Famous People Who Died In 1878
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1878. This list includes people like Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, William M. Tweed, Claude Bernard, William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Henry and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, spiritual & religious leaders and emperors & kings who died in 1878. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany and many more countries.
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Birthdate: April 14, 1788
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Died: September 24
Birthdate: November 3, 1794
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Cummington, Massachusetts
Died: June 12
Birthdate: July 12, 1813
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Saint-Julien, France
Died: February 10
Birthdate: August 18, 1792
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Mayfair, Middlesex, England
Died: May 28
Birthdate: April 25, 1843
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: London, England
Died: December 14
Birthdate: September 2, 1812
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Keir, Dumfries and Galloway
Died: January 23
Birthdate: December 12, 1805
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Thetford, Vermont, United States
Died: December 10
Birthdate: December 17, 1797
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Albany, New York, United States
Died: May 13
9
Thierry Hermès
(Founded Hermès International)
Birthdate: January 10, 1801
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Krefeld, Germany
Died: January 10
10
Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
(Princess)
Birthdate: May 24, 1874
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Darmstadt, Germany
Died: November 16
Birthdate: March 14, 1820
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Palazzo Carignano, Turin, Italy
Died: January 9
Height: 5'2" (157 cm)
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Benjamin F. Wade
(Politician)
Birthdate: October 27, 1800
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts
Died: March 2
13
George Gilbert Scott
(British Architect)
Birthdate: July 13, 1811
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Parsonage, Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: March 27
Birthdate: July 1, 1802
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States
Died: February 11
15
Mindon Min
(King of Myanmar)
Birthdate: July 8, 1808
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Amarapura, Myanmar
Died: October 1
Birthdate: May 27, 1819
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: June 12
Birthdate: April 3, 1823
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: April 12
18
Catharine Beecher
(Educator)
Birthdate: September 6, 1800
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: East Hampton, New York, United States
Died: May 12
19
George Henry Lewes
(Philosopher)
Birthdate: April 18, 1817
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: London, England
Died: November 30
20
George Cruikshank
(Caricaturist)
Birthdate: September 27, 1792
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: London, England
Died: February 1
21
Mohammed bin Thani
(Politician)
Birthdate: 1788 AD
Birthplace: Fuwayrit, Qatar
Died: December 18
22
Anna Sewell
(Writer, Novelist, Children's writer)
Birthdate: March 30, 1820
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Great Yarmouth
Died: April 25
23
Nikolay Nekrasov
(Poet who Introduced Ternary Meters and the Technique of Dramatic Monologue into Russian Poetry)
Birthdate: December 10, 1821
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Nemyriv, Ukraine
Died: January 8
Birthdate: August 6, 1827
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Manchester, England
Died: September 12
25
Crawford Long
(American Surgeon and Pharmacist Best Known for His First Use of Inhaled 'Sulfuric Ether' as an Anesthetic)
Birthdate: November 1, 1815
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Danielsville, Georgia, United States
Died: June 16
Birthdate: May 13, 1792
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Senigallia, Italy
Died: February 7
27
Julius von Mayer
(Physicist, Physician)
Birthdate: November 25, 1814
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Heilbronn
Died: March 20
Birthdate: July 12, 1812
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Shaki, Azerbaijan
Died: March 9
29
Ōkubo Toshimichi
(Bushi, Politician)
Birthdate: September 26, 1830
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Satsuma Province
Died: May 14
30
Angelo Secchi
(Italian Jesuit Priest and Astrophysicist, Who Made the First Survey of the Spectra of Stars)
Birthdate: June 28, 1818
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Reggio Emilia, Italy
Died: February 26
Birthdate: January 11, 1825
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: December 19
32
Sarah Helen Power Whitman
(Poet)
Birthdate: January 19, 1803
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Died: June 27
33
Ernst Heinrich Weber
(Psychologist, Physician)
Birthdate: June 24, 1795
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Died: January 26
34
Townsend Harris
(First United States Consul General to Japan)
Birthdate: October 4, 1804
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Washington County, New York, United States
Died: February 25
Birthdate: February 13, 1804
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Devonport, Plymouth, England
Died: November 6
Birthplace: Egypt
Died: 1878 AD
37
Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Was a priest and educator, first princiFormer Paymaster General of the United Kingdompal and founder of CMS Grammar School, Lagos)
Birthdate: January 17, 1826
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kissy, Sierra Leone
Died: January 17
38
William Stokes
(Physician)
Birthdate: October 1, 1804
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: January 10
Birthdate: March 17, 1811
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: December 16
40
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
(Archduke of Austria)
Birthdate: December 17, 1802
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: March 8
41
John Morrissey
(Politician)
Birthdate: February 12, 1831
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Templemore, Ireland
Died: May 1
Birthdate: 1763 AD
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died: 1878 AD
43
Anna Claypoole Peale
(Painter)
Birthdate: March 6, 1791
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: December 25
44
Benjamin Davis Wilson
(2nd Mayor of Los Angeles)
Birthdate: December 1, 1811
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Wilson County, Tennessee, United States
Died: March 11
45
Charles-François Daubigny
(Painter)
Birthdate: February 15, 1817
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: February 19
Birthdate: March 17, 1799
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rudolstadt, Germany
Died: April 24
47
Madame Restell
(Abortionist)
Birthdate: May 6, 1812
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: England
Died: April 1
48
Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès
(Politician)
Birthdate: February 16, 1803
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Marseille, France
Died: October 31
49
Benjamin Bonneville
(American Military Officer, Explorer in the American West, and Fur Trapper)
Birthdate: April 14, 1796
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: June 12
50
Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin
(German Writer, Diplomat, and Translator)
Birthdate: January 30, 1789
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: April 4