Deaths
- July 1 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German mineralogist and geologist (born 1806)
- August 17 - Aleksandr Butlerov, Russian chemist (born 1828)
- November 14 - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, French mineralogist and geologist (born 1820).
- December 26 - Theodor von Oppolzer, Austrian astronomer (born 1841)
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