Deaths
- March 18 - Augustus De Morgan (born 1806), British logician.
- April 16 - Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (born 1808), Austrian physician.
- May 11 - John Herschel (born 1792), English mathematician and astronomer.
- October 18 - Charles Babbage (born 1791), English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.
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