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1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1896th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
896th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 96th year of the 19th century,
and the 7th year of the 1890s decade. As of
the start of 1896, 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 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as
Jameson surrenders to the Boers.[1] ·
January 4 – Utah is
admitted as the 45th U.S. state. ·
January 5 – An Austrian newspaper
reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has
discovered a type of radiation (later
known as X-rays). ·
January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as
Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope,
for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. ·
January 7 – American culinary
expert Fannie Farmer publishes
her first cookbook. ·
January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the
first X-ray photograph. ·
January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti
War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed.[2][3] ·
January 18 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the
first time. ·
January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent,
England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h)
(exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph
(3.2 km/h) (the first speeding fine). ·
February 1 – Puccini's opera La bohème premieres in Turin, Italy. ·
February 4 – The International
Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers is established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ·
February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé premieres in Paris. ·
February 19 – Braamfontein
Explosion: A train carrying 56 tons of dynamite explodes at Braamfontein, Johannesburg, killing more than 78 people.[4] ·
March 1 – Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia defends its independence from
Italy, ending the First
Italo-Ethiopian War. ·
March 3 – Publication begins of the
world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, Der Eigene, by Adolf Brand in Berlin. ·
March 9 – Responding to national
outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns. ·
March 23 – The New York State
Legislature passes the Raines law, restricting Sunday alcoholic
beverage sales to hotels. April–June[edit] ·
April – The first study of the sensitivity of
global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide is
published. Svante Arrheniuspresents
his findings in his paper, "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air
upon the Temperature of the Ground", the London, Edinburgh, and
Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, as an extract of a
paper that had been presented to the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences on December 11, 1895. ·
April 3 – The first edition of the
Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello
Sport is published. ·
April 4 – The first known women's basketball game
between two colleges is played, between Stanford and California. ·
April 6 – The opening ceremonies of
the 1896 Summer Olympics,
the first modern Olympic Games,
are held in Athens, Greece. ·
April 9 – The National Farm School
(later Delaware Valley
College) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. ·
May 8 – Cricket: Against Warwickshire, Yorkshire sets
a still-standing County Championship record,
when they accumulate an innings total of 887. ·
May 13 – The Franchise Bill is passed
by the Colony of Natal's
Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries. ·
May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson:
The U.S. Supreme Court introduces
the separate but equal doctrine,
and upholds racial segregation. ·
May 26 – Eleven years after its
foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks were chosen to form
the Dow Jones
Industrial Average. The index is composed entirely of industrial
shares for the first time.[5] ·
May 27 – St.
Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The costliest and third
deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile
wide swath of downtown St. Louis, Missouri,
incurring US$2.9 billion (1997 USD) in normalized damages, killing more than
255 and injuring over 1,000 people. ·
June 4 – The Ford Quadricycle, the first Ford vehicle
ever developed, is completed, eventually leading Henry Ford to build the empire that
"put America on wheels". ·
June 7 – Mahdist War – Battle of Ferkeh: British and Egyptian troops are victorious. ·
June 12 – J. T. Hearne sets a record for the
earliest date of taking 100 wickets in cricket (it is equalled by Charlie Parker in 1931). ·
June 15 – The 8.5 Mw Sanriku
earthquake and tsunami kills 22,000 in northeastern
Japan.
A picture of the
restored Panathenaic Stadium,
the site of the 1896 Summer Olympics ·
June 18 – The New York Telephone Company
is formed, succeeding the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, to
control telephone service within New York City.[6] ·
June 23 – Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier defeats Charles Tupper during Canadian
federal elections for the 8th Canadian
Parliament, to become the first Francophone Prime Minister
of Canada. ·
June 28 – Twin Shaft disaster:
An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston,
Pennsylvaniaresults in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.[7][8][9] July–September[edit] ·
July 9 – William Jennings
Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech at
the Democratic
National Convention, which nominates him for President of the
United States. ·
July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's
seventh prime minister,
and the first French-speaker to hold that office. ·
July 21 – In Washington, D.C., in
response to a "call to confer" issued by Josephine St.
