüffer | German writer | 42 | |
| November 19th | Samuel Bough | Scottish landscape painter | 56 | |
| November 19th | Therese Elßler | dancer | 70 | |
| November 19th | Abraham Dob Son of Life | Hebrew poet and grammarian and champion of the Lithuanian Haskala | ||
| November 19th | Salomon Tobler | Swiss pastor and poet | 83 | |
| 20th November | Julius Elwanger | Top Prussian civil servant, Lord Mayor of Breslau | 71 | |
| 21st November | Henriette Burenne | Czech singer | ||
| 21st November | Agathon Wunderlich | German legal scholar and appellate judge | 68 | |
| 22nd of November | Jakob Juratzka | Austrian botanist | 57 | |
| 22nd of November | Ludwik Mierosławski | Polish revolutionary | 64 | |
| 22nd of November | Sándor Rózsa | Hungarian bandit | 65 | |
| 22nd of November | Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky | Russian author | 86 | |
| November 24th | Carl Beisbarth Sr. | German architect | 70 | |
| November 24th | Louis Bouton | Franco-Mauritian botanist | 78 | |
| November 24th | Eugen von Gorup-Besánez | German chemist | 61 | |
| 25. November | Karl Pfretzschner | Bavarian merchant, banker and member of the Customs Parliament | 68 | |
| 25. November | Vincent Spaccapietra | Italian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Port of Spain, Archbishop of Izmir | 77 | |
| November 26th | Theodor Muther | German legal scholar and historian | 52 | |
| November 27th | Albert Emil Curlew | German writer | 54 | |
| November 27th | Kolmar von Debschitz | Silesian-Prussian lieutenant general | 68 | |
| November 27th | Friedrich Grelle | German mathematician | 43 | |
| November 28th | Johann Wilhelm Baum | German Protestant theologian | 68 | |
| November 28th | George Henry Lewes | English writer, literary critic and philosopher | 61 | |
| November 28th | Jeremiah Morton | American politician | 79 | |
| November 28th | Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti | Italian guitarist and composer | 76 | |
| November 29th | Theodor Ladewig | German classical philologist and high school teacher | ||
| 30th of November | Julius Krais | Swabian pastor and poet | 71 | |
| 30th of November | Lyman Tremain | American politician | 59 |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Joseph Günzburg | Russian banker | ||
| 2. December | Gustav von Bonin | Prussian politician, MdR and landowner | 81 | |
| 2. December | Jean-Pierre Napoléon Eugène Chevandier de Valdrôme | French entrepreneur and politician | 68 | |
| 2. December | August Matthias Hagen | Baltic German painter and graphic artist | 84 | |
| December 4th | Vernon H. Vaughan | American politician | 40 | |
| 6th of December | Jacob Mislin | Swiss Roman Catholic theologian, teacher, abbot and prelate | 71 | |
| 6th of December | Theodoros Vryzakis | Greek-German painter | 64 | |
| December 7th | Louis Paravicini | German Mayor and Politician (NLP), MdR | 67 | |
| 9th of December | Albert Heym | German Protestant pastor; Pastor of the four last Prussian kings | 70 | |
| 9th of December | Edmund W. Hubard | American politician | 72 | |
| 9th of December | Effingham Lawrence | American politician | 58 | |
| 10th of December | Heinrich Bürgers | German journalist and politician (DFP), MdR | 58 | |
| 10th of December | Charles Brook Dupont-White | French economist and publicist | ||
| 10th of December | Henry Wells | American postal, rail, and transportation company | 72 | |
| 11th December | Absalom Harris Chappell | American politician | 76 | |
| 13th December | Leo Cholevius | German philologist and literary historian | 64 | |
| December 14th | Alice of Great Britain and Ireland | British princess by marriage to the Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine | 35 | |
| 15th December | Wilhelm von Bernewitz | German officer, most recently major general | 70 | |
| 15th December | Nikolai Vladimirovich Chanykov | Russian explorer | 59 | |
| 15th December | Leopold von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf | Prussian lawyer and politician, MdR | 93 | |
| December 16 | Karl Gutzkow | German writer, playwright and journalist | 67 | |
| December 16 | Richard Hartmann | German machine manufacturer | 69 | |
| December 16 | Louis Schneider | German actor and writer | 73 | |
| December 16 | Arthur Woltersdorff | German lawyer and theater manager | 61 | |
| December 17th | Emil Flechsig | German Lutheran clergyman, father of the brain researcher and neuroanatomist Paul Flechsig | 70 | |
| December 18th | Michael Anthony Anfossi | Italian bishop in India, Carmelite | 79 | |
| December 18th | Wilhelm von Blandowski | German zoologist and explorer in Australia | 56 | |
| December 18th | Andreas Faisst | German chemist and entrepreneur | 57 | |
| December 18th | Heinrich Proch | Austrian composer | 69 | |
