Deaths
- March 16 - Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (born 1821), German astronomer.
- April 19 - Warren De La Rue (born 1815), British astronomical photographer
- July 30 - Miles Joseph Berkeley (born 1803), English botanist.
- August 21 (O.S. August 9) - Nikolai Annenkov (born 1819), Russian botanist.
- October 11 - James Joule (born 1818), English physicist.
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