Nekrolog 1879
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This is a list of famous people who died in 1879 . 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 | Thomas Stevenson Drew | American politician, governor of Arkansas | 76 | |
| January 1st | Johann Theodor Ludwig Schröder | German doctor | 79 | |
| January 2nd | Caleb Cushing | American lawyer, politician, and diplomat | 78 | |
| January 3rd | Rudolf Smoking Stone | Swiss philologist, educator and politician | 80 | |
| January 5th | James B. McKean | American officer, lawyer and politician | 57 | |
| January 5th | Wilhelm von Schmeling | Prussian general | 67 | |
| January 8th | Baldomero Espartero | Spanish military and politician | 86 | |
| January 8th | Julian Hartridge | American politician | 49 | |
| January 8th | Ferdo Livadić | composer | 79 | |
| January 8th | Johann Philipp Wagner | Businessman and inventor | 79 | |
| January 9th | Wilhelm of König-Warthausen | Württemberg soldier and politician | 85 | |
| 10. January | Jacob Bigelow | American medic and botanist | 91 | |
| 10. January | Gustav Schleicher | German-American engineer, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician | 55 | |
| 10. January | Franz Xaver Wagner | Swiss politician | 69 | |
| 11th January | Wilhelm von Gayl | Prussian general of the infantry | 64 | |
| January 12th | Halil Serif Pasha | Turkish diplomat, womanizer and art collector | ||
| January 12th | Auguste Ambroise Tardieu | French forensic doctor | 60 | |
| 13th January | Alexander De Witt | American politician | 80 | |
| 13th January | Jakob Dubs | Swiss politician | 56 | |
| 13th January | Julius Frauenstädt | Poet and philosopher | 65 | |
| 13th January | Francis William Kellogg | American businessman, officer and politician | 68 | |
| 13th January | Eduard Kurzbauer | Austrian painter | 38 | |
| 13th January | Heinrich of Orange-Nassau | Prince of the Netherlands | 58 | |
| January 14th | Matthias Pangerl | Bohemian historian and archivist | 44 | |
| January 14th | Hermann von Zulow | Mecklenburg General of the Infantry | 72 | |
| 15. January | Edward Matthew Ward | British painter | 62 | |
| January 18th | Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim | German genre painter | 71 | |
| January 19th | Eduard Hypocrite | German architect and builder | 77 | |
| January 19th | Georg Eduard Steitz | German Protestant theologian and historian | 68 | |
| January 20th | Georg Höhn | German painter | 66 | |
| 21th January | Lyuben Karavelov | Bulgarian poet and brother of the Bulgarian politician Petko Karawelow | 44 | |
| 22nd of January | Henriette von Bissing | German narrator | 80 | |
| 22nd of January | Anthony Durnford | British officer; Commander of the Natal Native Contingent at the Battle of Isandhlwana in 1879 | 48 | |
| 22nd of January | David Kilgore | American politician | 74 | |
| 22nd of January | Guido Sandberger | German geologist and paleontologist | 57 | |
| January 23 | Adolf Jensen | German composer | 42 | |
| January 24th | Hermann Friedrich Emmrich | German paleontologist and geologist | 63 | |
| January 24th | Heinrich Geissler | German physicist and inventor | 64 | |
| January 24th | Carl Frederik Sørensen | Danish marine painter | 60 | |
| January 25th | Friedrich Handtke | German cartographer | 63 | |
| January 26th | John Cadwalader | American lawyer and politician | 73 | |
| January 26th | Julia Margaret Cameron | British photographer | 63 | |
| January 26th | Carl Genzke | German veterinarian, human medicine and parliamentarian | 77 | |
| January 26th | Franz Seraphim Köllerer | German brewery owner and politician (center), MdR | 39 | |
| January 26th | Wilhelm Lotze | German butcher, landlord, guild master and historian | 78 | |
| January 27th | John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence | British Colonial Administrator and Viceroy of India | 67 | |
| January 28th | Heinrich Glax | Austrian historian and politician | 70 | |
| January 28th | Benedict Stilling | German medic | 68 | |
| January 28th | Carl Trotsche | Lawyer and President of the Court of Appeal in Rostock | 75 | |
| January 28th | Hermann Friedrich Waesemann | German architect | 65 | |
| January 29th | Antonio Benedetto Antonucci | Cardinal of the Catholic Church | 80 | |
| January 30th | Moritz Koeppe | German psychiatrist | 46 | |
| 31 January | Dietrich Becker | German Catholic priest, cathedral capitular, cathedral priest | 48 | |
| January | Adam White | scottish zoologist | 61 |
February
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1st | Gustav von Jagow | German civil servant and politician, MdR | 65 | |
| February 1st | Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth | Prussian nobleman and politician | 83 | |
| February 2nd | Michael Berlenz | Franconian merchant | 73 | |
| February 2nd | Adolf Hohneck | German painter and graphic artist | 66 | |
| 3 February | George Cadwalader | American general in the Mexican-American War and the Northern States in the American Civil War | 72 | |
| February 4th | Michael Echter | German painter | 66 | |
| February 5th | Ferdinand Hirt | German bookseller and publisher | 68 | |
| February 5th | Ignatz Kapfhammer | Bavarian politician | 76 | |
| February 5th | Franz Anton von Scharpff | German Catholic theologian | 69 | |
| February 6th | Franz Schneider von Dillenburg | kk major general | 79 | |
| February 6th | Berthold Fischer | Austrian entrepreneur | 72 | |
| February 6th | Hermann Adolph Koehler | German physician and chemist | 44 | |
| February 6th | Carl Voigt | German musician, conductor and choir director | 70 | |
| February 7th | Louis François Clairville | French playwright and librettist | 68 | |
| February 7th | Pascal Coste | French engineer and architect | 91 | |
| February 7th | William Henson Wallace | American politician | 67 | |
| February 8 | Johann Jacob Köpcke | German businessman | 69 | |
| February 8 | Eduard Otto Moser | German chocolate manufacturer | 60 | |
| February 10th | Heinrich Wilhelm Buek | German doctor and botanist | 82 | |
| February 10th | Joseph Casey | American lawyer and politician | 64 | |
| February 10th | Honoré Daumier | French painter, sculptor, graphic artist and caricaturist | 70 | |
| February 10th | Karl Christian Eberhard Ehmann | Lutheran pastor from Württemberg | 71 | |
| February 10th | Paul Gervais | French zoologist and paleontologist | 62 | |
| February 10th | Wolter Robert van Hoëvell | Dutch publicist | 66 | |
| February 11th | Fabre Geffrard | Haitian politician | 72 | |
| February 11th | Christopher Yancy Thomas | American politician | 60 | |
| February 12th | Friedrich Back | German Protestant pastor, superintendent and local researcher | 77 | |
| 14th of February | Karl Kronen | German musician and composer | 81 | |
| 14th of February | Stephen Friel Nuckolls | American politician | 53 | |
| February 16 | Émile Prisse d'Avesnes | French Egyptologist | 72 | |
| February 16 | Karl von Bärensprung | German lawyer, manor owner and politician, MdR | 67 | |
| February 16 | Felix Schumann | Son of Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann | 24 | |
| February 16 | Frederick Smith | British entomologist | 73 | |
| February 16 | Caspar Thywissen | German entrepreneur | 77 | |
