Famous Deaths for Year 1875
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Deaths 1 - 59 of 59
Jan 3rd - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
Jan 3rd - George Bizet, composer, dies
Jan 3rd - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
Jan 18th - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55
Jan 20th - Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
Jan 23rd - Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55
Jan 25th - Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79
Feb 1st - William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58
Feb 3rd - Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66
Feb 17th - Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33
Feb 19th - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
Feb 22nd - Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
Feb 22nd - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
Mar 1st - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
Mar 10th - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84
Mar 18th - Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
Mar 27th - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
Mar 30th - Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63
Apr 7th - Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57
Apr 11th - Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
Apr 24th - Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58
Apr 30th - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
May 5th - Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71
May 17th - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
May 20th - Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
May 23rd - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78
Jun 2nd - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
Composer Georges Bizet (Jun 3rd)
Jun 3rd - Georges Bizet, French composer, dies at 36
Jun 4th - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
Jun 9th - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
Jun 15th - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72
Jun 25th - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
Jun 29th - Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82
Jul 9th - Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
Jul 17th - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
Jul 23rd - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
Jul 30th - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
Jul 31st - Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
Aug 4th - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
Aug 10th - Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
Aug 17th - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
Aug 27th - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
Author Hans Christian Andersen (Aug 4th)
Aug 31st - Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49
Sep 15th - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
Sep 24th - William Walker, composer, dies at 66
Sep 28th - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, dies at 58 [OS]
Oct 10th - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
Oct 12th - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
Oct 24th - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
Oct 28th - William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56
Nov 2nd - JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered
Nov 6th - John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
Nov 17th - Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies
Nov 21st - Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67
Nov 22nd - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
Dec 10th - Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84
Dec 20th - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
Dec 22nd - Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75
Dec 25th - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
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