Dec 6 Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor of weaving machine for carpets, dies at 65 Dec 7 Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter and Icelandic historian, dies at 68 Dec 18 Charley Parkhurst, American stagecoach driver who disguised herself as a women for 30 years, dies at 67 Nov 1879 Famous Deaths by Year Jan 1880 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide