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3 Deaths

• April 2 - Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader
• May 22 - Victor Hugo, author
• July 23 - Ulysses Simpson Grant, American Civil War General and the 18th U.S. President
• August 10 - James Wilson Marshall, contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill
• September 15 - Jumbo the elephant; run over by a locomotive
• November 16 - Louis Riel, Canadian Métis leader (hanged for treason)
• November 25 - King Alfonso XII of Spain
• December 8 - William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur

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