Sitting Bull
Dec 15 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief who helped led his people to victory in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, killed by US Police aged 58 or 59
- Dec 21 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist, organist, composer, and conductor, dies at 73
Heinrich Schliemann
Dec 26 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist who rediscovered Troy, dies of cholesteatoma at 86