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1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX)
was a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1889th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 889th
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 89th year of the 19th century,
and the 10th and last year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1889,
the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which
remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Further
reading and year books Events[edit]
January 30: Rudolf & Maria at Mayerling. January–March[edit] ·
A total
eclipse of the Sun is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ·
Paiute
spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a
vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. ·
January 4 – An Act to Regulate
Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by
President Grover Cleveland.
It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the
modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. ·
January 5 – Preston North End
F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural
Football League in England. ·
January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for
his electric tabulating machine in
the United States. ·
January 15 – The Coca-Cola
Company is originally incorporated as
the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. ·
January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is
formed in Washington, D.C. ·
January 30 – Rudolf,
Crown Prince of Austria, and his mistress Baroness Mary
Vetsera, commit a double suicide (or a murder-suicide) in
the Mayerling hunting lodge. ·
February 5 – The first issue of Glasgow
University Magazine is published in Scotland. ·
February 15 – The first issue of La Solidaridad is published in
Spain. ·
February 11 – The Meiji Constitution of
Japan is adopted; the 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890. ·
February 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. ·
March 4 – Benjamin Harrison is sworn
in, as the 23rd President of the United States. ·
March 9 – Battle of Metemma: Yohannes IV, Emperor of Ethiopia,
is killed; Sudanese forces, who had been almost
defeated, rally and destroy the Ethiopian army. Yohannes is probably
the world's last ruler ever to die in battle. Menelik II proclaims himself as his
successor on March 25. ·
March 11 – The North Carolina Legislature issues a
charter for the creation of Elon College. ·
March 15 – Samoan crisis: German and American warships
keep each other at bay in a standoff in Apia Harbor,
ending when a cyclone blows
in and sinks them all. ·
March 22 – English Association football team Sheffield United
F.C. is formed at the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield. ·
March 23 – Claiming to be the Promised
Messiah and Mahdi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founds
the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Punjab
Province (British India). ·
March 31 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated
(opens May 6). At 300 m (980 ft), its
height exceeds the previous tallest structure in the world by
130 m (430 ft). Contemporary critics regard it as aesthetically
displeasing.
The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated on March
31, thus becoming the tallest structure in the world April–June[edit] ·
April 1 – Following a failed attempt at
a coup, French defense minister Georges Boulanger is
forced to flee the country. ·
April 10 – The Hammarby Roddförening
(later Hammarby IF) is
founded in Sweden. ·
April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma
Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889.
Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are
formed, with populations of at least 10,000.
·
May 2 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with
Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea. ·
May 6 – The Exposition
Universelle opens in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower as its entrance arch.
The Galerie des machines,
at 111 m (364 ft), spans the longest interior space in the world at
this time. ·
May 11 – An attack upon a U.S.
Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over
$28,000, and the award of two Medals of Honor. ·
May 31 ·
Johnstown Flood: The South Fork Dam collapses in
western Pennsylvania,
killing more than 2,200 people in and around Johnstown,
Pennsylvania. ·
The Naval Defence Act dictates
that the fleet strength of the British Royal Navy must be equal to that of at
least any two other countries.[1] ·
June – Vincent van Gogh paints The Starry Night at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. ·
June 3 – The first long distance electric
power transmission line in the United States is completed,
running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon. ·
June 6 – The Great Seattle Fire ravages
through the downtown area without
any fatalities. ·
June 8 – The Wall Street
Journal is established in New York City. ·
June 12 – The Armagh rail disaster near Armagh, Ireland kills 80 people. ·
June 19 – A Neapolitan baker
named Raffaele Esposito invents
the Pizza Margherita,
named after the queen consort of Italy Margherita of Savoy.
