- Feb 13 Ted Pooley, English cricket wicket-keeper (1st class records: 8 stumpings in a match 1878; 12 dismissals in a match 1868; Surrey CCC, Middlesex CCC), born in Chepstow, England (d. 1907)
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Jun 24 American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust), born in Meigs County, Ohio
Jamie Anderson (1842-1905)
Jun 27 Scottish golfer (British Open 1877-79), born in St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland
- Aug 29 Alfred Shaw, English cricket medium/spin bowler (7 Tests; bowled first ball in Test cricket; first to take 5 wickets in a Test innings; Nottinghamshire CCC, MCC), born in Burton Joyce, England (d. 1907)
- Sep 7 Johannes Zukertort, German chess player, born in Lublin, Russian Empire (d. 1888)
- Oct 14 Joe Start, American baseball player, born in New York City (d. 1927)
- Nov 23 James Lillywhite, English cricket slow bowler (1st England Test captain; 2 Tests, 8 wickets; Sussex CCC) and umpire (6 Tests 1881–99), born in Westhampnett, England (d. 1929)
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