Famous Deaths In 1878

Jan 07 François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794) died in the year 1878.  

Jan 09 Victor Emmanuel II, king of Sard (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57 on this day in history.  

Jan 18 On this day in history death of antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)  

Jan 19 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 in the year 1878.  

Feb 01 George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85 in the year 1878.  

Feb 07 On this day in history pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85  

Feb 08 On this day in history elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies at 83  

Feb 17 Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

Feb 18 Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76 in the year 1878.  

Feb 19 Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies at 61 in the year 1878.  

Feb 22 Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84 in the year 1878.  

Mar 16 William Banting, English undertaker, dies in the year 1878.  

Mar 20 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814) died on this day in history.  

Mar 24 In the year 1878 albin Masek, composer, dies at 73  

Mar 27 Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44 in the year 1878.  

Apr 01 Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

Apr 04 In the year 1878 death of richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (b. 1850)  

Apr 05 Wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 87 in the year 1878.  

Apr 12 On this day in history william M "Boss" Tweed, NY politician, dies  

Apr 21 On this day in history temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62  

Apr 23 On this day in history friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies  

Apr 25 In the year 1878 death of anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)  

May 14 Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830) died on this day in history.  

May 22 In the year 1878 franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52  

May 27 On this day in history carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49  

May 28 In the year 1878 death of john Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)  

Jun 06 In the year 1878 gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70  

Jun 12 Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26 in the year 1878.  

Jun 16 Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815) died in the year 1878.  

Jun 23 George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81 in the year 1878.  

Jun 26 On this day in history death of mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)  

Jul 02 On this day in history francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61  

Jul 07 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847) died in the year 1878.  

Jul 17 On this day in history aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65  

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Jan 01 In the year 1878 birth of edwin Franko Goldman, composer  

Jan 01 Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929) was born in the year 1878.  

Jan 04 Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories) was born in the year 1878.  

Jan 04 Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961) was born in the year 1878.  

Jan 06 On this day in history birth of carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes)  

Jan 06 Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballerina (d. 1970) was born in the year 1878.  

Jan 11 Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator (1926) was born in the year 1878.  

Jan 12 On this day in history birth of ferenc Molnar, Hungarian/US playwright (A Pal Utrai Fiuk)