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