This is the forerunner of the modern pizza. ·
June 29–30 – The First Inter-Parliamentary
Conference held. July–September[edit] ·
July 8 ·
The
first issue of The Wall Street
Journal is published in New York City. ·
The
last official bare-knuckle boxing title
fight is held (under London Prize Ring
Rules): Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan, the Boston Strong
Boy, defeats Jake Kilrain in
a world championship bout, lasting 75 rounds, in Mississippi. ·
July 14 – International Workers Congresses of Paris open,
and establish the Second International. ·
July 31 – Louise, Princess
Royal of the United Kingdom, marries Alexander
Duff, 1st Duke of Fife. ·
August 3 – Mahdist War – Battle of Toski: Egyptian and British troops are
victorious. ·
August 4 – The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys
some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project. ·
August 6 – The Savoy Hotel in London opens.[2] ·
August 10 – At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held
for the Imperial
Natural History Museum (German: K.k. Naturhistorisches
Hofmuseum), begun in 1871;
from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175,000 visitors. ·
August 14–September 15 – London Dock
Strike: Dockers strike for a minimum wage of sixpence
an hour (The dockers' tanner), which they eventually receive (a
landmark in the development of New Unionism in Britain).[3] ·
August 26 – The Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children
Act, commonly known as the Children's Charter, is
passed in the United Kingdom; for the first time it imposes criminal penalties
to deter child abuse.[4] ·
August 30 – The Royal
Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office officially opens in
London. ·
August
– The Jewish settlement of Moisés Ville is founded in Argentina. ·
September 10 – Albert Honoré Charles
Grimaldi becomes Albert I,
Prince of Monaco. ·
September 17 – Civil War veteran Charles
Jefferson Wright founds New York
Military Academy, with 75 students on 30 acres (120,000 m2) of land in Cornwall, New York. ·
September 23 – The Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is
founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi,
to produce and market Hanafuda playing cards. October–December[edit]
September 23: Nintendofounded as a playing cardmanufacturer ·
October 2 – In Washington, D.C., the
first International
Conference of American States begins. ·
October 6 – The Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris. ·
October 12 – Gustaf Åkerhielm,
previously Swedish Foreign Minister, replaces Gillis Bildt as Prime Minister
of Sweden. ·
October 24 – Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, delivers the Tenterfield Oration,
calling for the Federation of
Australia. ·
October 29 – The British
South Africa Company receives a Royal Charter.[1] ·
November – The first free elections are
held in Costa Rica. ·
North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th
and 40th U.S. states,
respectively. ·
English Association football team Wimbledon F.C. plays their first match.[5] ·
November 8 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. ·
November 11 – Washington is
admitted as the 42nd U.S. state. ·
November 14 – Inspired by Jules Verne, pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins
an attempt to beat travel around the world in less than 80 days (Bly finishes
the journey in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes). ·
November 15 – Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca organizes
a military coup, which
deposes Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and
abolishes the Brazilian monarchy. Deodoro da
Fonseca proclaims Brazil a republic, and forms a provisional government. ·
November 17 – The Brazilian
Imperial Family is forced into exile in France. ·
November 19 – The modern-day flag of Brazil is adopted by the
Provisional Government of the Republic. ·
Argentina is the first country to
recognize the abolition of the monarchy in Brazil. ·
Gustav Mahler premieres his Symphony No. 1,
in Budapest. ·
November 23 – The first jukebox goes into operation, at the
Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. ·
November 27 – Clemson University is
founded in Clemson, South
Carolina. ·
December 4 – The Bayswater Railway
Station (Victoria, Australia) officially opens. ·
December 14 – Wofford and Furman play
the first intercollegiate football game, in the state of South Carolina. ·
December 23 – The Spanish football
team Recreativo de Huelva is
formed (the oldest club in Spain by the 21st century). Date unknown[edit]
·
An
early method of high-voltage
direct current (HVDC) transmission, as developed by the Swiss
engineer René Thury, [6] is
implemented commercially in Italy by the Acquedotto de
Ferrari-Galliera Company. This system transmits 630 kW at 14 kV
DC over a distance of 120 km (75 mi).[7][8] ·
The
first West Virginia tornado is recorded. ·
The Wisden
Cricketers' Almanack publishes its first Wisden
Cricketers of the Year (actually titled Six Great
Bowlers Of The Year). The cricketers chosen are George Lohmann, Bobby Peel, Johnny Briggs, Charles
Turner, John Ferris and Sammy Woods. ·
Frederick Abel invents cordite. ·
An influenza
pandemic originates in Russia. ·
Yellow fever interrupts the building of
the Panama Canal. ·
A
huge locust swarm crosses the Red Sea, and destroys crops in the Nile Valley. ·
The Capilano
Suspension Bridge (the longest suspension foot-bridge in the
world) is opened.