| February 17th | David Filby | German optician, mechanic and politician, MdHB | 68 | |
| February 18 | Robert Hall Chilton | General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War | 63 | |
| 20. February | Heinrich Fischer | Mayor of Warburg | 71 | |
| 21st of February | Shir Ali | Emir of Afghanistan | ||
| 21st of February | Pieter Philip van Bosse | Dutch statesman, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1868–1871) | 69 | |
| 21st of February | Jacob Aaron Westervelt | American shipbuilder, Mayor of New York City (1853–1855) | 79 | |
| February 22 | Colin from Halkett | German officer and politician (DHP), MdR | 62 | |
| February 22 | Saint-René Taillandier | French Romanist, comparativeist and historian | 61 | |
| February 23 | Josef Arnold the Elder | Austrian fresco painter | 90 | |
| February 23 | Albrecht von Roon | Prussian officer, most recently field marshal and minister | 75 | |
| February 23 | Georg Gottlieb Schirges | German pharmacist, writer and journalist. Co-founder of the Hamburg labor movement | 67 | |
| February 24th | Abraham B. Hasbrouck | American lawyer and politician | 87 | |
| February 25 | Mathias Joseph Fischer | Trier city original | 56 | |
| February 25 | Vladimir Georgievich Kastrioto-Skanderbek | Russian composer | ||
| February 25 | Hugo Paur | German judges and parliamentarians | ||
| February 25 | Karl Wilhelm von Willisen | Prussian general and military writer | 88 | |
| February 26th | Otto Blau | German orientalist | 50 | |
| February 26th | Franz Leopold Sunshine | German chemist | 61 | |
| February 26th | Karl Ludwig Weisser | Lithographer and art scholar | 55 | |
| 27th of February | Filippo Maria Guidi | Italian cardinal | 63 | |
| February 28 | Julius von Hollen | German lawyer, landowner and member of parliament | 74 | |
| February 28 | Karl Otto von Manteuffel | Prussian civil servant, agriculture minister and member of parliament | 72 | |
| February 28 | Otto von Westarp | Prussian administrative lawyer, district administrator and district president of Gumbinnen | 53 |
March
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st March | Leopold von Eltester | German archivist and historian | 56 | |
| 1st March | Joachim Heer | Swiss politician | 53 | |
| 1st March | Eduard Kierschner | Austrian theater actor and writer | 53 | |
| 2nd March | Jules Bastide | French politician, Foreign Minister of France 1848 | 78 | |
| 2nd March | Wade Keyes | American lawyer and politician | 57 | |
| 2nd March | Jakob Senn | Swiss writer | 54 | |
| 3 March | William Kingdon Clifford | British philosopher and mathematician | 33 | |
| 3 March | Katharina Fröhlich | Fiancé Grillparzers | 78 | |
| 3 March | William Howitt | English writer | ||
| 3 March | Kaspar Offenberg | German politician | 70 | |
| 3 March | Edward Jerningham Wakefield | English politician, publicist, adventurer and representative of the New Zealand Company in New Zealand | 58 | |
| 4th of March | Karl Beck | Austrian opera singer (tenor) | ||
| 4th of March | Pietro Fanfani | poet | 63 | |
| 4th of March | Julie Marie Christine from Oldofredi-Hager | Austrian poet | 66 | |
| 4th of March | László Paál | Hungarian impressionist landscape painter | 32 | |
| 5. March | Luis Padial | Puerto Rican brigadier, politician, and abolitionist | 47 | |
| 5. March | Rosalie von Rauch | Countess of Hohenau | 58 | |
| 6th March | Franz Ferdinand Gellern | German lawyer and politician | 79 | |
| 6th March | Eduard von Kielmansegg | German Royal Hanoverian Prime Minister | 75 | |
| 6th March | Wilhelm Friedrich Volger | German educator, headmaster and historian | 84 | |
| 7th March | Marshall B. Champlain | American lawyer and politician | 54 | |
| 7th March | Anton Hunkeler | Swiss politician | 80 | |
| 7th March | Carl Sandberg | Swedish historian | 80 | |
| 8th of March | Carl von Senden | Prussian civil servant, district president of Köslin (1852-1856) | 70 | |
| 9th March | Alexander Ivanovich Baryatinsky | Russian field marshal | 63 | |
| 9th March | Gaspare Mainardi | Italian mathematician | 78 | |
| March 10th | Wilhelm of Jena | Prussian landowner and politician | 81 | |
| March 10th | Justin Friedrich Wilhelm Löning | German businessman | 82 | |
| March 10th | Paul von Thurn and Taxis | Prince of Thurn and Taxis | 35 | |
| March 11 | Leopold Eichelberg | German doctors and freedom fighters | 74 | |
| March 11 | Eugen von Sperber | German manor owner and politician | 70 | |
| March 13th | Adolf Anderssen | German chess master | 60 | |
| March 13th | Julius Findeisen | German playwright and actor | 69 | |
| March 13th | Gustav Theodor Goll | Württemberg Oberamtmann | 57 | |
| March 16 | Johann Jakob Baader | Swiss doctor, national councilor and district administrator | 68 | |
| March 16 | George Goldthwaite | American lawyer and politician | 69 | |
| March 16 | Werner Adolph Schupmann | German Catholic priest | 63 | |
| 17. March | Jean-Louis Ancrenaz | Swiss politician | 64 | |
| 17. March | David Born | German entrepreneur and urban developer | 61 | |
| 17. March | Emil Hermann Hartwich | German railway engineer | ||
| 17. March | Ludwig Reichenbach | German natural scientist, zoologist and botanist | 86 | |
| 17. March | Adolf Strodtmann | Writer and translator | 49 | |
| March 18th | Adolf von Gerhardt | Prussian district administrator and chief of police | 75 | |
| March 18th | Friedrich Eduard Oberländer | German lawyer and politician | 71 | |
| March 18th | Carl Wilhelm Pauli | German legal scholar, judge and historian | 86 | |
| 19th March | Claire Clairmont | British writer and lover of the poet Lord Byron | 80 | |
| March, 20th | Johann Huber | German publicist and philosopher | 48 | |
| March, 20th | Carl Hugo Tzschucke | German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony) | 70 | |
| March, 20th | Johann Ulrich Wirth | German Protestant theologian and philosopher | 68 | |
| March 21st | Lewis R. Bradley | American politician | 74 | |
| March 21st | William Fell Giles | American lawyer and politician | 71 | |
| March 22 | Johann Daniel Zacharias Burjam | German violinist and church musician | 76 | |
| March 22 | Carl Lill | German painter, draftsman and lithographer | 71 | |
| March 22 | Pavel of Taganrog | Russian clergyman and saint | 86 | |
| March 22 | John George Woodford | British officer and battlefield archaeologist | 94 | |
| March 23 | Tytus Woyciechowski | Polish farmer | 70 | |
| March 24th | Sava Barcianu-Popovici | Romanian cleric, Romanist, Romanianist, Germanist, grammarian and lexicographer | ||
| March 24th | Otto Heinrich Framhein | German businessman, Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Senator | 56 | |
| March 24th | Karl Karmarsch | German technologist | 75 | |
| March 24th | Friedrich Ludwig Weusthoff | German businessman | 83 | |
| 25th March | Georg Friedrich Schömann | German classical philologist | 85 | |
| 26th of March | John M. Coghlan | American politician | 43 | |
| 26th of March | John Milton Elliott | American lawyer and politician | 58 | |
| 27th of March | Dezydery Chłapowski | Polish general | 90 | |
| 27th of March | Hercule Florence | Franco-Brazilian painter, inventor and photography pioneer | 75 | |
| 28th March | Friedrich August Barth | German conservative politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony) | 62 | |
