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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1875 January 3 Baldassare Galuppi Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at age 68. [1] George Bizet composer, dies. [1] January 18 Joseph Philbrick Webster composer, dies at age 55. [1] January 23 Charles Kingsley English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at age 55. [1] January 25 Leopold Jansa composer, dies at age 79. [1] February 1 William Sterndale Bennett composer, dies at age 58. [1] February 3 Everhardus J Potgieter writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at age 66. [1] February 17 Luís Varela Brazilian romantic poet, dies at age 33. [1] February 19 Jean B Vuillaume French violin maker (octobas), dies at age 76. [1] February 22 Charles Lyell British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at age 77. [1] March 10 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul composer, dies at age 84. [1] March 18 Ferdinand Laub composer, dies at age 43. [1] March 27 Edgar Quinet French writer/historian (Ahasvérus), dies at age 72. [1] March 30 Marie Moke Pleyel composer, dies at age 63. [1] April 7 Georg Herwegh writer, dies at age 57. [1] April 11 Heinrich Schwabe discoverer of 11-year sunspot cycle, dies. [1] April 24 Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura composer, dies at age 58. [1] May 5 Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer Dutch Member of Parliament (1848-75), dies at age 71. [1] May 20 Amalia wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at age 58. [1] May 23 Johann Wilhelm Mangold composer, dies at age 78. [1] July 9 Francis Preston Blair Jr famed Saint Louis lawyer, dies at age 54. [1] July 31 Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at age 66. [1] November 4 "Pacific" collides with "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Washington, 236 dies. [1] December 10 Otogaki Rengetsu zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about age 84. [1] December 20 Michail P Pogodin Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at age 75. [1] December 22 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov composer, dies at age 75. [1] 1876 January 10 Charles EH de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at age 70. [1] February 3 Gino Capponi Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at age 83. [1] February 10 Johan August Soderman composer, dies at age 43. [1] February 21 Henry John Gauntlett composer, dies at age 70. [1] February 24 Jan Pieter Heije Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at age 67. [1] February 28 Charles Edward Horsley composer, dies at age 53. [1] March 4 Alfred Holmes composer, dies at age 38. [1] March 5 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult [Daniel Stern], Fren author, dies at age 70. [1] March 18 F Freiligrath writer, dies at age 65. [1] March 19 Jozef Stefani composer, dies at age 75. [1] April 2 Paul van Vlissingen Dutch ship owner, dies at age 78. [1] April 3 Henriette Davidis writer, dies. [1] April 16 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert composer, dies at age 83. [1] April 19 Samuel Sebastian Wesley composer, dies at age 65. [1] May 7 Franz count of Pocci German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at age 69. [1] May 8 Truganini last originating Tasmanian, dies. [1] May 12 Henri A Esquiros French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at age 63. [1] May 19 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer Dutch historian/politician, dies at age 74. [1] May 20 Harold grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at age 8 days old. [1] Khristo Botev Bulgarian poet, dies. [1] May 24 Henry Kingsley English/Australian writer, dies at age 46. [1] May 26 Frantisek Palacky Czechoslovakia, historian/Member of Parliament, dies at age 77. [1] May 27 Joseph Bosworth lexicographer/scholar, dies. [1] June 21 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at age 82. [1] August 2 Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while. [1] October 18 Francis Preston Blair newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at age 85. [1] December 3 Hermann Goetz composer, dies at age 35. [1] December 20 Hannah Omish at age 12 is youngest ever hanged in US. [1] December 28 Frederik Paludan-Müller Danish poet (Abels död), dies at age 67. [1] 1877 January 4 Cornelius Vanderbilt US robber baron, dies at age 82. [1] January 11 Pietro Romani composer, dies at age 85. [1] January 12 Death of Wilhelm Hofmeister in Lindenau, Germany; botanist, pioneer in comparative plant morphology, professor at the University of Tübingen. [37] February 1 