Deaths
- January 12 - Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (born 1824), German botanist.
- February 8 - Charles Wilkes (died 1798), American navigator.
- June 3 - Ludwig von Köchel (born 1800), Austrian musicologist and botanist.
- September 17 - H. Fox Talbot (born 1800), English pioneer of photography.
- September 23 - Urbain Le Verrier (born 1811), French astronomer.
- September 26 - Hermann Günther Grassmann (born 1809), German mathematician.
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