Notable Deaths - 1900
1900 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80 |
Jan 8 |
Billy Bates, cricketer (656 runs & 50 wkts in 15 Tests for Eng), dies |
Jan 20 |
John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81 |
Jan 20 |
Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74 |
Jan 20 |
R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone |
Jan 22 |
David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831) |
Jan 24 |
Giorgi Tsereteli, Sami sitsotskhle |
Jan 30 |
Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71 |
Feb 3 |
Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33 |
Feb 3 |
Ottokar Novácek, Cousin Bette |
Feb 16 |
George Labram, US mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle |
Feb 18 |
Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824) |
Feb 18 |
Eugenio Beltrami, Italian Mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry), dies at 64 |
Feb 23 |
William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies |
Mar 6 |
Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65 |
Mar 10 |
Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94 |
Mar 11 |
Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies |
Mar 12 |
Lady John Scott, Fûun kyû nari Ôsaka jô: Sanada jûyûshi sô shingun |
Mar 18 |
Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32 |
Mar 19 |
John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815) |
Mar 19 |
Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819) |
Mar 26 |
Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 |
Mar 27 |
Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 |
Mar 31 |
Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99), dies |
Mar 31 |
Edward Noyes Wescott, David Harum |
Apr 4 |
Edward VII, King, assassinated |
Apr 5 |
Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle |
Apr 19 |
Ivan Aivazovsky, Aivazovsky and Armenia |
Apr 20 |
Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies |
Apr 21 |
Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55 |
Apr 24 |
George J D Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76 |
Apr 30 |
John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck |
May 5 |
Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817) |
May 7 |
Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81 |
May 9 |
Carit Etlar, The Musketeers |
May 18 |
Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813) |
May 20 |
Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80 |
May 31 |
James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75 |
May 31 |
John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle |
Jun 5 |
Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28 |
Jun 5 |
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage |
Jun 11 |
Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53 |
Jun 21 |
Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69 |
Jun 29 |
Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900) |
Jul 6 |
Franklyn McLeay, Beerbohm Tree, the Great English Actor |
Jul 24 |
Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59 |
Jul 29 |
Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci |
Jul 29 |
Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Dikt og prosa av Sigbjørn Obstfelder |
Jul 30 |
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844) |
Aug 4 |
Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860) |
Aug 5 |
James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 |
Aug 6 |
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 |
Aug 12 |
James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42 |
Aug 12 |
Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836) |
Aug 12 |
Carl Laufs, Pension Schöller |
Aug 16 |
Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies |
Aug 16 |
Eça de Queirós, The Crime of Father Amaro |
Aug 19 |
Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833) |
Aug 25 |
Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55 |
Aug 25 |
Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840) |
Aug 25 |
Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55 |
Aug 25 |
Friedrich Nietzsche, A Divina Comédia |
Aug 28 |
Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies |
Sep 23 |
William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816) |
Sep 25 |
Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832) |
Sep 29 |
Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814) |
Oct 9 |
Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57 |
Oct 14 |
Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies |
Oct 14 |
Sandor Erkel, composer, dies at 54 |
Oct 15 |
Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49 |
Oct 15 |
Zdenek Fibich, Kolya |
Oct 20 |
Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go), dies at 70 |
Oct 20 |
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846) |
Oct 28 |
Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823) |
Nov 6 |
PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville |
Nov 18 |
Ernst Eckstein, Themis |
Nov 20 |
Charles Hale Hoyt, Band Drill |
Nov 21 |
J J Ferris, cricketer (48 wickets for Aust in 8 Tests in 1880's), dies |
Nov 22 |
Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58 |
Nov 22 |
Harald Molander, En lyckoriddare |
Nov 22 |
Arthur Sullivan, The Talented Mr. Ripley |
Nov 30 |
Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46 |
Nov 30 |
Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray |
Dec 8 |
Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87 |
Dec 8 |
Henry Russell, Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman |
Dec 14 |
Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 |
Dec 21 |
Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847) |
Dec 21 |
Roger Wolcott, Admiral Dewey at State House, Boston |
Dec 27 |
William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Brit const (hydr crane), dies at 90 |
Dec 28 |
Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846) |
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