Famous Deaths for Year 1878
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Months in Year 1878: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 50 of 50
Jan 7th - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
Jan 9th - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
Jan 18th - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
Jan 19th - Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67
Feb 1st - George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
Feb 7th - Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
Feb 8th - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83
Feb 17th - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59
Feb 18th - Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76
Feb 19th - Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61
Feb 22nd - Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84
Mar 16th - William Banting, English undertaker, dies
Mar 20th - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
Mar 24th - Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73
Mar 27th - Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
Mar 27th - George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies
Apr 1st - Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56
Apr 1st - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (b. 1796)
Apr 4th - Richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (b. 1850)
King of Sardinia and Italy Victor Emmanuel II (Jan 9th)
Apr 5th - Wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 87
Apr 12th - William M "Boss" Tweed, NY politician, dies
Apr 21st - Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
Apr 23rd - Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies
Apr 25th - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
May 14th - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
May 22nd - Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52
May 27th - Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49
May 28th - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
Jun 6th - Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70
Jun 6th - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
Jun 12th - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26
Jun 16th - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
Jun 23rd - George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81
Jun 26th - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
Jul 2nd - Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61
Jul 7th - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
Jul 17th - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
Jul 23rd - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
Jul 23rd - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
Jul 28th - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
Aug 17th - Richard Upjohn, US architect, died
Aug 23rd - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77
Sep 9th - Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18
Sep 12th - Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83
Oct 25th - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89
Nov 28th - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer, dies at 78
Nov 28th - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
Dec 19th - Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
Dec 25th - Anna Claypoole Peale, US painter of miniatures, dies
Dec 28th - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90
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