Deaths
- 17 January - Martin Haverty, writer.
- 17 February - William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1825).
- 16 April - John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto (born 1807).
- 30 April - Edward Hardman, geologist (born 1845).
- 25 August - Matthew Cooke, economic entomologist in California (born 1829).
- 22 November - Ulick Bourke, scholar and writer who founded the Gaelic Union (born 1829).
- 4 December - Mary Frances Clarke, founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (born 1803).
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