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1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on
Friday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1892nd year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
892nd year of the 2nd millennium,
the 92nd year of the 19th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1890s decade. As of
the start of 1892, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating
immigrants to the United States. ·
January 15 –James Naismith's rules for basketball are
published for the first time in the Springfield YMCA
International Training School's newspaper, in an article titled "A New
Game". ·
February 18 – Pennsauken
Township, New Jersey is incorporated. ·
February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for a patent, on
his compression ignition engine (the Diesel engine). ·
February 29 – St. Petersburg,
Florida is incorporated. ·
March 1 – Theodoros Deligiannis ends his term as Prime Minister
of Greece, and Konstantinos
Konstantopoulos takes office. ·
March 6–8 – "Exclusive Agreement":
Rulers of the Trucial States (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimahand Umm al-Quwain) sign an agreement, by which
they become de facto British
protectorates. ·
March 11 – The first basketball game is
played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield YMCA.[1] The final score
is 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being
scored by Amos Alonzo Stagg.[1] A crowd of 200
spectators watches the game.[1] ·
March 13 – Ernest Louis, a grandson of Queen Victoria, becomes Grand
Duke of Hesse and the Rhine on the death of his father, Grand
Duke Louis IV. ·
March 15 – The Liverpool Football Club is founded
by John Houlding,
the owner of Anfield; Houlding decides to form his
own team after Everton leaves
Anfield, in an argument over rent. ·
March 17 – The St. Patrick's
Day Snowstorm besieges Tennessee with upwards of 26 inches of
snow, establishing accumulation records that still stand. ·
March 18 – Sir Frederick
Stanley announces his intention to donate the Stanley Cup. ·
March 20 – The first ever French rugby championship final takes
place in Paris. Pierre de Coubertin referees
the match, which Racing Club de
France wins 4–3 over Stade Français. ·
March 31 – The world's first fingerprinting bureau is formally
opened by the Buenos Aires Chief
of Police; it had been operating unofficially since the previous year. February 27: Rudolf Diesel's patent. April–June[edit] ·
April – The Johnson County War breaks
out, between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming. ·
April 15 – The General Electric
Company is established, through the merger of the
Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison General Electric Company. ·
April 29 – Redondo Beach,
California is founded. ·
May 7 – The Cook Islands issue their first postage stamps. ·
May 11 – The 18th Kentucky Derby is
run in Louisville, Kentucky; Azra finishes first, Huron
second and Phil Dwyer third in a race with only three horses. ·
May 19 – Battle of Yemoja
River: British troops defeat Ijebu infantry in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun. ·
May 20 – The last broad gauge "Down" train
rides from Paddington, on
the Great Western
Railway. ·
May 22 – The British conquest of Ijebu Ode marks a major extension of
colonial power, into the Nigerian interior. ·
May 24 – Prince George (later George V) becomes Duke of York. ·
May 28 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club. ·
June 4 – Abercrombie &
Fitch is established by David T. Abercrombie. ·
June 5 – An oil fire in Oil City,
Pennsylvania, kills 130 people. ·
June 7 – Homer Plessy (who is black) is arrested
for sitting on the whites-only car in Louisiana, leading to the
landmark Plessy v. Ferguson court
case. ·
June 11 – The Limelight Department,
later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established
in Melbourne, Australia. ·
Stockholm
Public Women's Club is founded in Stockholm. ·
June 30 – The Homestead Strike begins in Homestead,
Pennsylvania, culminating in a battle between striking workers and
private security agents on July 6. July–September[edit] ·
July 4 – Samoa changes its time zone to being 3
hours behind California, such that it crosses the International Date Line,
and July 4 occurs twice. ·
July 4–18 – British
general election: The Conservative and Liberal Unionist coalition government
loses its majority in the House
of Commons, eventually leading to Prime
Minister Lord Salisbury's resignation on August 12. ·
July 6 ·
Dr. José Rizal, Filipino writer, philosopher,
and political activist, is arrested by Spanish authorities, in connection
with La Liga Filipina. ·
Homestead Strike: The arrival of a force of
300 Pinkerton
detectives from New York and Chicago results in a fight in
which about 10 men are killed. ·
July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 devastates
the city of St.
