Famous Deaths for Year 1883
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Deaths 1 - 62 of 62
Jan 4th - Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91
Jan 4th - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
Jan 5th - Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806)
Jan 10th - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
Jan 21st - Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62
Jan 23rd - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
Jan 24th - Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70
Feb 1st - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
Feb 13th - Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
Feb 13th - Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69
Feb 17th - Napoleon Coste, composer, dies at 76
Feb 17th - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)
Feb 26th - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
Mar 4th - Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies at 71
Mar 12th - Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies
Mar 14th - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
Mar 15th - Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
Apr 4th - Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791)
Apr 6th - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (Mar 14th)
Apr 18th - Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36
Apr 22nd - Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38
Apr 30th - Édouard Manet, French impressionist painter dies at 61
May 17th - Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
May 20th - William Chambers, author/publisher, dies
May 23rd - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies
May 24th - Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808)
May 26th - Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian leader, scholar and national hero (b.1808)
May 26th - Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
May 28th - August Freyer, composer, dies at 79
May 29th - Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73
May 29th - WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies
Jun 6th - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29
Jun 10th - Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71
Jun 14th - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
Impressionist painter Edouard Manet (Apr 30th)
Jun 20th - Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64
Jul 1st - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39
Jul 5th - Frederick Scotson Clark, composer, dies at 42
Jul 9th - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67
Jul 12th - Hermann Zopff, composer, dies at 57
Jul 15th - Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44
Jul 24th - Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
Jul 27th - Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61
Jul 27th - Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
Aug 1st - Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
Aug 12th - Last Quagga, (zebra with less slashes), dies in Amsterdam zoo
Aug 19th - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
Aug 27th - August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76
Sep 3rd - Iwan Turgenjew, writer, dies at 64
Sep 15th - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium physicist (Blue Moon), dies
Sep 21st - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65
Oct 15th - Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74
Oct 22nd - George Coulthard, cricketer (Test for Australia 1882), dies
Oct 22nd - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (b. 1818)
Oct 29th - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68
Oct 30th - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer, dies at 80
Oct 31st - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
Nov 5th - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle
Nov 18th - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
Nov 25th - Ludwig Erk, composer, dies at 76
Nov 26th - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96
Dec 13th - Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
Dec 25th - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65
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