Deaths
- 1 April - James Travers, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Indore, India (born 1820).
- 25 June - Philip Gore, 4th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and diplomat (born 1801).
- 28 June - John Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born 1830).
- 27 July - Eliza Lynch, mistress of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay (b. c1835).
- 17 October - Alexander Martin Sullivan, journalist, politician and lawyer (born 1829).
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