Crazy Horse, American Oglala Lakota chief (b. 1840-45) September 12 – Emily Pepys, English child diarist (b. 1833) September 13 – Alexandre Herculano, Portuguese writer and historian (b. 1810) September 17 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (b. 1800) September 24 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai (b. 1828) October 3 – James Roosevelt Bayley, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814) October 10 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, textual critic (b. 1801) October 16 – Théodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823) October 28 – Julia Kavanagh, Irish novelist (b. 1824) October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1821) November 1 – Oliver P. Morton, American politician (b. 1823) November 2 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784) December 12 – José de Alencar, Brazilian novelist (b. 1829) December 17 – Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines, French general (b. 1804) December 29 – Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Acting First Lady of the United States (b. 1818) December 30 – William Cormick, physician in Qajar Iran of British origin (b. 1822) December 31 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819) Date unknown Nicolae Golescu, 9th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1810) References Further reading 1877 Annual Cyclopedia (1878) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1877; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 827 pp online Lloyd, John P. "The strike wave of 1877" in The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (2009) pp 177-190. online Piper, Jessica. "The great railroad strike of 1877: A catalyst for the American labor movement." History Teacher 47.1 (2013): 93-110. online