John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. ·
July 12 – A hidden lake bursts out of a
glacier on the side of Mont Blanc,
flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers
in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. ·
July 13 – The United International
Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or BIRPI) is established in Bern, Switzerland. ·
August – The first electric light bulb in Bulgaria is used at the Plovdiv Fair. ·
August 4 – The father and stepmother
of Lizzie Borden are
found murdered in their Fall River,
Massachusetts home. ·
August 4 – Franklin Park,
Illinois is incorporated as a village. ·
August 9 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. ·
August 15 –Valparaíso, Chile founded first football team Santiago Wanderers ·
August 18 – William Ewart
Gladstone assumes the British premiership, as head of Liberal government,
with Irish Nationalist
Party support. ·
September 3 – The Nottingham Forest Football
Club plays their first league match, a 2–2 draw with Everton FC. ·
September 8 – The
Pledge of Allegiance is first recited. ·
September 9 – Amalthea, the third moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Edward Emerson
Barnard. ·
September 15 – Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vyshnegradsky, as Russian finance minister. ·
September – Women are first admitted to
Yale University's graduate school. October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – The University of
Chicago holds its first classes. ·
The Dalton Gang, attempting to rob two banks
in Coffeyville, Kansas,
is shot by the townspeople; only Emmett Dalton, with 23 wounds, survives, to
spend 14 years in prison. ·
Master criminal Adam Worth is captured in Liège, Belgium, during an attempted robbery
of a money delivery cart. ·
October 12 – To mark the 400th
anniversary Columbus Day holiday,
the "Pledge
of Allegiance" is first recited in unison by students in
U.S. public
schools. ·
October 30 – The Historical
American Exposition opens in Madrid. ·
October 31 – The first collection
of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine, The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published in London. ·
U.S.
presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver, to win the second of his
non-consecutive terms. ·
An anarchist bomb kills six in a police
station in Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris. ·
The four-day New Orleans
General Strike begins. ·
November 17 – French troops
occupy Abomey, capital of the kingdom of Dahomey. ·
November 24 – The Hotel Zinzendorf
catches fire in the city of Winston-Salem,
North Carolina; 45 people die. ·
December 5 – John Thompson becomes
Canada's fourth prime minister. ·
December 9 – English soccer club Newcastle United is founded. ·
December 17 – First issue of Vogue is published. ·
December 18 – The Nutcracker ballet, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is premiered at
the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. ·
December 22 – The Newcastle East End
F.C. is renamed Newcastle United
F.C., following the demise of the Newcastle West End F.C. and East
End's move to St James' Park, formerly West End's home, in the north east of
England. Date unknown[edit] ·
Aberdeen, Maryland is founded.[2] ·
Andrew Carnegie combines all of his
separate businesses into the Carnegie Steel
Company, allowing him to gain a monopoly in the steel industry. ·
The Inter-Parliamentary Bureau for
Permanent Arbitration is established. ·
The first Canadian National
Rugby-Football Championship game is played (Osgoode
Hall defeats Montreal 45–5). ·
A cholera outbreak occurs in Hamburg, Germany. ·
A tortoise called Timothy is
brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in
England, where she lives until her death in 2004. ·
Abu Dhabi becomes a British
protectorate. ·
The Cadet Band (current day Highty-Tighties) of the Virginia Agricultural and
Mechanical College (current day Virginia Tech) is established in the Virginia
Tech Corps of Cadets. ·
The Community
of the Resurrection, an Anglican
religious community for men, is founded by Charles Gore and Walter Frere. ·
Viruses are discovered by Russian–Ukrainian biologist Dimitri Ivanovski. ·
Worthington, Ontario,
Canada is incorporated as a mining community. ·
Construction of the Trans-Siberian
Railway begins. ·
Unione Sportiva Pro Vercelli football
club is founded in Piedmont, Italy. Births[edit] January–February[edit] ·
Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (d. 1958) ·
Manuel Roxas,
5th President of
the Philippines (d. 1948) ·
January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien, South African professor,
linguist, philologist, conlanger and
author of The Lord of the
Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion (d. 1973) ·
January 10 – Vladimir Littauer,
Russian equestrian trainer, coach (d. 1989) ·
January 12 – Mikhail Kirponos,
Soviet general (d. 1941) ·
Hal Roach, American film, television
producer (d. 1992) ·
Martin Niemöller, German prisoner in the Nazi
Holocaust (d. 1984) ·
January 15 – Rex Ingram,
Irish film director (d. 1950) ·
Homer Burton Adkins,
American chemist (d. 1949) ·
Charles W. Ryder, American general (d. 1960) ·
Oliver Hardy, American comedian, actor
(d. 1957) ·
Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956) ·
January 19 – Ólafur Thors,
Icelandic politician, 5-times prime minister (d. 1964) ·
January 22 – Marcel Dassault, French aircraft
industrialist (d. 1986) ·
January 25 – Takeo Takagi, Japanese admiral (d. 1944) ·
January 26 – Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978) ·
Luke Jordan, American blues singer,
guitarist (d. 1952) ·
Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director
(d. 1947) ·
January 31 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, singer
(d. 1964) ·
February 3 – Juan Negrín,
Spanish physician, politician and 67th Prime Minister of
Spain (d. 1956) ·
February 4 – Yrjö Kilpinen,
Finnish composer (d. 1959) ·
February 5 – Shunji Isaki,
Japanese admiral (d. 1943) ·
Sir John
Carden, 6th Baronet, English tank, vehicle designer (d. 1935) ·
William P. Murphy,
American physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1987) ·
February 9 – Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978) ·
February 10 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950) ·
February 13 – Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1954) ·
February 14 – Radola Gajda,
Czech commander and politician (d. 1948) ·
February 15 – James Forrestal, first United
States Secretary of Defense (d. 1949) ·
February 18 – Wendell Willkie, U.S. Republican
presidential candidate (d. 1944) ·
February 21 – Harry Stack Sullivan,
American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (d. 1949) ·
February 22 – Edna St. Vincent
Millay, American writer (d. 1950) ·
February 23 – Kathleen Harrison,
English actress (d. 1995) ·
February 24 – Konstantin Fedin,
Russian writer (d. 1977) ·
February 27 – William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983) ·
Ed Appleton, American baseball player
(d. 1932) ·
Augusta Savage, American sculptor (d. 1962) March–April[edit] ·
March 1 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927) ·
March 3 – Mississippi John
Hurt, American country blues singer, guitarist
(d. 1966) (some sources give his year of birth
as 1893). ·
March 9 ·
Mátyás Rákosi, 43rd
Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1971) ·
Arthur Caesar, American screenwriter
(d. 1953) ·
Vita Sackville-West,
English writer, gardener (d. 1962) ·
March 10 ·
Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer
(d. 1955) ·
Gregory La Cava, American director,
producer, and writer (d. 1952) ·
March 15 – Charles Nungesser,
French aviator, World War I fighter ace (d. 1927) ·
March 16 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (d. 1938) ·
March 25 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (d. 1967) ·
March 27 – Ferde Grofé,
American pianist, composer (d. 1972) ·
March 28 ·
Corneille Heymans,
Belgian physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1968) ·
Tom Maguire, Irish Republican (d. 1993) ·
March 30 ·
Sanzō Nosaka, Japanese
Communist Party chairman and leader of JPEL (d. 1993) ·
Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician
(d. 1945) ·
Erhard Milch,
German field marshal, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1972) ·
April 4 – Italo Mus, Italian painter (d. 1967) ·
April 6 ·
Donald Wills
Douglas, American industrialist (d. 1981) ·
Lowell Thomas, American journalist (d. 1981) ·
April 8 – Mary Pickford, Canadian actress, studio
founder (d. 1979) ·
April 12 – Johnny Dodds,
American jazz clarinettist (d. 1940) ·
April 12 – Henry Darger,
reclusive American outsider artist (d. 1973) ·
April 13 ·
Sir Arthur
Harris, 1st Baronet, British World War II Royal Air Force
commander (d. 1984) ·
Sir
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, British (Scottish) inventor of radar
