Nov 5 Thomas Sully, American portrait painter (Queen Victoria), dies at 89 Nov 7 Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833) Nov 23 Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), American poet/Comanche chief, dies Nov 28 Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780) Nov 29 Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian painter, dies at 56 Nov 29 Giovanni Tadolini, Italian composer, dies at 83 Nov 29 Horace Greeley, American founder and editor of the New-York Tribune ("Go west, young man"), dies at 61 Oct 1872 Famous Deaths by Year Dec 1872 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Car Crash Hanging Killed in Action Plane Crash Poisoning
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Car Crash
Hanging
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Plane Crash
Poisoning