Albert Pike	American Lawyer	April 2
William Connor Magee	Irish Clergyman
Sofia Kovalevskaya	Russian Mathematician	February 10
P. T. Barnum	American Entertainer	April 7
Leopold Kronecker	German Mathematician	December 29
Leo Delibes	French Composer	January 16
Lawrence Barrett	American Actor	March 20
John McDonald	Canadian Leader	June 6
James Russell Lowell	American Poet	August 12
Ivan Goncharov	Russian Novelist	September 27
Howard Crosby	American Clergyman
Herman Melville	American Novelist	September 28
H. P. Blavatsky	Russian Philosopher	May 8
Georges Seurat	French Artist	March 29
George Bancroft	American Historian	January 17
Charles Stewart Parnell	Irish Politician	October 6
Charles Bradlaugh	English Activist	January 30
Arthur Rimbaud	French Poet	November 10
William Tecumseh Sherman	American Soldier	February 14