Famous Deaths Happened In 1878

Jan 07 On this day in history death of françois-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)  

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

Jan 18 In the year 1878 death of antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)  

Jan 19 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Feb 01 In the year 1878 george Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85  

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

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

Feb 17 On this day in history jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59  

Feb 18 In the year 1878 peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76  

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 On this day in history william Banting, English undertaker, dies  

Mar 20 In the year 1878 death of julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)  

Mar 24 Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

Mar 27 Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.  

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 On this day in history wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 87  

Apr 12 In the year 1878 william M "Boss" Tweed, NY politician, dies  

Apr 21 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

Apr 23 Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies on this day in history.  

Apr 25 Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820) died in the year 1878.  

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 Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52 in the year 1878.  

May 27 Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

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

Jun 06 Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70 in the year 1878.  

Jun 12 On this day in history hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26  

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 on this day in history.  

Jun 26 Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860) died in the year 1878.  

Jul 02 In the year 1878 francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61  

Jul 07 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847) died on this day in history.  

Jul 17 In the year 1878 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 In the year 1878 birth of agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)  

Jan 04 In the year 1878 birth of alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories)  

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

Jan 06 Carl Sandburg, US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes) was born in the year 1878.  

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 on this day in history.  

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