Rica (b. 1834) March 13 – Giorgio Mitrovich, Maltese politician (b. 1795) March 22 – Sir Harry Smith Parkes, British diplomat (b. 1828) April 2 – Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader (b. 1835) April 6 – Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein, Prussian general (b. 1797) April 25 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836) May 2 – Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian Slovene author (b. 1817) May 4 – Irvin McDowell, American general (b. 1818) May 17 – Jonathan Young, United States Navy commodore (b. 1826) May 19 – Robert Emmet Odlum, American swimming instructor (died as result of becoming the first person to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge) (b. 1851) May 20 – Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, 29th United States Secretary of State (b. 1817) May 22 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802) June 11 – Amédée Courbet, French admiral (b. 1827) June 17 – Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, German field marshal (b. 1809) June 22 – Muhammad Ahmad, Sudanese Mahdi (b. 1844) July–December July 21 – Karolina Sobańska, Polish noble, agent (b. 1795) July 23 – Ulysses S. Grant, 63, American Civil War general, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822) August – Aga Khan II, Iranian religious leader (b. 1830) August 6 – Emil Zsigmondy, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1861) August 10 – James W. Marshall, American contractor, builder of Sutter's Mill (b. 1810) August 29 – Moriz Ludassy, Hungarian journalist (b. 1825) September 2 – Giuseppe Bonavia, Maltese architect (b. 1821) September 5 – Zuo Zongtang, Chinese general and politician (b. 1812) September 6 – Narcís Monturiol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion (b. 1819) September 15 Jumbo, African elephant, star attraction in P. T. Barnum's circus (train accident) (b. 1861) Carl Spitzweg, German romanticist painter (b. 1808) October 1 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician and philanthropist (b.1801) October 3 – Mazhar Nanautawi, Indian freedom struggle activist and founding figure of Mazahir Uloom (b. 1821) October 5 – Thomas C. Durant, American railroad financier (b. 1820) October 29 George B. McClellan, American Civil War general, politician (b. 1826) Juan Bautista Topete, Spanish admiral and politician (b. 1821) November 16 – Louis Riel, Canadian-American leader (executed) (b. 1844) November 24 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president (b. 1837) November 25 King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857) Thomas Hendricks, 21st