Dec 6 Manuel Acuña, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24
Dec 14 Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian politician (4th Mayor of Halifax) & brewer (founder of the Alexander Keith's Nova Scotia Brewery), dies at 78
Dec 14 Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American naturalist and geologist, dies at 66
Dec 21 Francis Garnier, French explorer, dies at 34
Dec 22 Charles Lenox Remond, African-American orator and abolitionist, dies at 63
Dec 24 Johns Hopkins, American financier and philanthropist (founded Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University), dies at 78
Assassination
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Plane Crash
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