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1910 January 4 Léon Delagrange French aviation pioneer, dies. [1] January 17 Thomas Crapper inventor (flush toilet), dies. [1] Wilhelm F Kohlrausch Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at age 69. [1] January 25 Léon Walras French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at age 75. [1] January 28 Jose Garcia Robles composer, dies at age 74. [1] January 29 Edouard Rod French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at age 52. [1] February 1 Otto Julius Bierbaum German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at age 44. [1] February 15 Albert Fuchs composer, dies at age 51. [1] February 16 Albert Heinrich Zabel composer, dies at age 75. [1] February 20 Boetros Ghali Egyptian premier, murdered. [1] March 10 Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke composer, dies at age 85. [1] Karl Lueger Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at age 65. [1] March 16 Eduard FW Pflüger German physiologist, dies at age 80. [1] March 17 Joaquin Valverde composer, dies at age 64. [1] March 20 Félix Tournachon [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at age 89. [1] March 25 Kálmán Mikszáth Hungarian author (Szent Péter Esernyöje), dies at age 63. [1] March 27 Alexander E Agassiz US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at age 74. [1] David Duffle Wood composer, dies at age 72. [1] March 28 Edouard [Judas] Colonne French violinist/conductor, dies. [1] March 30 Jean Moréas [Y Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies at age 53. [1] April 1 Andreas Aschenbach German painter/engraver, dies at age 94. [1] April 2 Boyd Alexander English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at age 37. [1] Friedrich von Bodelschwingh German theologist, dies at age 79. [1] April 12 William G Sumner US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at age 69. [1] April 13 William Orchardson British painter, dies. [1] April 21 Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] author(Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn), dies in Redding Connecticut at age 74. [1] April 26 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel Prize 1903), dies at age 77. [1] May 6 Edward VII King of England (1901-10), dies at age 68. [1] May 10 Stanislao Cannizzaro Italian chemist, dies at age 85. [1] William Huggins discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies. [1] May 16 Henri E Cross [Delacroix] French painter, dies at age 53. [1] May 18 Flor van Duyse composer, dies at age 66. [1] May 20 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin composer, dies at age 88. [1] May 22 Jules Renard French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at age 46. [1] May 27 Robert Koch German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies. [1] May 29 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev Russian composer (Islamej), dies at age 73. [1] May 31 Elizabeth Blackwell first woman physician, dies at age 89. [1] June 22 Birth of Sir Peter Pears Farnham England, tenor (Death in Venice). [1] July 10 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies. [1] October 15 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel heavyweight boxing champ, shot and killed. [1] October 17 Julia Ward Howe composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic), dies at age 91. [1] November 20 Leo Tolstoy Russia, author (Anna Karenina), dies at age 82. [1] December 3 Mary Baker Eddy founder (Christian Science Monitor), dies. [1] December 10 Pablo Hernandez Salces composer, dies at age 76. [1] December 21 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies. [1] 1911 January 9 Edwin Arthur Jones composer, dies at age 57. [1] January 15 Wilhelm Berger composer, dies at age 49. [1] January 17 Francis Galton English scholar, dies at age 88. [1] January 24 Carl Eilhardt composer, dies at age 67. [1] January 26 Charles Wentworth Dilke English undersecretary of State, dies at age 67. [1] February 4 Peter A "Piet" Cronje South Africa Boer General, dies at about age 75. [1] February 5 Petrus A Cronjé Transvaal Boer General, dies. [1] February 7 Harry Graham cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies. [1] February 8 Gustaf Fröding Swedish poet (Grabstänk), dies at age 50. [1] February 11 Albert von Rothschild baron/Austrian banker, dies at age 66. [1] February 18 Bill Murdoch cricketer, dies while watching Australia vs South Africa Test. [1] February 20 Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov