17 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Polish painter (b. 1856) July 19 – Louis Favre, French engineer (b. 1826) August 14 – Ivan Davidovich Lazarev, Russian general (b. 1820) August 27 – Anđeo Kraljević, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (b. 1807) August 30 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831) September 9 – John Dennis Phelan, American politician and jurist (b. 1809) September 17 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814) September 26 – Sir William Rowan, British field marshal (b. 1789) September 30 – Francis Gillette, American politician (b. 1807) October 8 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (killed in action) (b. 1834) October 25 – Nachum Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1811) October 31 – Joseph Hooker, American general (b. 1814) November 5 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831) November 23 – Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord, American political essayist (b. 1810) December 2 – Ferdinand Lindheimer, German-born botanist (b. 1801) December 7 – Jón Sigurðsson, campaigner for Icelandic independence (b. 1811) December 24 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815) Date unknown Chō Kōran, Japanese poet, painter (b. 1804) References Further reading and year books Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year 1879 online