Pierre Ruffin to all women of color, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs is
organized. ·
July 26 – The International Socialist Workers and Trade Union
Congress opens in London. ·
July 27 – A causeway is opened, between the islands
of Saaremaa and Muhu in Estonia. ·
July 30 – Atlantic
City rail crash: Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of
Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger
coaches, killing fifty and seriously injuring approximately sixty. ·
August – The 1896
Eastern North America heat wave kills 1,500 people, from
Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts. ·
August 14 – The Uganda Railway Act, 1896, is approved
in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa, from Mombasa to Lake Victoria.[10][11] ·
August 16 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie
discover gold in the Klondike, Yukon. ·
August 17 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car on the grounds of The Crystal Palace,
London (the world's first motoring fatality). ·
August 23 – The Cry of Pugad Lawin initiates
the Philippine
Revolution. ·
The shortest war in recorded history,
the Anglo-Zanzibar War,
starts at 9:00 in the morning, and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling. ·
Britain establishes a Protectorate over
the Ashanti concluding
the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti
War. ·
September 2 – Clarkson University holds
its first classes, with 17 students attending in Potsdam, New
York.[12] ·
September 15 – The Crash at Crush train wreck stunt is
held in Texas. ·
September 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her
grandfather King
George III, as the longest-reigning monarch in British history. ·
September 30 – Italy and France sign a
treaty, whereby Italy virtually recognizes Tunisia as a French dependency.[13] October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – Gottlieb Daimler builds the first
worldwide gasoline truck. ·
October 2 – The Victorian
Football League is established as Aussie rules
football in Australia (a predecessor for the Australian
Football League). ·
October 16 – The design of the Flag of
Knoxville, Tennessee is officially approved by the Knoxville
City Council. ·
October 30 – Augusta, Kentucky:
The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid, marking the end of the Augusta
Methodist College. ·
November 3 – U.S.
presidential election, 1896: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings
Bryan. The event is viewed by some as a realigning election for
the United States Republican Party. ·
November 27 – Also
sprach Zarathustra (Strauss) is first performed in Frankfurt. ·
The Udinese Calcio is founded. ·
St. Augustine
Monster: A large carcass, later postulated to be
the remains of a gigantic octopus,
is found washed ashore near St. Augustine,
Florida. ·
December 1 – Archaeologist Alois Anton Führer, Nepalese General Khadga Samsher Rana,
and an expedition, rediscover the great stone pillar of Ashoka at Lumbini, traditionally the spot of the
birthplace of Gautama Buddha,
after using Faxian's records.[14] ·
December 10 – The premiere of Alfred Jarry's absurdist play Ubu Roi in Paris causes a
near-riot. ·
December 14 – The Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world,
opens. ·
December 25 – John Philip Sousa composes
his magnum opus, The Stars
and Stripes Forever. ·
December 30 – José Rizal, Filipino scholar and poet,
is executed by
Spanish authorities in the Philippines. Date unknown[edit] ·
The Pontifical
University of Maynooth is established by decree of the Vatican. ·
France establishes an administrative post
in Abengourou, Ivory Coast. ·
Sperry & Hutchinson begin offering S&H Green Stamps to
U.S. retailers. ·
Devonport
High School for Boys is founded (in Plymouth, UK) ·
Blackpool
Pleasure Beach, a popular English theme park (Britain's Biggest
Tourist Attraction), is founded by Alderman William George Bean. ·
A school of mines opens in Kimberley and
will later form the core of the University
of the Witwatersrand. ·
Racing Club de Lyon, a football club
in France is officially founded, as
predecessor for Olympique Lyonnais.[citation needed] Births[edit] January–February[edit]
·
January 2 – Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954) ·
Everett Dirksen, American politician
(d. 1969) ·
André Masson, French artist (d. 1987) ·
Arthur Ford,
American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d. 1971) ·
Clifton Sprague, American admiral (d. 1955) ·
January 14 – John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970) ·
January 18 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American author (d. 1967) ·
January 20 – George Burns, American actor, comedian
(d. 1996) ·
January 21 – J. Carrol Naish, American character actor (d. 1973) ·
January 23 – Charlotte,
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985) ·
January 26 – József Kiss, Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot
(d. 1918) ·
January 31 – Olive Carey, American actress (d. 1988) ·
February 2 – Ramón Franco, Spanish aviation pioneer
(d. 1938) ·
February 4 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997) ·
February 16 – Eugénie Blanchard,
French supercentenarian (d. 2010) ·
February 18 – Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat
(d. 1970) ·
February 19 – André Breton, French writer (d. 1966) ·
February 23 – Herbert Weichmann,
German politician, mayor of
Hamburg (d. 1983) ·
February 25 – Heinrich Gontermann,
