Deaths
- January 18 - William Stokes, Irish physician (born 1804)
- January 18 - Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (born 1788)
- January 19 - Henri Victor Regnault, French physical chemist (born 1810)
- February 8 - Elias Magnus Fries, Swedish botanist (born 1794)
- February 10 - Claude Bernard, French physiologist (born 1813)
- February 26 - Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (born 1818)
- March 16 - William Banting, English undertaker and dietician (b. c.1796)
- May 13 - Joseph Henry, American physicist (born 1797)
- June 6 - Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (born 1790)
- July 23 - Baron Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian pathologist (born 1804)
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