(d. 1973) ·
April 16 – Ferenc
Kiss, Hungarian actor (d. 1978) ·
April 19 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983) ·
April 26 – Richard L. Conolly,
American admiral (d. 1962) ·
April 27 – Raizō Tanaka,
Japanese admiral (d. 1969) ·
April 28 – Joseph Dunninger,
American mentalist (d. 1975) May–June[edit] ·
May 2 – Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron),
German World War I fighter pilot (d. 1918) ·
May 3 ·
George Paget Thomson,
English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1975) ·
Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (d. 1970) ·
May 4 – Stanisława Paleolog, Polish official, military
and political activist (d. 1968) ·
May 5 – Rajarsi Janakananda, a leading Indian
disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda (d. 1955) ·
May 7 ·
Josip Broz Tito, President of
Yugoslavia (d. 1980) ·
Archibald MacLeish,
American poet (d. 1982) ·
May 9 – Zita of
Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989) ·
May 11 – Margaret Rutherford,
English actress (d. 1972) ·
May 12 – Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director
(d. 1970) ·
May 14 – Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (d. 1983) ·
May 16 – Manton S. Eddy, American general (d. 1962) ·
May 18 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (d. 1957) ·
May 19 – Pops Foster, American jazz musician
(d. 1969) ·
May 23 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922) ·
May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim,
American poet, novelist (d. 1954) ·
May 30 – Fernando Amorsolo,
Filipino painter (d. 1972) ·
May 31 ·
Michel Kikoine,
Belarusian painter (d. 1968) ·
Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician
(d. 1934) ·
June 1 – Amānullāh Khān, ruler of Afghanistan
(d. 1960) ·
June 8 – Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov,
Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer (d. 1944) ·
June 13 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967) ·
June 15 – Wallace Wade, American football coach, University of
Alabama, Duke University (d. 1986) ·
June 21 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian
(d. 1971) ·
June 22 – Robert Ritter von
Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945) ·
June 23 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d. 1993) ·
June 25 ·
Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist, lieutenant
general of Unit 731 (d. 1959) ·
Katherine K. Davis,
American composer (d. 1980) ·
June 26 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1973) ·
June 28 ·
Clifford Campbell,
Jamaican educator, politician (d. 1991) ·
E. H. Carr,
English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist
(d. 1982) ·
June 30 – Oswald Pohl, German S.S. officer (d. 1951) July–August[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Anders
Engberg, Swedish supercentenarian (d. 2003) ·
James M. Cain, American author and
journalist (d. 1977) ·
July 3 – Thomas
White, English cricketer (d. 1979) ·
July 4 ·
A. G. Gaston, American businessman (d. 1996) ·
Henry M. Mullinnix, American admiral (d. 1943) ·
July 6 – Willy Coppens, Belgian World War I flying
ace (d. 1986) ·
July 8 ·
Victor Hubert Tait,
Canadian soldier (d. 1988) ·
Richard Aldington,
English poet (d. 1962) ·
Dean O'Banion,
American gangster (d. 1924) ·
July 11 ·
Trafford
Leigh-Mallory, British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief
Marshal (d. 1944) ·
Thomas Mitchell,
American actor (d. 1962) ·
July 12 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter
(d. 1942) ·
July 15 – Milena Rudnytska,
Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer (d. 1979) ·
July 16 – Michel Coiffard,
French World War I fighter ace (d. 1918) ·
July 17 – Edwin Harris Dunning,
British aviator (d. 1917) ·
July 22 ·
Jack MacBryan,
English cricketer (d. 1983) ·
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi politician
(d. 1946) ·
July 23 – Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor
(d. 1975) ·
July 26 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player
(d. 1966) ·
July 28 – K. Kanagaratnam,
Ceylon Tamil civil servant, politician (d. 1952) ·
July 29 – William Powell, American actor (d. 1984) ·
August 1 – Kinsan Ginsan,
Japanese supercentenarians (d. 2000)
and (d. 2001) ·
August 2 – Jack L. Warner, Canadian film producer
(d. 1978) ·
August 6 – Hoot Gibson, American actor, film director
(d. 1962) ·
Władysław Anders,
Polish general, politician (d. 1970) ·
