Famous Deaths for Year 1879
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Months in Year 1879: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 49 of 49
Jan 9th - Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86
Jan 13th - WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Neth/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58
Jan 16th - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
Jan 22nd - Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in Battle of Isandlwana
Jan 22nd - George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle
Jan 23rd - Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42
Jan 29th - Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80
Feb 11th - Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies
Feb 11th - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67
Feb 21st - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69
Feb 23rd - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
Mar 1st - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
Mar 13th - Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
Mar 30th - David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74
Mar 30th - Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63
Apr 4th - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
Apr 9th - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70
Apr 16th - Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France
Apr 18th - Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
May 4th - William Froude, Brit civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
May 15th - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
May 17th - Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)
May 21st - Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
May 24th - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73
Jun 2nd - E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle at 23
Jun 11th - Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39
Jul 6th - Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65
Jul 16th - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
Jul 17th - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
Aug 3rd - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
Aug 8th - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
Aug 22nd - Friedrich August Kummer, composer, dies at 82
Aug 27th - Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
Aug 30th - John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
Aug 31st - William Barber, 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies
Sep 8th - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58
Sep 12th - Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49
Sep 14th - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
Sep 17th - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
Sep 28th - Nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered
Oct 8th - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
Oct 14th - F Kornberger, writer, dies at 58
Oct 28th - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
Oct 31st - Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies
Oct 31st - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
Oct 31st - Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
Nov 5th - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
Dec 6th - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
Dec 26th - Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, dies
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