John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States and a seventy-one year-old sitting representative from Virginia to the Confederate Congress, died in the early morning hours in his room at the Exchange Hotel in Richmond.  Never in good health, he died of complications from bronchitis and probably suffered a stroke.  He was buried at the Hollywood Cemetery in an impressive ceremony organized by the Confederate state.  (By John Osborne) 

"Colonel" Samuel Colt, the son of a Connecticut textile manufacturer, was the very successful and wealthy inventor of the Colt Revolver which had made his firearms company famous around the world.  He died at his estate of Armsmere near Hartford, Connecticut from rheumatic fever and the long term effects of gout at the age of only forty-seven.  He left two children and his wife, Elizabeth, who carried on the company with her brother, Richard Jarvis. Colt was buried at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Harford. (By John Osborne)