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1898 .
1898 (
MDCCCXCVIII ) was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Julian calendar , the 1898th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 898th year of the
2nd millennium , the 98th year of the
19th century , and the 9th year of the
1890s decade. As of the start of 1898, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
1898 world map
January–March
January 1 –
New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs:
Manhattan ,
Brooklyn ,
Queens ,
The Bronx and
Staten Island .
January 13 – Novelist
Émile Zola 's
open letter to the President of the French Republic on the
Dreyfus affair ,
J'Accuse…! , is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper
L'Aurore , accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning
Alfred Dreyfus and of
antisemitism .
February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of
Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in
Purley, London , England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a
public highway .
[1]
[2]
[3]
February 15 –
Spanish–American War : The
USS Maine explodes and sinks in
Havana Harbor,
Cuba , for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitates the United States' declaration of war on Spain, two months later.
February 15 :
USS Maine is sunk.
February 23 –
Émile Zola is imprisoned in France, after writing
J'Accuse…! .
March 1 –
Vladimir Lenin creates the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party .
March 14 –
Association football and sports club
BSC Young Boys is established in
Bern , Switzerland, as the Fussballclub Young Boys .
March 16 – In
Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopt a
constitution , which will become the basis of the
Commonwealth of Australia .
[4]
March 24 – Robert Allison of
Port Carbon, Pennsylvania , becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile, when he buys a
Winton automobile that has been advertised in
Scientific American .
March 26 – The
Sabie Game Reserve in South Africa is created, as the first officially designated
game reserve .
April–June
April 5 –
Annie Oakley promotes the service of women in combat situations, with the United States military. On this day, she writes a letter to President McKinley "offering the government the services of a company of 50 'lady sharpshooters' who would provide their own arms and ammunition should war break out with Spain."
[5] In the
history of women in the military , there are records of female U.S. Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers who enlisted using male pseudonyms, but Oakley's letter represents possibly the earliest political move towards women's rights for combat service, in the United States military.
April 22 –
Spanish–American War : The United States Navy begins a
blockade of
Cuban ports and the
USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
April 23 –
Spanish–American War : A conference of senior
Spanish Navy officers led by naval minister
Segismundo Bermejo decide to send Admiral
Pascual Cervera 's squadron to Cuba and Puerto Rico.
April 25
April 26 – An explosion in
Santa Cruz, California , kills 13 workers, at the
California Powder Works .
[7]
April 29 – The
Paris Auto Show , the first large-scale
commercial vehicle exhibition show , is held in
Tuileries Garden .[
citation needed ]
May 1 –
Spanish–American War –
Battle of Manila Bay :
Commodore Dewey destroys the Spanish squadron, in the first battle of the war, as well as the first battle in the Philippines Campaign.
May 2 – Thousands of Chinese scholars and Beijing citizens seeking reforms protest in front of the
capital control
yuan .
May 7 –
9 –
Bava Beccaris massacre : Hundreds of demonstrators are killed, when General
Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris orders troops to fire on a rally in
Milan , Italy.
May 8 – The first games of the
Italian Football Federation are played, in which
Genoa played against
Torino .
May 12 –
Spanish–American War : The
Puerto Rican Campaign begins, with the
Bombardment of San Juan .
May 22 – The German Federation football club
SV Darmstadt 98 is formed.
May 27 – The territory of
Kwang-Chou-Wan is leased by China to France, according to the Treaty of 12 April 1892, as the Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan , forming part of
French Indochina .
[8]
May 28 –
Secondo Pia takes the first photographs of the
Shroud of Turin and discovers that the image on the Shroud itself appears to be a
photographic negative .
The original flag of the Philippines as conceived by General
Emilio Aguinaldo . The blue is of a lighter shade than the currently mandated royal blue, the sun has eight points as currently but many more rays and it has a mythical face.
June 1 – The
Trans-Mississippi Exposition
World's Fair opens, in
Omaha, Nebraska .
June 7 –
William Ramsay and
Morris Travers discover
neon at their laboratory at
University College London , after extracting it from liquid nitrogen.
