1870 deaths

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)

Confederate States general (1807–1870)

French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)

Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812–1870)

Spanish poet

Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)

French painter (1841–1870)

Baltic German explorer and Russian admiral (1797-1870)

Catalan noble (1814-1870)

United States Navy admiral (1801–1870)

2nd president of Paraguay (1826-1870)

French writer (1830–1870)

French mathematician and physicist (1795-1870)

Grand Duke of Tuscany

German chemist and physicist (1802–1870)

Argentine politician and military (1801–1870)

Austrian composer

Czech archivist, poet, ethnographer, librettist, publicist, lawyer, translator and writer (1811–1870)

Two Sicilian Royal (1798-1870)

Irish composer (1808–1870)

Italian composer

Bohemian conductor, music educator, composer and pianist (1794–1870)

youngest daughter and eighth child of Frederick William III of Prussia (1808–1870)

French politician (1785-1870)

King of Lesotho from 1822 to 1870

Spanish Roman Catholic bishop, missionary and saint (1807-1870)

French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres (1810-1870)

German scientist

Norwegian poet and journalist (1818–1870)

American educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870

British obstetrician (1811–1870)

French archaeologist (1802–1870)

Grand Duke of Russia (1869–1870)

United States Army general (1816-1870)

Russian composer (1798-1870)

French zoologist (1812–1870)

Sultan of Zanzibar (1834-1870)

Belgian composer and violinist (1802–1870)

French politician and writer (1790-1870)

German prince and general (1808-1870)

French journalist (1848–1870)

French computer pioneer (1785-1870)

Ukrainian composer, priest, and music pedagogue

Indian mathematician

Hungarian scientist (1799-1870)

Venezuelan politician and statesman

President of Venezuela (1820-1870)

Austrian botanist and paleontologist (1800-1870)

physician and botanist (1814–1870)

American writer (1806–1870)

Spanish politician, statistician (1806–1870)

French physician and entomologist (1801-1870)

Danish portrait painter (1792-1870)

German zoologist (1809-1870)

German ophthalmologist (1828–1870)

Novelist, politician (1795-1870)

German physicist (1801-1870)

Ottoman Bosniak poet and sevdalinka performer

governess, adviser and companion to Queen Victoria of England