Famous Deaths for Year 1877
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Deaths 1 - 49 of 49
Jan 4th - Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, dies at 82
Jan 9th - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
Jan 11th - Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85
Jan 24th - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
Feb 1st - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71
Mar 4th - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
Mar 9th - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58
Mar 12th - Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
Mar 24th - Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51
Mar 28th - Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77
Mar 31st - Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75
Apr 7th - Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
Apr 22nd - James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
May 6th - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
May 14th - John Roberts, composer, dies at 54
May 29th - John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
Jun 3rd - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
Jun 3rd - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
Jun 6th - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies
Jun 7th - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
Jul 13th - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
Aug 3rd - Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75
Aug 5th - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (b. 1799)
Aug 12th - James Drummond, historical painter, dies
Aug 29th - Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
Sep 2nd - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
Sep 3rd - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80
Sep 5th - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
Sep 12th - Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64
Sep 17th - William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77
Sep 23rd - Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies
Sep 26th - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
Sep 30th - Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
Oct 3rd - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
Oct 14th - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer, dies at 68
Oct 16th - John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
Oct 16th - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
Oct 28th - Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45
Oct 28th - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest (Oct 29th)
Oct 29th - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general, dies at 56
Nov 2nd - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
Nov 13th - Pietro Coppola, composer, dies at 83
Dec 10th - Federico Ricci, composer, dies at 68
Dec 10th - Jared Kirtland, US physician/naturalist, dies
Dec 12th - Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
Dec 27th - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
Dec 29th - Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
Dec 31st - Alberto Mazzucato, composer, dies at 64
Dec 31st - JD Gustave Courbet, French painter (Baigneuses), dies at 58
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