[9]
June 9 – The British government arranges a
99-year rent of Hong Kong from China.
June 10 –
Tuone Udaina , the last known speaker of the
Dalmatian language , is killed in an explosion.
June 11 – Peking Normal University Hall, as predecessor for
Peking University was founded under the
Qing Dynasty (present day of
People's Republic of China ).[
citation needed ]
June 12 –
Philippine Declaration of Independence : After 333 years of Spanish dominance, General
Emilio Aguinaldo declares the
Philippines ' independence from Spain.
June 13 –
Yukon Territory is formed in Canada, with
Dawson chosen as its capital.
June 19 –
Food processing giant
Nabisco is founded in
New Jersey .[
page needed ]
June 21 –
Spanish–American War : The United States
captures Guam , making it the first U.S.
overseas territory .
June 28 – Effective date of the
Curtis Act of 1898 which will lead to the dissolution of tribal and communal lands in Indian Territory and ultimately the creation of the State of
Oklahoma in 1907.
July–September
July 1 –
Spanish–American War :
Battle of San Juan Hill – United States troops (including
Buffalo Soldiers and
Theodore Roosevelt 's
Rough Riders ) take a strategic position close to
Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.
July 3
July 4 – En route from New York to
Le Havre , the ocean liner
SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of
Sable Island with the loss of 549 lives.
July 7 – The United States annexes the
Hawaiian Islands .
July 9 – The
Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid 1898 took place in The Hague and becomes a milestone for the Dutch women's movement.
July 17 –
Spanish–American War : Battle of Santiago Bay – Troops under United States General
William R. Shafter take the city of
Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.
July 18 – "The Adventures of
Louis de Rougemont " first appear in
The Wide World Magazine , as its August 1898 issue goes on sale.
[10]
July 25 –
Spanish–American War : The United States invasion of
Puerto Rico begins, with a landing at
Guánica Bay .
August 12 –
Spanish–American War : Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
August 13 –
Spanish–American War :
Battle of Manila – By prior agreement, the Spanish commander surrenders the city of
Manila to the United States, in order to keep it out of the hands of Filipino rebels, ending hostilities in the Philippines.
August 20 – The
Gornergrat railway opens, connecting
Zermatt to the
Gornergrat in Switzerland.
August 21 –
Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama is founded in
Rio de Janeiro .
August 23 – The
Southern Cross Expedition , the first British venture of the
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration , sets sail from London.
August 24 – Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes sign the
Atoka Agreement , a requirement of the
Curtis Act of 1898 .
August 25 – 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in
Heraklion, Greece , leading to the establishment of the autonomous
Cretan State .
August 28 – American pharmacist
Caleb Bradham names his soft drink
Pepsi-Cola .
September 2 –
Battle of Omdurman : British and Egyptian troops led by
Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the
Sudan .
September 10 – Italian anarchist
Luigi Lucheni assassinates
Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva, as an act of
propaganda of the deed .
September 18 –
Fashoda Incident : A powerful
flotilla of British
gunboats arrives at the French-occupied fort of
Fashoda on the
White Nile , leading to a diplomatic stalemate, until French troops are ordered to withdraw on
November 3 .
September 21
October–December
October 1 – The
Vienna University of Economics and Business is founded, under the name
K.u.K. Exportakademie .
October 3 –
Battle of Sugar Point : Ojibwe tribesmen defeat U.S. government troops, in northern
Minnesota .
October 3 –
8 – The
Stuttgart Congress of the
Social Democratic Party of Germany is held in
Stuttgart .
October 6 – The Sinfonia Club, later to become the
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, is founded at the
New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston by
Ossian Everett Mills .
October 12 – The first town council is established in
Mateur, Tunisia .
November 26 : blizzard.
October 15 – The
Fork Union Military Academy is founded, in
Fork Union, Virginia .
[11]
October 31 – The
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem , is dedicated.
November 5 –
Negros Revolution : Filipinos on the island of
Negros revolt against
Spanish rule and establish the short-lived
Republic of Negros .
