3 – Stephen A. Douglas, American senator from Illinois, Democratic presidential candidate (b. 1813) June 6 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, 1st prime minister of Italy (b. 1810) June 13 – Richard Lawrence, failed assassin of Andrew Jackson (b. 1800) June 25 – Abdülmecid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1823) June 26 – Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Slovak philologist (b. 1795) June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806) July–December July 22 – Barnard Elliott Bee Jr., Confederate general (b. 1824) July 25 – Jonas Furrer, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1805) August 10 – Nathaniel Lyon, first Union Army General to die in combat in the American Civil War (b. 1818) August 12 – Eliphalet Remington, American gunsmith, founder of Remington Arms (b. 1793) August 17 – Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician (b. 1806) August 22 – Xianfeng Emperor, 9th emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1831) August 24 – Pierre Berthier, French geologist (b. 1782) August 28 – William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish journalist, 1st Mayor of Toronto (b. 1795) September 7 – Willie Person Mangum, American politician (b. 1792) October 4 – Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, British politician (b. 1812) October 5 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778) October 10 – Phoebe Hinsdale Brown, American hymnwriter (b. 1783) October 26 – Edward "Ned" Kendall, American bandleader, instrumentalist (keyed bugle) (b. 1808) October 31 – Guillermo (William) Miller, English-born military leader in Peru (b. 1795) November 7 – Isobel Gunn, Scottish business person (b. 1780) November 11 – King Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837) November 13 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet (b. 1819) November 25 – Rahimullah, Bengali rebel leader December 14 – Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria (b. 1819) December 18 – Ernst Anschütz, German teacher, organist, poet and composer (b. 1780) References Further reading American Annual Cyclopaedia for 1861 (N.Y.: Appleton's, 1864), an extensive collection of reports on each country in the world and each American state, Congress, and US Civil War; and many other topics