Famous People Who Died in 1870

Francisco Solano López (1826-1870)

Mar 1 President and Dictator of Paraguay (1862-70), shouts "¡Muero con mi patria!" (I die with my nation) and dies in a struggle with Brazilian soldiers attempting to disarm him at 43

Mar 9 Theodore Labarre, French composer and harpist, dies at 65
Mar 10 (Isaac) Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian piano virtuoso, friend of Beethoven, teacher of Mendelssohn, conductor, and composer, dies at 75 [1]
Mar 11 Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho (1822-70), dies at about 47
Mar 18 Joaquin Gaztambide, Spanish composer (Una vieja), dies at 48
Mar 28 George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
Apr 1 Patrick Gass, American soldier and sergeant of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 98
Apr 4 Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
Apr 8 Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist and composer, dies at 68
Apr 15 Emma Willard, American women's rights activist & educator who founded the 1st school for women's higher education in the US, dies at 83
Apr 16 Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies
Apr 17 Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, Italian princess of the House of Bourbon, dies at 71
Apr 19 Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, dies at 83
Apr 19 Camille Marie Stamaty, French pianist, composer, and teacher of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saëns, dies at 59
Apr 19 William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77
May 6 James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician who popularized chloroform for medicinal use, dies at 58
May 14 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, Catalan composer and choirmaster, dies at 69
May 30 Gustave Vogt, French composer, dies at 89
Jun 8 Johann Gottlob Topfer, German composer, dies at 78

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Jun 9 English writer (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol), dies of stroke at 58

Jun 9 Erik Drake, Swedish composer (Swedish Academy of Music), dies at 82
Jun 20 Jules de Goncourt, French writer, wrote with his brother Edmond de Goncourt, dies at 39
Jul 8 Jan David Zocher Jr., Dutch landscape architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79
Jul 22 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
Jul 25 Pierre Dupont, French songwriter ("Les Bœufs"; "Le Chant du pain"), dies at 49

David Farragut (1801-1870)

Aug 14 American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), dies at 69

Aug 16 Edmund Passy, Swedish composer, dies at 80
Aug 18 Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brigadier general, dies in battle
Aug 21 Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China (b. 1821)
Aug 24 Edwin Gray Lee, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 34
Sep 2 Arthur Saint-Leon, French composer and dancer, dies at 48
Sep 11 Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46
Sep 12 Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (The Hasheesh Eater), dies at 34
Sep 23 Prosper Mérimée, French author (Carmen), dies at 66
Sep 27 Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)

Oct 12 American General who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War, dies of pneumonia at 63

Oct 20 Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (The Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
Oct 26 Joseph Saxton, American inventor, watchmaker, and photographer, dies at 74
Oct 31 Mihály Mosonyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 55
Nov 21 Karel Jaromír Erben, Czech poet (Ruiker), dies at 69
Nov 24 Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (Les Chants de Maldoror), dies at 24
Nov 28 Frédéric Bazille, French painter, dies at 28

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

Dec 5 French author (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 68

Dec 5 David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas, dies at 82
Dec 7 Mykhailo Verbytsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and composer (Prostachka; The State Anthem of Ukraine), dies at 55
Dec 8 Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor, dies at 65
Dec 16 Stanisław Duniecki, Polish composer, dies at 31
Dec 17 Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer, dies at 75
Dec 28 Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, Russian composer, dies at 72
Dec 28 Peter van Schendel, Dutch-Belgian painter (Monsieur Chandelle), dies at 64
Dec 30 Juan Prim, Spanish general and politician (Prime Minister, 1869-70), assassinated at 56