Deaths
- 5 May - William Connor Magee, Anglican clergyman, Archbishop of York (born 1821).
- 18 May - Thomas Grady, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, the Crimea (born 1835).
- 15 June - James Patrick Mahon, Irish nationalist politician and international mercenary (born 1800).
- 6 October - Charles Stewart Parnell, political leader.
- 28 November - William James Lendrim, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea (born 1830).
- 12 December - Alexander Workman, politician in Canada and Mayor of Ottawa (born 1798).
- 13 December - William Gorman Wills, dramatist and painter (born 1828).
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