Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845) October 17 – Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, French general, politician, and 1st president of the Third Republic (1875-1879) (b. 1808) October 18 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818) October 22 – Duleep Singh, ruler of Punjab (b. 1838) October 30 – Sir John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821) November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840) November 8 – Annie Pixley, American actress (b. 1848) November 11 – Charles H. Bell, American politician (b. 1823) November 17 – Alexander of Battenberg, first prince of Bulgaria (b. 1857) November 22 – James Calder, 5th President of Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826) November 24 – Belle Hunt Shortridge, American author (b. 1858) November 28 – Sir Alexander Cunningham, British engineer and archaeologist (b. 1814) December 8 – Alexandru Cernat, Moldavian-born Romanian general and politician (b. 1828) December 11 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821) December 25 – Marie Durocher, Brazilian obstetrician, physician (b. 1809) Date unknown Margaret Fox, American spiritualist medium (b. 1833) References Further reading The Year-book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the colonies and India: a statistical record of the resources and trade of the colonial and Indian possessions of the British Empire (2nd. ed. 1893) 880pp; online edition