– Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter (b. 1807) April 27 – Joseph Vinoy, French general (b. 1803) May 2 Eberhard Anheuser, German-American brewer, co-founder of Anheuser-Busch (b. 1806) Eunice Hale Waite Cobb, American public speaker (b. 1803) Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, pioneer of Australian rules football (b. 1835) May 4 – Edward Clark, Confederate Governor of Texas (b. 1815) May 8 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821) May 20 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (b. 1814) June 8 – Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Empress Consort of Czar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1824) June 28 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846) July–December July 9 – Paul Broca, French physician and anthropologist (b. 1824) July 17 – Tomasz Chołodecki, Polish political activist (b. 1813) July 21 – Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800) August 9 – William Bigler, American politician (b. 1814) August 15 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848) August 16 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (b. 1812) August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810) August 24 – Chief Ouray, Native American leader (b. c. 1833) September 21 – Manuel Montt, 5th President of Chile (b. 1809) September 25 – John Tarleton, British admiral (b. 1811) October 5 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (b. 1819) October 14 – Victorio, Chiricahua Apache chief (b. c. 1825) October 22 – Alphonse Pénaud, French aviation pioneer (b. 1850) October 23 – Bettino Ricasoli, Italian statesman (b. 1809) November 11 Ned Kelly, Australian bush ranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855) Lucretia Mott, American social activist (b. 1793) November 13 – August Karl von Goeben, Prussian general (b. 1816) November 23 – Sir Redmond Barry, Australian judge, sentenced Ned Kelly to death (b. 1813) November 28 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837) November 30 – Jeanette Threlfall, English hymnwriter (b. 1821) December 7 – Maria Giuseppa Rossello, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (b. 1811) December 20 – Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American soldier (b. 1797) December 22 – George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819) Date unknown Manolache Costache Epureanu, 2-time prime minister of Romania (b. 1823) Ng Akew, Chinese businesswoman References Further reading and year books 1880 Annual Cyclopedia (1881) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1880; massive compilation of facts