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978) ·
August 12 – Alfred Lunt, American actor, stage director
(d. 1977) ·
August 15 – Walther Nehring,
German general (d. 1983) ·
Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1987) ·
Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983) ·
August 17 – Tamon Yamaguchi,
Japanese admiral (d. 1942) ·
August 19 – Elizabeth Kozlova, Russian ornithologist (d. 1975) ·
August 25 – Gabriel Guérin, French World War I fighter ace
(d. 1918) ·
August 26 – Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American
cryptographer (d. 1980) September–October[edit] ·
September 4 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974) ·
September 5 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist
(d. 1973) ·
September 6 – Edward Victor
Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1965) ·
September 10 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1962) ·
September 11 – Pinto Colvig,
American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie
voice actor, and circus performer (original voice of Goofy) (d. 1967) ·
September 12 – Alfred A. Knopf,
American publisher (d. 1984) ·
September 15 – Louis Favre,
French painter (d. 1956) ·
September 20 – Patricia Collinge, Irish-American actress (d. 1974) ·
October 3 – Sentarō Ōmori, Japanese admiral
(d. 1974) ·
Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian statesman, chancellor
(d. 1934) ·
Luis Trenker,
South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, and
alpinist (d. 1990) ·
October 6 – Jackie Saunders, American silent movie
actress (d. 1954) ·
October 8 – Marina Tsvetaeva,
Russian poet (d. 1941) ·
October 9 – Ivo Andrić,
Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1975) ·
October 13 – Malcolm McGregor, American silent film actor
(d. 1945) ·
October 14 – Andrei Yeremenko, Soviet military leader,
Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1970) ·
Kiyonao Ichiki, Japanese
army officer (d. 1942) ·
Józef Kustroń, Polish general (d. 1939) ·
October 17 – R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, Indian jurist, economist
(d. 1953) ·
October 23 – Gummo Marx,
American actor, comedian (d. 1977) ·
October 27 – Graciliano Ramos,
Brazilian writer (d. 1953) ·
October 28 – Dink Johnson, American jazz musician
(d. 1954) ·
October 29 – Stanisław Ostrowski, former President of Poland (d. 1982) ·
October 30 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American strongman, sideshow performer (d. 1972) ·
October 31 – Alexander Alekhine,
Russian chess champion (d. 1946) November–December[edit] ·
November 2 – Alice Brady, American actress (d. 1939) ·
November 5 – J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist
(d. 1964) ·
November 9 – Erich Auerbach, German philologist (d. 1957) ·
November 11 – Isidor Achron,
Polish-American pianist, composer and brother of Joseph Achron (d. 1948) ·
November 12 – Guo Moruo, Chinese
author, poet (d. 1978) ·
November 14 – Dieudonné Costes, French aviator (d. 1973) ·
Richard Hale, American singer, actor
(d. 1981) ·
Tazio Nuvolari, Italian
racing driver (d. 1953) ·
November 22 – Emma Tillman, briefly the world's oldest
living person and last verified person born in 1892 (d. 2007) ·
November 24 – Daniel McVey, Australian public servant
(d. 1972) ·
December 4 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (d. 1975) ·
December 5 – Cyril Ring, American film actor (d. 1967) ·
December 6 – Osbert Sitwell, English writer (d. 1969) ·
December 7 – Max Ehrlich, German actor, screenwriter, and
humor writer (d. 1944) (one of the
casualties of the Auschwitz
concentration camp) ·
December 8 – Bert Hinkler, Australian pioneer aviator
(d. 1933) ·
December 9 – André Randall, French actor (d. 1974) ·
Edward Almond, American general (d. 1979) ·
Herman Potočnik Noordung,
Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929) ·
December 15 – J. Paul Getty, American industrialist
(d. 1976) ·
December 21 – Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet
(d. 1980) ·
December 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist,
and aviator (d. 1961) ·
December 26 – Don Barclay,
American actor (d. 1975) ·
December 27 – Alfred Edwin McKay,
Canadian World War I flying ace (d. 1917) ·
December 29 – Emory Parnell, American actor (d. 1979) ·
December 31 – Stanley Price, American film, television
actor (d. 1955) Date unknown[edit] ·
Ahmad Daouk,
2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1979) ·
Gerald Haxton,
