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1890 January 5 Birth of Cora Witherspoon New Orleans Louisiana, actress (Bank Dick), dies. [1] January 7 Death of Maria Luise Augusta Katharina in Berlin, Germany; Empress of the German Reich after 1871 as the wife of Wilhelm I. [1] [37] Hans Matthison-Hansen composer, dies at age 82. [1] January 10 Death of Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger in Munich, Germany; Roman Catholic priest, professor of canon law, church historian. [37] January 14 Francesco D'Arcais composer, dies at age 59. [1] January 17 Death of Salomon Sulzer in Vienna, Austria, at age 85; chief cantor in Vienna, composer, "the father of modern synagogue music". [1] [37] January 18 Amadeus I FM king of Spain (1870-73), dies at age 44. [1] January 20 Franz Paul Lachner composer, dies at age 86. [1] January 30 Karl Merz composer, dies at age 53. [1] February 3 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot Dutch meteorologist, dies at age 72. [1] February 18 Julius Andrássy Sr earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at age 66. [1] March 13 Henry Wylde composer, dies at age 67. [1] March 22 Désiré de Haerne Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at age 85. [1] April 2 Marinus Campbell bibliographer, dies at age 70. [1] April 8 Junius Morgan philanthropist, dies at age 76. [1] April 17 John Barnett composer, dies at age 87. [1] May 6 Hubert Leonard composer, dies at age 71. [1] May 19 Gus Kempis cricketer (South Africa's first Test), dies of fever at age 24. [1] May 28 Viktor Ernst Nessler composer, dies at age 49. [1] July 13 John C Fremont declared Republic of California, dies at age 76. [1] July 29 Vincent Van Gogh dies in Auvers, France. [1] August 6 First use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in New York for murder. [1] December 3 Bill Midwinter cricketer (8 Tests for Australia, four for England), dies. [1] December 10 Ludolf Sloet van de Beele Governor-General (Net India 1861-66), dies at age 84. [1] December 21 Niels Vilhelm Gade Danish composer, dies at age 73. [1] December 22 Harry Pollitt chairman British communist (1956-60), dies. [1] December 26 Heinrich Schliemann German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at age 86. [1] December 29 Big Foot Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee. [1] 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 7 Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert composer, dies at age 79. [1] January 8 Fredrik Pacius composer, dies at age 81. [1] January 11 Georges-Eugène Haussmann French senator/baron, dies at age 81. [1] January 16 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes composer, dies at age 54. [1] Leo Delibes French ballet composer (Lakmé), dies at age 54. [1] January 17 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst composer, dies at age 74. [1] January 20 David Kalakahua emperor of Hawaii, dies. [1] January 21 Calixa Lavallee composer, dies at age 48. [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] January 31 Ernest Meissonier French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at age 75. [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 Fren prince/member National Convention, dies at age 68. [1] March 28 Dick Pilling cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", England 1881-88), dies. [1] March 29 Georges-Pierre Seurat French painter (Pointillism), dies at age 31. [1] April 7 P[hineas] T Barnum US circus promoter (Barnum and Bailey), dies at age 80. [1] April 15 Stephen Albert Emery composer, dies at age 49. [1] April 17 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary composer, dies at age 77. [1] April 24 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke Prussian General/fieldmarshal, dies. [1] May 8 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky Russian theosophist, dies. [1] May 23 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach composer, dies at age 73. [1] May 26 Frederick Bowen Jewson composer, dies at age 67. [1] August 4 George Washington Williams dies at age 41 in Blackpool England. [1] October 6 Charles Stewart Parnell leader of the Irish party, dies. [1] December 5 Pedro II of Alcantara emp 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] December 23 Holger Simon Paulli composer, dies at age 81. [1] December 28 Alfred Cellier composer, dies at age 47. [1] December 29 Leopold Kronecker German mathematician, dies at age 68. [1] 1892 January 2 George B Airy English astronomer/writer, dies at age 90. [1] 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 10 Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn composer, dies at age 91. [1] January 13 Charles Albert White composer, dies at age 62. [1] January 16 Imakita Kosen Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies. [1] January 17 Alexandre Levy composer, dies at age 27. [1] January 18 Birth of Oliver Hardy in Harlem, Georgia, USA; comedy team member (Laurel and Hardy), dies 1957. [1] [5] January 21 John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies. [1] February 11 Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni composer, dies at age 63. [1] February 16 Henry Walter Bates naturalist/explorer (South America), dies. [1] February 19 Monty Bowden cricket Captain (England vs South Africa 1889), dies at age 26. [1] February 20 Hermann Kopp