(b. 1819) February 5 – Birgitte Andersen, Danish actress and ballet dancer (b.1791) February 7 – Edmund Spangler, American stagehand at Ford's Theatre (b. 1825) February 22 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796) Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797) March 1 – Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845) April 4 – Karl Mauch, German explorer (b. 1837) April 17 – Marija Milutinović Punktatorka, Serbian lawyer (b. 1810) April 25 – the 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857) May 17 – John C. Breckinridge, 14th Vice President of the United States, Confederate States Secretary of War (b. 1821) May 20 – Amalia of Oldenburg, Greek queen (b. 1818) May 31 – Eliphas Lévi, French occult author, magician (b. 1810) June 2 – Józef Kremer, Polish philosopher (b. 1806) June 3 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838) June 4 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804) June 25 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796) June 29 – Ferdinand I of Austria, Emperor of Austria (b. 1793) July–December July 8 – Francis Preston Blair Jr., American politician, Civil War officer (b. 1821) July 29 – Paschal Beverly Randolph, American occultist (b. 1825) July 30 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825) July 31 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808) August 4 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805) August 6 – Gabriel García Moreno, President of Ecuador (b. 1821) August 10 – Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808) August 11 – William Alexander Graham, United States Senator from North Carolina, (1840-1843), Confederate States Senator (1864-1865) (b. 1804) August 12 – János Kardos, Hungarian Slovenes evangelic priest, teacher and writer (b. 1801) August 16 – Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1795) August 17 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827) August 25 – Charles Auguste Frossard, French general (b. 1807) August 27 – William Chapman Ralston, American banker and financier (b. 1826) September 12 – Chauncey Wright, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1830) September 22 – Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur (b. 1786) October 10 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1817) October 12 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor, painter (b. 1827) October 15 – Chief Lone Horn, Native American Chief (b. 1790) October 19 – Sir Charles Cowper, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1807) October 24 – Jacques Paul Migne, French priest, theologian, and publisher (b. 1800)