Deaths
- May 13 - James Young (born 1811), Scottish chemist.
- June 18 - John Waterston (born 1811), Scottish physicist and civil engineer (drowned).
- June 26 - General Sir Edward Sabine (born 1788), Anglo-Irish physicist, astronomer and explorer.
- December 8 - François Lenormant (born 1837), French assyriologist and numismatist.
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