Deaths 1879

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1 deaths

1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 date unknown





deaths
january–june

heinrich geissler



january 8 – baldomero espartero, spanish general, regent , prime minister (b. 1793)
january 24 – heinrich geißler, german physicist (b. 1814)


hortense allart



february 11 – honoré daumier, french caricaturist , painter (b. 1808)
february 23 – albrecht graf von roon, prime minister of prussia (b. 1803)
february 25 – charles peace, british criminal (executed) (b. 1832)
february 28 – hortense allart, french writer (b. 1801)
march 1 – joachim heer, swiss politician (b. 1825)
march 2 – john eberhard faber, pencil manufacturer (b. 1822)
march 10 – prince paul of thurn , taxis, german prince (b. 1843)
march 27

hércules florence, brazilian photographer (b. 1804)
prince waldemar of prussia (b. 1868)


march 30 – thomas couture, french painter , teacher (b. 1815)
april 16 – bernadette soubirous, french saint (b. 1844)
april 23 – elisabetta fiorini mazzanti, italian botanist (b. 1799)
april 30 – sarah josepha hale, american author (b. 1788)
may 5 – félix charles douay, french general (b. 1816)
may 14

epameinondas deligeorgis, prime minister of greece (b. 1829)
henry sewell, 1st premier of new zealand (b. 1807)


may 15 – gottfried semper, german architect (b. 1803)
june 1 – napoléon, prince imperial, son of french emperor napoleon iii (b. 1856)
june 7 – william tilbury fox, english dermatologist (b. 1836)
june 11 – william, prince of orange, heir dutch throne (b. 1840)

july–december

james clerk maxwell



july 7 – béla wenckheim, 8th prime minister of hungary (b. 1811)
july 17 – maurycy gottlieb, ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
july 19 – louis favre, french engineer (b. 1826)
august 11 – george willison adams, ohio abolitionist (b. 1799)
august 14 – ivan davidovich lazarev, russian general (b. 1820)
august 30 – john bell hood, american confederate general (b. 1831)
september 17 – eugène viollet-le-duc, french architect (b. 1814)
september 30 – francis gillette, politician (b. 1807)
october 8 – miguel grau seminario, peruvian admiral during war of pacific (b. 1834)
october 25 – nachum kaplan, rabbi (b. 1811)
october 31 – joseph hooker, american general (b. 1814)
november 5 – james clerk maxwell, scottish physicist (b. 1831)
december 2 – ferdinand lindheimer, german-born botanist (b. 1801)
december 7 – jón sigurðsson, campaigner icelandic independence (b. 1811)

date unknown

chō kōran, japanese poet , painter (b. 1804)






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