Arthur O'Shaughnessy	British Poet	January 30
Sidney Lanier	American Poet	September 7
Robert Mallet	Irish Scientist
Orson Pratt	American Theologian	October 3
Modest Mussorgsky	Russian Composer
Leonard Bacon	American Clergyman
John Gould	English Writer	February 3
James Thomas Fields	American Publisher	April 24
James A. Garfield	American President	September 19
J. G. Holland	American Novelist
Henri Frederic Amiel	Swiss Philosopher
George Linnaeus Banks	English Writer	May 3
George Edmund Street	English Architect	December 18
George Borrow	British Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Russian Novelist	February 9
Fernando Wood	American Politician	February 14
Benjamin Disraeli	British Statesman	April 19
Thomas Carlyle	Scottish Philosopher	February 5