- Dec 2 Cadmus M. Wilcox, American Major General (Confederate Army - American Civil War), dies at 66
- Dec 3 Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (8 Tests for Australia, 4 for England), dies 39
- Dec 10 Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1861-66), dies at 84
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
Sitting Bull
- Dec 21 Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73
Heinrich Schliemann
Dec 26 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist who rediscovered Troy, dies of cholesteatoma at 86
Heinrich Schliemann