People who died in the 1870s

273 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1870s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.

• Abel-François Villemain (1790–1870), academic, historian, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (1812–1870), scientific collector, art collector, scientific explorer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Arthur Saint-Léon (1821–1870), dancer, choreographer, violinist · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Auguste Duméril (1812–1870), herpetologist, ichthyologist, entomologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870), music educator, university teacher, violinist · buried at Laeken Cemetery
• Charles de Montalembert (1810–1870), opinion journalist, count, journalist · buried at Picpus Cemetery
• Charles Xavier Thomas (1785–1870), patent inventor, mechanic, inventor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870), poet, writer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Daniel Maclise (1806–1870), lithographer, draftsperson, graphic artist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• David Farragut (1801–1870), military officer, admiral, politician · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• De Lacy Evans (1787–1870), soldier, military officer, military personnel · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Emma Willard (1787–1870), textbook writer, women's rights activist, feminist · buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)
• Franz Joseph Ruprecht (1814–1870), scientific collector, lichenologist, botanist · buried at Volkovo Cemetery
• Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), painter · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Montpellier
• Gabriel Lamé (1795–1870), mining engineer, university teacher, physicist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• George Henry Thomas (1816–1870), military officer · buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)
• Giuseppina Bozzacchi (1853–1870), ballet dancer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802–1870), university teacher, chemist, physicist · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• John P. Kennedy (1795–1870), slave driver, novelist, author · buried at Green Mount Cemetery
• Joseph Strauss (1827–1870), conductor, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), diarist, novelist, literary critic · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Michael William Balfe (1808–1870), opera singer, violinist, songwriter · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1823–1870), painter, engineer, architect · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), Inspector general of the Historical Monuments, draftsperson, anthropologist · buried at Cimetière du Grand Jas
• Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870), musicologist, director, chapelmaster · buried at Cemetery of Poggioreale
• Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets (1803–1870), mining engineer, military officer, engineer · buried at Volkovo Cemetery
• Victor Noir (1848–1870), journalist · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• William Allen Miller (1817–1870), chemist, astronomer · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870), novelist, historian, poet · buried at Magnolia Cemetery (Charleston, South Carolina)
• Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), fairy tale scholar, collector of fairy tales, linguist · buried at Pyatnitskoye Cemetery
• Alexander Serov (1820–1871), jurist, composer, music educator · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Alice Cary (1820–1871), suffragist, novelist, children's writer · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois (1806–1871), ghostwriter, playwright, writer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), logician, philosopher, university teacher · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806–1871), playwright, librarian, poet · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Charles Babbage (1791–1871), philosopher, university teacher, inventor · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782–1871), musicologist, choreographer, violinist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• François Delsarte (1811–1871), music educator, musicologist, theatrologist · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• François-Joseph Fétis (1784–1871), musicographer, music theorist, music historian · buried at Brussels Cemetery
• George Ticknor (1791–1871), literary scholar, literary historian, romanist · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• Henri Regnault (1843–1871), visual artist, painter · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Henry E. Steinway (1797–1871), musical instrument maker, piano maker, entrepreneur · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• James Busby (1802–1871), winegrower, politician, businessperson · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836–1871), revolutionary, communard, military officer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Jean-François Cail (1804–1871), mechanician, industrialist, entrepreneur · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Johann Baptist Streicher (1796–1871), musical instrument maker, piano maker · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• John Fox Burgoyne (1782–1871), military officer, military personnel, engineer · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• José Mármol (1817–1871), journalist, diplomat, librarian · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Jules Petiet (1813–1871), engineer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Louis Charles Delescluze (1809–1871), attorney's clerk, journalist, communard · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Michael Thonet (1796–1871), furniture designer, industrialist, designer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Phoebe Caryary (1824–1871), poet, writer · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829–1871), writer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Pierre Leroux (1797–1871), philosopher, editor, translator · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Robert Anderson (1805–1871), military officer, major general · buried at West Point Cemetery
• Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet (1792–1871), entomologist, botanist, paleontologist · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Shamil (1797–1871), religious leader, resistance fighter, warrior · buried at Al-Baqi Cemetery
• Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871), pianist, composer · buried at Cemetery of Poggioreale
• Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger (1795–1871), mineralogist, optician, geologist · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Alexander Hilferding (1831–1872), slavist, linguist, folklorist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
• Benito Juárez (1806–1872), politician, lawyer, judge · buried at Panteón de San Fernando
• Charles Combes (1801–1872), mining engineer, university teacher, engineer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Dimitrios Demeter (1811–1872), librettist, literary critic, theatre director · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Francis Lieber (1800–1872), gymnast, opinion journalist, philosopher · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872), social reformer, philosopher, theologian · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–1872), scientific collector, explorer, pteridologist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• George Catlin (1796–1872), traveler, ethnologist, painter · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• George Meade (1815–1872), engineer, military personnel · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Henry Halleck (1815–1872), military commander, scholar, major general · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Horace Greeley (1811–1872), newspaper proprietor, abolitionist, publisher · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Jacques Babinet (1794–1872), meteorologist, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), publisher, journalist, editor · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Johannes Carsten Hauch (1790–1872), literary scholar, university teacher, zoologist · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872), painter · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• José Balta (1814–1872), politician, military personnel · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Ljudevit Gaj (1809–1872), slavist, opinion journalist, linguist · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Lowell Mason (1792–1872), music educator, music teacher, musician · buried at Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)
• Mary Somerville (1780–1872), geologist, mathematician, physicist · buried at English Cemetery, Naples
• Michele Carafa (1787–1872), music educator, conductor, composer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Nikolay Milyutin (1818–1872), politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Petar Preradović (1818–1872), army officer, soldier, translator · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Petros Duryan (1851–1872), stage actor, dramaturge, translator · buried at Komitas Pantheon
• Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787–1872), pathologist, university teacher, surgeon · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Richard S. Ewell (1817–1872), military personnel · buried at Nashville City Cemetery
• Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872), muralist, painter, photographer · buried at Woodland Cemetery (Monroe, Michigan)
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791–1872), painter, university teacher, sculptor · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872), musicologist, music educator, music teacher · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), pastellist, draftsperson, librettist · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (1811–1872), zoological collector, scientific collector, entomologist · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Vladimir Dal (1801–1872), collector of fairy tales, dialectologist, lexicographer · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Auguste Couder (1789–1873), draftsperson, designer, painter · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Caterina Scarpellini (1808–1873), astronomer, scientist · buried at Campo Verano
• Charles Allston Collins (1828–1873), illustrator, painter, writer · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Edward Blyth (1810–1873), zoological collector, scientific collector, museologist · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Eugène Flachat (1802–1873), civil engineer, engineer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873), librettist, opinion journalist, philosopher · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
• George Cruikshank (1792–1873), draftsperson, caricaturist, painter · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• George-Étienne Cartier (1814–1873), statesperson, jurist, politician · buried at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
• Gheorghe Bibescu (1802–1873), politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• John P. Hale (1806–1873), diplomat, jurist, politician · buried at Pine Hill Cemetery (Dover, New Hampshire)
• John W. Geary (1819–1873), major general, military officer, governor · buried at Harrisburg Cemetery
• Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), philanthropist, entrepreneur · buried at Green Mount Cemetery
• Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco (1806–1873), diplomat, politician · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), naval officer, oceanographer, meteorologist · buried at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)
• Odilon Barrot (1791–1873), official, politician, lawyer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Paweł Strzelecki (1797–1873), philanthropist, traveler, explorer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Pierre-Jean De Smet (1801–1873), explorer, Catholic priest, missionary · buried at Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