| 28th March | Haywood Yancey Riddle | American politician | 44 | |
| March 29 | William Albert | American politician | 62 | |
| March 30 | Teodoro Cottrau | Italian author and composer | 51 | |
| March 30 | Thomas Couture | French painter | 63 | |
| March 30 | James K. Gibson | American politician | 67 | |
| March 31 | Gustav Justi | German member of the state parliament and manufacturer | 68 |
April
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1st | Julius Evelt | German author and professor of church history and patrology | 55 | |
| April 1st | Paul Migy | Swiss politician | 64 | |
| 2nd of April | Carl Goering | German philosopher and chess master | 37 | |
| 3rd of April | James Augustus Stewart | American lawyer and politician | 70 | |
| 4. April | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove | German physicist and meteorologist | 75 | |
| 4. April | Heinrich Gries | German businessman and politician, MdHB | 71 | |
| 4. April | Elizabeth Patterson | First wife of Jérôme Bonaparte | 94 | |
| April 6th | Josef Berckmüller | German architect, building official of the Grand Ducal Baden | 78 | |
| April 6th | Vincent Gasser | Austrian theologian, philosopher, politician and Prince-Bishop of Brixen | 69 | |
| 7th of April | Johann von Hoffinger | Austrian publicist | 53 | |
| 7th of April | Joseph M. Root | American politician (United States Whig Party) | 71 | |
| April 8th | Asa Fitch | American entomologist | 70 | |
| April 8th | Eduard Fleck | German lawyer | 74 | |
| April 8th | Karl Horn | German Protestant theologian | 84 | |
| April 8th | Alois Lütolf | Swiss church historian and saga collector | 54 | |
| April 8th | James Nicol | Scottish geologist | 68 | |
| April 8th | Anthony Panizzi | Italian librarian and director of the library of the British Museum | 81 | |
| April 8th | Christian Cornelius Paus | Norwegian lawyer and politician | 78 | |
| 9th April | Karl Isidor Beck | Austrian poet | 61 | |
| 9th April | Ernst Friedrich Richter | Leipzig Thomaskantor, professor at the conservatory, music director at the University of Leipzig | 70 | |
| 11 April | Alfred A. Burnham | American politician | 60 | |
| 12. April | August by Fligely | Austrian cartographer, founder of the degree measurement theory | 68 | |
| 12. April | Innokenti Weniaminov | Russian Orthodox saint | 81 | |
| 12. April | Friedrich Pfeiffer | German politician | 63 | |
| 12. April | Richard Taylor | American politician and southern general in the American Civil War | 53 | |
| April 15th | Georg Schambach | German philologist, folklorist and grammar school director | 68 | |
| April 16 | Erik Bodom | Norwegian painter | 49 | |
| April 16 | Peter Kosler | Slovenian topographer | 55 | |
| April 16 | Jacob Jan van der Maaten | Dutch etcher, lithographer and landscape painter | 59 | |
| April 16 | Bernadette Soubirous | French saint | 35 | |
| 17th April | Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg | Prussian civil servant and politician, MdR | 74 | |
| 17th April | Kaspar Willi | Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Chur | 56 | |
| April 19th | Heinrich Carl Kayser | German engineer and chairman of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) | 63 | |
| 20th of April | Gawriil Konstantinowitsch Aivazovsky | Russian orientalist of Armenian descent | 66 | |
| 20th of April | Heinrich Kellinghusen | Hamburg Mayor | 83 | |
| 20th of April | William H. Kelsey | American lawyer and politician | 66 | |
| 20th of April | Ludwig August Riedinger | German entrepreneur | 69 | |
| April 21 | John Adams Dix | American officer and politician | 80 | |
| April 21 | Richard Beissel from Gymnich | German administrative officer, manor owner and court official | 76 | |
| April 21 | Hermann Loew | German entomologist | 71 | |
| April 21 | Hans Lorenz Andreas Vent | German Protestant theologian | 94 | |
| April 22 | August Koehler | German kindergarten teacher, successor to Froebel | 57 | |
| April 22 | Georg Christian Wernle | Württemberg Oberamtmann | 53 | |
| April 23 | Eugenio Aguilar Gonzalez Batres | Supremo Director of El Salvador | 74 | |
| April 23 | Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti | Italian botanist | 79 | |
| April 23 | Andrew Z. McCarty | American lawyer and politician | 70 | |
| April 23 | George Walker | English chess player | 76 | |
| April 24th | Paul Schleifer | Ukrainian artist and architect | 64 | |
| 26th of April | Karl Wilhelm Laßwitz | Politicians and entrepreneurs | 70 | |
| 26th of April | Max Maerz | German organ builder | ||
| 26th of April | Carlo Luigi Morichini | Italian clergyman and apostolic nuncio | 73 | |
| 26th of April | Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville | French inventor | 62 | |
| 26th of April | Theodor Plieninger | German paleontologist and scientist | 83 | |
| April 27 | Alfred Sully | American general in the Civil War and the Indian Wars | 57 | |
| April 28 | Thilo Irmisch | German botanist | 63 | |
| April 28 | James J. Winans | American politician | 60 | |
| April 29 | Teobaldo Cesari | Abbot General of the Cistercians | 75 | |
| April 29 | Rush Clark | American politician | 44 | |
| April 29 | Douglas Hancock Cooper | Confederate General in the American Civil War | 63 | |
| April 29 | Michael Etienne | Austrian journalist and publicist | 51 | |
| April 29 | Friedrich Wilhelm Meinel | German Protestant pastor and politician | 87 | |
| April 29 | Eli Sims Shorter | American politician, governor of Florida | 56 | |
| April 29 | Johann Georg Weibhauser | German painter | 73 | |
| April, 30th | Clinton L. Cobb | American politician | 36 | |
| April, 30th | Thomas Samuel Grace | British missionary in New Zealand | 64 | |
| April | Wilhelm Hollmann | German singer and composer | ||
| April | Lone Wolf | Chief of the Kiowa Indians |
May
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st of May | William Bambridge | British teacher, missionary and a photographer to Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland | 59 | |
| 1st of May | Carl Christian Leberecht Franke | German Protestant theologian | 82 | |
| 2.May | Franz Bockel | German author | 81 | |
| 2.May | Gustav Adolf Kuntz | German sculptor and genre painter | 36 | |
| May 3rd | Richard Laming | English physician, naturalist, inventor, chemist and industrialist | ||
| May 4th | Félix-Charles Douay | French general | 62 | |
| May 4th | William Froude | English marine engineer and researcher in the field of hydrodynamics | 68 | |
| May 4th | Emil Alexander Wilhelm Senff | Justice Commissioner in Poznan Province | 71 | |
| 5th of May | Isaac Butt | Irish lawyer, economist and politician | 65 | |
| 5th of May | Alejandro Ciccarelli | Italian-Chilean painter | 68 | |
| May 6th | Edwin N. Cooke | American businessman and politician (Republican Party) | 69 | |
| May 6th | Georg Heinrich Crola | German painter and draftsman | 74 | |
| May 6th | Hermann Schmalz | German university professor and politician, Member of the Parliament, cultural politician and district administrator in East Prussia | 71 | |
| May 7th | Charles De Coster | Belgian writer | 51 | |
| May 7th | Lauchlan MacLean | German administrative and ministerial officials and parliamentarians | 73 | |
| May 7th | Kaspar Schwarz | Austrian businessman and mayor in Freistadt | 68 | |
| 8th of May | Henry Collen | English painter and photographer | 81 | |
| 8th of May | Dominic Irschara | Provost of the Neustift monastery | 76 | |
| 8th of May | George Petrie | American politician | 85 | |
| May 9 | Karolina Gerhardinger | Sister and founder of the Congregation of the "Poor School Sisters of Our Lady" | 81 | |
| May 9 | Gottfried Götting | German sculptor | 39 | |
| May 9 | August Grisebach | German botanist and university professor | 65 | |
| May 9 | Carl Ferdinand Nieper | German lawyer and politician (DHP), MdR | 67 | |
| 10th of May | Donat Müller | German musician, composer, music teacher, publisher, editor | 75 | |
| May 11th | John Rogers | American politician | 66 | |
| May 11th | Bernhard Wolff | Founder of the Berliner National-Zeitung | 68 | |
| 12th of May | Ludwig Angerer | Austrian photographer | 51 | |
| 12th of May | Samuel Gobat | Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem | 80 | |
| May 14th | Franz Diener | German violinist, composer and opera singer (baritone, tenor) | 30th | |
| May 14th | Gottfried Menzel | German Roman Catholic priest and naturalist | 80 | |
| May 14th | Mary of Parmentier | Austrian painter and graphic artist | 33 | |
| May 14th | Henry Sewell | Prime Minister of New Zealand | 71 | |
| May 15 | George Fife Angas | Australian politician | 90 | |
| May 15 | Ludwig Diestel | German Protestant theologian | 53 | |
| May 15 | Connoisseur Garrard | General of the US Army | 51 | |
| May 15 | John McCulloch | American politician | 72 | |
| May 15 | Gottfried Semper | German architect and university professor | 75 | |
| May 15 | Jakob Stämpfli | Swiss politician | 59 | |
| 17th of May | Asa Packer | American businessman and politician | 73 | |
| 17th of May | Philipp Wilhelm Plessing | Lübeck lawyer, notary and politician | 55 | |
| May 18 | John Berry | American politician | 46 | |
| May 18 | Johannes Merkel | German textile manufacturer | 81 | |
| May 18 | Asahel Peck | American lawyer and politician | 76 | |
| May 18 | Edouard Spach | French botanist | 77 | |
| May 19th | Johannes Theodor von Witzleben | Danish-German actor | 47 | |
| May 20th | Adam Muller | German politician | 64 | |
| May 20th | Carl Wilhelm Schnars | German doctor, archaeologist, journalist and travel writer | 72 | |
| May 20th | Charles Skelton | American politician | 73 | |
| May 21 | Bernhard Fries | German landscape painter | 59 | |
| May 21 | Arturo Prat | Chilean naval hero | 31 | |
| May 22 | Johan Peter Aagaard | Danish xylograph | 61 | |
| May 22 | James Thomas Harrison | Confederate States Politicians | 67 | |
| May 22 | Klaas Peter Reinders | German politician (SPD), MdR | 31 | |
| 23. May | Carl Rudolf Samuel Peiper | German philologist and orientalist | 81 | |
| May 24th | William Lloyd Garrison | American writer and campaigner for the abolition of slavery in the United States | 73 | |
| May 24th | Julius Moser | German portrait painter | 73 | |
| May 24th | Cesare Mussini | German-Italian painter | 74 | |
| 25. May | Karl Heinrich Koch | German botanist | 69 | |
| 25. May | Carl Richtsteig | German politician | 70 | |
| 25. May | Jacob Shower | American politician | 76 | |
| May 26 | Theodor Müllensiefen | German entrepreneur and politician | 76 | |
| May 26 | Valerian Andreevich Ossinsky | Russian terrorist | 26th | |
| May 27th | Epaminondas Deligiorgis | Greek Prime Minister | ||
| May 27th | Joachim Friedrich Ernst Waldemar of Prussia | Prussian prince | 11 | |
| May 27th | Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg | Finnish-Swedish writer | 71 | |
| May 27th | Lothar Schilling | Higher Commercial Judge | 44 | |
| May 27th | Eduard Schön | Austrian Ministerialrat, poet and composer | 54 | |
| May 27th | Samuel Charles Whitbread | British politician | 83 | |
| 28th of May | Johann Classen-Kappelmann | German entrepreneur and politician | 62 | |
| 28th of May | Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené | German industrialist, patron | 55 | |
| 31. May | Johann Christoph Gloy | German theater actor and director | 84 | |
| 31. May | Ebon C. Ingersoll | American politician | 47 | |
| 31. May | Hermann Friedrich Christoph Lehmann | German classical philologist, high school teacher and historian | 57 | |
| 31. May | Johann von Schraudolph | German painter and etcher | 70 |
June
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1st | Napoléon Eugène Louis Bonaparte | Prince of France | 23 | |
| June 1st | Eduard Bost | German opera singer (bass), theater actor and comedian | 66 | |
| June 1st | Carl Giskra | Austrian statesman | 59 | |
| June 1st | Josef Thaddeus Lumbe von Mallonitz | Agricultural specialist and politician | 78 | |
| June 1st | Charles Marville | French photographer | 65 | |
| June 1st | James Shields | American Senator from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri | 73 | |
| 3rd of June | Frances Ridley Havergal | English poet and composer | 42 | |
| 3rd of June | Lionel de Rothschild | British banker and politician | 70 | |
| June 4th | Eduard Basta | German opera singer | 34 | |
| June 4th | Carl Heinrich Dettmer | German educator and politician | 68 | |
| June 4th | Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander | German educator and proverb collector | 75 | |
| June 5th | August Krönig | German chemist and physicist | 56 | |
| 6th of June | Henry Fisk Janes | American politician | 86 | |
| June 7th | Siegfried Kapper | Bohemian writer, translator and doctor of Jewish origin | 59 | |
| June 7th | Martin Joseph Savelsberg | German theologian, philologist and educator | 64 | |
| June 7th | Friedrich Thomas | German portrait and history painter | 73 | |
| 8th June | Wilhelm Mantels | German educator, historian and librarian | 62 | |
| 8th June | Daniel von Schoeler | Prussian officer, most recently lieutenant general | 79 | |
| June 9th | Ludwig Hallberger | German bookseller and publisher | 82 | |
| June 9th | Eduard Osenbrüggen | German-Swiss legal scholar, criminalist and travel writer | 69 | |
| June 9th | Alexander Konstantinowitsch Solowjow | Russian revolutionary | 32 | |
| June 10th | Henry Noel Humphreys | English writer and illustrator | 69 | |
| June 11th | Bernhard Nickel | German forester and politician | 84 | |
| June 11th | William of Orange-Nassau | Prince of Orange-Nassau, Prince of the Netherlands, and eldest son of King Wilhelm III. | 38 | |
| 14th June | Marcus Edinger | Textile manufacturer and member of the Grand Duchy of Hesse | 58 | |
| 14th June | August Bernhardt | German forester | 47 | |
| 14th June | Karl Rosenkranz | German philosopher and Hegel and Denis Diderot biographer | 74 | |
| 15th June | Franklin Corwin | American politician | 61 | |
| 15th June | Ignacio Ramirez | Mexican politician | 60 | |
| June 16 | Joseph Lindner | German Catholic clergyman and politician, MdR | 53 | |
| June 16 | Christian Zöppritz | Member of Parliament for the Grand Duchy of Hesse | 83 | |
| 17th of June | Joseph Sprißler | Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly | 84 | |
| 17th of June | Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto | Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Benevento and Cardinal | 73 | |
