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Last updated: 2008 October 2.

1880 January 4 Anselm Feuerbach German painter, dies. [1] January 8 [Joshua] Norton I Emperor of US/Protector of México, dies at age 60. [1] January 12 Ida Gräfin von Hahn-Hahn author (Aus der Gesellschaft), dies at age 74. [1] February 10 Isaäc M "Isaac A" Crémieux French minister of Justice, dies at age 83. [1] March 15 Jan K J de Jonge Dutch historian, dies at age 51. [1] March 23 Gustav Adolf Mankell composer, dies at age 67. [1] March 25 Joseph Rummel composer, dies at age 61. [1] Ludmilla Assing writer, dies. [1] March 26 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer, dies at age 62. [1] March 28 Achille Peri composer, dies at age 67. [1] Eelco Refer linguistic (Oera Linda Book?), dies at age 49. [1] March 29 Jakob Axel Josephson composer, dies at age 62. [1] March 31 Henryk Wieniawski Polish violist/composer, dies at age 44. [1] April 7 Diederich Krug composer, dies at age 58. [1] April 23 Guess Saleh [Sarief Bastaman] Javanese painter, dies. [1] May 8 Gustave Flaubert French writer (Salammbô), dies. [1] May 9 Johann Hermann Berens composer, dies at age 54. [1] May 10 John Goss composer/organist, dies at age 79. [1] May 16 Karl August Krebs composer, dies at age 76. [1] May 20 Eugène prince the Ligne Belgian prince of Ambise, dies at age 76. [1] May 22 Heinrich Freiherr von Gagern German liberal politician, dies at age 80. [1] May 26 John Curwen composer, dies at age 63. [1] December 2 Josephine Lang composer, dies at age 65. [1] December 12 Michel Chasles French mathematician (geometry), dies at age 83. [1] December 15 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello Italian minister of Justice, dies at age 76. [1] December 22 George Eliot Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday. [1] December 27 Alessandro Nini composer, dies at age 75. [1] 1881 January 30 Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens Flemish composer, dies at age 58. [1] February 2 Aleksej F Pisemski Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at age 59. [1] February 5 Thomas Carlyle historian/essayist, dies in London at age 85. [1] February 6 Pieter Mijer Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1866-72), dies at age 68. [1] February 7 Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at age 73. [1] February 9 Feodor M Dostoevski Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at age 59. [1] February 27 George Colley British governor of Natal/General, dies in battle at age 46. [1] March 13 Alexander II Tsar of Russia, assassinated at age 62. [1] March 15 Emory Upton US Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at age 42. [1] March 16 Modest P Mussorgsky Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at age 42. [1] March 23 Nikolay Rubinstein composer, dies at age 45. [1] March 24 Friedrich Hecker German revolutionary republic politician, dies at age 69. [1] March 28 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky composer, dies at age 42. [1] March 31 Gaetano Gaspari composer, dies at age 73. [1] April 7 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte Corsican Member of Parliament, dies at age 65. [1] April 11 Kristian Mandrup Elster Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at age 40. [1] April 16 George William Martin composer, dies at age 56. [1] April 19 Benjamin Disraeli first Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies. [1] Michel Abeloos Flemish sculptor, dies at age 53. [1] April 27 Ludwig A Benedek Austrian General, dies at age 76. [1] April 28 Robert W Ollinger US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies. [1] May 3 Josip Jurcic Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies. [1] May 11 Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at age 59. [1] May 23 Leopold von Ranke historian, dies. [1] May 24 Samuel Palmer landscape painter, dies. [1] June 3 Japanese giant salamander dies in Dutch zoo at age 55; oldest amphibian. [1] July 15 William "Billy the Kid" Bonney killed by Pat Garrett. [1] September 19 James A Garfield US president, dies of gunshot wound. [1] December 7 Julius FA Bahnsen German philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at age 51. [1] December 13 August Senoa Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at age 43. [1] December 17 Lewis H Morgan US ethnologist (Iroquois-Indians), dies at age 62. [1] 1882 January 3 William H Ainsworth English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at age 76. [1] January 18 Birth of Alan Alexander Milne; English author (Winnie-the-Pooh), dies 1956. [1] [5] January 20 John Linnell British painter/miniaturist/engraver, dies. [1] January 21 Anton Emil Titl composer, dies at age 72. [1] January 25 Peter Singer composer, dies at age 71. [1] February 2 Fabio Campana composer, dies at age 63. [1] February 3 Guglielmo Quarenghi composer, dies at age 55. [1] February 11 Gustav Schmidt composer, dies at age 65. [1] February 13 Henry Highland Garnet diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at age 