Deaths
- 22 January - Nevill Coghill, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Isandhlwana, South Africa (born 1852).
- 28 January - Hugh McNeile, Anglican churchman (born 1795).
- 19 April - Francis Kelly, surveyor, business agent, farmer, and politician in Canada (born 1803).
- 5 May - Isaac Butt, Irish Conservative Party MP and founder of the Home Rule League (born 1818).
- 17 May - John McClintock, 1st Baron Rathdonnell, politician and Lord Lieutenant of County Louth 1866-1879. (born 1798).
- 9 June - Edward Butler, lawyer and politician in Australia (died 1823).
- 10 July - John Byrne, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman, Crimea (born 1832).
- 3 September - Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad, Afghanistan (born 1856).
- 15 September - Thomas Roberts Ferguson, businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1818).
- 24 September - John Holmes, surveyor and politician in Ontario (born 1828).
- 6 November - Dennis Mahony, one of the founders of the Dubuque Herald (now the Telegraph Herald), a newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa (born 1821).
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