Buchanan Duke, American tobacco and electric power industrialist (d. 1925) December 25 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913) December 28 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924) Date unknown Zübeyde Hanım, mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (d. 1923) Juan Nepomuceno Rencoret, Chilean doctor (d. ?) Deaths January–June January 4 – Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury, British politician (b. 1773) January 14 – Janko Drašković, Croatian politician, reformer (b. 1770) January 16 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795) January 31 – Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838) February 4 – Anna Gottlieb, Austrian operatic soprano (b. 1774) February 17 – Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797) May 3 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803) Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French memoir writer and servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788) June 23 – Ivan Kireyevsky, Russian literary critic, philosopher (b. 1806) June 26 – Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806) July–December July 9 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776) July 11 – Norberto Ramírez, Central American politician July 14 – Edward Vernon Utterson, English lawyer, literary antiquary, collector and editor (b. 1775/1776) July 20 – Anna Nielsen, Danish mezzo-soprano (b. 1803) July 29 Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech politician, writer (b. 1821) Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist (b. 1810) August 6 – Robert Lucas de Pearsall, English composer; setting of "In dulce jubilo" (b. 1795) August 14 – William Buckland, English geologist, palaeontologist (b. 1784) August 19 – Anna Maria Rüttimann-Meyer von Schauensee, politically active Swiss salonist (b. 1772) August 29 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778) August 30 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811) September 3 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, Brazilian politician (b. 1801) October 19 Josceline Percy, British admiral (b. 1784) William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799) Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (b. 1797) October 21 – Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, Mexican archaeologist and Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monterrey (d. June 2, 1920) November 23 – Manuela Sáenz, Colombian national heroine (b. 1797) December 20 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820) Date unknown Enriqueta Favez, Swiss physician, surgeon (b. 1791) Juana Ramírez, "La Avanzadora", Venezuelan heroine (b. 1790) References External links Leap years in the Gregorian calendar