Date | Event |
---|---|
Jan 4 |
Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies |
Jan 17 |
Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies |
Jan 17 |
Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69 |
Jan 25 |
Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75 |
Jan 28 |
Jose Garcia Robles, composer, dies at 74 |
Jan 29 |
Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52 |
Feb 1 |
Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44 |
Feb 1 |
Otto Julius Bierbaum, Prinz Kuckuck - Die Höllenfahrt eines Wollüstlings |
Feb 6 |
Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839) |
Feb 8 |
Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854) |
Feb 15 |
Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51 |
Feb 16 |
Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer, dies at 75 |
Feb 20 |
Butros Ghali, prime minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910, assassinated by Nationalist at 64 |
Feb 20 |
Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered |
Mar 4 |
Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857) |
Mar 10 |
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85 |
Mar 10 |
Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65 |
Mar 10 |
Carl Reinecke, Châteaux en Auvergne |
Mar 17 |
Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64 |
Mar 20 |
Félix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89 |
Mar 26 |
Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864) |
Mar 26 |
An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879) |
Mar 27 |
Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74 |
Mar 27 |
David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72 |
Mar 28 |
Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies |
Mar 28 |
David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837) |
Mar 28 |
Colonne, Terror's Advocate |
Mar 28 |
David J. Brewer, |
Mar 30 |
Myra Kelly, Little Miss Smiles |
Apr 1 |
Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94 |
Apr 2 |
Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37 |
Apr 2 |
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79 |
Apr 12 |
William G Sumner, US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69 |
Apr 13 |
William Orchardson, British painter, dies |
Apr 14 |
Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856) |
Apr 21 |
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 |
Apr 21 |
Mark Twain, Tom and Huck |
Apr 26 |
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77 |
Apr 26 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, The Greatest Thing |
May 6 |
Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68 |
May 6 |
King Edward VII, Coronation of Their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria |
May 10 |
Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85 |
May 10 |
William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies |
May 16 |
Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53 |
May 18 |
Flor van Duyse, composer, dies at 66 |
May 18 |
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841) |
May 18 |
Pauline Viardot, A Voice Out of the Cold: Vivica Genaux |
May 18 |
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Nad Niemnem |
May 20 |
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88 |
May 22 |
Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46 |
May 22 |
Jules Renard, The Red Head |
May 27 |
Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies at 66 |
May 28 |
Kálmán Mikszáth, Boy, the Noszty |
May 29 |
Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73 |
May 31 |
Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89 |
Jun 1 |
Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 |
Jun 5 |
O. Henry, American author (b. 1862) |
Jun 5 |
O. Henry, Ruthless People |
Jun 9 |
George Newnes, Antarctic Expedition: Sir George Newnes' Farewell to Officers and Crew |
Jun 16 |
Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72 |
Jun 17 |
Lady Mosley, biographer, dies |
Jun 22 |
Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies |
Jun 22 |
Ricardo de la Vega, Fair of the Dove |
Jun 28 |
Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67 |
Jul 1 |
Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies |
Jul 1 |
Robert Marshall, The Unforseen |
Jul 3 |
Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies |
Jul 3 |
Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies |
Jul 3 |
Emanuel Tvede, Faldgruben |
Jul 4 |
Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75 |
Jul 4 |
Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70 |
Jul 4 |
Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833) |
Jul 4 |
Melville W. Fuller, President McKinley Taking the Oath |
Jul 10 |
Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies |
Jul 12 |
Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887) |
Jul 14 |
Marius Petipa, Swan Lake |
Jul 15 |
Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer, dies |
Jul 21 |
Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66 |
Jul 22 |
Hawes Craven, Beerbohm Tree, the Great English Actor |
Jul 24 |
Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841) |
Jul 26 |
Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71 |
Aug 3 |
Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies |
Aug 5 |
Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42 |
Aug 10 |
Joe Gans, The Joe Gans-Battling Nelson Fight |
Aug 13 |
Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 90 |
Aug 13 |
Florence Nightingale, Biography of the Millennium: 100 People - 1000 Years |
Aug 16 |
Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69 |
Aug 20 |
Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64 |
Aug 22 |
George Palmer, cricketer (17 Tests for Aust 1880-86, 78 wickets), dies |
Aug 24 |
Herbert Ingraham, Rough Seas |
Aug 26 |
William James, American psychologist and philosopher (Pragmatism), dies at 68 |
Aug 27 |
Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death |
Aug 28 |
Paolo Mantegazza, Un giorno a Madera |
Aug 29 |
Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies |
Aug 29 |
Johann O Backlund, Swedish astronomer, dies at 64 |
Aug 29 |
John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44 |
Aug 30 |
Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57 |
Aug 31 |
Emils Darzins, composer, dies at 34 |
Sep 2 |
Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies |
Sep 2 |
Henri Rousseau, Henri Rousseau 1844-1910 |
Sep 5 |
Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70 |
Sep 5 |
Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54 |
Sep 5 |
Julian Edwards, Shine on Harvest Moon |
Sep 7 |
William Holman Hunt, English painter, dies at 83 |
Sep 13 |
Rajani Kanta Sen, Mohunbaganer Meye |
Sep 14 |
Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist |
Sep 15 |
Wilhelm Raabe, Die schwarze Galeere |
Sep 20 |
Josef Kainz, |
Sep 23 |
H J H "Tup" Scott, cricketer (Australian Test captain 1886), dies |
Sep 24 |
Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53 |
Sep 29 |
Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies |
Sep 30 |
Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838) |
Oct 4 |
Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850) |
Oct 8 |
Maria Konopnicka, Marysia i krasnoludki |
Oct 10 |
Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66 |
Oct 15 |
Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed |
Oct 17 |
Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 |
Oct 17 |
William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies |
Oct 17 |
Julia Ward Howe, Kick-Ass |
Oct 17 |
William Vaughn Moody, The Great Divide |
Oct 20 |
David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843) |
Oct 23 |
Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853) |
Oct 23 |
King Chulalongkorn, Berne: Arrivée du roi de Siam |
Oct 30 |
J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies |
Nov 6 |
Giuseppe Cesare Abba, A Sicilian Heroine |
Nov 7 |
Florencio Sánchez, Primero soy mexicano |
Nov 15 |
Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79 |
Nov 16 |
Ivan Kozarac, Evil Blood |
Nov 19 |
Wilhelm Rudolf Fittig, German Chemist (synthesizing organic compounds), dies at 74 |
Nov 20 |
Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS] |
Nov 20 |
Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 [NS] |
Nov 20 |
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
Nov 23 |
Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed |
Nov 26 |
Laza Kostic, Pesnicke vedrine |
Dec 3 |
Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies at 89 |
Dec 10 |
Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer, dies at 76 |
Dec 10 |
Henry Guy Carleton, The Phantom Honeymoon |
Dec 31 |
John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868) |
Dec 31 |
Arch Hoxsey, American aviator (b. 1884) |
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