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1881 deaths

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russian novelist (1821–1881)

James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.

Benjamin Disraeli

British statesman (1804–1881)

Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)

Alexander II of Russia

The 12th Emperor of Russia (1855–1881)

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Russian composer (1839–1881)

American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Swiss philosopher and poet (1821-1881)

Matthias Jacob Schleiden

German botanist and philosopher (1804-1881)

Lewis H. Morgan

American anthropologist (1818–1881)

Nikolai Pirogov

Russian medical scientist (1810-1881)

Louis Auguste Blanqui

French socialist and political activist (1805-1881)

German philosopher (1817-1881)

Jenny von Westphalen

German theatre critic and political activist (1814–1881)

Nikolai Rubinstein

Russian pianist, conductor and composer (1835-1881)

English ornithologist (1804–1881)

British-Jamaican businesswoman and nurse

Auguste Mariette

French archaeologist and egyptologist (1821–1881)

Henri Vieuxtemps

Belgian violinist and composer (1820-1881)

Johan Vilhelm Snellman

Finnish politician and author (1806–1881)

Jules Armand Dufaure

French politician and lawyer (1798-1881)

Ambrose Burnside

American general and politician (1824–1881)

Croatian novelist (1838-1881)

German mathematician (1821–1881)

French lexicographer and philosopher (1801-1881)

George W. De Long

American polar explorer (1844–1881)

Sophia Perovskaya

Russian revolutionary and assassin of Alexander II (1853–1881)

Nikolai Kibalchich

Ukrainian revolutionary and scientist (1853-1881)

Maria Mazzarello

Italian saint (1837-1881)

Bavarian flautist and tinkerer (1794-1881)

Aleksey Pisemsky

Russian novelist and dramatist (1821–1881)

Émile de Girardin

French politician and journalist (1802-1881)

Prince Frederik of the Netherlands

Dutch Royal (1797-1881)

English author (1803–1881)

Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg

Queen consort of Denmark (1796–1881)

Austrian geologist, physician and botanist (1794-1881)

British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker (1805-1881)

Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville

French chemist (1818–1881)

Carl Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Weyprecht

Austrian explorer (1838-1881)

American Voodoo practitioner

Konstantin Thon

Russian architect (1794–1881)

Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky

Russian noble (1809-1881)

Elisabeth Baumann

Danish artist (1818-1881)

American musician and poet (1842–1881)

Duke Alexander of Württemberg

Duke of Württemberg (1804-1881)

Prince August, 3rd Prince of Koháry

German prince (1818–1881)

Johann Caspar Bluntschli

Swiss jurist and politician (1808-1881)

Empress Dowager Ci'an

Dowager empress of China (1837-1881)

English architect (1827–1881)

Archduchess Maria Clementina, Princess of Salerno

Austrian and Two Sicilian Imperial and Royal (1798–1881)

Slovene writer and journalist (1844–1881)

politician (1800–1881)

geophysicist, civil engineer and inventor from Ireland (1810-1881)

Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte

Prince of France (1815-1881)

Catholic saint, bishop and missionary (1831–1881)

Isaac Israel Hayes

United States explorer and physician (1832-1881)

Latvian musician (1814–1881)

Polish politician and academic (1817-1881)

Czech surgeon, internist, pathologist and university educator (1805–1881)

Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn

German philologist and folklorist (1812–1881)