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Events on Wednesday 4 August 1886 1
1814 – 1886Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886)Died 4 August 1886, aged 72Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York and presidential candidate, died at his estate in Yonkers. He won the popular vote in the disputed 1876 presidential election but lost the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes after a contested electoral count. He left much of his fortune to found what became the New York Public Library.