(b. 1847) July–December July 1 – Maiden of Ludmir, Jewish religious leader (b. 1805) July 4 – Theodor Storm, German writer (b. 1817) July 9 – Jan Brand, 4th president of the Orange Free State (b. 1823) July 20 – Paul Langerhans, German pathologist, biologist (b. 1847) August 5 – Philip Sheridan, American general (b. 1831) August 7 – Martha Tabram, possible first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1849) August 9 – Charles Cros, French poet (b. 1842) August 16 – John Pemberton, American pharmacist, founder of Coca-Cola (b. 1831) August 20 – Henry Richard, Welsh peace campaigner (b. 1812) August 23 – Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist (b. 1810) August 24 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributor to thermodynamics (b. 1822) August 31 – Mary Ann Nichols, first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845) September 6 – John Lester Wallack, American theater impresario (b. 1820) September 8 – Annie Chapman, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841) September 11 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine politician, writer, and father of education (b. 1811) September 23 – François Achille Bazaine, French general (b. 1811) September 24 – Karl von Prantl, German philosopher (b. 1820) September 30 Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842) Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843) October 16 Horatio Spafford, American author of the hymn It Is Well With My Soul (b. 1828) John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815) October 26 - William Thomas Hamilton, American politician (b. 1820) November 1 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1839) November 9 – Mary Jane Kelly, fifth and final confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863) November 10 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British army officer and aristocrat (b. 1800) November 11 – Pedro Ñancúpel, Chilean pirate active in the fjords and channels of Patagonia. He was executed. November 17 – Dora d'Istria, Romanian/Albanian writer and nationalist (b. 1828) November 24 – Cicero Price, American commodore (b. 1805) December 2 – Namık Kemal, Turkish patriotic poet, social reformer (b. 1840) December 3 – Carl Zeiss, German optician, founder of Carl Zeiss AG (b. 1816) December 10 – William E. Le Roy, American admiral (b. 1818) December 20 – Rose Mylett, Whitechapel murders victim (b. 1859) December 24 – Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Russian statesman, general (b. 1826) December 31 Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808) John Westcott, American surveyor