March 27 - John Brown, Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria (b. 1826) March 28 – Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, American general and railroad executive (b. 1807) April 4 – Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791) April 15 – Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1823) April 16 – Charles II, Duke of Parma (b. 1799) April 26 – Napoleon Orda, Belarusian composer and artist (b. 1807) April 30 – Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832) May 24 – Keʻelikōlani, princess of Hawaii (b. 1826) May 26 – Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian leader (b. 1808) June 6 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (b. 1853) June 11 – Caroline Leigh Gascoigne, English writer (b. 1813) June 20 – John Colenso, English-born mathematician and theologian, Bishop of Natal (b. 1814) June 26 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788) July–December July 15 – General Tom Thumb, American circus performer and entertainer (b. 1838) July 22 – Edward Ord, U.S. Army officer (b. 1818) July 23 – Rose Massey, English actress (b. 1851?) July 24 – Matthew Webb, English sailor, first recorded person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids (b. 1848) July 27 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813) July 28 – Carlo Pellion di Persano, Italian admiral and politician (b. 1806) August 24 – Henri, Count of Chambord, pretender to the French throne (b. 1820) August 25 – Louise Lateau, Belgian mystic and stigmatist (b. 1850) September 3 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (b. 1818) September 10 – Otto Pius Hippius, Baltic German architect (b. 1826) September 17 – Junius Brutus Booth Jr., American actor and theatre manager (b. 1821) October 5 – Joachim Barrande, French palaeontologist (b. 1799) October 14 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, English writer and Liberal Party politician (b. 1818) October 20 – George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall, Anglo-Irish landowner, courtier and politician (b. 1797) October 22 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818) October 30 Dayananda Saraswati, Hindu religious leader (b. 1824) Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815) November 19 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823) November 20 – Tenshoin, wife of 13th Shōgun of Japan, Tokugawa Iesada (b.1836) November 29 – Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent, Haitian-born migrant and free woman of colour (b. 1798) December 13 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812) December 27 – Andrew