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1905 January 14 Death of Ernst Abbe in Jena, Germany, at age 64; physicist in optical theory and microscope design. [1] [37] January 20 Stanislaw Pilinski composer, dies at age 65. [1] February 1 Oswald Aschenbach German painter, dies at age 77. [1] February 10 Ignacy Krzyzanowski composer, dies at age 78. [1] February 12 Marcel Schwob French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies. [1] February 15 Lewis Wallace US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at age 77. [1] February 17 Serge Alexandrovich Governor-General Moscow, murdered. [1] February 18 Jules de Geyter Belgian poet (International), dies at age 75. [1] February 28 Joseph C Juglar French physician/economist, dies at age 85. [1] March 12 Rudolf von Alt Austrian painter, dies at age 92. [1] March 15 Arnold Kerdijk Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at age 60. [1] B Amalie Skram-Alver Norwegian author (Paa Saint Jørgen), dies at age 58. [1] March 19 Makar Grigori Ekmalyan composer, dies at age 49. [1] March 24 Jules Verne sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at age 77. [1] April 4 Constantin Meunier Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at age 73. [1] April 18 Juan Valera bon Alcalá Galiano Sp author (Pepita Jiménez), dies at age 80. [1] April 23 Karel Komzak composer, dies at age 54. [1] April 25 Jacob Olie Dutch photographer, dies at about age 70. [1] April 29 Ignacio Cervantes composer, dies at age 57. [1] May 9 Ernst Pauer composer, dies at age 78. [1] May 23 Martinus W van AA Meerbeke head-editor (Time), dies at age 75. [1] May 26 Alphonse de Rothschild French banker, dies. [1] May 29 Leon Francis Victor Caron composer, dies at age 55. [1] June 17 Máximo Gómez Cuban general, dies at age 68. [1] October 15 Birth of C P Snow England, novelist/scientist (Death Under Sail). [1] December 9 Henry Holmes composer, dies at age 66. [1] 1906 January 1 Joseph Miroslav Weber composer, dies at age 51. [1] January 8 Jacob C van Marken peanut butter maker (Calvé-Delft), dies at age 60. [1] January 18 Bartolomé Mitre President of Argentina (1862-70), dies at age 84. [1] January 25 Joseph Wheeler II Confederate General, dies at age 70. [1] Pierre L Goossens Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at age 78. [1] January 29 Christaan IX King of Denmark (1893-1906), dies. [1] February 9 Paul Laurence Dunbar black dialect poet, dies at age 33 in Dayton Ohio. [1] February 18 Willem Doorenbos literary/critic, dies at age 85. [1] February 23 Johann Hoch US murderer, executed. [1] February 25 Anton Stepanovich Arensky Russian composer/conductor, dies at age 44. [1] February 26 Manuel Fernandez Caballero composer, dies at age 70. [1] March 1 José M de Pereda y Sánchez the Porrúa Spanish writer, dies at age 73. [1] Moriz Heyne German germanist (German Wörterbuch), dies at age 68. [1] March 10 Eugen Richter German Member of Parliament (Liberal), dies at age 67. [1] March 13 Susan B[rownell] Anthony American suffragist, dies at age 85. [1] March 15 Alfred Gilpin Jones Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at age 81. [1] March 17 Carlos Calvo Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at age 82. [1] March 22 Martin Wegelius Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at age 59. [1] March 23 Victor Barton cricketer (scored 23 in Test England vs South Africa 1892), dies. [1] March 30 Betsy Perk [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at age 73. [1] April 6 Alexander L Kielland Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at age 57. [1] April 11 Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon Russian-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies. [1] James A Bailey circus showman (Barnum and Bailey), dies at age 58. [1] April 19 Pierre Curie French physicist/chemist (Nobel Prize 1903), dies. [1] April 20 Australian wombat oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at age 26. [1] April 25 John Knowles Paine US composer, dies at age 67. [1] May 23 Henrik Johan Ibsen Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at age 78. [1] May 30 William Yeates Hurlstone composer, dies at age 30. [1] May 31 Hermann Schell German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at age 56. [1] King Alfonso XIII assassinated in Madrid. [1] Victoria von Battenberg assassinated in Madrid. [1] June 25 Birth of Roger Livesey actor (Drums, Life and Death of Colonel Blimp). [1] June 26 Alexander Muir poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at age 76. [1] October 20 William "Buck" Ewing hall of fame catcher (New York Giants), dies at age 67. [1] November 2 Birth of Luchino Visconti Milan Italy, director (Damned, Death in Venice). [1] December 14 John A C Oudemans Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at age 78. [1] December 21 Adalbert von Goldschmidt composer, dies at age 58. [1] 1907 January 1 Cyrill Kistler composer, dies at age 58. [1] January 3 Josef Foerster composer, dies at age 73. [1] January 6 Walter Read cricketer (English batsman, 117 at no 10 vs Australia 1884), dies. [1] January 7 Anton Urspruch composer, dies at age 56. [1] January 8 Theodoor Verstraete Flemish painter/etcher, dies at age 57. [1] January 14 Karl von Perfall composer, dies at age 82. [1] January 16 Alfred Shaw cricketer (seven Tests for England 1877-82), dies. [1] February 2 Dmitri I Mendelejev Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at age 72. [1] February 5 Ludwig Thuille composer, dies at age 45. [1] February 8 Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom chemist (fasenleer), dies at age 52. [1] February 11 Peter J Savelberg Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at age 80. [1] February 13 Marcel Bertrand French mine engineer, dies at age 59. [1] February 16 Giosué Carducci poet (Nobel Prize 1906), dies. [1] February 17 Henry Steel Olcott US co-founder (Theosophist Society-Madras), dies at age 74. [1] February 20 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan chemist (Nobel Prize 1906), dies at age 