John Wilkes Booth10th May, American
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Muir21st April, American, Scottish
Naturalist
Liliʻuokalani2nd September, American
Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Georges Bizet25th October, French
Composer
Henry Adams16th February, American
Historian
Ernst Mach18th February, Austrian
Physicist
Max Bruch6th January, German
Composer and Conductor
James J. Hill16th September, Canadian, American
Canadian-American railroad executive, Businessman
Henry Hobson Richardson29th September, American
Architect
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay27th June, Indian
John Davis Long27th October, American
Lawyer, Politician & Writer
Dalip Singh4th September, Indian, British
Sikh maharaja
General Tom Thumb4th January, American
Circus performer
Victoria Woodhull23rd September, American
Politician
Prince Philippe, Count of Paris24th August, French
French pretender
John Hay8th October, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Jules Brunet2nd January, French
Officer, Military personnel
Sir Henry Irving6th February, British
Actor
Joseph F. Smith13th November, American
Political leader
Ferdinand von Zeppelin8th July, German
Inventor
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani30th November, Afghan, Iranian
Activist
Keshab Chunder Sen19th November, Indian
Philosopher
Luís I of Portugal31st October, Portuguese
King
Yamagata Aritomo14th June, Japanese
Politician, Military personnel
Jan Matejko24th June, Polish
painter
Franz Brentano16th January, German
Philosopher, Psychologist, University teacher
Lawrence Sullivan Ross27th September, American
Politician
Margaret E. Knight14th February, American
Inventor, Entrepreneur
Okuma Shigenobu11th March, Japanese
Prime Minister
Léon Gambetta2nd April, French
Politician, Lawyer
Anton Mauve18th September
Painter, Watercolourist
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Manfred Mohr8th June, German
visual artist, algorithm artist
Henry Sidgwick31st May, British
Philosopher
Émile Loubet30th December, French
Prime Minister, Politician
William Henry Perkin12th March, British
Chemist
Valeriano Weyler17th September, Spanish
General
Octavia Hill3rd December, British
Social Reformer
Camille Jordan5th January, French
Mathematician, Engineer, Professor
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce10th May, Northern Irish
Historian
Edwin Abbott Abbott20th December, British
Theologian, Science fiction writer, Teacher,
Ernest Solvay16th April, Belgian
Chemist
John Morley24th December, British
Statesman
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam7th November, French
Writer
William Robinson15th July, Irish, British
Gardener
Jean-Paul Laurens28th March, French
Painter
Joseph Keppler1st February, Austrian, American
Cartoonist
Marià Fortuny11th June, Spanish
Painter
Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov22nd December, Russian
Chemist
August Šenoa14th November, Austrian, Croatian, Hungarian
Novelist
Rufus W. Peckham8th November, American
Jurist
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet20th July, British
Statesman
Edward W. Morley29th January, American
Scientist
Paolo Boselli8th June, Italian
Politician
Emil Rathenau11th December, German
Entrepreneur
William Edward Hartpole Lecky26th March, Irish
Historian
John Willis Menard3rd April, American
Poet
Jules Dalou31st December, French
Sculptor
Alice Cunningham Fletcher15th March, American
Anthropologist
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu26th February, Romanian
Writer
Yasuda Zenjirō9th October, Japanese
Entrepreneur
William Keith18th November, American, Scottish
Painter
Ludwig Gumplowicz9th March, Polish
Sociologist
Tobias Michael Carel Asser28th April, Dutch
Lawyer
John Shaw Billings12th April, American
Librarian
Lawrence Barrett4th April, American
Actor
Clemens Alexander Winkler26th December, German
Chemist
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran18th April, French
Chemist
Cleveland Abbe3rd December, American
Meteorologist
Augustin Daly20th July, American
Playwright
Jules Méline20th May, French
Statesman
Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie19th November, Scottish
Businessman
George William Hill3rd March, American
Astronomer
Adam Asnyk11th September, Polish
Poet
Gotō Shōjirō13th April, Japanese
Samurai
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster22nd February, American
Poet
Karl Weyprecht8th September, Austrian, German, Hungarian
Explorer
Alpheus Hyatt5th April, American
Zoologist
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet13th December, French
Botanist
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky25th November, Ukrainian
Writer
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein17th February, Russian
Chemist
Gustave Flourens4th August, French
Writer
Laura de Force Gordon17th August, American
Lawyer
Frank Stephen Baldwin10th April, American
Inventor
Martha McClellan Brown16th April, American
Educator
John Thomas14th April, Welsh
Photographer
George James Symons6th August, British
Meteorologist
Arthur von Auwers12th September, German
Astronomer
Ferdinand Zirkel20th May, German
Geologist
Sarah Ann Dickey25th April, American
Educator
Axel Ludvig Broström21st May, Swedish
Ship Owner
Charlotte Emerson Brown21st April, American
Women's Activist
Alfred Elis Törnebohm16th October, Swedish
Geologist
Otto Devrient3rd October, German
Actor
Akhilléfs Paráskhos6th March, Greek
Greek poet