Famous People Who Died in 1877

Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877)

Jan 4 American shipping and railroad magnate (New York Central Railroad), dies at 82

Jan 9 Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
Jan 11 Pietro Romani, Italian conductor and composer, dies at 85
Jan 24 Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
Feb 1 Joseph-Leon Gatayes, French harpist, dies at 71

Charles Wilkes (1798-1877)

Feb 8 American Antarctic explorer and naval officer (Union Navy), dies at 78

Feb 20 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy during US Civil War), dies at 72
Mar 1 Jack McCall, American gold miner and murderer, executed by hanging for the murder of Wild Bill Hicock at about 24 [date of birth uncertain]
Mar 4 Hendrik van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
Mar 9 Mark Prager Lindo, English Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58
Mar 12 Cristóbal Oudrid, Spanish pianist, conductor, and orchestral and zarzuela composer (Rondeña; El molinero de Subiza), dies of bacterial pneumonia at 52
Mar 13 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor and Shakespearean critic, dies at 89
Mar 24 Walter Bagehot, English journalist and economist (founded National Review), dies at 51
Mar 25 Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 51
Mar 28 Vincenzo Fioravanti, Italian composer, dies at 77
Mar 31 Antoine Cournot, French philosopher and mathematician (rule of Cournot), dies at 75
Apr 7 Errico Petrella, Italian composer, dies at 63
Apr 22 James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer, dies at 70
May 6 Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (Finland's national anthem "Maamme"), dies at 73
May 14 John Roberts, Welsh composer, minister and poet, dies at 54
May 18 William "Extra Billy" Smith, American lawyer, politician (Governor of Virginia, 1846-49 and 1864-65; US Representative from Virginia, 1853-61), and oldest General in the Confederate Army, dies at 89
May 29 John Lothrop Motley, American historian and author (The Rise of the Dutch Republic), dies at 63
Jun 3 Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo while travelling with Stanley
Jun 3 Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (Köchel catalogue of Mozart's works), dies of cancer at 77
Jun 3 Sophie of Württemberg, Queen of Netherlands as wife of William III, dies at 58
Jun 5 Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca tribe Chief Standing Bear, dies during forced removal to Oklahoma Indian Reservation
Jun 7 Winand Staring, Dutch geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
Jun 9 Hugh W. Mercer, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
Jul 1 William Henry Davenport, American stage magician, claimed to be a spirit medium, dies at 36
Jul 13 Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, German politician and bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
Aug 3 Karl Georg Lickl, Austrian pianist, physharmonica (type of harmonium) player, and composer, dies at 75
Aug 3 William Butler Ogden, American real estate investor, politician (1st Mayor of Chicago, 1837-38), railroad executive (president of Union Pacific, 1862-63), and philanthropist, dies at 72
Aug 5 Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden, dies at 77
Aug 12 James Drummond, Scottish historical painter, (b. 1816)

Brigham Young (1801-1877)

Aug 29 American religious leader (Latter-day Saints), dies of peritonitis at 76

Aug 30 Raphael Semmes, American Rear Admiral (Confederate Navy), dies at 67
Sep 2 Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
Sep 3 Adolphe Thiers, French statesman, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77), dies at 80

Crazy Horse (1840-1877)

Sep 5 Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), dies at 37

Sep 12 Julius Reitz, German cellist, composer, teacher, and music editor, dies at 64

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)

Sep 17 English photographic pioneer, dies at 77

Sep 23 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune), dies at 66
Sep 25 Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, German physician ( established normal temperature as 37 °C (98.6 °F), dies at 62
Sep 26 Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician, dies at 68
Sep 30 Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
Oct 3 James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 63
Oct 10 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, dies at 76
Oct 14 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, French composer, dies at 68
Oct 16 John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
Oct 16 Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
Oct 28 Johann Herbeck, Austrian composer and conductor (conducted premiere of Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony"), dies at 45
Oct 28 Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)

Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877)

Oct 29 American slave trader, Confederate lieutenant general and KKK Grand Wizard, dies of complications from diabetes at 56

Nov 1 Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, American politician (Governor of Indiana), dies of a stroke at 56
Nov 2 Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal, dies at 93
Nov 13 Pietro Antonio Coppola, Italian composer, dies at 83
Dec 7 Benjamin Huger, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 72
Dec 10 Federico Ricci, Italian composer, dies at 68
Dec 10 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist and reformed penitentiaries, dies at 84
Dec 12 José de Alencar, Brazilian writer (O Guarani), dies at 48
Dec 23 Thomas Wright, English antiquarian and writer, dies at 87
Dec 24 Robert Parker Parrott, American inventor (developed the rifled cannon known as the Parrott gun), dies at 73
Dec 27 Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny), dies at 56
Dec 29 Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
Dec 31 Alberto Mazzucato, composer, dies at 64
Dec 31 Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine), dies at 58