• Q122972 (1807–1873), scientific collector, racial theorist, glaciologist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Q2572996 (1805–1873), sculptor · buried at English Cemetery, Florence
• Robert John McClure (1807–1873), explorer, naval officer, botanical collector · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Salmon P. Chase (1808–1873), finance minister, jurist, governor · buried at Spring Grove Cemetery
• Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873), librettist, opera singer, playwright · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), librettist, journalist, jurist · buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium
• William Joseph Hardee (1815–1873), military officer, military personnel · buried at Old Live Oak Cemetery
• Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), criminologist, statistician, botanist · buried at Brussels Cemetery
• Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807–1874), journalist, jurist, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (1819–1874), freedom fighter, large estate owner, politician · buried at Santa Ifigenia Cemetery
• Charles Ernest Beulé (1826–1874), anthropologist, archaeologist, school teacher · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Charles Gleyre (1806–1874), painter · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Charles Sumner (1811–1874), politician, lawyer, writer · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Égide Charles Gustave Wappers (1803–1874), history painter, visual artist, portrait painter · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Howard Staunton (1810–1874), non-fiction writer, literary historian, philologist · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont (1798–1874), mining engineer, entomologist, geologist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790–1874), structural engineer, physicist, mathematician · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• John Phillips (1800–1874), explorer, paleontologist, botanist · buried at York Cemetery, York
• Josiah Warren (1798–1874), social reformer, anarchist, journalist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Jules Michelet (1798–1874), diarist, philosopher, translator · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Mariano Fortuny Marsal (1838–1874), graphic artist, painter · buried at Campo Verano
• Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), statesperson, jurist, politician · buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)
• Moritz von Jacobi (1801–1874), university teacher, electrotechnician, inventor · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
• Owen Jones (1809–1874), designer, illuminator, illustrator · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), anatomist, zoologist, physician · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Vítězslav Hálek (1835–1874), theatre critic, cultural policymaker, journalist · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Andrew Johnson (1808–1875), tailor, statesperson, military officer · buried at Andrew Johnson National Cemetery
• Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875), molding worker, founder, sculptor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793–1875), civil engineer, railway engineer, engineer · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), cryptographer, musical instrument maker, inventor · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Edgar Quinet (1803–1875), linguist, philosopher, journalist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Ferdinand Laub (1832–1875), music educator, violinist, concertmaster · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821–1875), military officer, jurist, major general · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Fyodor Bruni (1799–1875), university teacher, painter · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• George Finlay (1799–1875), historian, writer · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• George Pickett (1825–1875), soldier, military personnel · buried at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)
• Georges Bizet (1838–1875), classical composer, pianist, conductor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Isidore Pils (1815–1875), painter · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Jacques Paul Migne (1800–1875), newspaper proprietor, bibliographer, publisher · buried at Montrouge Cemetery
• Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875), printmaker, draftsperson, visual artist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875), violin maker, musical instrument maker, luthier · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804–1875), librettist, archaeologist, historian · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• John B. Weller (1812–1875), prosecutor, diplomat, jurist · buried at Girod Street Cemetery
• John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875), university teacher, military officer, politician · buried at Lexington Cemetery
• Juan Crisóstomo Torrico (1808–1875), diplomat, military personnel, politician · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Juana Paula Manso (1819–1875), journalist, writer · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Louis Amédée Achard (1814–1875), novelist, journalist, playwright · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Louise Farrenc (1804–1875), classical composer, classical pianist, piano teacher · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Marie Pleyel (1811–1875), music educator, musician, pianist · buried at Laeken Cemetery
• Mikhail Pogodin (1800–1875), linguist, prose writer, philosopher · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Miklós Izsó (1831–1875), sculptor · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813–1875), painter, photographer · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• Pierre Larousse (1817–1875), grammarian, linguist, lexicographer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Richard Christopher Carrington (1826–1875), astronomer · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• Virginie Ancelot (1792–1875), memoirist, salonnière, novelist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801–1876), botanist, botanical collector, paleontologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Braxton Bragg (1817–1876), army officer, soldier, military officer · buried at Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Alabama)
• Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), stage actor, actor · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Edward Newman (1801–1876), entomologist, botanist, writer · buried at Nunhead Cemetery
• Edward William Lane (1801–1876), lexicographer, philologist, topographer · buried at West Norwood Cemetery
• Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810–1876), politician, president · buried at Andrew Johnson National Cemetery
• Ferenc Deák (1803–1876), politician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Frédérick Lemaître (1800–1876), stage actor · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Gennady Nevelskoy (1813–1876), seafarer, explorer, geographer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
• George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876), soldier, military officer · buried at West Point Cemetery
• Giacomo Antonelli (1806–1876), Catholic deacon, diplomat, politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), feminist, women's rights activist, suffragist · buried at Key Hill Cemetery
• Henry A. Wise (1806–1876), Brigadegeneral, historian, diplomat · buried at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)
• James W. Nye (1815–1876), prosecutor, jurist, governor · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Janko Kráľ (1822–1876), freedom fighter, politician, poet · buried at National Cemetery in Martin
• John Neal (1793–1876), magazine writer, literary critic, novelist · buried at Western Cemetery (Portland, Maine)
• Josef Kriehuber (1800–1876), portraitist, lithographer, painter · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809–1876), politician · buried at Palm Grove Cemetery
• Julius von Mohl (1800–1876), publisher, orientalist, university teacher · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), explorer, entomologist, university teacher · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
• Marie d'Agoult (1805–1876), diarist, novelist, essayist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876), lithographer, painter · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Narcyza Żmichowska (1819–1876), poet, writer · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876), surgeon, physician · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Wild Bill Hickok (1837–1876), gold miner, poker player, soldier · buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery (South Dakota)
• William Wilde (1815–1876), ophthalmologist, anthropologist, archaeologist · buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium
• Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), journalist, historian, politician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818–1877), politician · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), philosopher, university teacher, economist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Brigham Young (1801–1877), theologian, carpenter, governor · buried at Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument
• Charles Wilkes (1798–1877), scientific collector, polar explorer, explorer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), railway executive, entrepreneur · buried at Moravian Cemetery
• Dimitrios Voulgaris (1802–1877), head of government, politician · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Edward Belcher (1799–1877), explorer, naval officer, surveyor · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818–1877), essayist, historian, poet · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Federico Errázuriz Zañartu (1825–1877), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803–1877), merchant, inventor, physicist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Johann von Herbeck (1831–1877), musician, conductor, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), academic, historian, diplomat · buried at Kensal Green Cemetery
• José de Alencar (1829–1877), novelist, literary critic, journalist · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Juan Manuel de Rosas meow (1793–1877), large estate owner, rancher, military officer · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Konstantinos Kanaris (1790–1877), admiral, politician, sailor · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Louise Bertin (1805–1877), painter, poet, composer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Marcin Zaleski (1796–1877), university teacher, painter, artist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Mary Carpenter (1807–1877), philanthropist, public figure, teacher · buried at Arnos Vale Cemetery
• Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), newspaper proprietor, socialist, opinion journalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Oliver P. Morton (1823–1877), jurist, governor, politician · buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
• Q78529 (1800–1877), music historian, musicographer, musicologist · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877), meteorologist, mathematician, politician · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• William Lovett (1800–1877), trade unionist, politician · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Andrew Scott Waugh (1810–1878), geodesist, geographer, surveyor · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Benjamin Bonneville (1797–1878), military commander, explorer, military officer · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Charles Hodge (1797–1878), university teacher, theologian · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), landscape painter, printmaker, painter · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Claude Bernard (1813–1878), epistemologist, pharmacologist, physiologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Crawford Williamson Long (1815–1878), surgeon, pharmacist, physician · buried at Oconee Hill Cemetery
• Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878), civil engineer, hydrologist, structural engineer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• François-Vincent Raspail (1794–1878), botanist, physiologist, chemist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• George Henry Lewes (1817–1878), theatre critic, literary critic, philologist · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Gideon Welles (1802–1878), journalist, editor, politician · buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), university teacher, chemist, physicist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy (1794–1878), Indologist, orientalist, translator · buried at Cimetière Saint-Pierre (Marseille)
• Joseph Henry (1797–1878), meteorologist, art historian, university teacher · buried at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
• Józef Kowalewski (1800–1878), linguist, orientalist · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Judah Alkalai (1798–1878), zionist, opinion journalist, rabbi · buried at Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery
• Kikuchi Yōsai (1788–1878), painter, artist · buried at Yanaka Cemetery
• Ludwik Mierosławski (1814–1878), military theorist, revolutionary, military historian · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Manuel Pardo (1834–1878), economist, politician · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), philologist, university teacher, Catholic priest · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Nikolay Nekrasov (1821–1878), autobiographer, opinion journalist, literary critic · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)
• Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830–1878), bushi, Meiji oligarchy, politician · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), Polonophile, linguist, memoirist · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878), poet, writer · buried at North Burial Ground
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), journalist, translator, poet · buried at Roslyn Cemetery
• William Magear Tweed (1824–1878), political boss, politician · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• William Stokes (1804–1878), cardiologist, university teacher, physician · buried at St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton
• Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879), chess player, non-fiction writer, chess composer · buried at Osobowice Cemetery
• Anthony Panizzi (1797–1879), librarian, politician · buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green
• Anton Schiefner (1817–1879), linguist, Tibetologist, ethnologist · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
• Carlo Luigi Morichini (1805–1879), Catholic bishop, Catholic priest, diplomat · buried at Campo Verano
• Catherine Dickens (1815–1879), writer · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Charles De Coster (1827–1879), journalist, poet, writer · buried at Ixelles Cemetery
• Edward Blore (1787–1879), architect · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), socialite, merchant · buried at Green Mount Cemetery
• Emma Smith (1804–1879), religious leader, composer · buried at Smith Family Cemetery
• George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), architectural drafter, graphic artist, university teacher · buried at Union Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)
• Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), art historian, university teacher, architect · buried at Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), engraver, painter, illustrator · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Jacob Abbott (1803–1879), children's writer, university teacher, pedagogue · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), herpetologist, botanist, university teacher · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802–1879), carcinologist, entomologist, ichthyologist · buried at Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery
• John Bell Hood (1831–1879), military personnel · buried at Metairie Cemetery
• Joseph Hooker (1814–1879), military officer, military personnel · buried at Spring Grove Cemetery
• Joseph Poelaert (1817–1879), architect · buried at Laeken Cemetery
• Juan Antonio Pezet (1809–1879), politician, military personnel · buried at Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro
• Lionel de Rothschild (1808–1879), art collector, banker, politician · buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery
• Maria Teresa of Savoy (1803–1879), aristocrat · buried at Campo Verano
• Maurycy Gottlieb (1856–1879), painter · buried at New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków
• Nikolai Zaremba (1821–1879), music educator, music theorist, musicologist · buried at Volkovo Cemetery
• Pascal Coste (1787–1879), art historian, painter, engineer · buried at Cimetière Saint-Pierre (Marseille)
• Paul Gervais (1816–1879), scientific collector, ichthyologist, entomologist · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Richard Taylor (1826–1879), army officer, soldier, politician · buried at Metairie Cemetery
• Rowland Hill (1795–1879), beamter, inventor, politician · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879), editorial columnist, novelist, essayist · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), historian, professor, poet · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Thomas Couture (1815–1879), painter, teacher · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), philosopher, university teacher, mathematician · buried at Highgate Cemetery
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), social reformer, abolitionist, journalist · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• William Morris Hunt (1824–1879), draftsperson, lithographer, graphic artist · buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery (Brattleboro, Vermont)
• Zachariah Chandler (1813–1879), politician, businessperson · buried at Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit)