page_title: 1868
section_title: July–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1868 / Deaths / July–December
caption_attribution_description: On reverse: "Adah Isaacs Menken from ambrotype [...] at the age of 19."
context_page_description: 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1868th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 868th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1868, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July 6 – Harada Sanosuke, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
  July 6 – Samuel Lover, Irish writer and composer (b. 1797)
  July 19 – Okita Sōji, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1842 or 1844)
  July 21 – William Bland, Australian politician (b. 1789)
  July 26 – Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, English Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1791)
  July 29 – John Elliotson, English physician (b. 1791)
  August 3 – Edward Welch, Welsh architect (b. 1806)
  August 10 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress (b. 1835)
  August 11 – Thaddeus Stevens, American politician (b. 1792)
  August 25 – Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, German actress, writer and theater director (b. 1799)
  August 29 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist (b. 1799)
  September 1 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian nobleman, general and governor  (b. 1799)
  September 9 – Mzilikazi, first king of Mthwakazi (b. c.1790)
  September 11 – Maria James, Welsh-born American poet  (b. 1793)
  September 19 – William Sprague, American minister and politician from Michigan (b. 1809)
  September 26 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
  October 1 – Mongkut, Rama IV, King of Siam (b. 1804)
  October 9 – Howell Cobb, American politician (b. 1815)
  October 17 – Laura Secord, Canadian patriot (b. 1775)
  October 27 – Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1794)
  November 13 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (b. 1792)
  November 15 – James Mayer de Rothschild, German-born banker (b. 1792)
  November 27 – Chief Black Kettle, Southern Cheyenne Peace Chief, Survivor of Sand Creek massacre (b. 1803)
  December 6 – August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
  December 23 – Sir Herbert Edwardes, British army general and colonial administrator (b. 1819)
  December 25 – Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor (b. 1821)
  December 31 – Cyrus Kingsbury, American missionary and Choctaw linguist (b.1786)
caption: Adah Isaacs Menken
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