1809) February 14 Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1861) Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1835) February 26 – Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen, French general (b. 1811) March 1 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820) March 8 – Sydney Dacres, British admiral (b. 1804) March 13 – Leland Stanford Jr., son of Governor Leland Stanford of California, in whose memory Stanford University was founded (b. 1868) March 19 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish philologist, collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (b. 1802) March 21 Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (b. 1819) Constantin A. Crețulescu, 7th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1809) March 23 – Henry C. Lord, American railroad executive (b. 1824) March 28 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1853) April 1 – Marie Litton, English stage actress (b. 1847) April 4 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist (b. 1858) April 6 – Emanuel Geibel, German poet, dramatist (b. 1815) April 24 – Marie Taglioni, Swedish-Italian ballerina (b. 1804) May 6 – Judah P. Benjamin, Cabinet officer of the Confederate States (b. 1811) May 12 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824) May 13 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809) May 29 – Sir Henry Bartle Frere, British colonial administrator (b. 1815) June 19 Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine politician, writer and main Constitution promoter (b. 1810) Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (b. 1808) June 21 – Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the Dutch throne (b. 1851) June 25 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858) July–December July 1 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective (b. 1819) July 10 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837) July 15 Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, British diplomat (b. 1804) Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author (b. 1793) August 9 – Annestine Beyer, Danish reform pedagogue (b. 1795) August 18 – Mary C. Ames, American writer (b. 1831) September 2 – Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Russian field marshal (b. 1796) September 10 – George Bentham, English botanist (b. 1800) October 4 – Leona Florentino, Filipina poet (b. 1849) October 7 – Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829) October 16 – Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian ali‘i (b. 1831) October 18 – William VIII, Duke of Brunswick (b. 1806) November 3 – Menyhért Lónyay, 5th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1822) November 11 –