admiral (b. 1824) August 31 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first car crash victim (b. 1827) September 4 – John Pascoe Fawkner, Australian pioneer, settler and politician, (b. 1792) September 12 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779) October 8 – Franklin Pierce, 64, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804) October 12 - Pyotr Anjou, arctic explorer and admiral of the Russian Navy (b. 1796) October 13 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804) October 16 – Joseph Ritner, American politician (b. 1780) October 23 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1799) October 31 – Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788) November 8 – Christodoulos Hatzipetros, Greek military leader (b. 1799) November 10 – John E. Wool, general officer in the United States Army, who served during the War of 1812, Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War (b. 1784) December 8 – Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832) December 18 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer, pianist (b. 1829) December 24 – Edwin Stanton, American lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1814) References Yearbooks American Annual Cyclopedia...for 1869 (1870), large compendium of facts, worldwide coverage online edition The American year-book and national register for 1869 (1869) online