Famous Deaths for Year 1876
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Deaths 1 - 68 of 68
Jan 7th - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
Jan 9th - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
Jan 10th - Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
Jan 15th - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
Feb 3rd - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83
Feb 10th - Johan August Soderman, composer, dies at 43
Feb 21st - Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70
Feb 24th - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
Feb 24th - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
Feb 28th - Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53
Mar 4th - Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38
Mar 5th - Marie d'Agoult, [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's children, dies at 70
Mar 18th - F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65
Mar 19th - Jozef Stefani, composer, dies at 75
Apr 2nd - Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78
Apr 3rd - Henriette Davidis, writer, dies
Apr 9th - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
Apr 16th - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83
Apr 19th - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65
May 7th - Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
May 7th - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
May 8th - Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
May 12th - Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
May 12th - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
May 19th - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74
May 20th - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old
May 20th - Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
May 24th - Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46
May 24th - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
May 26th - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian/MP, dies at 77
May 27th - Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
Jun 1st - Christo Botew, writer, dies
Jun 7th - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
Jun 8th - George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
Jun 18th - August Rockel, composer, dies at 61
Jun 20th - Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
Jun 21st - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79
Jun 25th - Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
US Calvary Commander George Armstrong Custer (Jun 25th)
Jun 25th - George A Custer, US general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36
Jun 25th - John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 25th - Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 25th - Myles Keogh, US officer, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 25th - Thomas W Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 27th - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
Jun 28th - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59
Jul 8th - Josef Dessauer, composer, dies at 78
Jul 11th - Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72
Jul 14th - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
Jul 15th - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82
Jul 24th - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
Aug 2nd - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
Aug 19th - George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36
Sep 3rd - Felix, cricketer (legendary All-England player), dies
Folk Hero of the American Old West Wild Bill Hickok (Aug 2nd)
Sep 5th - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
Sep 9th - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
Sep 25th - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
Sep 27th - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
Oct 1st - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77
Oct 1st - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
Oct 10th - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
Oct 18th - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
Oct 20th - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68
Oct 29th - Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59
Nov 6th - Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
Nov 7th - Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65
Nov 28th - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
Dec 3rd - Hermann Goetz, composer, dies at 35
Dec 20th - Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
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