1822) February 25 – Charlotte Norberg, Swedish ballerina (b. 1824) February 27 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer (b. 1821) March 5 – Edmond Jurien de La Gravière, French admiral, naval historian and biographer (b. 1812) March 13 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1837) March 16 – Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827) March 26 – Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819) March 28 – Emily Lucas Blackall, American author and philanthropist (b. 1832) April 4 – José María Castro Madriz, President of Costa Rica (b. 1818) April 12 – Ogarita Booth Henderson, American stage actress, daughter of John Wilkes Booth (b. 1859) April 17 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822) April 19 – Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC, Anglo-Catholic clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821) April 21 – Emelie Tracy Y. Swett, American author (b. 1863) April 22 – Édouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823) April 25 – William Backhouse Astor Jr., American businessman (b. 1830) April 26 – Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, British admiral, naval hero (b. 1791) May 5 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818) May 8 – Gábor Baross, Hungarian statesman (b. 1848) May 22 – Alexander Campbell, Canadian politician (b. 1822) May 29 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817) May 30 – Mary H. Gray Clarke, American correspondent (b. 1835) June 8 Dimitrie Brătianu, 15th prime minister of Romania (b. 1818) Robert Ford, American assassin of Jesse James (b. 1862) June 9 William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863) Yoshitoshi, Japanese artist (b. 1839) June 28 – Sir Harry Atkinson, 10th Premier of New Zealand (b. 1831) July–December July 18 – Rose Terry Cooke, American author (b. 1827) July 30 – Count Joseph Alexander Hübner, Austrian diplomat (b. 1811) August 4 – Ernestine Rose, Polish-born feminist (b. 1810) August 13 – Charles Lafontaine, Swiss mesmerist (b. 1803) August 23 – Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st president of Brazil (b. 1827) September 6 – Betty Bentley Beaumont, British merchant (b. 1828) September 7 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, abolitionist (b. 1807) September 8 – Louisa Jane Hall, American literary critic (b. 1802) September 11 – Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop, American social reformer (b. 1847) September 12 – John Cummings Howell, United States Navy admiral (b. 1819) October 2 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer