1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar, the 1882nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 882nd year of the2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the19th century, and the 3rd year of the1880s decade. As of the start of 1882, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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• January 2
  • TheStandard OilTrust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up byJohn D. Rockefeller and his associates.^[2]
  • Irish-born authorOscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada.^[3]
• January 5 –Charles J. Guiteau is found guilty of theassassination of James A. Garfield (President of the United States) and sentenced to death, despite aninsanity defense raised by his lawyer.^[4]
• January 12 –Holborn Viaduct power station in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.^[5]
• February 3 – American showmanP. T. Barnum acquires the elephantJumbo from theLondon Zoo.
• March 2 –Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinateQueen Victoria, atWindsor.
• March 18 (March 6Old Style) – ThePrincipality of Serbia becomes theKingdom of Serbia following a proclamation.
• March 20 – British gunboats enterMonrovia, withArthur Havelock demanding thatLiberia cede disputed territory to the British colony ofSierra Leone, of which he is Governor.
• March 22 –Polygamy is made a felony by theEdmunds Act, passed by theUnited States Congress.
• March 24 –Robert Koch announces the discovery of thebacterium responsible fortuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
• March 28
  • RepublicanJules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory.
  • German medical products companyBeiersdorf is founded.
• March 29 – TheKnights of Columbus, aCatholicfraternal service organization, is founded inNew Haven, Connecticut.

• April 3 –Old West outlawJesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed byRobert Ford inSt. Joseph, Missouri.
• April 29 – TheElektromote, the world's firsttrolleybus, begins operation inBerlin.
• May 1
  • TheBerlin Philharmonic orchestra is founded in Germany, asFrühere Bilsesche Kapelle.
  • Édouard Manet exhibits his paintingA Bar at the Folies-Bergère at theParis Salon.
• May 2 – TheKilmainham Treaty, an agreement between the British government andIrish nationalist leaderCharles Stewart Parnell to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced; Parnell is released fromKilmainham Gaol inDublin.
• May 6 –Phoenix Park Murders in Ireland:Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointedChief Secretary for Ireland, andThomas Henry Burke, his Permanent Undersecretary, are fatally stabbed inPhoenix Park, Dublin, by members of theIrish National Invincibles (militant Irish republicans).
• May 8 – TheChinese Exclusion Act is the first law which restricts immigration into the United States.
• May 18 –Burnley F.C. in Northern England changes codes, fromrugby football toassociation football.
• May 20 – TheTriple Alliance is formed between Germany,Austria-Hungary and Italy.
• June
  • Ferdinand von Lindemann publishes his proof of thetranscendentality ofpi.
  • St Andrew's Ambulance Association is founded inGlasgow, Scotland;St. John Ambulance Canada is also founded this year.
• June 6
  • Supposedly, theBombay Cyclone of 1882 in theArabian Sea causes flooding inBombay harbor, leaving about 100,000 dead; this alleged event has, however, been proved a hoax.
  • Battle of Embabo: TheShewan forces ofMenelik II defeat theGojjame army.
• June 11 – The'Urabi revolt breaks out inEgypt againstKhediveTewfik Pasha and European influence in that country.
• June 28 – TheAnglo-French Convention of 1882 is signed, marking territorial boundaries betweenGuinea andSierra Leone.
• June 30 – U.S. presidential assassinCharles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C.

• July 11–13 –Anglo-Egyptian War: The BritishMediterranean Fleet carries out theBombardment of Alexandria, its forces capturing the city ofAlexandria,Egypt, and securing theSuez Canal.
• July 23 – TheImo Incident occurs inSeoul, Korea, as a result of bad rations and late payment for soldiers of theJoseon Army.
• July 26
  • Boers establish the republic ofStellaland in southern Africa.
  • Richard Wagner'soperaParsifal debuts, at theBayreuth Festspielhaus inBavaria.
• July 31 – The HebrewMoshava ofRishon LeZion in Palestine is founded.
• August 3 – TheU.S. Congress passes the1882 Immigration Act.
• August 5 –Standard Oil of New Jersey, the company later known asExxonMobil, is established.
• August 18 – TheMarried Women's Property Act 1882 receives royal assent in Britain; it enables women to buy, own and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
• August 20 –Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
• August 29 – TheAustralian cricket team historically defeatsEngland atThe Oval for the first time on English soil, a humiliation for the English and the origin for theAshes test series.
• September 4 –Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the United States, lighting one square mile oflower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that begins the electrical age.
• September 5
  • The first United StatesLabor Day parade is held in New York City.
  • Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is founded (as Hotspur F.C.) in London.
• September 13
  • Anglo-Egyptian War: British troops occupyCairo, andEgypt becomes a Britishprotectorate.
  • Selwyn College, Cambridge, is founded afterQueen Victoria grants a Charter of Incorporation.

