Notable Deaths - 1898
1898 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70 |
Jan 4 |
Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73 |
Jan 11 |
Gaetano Capocci, composer, dies at 86 |
Jan 14 |
Lewis Carroll, writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65 |
Jan 14 |
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland |
Jan 16 |
Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802) |
Jan 23 |
W A Remy, composer, dies at 66 |
Jan 28 |
Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74 |
Feb 16 |
Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843) |
Feb 18 |
Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 |
Feb 25 |
Francis Frith, Gates of Heaven |
Mar 1 |
George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825) |
Mar 11 |
William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819) |
Mar 12 |
Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818) |
Mar 12 |
Sakari Topelius, Wild Strawberries |
Mar 13 |
Julius Schulhoff, The Heiress |
Mar 15 |
Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813) |
Mar 16 |
Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23 |
Mar 17 |
Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washington |
Mar 18 |
Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826) |
Mar 19 |
Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26 |
Mar 19 |
Cruz e Sousa, The Balcony of the Nightingales |
Mar 27 |
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan dies at 80 |
Mar 31 |
Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies |
Apr 12 |
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820) |
Apr 15 |
Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader |
Apr 18 |
Gustave Moureau, painter, dies |
Apr 21 |
Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 |
May 1 |
Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81 |
May 10 |
George Müller, Heaven and Earth |
May 19 |
William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809) |
May 22 |
Edward Bellamy, American author/socialist, dies of tuberculosis at 48 |
Jun 3 |
Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77 |
Jun 3 |
Samuel Plimsoll, English MP (Folkestone), dies at 74 |
Jun 5 |
Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker |
Jun 6 |
Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62 |
Jun 10 |
Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language. |
Jun 12 |
S. Fillmore Bennett, Walk the Line |
Jun 13 |
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840) |
Jun 17 |
Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833) |
Jun 18 |
George Ulyett, cricketer (949 runs 50 wkts for England 25 Tests), dies |
Jun 22 |
Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist, dies at 66 |
Jun 25 |
Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist, dies at 70 |
Jul 7 |
Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies |
Jul 8 |
Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860) |
Jul 11 |
Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies |
Jul 12 |
Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies |
Jul 15 |
Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825) |
Jul 18 |
Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62 |
Jul 20 |
Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86 |
Jul 30 |
Otto Von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83 |
Jul 30 |
Otto von Bismarck, Film socialisme |
Aug 8 |
Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) |
Aug 9 |
Gardner Quincy Colton, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, dies at 84 |
Aug 17 |
Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56 |
Aug 17 |
Carl Zeller, Der Vogelhändler |
Aug 21 |
Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 |
Aug 23 |
Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82 |
Aug 27 |
John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law) dies with three of his children in a mountaineering accident in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland at 49 |
Sep 2 |
Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire |
Sep 2 |
Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807) |
Sep 5 |
Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies |
Sep 9 |
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842) |
Sep 9 |
Stéphane Mallarmé, Toute révolution est un coup de dés |
Sep 10 |
Elisabeth AE, empress of Austria/wife of Franz Joseph I, dies at 60 |
Sep 10 |
Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Wer ist der größte Deutsche? |
Sep 11 |
Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer, dies at 74 |
Sep 14 |
Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies |
Sep 14 |
William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857) |
Sep 16 |
Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827) |
Sep 20 |
Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78 |
Sep 20 |
Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest |
Sep 24 |
Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70 |
Sep 25 |
Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, French Anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs, dies at 77 |
Sep 25 |
Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German Mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, dies at 73 |
Oct 12 |
Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816) |
Oct 16 |
Louis Gallet, Thaïs |
Oct 19 |
Harold Frederic, Copperhead |
Oct 24 |
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824) |
Oct 30 |
Yakov Petrovich Polonsky Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78 |
Nov 2 |
George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826) |
Nov 4 |
Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62 |
Nov 20 |
John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies |
Nov 28 |
C F Meyer, writer, dies at 73 |
Nov 28 |
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gustav Adolfs Page |
Dec 13 |
George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72 |
Dec 16 |
Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832) |
Dec 24 |
Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 |
Dec 24 |
Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828) |
Dec 29 |
Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 |
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