1966) Deaths January–June January 3 – Mary Torrans Lathrap, American temperance reformer (b. 1838) January 4 – William Loring, British admiral (b. 1811) January 9 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watchmaker (b. 1812) January 10 – Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849) January 19 – António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra, Portuguese magistrate and politician (b. 1798) January 24 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British statesman (b. 1849) January 25 – T. Muthuswamy Iyer, Lawyer, first Indian Judge of the Madras high court (b. 1832) January 26 – Arthur Cayley, British mathematician, (b. 1821) January 28 – François Certain de Canrobert, French general, Marshal of France (b. 1809) February 9 – Ōdera Yasuzumi, Japanese general (killed in action) (b. 1846) February 10 – Liu Buchan, Chinese admiral (suicide) (b. 1852) February 12 – Ding Ruchang, Chinese army officer, admiral (killed in action) (b. 1836) February 18 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (b. 1817) February 20 – Frederick Douglass, American ex-slave and author (b. c.1818) February 25 – Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, politician (b. 1815) February 26 – Salvador de Itúrbide y Marzán, Prince of Mexico (b. 1849) March 2 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841) March 3 – Geoffrey Hornby, British admiral (b. 1825) March 9 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer for whom the word masochism is named (b. 1836) March 10 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1825) March 13 – Louise Otto-Peters, German women's rights movement activist (b. 1819) March 30 – Beauchamp Seymour, British admiral (b. 1821) April 17 – Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer, politician and explorer (b. 1837) April 25 – Emily Thornton Charles, American newspaper founder (b. 1845) May 19 – José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853) May 21 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b. 1819) May 23 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (b. 1798) May 26 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1822) May 28 – Walter Q. Gresham, American politician (b. 1832) May 30 – Joseph Marello, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1844) June 4 – Abu Bakar of Johor, Malaysian sultan (b. 1833) June 6 – Gustaf Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (b. 1868) June 13 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1833) June 27 – Sophie Adlersparre, Swedish feminist and magazine editor (b. 1823) June 29 Thomas Henry Huxley, English evolutionary biologist (b. 1825) Green