Notable Deaths - 1893
1893 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805) |
Jan 7 |
Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835) |
Jan 9 |
Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten |
Jan 11 |
Benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74 |
Jan 15 |
Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809) |
Jan 16 |
Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74 |
Jan 17 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies of a heart attack at 70 |
Jan 17 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, In the Line of Fire |
Jan 19 |
Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68 |
Jan 22 |
Vincenz Lachner, composer, dies at 81 |
Jan 22 |
Mokuami Kawatake, Priest of Darkness |
Jan 23 |
Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75 |
Jan 23 |
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825) |
Jan 23 |
Phillips Brooks, The Family Stone |
Jan 26 |
Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday |
Jan 27 |
James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62 |
Feb 1 |
George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824) |
Feb 9 |
Henry C. DeMille, Men and Women |
Feb 13 |
Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58 |
Feb 18 |
Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814) |
Feb 20 |
P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818) |
Feb 20 |
P.G.T. Beauregard, |
Mar 5 |
Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64 |
Mar 5 |
Richard Samuel Hughes, composer, dies at 37 |
Mar 17 |
Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832) |
Mar 19 |
Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69 |
Apr 4 |
Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86 |
Apr 9 |
Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66 |
Apr 19 |
John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies |
Apr 22 |
Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825) |
Apr 27 |
John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday |
Apr 27 |
John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand and the founder of the Liberal Party, intestinal disease after a major surgical operation at 54 |
Apr 30 |
Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57 |
May 3 |
Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73 |
May 4 |
George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82 |
May 14 |
Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 |
May 14 |
Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65 |
May 23 |
Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805) |
Jun 2 |
H.P. Holst, Den lille hornblæser |
Jun 7 |
Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43 |
Jun 10 |
Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49 |
Jun 15 |
Ferenc Erkel, Bánk bán |
Jun 21 |
Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University |
Jun 21 |
Leland Stanford, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop |
Jun 23 |
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817) |
Jul 6 |
Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850) |
Jul 6 |
Guy de Maupassant, Masculin Féminin |
Jul 7 |
Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42 |
Jul 9 |
William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide |
Jul 9 |
George Christopher Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban South Africa, dies at 79 |
Jul 16 |
Antonio Ghislanzoni, Aida |
Jul 17 |
Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833) |
Jul 20 |
Tom Kelly, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1977-79, 64 runs), dies |
Aug 5 |
James Pierpont, Iron Man 3 |
Aug 6 |
Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811) |
Aug 7 |
Alfredo Catalani, composer, dies at 39 |
Aug 7 |
Alfredo Catalani, Philadelphia |
Aug 16 |
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825) |
Aug 17 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29] |
Aug 22 |
Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75 |
Aug 29 |
Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17] |
Sep 3 |
James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816) |
Sep 15 |
Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807) |
Sep 19 |
Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817) |
Oct 4 |
Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88 |
Oct 10 |
Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845) |
Oct 14 |
Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 84 |
Oct 16 |
Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75 |
Oct 16 |
Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808) |
Oct 18 |
Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75 |
Oct 18 |
Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, US abolitionist/feminist, dies |
Oct 18 |
Charles Gounod, Lincoln |
Oct 30 |
John Abbott, 3rd PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies of brain cancer at 72 |
Nov 4 |
Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86 |
Nov 4 |
Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827) |
Nov 6 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), dies at 53 |
Nov 6 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Black Swan |
Nov 7 |
Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, dies at 37 |
Nov 12 |
Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80 |
Nov 13 |
Antoine T d'abbadie, French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78 |
Nov 16 |
George Alexander Osborne, composer, dies at 87 |
Nov 17 |
Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86), dies at 36 |
Nov 22 |
James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826) |
Nov 30 |
Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68 |
Dec 1 |
Eduard Franck, composer, dies at 76 |
Dec 4 |
Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War |
Dec 4 |
John Tyndall, Irish physicist who demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth's atmosphere has a greenhouse effect, dies at 73 |
Dec 9 |
George Elvey, composer, dies at 77 |
Dec 14 |
Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86 |
Dec 17 |
Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71 |
Dec 22 |
Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 |
Dec 22 |
Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 |
Dec 22 |
Aleksandre Kazbegi, Caucasian Love |
Dec 30 |
Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72 |
Dec 31 |
Jacob G de Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist, dies at 74 |
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