German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at age 74. [1] March 1 Archibald Scott Scottish chemist, dies at age 60. [1] March 10 Otto van Raised Governor-General of Netherland Indies (1884-88), dies at age 69. [1] March 20 Arthor Goring Thomas composer, dies at age 41. [1] March 26 Anton Wallerstein composer, dies at age 78. [1] Walt Whitman poet, dies in Camden New Jersey at age 72. [1] March 29 William Bowman English anatomist, dies at age 75. [1] March 31 Adolf Rzepko composer, dies at age 66. [1] April 2 Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg Dut baron/genealogist, dies at age 79. [1] April 22 Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo composer, dies at age 69. [1] May 1 Willem A Scholten manufacturer (potatoes), dies at age 89. [1] May 2 Wilhelm Rust composer, dies at age 69. [1] May 5 Jan Nepomuk Skroup composer, dies at age 80. [1] May 6 Ernest Guiraud composer, dies at age 54. [1] May 13 Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise composer, dies at age 63. [1] May 15 Arthur Hodister British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered. [1] May 16 John Banvard painted world's largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies. [1] Theodoor J Canneel Flemish painter, dies at age 74. [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 Caroline Harrison President Benjamin Harrison's wife, dies at age 60. [1] December 1 ? de Bruyne Belgian sergeant in Congo, murdered. [1] Joseph Lippens Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered. [1] December 3 William Bonaparte grandson of Lucien, dies. [1] December 6 E Werner von Siemens German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at age 75. [1] December 15 Charles Balmer composer, 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 16 Johan Philip Koelman painter/sculptor/architect, dies at age 74. [1] January 17 Rutherford B Hayes 19th US President (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at age 70. [1] January 19 Julius Eichberg composer, dies at age 68. [1] January 22 Vincenz Lachner composer, dies at age 81. [1] January 23 José Zorrilla y Moral Spanish poet (Granada), dies at age 75. [1] January 26 Abner Doubleday credited with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday. [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 5 Hippolyte Taine French philosopher/historian, dies at age 64. [1] Richard Samuel Hughes composer, dies at age 37. [1] March 19 Karel Komzak composer, dies at age 69. [1] April 4 Alphonse de Candolle Swiss botanist, dies at age 86. [1] April 9 Disma Fumagalli composer, dies at age 66. [1] April 19 John Addington Symonds critic/poet, dies. [1] 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] Gyula Beliczay composer, dies at age 57. [1] May 3 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal composer, dies at age 73. [1] May 4 George Washington Hewitt composer, dies at age 82. [1] May 14 Earnest E Kummer German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at age 83. [1] Johan T Buys Dutch lawyer, dies at age 65. [1] October 30 Sir John Abbott Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative) (1891-92), dies at age 72. [1] December 1 Eduard Franck composer, dies at age 76. [1] December 3 Allan Wilson British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle. [1] December 9 George Elvey composer, dies at age 77. [1] December 14 Karolina Pawlowa writer, dies at age 86. [1] December 17 Levinus T Keuchenius Dutch Minister of Colonies (1888-90), dies at age 71. [1] December 22 Benedikt Randhartinger composer, dies at age 91. [1] Johann Czerski German chaplain, dies at age 80. [1] December 30 Samuel White Baker English explorer, dies at age 72. [1] December 31 Jacob G de Scheffer Dutch vicar/theologist, dies at age 74. [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] January 19 François Haverschmidt Dutch writer, dies at age 58. [1] January 21 Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu composer, dies at age 24. [1] February 4 Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax instrument maker (saxophone), dies at age 79. [1] February 11 Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera composer, dies at age 70. [1] February 13 Franjo Racki Croatian historian/politician, dies at age 65. [1] February 19 Ernesto Camillo Sivori composer, dies at age 78. [1] February 21 Gustave Caillebotte French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at age 45. [1] February 25 James Morrison Steele Mackaye US actor/author/director, dies at age 51. [1] March 11 John Selby cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies. [1] March 20 Lajos Kossuth Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at age 91. [1] March 21 Jacob Rosenhaim composer, dies at age 80. [1] March 24 Robert Prescott Stewart composer, dies at age 68. [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] May 24 William Joseph Westbrook composer, dies at age 63. [1] 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 Ferdinand de Lesseps French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at age 89. [1] December 8 Willem JF Nuyens Dutch physician/Roman Catholic historian, dies at age 71. [1] December 13 Sarah Parker Remond US/Italian abolitionist, dies at age 68. [1] December 29 Chris Rossetti writer, dies at age 64. [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]