| 18th of June | Wilhelm Franz of Bibra | Austrian general | 55 | |
| 18th of June | Frederick W. Green | American politician | 63 | |
| June 19th | Ludwig Waag | Baden Lieutenant General, Prussian Infantry General, Gourverneur of the Rastatt Fortress | 67 | |
| 23rd June | Leopold Blotnitzki | Russian railway engineer | 61 | |
| June 24th | Franz Xaver Chwatal | Czech composer and music teacher | 71 | |
| June 24th | Julius Eduard Ludwig Gensichen | German lawyer, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) (1838–1850) | 81 | |
| June 24th | Charles Hays | American plantation owner and politician, and Confederate officer | 45 | |
| June 24th | Robert M. Knapp | American politician | 48 | |
| 25th June | William Fothergill Cooke | English inventor, worked with Charles Wheatstone on the development of electrical telegraphy | 73 | |
| 25th June | Albert Weber | German-American piano manufacturer | 50 | |
| June 26th | Richard Heron Anderson | General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War | 57 | |
| June 26th | Carl-Friedrich Zimpel | German esotericist | 77 | |
| June 27th | Marguerite Bays | Swiss mystic, blessed | 63 | |
| June 27th | Friedrich Carl Dilchert | German merchant and mayor | 76 | |
| June 27th | Wilhelm Laurop | German forester | ||
| June 28th | Alexander Keith Johnston | British cartographer | 34 | |
| June 28th | Julius Larz | German judge and member of parliament | 73 | |
| June 29th | Albert Borsche | German lawyer and Prussian administrative officer and politician | ||
| June 29th | Fidelis Butsch | German bookseller and bibliophile | 74 | |
| June 29th | Apolinary Kątski | Polish violinist, composer and educator | 53 | |
| June 29th | Hermann Engelhard by Nathusius | German zoologist and animal breeder | 69 | |
| June 29th | Franz Michael Rudhart | German music writer and administrative officer | 49 | |
| June 30th | Maximilian August von Loë | Landowner, MdR | 61 | |
| June 30th | Magnobonus Markmiller | Founder of the Bavarian Province of the Merciful Brothers, and first Provincial | 78 |
July
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Heinrich Leuthold | Swiss poet | 51 | |
| 2nd July | Henri Reymond | Swiss politician | 59 | |
| 2nd July | Franz Waller | Swiss politicians and managers | 75 | |
| 3rd of July | Carl Gottlieb Peschel | German painter of the Nazarenes | 81 | |
| 3rd of July | Fritz Mende | German social democratic politician, President of the Lassalleschen Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein | 35 | |
| July 6th | Jakob Friedrich Reiff | German philosopher; Rector in Tübingen | 68 | |
| July 6th | Henry Smart | English organist and composer | 65 | |
| 7th of July | George Caleb Bingham | American realism painter and politician | 68 | |
| 7th of July | Wilhelm Hertzberg | German philologist and translator, member of the Bremen citizenship | 66 | |
| 7th of July | Abram B. Olin | American lawyer and politician | 70 | |
| 7th of July | Béla Wenckheim | Austro-Hungarian politician | 68 | |
| July 9 | Theoctist Blazewicz | Orthodox metropolitan, theologian, grammarian and Romanist from Bukovina | 72 | |
| July 9 | Georg Aenotheus Koch | German classical philologist and lexicographer | 76 | |
| 10th of July | Gideon from Camuzi | German landlord, mayor and member of the Bavarian state parliament | 79 | |
| 10th of July | Peter von Drachenfels | Courland district marshal | 84 | |
| July 11th | William Allen | American politician | 75 | |
| July 11th | Georg David Hardegg | Founder of the German Temple Society | 67 | |
| July 11th | Jacques-Antoine Moerenhout | Belgian businessman, adventurer, diplomat and travel writer | 83 | |
| July 11th | Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener | German painter | 67 | |
| July 12 | Friedrich von Specht | Hessian major general, Prussian lieutenant general, author | 75 | |
| July 13th | Robert Schlumberger from Goldeck | Austrian sparkling wine producer and entrepreneur | 64 | |
| July 14th | Auguste Barbereau | French composer | 79 | |
| July 14th | Thomas Maclear | British astronomer | 85 | |
| July 14th | Marcello | Swiss painter and sculptor | 43 | |
| 15th of July | Johann Friedrich von Brandt | German naturalist, doctor, zoologist and botanist | 77 | |
| 16th of July | Alexander Cummings | American politician, governor of Colorado | 68 | |
| 16th of July | Konrad Martin | Bishop of Paderborn | 67 | |
| 16th of July | Maria Theresa of Savoy | Daughter of King Victor Emmanuel I | 75 | |
| 16th of July | Ignaz von Schurda | Austrian civil servant and politician | 57 | |
| 17th July | Maurycy Gottlieb | Polish painter | ||
| 17th July | George Gillis Haanen | Dutch landscape, portrait and genre painter | 71 | |
| 17th July | Vinzenz Schlechta von Wschehrd | Austrian officer | 80 | |
| July 18th | William Farquhar Barry | General of the US Army | 60 | |
| July 18th | Wilhelm Denhard | German politician | 71 | |
| July 18th | Karl von Weber | German historian | 73 | |
| July 19 | George William Drory | British engineer and gas company contractor | 76 | |
| July 19 | Louis Favre | Swiss engineer, responsible for the construction of the Gotthard tunnel | 53 | |
| July 19 | Carl Georg von Sievers | Russian archaeologist | 64 | |
| 20th of July | Detloff Karsten | German lawyer, Mayor of Rostock | 91 | |
| 21 July | Heinrich Langethal | German educator | 86 | |
| July 23 | Karl Sell | German legal scholar | 69 | |
| July 25th | Marie-Pierre Hamel | French organ builder and judge | 93 | |
| July 25th | Heinrich Heppe | Protestant theologian, dogmatist and church historian | 59 | |
| July 25th | Hermann Krupp | Austrian entrepreneur | 65 | |
| July 25th | Ferdinand Ochs | Prussian administrative officer | 55 | |
| July 26th | Robert Ward Johnson | American politician | 65 | |
| July 27th | Friedrich von Gerolt | German politician and ambassador (Washington DC, USA) | 82 | |
| July 27th | Wilhelm Lotz | German architect and art historian | 49 | |
| July 28th | Wilhelm of Mecklenburg | Prussian officer, most recently general | 52 |
August
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1st | Wenzel Babinsky | bohemian robber | 82 | |
| August 1st | Rudolph Anton Lucas von Cranach | German politician, MdR | 55 | |
| August 1st | August Geib | German early socialist poet, bookseller and politician (ADAV, SPD), MdR | 37 | |
| August 1st | Albert von Obernitz | Prussian major general | 75 | |
| August 2nd | Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki | Polish writer | 72 | |
| 3rd August | Joseph Severn | English painter | 85 | |
| 3rd August | August von Wächter | German diplomat and minister | 72 | |
| 5th of August | Charles Albert Fechter | French-English actor | 54 | |
| 5th of August | Johann von Lamont | Scottish-German astronomer and physicist | 73 | |
| 6th of August | Charles Bontems | Swiss politician, general manager and judge | 83 | |
| 6th of August | Georg Christoph Levison | German trading pioneer and explorer | 34 | |
| August 7th | August by Cetto | royal Bavarian diplomat, state councilor and chamberlain | 84 | |
| August 7th | Lovrenc Košir | Austrian civil servant, pioneer of the postage stamp | 75 | |
| 8th August | Immanuel Hermann Fichte | German theologian and philosopher | 83 | |