·
Brook trout is introduced into the
upper Firehole River, Yellowstone
National Park. ·
Schools
founded include: ·
Plattsburgh
Normal School (Plattsburgh, New
York) ·
Riverside Elementary School (Wichita, Kansas) ·
Battle Ground
Academy Franklin, Tennessee ·
The
Indian Religious Code is created, which forbids Native
Americans to practice their religions.[citation needed] ·
Samuel Marinus
Zwemer co-founds the American Arabian Mission[9] ·
Michelin, one of famous for tire brand
in the world, founded in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Region, France.[page needed] Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – Walter Baldwin, American actor (d. 1977) ·
January 12 – Mirza
Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community in Islam (d. 1965) ·
January 21 – Edith Bratt, English wife of J. R. R. Tolkien (d. 1971) ·
January 31 – Frank Foster,
English cricketer (d. 1958) February[edit]
·
February 2 – Jean de Lattre
de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (d. 1952) ·
February 3 – Risto Ryti, Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1956) ·
February 5 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer
(d. 1962) ·
February 7 – Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American contributor
to information theory (d. 1976) ·
February 11 – John H. Mills, Sr., African-American singer,
one of the Mills Brothers (d. 1967) ·
Edward Hanson, 28th Governor of
American Samoa (d. 1959) ·
February 16 – Hawthorne C. Gray,
record-setting American balloonist (d. 1927) ·
February 19 – Ernest Marsden, British physicist (d. 1970) ·
February 21 – Pieter
Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, South African politician (d. 1975) ·
Lady Olave Baden-Powell,
English founder of the Girl Guides (d. 1977) ·
R. G. Collingwood,
British philosopher, historian (d. 1943) ·
February 23 – Victor Fleming, American motion picture
director (d. 1949) ·
February 24 – Suzanne Bianchetti,
French actress (d. 1936) ·
February 25 – Homer S. Ferguson,
American politician (d. 1982) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Kanoko Okamoto, Japanese novelist, poet, and
Buddhism scholar (d. 1939) ·
Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher
(d. 1960) ·
March 4 ·
Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of
Hawai'i (d. 1965) ·
Pearl White, American silent film actress
(d. 1938) ·
March 6 – William D. Francis,
Australian botanist (d. 1959) ·
March 7 – Godfrey Chevalier,
American naval aviation pioneer (d. 1922) ·
March 15 – Hiroaki Abe, Japanese admiral (d. 1949) ·
March 16 – Reggie Walker, South African athlete
(d. 1951) ·
March 21 – Aleksandr Vertinsky,
Russian singer, actor (d. 1957) ·
March 24 – Albert Hill,
British athlete (d. 1969) ·
March 29 – Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951) ·
March 30 – Herman Bing, German-American character,
voice actor (d. 1947) ·
March 31 – Muriel Hazel Wright,
Oklahoma author, historian (d. 1975) April[edit]
·
April 4 ·
Hans-Jürgen von
Arnim, German general (d. 1962) ·
Angelo Iachino, Italian admiral (d. 1976) ·
April 7 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1957) ·
April 8 ·
Adrian Boult, English conductor (d. 1983) ·
Tomoshige Samejima,
Japanese admiral (d. 1966) ·
April 11 ·
Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961) ·
Aketo Nakamura, Japanese general (d. 1966) ·
April 14 ·
James Stephenson, British actor (d. 1941) ·
Arnold J. Toynbee,
British historian (d. 1975) ·
April 15 – Thomas Hart
Benton, American painter (d. 1975) ·
April 16 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, film
director (d. 1977) ·
April 18 – Harold Saxton Burr,
American scientist (d. 1973) ·
April 20 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born dictator of Nazi
Germany (d. 1945) ·
April 21 ·
Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1971) ·
Manuel Prado
Ugarteche, former President of Peru (d. 1967) ·
April 23 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942) ·
April 26 – Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951) ·
April 28 ·
Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (d. 1977) ·
António de
Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese dictator (d. 1970) ·
April 30 – Fritz Pfeffer, German-Dutch housemate
of Anne Frank (d. 1944) May[edit]
·
May 3 ·
Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981) ·
Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic
soccer player (d. 1972) ·
May 12 ·
Otto Frank, German publisher, businessman,
father of Anne Frank (d. 1980) ·
Ouyang Yuqian, Chinese playwright, director
and Peking opera performer (d. 1962) ·
May 18 – Thomas Midgley, Jr.,
American chemist, inventor (d. 1944) ·
May 21 – Bernard
Rawlings, British admiral (d. 1962) ·
May 25 ·
Günther Lütjens,
German admiral (d. 1941) ·
Igor Sikorsky, Russian developer of the
helicopter (d. 1972) ·
May 31 – Charles Gordon Bell,
British pilot (d. 1918) June[edit]
·
June 2 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (d. 1974) ·
June 4 ·
Henry F. Phillips,
American businessman, inventor (d. 1958) ·
Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist
(d. 1960) ·