| December 18th | Philipp Wirth | German painter | 70 | |
| 19. December | Fritz Bally | Swiss entrepreneur | 55 | |
| 19. December | Johann Martin Bernatz | German painter | 76 | |
| 19. December | Joseph Nash | English watercolor painter and lithographer | 69 | |
| 19. December | Karl Pilhal | Austrian officer and military engineer | 56 | |
| 19. December | Bayard Taylor | American travel writer and poet | 53 | |
| 20th of December | John W. Hazelton | American politician | 64 | |
| 21st December | Alpheus S. Williams | American officer and politician | 68 | |
| December 22 | Beverly B. Douglas | American politician | 56 | |
| December 22 | Josef Lambert Trip | Officer, mayor, member of the Reichstag | 59 | |
| 23rd of December | Fabio Maria Asquini | Cardinal of the Catholic Church | 76 | |
| 23rd of December | Adolf von Brand | Prussian landowner and politician | 75 | |
| 23rd of December | Louis des Coudres | German painter | 58 | |
| 23rd of December | Wilhelm Engelmann | German publisher and bookseller | 70 | |
| 23rd of December | Julius Hildebrand | German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent | 74 | |
| 23rd of December | Julius Hotchkiss | American politician | 68 | |
| 23rd of December | Johann Jakob Scherer | Swiss politician | 53 | |
| 23rd of December | Mathilde Wildauer | Austrian actress and singer | 58 | |
| 24th of December | Ernst Brockelmann | German businessman and politician | 79 | |
| 24th of December | Heinrich Buff | German physicist and chemist | 73 | |
| 24th of December | John Van Dyke | American lawyer and politician | 71 | |
| 25 December | Owen Jones | American politician | 58 | |
| 25 December | Marie von Marra-Vollmer | Austrian-German opera singer (soprano) | 56 | |
| December 26th | Auguste Auspitz-Kolár | Austrian pianist and composer | ||
| December 26th | Georgine Schubert | German actress and singer | 38 | |
| December 27th | Georg von Dyherrn | German poet | 30th | |
| December 27th | Jean Laborde | French adventurer and entrepreneur | 73 | |
| December 27th | Gustav von Leonhard | German geologist and mineralogist | 62 | |
| December 28th | José Bernardo Alcedo | Peruvian composer | 90 | |
| December 28th | Johann Tobias Beck | German Protestant theologian | 74 | |
| December 28th | Gerhard Schaurte | German entrepreneur and mayor of Deutz | 75 | |
| December 28th | Mordechai Wetzlar | German rabbi | ||
| December 29th | Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale | Scottish officer and ornithologist | 54 | |
| December 29th | Onslow Stearns | American politician | 68 | |
| December 29th | Max Zimmermann | German painter | 67 | |
| December 31 | Minna Kleeberg | German poet | 37 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Adams | English ship's doctor and malacologist | |||
| Judah Alkalai | Rabbi, forerunner of modern Zionism | |||
| John Milton Bigelow | American physician and botanist | |||
| Henri Edouard Dubied | Swiss inventor of the flat knitting machine | |||
| Carl Jakob Otto Felsing | German copper printer and engraver | |||
| Franz Heinrich Frahm | German lawyer and parliamentarian | |||
| Wilhelm Francke | German manor owner and politician (DFP), MdR | |||
| Sebastian Frey | German administrative officer and judge | |||
| Nicolae Golescu | Romanian politician | |||
| Charles Grandgagnage | Belgian Walloonist and lexicographer | |||
| Johann Christian Heerdt | German painter | |||
| Andreas Jeitteles | Austrian physician, writer and politician | |||
| Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarov | Russian monk and sinologist | |||
| Panagiotis Kalkos | Greek architect | |||
| Ioannis Kossos | Greek classicism sculptor | |||
| William Eduard Kraft | German manor owner and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony) | |||
| Alfred T. Lacey | American politician | |||
| Hermann Lebert | German pathologist | |||
| Leberecht Maercker | German instrument maker | |||
| Johannes Mehring | German pioneer of modern beekeeping | |||
| Otto Andreas Lowson Mørch | Danish malacologist | |||
| Nunzio Morello | Italian sculptor | |||
| Eugen Müllner | German manor owner and politician (DFP), MdR | |||
| Mathieu Neven | Dutch-German entrepreneur | |||
| Afanassi Semjonowitsch Rogowitsch | Botanist and paleontologist | |||
| Friedrich Gustav Ruhle | German lawyer and politician, MdHB | |||
| Satanta | Chief of the Kiowa | |||
| Johann Wilhelm Schütze | German painter and university professor | |||
| Gregor von Sengbusch | German-Baltic officer in Russian service | |||
| Johann Gustav Stahn | Prussian lawyer and senior consistorial councilor | |||
| Lidy stinging | German concert singer and salonnière | |||
| Theodor Stocker | Berlin piano maker | |||
| Abraham Tendlau | German folklorist |