| 8th August | Friedrich Scheffer | German conservative politician in the Electorate of Hesse | 78 | |
| August 9 | Louise Beck | German mystic | 57 | |
| August 10 | George Long | English classical philologist and scholar | 78 | |
| August 10 | Louis Vulliemin | Swiss historian | 81 | |
| August 11th | Jan Swerts | Belgian painter | 58 | |
| 12. August | Peter Heise | Danish composer | 49 | |
| August 14th | Franz August Eichmann | Prussian Minister of the Interior | 86 | |
| August 16 | Johann Huber | Swiss clergyman | 67 | |
| August 16 | Aloys Pollender | German doctor and discoverer of the anthrax pathogen | 80 | |
| 17th August | Otto Funke | German physiologist and university professor | 50 | |
| 17th August | Theodor Witte | German administrative lawyer and insurance manager | 68 | |
| 20th of August | Leroy Welsh | American lawyer and politician | 35 | |
| August 21 | Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn | Scottish-British lawyer and politician | 65 | |
| August 21 | Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck | German manor owners and parliamentarians | 39 | |
| August 21 | Ludwig Vogel | Swiss painter | 91 | |
| August 22nd | Octave Delepierre | Belgian diplomat and historian | 75 | |
| August 22nd | Friedrich August Kummer the Younger | German cellist and composer | 82 | |
| August 22nd | Dmytro Lysohub | Ukrainian populist and revolutionary in the Russian Empire | 30th | |
| August 24th | Théodore de Montpellier | Belgian clergyman, Bishop of Liège | 72 | |
| August 24th | John C. Ten Eyck | American politician | 65 | |
| August 25 | William Duer | American politician and lawyer | 74 | |
| August 25 | Johann Friedrich Eich | Teachers and politicians | 67 | |
| 26th of August | Josep Caixal i Estradé | Co-Prince of Andorra, Bishop of Urgell | 76 | |
| 26th of August | Edouard Chassaignac | French surgeon | 74 | |
| August 27 | Rowland Hill | Reformer of the English postal system | 83 | |
| August 27 | Henriette Nissen-Saloman | Swedish opera singer | 60 | |
| August 28th | Squidward from Chlapowski | Prussian manor owner and politician | 53 | |
| August 28th | Isidoro La Lumia | Italian politician and historian | 55 | |
| 29th August | Rees Bowen | American politician | 70 | |
| 29th August | Jeanne Jugan | French founder of the order and saint of the Roman Catholic Church | 86 | |
| 29th August | Ernst Vogel | German theologian and politician | 68 | |
| August 30th | John Bell Hood | Confederate General in the American Civil War | 48 | |
| August 30th | Olivier Sarony | Photographer, daguerreographer | ||
| August | Alphonse Thys | French composer | 72 |
September
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1 | Sixt Karl Kapff | German Protestant theologian, Pietist | 73 | |
| September 2nd | Bernhard Becker | Swiss Protestant clergyman and social politician | 60 | |
| September 2nd | John Dougherty | American politician | 78 | |
| September 3 | Louis Cavagnari | British officer | 38 | |
| September 4th | Edward Blore | British architect | 91 | |
| 5th September | Adolf Harleß | German theologian | 72 | |
| 5th September | John Kerr Junior | American politician | 68 | |
| September 6th | Amédée de Noé | French cartoonist | 60 | |
| 7th of September | Shepherd Leffler | American politician | 68 | |
| 7th of September | George Westermann | German publisher | 69 | |
| September 8th | Johannes Amsinck | German businessman, entrepreneur and patron | 87 | |
| September 8th | William Morris Hunt | American painter | 55 | |
| September 8th | Nikolai Ivanovich Saremba | Russian music theorist and composer | 58 | |
| September 8th | Georg Schmitz | Member of Parliament for the Grand Duchy of Hesse | 60 | |
| September 10 | Heinrich Gossler | German businessman | 74 | |
| September 11 | John D. McCrate | American politician | 76 | |
| 12th September | Chapin Hall | American politician | 63 | |
| 13.september | William Wilson Saunders | British botanist and entomologist | 70 | |
| September 14th | Bernhard von Cotta | German geologist and mining scientist | 70 | |
| September 14th | Pryor Lea | American politician | 85 | |
| 16th September | Georg Friedrich Boehringer | German theologian | 66 | |
| 17th of September | Eugène Viollet-le-Duc | French architect, monument conservator and art historian | 65 | |
| September 18 | Josef Cosack | German industrialist | 78 | |
| September 18 | Daniel Drew | American businessman | 82 | |
| September 18 | Malbim | Orthodox rabbi, opponent of the reform movement | ||
| September 20th | William Valk | American doctor and politician | 72 | |
| 21st September | Bernhard Joseph Féaux | German teacher and scientific author | 58 | |
| 21st September | Gregorio Juárez Sacasa | Nicaraguan politician and (from October 19 to November 15, 1857) member of the government junta | 79 | |
| September 22 | Asahel W. Hubbard | American politician | 60 | |
| September 22 | Nina Sontag | German actress and nun | 67 | |
| September 23rd | Gustav Ritter von Epstein | Austrian industrialist and banker | ||
| September 23rd | James Nack | American poet | 70 | |
| 25th of September | Theodor Guilleaume | German entrepreneur, hemp and wire rope manufacturer | 67 | |
| September 26th | Théodore Bachelet | French historian | 59 | |
| September 26th | Colin Francis MacKinnon | Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop | 69 | |
| September 26th | Joseph de Mose Piza | German rabbi, cantor, journalist and translator | 55 | |
| September 26th | José Antonio Saco | Cuban journalist | 82 | |
| September 27th | Nathan Evans | American politician | 75 | |
| September 27th | Henry How | Canadian chemist, geologist and mineralogist | ||
| September 27th | Ludwig Georg von Oertzen | District Administrator, member of the Reichstag | 75 | |
| September 28th | August Braun | German politician (NLP), MdR | 58 | |
| September 28th | Karl Friedrich Mohr | German scientist and pharmacist | 72 | |
| September 28th | John Wise | American balloonist of German descent | 71 | |
| September 29th | Eduard Fenzl | Austrian botanist | 71 | |
| September 29th | Emil Wolff | German sculptor | 77 | |
| 30. September | Félicien Chapuis | Belgian entomologist | 55 | |
| 30. September | Francis Gillette | American politician | 71 | |
| 30. September | Josif Sokolski | Bulgarian clergyman, first head of the Bulgarian Catholic Church | ||
| 30. September | Friedrich Tamnau | German banker, mineralogist and mineral collector | 76 |
October
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Ernst von Hartung | Austrian Feldzeugmeister and military theorist | 71 | |
| 4th of October | Marcus Junius Parrott | American politician | 50 | |
| October 6th | Charles Fortuné Willermoz | French pomologist | 75 | |
| October 6th | Joseph Wispauer | German businessman, innkeeper and member of the Bavarian state parliament | 94 | |
| October 7th | Joseph Gürster | Bavarian judge, member of the state parliament and member of the customs parliament | 67 | |
| October 7th | William Henry Pope | Canadian politician | 54 | |
| 8th October | Horatio Ballard | American lawyer and politician | 76 | |
| 8th October | Miguel Grau Seminario | Peruvian admiral | 45 | |
| 8th October | George Vickers | American politician | 77 | |
| 9th October | Isaiah D. Clawson | American politician | 57 | |
