– Billy Sunday, American baseball player, evangelist and prohibitionist (d. 1935) November 23 – Ernest Guglielminetti, Swiss physician (d. 1943) November 24 – Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen, Bavarian general (d. 1953) December 5 William Walker Atkinson, American spiritual writer (d. 1932) John Henry Leech, English entomologist (d. 1900) December 8 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921) December 12 – J. Bruce Ismay, English shipping magnate, White Star Line (d. 1937) December 15 – Adrien Loir, French biologist, bacteriologist (d. 1941) December 25 – Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician (d. 1937) Date unknown Al Herpin (The Man Who Never Slept), notable French-born American insomniac (d. 1947) Jessie King, Scottish author (unknown year of death) Antoinette Kinney, American state senator (d. 1945) Sufi Azizur Rahman, Bengali Muslim theologian and teacher (d. 1922) Deaths January–June January 10 – Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (b. 1814) January 18 – John Tyler, 71, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790) January 20 – Harriet Auber, English poet (b. 1773) February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1774) February 7 Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787) Prosper Ménière, French scientist (b. 1799) February 20 Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (b. 1788) William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln (b. 1850) February 21 – Justinus Kerner, German physician (b. 1786) February 24 – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Danish novelist, poet (b. 1789) February 25 – Jonathan Hine, English Hosiery Manufacturer (b. 1778) March 22 – Manuel Robles Pezuela, former President of Mexico (executed) (b. 1817) April 6 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803) April 9 - John Thomas, English Victorian sculptor (b. 1813) April 10 – W. H. L. Wallace, American Civil War Union general (b. 1821) April 19 – Louis P. Harvey, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1820) May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, American author, philosopher (b. 1817) May 16 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English theorist of colonization (b. 1796) May 21 – John Drew Sr., Irish-American actor, manager (b. 1827) May 25 – Juana Azurduy de Padilla, South American guerrilla military leader (b. c. 1781) May 29 – Franciszek Mirecki, Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (b. 1791) June 17 – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, English Viceroy of India (b. 1812) June 20 – Barbu Catargiu, 1st Prime Minister of