composer, dies at age 56. [1] Peter Nicolai von Wilm composer, dies at age 76. [1] March 1 Jacobus H van 't Hoff Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel Prize 1901), dies at age 58. [1] March 7 Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at age 68. [1] March 13 Jacob M van Bemmelen Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at age 80. [1] March 20 Jean-Theodore Radoux composer, dies at age 75. [1] March 24 Matthew Stanley Robison president (Saint Louis Cardinals), dies. [1] March 29 Felix Alexandre Guilmant composer, dies at age 74. [1] April 10 Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis composer, dies at age 35. [1] April 15 Georg Knorr German engineer, dies. [1] May 18 Gustav Mahler Austrian composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at age 50. [1] May 20 E M Grace cricketer (one Test vs Australia 1880, 36 and 0), dies. [1] May 28 Stephanus J du Toit South African theologist/journalist (African Bond), dies. [1] May 29 William Schwenck Gilbert England, writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at age 74. [1] August 5 Birth of Robert Taylor Filley Neb; actor (Death Valley Days). [1] September 14 Piotr Stolypin Russia's Prime Minister assassinated by Mordka Bogrov. [1] October 29 Joseph Pulitzer American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, South Carolina. [1] December 10 Joseph D Hooker British botanist, dies at age 94. [1] December 11 Thomas Ball US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at age 92. [1] December 13 Reg Duff cricketer (23 Tests for Australia 1902-05, 1317 runs), dies. [1] December 18 Alberto Randegger composer, dies at age 79. [1] December 23 Karl L Hoschna composer, dies at age 34. [1] 1912 January 2 Death of Felix Dahn in Hamburg, Germany, age 77; professor of law, writer. [37] (January 3 [1]) January 14 Otto Liebmann German philosopher (Kant and Epigones), dies at age 71. [1] January 16 Georg Heym writer, dies at age 24. [1] January 29 Hermann Bang writer, dies at age 54. [1] February 10 Joseph Lister first Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), dies. [1] February 14 First US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton Connecticut. [1] February 16 Edgar Evans British explorer (Antarctica), dies. [1] February 17 Aloys von Aerenthal foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at age 57. [1] L Oates British explorer (Antarctica), dies. [1] February 22 Richard Andree German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at age 76. [1] February 28 Bill Storer English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies. [1] March 29 Robert F Scott British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies. [1] March 30 Karl May German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at age 70. [1] April 12 Clara Barton organized American Red Cross, dies at age 90. [1] April 20 Bram Stoker Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies. [1] April 24 Justin M'Carthy politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at age 81. [1] April 30 Frantisek Kmoch composer, dies. [1] May 14 August Strindberg Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at age 63. [1] Frederik VIII King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at age 68. [1] May 26 Jan Blockx Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at age 61. [1] May 30 Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies. [1] [5] October 4 Nicaraguan General Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed. [1] December 7 George Darwin theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies. [1] December 12 Luitpold von Bayern prince-regent of Bayern, dies at age 91. [1] December 30 Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter German foreign minister, dies at age 60. [1] 1913 January 2 Léon P Teisserenc de Bort French meteorologist (stratosphere), dies at age 57. [1] January 4 Death of Alfred Graf von Schlieffen in Berlin, Germany, at age 79; Prussian General-field marshal, developed "Schlieffen Plan" used in World War I. [1] [37] January 13 Thomas P Krag Norwegian author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at age 44. [1] January 17 Carl Baermann composer, dies at age 73. [1] January 18 Edmond R H Regout Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at age 49. [1] January 19 David Emlyn Evans composer, dies at age 69. [1] January 22 Ferdinand van der Haeghen Flemish librarian/bibliographer, dies at age 82. [1] January 23 Nazim Pasha Turkey's Prime Minister assassinated. [1] January 