This article presents a list of famous people who died in 1871 .
See also: Category: Dead in 1871
January
- January 1 - Karel Zap (58), Czech writer.
- January 1 - Sergey Zaryanko (52), a famous portrait painter.
- January 1 - Andrei Lodi (59), opera singer, lyric tenor, music teacher.
- January 3 - Konstantin Ushinsky (47) - Russian teacher, the founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia.
- January 3 - Kuriakos Chawara (65), the blessed Roman Catholic and Catholic Syro-Malabar churches, a priest, a monk, one of the founders of the Carmelite Immaculate Mary congregation for men and the Sisters of the Carmel Mother of God.
- January 6 - Ignatius Shchedrovsky (55), Russian artist of Polish-Lithuanian origin, lithographer, painter.
- January 8 - Henri Kaeman (45), a Belgian botanist and mycologist.
- January 9 - Leopold Gasser (34), Austrian gunsmith, designer of small arms.
- January 10 - Pierre Ponson du Terray (41), a popular French writer, master of the feuilleton romance genre (a novel in editions, a novel with a sequel), the creator of the character of the robber Rokambol.
- January 11 - Pavel Gromov (87), major, Arkhangelsk police chief, Kholmogory and Pinezhsk mayor.
- January 12 - Nikolay Shcheglov (71), Russian teacher, author of textbooks on arithmetic, physics and other subjects.
- January 16 - Jacques Randon (75), Marshal of France, Minister of War in 1851 and 1859-67, Count.
- January 16 - Jules Furro (26), French nerd.
- January 18 - George Hayter (78), English artist.
- January 18 - Karl Schlesinger (57), Austrian cellist.
- January 19 - Henri Reno (27), French artist; died in battle.
- January 20 - Fyodor Lindfors (64), Major General, participant in the Russian-Turkish war of 1828–29.
- January 20 - Alexey Yanovich , a botanist, ordinary professor at the University of Novorossiysk.
- January 21 - Jozef Gauke-Bosak (36), a Polish general, a rebel; died in battle.
- January 23 - Francois-Desiire Bancel (47), French politician.
- January 23 - Friedrich Mikel (59), a Dutch botanist.
- January 25 - Wilhelm Weitling (62), German utopian philosopher, leader of the early German labor movement, one of theorists of egalitarian communism.
- January 25 - Nikolay Ivashintsev (51), Russian Rear Admiral, hydrograph.
- January 27 - Pavel Stepanov , Russian Rear Admiral, a participant in the Caucasian and Crimean Wars.
February
- February 1 - Charles Rabu (67), French writer.
- February 1 - Alexander Serov (51), Russian composer and music critic.
- February 3 - Vladimir Dmitrevsky (50), Russian dramatic actor of the Maly Theater.
- February 3 - James Maspratt (49), Anglo-Irish chemist.
- February 4 - Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (85), German writer and gardener, prince.
- February 6 - Ernst Zaupe (62), German literary critic.
- February 6 - Vladimir Felkner (65), Lieutenant-General, participant of the Caucasian War.
- February 7 - Leopoldina (23), Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Kohari; typhoid fever.
- February 7 - Heinrich Steinweg (73), piano master, founder of Steinway & Sons .
- February 8 - Moritz von Schwind (67), Austrian artist and graphic artist.
- February 10 - Etienne de Gerlach (85), Belgian statesman and writer, lawyer, baron.
- February 20 - Paul Kane (60), Irish-Canadian artist.
- February 22 - Ivan Fitingof (73), cavalry general, commander of the combined cuirassier division, baron.
- February 26 - Valerian Tatarinov (54), State Controller of Russia, State Secretary, Actual Privy Counselor; acute myocardial infarction.
- February 27 - Pavel Brusnitsyn (55), medalist, member of the Academy of Arts, collegiate councilor; pulmonary tuberculosis.
March
- March 2 - Giovanni Gordidzhani (76), Italian singer (baritone), composer and music teacher.
- March 3 - Heinrich Bernhard von Andlav-Birsek (68), Baden politician and ultramontan.
- March 3 - Michael Tonet (74), a German and Austrian furniture maker.
- March 6 - Vasyl Chernyaev (76), Russian botanist, researcher of the flora of Ukraine, professor at Kharkov University.
- March 8 - Augustes de Moran (64), Scottish mathematician and logician, first president of the London Mathematical Society.
- March 18 - Georg Gervinus (65), German historian, literary critic, liberal politician.
- March 18 - Stanislav Sorel (68), French engineer.
- March 21 - Peter Beron (72), Bulgarian enlightener, scientist, encyclopedist, teacher, philosopher, doctor and naturalist; strangled.
- March 21 - Fedor Reshetnikov (29), Russian writer.
- March 22 - Karl Schulz-Schulzenstein (72), German botanist, mycologist, physiologist and professor of medicine.
- March 25 - Anthony (72), Archbishop of Chisinau and Khotyn.
- March 26 - Francois-Joseph Feti (87), French-Belgian musicologist, music critic and teacher, conductor, composer.
