abolitionist (b. 1821) November 15 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819) December 15 – Georg Friedrich Grotefend, German epigraphist, philologist (b. 1775) December 23 – Juliette Bussière Laforest-Courtois, Haitian journalist (b. 1789) Date unknown Meta Forkel-Liebeskind, German writer and scholar (b. 1765) Qiu Ersao, Chinese rebel and military commander (b. 1822) Ferdinando Quaglia, Italian painter of portrait miniatures (b. 1780) References