June 10 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, film
director (d. 1973) ·
June 13 ·
Amadeo Bordiga, Italian Marxist theorist,
politician (d. 1970) ·
Adolphe Pégoud,
French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (d. 1915) ·
June 21 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972) ·
June 23 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966) ·
June 25 – John Morton-Finney,
American civil rights activist, lawyer and educator (d. 1998) ·
June 27 – Moroni Olsen, American actor (d. 1954) ·
June 28 – Frank Mayo,
American actor (d. 1963) July[edit]
·
July 3 – Richard Cramer, American actor (d. 1960) ·
July 5 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963) ·
July 6 – Takeo Itō, Japanese general (d. 1965) ·
July 7 – Shiro Kawase, Japanese admiral (d. 1946) ·
July 8 – Eugene Pallette, American actor (d. 1954) ·
July 13 – Emma Asson, Estonian politician (d. 1965) ·
July 14 – Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator (d. 1959) ·
July 15 – Marjorie Rambeau, American actress (d. 1970) ·
July 17 – Erle Stanley Gardner,
American author (d. 1970) ·
July 18 – Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician
(d. 1977) ·
July 19 – William Andrew Paton,
American accountancy scholar (d. 1991) ·
July 22 – Tony Jannus, American aviator, aircraft
designer (d. 1916) ·
July 24 – Murray Kinnell, English actor (d. 1954) August[edit] ·
August 5 – Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973) ·
August 6 – George Kenney, World War II United States
Army Air Forces general (d. 1977) ·
August 10 – Norman
Scott, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942) ·
August 11 – William
Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Scottish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst
and a central figure in the development of the object relations theory of
psychoanalysis (d. 1942) ·
August 12 – Zerna Sharp, American writer, educator (Dick
and Jane) (d. 1981) ·
August 21 – Sir Richard O'Connor,
British general in World War II (d. 1981) ·
Joseph Egger, Austrian character actor
(d. 1966) ·
Alfredo Obviar, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and Servant of
God (d. 1978) September[edit] ·
September 2 – George H. Plympton,
American screenwriter (d. 1972) ·
September 7 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer
(d. 1953) ·
September 8 – Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio
(d. 1953) ·
September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (d. 1963) ·
September 12 – Ugo Pasquale Mifsud,
3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942) ·
September 13 – Masao
Maruyama, Japanese general (d. 1957) ·
September 14 – María Capovilla,
Ecuadorian supercentenarian,
the last surviving person verified as born in 1889 (d. 2006) ·
September 18 – Doris Blackburn, Australian politician
(d. 1970) ·
September 20 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975) ·
September 25 – C. K. Scott-Moncrieff,
Scottish writer, translator (d. 1930) ·
September 26 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
(d. 1976) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Charles Hurlbut "Dutch" Sterrett,
American professional baseball player (d. 1965) ·
October 3 – Carl von Ossietzky,
German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938) ·
October 8 – C. E. Woolman, American airline executive
(d. 1966) ·
Kermit Roosevelt, American explorer, author
(d. 1943) ·
Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, art forger
(d.1947) ·
October 12 – Troy H. Middleton,
American general, educator (d. 1976) ·
Douglass Dumbrille,
Canadian-born actor (d. 1974) ·
Cedric Holland, British admiral (d. 1950) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Philip
Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982) ·
November 10 – Claude Rains, English stage, film actor
(d. 1967) ·
November 12 – DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher
(Reader's Digest)
(d. 1981) ·
November 14 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime
Minister of India (d. 1964) ·
November 15 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer and intellectual
(d. 1973) ·
November 16 – George S. Kaufman,
American playwright (d. 1961) ·
November 18 – Zoltán Tildy, President of Hungary (d. 1961) ·
Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander
(d. 1938) ·
Clifton Webb, American actor, dancer, and
singer (d. 1966) ·
November 20 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953) ·
Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league
administrator (d. 1964) ·
Alexander Patch, American general (d. 1945) ·
November 25 – George McMillin, American admiral,
last Naval Governor of
Guam (d. 1983) ·
Edgar Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1977) ·
Reuvein Margolies,
Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971) ·
Shōji Nishimura,
Japanese admiral (d. 1944) December[edit] ·
December 3 – Walton Walker, American general (d. 1950) ·
December 4 – Isabel Randolph, American actress (d. 1973) ·
December 7 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher,
playwright (d. 1973) ·
Hannes Kolehmainen,
Finnish runner (d. 1966) ·