November 10 – The
Wilmington insurrection of 1898 , a coup d'état by the white Democratic Party of North Carolina, begins.
November 26 – A two-day blizzard known as the
Portland Gale piles snow in
Boston , severely impacting the
Massachusetts fishing industry and several coastal
New England towns.
December 9 – The first of the two
Tsavo Man-Eaters is shot by
John Henry Patterson ; the second is killed 3 weeks later, after 135 railway construction workers have been killed by the lions.
December 10 – The
Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the
Spanish–American War .
December 18 –
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first official
land speed record in an automobile, averaging 63.15 km/h (39.24 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in France.
December 26 –
Marie and
Pierre Curie announce the discovery of an element that they name
radium .
December 29 (December 17
Old Style ) –
The Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull by
Anton Chekhov opens.
[12]
December 31 – French serial killer
Joseph Vacher is executed at
Bourg-en-Bresse .
[13]
Unknown dates
Births
January–March
Gracie Fields
Kaj Munk
Sergei Eisenstein
Randolph Scott
Denjirō Ōkōchi
Bertolt Brecht
Leó Szilárd
Enzo Ferrari
Soong Mei-ling
Eben Dönges
January 1
January 3 –
John Loder , British actor (d.
1988 )
January 7 –
Art Baker , American actor (d.
1966 )
January 9 –
Gracie Fields , British singer, actress and comedian (d.
1979 )
January 13
January 16
January 18 –
Margaret Irving , American actress (d.
1988 )
January 20
January 21
January 22
January 23 –
Randolph Scott , American film actor (d.
1987 )
January 24 –
Karl Hermann Frank , German Nazi official, war criminal (d.
1946 )
January 25 –
Hymie Weiss , American gangster (d.
1926 )
January 26 –
Katarzyna Kobro , Polish sculptor (d.
1951 )
February 1 –
Leila Denmark , American pediatrician, supercentenarian (d.
2012 )
February 2 –
William "Billy" Costello , American voice actor, the original voice of
Popeye (d.
1971 )
February 3 –
Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect (d.
1976 )
February 5
February 10
February 11
February 12
February 14
February 15
February 18
February 20 –
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian , Russian inventor (d.
1978 )
February 25 –
William Astbury , English physicist, molecular biologist (d.
1961 )
February 24 –
Kurt Tank , German aeronautical engineer (d.
1983 )
February 27 –
Otto Hulett , American actor (d.
1983 )
February 28
March 3 –
Emil Artin , Austrian mathematician (d.
1962 )
March 4 –
Georges Dumézil , French philologist (d.
1986 )
March 5
March 6 –
Therese Giehse , German actress (d.
1975 )
March 8 –
Eben Dönges , acting
Prime Minister of South Africa and elected
President of South Africa (d.
1968 )
March 10 –
Cy Kendall , American actor (d.
1953 )
March 11 –
Dorothy Gish , American actress (d.
1968 )
March 13 –
Henry Hathaway , American film director, producer (d.
1985 )
March 14 –
Arnold Chikobava , Georgian linguist (d.
1985 )
March 15 –
Gardner Dow , American college football player (d.
1919 )
March 21 –
Paul Alfred Weiss , Austrian biologist (d.
1989 )
March 23
March 25 –
Marcelle Narbonne , French supercentenarian, oldest European living person (d.
2012 )
March 30 –
Joyce Carey , English actress (d.
1993 )
March 31 –
Hermann van Pels , German-Dutch father of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d.
1944 )
April–June
Hastings Banda
Paul Robeson
Jim Fouché
April 1 –
William James Sidis , American mathematician (d.
1944 )
April 2 –
Harindranath Chattopadhyay , Indian poet, actor and politician (d.
1990 )
April 3 –
George Jessel , American comedian (d.
1981 )
April 4 –
Agnes Ayres , American actress (d.
1940 )
April 5 –
Solange d'Ayen , French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (d.
1976 )
[14]
April 6 –
Jeanne Hébuterne , French painter (d.
