Deaths
- January 27 - Adam Sedgwick (born 1785), geologist.
- February 1 - Matthew Fontaine Maury (born 1806), oceanographer.
- April 18 - Justus von Liebig (born 1803), chemist.
- March 30 - Bénédict Morel (born 1809), psychiatrist.
- September 15 - Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (born 1844), naturalist.
- December 14 - Louis Agassiz (born 1807), zoologist and geologist.
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