German World War I fighter ace (d. 1917) ·
February 28 – Philip Showalter
Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965) ·
Morarji Desai, Indian politician (d. 1995) ·
William A. Wellman,
American motion picture director (d. 1975) March–April[edit]
·
March 1 ·
Dimitri Mitropoulos,
Greek conductor, pianist and composer (d. 1960) ·
Moriz Seeler, German writer, poet, film
producer and man of the theatre (d. 1942) ·
March 13 – Field Eugene Kindley,
American World War I fighter pilot (d. 1920) ·
March 20 – Wop May, Canadian World War I pilot
(d. 1952) ·
March 22 – Joseph Schildkraut,
Austrian-American actor (d. 1964) ·
March 29 – Wilhelm Ackermann,
German mathematician (d. 1962) ·
April 13 – Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States
Army Air Forces general (d. 1987) ·
April 15 ·
Gerhard Fieseler, German World War I flying
ace, aerobatics champion, aircraft designer and manufacturer (d. 1987) ·
Nikolay Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1986) ·
April 16 – Árpád Weisz, Hungarian footballer (d. 1944) ·
April 17 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist
(d. 1999) ·
April 21 ·
Ralph Hungerford, 33rd Governor of
American Samoa (d. 1977) ·
Geertruida
Wijsmuller-Meijer, Dutch war hero, resistance fighter and
humanitarian (d. 1978) ·
April 26 – Ernst Udet, German World War I fighter ace,
Nazi Luftwaffe official (d. 1941) ·
April 27 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player
(d. 1963) ·
April 30 ·
Hans List, Austrian founder of the AVL List (d. 1996) ·
Gary Davis,
American musician (d. 1972) May–June[edit]
·
May 1 ·
Mark W. Clark, American general (d. 1984) ·
J. Lawton Collins,
American general (d. 1987) ·
May 2 – Helen of
Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania (d. 1982) ·
May 3 – Karl Allmenröder,
German World War I fighter pilot (d. 1917) ·
May 5 – Kaju Sugiura, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) ·
May 6 – Rolf Maximilian
Sievert, Swedish medical physicist (d. 1966) ·
May 7 – John Dunville, British Army officer in World
War I (d. 1917) ·
May 19 – Jorge Alessandri, 27th President of Chile (d. 1986) ·
May 24 – Fernando Soler, Mexican actor, director,
screenwriter, and producer (d. 1979) ·
May 30 – Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977) ·
June 6 ·
Henry Allingham, British World War I
veteran, world's oldest man (d. 2009) ·
Italo Balbo, Italian Fascist leader, aviator
(d. 1940) ·
June 7 ·
Robert S. Mulliken,
American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1986) ·
Imre Nagy, 3-time Prime Minister of Hungary
(d. 1958) ·
Douglas
Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990) ·
Hope Summers, American actress (d. 1979) ·
June 18 – Philip Barry, American playwright (d. 1949) ·
June 19 – Wallis Simpson, American-born Duchess of
Windsor (d. 1986) ·
June 23 – Francisco Malabo
Beosá, Equatoguinean royalty (d. 2001) ·
June 25 ·
Alfred Anderson,
Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War (d. 2005) ·
Keizō Komura, Japanese admiral
(d. 1978) ·
June 28 – Constance Binney, American actress (d. 1989) July–August[edit]
·
July 2 – Quirino Cristiani,
Argentine animated film director (d. 1984) ·
July 4 – Mao Dun, Chinese novelist, cultural critic,
and the Minister of Culture (d. 1981) ·
July 5 – Thomas Playford IV,
South Australian politician (d. 1981) ·
July 8 – James B. Wilson, American football player,
coach (d. 1986) ·
July 9 ·
Thomas Barlow,
American professional basketball player (d. 1983) ·
Cullen Landis, American actor and director
(d. 1975) ·
July 10 ·
Stefan Askenase, Polish-Belgian classical
pianist and pedagogue (d. 1985) ·
Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist,
composer and conductor (d. 1981) ·
July 13 ·
Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992) ·
John Henry Cates, American businessman,
political figure (d. 1986) ·
July 16 ·
Léon Weil, French veteran of World War I
(d. 2006) ·
Gertrude Welcker, German actress (d. 1988) ·
Trygve Lie, Norway-born United Nations
Secretary General (d. 1968) ·
July 18 ·
Thelma Payne, American diver (d. 1988) ·
Patrick O'Boyle, American prelate (d. 1987) ·
July 19 – Stafford L. Warren,
American physician and radiologist; inventor of the mammogram (d. 1981) ·
July 20 – Ellen Louise Mertz,
Denmark's first female geologist (d. 1987) ·
July 21 – Gladys Hulette, American actress (d. 1991) ·
July 27 – Henri Longchambon,
French politician (d. 1969) ·
August 9 ·
Erich Hückel, German physicist, physical
chemist (d. 1980) ·
Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980) ·
Léonide Massine,
Russian ballet dancer, choreographer (d. 1979) ·
August 12 – Ejner Federspiel, Danish actor (d. 1981) ·
August 13 – Rudolf Schmundt, German general (d. 1944) ·
August 14 – Albert Ball, British World War I fighter
ace, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1917) ·
Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1957) ·
Paul Outerbridge, American photographer
(d. 1958) ·
August 18 – Jack Pickford, Canadian-born American actor,
film director, and producer (d. 1933) ·
August 22 – W. E. Lawrence, American actor (d. 1947) ·
August 26 – Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian; last known surviving
person born in 1896 (d. 2012) ·
August 27 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993) ·
Morris Ankrum, American actor (d. 1964) ·
Arthur Calwell, Australian politician
(d. 1973) ·
August 30 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-born American actor
(d. 1983) September–October[edit]
·
September 1 – A.