1920 )
April 9 –
Paul Robeson , African-American actor, singer and political activist (d.
1976 )
April 12 –
Lily Pons , French-American opera singer, actress (d.
1976 )
April 14 –
Lee Tracy , American actor (d.
1968 )
April 15 –
Marian Driscoll Jordan , American actress (d.
1961 )
April 19 –
Constance Talmadge , American actress (d.
1973 )
April 20 –
Sidney Lanfield , American film director (d.
1972 )
April 21 –
Walter Forde , British actor, screenwriter and film director (d.
1984 )
April 23 –
Ernest Laszlo , Hungarian-American cinematographer (d.
1984 )
April 26
May 2 –
Henry Hall , British bandleader (d.
1989 )
May 3
May 5
May 6 –
Konrad Henlein , Sudeten German Nazi leader (d.
1945 )
May 13
May 14
May 15 –
Arletty , French model, actress (d.
1992 )
May 16
May 17
May 19 –
Julius Evola , Italian philosopher (d.
1974 )
May 21 –
Armand Hammer , American entrepreneur, art collector (d.
1990 )
May 23
May 24 –
Helen B. Taussig , American cardiologist (d.
1986 )
May 25 –
Bennett Cerf , American publisher (d.
1971 )
May 27 –
Lee Garmes , American cinematographer (d.
1978 )
May 31
June 3 –
Stuart H. Ingersoll , American admiral (d.
1983 )
June 4 –
Harry Crosby , American publisher, poet (d.
1929 )
June 5
June 6
June 10
June 11 –
Lionel Penrose , English geneticist (d.
1972 )
June 12 –
Charley Foy , American actor (d.
1984 )
June 17
June 18
June 22
June 23 –
Lillian Hall-Davis , English actress (d.
1933 )
June 25 –
Buddy Roosevelt , American actor, stunt performer (d.
1973 )
June 26
June 28 –
Louis King , American film director (d.
1962 )
June 30
July–September
Stefanos Stefanopoulos
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Regis Toomey
Leopold Infeld
Alfons Gorbach
Giuseppe Saragat
Howard Florey
George Gershwin
July 1 –
Charles Hartmann , American jazz trombonist (d.
1982 )
July 2
July 3
July 4
July 5 –
Richard P. Condie , American conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (d.
1985 )
July 6
July 7
July 9
July 10 –
Theodore Miller Edison , American businessman, inventor, and environmentalist (d.
1992 )
July 13 –
Ivan Triesault , Estonian-born American actor (d.
1980 )
July 14
July 15
July 17
July 18 –
John Stuart , Scottish actor (d.
1979 )
July 19 –
Gustavo Machado Morales , Venezuelan politician and journalist (d.
1983 )
July 21 –
Sara Carter , American
country music singer, musician, and songwriter (d.
1979 )
July 22
July 23 –
Walter L. Morgan , American banker (d.
1998 )
July 25 –
Arthur Lubin , American film director (d.
1995 )
July 28 –
Lawrence Gray , American actor (d.
1970 )
July 29 –
Isidor Isaac Rabi , American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1988 )
July 30 –
Henry Moore , English sculptor (d.
1986 )
July 31 –
Ken Harris , American animator (d.
1982 )
August 2 –
Glenn Tryon , American actor, screenwriter, and film director (d.
1970 )
August 5
August 11 –
Peter Mohr Dam , 2-time prime minister of the Faroe Islands (d.
1968 )
August 12
August 13
August 15 –
Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet (d.
1966 )
August 17 –
Dewey Robinson , American actor (d.
1950 )
August 18
August 19 –
Eleanor Boardman , American actress (d.
1991 )
August 20
August 21 –
Herbert Mundin , English actor (d.
1939 )
August 23 –
W. E. Butler , British occultist (d.
1978 )
August 25 –
Van Nest Polglase , American art director, design department head at
RKO Pictures (d.
1968 )
August 26 –
Peggy Guggenheim , American art collector (d.
1979 )
August 27 –
John Hamilton , Canadian criminal, bank robber (d.
1934 )
August 29 –
Preston Sturges , American director, writer (d.
1959 )
August 30 –
Shirley Booth , American actress (d.
1992 )
September 1
September 2
September 8 –
Queenie Smith , American actress (d.
1978 )
September 10
September 13
September 16 –
Baruch Lumet , Polish-born American actor (d.
1992 )
September 19 –
Giuseppe Saragat ,
President of Italy (d.
1988 )
September 22 –
Katharine Alexander , American actress (d.
1981 )
September 24 –
Howard Florey , Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1968 )
September 25 –
Robert Brackman , American artist (d.
1980 )
September 26 –
George Gershwin , American composer (d.
1937 )
September 29 –
Trofim Lysenko , Russian biologist (d.
1976 )
September 30
October–December
William O. Douglas
Peng Dehuai
Leon Štukelj
Karl Ziegler
Gunnar Myrdal
Baby Dodds
October 3 –
Morgan Farley , American actor (d.
1988 )
October 6
October 7 –
Joe Giard , American baseball player (d.
1956 )
October 10
October 15 –
Boughera El Ouafi , Algerian athlete (d.
1959 )
October 16 –
William O. Douglas ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
1980 )
October 17 –
Shinichi Suzuki , Japanese musician, educator (d.
1998 )
October 18
October 20 –
Sergi Jikia , Georgian historian and orientalist (d.
1993 )
October 22 –
Dámaso Alonso , Spanish poet (d.
1990 )
October 24 –
Peng Dehuai , Chinese military leader (d.
1974 )
October 28 –
Abdul Khalek Hassouna , Egyptian diplomat, 2nd
Secretary-General of the Arab League (d.
1992 )
November 1 –
Philip Ray , British actor (d.
1978 )
November 4 –
Joe Dougherty , first voice of
Porky Pig (d.
1978 )
November 11 –
René Clair , French filmmaker, novelist, and non-fiction writer (d.
1981 )
November 12 –
Leon Štukelj , Slovene gymnast (d.
1999 )
November 14 –
Benjamin Fondane (née Wechsler), Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher (d.
1944 )
November 17
November 18
November 19 –
Arthur R. von Hippel , German-born physicist (d.
2003 )
November 21 –
René Magritte , Belgian artist (d.
1967 )
November 22 –
Gabriel González Videla , Chilean politician (d.
1980 )
November 23 –
Bess Flowers , American actress (d.
1984 )
November 24 –
Liu Shaoqi ,
President of the People's Republic of China (d.
1969 )
November 25 –
Debaki Bose , Indian actor, director and writer (d.
1971 )
November 26 –
Karl Ziegler , German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973 )
November 29
November 30 –
Firpo Marberry , American baseball pitcher (d.
1976 )
December 2 –
Indra Lal Roy , Indian World War I pilot (d.
1918 )
December 3 –
Monte Collins , American actor and screenwriter (d.
1951 )
December 5 –
Grace Moore , American opera singer, actress (d.
1947 )
December 6
December 9
December 11
December 14 –
Lillian Randolph , American actress, singer (d.
1980 )
December 19 –
Zheng Zhenduo , Chinese author, translator (d.
1958 )
December 20 –
Irene Dunne , American actress (d.
1990 )
December 24 –
Baby Dodds , American jazz drummer (d.
1959 )
December 27
December 28 –
Shigematsu Sakaibara , Japanese admiral and war criminal (d.
1947 )
December 29 –
Randi Anda , Norwegian politician (d.
1999 )
December 30
December 31 –
István Dobi , Hungarian leader (d.
1968 )
Date unknown
Deaths
January–June
Lewis Carroll
Matilda Joslyn Gage
William Ewart Gladstone
January 3 –
Lawrence Sullivan Ross ,
Confederate brigadier general,
Texas governor, and president of
Texas A&M University (b.
1838 )
January 14 –
Lewis Carroll , British writer, mathematician (Alice in Wonderland ) (b.
1832 )
January 16 –
Charles Pelham Villiers , longest-serving MP in the
British House of Commons (b.