54. [1] February 24 Otto Goldschmidt composer, dies at age 77. [1] March 7 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 11 Nikola Petkow premier (Bulgaria), murdered. [1] March 19 Thomas Bailey Aldrich US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at age 70. [1] March 23 Constantine P Pobedonostsev Russian reactionary senator, dies at age 79. [1] March 28 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg composer, dies at age 65. [1] April 5 Anton G van Hamel founder (Roman philosphy in Netherlands), dies at age 65. [1] April 26 Pietro Plantania composer, dies at age 79. [1] May 11 John Albert Delany composer, dies at age 54. [1] May 12 J K Huysmans writer, dies at age 59. [1] December 8 On the death of Sweden's King Oskar II, Prince Gustav is proclaimed King Gustav V. [1] [7] December 17 Kelvin of Largs [William Thomson] British physicist (Kelvin), dies at age 83. [1] December 21 Oskar Lassar German dermatologist (public baths), dies at age 58. [1] December 24 Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies. [1] December 31 Jules de Trooz Belgium Prime Minister, dies at age 63. [1] 1908 January 2 Dom Joâo G da Câmara Portuguese journalist/playwright, dies at age 55. [1] January 4 Antony Winkler Prins writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at age 70. [1] January 9 Abraham Goldfaden US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at age 67. [1] Death of Wilhelm Busch in Mechtshausen bei Seesen, Germany; humorous writer, painter and poet, Max und Moritz (The Katzenjammer Kids) and Die fromme Helene, forerunner to the comic strip. [1] [37] January 10 Anna S Barbiers Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at age 65. [1] January 14 Holger Drachmann writer, dies. [1] January 17 Ferdinand IV ruler of Toscane, dies at age 72. [1] January 23 Edward Alexander MacDowell US composer (Indian Suite), dies at age 47. [1] February 1 Carlos I King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at age 44. [1] February 14 Georges Jean Pfeiffer composer, dies at age 72. [1] February 17 Geronimo Apache chief, dies at about age 79. [1] February 24 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn composer, dies at age 66. [1] March 11 Peter Milne composer, dies at age 83. [1] March 12 Edmondo de Amicis Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at age 61. [1] March 28 John Eliot English meteorology, dies at age 68. [1] April 4 Josef Sucher composer, dies at age 64. [1] April 5 Gaetano Coronaro composer, dies at age 55. [1] April 20 Henry Chadwick sports reporter (baseball), dies at age 85. [1] April 22 Henry Campbell-Bannerman British premier (1905-08), dies. [1] May 6 Jean Réville French vicar (Le Prophétisme Hébreu), dies at age 53. [1] May 12 Melesio Morales composer, dies at age 69. [1] May 23 François Coppée French poet, dies. [1] May 26 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at age 69. [1] May 31 C L "Boy" Johnson cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies. [1] June 24 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. President, dies in Princeton, at age 71. [1] [5] September 17 Thomas Selfridge earlier aviator, dies in an air crash. [1] December 22 Marie Jungius Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at age 44. [1] December 23 Eduard Wachmann composer, dies at age 72. [1] François A Gevaert Belgian/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at age 68. [1] December 24 François-Auguste Gevaert Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at age 80. [1] 1909 January 14 Sinovi P Rozhestvensky Russian admiral, dies at age 60. [1] January 15 Ernest Reyer composer, dies at age 85. [1] Ernest von Wildenbruch German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at age 63. [1] January 22 Richard A C E Erlenmeyer German chemist, dies at age 83. [1] February 2 Adolf Stoecker German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at age 73. [1] February 3 Johann Georg Herzog composer, dies at age 86. [1] February 8 Edouard Silas composer, dies at age 80. [1] Mieczyslaw Karlowicz composer, dies at age 32. [1] February 26 Caran d'Ache [Emmanuel Poiré], French illustrator, dies. [1] March 12 Johanna "Lena" Bakker Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at age 34. [1] March 16 George Thorndike Angell lawyer (ASPCA), dies at age 85. [1] March 22 Gyula Erkel composer, dies at age 66. [1] March 24 John Millington Synge Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at age 37. [1] March 25 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente composer, dies at age 57. [1] March 26 Nikolai Arkas composer, dies at age 56. [1] April 3 Benjamin Johnson Lang composer, dies at age 71. [1] April 9 Charles Conder artist, dies. [1] April 10 Algernon Charles Swinburne English poet, dies at age 72. [1] April 12 Hermann Kotzchmar composer, dies at age 79. [1] May 5 Pauline Staegeman German feminist, dies. [1] May 8 Friedrich von Holstein German diplomat, dies. [1] May 10 Johannes de Koo journalist/playwright, dies. [1] May 18 George Meredith English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at age 81. [1] Isaac M F Albéniz Spanish pianist/composer, dies at age 48. [1] June 28 Israel Durham Philadelphia Phillies president dies. [1] July 11 Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority, dies. [1] September 7 Eugène Lefebvre dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft. [1] October 26 Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean. [1] December 4 Paul-Albert Besnard French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at age 60. [1] December 10 Red Cloud Sioux Indian chief, dies. [1] December 13 Innokenti F Annenski Russian poet/interpreter, dies at age 53. [1] December 14 Leopold II king of Belgium, dies. [1] December 15 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea composer, dies at age 57. [1] December 17 Leopold II king of Belgium dies. [1] December 20 Benjamin Ipavec composer, dies at age 79. [1] December 24 Nicolaas G Pierson director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at age 80. [1]