C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader,
founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (d. 1977) ·
September 4 – Antonin Artaud, French stage actor, director
(d. 1948) ·
September 10 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (d. 1981) ·
September 14 – Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, Mexican
Franciscan friar, tenor and film actor (d. 1974) ·
September 15 – Robert B. McClure,
American general (d. 1973) ·
September 21 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian; last known surviving male
born in 1896 (d. 2011) ·
September 22 – Uri Zvi Greenberg,
Israeli poet, journalist (d. 1981) ·
September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald,
American writer (d. 1940) ·
September 25 – Sandro Pertini, President of Italy (d. 1990) ·
September 30 – Jolie Gabor, Hungarian-American entrepreneur,
jeweler and memoirist (d. 1997) ·
October 1 – Abraham Sofaer, Burmese-born actor (d. 1988) ·
October 3 – Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman
(d. 1961) ·
October 7 – Paulino Alcántara,
Filipino-Spanish soccer player (d. 1964) ·
October 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1981) ·
October 14 – Bud Flanagan, British entertainer, comedian
(d. 1968) ·
October 17 – Prince
Roman Petrovich of Russia (d. 1978) ·
October 22 – Earle Clements, American politician,
Governor of Kentucky (1947–1950), Senate Whip ·
October 27 – Edith Haisman, South African-born RMS
Titanic survivor (d. 1997) ·
October 28 – Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981) ·
October 30 – Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter,
and playwright (d. 1985) ·
October 31 – Ethel Waters, American singer, actress
(d. 1977) November–December[edit]
·
Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of
the Philippines (d. 1971) ·
Ian Wolfe, American actor (d. 1992) ·
Erika Abels d'Albert,
Austrian artist (d. 1975) ·
Bucky Harris, American baseball player
(d. 1977) ·
Marie Prevost, Canadian-born American
actress (d. 1937) ·
Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player,
manager (d. 1976) ·
Mary, Lady Heath (born Sophie Mary
Peirce-Evans), Irish aviator (d. 1939) ·
Andreas Stihl, Swiss engineer, inventor and
businessman (d. 1973) ·
November 13 – Nobusuke Kishi, Prime Minister of Japan
(d. 1987) ·
November 14 – Mamie Eisenhower, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1979) ·
November 15 – Giovanni Ancillotto,
Italian World War I flying ace (d. 1924) ·
Jim Jordan,
American actor (d. 1988) ·
Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union
of Fascists (d. 1980) ·
Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer,
actor (d. 1960) ·
November 17 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934) ·
November 23 – Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak communist
politician (d. 1953) ·
Virgil Thomson, American composer, critic
(d. 1989) ·
Jessie Royce Landis,
American actress (d. 1972) ·
Priscilla Dean, American actress (d. 1987) ·
November 26 – Manuel A. Odría,
79th President of Peru (d. 1974) ·
November 28 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress
(d. 1994) ·
December 1 – Georgi Zhukov, Soviet military leader,
Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974) ·
December 2 – Alfons Tracki, German-Albanian priest
(martyred 1946) ·
December 5 – Carl Ferdinand Cori,
Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984) ·
December 6 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983) ·
December 8 – Christl Mardayn, German actress (d. 1976) ·
December 14 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer,
World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d. 1993) ·
December 15 – Miles Dempsey, British general (d. 1969) ·
December 16 – Anna Anderson, pretender to the Russian
throne (d. 1984) ·
December 17 – Robert
Francis Anthony Studds, American admiral and engineer, fourth
Director of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey (d. 1962) ·
Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971) ·
Eleni Skoura, Greek politician (d. 1991) ·
December 23 – Giuseppe
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian writer (d. 1957) ·
December 27 – ·
Louis Bromfield, American writer (d. 1956) ·
Carl Zuckmayer, German writer, playwright
(d. 1977) ·
December 28 – Roger Sessions, American composer (d. 1985) Date unknown[edit] ·
Lawrence Riley, American playwright and