| 9th October | Julius Albert Gruchot | German legal scholar and lawyer | 74 | |
| 9th October | Alexander McKinstry | American politician | 57 | |
| October 10th | Carl Theodor Giller | Sailor, legionnaire, district administrator and member of parliament | 74 | |
| October 11th | Abner Lewis | American politician | 78 | |
| October 12th | Karl Bernhard Stark | German classical archaeologist | 55 | |
| October 13th | Henry Charles Carey | American economist | 85 | |
| October 13th | Kawaji Toshiyoshi | Japanese samurai, modernizer of the Japanese police force | 45 | |
| October 13th | Adalbert Mueller | German writer and regional historian | 77 | |
| October 13th | Gustav von Neumann-Cosel | Prussian lieutenant general | 60 | |
| October 14th | Heinrich Brück | German and mayor of the city of Worms | 64 | |
| October 14th | Karl Anton Eckert | German composer and Kapellmeister | 58 | |
| October 14th | Ferdinand Kürnberger | Austrian writer | 58 | |
| 15th October | Friedrich Daniel Erhard | German coroner and spa doctor | 79 | |
| 15th October | George Washington Patterson | American politician | 79 | |
| 15th October | George A. Starkweather | American lawyer and politician | 85 | |
| October, 16th | Karl Dernfeld | German architect and Baden construction officer, district building inspector in Baden-Baden | 48 | |
| October, 16th | Sergei Mikhailovich Solovyov | Russian historian | 59 | |
| October, 16th | Ludwig Adolf Spach | Alsatian historian and novelist | 79 | |
| October 17th | Alfred Henry Garrod | English zoologist, physiologist and university professor | 33 | |
| October 17th | John Miers | British botanist and civil engineer | 90 | |
| October 18 | Stephen A. Corker | American politician | 49 | |
| October 19th | August Georg von Wickede | German forester | 72 | |
| the 20th of October | Bernhard Ernst von Bülow | Danish and German statesman | 64 | |
| the 20th of October | Marcus Cassirer | German textile manufacturer and Senator (Bavaria) | ||
| the 20th of October | Friedrich Wilhelm Theile | German medic | 77 | |
| October 21 | Adam Ney | German sculptor | 79 | |
| 23rd October | Carl Ludwig Scheins | German landscape painter | 71 | |
| October 24th | Édouard-Théophile Blanchard | French painter | 35 | |
| October 24th | Johann Baptist Dähler | Swiss politicians (Catholic Conservatives) | 70 | |
| October 24th | José Pedro Varela | Uruguayan politician, sociologist, writer and journalist | 34 | |
| October 25 | Georg von Meyendorff | German-Baltic, Russian officer, most recently General of the Cavalry, Adjutant General of the Tsar and President of the Evangelical Lutheran General Consistory in Imperial Russia | 84 | |
| October 26th | Heinrich Gustav Plitt | Lübeck Senator | 61 | |
| October 27 | Ludwig von Bodelschwingh | German politician | 68 | |
| October 27 | Heinrich Kreutz | German industrialist and politician (DFP), MdR | 71 | |
| October 27 | John Wilkins Whitfield | American politician | 61 | |
| 28th of October | Busso XVI. from Alvensleben | General and court marshal of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | 87 | |
| 28th of October | Adalbert Inama | Austrian premonstratensian and missionary | 80 | |
| 28th of October | Robert Römer | German legal scholar and politician (DP), MdR | 56 | |
| October 29th | Mathew Duncan Ector | American politician, lawyer, and Confederate Brigadier General in the Civil War | 57 | |
| October 29th | Isaac N. Morris | American politician | 67 | |
| 30th of October | James M. Cavanaugh | American politician | 56 | |
| 30th of October | Friedrich Haagen | German philologist and historian | 73 | |
| October 31 | Jacob Abbott | American youth writer | 75 | |
| October 31 | Joseph Hooker | General of the Northern States in the American Civil War | 64 | |
| October 31 | Theophil von Podbielski | Prussian general of the cavalry | 65 |
November
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1st | Zachariah Chandler | American politician | 65 | |
| November 2 | David Unicorn | American reform rabbi of German origin | 69 | |
| November 2 | Carl d'Ester | German music director | 40/41 | |
| November 2 | Caesar Klose | German judges and parliamentarians | ||
| November 3rd | Joseph Poelaert | Belgian architect | 62 | |
| November 4th | Friedrich Wilhelm Schneider | German forest scientist and mathematician | 78 | |
| November 5th | James Clerk Maxwell | Scottish physicist | 48 | |
| November 7th | Lotte room | Carpenter and carer for Friedrich Hölderlin | 65 | |
| November 8th | Jan Baranowski | Polish astronomer | 78 | |
| November 8th | Christian Adolf Lenk | German deacon and Protestant pastor | 78 | |
| November 9th | Johann Rudolf Ringier | Swiss politician | 82 | |
| November 10th | Karl Bernth | Bohemian poet and lawyer | 77 | |
| November 10th | Johann Barthlmä Leon | Austrian printer and publisher bookseller | 77 | [1] |
| November 10th | Richard Schell | American politician | 69 | |
| November 11th | Louis Désiré Besozzi | French composer, organist and pianist | 65 | |
| November 11th | Johannes Seeberger | Austrian chess composer | 36 | |
| November 11th | Johann Baptista von Tscharner | Swiss lawyer and politician | 64 | |
| November 12th | Jean-Charles Chenu | French zoologist (malacologist) | 71 | |
| November 12th | Jakob Heine | German physician and discoverer of spinal polio | 79 | |
| November 13th | Carl Friedrich August Kühnscherf | Master locksmith and head master (chairman of a guild) in Dresden | 71 | |
| 15th of November | Friedrich Wilhelm Riese | German librettist and playwright | ||
| November 16 | Charles-Joseph-Benoît d'Argenteau | Belgian diplomat of the Holy See, Archbishop and Nuncio in Munich | 92 | |
| November 16 | Benning W. Jenness | American politician | 73 | |
| November 16 | Franz Anton Schiefner | German-Baltic linguist and ethnologist | 62 | |
| November 18 | Michel Chevalier | French economist and free trader | 73 | |
| 18./19. November | Josef Lasser from Zollheim | Austrian lawyer and politician | 65 | |
| November 18 | August Ferdinand Siemßen | Merchant and Senator of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck | 67 | |
| November 18 | Heinrich von Werthern | Prussian administrative officer | 40 | |
| November 19th | Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński | Polish poet | 62 | |
| November 19th | Takatsukasa Sukehiro | Japanese Kampaku for Kōmei | 71 | |
| 20th November | Carl Wolfgang von Ballestrem | German majorate and industrialist | 78 | |
| 21st November | Benjamin Franklin Mudge | American lawyer, geologist, paleontologist, and teacher | 62 | |
| 22nd of November | Edmund Strother Dargan | American lawyer and politician | 74 | |
| 22nd of November | Friedrich Havenstein | German politician | 46 | |
| November 23 | Maria Caroline Gibert de Lametz | Princess of Monaco | 86 | |
| November 23 | Johan Waldenström | Swedish doctor | ||
| November 24th | Knut Baade | Norwegian painter | 71 | |
| 25. November | Ferdinand Nägele | German locksmith, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Württemberg state parliament | 71 | |
| November 26th | Charles Spackman Barker | English organ builder | ||
| November 26th | Carl Eduard Hering | German teacher, organist and composer | 72 | |
