Deaths
- January 2 - George Biddell Airy (born 1801), astronomer.
- January 21 - John Couch Adams (born 1819), mathematician.
- April 2 - Emin Pasha (born 1840), explorer.
- May 5 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann (born 1818), chemist
- June 27 - Carl Schorlemmer (born 1834), organic chemist.
- December 6 - Werner von Siemens (born 1816), electrical engineer.
- December 18 - Richard Owen (born 1804), anatomist and paleontologist.
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“On almost the incendiary eve
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