- March 29 - Johann Gertner (52), a Danish artist.
- March 30 - Louise of the Netherlands (42), wife of Charles XV of Sweden, Queen of Sweden.
April
- April 1 - Augustus (94), Crown Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
- April 2 - Francisco de Istouris (80), Spanish statesman.
- April 3 - Gustave Florence (32), French politician, one of the leaders of the Paris Commune, general, revolutionary Blanquist; killed
- April 4 - Peter von Hess (78), Bavarian court painter, member of the Academies of Arts in Munich, Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg.
- April 7 - Jacob Dyachenko (54), colonel, founder of Khabarovsk.
- April 7 - Wilhelm von Tegetgoff (43), Austrian admiral; pneumonia.
- April 9 - Nikolai Krol (48), Russian poet, prose writer, playwright and publicist.
- April 12 - Pierre Leroux (74), French philosopher and political economist.
- April 18 - Omer Lutfi-Pasha (64), Ottoman commander of Serbian origin.
- April 20 - Ivan Shtaden (67), artillery general, commandant of the Brest-Litovsk fortress.
- April 24 - Charles Girard (57), Swiss genre painter and landscape painter.
- April 26 - Ivan Krasnov (69), Lieutenant-General, Commander of the Life-Guard Cossack Regiment, writer.
- April 29 - Hierotheos (Lobachevsky) (82), Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church; spiritual writer.
May
- May 1 - Alexander Bezobrazov (87), Actual Privy Councilor, Senator and Governor, Writer.
- May 4 - Maria Annunziata (28), Archduchess of Austria; tuberculosis.
- May 11 - John Herschel (79), English astronomer and physicist.
- May 12 - Anselm Payà (76), a French chemist who discovered cellulose.
- May 13 - Daniel Aubert (89), French composer, master of French comic opera, founder of the French big opera genre; myocardial infarction.
- May 17 - Fedor Rerberg (79), Russian engineer-general, senator.
- May 22 - Jean Cai (67), French engineer and industrialist.
- May 22 - Leopold IV (76), Duke of Anhalt.
- May 22 - Eligy-Franz von Münch-Bellinghausen (65), German playwright, baron.
- May 23 - Yaroslav Dombrovsky (34), Polish and French revolutionary and military leader; mortal wound.
- May 23 - Ramon de la Sagra (73), Spanish politician, economist and botanist.
- May 24 - Georges Darbois (58), French Catholic bishop, theologian, archbishop of Paris in 1863–71; shot
- May 25 - Charles Delecluse (61), French revolutionary, member of the Paris Commune; died on the barricades.
- May 28 - Eugene Varlin (31), French revolutionary, leader of the Paris Commune and the International Workers' Association; shot
June
- June 3 - Peter Trubetskoy (73), cavalry general, Smolensk and Orel governor.
- June 7 - Immanuel Becker (86), German philologist and critic, member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- June 8 - Satank (c. 71), leader of the Kiowa, also known as Sitting Bear, one of the leaders of his people in the wars with the Americans; killed
- June 9 - Anna Atkins (72), English scientist, botanist and illustrator, one of the first female photographers.
- June 9 - Friedrich Iberweg (45), German philosopher and historian of philosophy.
- June 13 - Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin (65), a French illusionist nicknamed the father of modern magic.
- June 14 - Neil Osnovsky (54), Russian writer-fiction writer and publisher.
- June 29 - Xenophon Govorsky (60), Russian archaeologist, historian, journalist and publisher.
July
- July 3 - Mikhail Bestuzhev (70), Captain of the Life Guards Moscow Regiment, Decembrist, writer; cholera.
- July 3 - Carl Milde (46), German botanist and mycologist.
- July 5 - Cristina Trivoulzio Belgiojo (62), Italian princess, writer, journalist, prominent participant in the struggle for the independence of Italy from the Austrian Empire.
- July 11 - Germain Sommeilier (56), Italian engineer.
- July 13 - Dmitry Levshin (69), General of Infantry, trustee of the Moscow school district.
- July 16 - Nikolai Gersevanov (62), Major General, participant in the defense of Sevastopol, a publicist.
- July 20 - Francois Delsarte (59), French singer, vocal teacher and stage art theorist.
- July 29 - Anna Gotovtseva (72), Russian writer.
August
- August 3 - Nikolai Sukhozanet (77), General of Artillery, War Minister in 1856-61.
- August 8 - Eugene (93), Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- August 9 - Jose Marmol (53), Argentine writer, journalist, politician.
- August 12 - Tiyo Soga (42), the first representative of the indigenous population of South Africa who received a university education and accepted the priesthood, one of the founders of literature in the language of Isikos.
- August 29 - Paul de Cock (78), French novelist and playwright.
September
- September 3 - Vasily Bulygin (63), activist for the liberation of the peasants from serfdom.
- September 7 - Mehmed Emin Aali-Pasha (56), the statesman of the Ottoman Empire, Grand Vizier and the representative of the Ottoman Empire at the Paris Congress.