| November 27th | Eleuterio Ramírez Molina | Chilean national hero in the saltpeter war (1879–1883) | 42 | |
| November 28th | Henry Nicoll | American lawyer and politician | 67 | |
| November 28th | Friedrich Stehfen | German farmer, founder of a reform home and a preparatory institute | 70 | |
| November 29th | Heinrich Dorn | German politician in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies (United Liberals) | ||
| November 29th | Friedrich Michael Münzing | Stearin candle manufacturer in Heilbronn | 72 | |
| November 29th | Kaspar von Steinsdorf | German lawyer, Mayor of Munich | 82 | |
| 30th of November | Vilhelm Bjerring | Danish Romanist and politician | 74 | |
| 30th of November | August Bournonville | Danish dancer and choreographer | 74 | |
| 30th of November | Johannes Wildberger | Swiss instrument maker and lay practitioner in orthopedics | 64 |
December
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 | Franz Ittenbach | German painter who belonged to the Düsseldorf group of Nazarenes | 66 | |
| December 1 | Carl Weyhe | German administrative officer | 90 | |
| 2. December | Ferdinand Lindheimer | German-American botanist and publisher | 78 | |
| December 5th | Albert Berndt | German lawyer and parliamentarian | 59 | |
| December 5th | Thomas Fulter | German-French Mayor, Member of the State Parliament | 47 | |
| December 5th | Carl Wilhelm Huebner | German painter | 65 | |
| December 5th | Karl von Müller | German landowner, councilor and politician (DHP), MdR | 69 | |
| December 5th | Hermann Siegfried | Swiss cartographer and officer | 60 | |
| 6th of December | William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland | British aristocrat | 79 | |
| 6th of December | Winthrop Welles Ketcham | American lawyer and politician | 59 | |
| December 7th | Jakob Meinrad Hegner | Swiss politician | 66 | |
| December 7th | Anton Langer | Austrian writer and journalist | 55 | |
| December 7th | Jón Sigurðsson | Champion for Iceland's independence | 68 | |
| December 7th | Adolf Georg Jakob von Thaden | jurist | 50 | |
| December 8th | Friedrich Hoffmann | Baden Minister of War | 84 | |
| December 8th | Alfred Morrison Lay | American politician | 43 | |
| December 8th | Anton Teichlein | German painter | 59 | |
| 9th of December | Christian Peter Hansen | German chronicler of the island of Sylt and teacher | 76 | |
| 9th of December | Jacob Albert Jacobs | Belgian landscape painter | 67 | |
| 9th of December | Alexander Sadebeck | German mineralogist and geologist | 36 | |
| 9th of December | Carl Steinhäuser | German sculptor | 66 | |
| 11th December | Amos Tuck | American politician | 69 | |
| 13th December | Ferdinand Walter | German lawyer | 85 | |
| 13th December | Julius Witt | German theater actor and director | 44 | |
| December 14th | Heinrich Christian Burckhardt | German forest scientist | 68 | |
| December 14th | Moriz Gmelin | German archivist | 40 | |
| December 14th | Claude-Étienne Minié | French inventor | 75 | |
| December 14th | Darwin Phelps | American politician | 72 | |
| 15th December | August Thieme | German-American journalist and politician | 58 | |
| December 16 | Buckner Stith Morris | American politician | 79 | |
| December 16 | Johann Eduard Wappäus | German geographer and author | 67 | |
| December 17th | Friedrich Wilhelm Grosman | German lawyer and politician (center), MdR | 63 | |
| December 17th | Rudolf Reichenau | German writer | 62 | |
| December 18th | Friedrich Emmerling | German politician | 78 | |
| December 18th | Charles Mourain de Sourdeval | French Romance studies and dialectologist | 79 | |
| December 18th | Johann Jakob Stehlin the Elder | Swiss politician (FDP) | 76 | |
| 19. December | Franz Boll | German physician and physiologist | 30th | |
| 20th of December | Udo Gebhard Ferdinand von Alvensleben | Member of the Prussian manor house | 65 | |
| 20th of December | Abner Hazeltine | American politician | 86 | |
| 23rd of December | Giovanni Cavalli | Italian lieutenant general | 71 | |
| 24th of December | Anna Bochkoltz | German singer and composer | 64 | |
| 24th of December | Friedrich Gull | German poet | 67 | |
| 24th of December | Eduard Friedrich Leybold | Austrian portrait painter | 81 | |
| 25 December | Giuseppe Avezzana | Italian general | ||
| 25 December | Rudolf Buchheim | German physician and pharmacologist | 59 | |
| December 26th | Karl Fritsch | Austrian geophysicist and meteorologist | 67 | |
| December 27th | Arnold Kock | German entrepreneur | 57 | |
| December 28th | George Storrs | American preacher | 83 | |
| December 29th | Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre | Brazilian poet | 73 | |
| December 29th | Juan Zavala de la Puente | Prime Minister of Spain | 75 | |
| 30th of December | Jean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval | French entomologist, botanist and doctor | 80 | |
| 30th of December | Adelardo López de Ayala | Spanish poet and politician | 50 | |
| 30th of December | Andreas David Mordtmann | German orientalist | 68 | |
| 30th of December | Samuel Stockton White | American inventor, dentist, and science writer | 57 | |
| December 31 | Karl Ferdinand Dräxler | Austrian publicist, poet, storyteller and translator | 73 | |
| December 31 | George S. Houston | American politician, governor and senator | 68 | |
| December 31 | Friedrich Leybold | German botanist | 52 | |
| December 31 | Alexander Pagenstecher | German ophthalmologist, founder of the ophthalmic institute in Wiesbaden | 51 | |
| December 31 | Mutius by Tommasini | Austrian botanist and politician | 85 |
Date unknown
| Day | Surname | Profession known as | Age | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludwig Achenbach | German lawyer and politician | |||
| Jules Anspach | Belgian politician | |||
| Jakob Becker | German-born piano maker | |||
| Michael Abraham Behrens | German fur trader and first Jewish local politician in Hanover | |||
| Ernst Philipp Berckemeyer | German landowners and politicians | |||
| Carlo Boniforti | Italian composer, organist and music teacher | |||
| Franz Anton Buscher | American sculptor and wood carver | |||
| Karl Friedrich Deiters | German economist and parliamentarian | |||
| Hans Gustav Dittenberger of Dittenberg | German painter | |||
| Hermann Doergens | German historian | |||
| Hermann Emden | German lithographer and photographer | 64 | ||
| Louis Faure | Landscape painter and lithographer | |||
| Carl Goetz | German administrative officer | |||
| Ernst Carl Külbel | German officer of the Braunschweig body battalion | |||
| Little Thunder | Leader of the Lakota Indians | |||
| Joseph McCormick | American lawyer and politician | |||
| Pietro Musone | Italian composer | |||
| François Proth | French mathematician | |||
| Friedrich Raht | German administrative officer | |||
| Hermann Ludwig Seefisch | German landscape, genre and portrait painter | |||
| Jakob Friedrich Studer | Swiss architect | |||
| Hans Friedrich Georg Julius Sudendorf | German historian and state archivist | |||
| Aristotelis valaoritis | Greek poet | |||
| Constantin Vanotti | German businessman | |||
| Wilhelm Versing | German theater actor and opera singer (bass / baritone) | |||
| Vartan Paşa | Ottoman-Armenian author and civil servant |