Famous Deaths for Year 1885
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Months in Year 1885: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 59 of 59
Jan 4th - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29
Jan 6th - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72
Jan 13th - Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b.1823)
Jan 19th - Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle
Jan 24th - Martin R Delany, politician & black nationalist, dies at 72
Jan 26th - Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51
Jan 26th - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
Feb 14th - Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
Feb 15th - Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52
Feb 18th - Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, composer, dies at 61
Mar 28th - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53
Mar 31st - Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65
Mar 31st - Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69
Apr 7th - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
Apr 10th - John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73
Apr 23rd - William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73
May 4th - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
May 5th - Lauro Rossi, composer, dies at 73
May 8th - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65
May 10th - Edward Stephen, composer, dies at 62
May 10th - Ferdinand Hiller, composer, dies at 73
May 11th - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73
May 13th - Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
May 13th - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
May 19th - Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
May 21st - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
Author Victor Hugo (May 22nd)
May 22nd - Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83
May 29th - Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska), dies at 63
Jun 5th - Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi), dies at 80
Jun 8th - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
Jun 14th - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curacao, dies at 58
Jun 16th - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
Jun 17th - Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies
Jun 22nd - Mahdi, [Muhammad Ahmed], Sudanese music reviewer, dies
Jul 1st - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73
Jul 7th - Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66
Jul 8th - Henry Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Blessing of Arms), dies
Jul 15th - Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
Jul 17th - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
Jul 23rd - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63
Aug 7th - Antony EJ Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83), dies at 46
US President Ulysses S. Grant (Jul 23rd)
Aug 12th - Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65
Aug 20th - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
Aug 28th - Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66
Sep 13th - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
Sep 15th - Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31
Sep 15th - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
Sep 30th - Maria J Small-Gartmann, actress, dies at 60
Oct 23rd - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
Oct 29th - George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
Oct 29th - James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda
Oct 30th - Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer, dies at 57
Nov 8th - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71
Nov 24th - Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1875-85), dies at 27
Nov 25th - Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27
Nov 25th - Thomas A Hendricks, 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office
Nov 26th - Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
Dec 8th - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821)
Dec 24th - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85
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