- September 8 - John Holbrook (76), American zoologist, physician and naturalist.
- September 9 - Stand Wayty (64), leader of the Cherokee Indians, Brigadier General of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
- September 13, Ibrahim Shinasi (45), a well-known Turkish politician, writer, publicist, public figure, founder of Turkish drama, a participant in the revolution of 1848 in France, translator, one of the first authors of Tanzimat.
- September 20 - Thomas Padura (69), Ukrainian-Polish poet, one of the representatives of the Ukrainian school of Polish romanticism.
- September 24 - Dmitry Sheremetev (68), earl, eminent Russian philanthropist.
- September 25 - Louis-Joseph Papino (84), Canadian politician, lawyer.
- September 25 - Pavel Petrov (79), Major General, Podolsky civil governor.
- September 27 - Arvid-Augustus Afzelius (86), a Swedish romantic, a representative of the so-called Gothic school.
- September 29 - Rafail Zotov (76), Russian novelist, playwright and theater critic.
October
- October 3 - Grigory Kugushev (47), Russian writer, playwright, poet, prince.
- October 5 - Alexander Afanasyev (45), an outstanding Russian collector of folklore, a researcher of the spiritual culture of Slavic peoples; pulmonary tuberculosis.
- October 7 - John Bergoin (89), British Field Marshal.
- October 7 - Karp Rafalovich (78), Lieutenant-General, participant in many wars of the era of Alexander I and Nicholas I.
- October 10 - Berthold Zeman (46), German botanist and traveler.
- October 11 - Eugen Kvaternik (45), Croatian politician and writer, one of the founders of the Croatian Law Party; killed
- October 12 - Karl Johann (68), Prince of Liechtenstein in 1806-13.
- October 13 - Jacob Rad (72), Czech scientist and entrepreneur of Swiss origin, inventor of the method of production of lumpy refined sugar.
- October 13 - Louis Revial (61), French singer (tenor) and vocal teacher.
- October 18 - Charles Babbage (79), English mathematician, inventor of the first analytical computing machine.
- October 20 - Thomas Padura (69), Ukrainian-Polish poet, one of the representatives of the Ukrainian school of Polish romanticism.
- October 22 - Roderick Murchison (79), a famous Scottish geologist who first described and explored the Silurian, Devonian and Permian geological periods.
- October 24 - Julius Ratseburg (70), the famous German entomologist, the founder of the theory of harmful forest insects.
- October 26 - Thomas Ewing (81), American politician, Minister of Finance in 1841 and Minister of the Interior in 1849-50.
November
- November 1 - William Baxter (84), British botanist and curator of the Oxford Botanical Garden.
- November 7 - Adolf Strecker (49), German organic chemist.
- November 10 - Nikolai Turgenev (82), a Russian economist and publicist, an active participant in the Decembrist movement, one of the greatest figures of Russian liberalism.
- November 11 - Peder Yort (78), Danish critic.
- November 14 - Francesco Almazio (65), Italian organist and composer.
- November 26 - Grigory Rashpil (70), Lieutenant-General, acting chief actor of the Black Sea Cossack army.
- November 28 - Theophile Ferret (25), member of the Paris Commune 1871, Blanquist.
- November 30 - Lev Levshin (65), Major General, Warsaw Chief of Orenade.
December
- December 7 - Nicola Levasseur (80), French opera singer (bass), one of the best singers in France in the first half of the 19th century.
- December 7 - Yaakov Ettlinger (73), Rabbi, head of the yeshiva in the city of Altona.
- December 9 - Josef Manes (51), Czech artist, representative of the romantic current in painting.
- December 16 - Willibald Alexis (73), German writer.
- December 17 - Nikolai Okolnichy (44), major general, military governor and commander of the Akmola region and ataman of the 1st and 2nd sections of the Siberian Cossack army.
- December 17 - Stepan Pashchenko (78), Lieutenant General, participant of the Napoleonic Wars.
- December 19 - Konstantin Lyadov (51), Russian conductor and violinist.
- December 21 - Louise Aston (57), German writer and politician.
- December 21 - Victor Müller (42), historical painter.
- December 27 - Carl Allen (60), Danish historian and archeologist.
- December 31 - Elpidifor Zurov (74), lieutenant-general, senator, Novgorod military and civil governor.
- December 31 - Shmuel Binyamin Soyfer (56), one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of Hungary in the second half of the 19th century and Rosh Yeshiva (head) of the famous Yeshiva of Presbyburg, famous for his main work, the book Xav Soyfer.
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- Nikolai Gersevanov - Major General, member of the defense of Sevastopol, a publicist.
- Dmitry Danilov - lieutenant general, Polotsk commandant, vice-director of the military settlements depratament.
- Konstantin Konstantinov - Russian scientist and inventor in the field of artillery, rocketry, instrument making and automation, lieutenant-general, artilleryman.
- Anatoly Svidnitsky - Ukrainian writer, public figure and folklorist.
See also
- List of deceased in 1870
- List of deceased in 1872