66. [1] March 2 Louis Kufferath composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 16 Charles R Darwin English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at age 73. [1] March 18 Morgan Earp brother of Wyatt Earp, shot and killed while playing billiards in Tombstone. [1] March 24 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at age 75. [1] April 3 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken composer, dies at age 71. [1] Jesse James outlaw, shot dead at age 34, in Saint Joseph Missouri by Robert Ford. [1] April 9 Dante Gabriel Rossetti poet/pre-Raphaelite painter, dies at age 53. [1] Jules Quicherat French historian/archaeologist (Mélanges), dies at age 66. [1] April 19 Charles Robert Darwin evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies. [1] April 25 Johann CF Zöllner German astronomer (astro photography), dies. [1] April 27 Ralph Waldo Emerson US poet (Representive Men), dies. [1] May 6 Lord Frederick Cavendish assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin. [1] Thomas Henry Burke assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin. [1] May 13 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux French explorer, murdered at age 35. [1] June 2 Guiseppi Garibaldi Italian rebel leader, dies at age 74. [1] July 2 James Garfield assassinated by "job-seeker". [1] August 1 Henry Kendall Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at age 43. [1] December 6 A Trollope writer, dies. [1] December 31 Léon Michel Gambetta French attorney/premier (1881-82), dies at age 44. [1] 1883 January 4 Nicolas Ledesma composer, dies at age 91. [1] January 21 Jacopo Tomadini composer, dies at age 62. [1] January 23 Gustave Doré French illustrator, dies at age 51. [1] January 24 Friedrich von Flotow German baron/composer, dies at age 70. [1] February 1 Pavel Melnikov Russian historian/author, dies. [1] February 13 Pavel Melnikov [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at age 64. [1] Wilhelm Richard Wagner German composer (Die Walküre), dies in Venice at age 69. [1] February 17 Napoleon Coste composer, dies at age 76. [1] March 4 Alexander H Stephens Vice President Confederate States, dies at age 71. [1] March 12 Murrumgunarriman [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies. [1] March 14 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at age 64. [1] [5] March 15 Karol Studzinski composer, dies at age 55. [1] April 18 Agnes Tyrrell composer, dies at age 36. [1] April 22 Octave Fouque composer, dies at age 38. [1] May 17 Lydia Estes Pinklham patent-medicine manufacturer, dies. [1] May 20 William Chambers author/publisher, dies. [1] May 23 Cyprian K Norwid Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies. [1] May 26 Abd el-Kader Algerian sultan/religious ruler, dies at about age 74. [1] May 28 August Freyer composer, dies at age 79. [1] May 29 Albrecht of Prussia mistress of John van Rossum, dies at age 73. [1] WFLC Marianne princess of Orange-Nassau, dies. [1] July 27 Montgomery Blair lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at age 70. [1] August 12 The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam. [5] November 26 Sojourner Truth abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies. [1] December 25 Marek Konrad Sokolowski composer, dies at age 65. [1] 1884 January 6 Death of Gregor Mendel in Brunn, Austria-Hungary at age 61; Augustinian monk, pioneer of the science of genetics. [1] [37] Paul Taglioni "the Great", Italian/Austrian choreographer, dies at age 75. [1] January 21 Auguste Franchomme composer, dies at age 75. [1] January 24 Johann Christian Gebauer composer, dies at age 75. [1] February 8 Arnold Henry Guyot Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist, dies at age 76. [1] February 21 John Pike Hullah composer, dies at age 71. [1] February 23 Tambo Tambo Australian aboriginal/US circus attraction, dies at age 23. [1] March 19 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback composer, dies at age 54. [1] March 30 Hans Hampel composer, dies at age 61. [1] March 31 Jan T Beelen Netherlands/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at age 77. [1] April 3 Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer Dutch Cath politician, dies at age 59. [1] April 5 John Wisden publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies. [1] April 6 Emanuel Geibel writer, dies at age 68. [1] April 7 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at age 80. [1] May 7 Judah P Benjamin confederate minister of War, dies at age 72. [1] May 9 Hermanus W Witteveen theologist, dies at age 69. [1] May 12 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana Czechoslovakia, composer (2 Widows), dies at age 60. [1] May 13 Cyrus Hall McCormick inventor, dies. [1] May 17 Louis Brassin composer, dies at age 43. [1] May 18 Heinrich R Göppert German paleo-botanist, dies. [1] July 10 Paul Morphy US chess wizard, dies. [1] December 4 Alice Mary Smith composer, dies at age 45. [1] December 28 Gerben Colmjon Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at age 56. [1]