page_title: 1870
section_title: July–December
hierarchical_section_title: 1870 / Deaths / July–December
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context_page_description: 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1870th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 870th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1870, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July 10 – Pelaghia Roșu, Romanian heroine (b. 1800)
  July 22 – Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1827)
  July 30 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian journalist and poet (b. 1818)
  August 4 – Abel Douay, French general (killed in action) (b. 1809)
  August 14 – David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
  August 17 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and freedom fighter (b. 1818)
  September 4 – Juan Javier Espinosa, 9th President of Ecuador (b. 1815)
  September 12 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author, explorer (b. 1836)
  September 23 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)
  September 27 – William F. Packer, American politician (b. 1807)
  October 12
  Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch, American minister, hymn writer (b. 1809)
  Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (b. 1807)
  November 3 – Diego Noboa, 4th President of Ecuador (b. 1789)
  November 23 – Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Milanese-born ballerina (b. 1853) (result of deprivation during Siege of Paris)
  November 24 – Comte de Lautréamont, French poet, writer (b. 1846)
  November 26 – Franz Graf von Wimpffen, Austrian general and admiral (b. 1797)
  November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
  December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French author (b. 1802)
  David G. Burnet, early politician within the Republic of Texas (b. 1788)
  December 9 – Patrick MacDowell, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1799)
  December 27 – Juan Prim, Spanish general and prime minister (assassinated) (b. 1814)
caption: Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
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