• September 18 –Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reports watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun, describing it as "The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4″ in diameter; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight."

• October 5 –The Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago (the modern-day Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago) is founded byFelix Adler.
• October 10 – TheBank of Japan opens inTokyo City.
• October 14 – TheUniversity of the Punjab at Lahore (Undivided India), is founded in modern-dayPakistan.
• October 16 – TheNew York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") runs its first trains over the entire system betweenBuffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later theSeney Syndicate sells the road toWilliam Henry Vanderbilt, for US$7.2 million.
• October 21 –Waseda University is founded byShigenobu Ōkuma inJapan as Tokyo Specializing School.^[6]
• November 2 – TheGreat Fire of Oulu destroys 27 buildings in the downtown ofOulu,Finland.^[7]
• November 14 –Franklyn Leslie shootsBilly Claiborne dead in the streets ofTombstone, Arizona.
• November 16 – The BritishRoyal Navy'sHMS Flirt destroys Abari village inNiger.
• December –Zikhron Ya'akov is founded in northern Israel.
• December 6 – Atransit of Venus, the last until2004, occurs.

• The firstInternational Polar Year, an international scientific program, begins.
• Zulu kingCetshwayo kaMpande returns to South Africa from England.
• A peace treaty is signed betweenParaguay andUruguay.
• Pogroms inSouthern Russia end.
• Nikola Tesla claims this is when he conceives therotating magnetic field principle, which he later uses to invent hisinduction motor.
• The BritishChartered Institute of Patent Agents (the modern-day Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys) is founded.
• Redruth Mining School opens inCornwall.
• ThePersonal Liberty League is established to oppose thetemperance movement in the United States.
• Carolyn Merrick is elected president of theWoman's Christian Temperance Union in the United States.
• Founding of the following sports clubs:
  • Albion Rovers F.C. (through the amalgamation of twoCoatbridge clubs, Albion and Rovers) in the urban west of Scotland;
  • Christchurch Rangers, the earliest predecessor ofQueens Park Rangers F.C., in London;
  • Glentoran F.C. inBelfast in the north of Ireland;
  • Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club, the oldest lawn tennis club still on its original site, in the outer London suburbs;
  • Waterloo F.C., arugby union club, as Serpentine onMerseyside in the north of England.

• January 5 –Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (d.1955)^[8]
• January 6
  • Fan Noli, Albanian poet, political figure (d.1965)
  • Ferdinand Pecora, Sicilian-born American lawyer (d.1971)
  • Sam Rayburn,Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.1961)
• January 12 –Milton Sills, American actor (d.1930)
• January 17
  • Arnold Rothstein, American gangster (d.1928)
  • Noah Beery, American actor (d.1946)
• January 18 –A. A. Milne, British author (d.1956)^[9]
• January 20 –Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (d.1957)
• January 22 –Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor (d.1956)
• January 23 –Anna Abrikosova, SovietRoman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (d.1936)
• January 25 –Virginia Woolf, English writer (d.1941)^[10]
• January 28
  • Mary Boland, American actress (d.1965)
  • Gengo Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (d.1976)
  • Pascual Orozco, Mexican revolutionary (d.1915)
• January 30 –Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32ndPresident of the United States (d.1945)^[11]
• January 31 –Fritz Leiber, American stage, screen actor (d.1949)

• February 1
  • Vladimir Dimitrov, Bulgarian artist (d.1960)^[12]
  • Louis St. Laurent, 12thPrime Minister of Canada (d.1973)
• February 2
  • Anne Bauchens, American film editor (d.1967)
  • James Joyce, Irish author (d.1941)^[13]
• February 4 –E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d.1964)
• February 5 –Louis Wagner, French Grand Prix racer, aviator (d.1960)
• February 11
  • Valli Valli, German-born British actress (d.1927)
  • Joe Jordan, American ragtime composer (d.1971)
• February 12 –Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d.1968)
• February 15 –John Barrymore, American actor (d.1942)
• February 18 –Petre Dumitrescu, Romanian general (d.1950)
• February 20 –Alexander Carrick, Scottish sculptor (d.1966)
• February 22 –Eric Gill, English sculptor, writer (d.1940)
• February 24 –Bosman di Ravelli, South African concert pianist, composer, and writer (d.1967)
• February 26 –Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (d.1968)
• February 28
  • Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d.1967)
  • Herbert Silberer, Austrian psychoanalyst (d.1923)

• March 3 –Charles Ponzi, Italian-born American con man (d.1949)
• March 6 –F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d.1980)
• March 8 –Alfred A. Cunningham, first United States Marine Corps aviator (d.1939)
• March 12 –Carlos Blanco Galindo, 32ndPresident of Bolivia (d.1943)
• March 14
  • Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (d.1969)
  • Giuseppe Tellera, Italian general (d.1941)
• March 15 –Jim Lightbody, American middle-distance runner (d.1953)
• March 18 –Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d.1973)
• March 20 –René Coty, 17thPresident of France (d.1962)
• March 22 –John W. Wilcox Jr., American admiral (d.1942)
• March 23 –Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d.1935)
• March 24 –George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5thGovernor-General of New Zealand (d.1943)
• March 30
  • Melanie Klein, Austrian-born British child psychoanalyst (d.1960)
  • Vittorio Tur, Italian admiral (d.1969)^[14]

• April 7 –Kurt von Schleicher,Chancellor of Germany (d.1934)
• April 17 –Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d.1951)
• April 18
  • Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (d.1948)
  • Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d.1977)
• April 19 –Getúlio Vargas, 14th and 17th president of Brazil (d.1954)
• April 20
  • Nicolae Ciupercă, Romanian general and politician (d.1950)
  • Holland Smith, American general (d.1967)
• April 21 –Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1961)
• April 24 –Hugh Dowding, commander of theRAF Fighter Command during theBattle of Britain (d.1970)
• April 29 –Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist, printer (d.1945)

• May 2 –James F. Byrnes, American politician, Secretary of State andAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1972)
• May 5
  • Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (d.1960)
  • SirDouglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (d.1958)^[15]
• May 6 –Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir-apparent of EmperorWilhelm II (d.1951)
• May 9 –Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (d.1967)
• May 10 –Thurston Hall, American stage & screen actor (d.1958)
• May 13 –Georges Braque, French painter (d.1963)^[16]
• May 16 –Mary Gordon, Scottish stage and screen actress (d.1963)
• May 20
  • Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1949)^[17]
  • Fannie Salter, American lighthouse keeper (d.1966)
• May 25 –Marie Doro, American stage, silent film actress (d.1956)
• May 26 –Jess McMahon, American professional boxing, wrestling promoter (d.1954)
• May 28 –Avery Hopwood, American playwright (d.1928)
• May 30 –Wyndham Halswelle, British runner (d.1915)

• June 4 –Karl Valentin, German actor (d.1948)
• June 9 –Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d.1963)
• June 10 –Nevile Henderson, British diplomat (d.1942)
• June 12 –Roi Cooper Megrue, American playwright (d.1927)
• June 15 –Ion Antonescu, Romanian prime minister, dictator (d.1946)
• June 16 –Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 35thPrime Minister of Iran (d.1967)
• June 17
  • Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d.1918)
  • Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d.1971)
• June 18 –Georgi Dimitrov, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d.1949)
• June 21 –Lluís Companys, President of Catalonia (d.1940)
• June 28 –Valeska Suratt, American stage actress, silent film star (d.1962)
• June 29 –Ole Singstad, Norwegian-American civil engineer (d.1969)

• July 1 –Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician,Chief Minister of West Bengal (d.1962)
• July 8 –Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d.1961)
• July 10 –Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d.1975)
• July 17 –James Somerville, British admiral (d.1949)
• July 22 –Edward Hopper, American painter (d.1967)
• July 25 –George S. Rentz, United States Navy Chaplain,Navy Cross winner (d.1942)
• July 27
  • Donald Crisp, English actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer (d.1974)
  • Geoffrey de Havilland, Britishaviation pioneer,aircraft company founder (d.1965)
• July 31
  • Itamar Ben-Avi, first native speaker ofModern Hebrew (d.1943)

• August 11 –Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general (d.1955)
• August 14 –Gisela Richter, English art historian (d.1972)
• August 16 –Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian, oldest verified male ever at the time of his death (d.1998)
• August 19 –MacGillivray Milne,United States NavyCaptain, 27thGovernor of American Samoa (d.1959)
• August 22 –Raymonde de Laroche, French aviator, first woman to receive an aviator's license (d.1919)
• August 25 –Seán T. O'Kelly, secondPresident of Ireland (d.1966)
• August 26 –James Franck, German-born physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1964)

• September 1 –Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist, oceanographer, and surveyor (d.1953)
• September 8 –Sada Cowan, American playwright and screenwriter (d.1943)
• September 10 –Károly Huszár, 25th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1941)
• September 11 –William T. Bovie, American biophysicist, inventor (d.1958)
• September 12 –Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (d.1963)
• September 13 –Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d.1969)
• September 16 –Robert Hichens, RMSTitanic quartermaster, man at the wheel whenTitanic hit the iceberg (d.1940)
• September 22 –Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d.1946)
• September 29 –Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (d.1937)
• September 30
  • George Bancroft, American film actor (d.1956)
  • Hans Geiger, German physicist (d.1945)

• October 2 –Boris Shaposhnikov, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.1945)
• October 3 –A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d.1974)
• October 5 –Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d.1945)
• October 6 –Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d.1937)
• October 8 –Harry McClintock, American singer (d.1957)
• October 14
  • Zbigniew Dunin-Wasowicz, Polish military leader (d.1915)
  • Éamon de Valera,Taoiseach and thirdPresident of Ireland (d.1975)
  • Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d.1959)
• October 17 –Giulio Gavotti, Italian aviator (d.1939)
• October 20 –Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (d.1956)
• October 24 –Sybil Thorndike, British stage, film actress (d.1976)
• October 25
  • Florence Easton, English opera soprano (d.1955)
  • Tony Jackson, American jazz musician (d.1921)
• October 30
  • William Halsey Jr., American admiral (d.1959)
  • Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d.1944)

• November 6 –Feng Yuxiang, Chinesewarlord and general (d.1948)
• November 8 –Ethel Clayton, American silent screen star (d.1966)
• November 11
  • T. F. O'Rahilly, Irish academic (d.1953)
  • KingGustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d.1973)
• November 15 –Felix Frankfurter,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.1965)
• November 18
  • Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (d.1973)
  • Frances Gertrude McGill, Canadianforensic pathologist (d.1959)
• November 21 –Harold Lowe, Welsh 5th Officer of RMSTitanic (d.1944)
• November 27 –Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch, American dentist (d.1944)
• November 29 –Henri Fabre, French inventor of the first seaplane, theFabre Hydravion (d.1984)

• December 9
  • Percy C. Mather, English Protestant missionary (d.1933)
  • Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d.1949)
• December 11
  • Subramania Bharati, Tamil Indian poet (d.1921)
  • Max Born, German physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1970)
• December 12 –Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral (d.1960)
• December 16
  • Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d.1963)
  • Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d.1967)
  • Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (d.1974)
• December 18 –Richard Maury, American naturalized Argentine engineer (d.1950)
• December 22 –Hisao Tani, Japanese general and war criminal (d.1947)
• December 23 –Mokichi Okada, Japanese religious leader (d.1955)
• December 28 –Arthur Eddington, English astronomer, astrophysicist and mathematician (d.1944)
• December 29 –Raymond Stanton Patton, American admiral, engineer and second Director of theUnited States Coast and Geodetic Survey (d.1937)

• Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (d.1961)
• Nellie Yu Roung Ling, Chinese dancer, lady-in-waiting in Qing imperial court (d.1973)
• T. Sathasiva Iyer,Ceylon Tamil scholar,Tamil language writer (d.1950)
• Ioryi Mucitano,Aromanian revolutionary (d.1911)^[18]
• Nicolae Velo, Aromanian poet and diplomat in Romania (d.1924)^[19]

• January 6 –Richard Henry Dana Jr., founder of Dana Point, California (b.1815)
• January 7 –Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist, inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of the first oil lamp (b.1822)
• January 10 –Henri Jules Bataille, French general (b.1816)
• January 11 –Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b.1810)
• January 13 –Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop (b.1812)
• January 27 –Robert Christison, Scottish toxicologist, physician (b.1797)
• February 5 –Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (b.1815)
• March 9 –Giovanni Lanza, Italian politician (b.1810)
• March 19 –Carl Robert Jakobson, Estonian writer, politician, and teacher (b.1841)
• March 21 –Constantin Bosianu, 4th Prime Minister of Romania (b.1815)
• March 23 –Gustavus H. Scott, American admiral (b.1812)
• March 24 –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b.1807)
• April 3 –Jesse James, American Western outlaw (b.1847)
• April 9 –Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet, painter (b.1828)
• April 11 –John Lenthall, American naval architect, shipbuilder (b.1807)
• April 13 –Bruno Bauer, German philosopher and theologian (b.1809)
• April 14 –Henri Giffard, French balloonist, aviation pioneer (b.1825)
• April 17
  • George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (b.1801)
  • Antonio Fontanesi, Italian painter (b.1818)
• April 19 –Charles Darwin, British naturalist (b.1809)
• April 25 –Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, German astrophysicist (b.1834)
• April 27 –Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, writer (b.1803)
• May 3 –Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b.1806)^[20]
• May 5 –John Rodgers, American admiral (b.1812)
• June 2 –Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b.1807)
• June 3 –Christian Wilberg, German painter (b.1839)
• June 22 –Pablo Buitrago y Benavente, First democratically electedSupreme Director of Nicaragua (b.1807)^[21]
• June 25 –François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b.1806)
• June 30
  • Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer, businessman (b.1827)
  • Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, lawyer, assassin ofJames A. Garfield (executed) (b.1841)

• July 4 –Joseph Brackett, American Shaker religious leader, composer (b.1797)
• July 7 –Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (b.1843)
• July 13 –Johnny Ringo, American cowboy (b.1850)
• July 16 –Mary Todd Lincoln,First Lady of the United States (b.1818)
• July 19 –John William Bean, English criminal (b.1824)
• July 20 –Fanny Parnell, Irish poet, founder of the Ladies' Land League (b.1848)
• July 23 –George Perkins Marsh, American diplomat, philologist and pioneer environmentalist (b.1801)
• August 4 –Samuel Barron Stephens, American attorney and politician (b.1814)
• August 13 –William Stanley Jevons, English economist and logician (b.1835)
• August 16 –Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot, French general (b.1817)
• August 25 –Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian writer, physician (b.1803)
• August 31 –Pedro Luiz Napoleão Chernoviz, Brazilian physician, writer and publisher (b.1812)
• September 8 –Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b.1809)
• September 14 –Georges Leclanché, French electrical engineer and inventor (b.1839)
• September 16 –Edward Bouverie Pusey, British churchman (b.1800)
• September 23 –Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (b.1800)
• September 30 –José Milla y Vidaurre, Guatemalan writer (b.1822)
• October 13 –Arthur de Gobineau, French writer, demographist (b.1816)
• November 7 –Julius Hübner, German painter (b.1806)

   

• November 14 –Billy Claiborne, American gunfighter (b.1860)
• November 20 –Henry Draper, American astronomer (b.1837)
• December 3 –Archibald Campbell Tait,Archbishop of Canterbury (b.1811)
• December 6
  • Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (b.1819)
  • Louis Blanc, French politician, historian (b.1811)
  • Anthony Trollope, British novelist, postal service official (b.1815)
• December 9 –Lucy Smith Millikin, earlyLatter Day Saint and sister ofJoseph Smith (b.1821)
• December 10 –Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer (b.1821)
• December 18 –Henry James Sr., American theologian (b.1811)
• December 21 –Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (b.1791)
• December 27 –Giovanni Losi, Italian Combonian missionary (b.1838)
• December 31 –Léon Gambetta, French statesman (b.1838)

• Eugénie Luce, French educator (b.1804)^[22]