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1880 deaths

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Gustave Flaubert

French novelist (1821–1880)

English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)

Jacques Offenbach

German-born French composer (1819–1880)

William Lassell

English merchant and astronomer (1799–1880)

Australian bushranger (1854–1880)

French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880)

French mathematician (1793–1880)

American suffragist (1793–1880)

Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Marie of Hesse)

Empress consort of Russia (1855-1880)

Bettino Ricasoli

Italian politician (1809–1880)

Henryk Wieniawski

Russian-Polish musician (1835–1880)

San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States

Anselm Feuerbach

German painter (1829–1880)

Lydia Maria Child

American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

Norwegian violinist (1810–1880)

Benjamin Peirce

American mathematician (1809–1880)

James Craig Watson

American astronomer (1838-1880)

French painter (1794-1880)

Chilean politician (1809–1880)

Jules Antoine Lissajous

French physicist (1822-1880)

Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias

Brazilian hero and politician (1803-1880)

painter from Indonesia (1811-1880)

pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush (1803–1880)

Russian chemist (1812-1880)

Constantin Hansen

Danish artist (1804-1880)

Daniel Bashiel Warner

President of Liberia (1815-1880)

German philosopher and political writer (1802–1880)

Sunanda Kumariratana

Queen consort of Thailand (1860-1880)

Izmail Sreznevsky

Russian and Ukrainian slavic academic

Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur

wife of U.S. president Chester A. Arthur (1837–1880)

Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein

German noble (1829–1880)

Karl Friedrich Lessing

German historical and landscape painter (1808-1880)

French politician and lawyer (1809-1880)

French physicist (1795-1880)

Édouard Séguin

French physician and educationist (1812-1880)

Malalai of Maiwand

national folk hero of Afghanistan who rallied local Pashtun fighters against the British troops (1861–1880)

Karl Eduard von Holtei

German actor (1798–1880)

Thrasivoulos Zaimis

Prime Minister of Greece (1822–1880)

William, Prince of Orange

Dutch and Luxembourger royal heir (1840–1879)

August Karl von Goeben

Prussian general (1816-1880)

Peter Wilhelm Punk

Danish scientist (1801-1880)

Sarah Forbes Bonetta

West African princess

Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel

German princess and painter (1796–1880)

Alphonse Pénaud

French engineer (1850-1880)

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra

Austrian physician and dermatologist (1816-1880)

Cándido Bareiro

President of Paraguay (1833-1880)

British botanist

Sanford Robinson Gifford

American painter (1823–1880)

English zoologist, surgeon and writer (1792–1880)

American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States (1819-1880)

Christen Andreas Fonnesbech

Danish politician (1817-1880)

Oliver Winchester

American businessman and politician (1810-1880)

Sabin Berthelot

French naturalist and ethnologist (1794-1880)

François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau

French explorer and entomologist (1802–1880)

Wilhelm Philippe Schimper

German-French botanist (1808-1880)

Nils Johan Andersson

Swedish botanist (1821-1880)

Heinrich von Gagern

President of the Frankfurt Parliament, leader of the German government (1799-1880)

Ida von Hahn-Hahn

German author and countess (1805-1880)

Christian August Friedrich Peters

German astronomer (1806-1880)

Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger

Austrian artist (1805–1880)