Dec 3 Archibald Campbell Tait, First Scottish Archbishop of Canterbury (1868-82), dies at 70 Dec 6 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819) Dec 6 Anthony Trollope, English novelist and poet (Barchester Towers), dies at 67 Dec 12 Robert Morris, 1st successful African American lawyer and abolitionist, dies at 59 Dec 31 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney and 37th Prime Minister of France (1881-82), dies at 44 Nov 1882 Famous Deaths by Year Jan 1883 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide