- May 19
- Gus Kempis, cricket player (South Africa's first Test), dies of fever at age 24. [1]
- July 13
- John C Fremont, declared Republic of California, dies at age 76. [1]
- July 29
- Death of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, at age 37, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [1] [129]
- August 6
- First use of electric chair execution, on convicted murderer William Kemmler, at Auburn Prison, New York. [55.53] (John Hart [1])
- December 3
- Bill Midwinter, cricket player (eight Tests for Australia, four for England), dies. [1]
- December 10
- Death of Spencer M. Clark; US Superintendent of National Currency Bureau. [574.62]
- Ludolf Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General (Net India 1861-66), dies at age 84. [1]
- December 15
- In South Dakota, Pine Ridge reservation police kill Sioux chief Sitting Bull Hunkpapa, while trying to arrest him. [1] [129]
- December 22
- Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies. [1]
- December 26
- Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at age 86. [1]
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- December 29
- Death of Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, USA. [1]
- December 31
- Death of Francis Elias Spinner in Jacksonville, Florida, USA; major general in New York militia, sheriff of Herkimer County (1834-1837), Congressman (1855-1861), US Treasurer (1861-1875). [542.128] [1562.57]
1891
- January 4
- Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Autralian tour), dies. [1]
- January 5
- Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at age 89. [1]
- January 11
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at age 81. [1]
- January 16
- Leo Delibes, French ballet composer (Lakmé), dies at age 54. [1]
- January 20
- David Kalakahua, Emperor of Hawaii, dies. [1]
- January 23
- Boudouin, prince of Belgium/count of Flanders, dies at age 21. [1]
- January 26
- Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. [1]
- February 9
- Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at age 71. [1]
- February 13
- David Dixon Porter, US Rear Admiral (Union Army-Civil War), dies at age 77. [1]
- February 14
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War General (captured Atlanta), dies at age 71. [1]
- March 17
- Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention, dies at age 68. [1]
- March 28
- Dick Pilling, cricket player ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", England 1881-88), dies. [1]
- March 29
- Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at age 31. [1]
- April 7
- Death of Phineas Taylor Barnum at age 80 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA; US circus promoter (Barnum and Bailey, The Greatest Show on Earth, PT Barnum's American Museum). [1] [1101.633]
- April 24
- Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian General/fieldmarshal, dies. [1]
- August 14
- Death of Sarah Childress Polk in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; spouse of US President James Polk. [549.92]
- October 6
- Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish party, dies. [1]
- December 5
- Pedro II of Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89), dies. [1]
- December 11
- Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet/writer (Narrenwijsheid), dies. [1]
- December 17
- Msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle. [1]
- Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle. [1]
1892
- January 7
- Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at age 39. [1]
- January 8
- John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at age 67. [1]
- January 14
- Death of Prince Albert Victor "Eddy" Duke of Clarence and Avondale, grandson of Queen Victoria, 2nd in line to throne, of influenza and inflammation of lungs, in Norfolk, England. [859.32]
- January 16
- Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies. [1]
- January 21
- John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of planet Neptune, dies. [1]
- February 9
- Death of John Jay Knox, US Comptroller of Currency. [589.56]
- February 16
- Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies. [1]
- February 19
- Monty Bowden, cricket Captain (England versus South Africa 1889), dies at age 26. [1]
- February 20
- Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at age 74. [1]
- March 10
- Otto van Raised, Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1884-88), dies at age 69. [1]
- March 25
- Death of Charles Kennedy Burt in Brooklyn, New York, USA; chief engraver for US Treasury Department for 20 years. [958.829]
- April 2
- Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch baron/genealogist, dies at age 79. [1]
- May 1
- Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at age 89. [1]
- May 15
- Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), is murdered. [1]
- May 16
- John Banvard, painted world's largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies. [1]
- May 17
- György Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at age 72. [1]
- May 29
- Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Bahá'í), dies at age 74. [1]
- October 25
- Death of Caroline Scott Harrison at age 60 in Washington, D.C., USA; spouse of US President Benjamin Harrison. [1] [912.76]
- December 1
- Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, is murdered. [1]
- December 6
- E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at age 75. [1]
- December 18
- Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at age 88. [1]
1893
- January 7
- Death of Josef Stefan in Vienna, Austria; physicist at the University of Vienna; the Stefan-Boltzmann law of physics. [37]
- January 9
- Mohara Arab, ivory/slave trader, dies in battle and is eaten. [1]
- January 11
- Benjamin F Butler, US General, presidential candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at age 74. [1]
- January 17
- Death of Rutherford B. Hayes in Fremont, Ohio, USA; brevet major general in 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (1861-65), Ohio Representative in Congress (1865-67), Governor of Ohio (1867-72, 1876), US President (1877-81). [1] [692.46]
- January 23
- José Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at age 75. [1]
- January 27
- James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at age 62. [1]
- February 13
- Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at age 58. [1]
- March 16
- Death of Tivadar Puská in Hungary; inventor of telephone-newspaper. [404.58]
- April 27
- John Murray Corse, US General (Union), dies on his 58th birthday. [1]
- April 30
- Edouard Manet, French painter (Olympia), dies at age 61. [1]
- May 14
- Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at age 83. [1]
- October 29
- Death of Carter H. Harrison, Illinois congressman, Chicago mayor (1879-1887), assassinated at his home by Patrick E. Prendergast, a supporter who became irate unable to get a job with the city. [819.302] (October 29 [907.15])
- October 30
- Sir John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative) (1891-92), dies at age 72. [1]
- December 3
- Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle. [1]
- December 17
- Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch Minister of Colonies (1888-90), dies at age 71. [1]
1894
- January 1
- Death of Heinrich Hertz in Bonn, Germany; physicist, discovered how to produce, send, and receive radio waves. The radio frequency measurement "hertz" is named for him. [37]
- January 8
- Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleontologist (life of tapeworms), dies at age 84. [1]
- February 4
- Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone), dies at age 79. [1]
- March 11
- John Selby, cricket player (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies. [1]
- March 20
- Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at age 91. [1]
- March 27
- Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at age 49. [1]
- April 8
- Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at age 55. [1]
- May 8
- Klara Fey, German orchestra leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at age 79. [1]
- May 21
- August A Kundt, German physicist (test of Kundt), dies at age 54. [1]
- July 14
- Death of Patrick E. Prendergast by hanging, for the assassination of former Chicago mayor Carter H. Harrison. [907.16]
- December 3
- Jozef Schadde Flem, architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at age 76. [1]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 45. [1]
- December 7
- Death of Ferdinand de Lesseps at age 89 in bed at home in France; French engineer (creator of Suez Canal), diplomat, earl. [1842.268]
- December 8
- Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/Roman Catholic historian, dies at age 71. [1]
- December 30
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at age 76. [1]
- December 31
- Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at age 38. [1]
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