Prime Minister of France (b. 1785) January 29 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797) February 7 – Sylvain Salnave, Haitian general, 9th President of Haiti (b. 1827) February 11 – Carlos Soublette, 2-time President of Venezuela (b. 1789) February 19 – Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower (b. 1812) March 1 – Francisco Solano López, 2nd President of Paraguay (killed in action) (b. 1827) March 4 – Thomas Scott, Canadian Orangeman, surveyor of the Red River Rebellion (shot by Louis Riel and the Métis) (b. c. 1842) March 11 – Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (b. 1786?) March 28 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816) April 15 – Emma Willard, American women's rights activist (b. 1787) April 16 – Domnița Rallou Caragea, Greek princess, independence activist (b. 1799) May 6 – Sir James Young Simpson, Scottish physician, researcher (b. 1811) June 6 – Ferdinand von Wrangel, Baltic-German explorer (b. 1796/1797) June 7 – Friedrich Hohe, German lithographer, painter (b. 1802) June 9 – Charles Dickens, British novelist (b. 1812) June 20 – Jules de Goncourt, French writer, publisher (b. 1830) June 23 – Mírzá Mihdí, youngest child of Baháʼí founder Baháʼu'lláh (b. 1848) June 27 – Cyrus Kingsbury, American missionary to Choctaw Indians (b. 1786) July–December July 10 – Pelaghia Roșu, Romanian heroine (b. 1800) July 22 – Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1827) August 4 – Abel Douay, French general (killed in action) (b. 1809) August 14 – David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801) August 17 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and freedom fighter (b. 1818) September 4 – Juan Javier Espinosa, 9th President of Ecuador (b. 1815) September 23 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803) September 27 – William F. Packer, American politician (b. 1807) October 12 Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch, American minister, hymn writer (b. 1809) Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (b. 1807) November 3 – Diego Noboa, 4th President of Ecuador (b. 1789) November 23 – Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Milanese-born ballerina (b. 1853) (result of deprivation during Siege of Paris) November 24 – Comte de Lautréamont, French poet, writer (b. 1846) November 26 – Franz Graf von Wimpffen, Austrian general and admiral (b. 1797) November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841) December 5 David G. Burnet, early politician within the Republic of Texas (b. 1788) Alexandre Dumas, père, French author (b. 1802) December 9 – Patrick MacDowell, Northern Irish sculptor