1870 deaths
A
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adolf Holtzmann
Albrecht von Graefe
Alexander Herzen
Alexandre Dumas, père
Andrew Henry (VC)
Anthony Mary Claret
Ardant du Picq
Augustus Matthiessen
B
Bersheba Leighton Fristoe
C
Charles Dickens
Charles Durkee
Christen Mikkelsen Kold
Comte de Lautréamont
D
Daniel Egan
Daniel Sheldon Norton
David Farragut
E
Edward Dexter Holbrook
Edward Thomson
Edwin Gray Lee
F
Francisco Solano López
Francis Cornwall Sherman
G
George Ashmun
George D. Prentice
Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia
H
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
Henry Young
J
James S. Green
James Young Simpson
Jean Auguste Margueritte
John A. Dahlgren
John H. Brockway
John H. Couch
John Huyler
John S. Barry
Joseph A. Mower
K
Karl Weltzien
Kit Burns
Komatsu Kiyokado
L
Lebrecht Blücher Dreves
M
Maria Jane Taylor
Marshall F. Moore
Michal Miloslav Hodža
N
Napoleon B. Harrison
P
Paul-Émile Botta
Perucho Figueredo
Peter T. Washburn
Philipp Jaffé
Pierre Soulé
Princess Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870)
Prince Frederick of Württemberg
Prosper Mérimée
R
Robert E. Lee
Robert Ridgway (congressman)
Robert V. Richardson
S
Samuel Cony
T
Théophile Hamel
Thomas Brassey
Thomas D. Eliot
Thomas J. McKean
W
William D. Washington
William F. Brantley
William Gilmore Simms
William Holcombe
William Jeffrey Prowse
William L. Goggin
William Mactavish
William T. H. Brooks
Z
Zerah Colburn (locomotive designer)