Deaths
- March 3 - William Kingdon Clifford (born 1845), geometer.
- April 16 - Peter Kozler (born 1824), geographer and cartographer.
- May 4 - William Froude (born 1810), hydrodynamicist.
- November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell (born 1831), mathematician and physicist.
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