Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805) |
Jan 2 |
George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90 |
Jan 2 |
Frederick William Barber, South African frontiersman and scientist, dies at 78 |
Jan 7 |
Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39 |
Jan 7 |
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German Physician and Physiologist, dies at 72 |
Jan 8 |
John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67 |
Jan 10 |
Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91 |
Jan 13 |
Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62 |
Jan 14 |
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864) |
Jan 14 |
Prince Albert Victor, Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution |
Jan 16 |
Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies |
Jan 17 |
Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27 |
Jan 17 |
Alexandre Lévy, |
Jan 18 |
Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819) |
Jan 21 |
John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies |
Jan 22 |
Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813) |
Jan 31 |
Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834) |
Feb 5 |
Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807) |
Feb 5 |
Emilie Flygare-Carlén, The Vultures of the Coast |
Feb 11 |
Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63 |
Feb 16 |
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies |
Feb 19 |
Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England v South Africa 1889), dies at 26 |
Feb 20 |
Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 |
Feb 22 |
Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828) |
Feb 27 |
Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821) |
Mar 1 |
Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60 |
Mar 10 |
Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69 |
Mar 16 |
Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827) |
Mar 20 |
Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41 |
Mar 26 |
Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78 |
Mar 26 |
Walt Whitman, American poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72 |
Mar 26 |
Walt Whitman, Messengers |
Mar 29 |
William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75 |
Mar 31 |
Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66 |
Apr 2 |
Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79 |
Apr 17 |
Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada, dies of a stroke at 70 |
Apr 19 |
Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821) |
Apr 22 |
Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69 |
Apr 22 |
Edouard Lalo, Wings |
Apr 25 |
Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840) |
Apr 26 |
Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791) |
May 1 |
Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89 |
May 2 |
Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69 |
May 5 |
Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80 |
May 5 |
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818) |
May 6 |
Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54 |
May 13 |
Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63 |
May 15 |
Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered |
May 16 |
John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies |
May 16 |
Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74 |
May 17 |
Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72 |
May 29 |
Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74 |
Jun 9 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59 |
Jun 9 |
Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist |
Jun 9 |
William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863) |
Jun 16 |
Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80 |
Jun 22 |
Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819) |
Jun 28 |
Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810) |
Jul 18 |
Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83 |
Jul 19 |
Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83 |
Aug 9 |
Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies |
Aug 11 |
Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813) |
Aug 11 |
Ladislav Stroupeznický, Nasi furianti |
Aug 19 |
Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62 |
Aug 23 |
Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827) |
Aug 24 |
Jules Perrot, The Turning Point |
Sep 7 |
John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies |
Sep 7 |
John Greenleaf Whittier, Barbara Fritchie: The Story of a Patriotic American Woman |
Sep 11 |
Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer, dies at 84 |
Sep 17 |
Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies |
Sep 24 |
Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69 |
Sep 24 |
Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62 |
Sep 30 |
Hector Crémieux, Orphée aux enfers |
Oct 4 |
Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39 |
Oct 5 |
Bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende, dies |
Oct 5 |
Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende, dies |
Oct 5 |
Dick Broadwell, US member of Daltonbende, dies |
Oct 5 |
Grat Dalton, US member of Daltonbende, dies |
Oct 6 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate, dies at 83 |
Oct 6 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade |
Oct 21 |
Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sanna kvinnor |
Oct 22 |
Albert Millaud, Frøken Nitouche |
Oct 23 |
Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52 |
Oct 25 |
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60 |
Oct 29 |
William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies |
Nov 3 |
Hervé, Heavenly Swallows |
Nov 15 |
Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish serial killer, is executed at 42 |
Nov 26 |
Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825) |
Dec 1 |
Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered |
Dec 2 |
Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836) |
Dec 3 |
William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien, dies |
Dec 3 |
Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820) |
Dec 6 |
E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 |
Dec 11 |
William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821) |
Dec 15 |
Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75 |
Dec 18 |
Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 |
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