Deaths
- January 16 - Max Schultze (born 1825), physiologist.
- January 24 - Johann Philipp Reis (born 1834), physicist and inventor.
- February 17 - Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician and astronomer.
- February 19 - Carl Ernst Bock (born 1809), physician and anatomist.
- March 14 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler (born 1794), astronomer.
- March 28 - Peter Andreas Hansen (born 1795), astronomer.
- April 13 - James Bogardus (born 1800), inventor.
- November 21 - Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), naturalist.
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