page_title: 1879
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1879 / Deaths / January–June
caption_attribution_description: Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)
context_page_description: 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1879th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 879th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1879, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 8 – Baldomero Espartero, Spanish general, regent and Prime Minister (b. 1793)
  January 24 – Heinrich Geißler, German physicist (b. 1814)
  January 26 – John Cadwalader, American jurist and politician (b. 1805)
  February 11 – Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist, painter (b. 1808)
  February 21 –  Sher Ali Khan, ruler of Afghanistan (b. 1825)
  February 23 – Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
  February 25 – Charles Peace, British criminal (executed) (b. 1832)
  February 28 – Hortense Allart, French writer (b. 1801)
  March 1 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
  March 2 – John Eberhard Faber, German-born American pencil manufacturer (b. 1822)
  March 3 – William Kingdon Clifford, Eglish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
  March 10 – Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxis, German prince (b. 1843)
  March 22 – Sir John Woodford, British army general and archaeologist (b. 1785)
  March 24 – Juan Antonio Pezet, Peruvian general and politician, President of Peru (b. 1809)
  March 27
  Hércules Florence, Brazilian photographer (b. 1804)
  Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
  March 30 – Thomas Couture, French painter, teacher (b. 1815)
  April 12 – Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (b. 1826)
  April 16 – Bernadette Soubirous, French Roman Catholic virgin and saint (b. 1844)
  April 23 – Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti, Italian botanist (b. 1799)
  April 30 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American author (b. 1788)
  May 5 – Félix Douay, French general (b. 1816)
  May 14
  Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Greek politician, 20th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1829)
  Henry Sewell, New Zealand politician, 1st Premier of New Zealand (b. 1807)
  May 15 – Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
  June 1
  Napoléon, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856)
  Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill, American children's book author (b. 1799)
  June 3 – Frances Ridley Havergal, English religious poet (b. 1836)
  June 7 – William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist (b. 1836)
  June 11 – William, Prince of Orange, heir to Dutch throne (b. 1840)
caption: Sarah Hale
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