Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
Dec 7 German-American caricaturist and political cartoonist of late 1800s America, dies of yellow fever at 62
- Dec 11 Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68
- Dec 14 Julia Dent Grant, American First Lady (1869-77), wife of US President Ulysses S. Grant, dies at 76
- Dec 22 Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Austro–German psychiatrist and author (Psychopathia Sexualis), dies at 62
- Dec 23 Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 81
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