Year '1898' ('
MDCCCXCVIII') was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1898
1898 world map
January - March
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January 1 -
New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs:
Manhattan,
Brooklyn,
Queens,
The Bronx, and
Staten Island.
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January 13 -
Emile Zola's ''
J'Accuse'' exposes the
Dreyfus affair.
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February 7 -
Emile Zola is brought to trial for
libel for publishing ''
J'Accuse''
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February 12 - Henry Lindfield, dies in
England, becoming the world's first fatality from an automobile accident.
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February 15 -
Spanish-American War: The
USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in
Havana harbor,
Cuba for then unknown reasons killing 266 men. This event helped lead the
United States to declare war on
Spain.
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February 23 -
Emile Zola is imprisoned in
France after writing "
J'accuse" which was a letter accusing the French government of
anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing
Alfred Dreyfus in jail.
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March 24 - Robert Allison of
Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built
automobile when he buys a
Winton automobile that was advertised in ''
Scientific American''.
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March 26 - The
Sabi Game Reserve in
South Africa, the first officially designated
game reserve.
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March 27 -
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan passes away peacefully in
Aligarh,
Awadh.
April - June
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April 22 -
Spanish-American War: The
United States Navy begins a
blockade of
Cuban ports and the
USS ''Nashville'' captures a
Spanish merchant ship.
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April 25 - Spanish-American War: The
United States declares war on
Spain; the
U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since
April 21 (later backdating one more day to
April 20).
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May 2 - Association of thousands of
Chinese scholars and
Beijing citizens in front of the
Capital Control Yuan asking for reform.
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May 7/
9 - General
Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris kills hundreds of demonstrators in
Milan,
Italy shooting on a rally;
King of Italy Umberto I will be killed two years after to avenge this shooting.
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May 8 - The first games of the
Italian Football League are played.
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May 28 -
Secondo Pia takes the first
photographs of the
Shroud of Turin and discovers that the image on Shroud itself appears to be a photographic
negative.
This is a depiction of the original flag of the Philippines as it was conceived by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. The blue was of a lighter shade than the currently mandated royal blue, the sun had many more rays although it still had eight points, and it has a mythical face.
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June 1 - The
Trans-Mississippi Exposition World's Fair opens in
Omaha, Nebraska.
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June 12 -
Philippine Declaration of Independence: General
Emilio Aguinaldo declares the
Philippines' independence from
Spain.
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June 13 -
Yukon Territory is formed, with
Dawson chosen as its capital.
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June 17 - The
Navy Hospital Corps is established.
July - September
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July 3 -
Joshua Slocum completes a 3-year solo
circumnavigation
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July 7 - The
United States annexes the
Hawaiian Islands.
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July 17 -
Spanish-American War:
Battle of Santiago Bay - Troops under
United States General
William R. Shafter take the city of
Santiago de Cuba from the
Spanish.
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July 25 - Spanish-American War: The
United States invasion of
Puerto Rico begins with a landing at
Guánica Bay.
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August 12-
Spanish-American War: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
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August 28- Caleb Bradham names his soft drink
Pepsi-Cola.
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September 2 -
Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops led by
Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by
Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the
Sudan.
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September 10 -
Luigi Lucheni assassinates Empress
Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary.
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September 21 -
Empress Dowager Cixi of
China engineered a
coup d'etat, and it marks the end of
Hundred Days' Reform:
Guangxu Emperor was arrested.
October - December
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October 1 - The
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name ''k.u.k. Exportakademie''.
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October 3 - The Battle of Sugar Point in Northern Minnesota. Between Ojibwe & U.S. government.
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October 6 - First meeting and founding of
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, then called the Sinfonia Club, at the
New England Conservatory in
Boston.
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October 12 - Establishment of the first town council in
Mateur.
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November 26 - A two-day blizzard known as the '
Portland Gale' piles snow in
Boston, MA and severely impacts the Massachusetts
fishing industry and several coastal
New England towns.
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December 9th - The first of the two
Tsavo maneaters was shot by
John Henry Patterson, the second was killed three weeks later, after 135 workers had been killed.
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December 10 - The
Treaty of Paris ending the
Spanish-American War is signed in
Paris.
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December 26 -
Marie and
Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call ''
radium''.
Undated
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Fashoda incident -- diplomatic dispute between
France and the
United Kingdom.
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John Henry Patterson kills the man-eating
lions of
Tsavo which were delaying the building of the
Uganda Railway as described in the book ''
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo''.
★ Exploits of
Louis de Rougemont begin to appear in the ''
Wide World Magazine''.
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North Petherton becomes the first town in
England to install
Acetylene lighting.
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John Jacob Abel isolates
epinephrine (
adrenaline).
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William Ramsay and
Morris Travers discover
neon.
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Joseph Sears School was founded in
Kenilworth, Illinois.
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Wakita was founded in the
Cherokee Strip,
Oklahoma.
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Fork Union Military Academy is founded.
Births
January - June
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January 16 -
Margaret Booth, American film editor (d.
2002)
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January 21 -
Ahmad Shah Qajar,
Shah of Persia (d.
1930)
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January 22 -
Elazar Shach,
Haredi Rabbi (d.
2001)
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January 23
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★
Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d.
1948)
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d.
1948)
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January 26 -
Katarzyna Kobro, Russian sculptor (d.
1951)
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February 1 -
Leila Denmark, US-American pediatrician
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February 3 -
Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d.
1976)
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February 10 -
Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d.
1956)
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February 11 -
Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (d.
1964)
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February 14 -
Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d.
1974)
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February 15 -
Allen Woodring, American runner (d.
1982)
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February 18
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Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer (d.
1988)
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Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d.
1980)
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February 24 -
Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (d.
1983)
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February 28 -
Hugh O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (d.
1963)
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March 4 -
Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d.
1940)
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March 11 -
Dorothy Gish, American actress (d.
1968)
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March 14 -
Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d.
1985)
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March 31 -
Hermann van Pels, German-Dutch father of
Peter van Pels, housemate of
Anne Frank (d.
1944)
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April 1 -
William James Sidis, American mathematician (d.
1944)
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April 3 -
George Jessel, American comedian (d.
1981)
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April 4 -
Agnes Ayres, American actress (d.
1940)
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April 6 -
Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter (d.
1920)
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April 26
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Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1984)
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John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (d.
1972)
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May 3 -
Golda Meir,
Prime Minister of Israel (d.
1978)
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May 5 -
Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer,
George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (d.
1983)
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May 13 -
Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, King of Malaysia (d.
1960)
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May 15 -
Arletty, French model and actress (d.
1992)
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May 16 -
Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco painter (d.
1980)
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May 17 -
Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d.
1992)
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May 21 -
Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur and art collector (d.
1990)
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May 23 -
Scott O'Dell, American author (d.
1989)
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May 31 - Dr.
Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d.
1993)
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June 4 -
Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (d.
1929)
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June 5 -
Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (d.
1936)
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June 6 -
Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d.
2001)
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June 17
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M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d.
1972)
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★ Henry
Harry Patch , Last
Tommy Atkins
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June 22 -
Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d.
1970)
July - September
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July 2 -
Gen Paul, French artist (d.
1975)
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July 3 -
Donald Healey, English motor engineer and race car driver (d.
1988)
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July 6 -
Hanns Eisler, German composer (d.
1962)
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July 17
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Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d.
1991)
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George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d.
1985)
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July 22
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Stephen Vincent Benét, American writer (d.
1943)
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Alexander Calder, American artist (d.
1976)
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July 28 -
Lawrence Gray, American actor (d.1970)
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July 29 -
Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1968)
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July 30 -
Henry Moore, English sculptor (d.
1986)
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August 15 -
Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d.
1966)
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August 26 -
Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d.
1979)
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August 29 -
Preston Sturges, American director and writer (d.
1959)
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September 7 -
Justin Burnette leader of Scottish Rebellion(d.
1927)
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September 13 -
Roger Désormière, French conductor (d.
1963)
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September 22 -
Katherine Alexander, American actress (d.
1981)
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September 24 -
Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1968)
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September 25 -
Robert Brackman, American artist (d.
1980)
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September 26 -
George Gershwin, American composer (d.
1937)
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September 29 -
Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d.
1976)
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September 30
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Renée Adorée, French actress (d.
1933)
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★
Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d.
1977)
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October 10
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★
Lilly Daché, French milliner (d.
1989)
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Marie Pierre Koenig, French general and politician (d.
1970)
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October 15 -
Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d.
1959)
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October 18 -
Lotte Lenya, Austrian actress and singer (d.
1981)
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November 8 -
Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d.
1937)
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November 12 -
Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d.
1999)
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November 17 -
Maurice Journeau, composer (d.
1999)
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November 18 -
Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d.
1989)
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November 19 -
Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d.
2003)
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November 21 -
René Magritte, Belgian artist (d.
1967)
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November 26 -
Karl Ziegler, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1973)
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November 29 -
C. S. Lewis, British author (d.
1963)
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November 30 -
Firpo Marberry, baseball pitcher (d.
1976)
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December 2 -
Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I pilot (d.
1918)
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December 6 -
Alfred Eisenstaedt, American photojournalist (d.
1995)
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December 19 -
Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author and translator (d.
1958)
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December 20 -
Irene Dunne, American actress (d.
1990)
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December 24 -
Baby Dodds, (d.
1959)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Mariya Klenova, Russian marine geologist (d.
1976)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January-June
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January 14 -
Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b.
1832)
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January 16 -
Charles Pelham Villiers longest-serving MP in the
British House of Commons (b.
1802)
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January 18 -
Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b.
1811)
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March 1 -
George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author (b.
1825)
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March 15 -
Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor (b.
1813)
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March 16 -
Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b.
1872)
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March 18 -
Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist (b.
1826)
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March 27 -
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder (b.
1817)
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April 15 -
Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
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April 18 -
Gustave Moreau, French painter (b.
1826)
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May 19 -
William Ewart Gladstone,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom {b.
1809)
July-December
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July 1 -
Siegfried Marcus, Austrian automobile pioneer (b.
1831)
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July 12 -
Louis-François Richer Laflèche, Roman Catholic Bishop of
Trois-Rivières, Native American missionary (b.
1818)
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July 30 -
Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b.
1815)
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August 8 -
Eugène Boudin, French painter (b.
1824)
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September 2 -
Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1807)
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September 5 -
Sarah Emma Edmundson, Canadian nurse and spy (b.
1841)
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September 9 -
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b.
1842)
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September 16 -
Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b.
1827)
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September 20 -
Theodor Fontane, German writer (b.
1819)
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September 28 -
Tan Sitong, Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b.
1865)
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October 24 -
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b.
1824)
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November 2 -
George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (b.
1826)
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December 24 -
Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (b.
1828)
: ''See also .''
External links
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