24 Gustav Luders composer, dies at age 47. [1] February 22 Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure Swiss linguist, dies at age 55. [1] Francisco Indalecio Madero Mexican President, assassinated in military coup at age 39. [1] Suarez Mexican vice President, assassinated in a military coup. [1] February 23 Jimmy Sinclair cricketer (3 centuries in 25 Test South Africa career), dies. [1] February 26 Felix Draeseke composer, dies at age 77. [1] February 27 Adam Sedgwick English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at age 58. [1] March 9 Eberhard Nestle German biblical scholar, dies at age 61. [1] March 10 Harriet Tubman abolitionist, conductor on Underground railroad, dies in New York. [1] March 12 Joseph Bayer composer, dies at age 61. [1] March 18 George I king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at age 67. [1] March 19 John Thomas composer, dies at age 87. [1] March 20 Christian Barnekow composer, dies at age 75. [1] Song Jiao-ren leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies. [1] March 31 John Pierpont Morgan US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at age 75. [1] April 6 Jose Marraco y Ferrer composer, dies on 78th birthday. [1] April 14 Karl Hagenbeck German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at age 68. [1] May 18 Otto Reubke composer, dies at age 70. [1] May 28 Lord Avebury [John Lubbock] British banker/politician, dies. [1] December 17 Stefano Gobatti composer, dies at age 61. [1] December 22 Menelik II King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at age 69. [1] December 23 James Middleton cricketer (24 wicket of lefty pace South Africa 1895-1903), dies. [1] 1914 January 3 Stephane Raoul Pugno composer, dies at age 62. [1] January 4 Redjâizade M Ekrem Turkish poet/writer, dies at about age 66. [1] Silas Weir Mitchell US physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at age 84. [1] January 11 Ambrose Bierce writer, dies at age 71. [1] January 13 Bernardus H Heldt Dutch Member of Parliament, dies at age 72. [1] Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea composer, dies 76. [1] January 20 Emil Liebling composer, dies at age 62. [1] Henry Southwick Perkins composer, dies at age 80. [1] January 22 Frederik Rung composer, dies at age 60. [1] February 6 J Albert Neuhuys Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at age 69. [1] February 25 John Tenniel British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 93. [1] March 1 Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin composer, dies at age 47. [1] March 12 George Westinghouse US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at age 67. [1] March 16 Gaston Calmette editor (Le Figaro), killed by Madame Caillaux at age 55. [1] Sir John Murray piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies. [1] March 23 Teunis Stoel actor, dies at age 62. [1] March 25 Frédéric Mistral French poet (Nobel Prize-1904), dies. [1] March 28 Hanus Trnecek composer, dies at age 55. [1] March 31 Ch Morgenstern writer, dies at age 42. [1] April 1 Rube Waddell baseballer, dies at age 37 of TB. [1] April 8 Jakub Arbes Czechoslovakia, author (Andél Miru), dies at age 73. [1] April 12 Josef Nesvera composer, dies at age 71. [1] April 14 Paul Ehrenreich German etnologist/mythologist, dies at age 58. [1] April 16 George W Hill US astronomer (moon orbit), dies at age 76. [1] April 19 Charles Pierce philosopher/scientist, dies. [1] May 7 Edward Mollenhauer composer, dies at age 87. [1] May 9 C.W. Post dies. [5] May 13 R E Foster only dual England captain at cricket and soccer, dies. [1] May 17 Peter Leyten bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at age 79. [1] May 25 Paolo Giorza composer, dies at age 81. [1] May 27 Joseph Wilson Swan physicist/chemist, dies. [1] May 28 Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld composer, dies at age 76. [1] June 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. [1] [129] July 30 Jean Jaurés leading socialist, assassinated in Paris. [1] August 6 Ellen Wilson President Wilson's wife, dies at age 54. [1] August 20 Pope Pius X dies. [1] September 1 Martha last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo. [1] December 6 Eduard Jacobs Dutch cabaret artist, dies at age 47. [1] December 14 Giovanni Sgambati composer, dies at age 73. [1] December 16 Ivan Zajc composer, dies at age 82. [1] December 19 Johann F Ritter von Schulte German catholic lawyer, dies at age 87. [1] December 21 A O Jones cricketer (12 Tests for England 1899-1909), dies. [1]