Famous Deaths for Year 1870
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Deaths 1 - 56 of 56
Jan 3rd - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educationalist, dies at 46 [NS]
Jan 7th - Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
Jan 11th - Adolf Ganz, composer, dies at 73
Jan 21st - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
Jan 26th - Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
Jan 26th - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
Jan 29th - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
Feb 11th - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch min of Internal Aff (1848-49), dies at 76
Feb 11th - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
Feb 14th - St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
Feb 26th - Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
Mar 1st - Francisco S Lopez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
Mar 9th - Theodore Labarre, composer, dies at 65
Mar 10th - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75
Mar 11th - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
Mar 18th - Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
Mar 28th - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
Apr 1st - Patrick Gass, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 98
Apr 4th - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
Apr 8th - Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68
Apr 16th - Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies
Apr 19th - Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83
Apr 19th - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59
Apr 19th - William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77
May 1st - Francisco Solano Lopez, fieldmarshal/president of Paraguay
May 14th - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69
May 30th - Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
Jun 8th - Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78
Novelist Charles Dickens (Jun 9th)
Jun 9th - Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58
Jun 9th - Erik Drake, composer, dies at 82
Jun 20th - Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
Jul 8th - John D Zocher Jr, architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79
Jul 21st - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
Jul 22nd - Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42
Aug 14th - David Farragut, American admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), dies at 69
Aug 16th - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80
Aug 18th - Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brig-general, dies in battle
Aug 21st - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
Sep 2nd - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48
Sep 11th - Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46
Sep 12th - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
Sep 23rd - Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
Sep 27th - Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
Confederate General Robert E Lee (Oct 12th)
Oct 12th - Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63
Oct 20th - Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
Oct 31st - Mihaly Mosonyi, composer, dies at 55
Nov 21st - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Ruiker), dies at 69
Nov 24th - Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (b. 1846)
Nov 28th - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
Dec 5th - Alexandre Dumas, French writer, dies at 68
Dec 16th - Stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31
Dec 17th - Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75
Dec 22nd - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 [NS=Jan 3 1871]
Dec 28th - Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72
Dec 28th - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64
Dec 30th - ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered
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