of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1917) December 31 – Tasker H. Bliss, American general (d. 1930) Date unknown William O'Malley, Irish politician (d. 1939) Deaths January–June January 8 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene (Prekmurje Slovene) poet in the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1788) January 16 Matteo Carcassi, Italian composer (b. 1792) Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1783) Robert Lucas, governor of Ohio, United States (b. 1781) January 19 – Karl Faber, German historian (b. 1773) January 22 – Méry von Bruiningk, Estonian democrat (b. 1818) February 4 – Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil (b. 1831) February 6 – Anastasio Bustamante, 4th President of Mexico (b. 1780) February 15 – August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (b. 1784) March 17 – Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician (b. 1803) March 30 – Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (b. 1798) April 18 – William R. King, 13th Vice President of the United States (b. 1786) April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773) May 18 – Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic-German chess player (b. 1806) June 2 Lucas Alamán, Mexican statesman, historian (b. 1792) Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer, soldier (b. 1777) June 7 – Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, Italian opera singer (b. 1800) June 8 – Howard Vyse, English soldier and Egyptologist (b. 1784) June 27 – Lewis Brian Adams, English painter (b. 1809) July–December July 27 – Tokugawa Ieyoshi, 12th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1793) August 9 – Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Polish philosopher (b. 1776) August 19 – George Cockburn, British naval commander (b. 1772) August 21 - Maria Quitéria, Brazilian national heroine (b. 1792) August 23 – Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806) August 29 – Charles James Napier, British army general and colonial administrator (b. 1782) September 3 – Augustin Saint-Hilaire, French botanist, traveller (b. 1799) September 6 – George Bradshaw, English timetable publisher (b. 1800) October 2 – François Arago, French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (b. 1786) October 3 – George Onslow, French composer (b. 1784) October 5 – Mahlon Dickerson, American judge, politician (b. 1770) October 13 – Jan Cock Blomhoff, Dutch director of Dejima, Japan (b. 1779) October 22 – Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan military, political figure (b. 1784) October 27 – Maria White Lowell, American