1802 )
January 18 –
Henry Liddell , English Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b.
1811 )
January 26 –
Cornelia J. M. Jordan , American lyricist (b.
1830 )
February 1 –
Tsuboi Kōzō , Japanese admiral (b.
1843 )
February 6 –
Abdul Samad of Selangor , Malaysian ruler, 4th
Sultan of Selangor (b.
1804 )
February 16 –
Thomas Bracken , author of the official national anthem of New Zealand (
God Defend New Zealand ) (b.
1843 )
March 1 –
George Bruce Malleson , Indian officer, author (b.
1825 )
March 6 –
Andrei Alexandrovich Popov , Russian admiral (b.
1821 )
March 10
March 11 –
William Rosecrans , California congressman,
Register of the U.S. Treasury (b.
1819 )
March 15 –
Sir Henry Bessemer , British engineer, inventor (b.
1813 )
March 16 –
Aubrey Beardsley , British artist (b.
1872 )
[17]
March 18 –
Matilda Joslyn Gage , American feminist (b.
1826 )
March 27 – Sir
Syed Ahmad Khan , Indian university founder (b.
1817 )
March 28 –
Anton Seidl , Hungarian conductor (b.
1850 )
April 13 –
Aurilla Furber , American author (b.
1847 )
April 15 –
Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui , Maori military leader
April 18 –
Gustave Moreau , French painter (b.
1826 )
April 29 –
Mary Towne Burt , American benefactor (b.
1842 )
May 19 –
William Ewart Gladstone ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1809 )
May 22 –
Edward Bellamy , American author (b.
1850 )
May 29 –
Theodor Eimer , German zoologist (b.
1843 )
June 4 –
Rosalie Olivecrona , Swedish feminist activist (b.
1823 )
June 10 –
Tuone Udaina , Croatian-Italian last speaker of the
Dalmatian language (b.
1821 )
June 14 –
Dewitt Clinton Senter , American politician, 18th
Governor of Tennessee (b.
1830 )
June 25 –
Ferdinand Cohn , German biologist, bacteriologist and microbiologist (b.
1828 )
July–December
Otto von Bismarck
Theodor Fontane
Saint
Charbel Makhluf
July 1
July 5 –
Richard Pankhurst , English lawyer, radical and supporter of women's rights (b.
1834 )
July 8 –
Soapy Smith , American con artist and gangster (b.
1860 )
July 14 –
Louis-François Richer Laflèche , Roman Catholic Bishop of
Trois-Rivières , Native American missionary (b.
1818 )
July 30 –
Otto von Bismarck , German statesman (b.
1815 )
[18]
August 8 –
Eugène Boudin , French painter (b.
1824 )
August 11 –
Sophia Braeunlich , American business manager (b.
1854 )
September 2 –
Wilford Woodruff , fourth president of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1807 )
September 5 –
Sarah Emma Edmonds , Canadian nurse, spy (b.
1841 )
September 9 –
Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet (b.
1842 )
September 10 –
Empress Elisabeth of Austria , empress consort of Austria, queen consort of Hungary (assassinated) (b.
1837 )
September 16 –
Ramón Emeterio Betances , Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b.
1827 )
September 19 –
Sir George Grey , 11th
Premier of New Zealand (b.
1812 )
September 20 –
Theodor Fontane , German writer (b.
1819 )
[19]
September 26 –
Fanny Davenport , American actress (b.
1850 )
September 28 –
Tan Sitong , Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b.
1865 )
September 29 –
Louise of Hesse-Kassel , German princess, queen consort of
Christian IX of Denmark (b.
1817 )
October 24 –
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , French painter (b.
1824 )
November 2 –
George Goyder , surveyor-general of South Australia (b.
1826 )
November 20 –
Sir John Fowler ,
British
civil engineer (b.
1817 )
December 24 –
Charbel Makhluf , Lebanese
Maronite ,
Roman Catholic and
Eastern Catholic monk, priest and saint (b.
1828 )
December 25 –
Laura Gundersen , Norwegian actress (b.
1832 )
Date unknown
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