(d. 1950) December 21 – George W. Fuller, American sanitation engineer (d. 1934) December 22 – Jaan Tõnisson, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941?) December 25 – Eugenie Besserer, American silent film actress (d. 1934) probable – Scott Joplin, African American ragtime composer and pianist (d. 1917) Deaths January–June January 20 – Damien Marchesseault, 7th Mayor of Los Angeles (suicide) (b. 1818) January 23 – János Erdélyi, Hungarian poet and ethnographer (b. 1814) January 28 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer (b. 1805) February 8 – Lai Wenguang, Chinese leader of the Taiping Rebellion and Nien Rebellion (b. 1827) February 10 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (b. 1781) February 11 – Léon Foucault, French physicist (b. 1819) February 19 – Venancio Flores, Uruguayan general and president of Uruguay (b. 1808) February 29 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786) March 4 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer (b. 1805) March 19 – Philipp von Stadion und Thannhausen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1799) March 28 – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797) April 3 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (b. 1796) April 7 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian father of confederation (assassinated) (b. 1825) April 12 – James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, British politician and peer (b. 1791) April 13 – Emperor Theodore or Tewodros II of Ethiopia by suicide (b. 1818) April 21 – Henry O'Farrell, Irish-Australian criminal (executed) (b. 1833) May 7 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778) May 10 – Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808) May 11 – John Crawfurd, Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and author, last British Resident of Singapore (b. 1783) May 17 – Isami Kondo, Commander of the Shinsengumi (b. 1834) May 22 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) May 23 – Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809) June 1 – James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791) June 10 – Princess Anka Obrenović, Serbian princess (b. 1821) June 22 – Heber C. Kimball, Latter Day Saint leader (b. 1801) June 29 – Sir John Lillie, British army officer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1790) July–December July 6 – Harada Sanosuke, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840) July 19 – Okita Sōji, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1842 or 1844) July 21 – William Bland, Australian politician (b. 1789) July 26