secretary and lover of W. Somerset Maugham (d. 1944) ·
Abdallah Khalil, 3rd Prime Minister of Sudan
(d. 1970) ·
V. Veerasingam,
Ceylon Tamil teacher and politician (d. 1964) ·
Wu Shuqing,
Chinese feminist, nationalist and revolutionary Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 7 – Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan
(b. 1852) ·
January 8 – Christopher
Raymond Perry Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1819) ·
January 12 – William Reeves,
Irish antiquarian (b. 1815) ·
January 14 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale,
second in line for the throne of the United Kingdom (b. 1864) ·
January 21 – John Couch Adams, English astronomer
(b. 1819) ·
January 31 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (b. 1834) ·
February 2 – Darinka Petrovic,
princess consort of Montenegro (b. 1838) ·
February 5 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807) ·
February 7 – Andrew Bryson, American admiral (b. 1822) ·
February 27 – Louis Vuitton,
world-renowned French fashion designer (b. 1821) ·
March 13 – Ludwig
IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1837) ·
March 16 – Samuel
F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827) ·
March 26 – Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819) ·
March 28 – Emily Lucas Blackall,
American author and philanthropist (b. 1832) ·
April 4 – José María
Castro Madriz, President of Costa Rica (b. 1818) ·
April 12 – Ogarita Booth Henderson, American stage
actress, daughter of John Wilkes Booth (b. 1859) ·
April 17 – Alexander
Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1822) ·
April 19 – Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC, Anglo-Catholic clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices
in the 1870s (b. 1821) ·
April 21 – Emelie Tracy Y.
Swett, American author (b. 1863) ·
April 22 – Édouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823) ·
April 25 – William
Backhouse Astor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1830) ·
April 26 – Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, British admiral,
naval hero (b. 1791) ·
May 5 – August Wilhelm
von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818) ·
May 22 – Alexander
Campbell, Canadian politician (b. 1822) ·
May 29 – Bahá'u'lláh,
Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817) ·
May 30 – Mary H. Gray Clarke,
American correspondent (b. 1835) ·
June 8 – Robert Ford,
American assassin of Jesse James (b. 1862) ·
June 9 – William Grant Stairs,
Canadian explorer (b. 1863) ·
June 28 – Sir Harry Atkinson, 10th Premier of New
Zealand (b. 1831) July–December[edit] ·
July 18 – Rose Terry Cooke, American author (b. 1827) ·
July 30 – Count
Joseph Alexander Hübner, Austrian
diplomat (b. 1811) ·
August 4 – Ernestine Rose, Polish-born feminist
(b. 1810) ·
August 23 – Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil
(b. 1827) ·
September 6 – Betty Bentley
Beaumont, British merchant (b. 1828) ·
September 7 – John Greenleaf
Whittier, American poet, abolitionist (b. 1807) ·
September 11 – Clarissa
Caldwell Lathrop, American social reformer (b. 1847) ·
September 12 – John Cummings Howell,
United States Navy admiral (b. 1819) ·
October 2 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher,
philologist, historian and writer (b. 1823) ·
October 6 – Alfred, Lord
Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809) ·
October 23 – Emin Pasha,
Ottoman-German doctor, Governor of Equatoria
(b. 1840) ·
October 24 – Mir-Fatah-Agha, Persian Shiite cleric ·
October 25 – Caroline Harrison, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1832) ·
December 2 – Jay Gould, American financier (b. 1836) ·
December 6 – Werner von Siemens,
German inventor, industrialist (b. 1816) ·
December 11 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian
(b. 1821) ·
December 14 – Sir Adams
Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1814) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Dimitrie Brătianu,
15th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1818) ·
Eudora Stone Bumstead, American poet (b. 1860) ·
Katherine Fox, American spiritualist
medium (b. 1837) ·
Louisa Jane Hall, American literary critic
(b. 1802) ·
Charles Lafontaine,
Swiss mesmerist (b. 1803) ·
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo,
Tibetan teacher (b. 1820) ·
Mary Allen West, American superintendent of
schools (b. 1837) References[edit]
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