English economist and logician (b. 1835) August 16 – Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, French general (b. 1817) August 25 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian writer, physician (b. 1803) August 31 – Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz, Brazilian physician, writer and publisher (b. 1812) September 8 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809) September 14 – Georges Leclanché, French electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1839) September 16 – Edward Bouverie Pusey, British churchman (b. 1800) September 23 – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (b. 1800) September 30 – José Milla y Vidaurre, Guatemalan writer (b. 1822) October 13 – Arthur de Gobineau, French writer, demographist (b. 1816) November 7 – Julius Hübner, German painter (b. 1806) November 14 – Billy Claiborne, American gunfighter (b. 1860) November 20 – Henry Draper, American astronomer (b. 1837) December 3 – Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811) December 6 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819) Louis Blanc, French politician, historian (b. 1811) Anthony Trollope, British novelist, postal service official (b. 1815) December 9 – Lucy Smith Millikin, early Latter Day Saint and sister of Joseph Smith (b. 1821) December 10 – Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (b. 1821) December 18 – Henry James Sr., American theologian (b. 1811) December 21 – Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (b. 1791) December 31 – Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b. 1838) Date unknown Eugénie Luce, French educator (b. 1804) References