Shigeyoshi Inoue, Japanese admiral (d. 1975) ·
December 11 – Walter Knott, American farmer, creator
of Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981) ·
December 23 – Daniel E. Barbey, American admiral (d. 1969) Date unknown[edit] ·
Dr. Rai Rajeshwar Bali,
Indian intellectual reformist (d. 1945) ·
Marthe Richard, French prostitute, spy, and politician (d. 1982) ·
Nezihe Muhiddin, Turkish women's rights
activist, suffragette, journalist, writer and political leader (d. 1958) ·
Jeanne de Salzmann,
Russian pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff (d. 1990) ·
Reşit
Süreyya Gürsey, Turkish intellectual, MD and physicist (d.1962) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 13 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823) ·
Rudolf,
Crown Prince of Austria (suicide) (b. 1858) ·
Baroness Mary
Vetsera (suicide) (b. 1871) ·
February 3 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848) ·
February 7 – Jonathan Joestar, Ripple Warrior (b. 1868) ·
February 13 – João
Maurício Vanderlei, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1815) ·
March 5 – Mary Louise Booth,
American editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar (b. 1831) ·
March 8 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor, engineer
(b. 1803) ·
March 9 – Emperor Yohannes IV of
Ethiopia (b. 1837) ·
March 13 – Felice Varesi, French-born Italian baritone
(b. 1813) ·
March 24 – The Leatherman,
possibly French-Canadian vagabond in the U.S. (b. c. 1839) ·
March 26 – Elizabeth Ayton
Godwin, English hymn writer and religious poet (b. 1817) ·
April 6 – Princess
Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1797) ·
April 7 – Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese nationalist leader (b. 1823) ·
April 15 – Father Damien, Belgian missionary to Hawaiians with leprosy (b. 1840) ·
April 21 – Sebastián Lerdo
de Tejada, 27th President of Mexico (b. 1823) ·
April 23 – Jules Barbey
d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808) ·
May 9 – William S. Harney,
U.S. Army general (b. 1800) ·
May 14 – Volney E. Howard, American politician
(b. 1809) ·
May 12 – Mikhail
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826) ·
May 28 – Madeleine
Vinton Dahlgren, American translator and anti-suffragist (b. 1825) ·
June 8 – Gerard Manley
Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844) ·
June 10 – Abraham Hochmuth, Hungarian rabbi (b. 1816) ·
June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850) ·
June 25 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1831) July–December[edit]
·
July 7 – Giovanni Bottesini,
Italian conductor, composer, and virtuoso double bass player (b. 1821) ·
July 10 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1820) ·
August 2 – Eduardo Gutiérrez,
Argentinian author (b. 1851) ·
August 19 – Auguste
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838) ·
September 16 – Bob Younger, American outlaw, youngest of
the Younger outlaws ·
September 23 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist (b. 1824) ·
September 24 – Charles Leroux, American balloonist,
parachutist (b. 1856) ·
October 10 – Adolf von Henselt,
German composer ·
October 11 – James Prescott Joule,
English physicist (b. 1818) ·
October 17 – Rodrigo Augusto
da Silva, Brazilian Senator, author of the Golden Law (b. 1833) ·
October 19 – King Luís I of Portugal (b. 1838) ·
October 25 – Émile Augier, French dramatist (b. 1820) ·
November 18 – William Allingham,
Irish author (b. 1824 or 1828) ·
November 24 – George H. Pendleton,
American politician (b. 1825) ·
December 6 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808) ·
December 12 – Robert Browning, English poet (b. 1812) ·
December 28 – Teresa
Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Empress
consort of Brazil (b. 1822) ·
Glele, King of Dahomey (suicide) ·
Priscilla Cooper
Tyler, de facto First
Lady of the United States (b. 1816) ·
December 30 – Sir Henry Yule, Scottish orientalist
(b. 1820) ·
December 31 – Ion Creangă, Romanian writer (b. 1837 or 1839) Date unknown[edit] ·
Warren Felt Evans,
American writer (b. 1817) ·
Little
Raven (Arapaho leader), Southern Arapaho Indian chief
(b. c. 1810) ·
Amalia Assur, Swedish dentist (b. 1803) References[edit] 1.
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Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London:
Century Ltd. pp. 315–316. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. 2.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin
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^ "The Great Dock Strike". PortCities
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^ Batty, David (18 May 2005). "Timeline: a history of child protection". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-09-15. 5.
^ "The Historical Don".
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^ "ACW's Insulator Info - Book Reference Info -
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^ R. M. Black The History of Electric Wires and
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Picture and Story". World Digital
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