general of Pakistan (official birthday; d. 1948) December 29 Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist (d. 1973) Lionel Tertis, English violist (d. 1975) Date unknown Petro Trad, 5th President and 14th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1947) Abd Allah Siraj, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1949) Deaths January–June January 10 – Gordon Granger, American General (b. 1822) January 15 – Eliza McCardle Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1810) February 10 – Reverdy Johnson, American politician (b. 1796) February 18 – Charlotte Cushman, American actress (b. 1816) February 24 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 2-time President of Liberia (b. 1809) March 29 – Karl Ferdinand Ranke, German educator (b. 1806) April 9 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804) May 7 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, author (b. 1795) May 8 – Truganini, Tasmanian language=Aboriginal woman (b. c. 1812) May 24 – Henry Kingsley, English novelist (b. 1830) May 26 – František Palacký, Czech historian, politician (b. 1798) June 1 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848) June 4 – Abdülaziz, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1830) June 6 – Auguste Casimir-Perier, French diplomat (b. 1811) June 7 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807) June 8 – George Sand, French writer (b. 1804) June 20 – John Neal, American writer, critic and women's rights activist (b. 1793) June 21 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, 11-time President of Mexico (b. 1794) June 25 – George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army general (in battle) (b. 1839) June 27 – Harriet Martineau, British social theorist, writer (b. 1802) July–December July 1 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary, anarchist (b. 1814) Wilhelm von Ramming, Austrian general (b. 1815) August 2 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter, entertainer (b. 1837) September 5 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, Spanish-Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (b. 1790) September 7 – Nicolás Patiño Sosa, Venezuelan military man (b. 1825) September 27 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate Civil War general (b. 1817) October 1 – James Lick, American land baron (b. 1796) November 16 – Karl Ernst von Baer, Estonian-German scientist, explorer (b. 1792) November 18 – Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, French painter (b. 1807) December 29 – Titus Salt, English woollen manufacturer, philanthropist (b. 1803) December 31 – Catherine Labouré, French visionary, saint (b. 1806) Date unknown Anna Volkova, Russian chemist (b. 1800) References Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ...for 1876 (1885) online edition, comprehensive