Alfred Russel Wallace	British Scientist	January 8
Mary Chesnut		March 31
Mathew Brady	American Photographer
Max Muller	German Educator	December 6
Schuyler Colfax	American Politician	March 23
Thomas Francis Meagher	Irish Soldier	August 3
Thomas W. Higginson	American Clergyman
Thomas Wentworth Higginson	American Theologian	December 22
William H. Hunt	American Soldier	June 12
William Johnson Cory	English Poet
Mary Boykin Chesnut	American Author	March 31
Leopold Kronecker	German Mathematician	December 7
Boss Tweed	American Politician	April 3
Charles Buxton	English Public Servant	November 18
Charlotte Mary Yonge	English Novelist	August 11
Coventry Patmore	English Poet	July 23
Ernest Renan	French Philosopher	February 28
Francis Parkman	American Historian	September 16
Goldwin Smith	Canadian Historian	August 13
Jean Henri Fabre	French Author	December 22
John Newton	American Soldier	August 25
William R. Alger	American Writer