Deaths
- 12 March - Trevor Chute, British Army officer (born 1816).
- 4 May - James Muspratt, chemical manufacturer in Britain (born 1793).
- 11 June - James Alipius Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop and Archbishop of Melbourne (born 1812).
- 11 June - Thomas Francis Hendricken, first Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (born 1827).
- 27 July - Eliza Lynch, former First Lady of Paraguay (born 1835).
- 9 August - Samuel Ferguson, poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant (born 1810).
- 10 October - Joseph M. Scriven, poet and philanthropist (born 1820).
- 10 December - Abraham Dowdney, United States Representative from New York and officer in the Union army in the American Civil War (born 1841).
- 19 December - Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician and politician (born 1826).
- 30 December - George Fletcher Moore, explorer and writer (born 1798).
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