of Dana Point, California (b. 1815) January 7 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist, inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of the first oil lamp (b. 1822) January 10 – Henri Jules Bataille, French general (b. 1816) January 11 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810) January 13 – Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b. 1812) January 27 – Robert Christison, Scottish toxicologist, physician (b. 1797) February 5 – Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (b. 1815) March 9 – Giovanni Lanza, Italian politician (b. 1810) March 19 – Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian writer, politician, and teacher (b. 1841) March 21 – Constantin Bosianu, 4th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1815) March 23 – Gustavus H. Scott, American admiral (b. 1812) March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807) April 3 – Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b. 1847) April 9 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet, painter (b. 1828) April 11 – John Lenthall, American naval architect, shipbuilder (b. 1807) April 14 – Henri Giffard, French balloonist, aviation pioneer (b. 1825) April 17 George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (b. 1801) Antonio Fontanesi, Italian painter (b. 1818) April 19 – Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b. 1809) April 25 – Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, German astrophysicist (b. 1834) April 27 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, writer (b. 1803) May 3 – Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806) May 5 – John Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1812) June 2 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807) June 3 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839) June 22 – Pablo Buitrago y Benavente, First democratically elected Supreme Director of Nicaragua (b. 1807) June 25 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806) June 30 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer, businessman (b. 1827) Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (executed) (b. 1841) July–December July 4 – Joseph Brackett, American Shaker religious leader, composer (b. 1797) July 7 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (b. 1843) July 13 – Johnny Ringo, American cowboy (b. 1850) July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818) July 19 – John William Bean, English criminal (b. 1824) July 20 – Fanny Parnell, Irish poet, founder of the Ladies' Land League (b. 1848) August 4 – Samuel Barron Stephens, American attorney and politician (b. 1814) August 13 – William Stanley Jevons,