screenwriter (d. 1974) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 4 – Joseph Hubert
Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821) ·
January 6 – Thomas W. Knox, American author, journalist
(b. 1835) ·
January 8 – Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (b. 1844) ·
January 15 – Mathew Brady, American photographer
(b. 1822) ·
January 18 – Charles Floquet, Prime Minister of France
(b. 1828) ·
January 20 – Prince Henry
of Battenberg, British royal, married to Princess
Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1858) ·
February 7 – William Hayden
English, American politician (b. 1822) ·
February 25 – Joseph P. Fyffe, American admiral (b. 1832) ·
March 10 – Charilaos Trikoupis,
7-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1832) ·
March 21 – Elizabeth Otis
Dannelly, American poet (b. 1838) ·
April 9 – Gustav Koerner, German-American statesman
(b. 1809) ·
April 27 – Sir Henry Parkes, Australian
politician, Premier of New
South Wales (b. 1815) ·
May 1 – Naser al-Din Shah
Qajar, Shah of Persia, King of Herat (b. 1831) ·
May 7 – Herman Webster
Mudgett (alias H. H. Holmes), American serial killer
(executed) (b. 1861) ·
May 10 – Antti Ahlström,
Finnish industrialist, founder of Ahlstrom (b. 1827) ·
May 13 – Nora Perry,
American newspaper correspondent (b. 1831) ·
May 17 – Muhammad Al-Sabah,
emir of Kuwait (b. 1831) ·
May 18 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New
Zealand (b. 1813) ·
May 19 – Archduke
Karl Ludwig of Austria, father of Archduke Ferdinand (b. 1833) ·
May 20 – Clara Schumann, German composer, pianist
(b. 1819) ·
May 24 – Luigi Federico
Menabrea, Italian soldier, statesman (b. 1809) ·
June 12 – Thomas P. Leathers,
American steamboat captain (b. 1816) July–December[edit]
·
July 1 – Harriet Beecher
Stowe, American author (b. 1811) ·
July 4 – Marcelo H. del Pilar,
Filipino writer, journalist (b. 1850) ·
July 7 – Charles Thomas
Wooldridge, Englishman hanged at Reading Gaol and commemorated by
Oscar Wilde (b. 1866) ·
July 13 – August Kekulé, German chemist (b. 1829) ·
July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt,
French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b. 1822) ·
July 19 – Abraham H. Cannon,
American Mormon apostle (b. 1859) ·
August 10 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer
(b. 1848) ·
August 12 – Sir Harry Burnett
Lumsden, British army general (b. 1821) ·
August 13 – Sir John Everett Millais,
British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1829) ·
August 17 – Bridget Driscoll, early British automobile
fatality (b. c. 1852) ·
August 18 – Richard Avenarius,
German-Swiss philosopher (b. 1843) ·
August 25 – Sultan Hamad bin
Thuwaini of Zanzibar (b. 1857) ·
September 18 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819) ·
September 22 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist, politician
(b. 1814) ·
September 24 – Louis Gerhard De
Geer, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818) ·
October 6 – Sir
James Abbott, British army officer and colonial administrator
(b. 1807) ·
October 8 – George du Maurier,
French-born British cartoonist, writer (b. 1834) ·
October 10 – Ferdinand von
Mueller, German-born Australian botanist (b. 1825) ·
Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824) ·
Edward White Benson,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829) ·
October 12 – Christian
Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1817) ·
October 21 – James Henry
Greathead, British engineer, inventor (b. 1844) ·
October 23 – Columbus Delano, American statesman
(b. 1809) ·
October 30 – Carol Benesch, Silesian and Romanian architect (b. 1822) ·
November 12 – Joseph James
Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843) ·
November 16 – Josip
Šokčević, Croatian viceroy (b. 1811) ·
November 22 – George
Washington Gale Ferris Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel (b. 1859) ·
December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite,
creator of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833) ·
Jacob ben Moses
Bachrach, noted Polish apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (b. 1824) ·
Sir
Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, British admiral of the fleet
(b. 1806) ·
December 30 – José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines
(b. 1861) Unknown date[edit]
·
Margaret Eleanor
Parker, English social activist; first president the British
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