1875 deaths

Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)

President of the United States from 1865 to 1869

French composer (1838–1875)

French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)

French painter (1814–1875)

Austrian emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1793-1875)

British zoologist (1800–1875)

count, Russian poet, novelist and playwright

British geologist (1797–1875)

vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 (1821–1875)

vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875

German poet (1804–1875)

American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine (1811-1875)

German astronomer (1799–1875)

British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)

emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1856-1875)

British clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)

German astronomer (1822–1875)

French occult writer and poet (1810–1875)

German philosopher (1812–1875)

12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1857-1875)

poet and politician (1817–1875)

French poet

French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist

French priest and scholar (1800–1875)

German astronomer (1789-1875)

French sculptor and painter (1827–1875)

French writer (1803-1875)

Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer (1787-1875)

Queen of Greece (1818–1875)

French engineer

Italian politician (1819–1875)

German philosopher and sociologist (1828-1875)

Swedish zoologist (1801-1875)

Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher (1846-1875)

President of Ecuador (1860-1865; 1869; 1869-1875)

French sculptor (1795–1875)

British astronomer (1826-1875)

Russian historian and journalist (1800–1875)

last Elector of Hesse-Kassel

French Benedictine abbot (1806–1875)

Confederate States Army general (1825–1875)

British musician (1816-75)

Polish artist (1797-1875)

American religious leader, writer and educator (1792–1875)

German general (1795–1875)

French writer and painter (1792-1875)

Bavarian princess (1826–1875)

Catholic cardinal (1797-1875)

German geographer (1826–1875)

economist from Germany (1805-1875)

Russian artist of Italian descent (1799-1875)

British Royal Navy admiral (1801-1875)

Komi poet and linguist (1839-1875)

German orientalist, theologian, and Biblical exegete (1803–1875)

Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828-1875)

French composer, pianist and teacher (1804–1875)

French neurologist (1806–1875)

German royal (1821–1875)

English egyptologist (1797-1875)