1885 deaths

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. He previously led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 as commanding general.

king of Spain from 1874 to 1885

Galician poet and writer (1837-1885)

American politician (1819–1885)

Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873 (1823–1885)

Norwegian forester, writer, children's writer, and collector of fairy tales (1812–1885)

Métis leader in Canada (1844–1885)

Religious leader in the Sudan, self-proclaimed as the Mahdi (1844-1885)

German painter (1808–1885)

Danish novelist, poet, scientist (1847-1885)

British army officer and administrator

King of Portugal (1816–1885)

American soldier and politician (1826–1885)

French writer and critic (1828-1885)

French journalist and author (1832-1885)

Russian ornithologist (1827-1885)

Argentinian lawyer, journalist and politician (1837-1885)

French zoologist (1800-1885)

German physician (1809–1885)

Prince of Serbia (1806–1885)

Russian-Ukrainian historian, founder of modern Ukrainian historiography, and a leader of the Ukrainian national revival (1817-1885)

Japanese industrialist; founder of Mitsubishi (1835–1885)

German physician, consul-general and explorer of Central and West Africa (1834–1885)

German composer and conductor (1811–1885)

German general (1828–1885)

Russian academic (1822-1885)

Irish chemist and physicist (1813–1885)

British financier and Jewish activist (1784–1885)

Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician (1810-1885)

Belgian journalist, statesman (1800-1885)

German chemist (1812–1885)

Spanish submarine pioneer (1819-1885)

American general (1818–1885)

French engineer (1814-1885)

Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811–1885)

American humorist (1818–1885)

Member of the Iranian royal family.

American lawyer and politician (1817–1885)

Qing dynasty general (1812-1885)

Spanish noble and politician (1810-1885)

German composer and choral conductor (1819–1885)

Great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

third daughter and seventh child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1815-1885)

German classical scholar and philologist (1820-1885)

British politician (1801-1885)

French naval architect (1816-1885)

duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Austria-Hungarian chess player (1819-1885)

American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)

American ornithologist, entomologist, photographer, artist and explorer (1799-1885)

President of Liberia (1820-1885)

German physiologist and zoologist (1804-1885)

Spanish politician (1814-1885)

German composer and music teacher (1821–1885)

French painter (1835-1885)

German general (1809–1885)

French caricaturist (1840-1885)

Prime Minister of Spain (1821-1885)

Catholic cardinal (1810–1885)