July – December July 1 Baron Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy, French writer (b. 1796) Hermann Lotze, German philosopher and logician (b. 1817) July 4 – J. V. Snellman, Finnish statesman and an influential Fennoman philosopher (b. 1806) July 14 – Billy the Kid, American gunslinger (b. 1859) July 17 – Jim Bridger, American explorer and trapper (b. 1804) August 3 – William Fargo, American expressman and politician, Mayor of Buffalo, New York (b. 1818) August 11 – Jane Digby, English adventurer (b. 1807) August 15 – Alexandru G. Golescu, 11th prime minister of Romania (b. 1819) September 7 – Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842) September 8 – Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Dutch noble, general (b. 1797) September 13 – Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general, inventor, politician from Rhode Island (b. 1824) September 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b. 1831) September 22 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831) October 3 Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811) Princess Sumiko, Japanese princess (b. 1829) October 31 – George W. De Long, American naval officer, explorer (starvation) (b. 1844) December 4 – Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, American general, politician, and diplomat (b. 1836) December 18 – George Edmund Street, British architect (b. 1824) See also Upside down year References