Joseph-Leon Gatayes composer, dies at age 71. [1] March 4 Hendrik E van Rijgersma Dutch Governor (Saint Maarten), dies at age 42. [1] March 9 Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at age 58. [1] March 12 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura composer, dies at age 52. [1] March 24 Walter Bagehot English economist/critic/banker, dies at age 51. [1] March 28 Vincenzo Fioravanti composer, dies at age 77. [1] March 31 Antoine A Cournot French mathematician (rule of C), dies at age 75. [1] April 7 Errico Petrella composer, dies at age 63. [1] May 14 John Roberts composer, dies at age 54. [1] May 29 John Lothrop Motley (History of United Netherlands), dies at age 63. [1] August 29 Brigham Young second president of Mormon Church, dies. [1] September 23 Urbain JJ Leverrier codiscoverer of Neptune, dies. [1] December 10 Federico Ricci composer, dies at age 68. [1] Jared Kirtland US physician/naturalist, dies. [1] December 12 José M de Alencar Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at age 48. [1] December 27 Nikolai A Nekrasov Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at age 56. [1] December 29 Willem Sassen Dutch Attorney General on Curaçao (Affair-S), dies. [1] December 31 Alberto Mazzucato composer, dies at age 64. [1] JD Gustave Courbet French painter (Baigneuses), dies at age 58. [1] 1878 January 9 Victor Emmanuel II king of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at age 57. [1] January 19 Henri V Regnault French physicist/chemist, dies at age 67. [1] February 1 George Cruikshank English illustrator (Grimm), dies at age 85. [1] February 7 Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at age 85. [1] February 8 Elias M Fries Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at age 83. [1] February 17 José Amador de los Ríos Spanish historian/poet, dies at age 59. [1] February 18 Peter D Regout industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at age 76. [1] February 19 Charles F Daubigny French restaurateur/painter, dies at age 61. [1] February 22 Franz Hunten composer, dies at age 84. [1] March 16 William Banting English undertaker, dies. [1] March 24 Albin Masek composer, dies at age 73. [1] March 27 Dobri Voynikov composer, dies at age 44. [1] George Gilbert Scott architect, dies. [1] April 1 Eugene Gautier composer, dies at age 56. [1] April 5 Wilhelm Speyer composer, dies at age 87. [1] April 12 William M "Boss" Tweed New York politician, dies. [1] April 21 Temistocle Solera composer, dies at age 62. [1] April 23 Friedrich Preller landscape painter, dies. [1] May 22 Franz von Holstein composer, dies at age 52. [1] May 27 Carlo Marsili composer, dies at age 49. [1] December 25 Anna Claypoole Peale US painter of miniatures, dies. [1] December 28 Jose Bernardo Alcedo composer, dies at age 90. [1] 1879 January 9 Don Joaquin BF Espartero fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at age 86. [1] January 13 WF Hendrik the Navigator prince of Netherlands/viceroy of Luxembourg, dies at age 58. [1] January 22 Anthony Durnford British Colonel, dies in battle. [1] George Shepstone British political affiliate, dies in battle. [1] January 23 Adolf Jensen composer, dies at age 42. [1] January 29 Antonia MB Antonucci Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at age 80. [1] February 10 Honoré V Daumier French painter/lithographer, dies at age 70. [1] Wolter R baron van Hoëvell Dutch vicar/abolitionist, dies at age 66. [1] February 11 Honore Daumier caricaturist/painter, dies. [1] Willem J van Zeggelen Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at age 67. [1] February 21 Peter P van Bosse Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at age 69. [1] March 13 Adolf Anderssen German world champion chess (1851..66), dies at age 60. [1] March 30 David van der Kellen Dutch coin engraver, dies at age 74. [1] Thomas Couture French painter/author, dies at age 63. [1] April 9 Ernst Friedrich Richter composer, dies at age 70. [1] April 16 Bernadette saint/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France. [1] April 18 Anthony Pannizim principal librarian (British Museum), dies. [1] May 4 William Froude British civil engineer/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at age 68. [1] May 24 William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist (Liberator), dies at age 73. [1] August 27 Sir Rowland Hill introduced postage stamps, dies at age 84. [1] August 30 John B Hood confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at age 48. [1] August 31 William Barber 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies. [1] December 26 Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille dies. [1]