William James11th January, American
Philosopher, Psychologist
Peter Kropotkin9th December, Russian
Philosopher & Activist
Ambrose Bierce24th June, American
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Alfred Marshall26th July, British
Economist
Mary MacKillop15th January, Australian
Nun
Mahadev Govind Ranade18th January, Indian
Judge, Social Reformer
Arthur Sullivan13th May, British
Composer
Stéphane Mallarmé18th March, French
Poet
Adna Chaffee14th April, American
Army General
Lord Rayleigh12th November, British
Discoverer of Argon
Allen Allensworth7th April, American
Baptist Minister, Educator, Army Officer
Abdul Hamid II21st September, Turkish
Emperor
Okita Sōji30th November, Japanese
Military leader
Alferd Packer21st January, American
Criminal, Serial killer
David Herold16th June, American
Politician
Karl May25th February, German
Writer, Novelist, Children's writer, Screenwriter
Jules Massenet12th May, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Giovanni Giolitti27th October, Italian
Politician
Paul Lafargue15th June, French
journalist, politician, economist, essayist
Sidney Lanier3rd February, American
Musician
Osman Hamdi Bey30th December, Turkish
Painter
Josef Breuer15th January, Austrian
Physician, Psychologist, University teacher,
Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin26th October, Russian
Artist
Vasily Vereshchagin14th October, Russian
painter, writer
Osborne Reynolds23rd August, British
Physicist, Civil engineer, Engineer
Daniel Paul Schreber25th July, German
Judge, Writer, Autobiographer
Charlotte Mason1st January, British
Philanthropist
Clarence King6th January, American
Clarence Rivers King
Giovanni Boldini31st December
Painter
Sophus Lie17th December, Norwegian
Mathematician
Camille Flammarion26th February, French
astronomer, writer, balloonist, science fiction
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James Dewar20th September, British, Scottish
Chemist
Alfred de Rothschild20th July, British
Banker, Diplomat
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann23rd February, German
Philosopher
Georg, Ritter von Schönerer17th July, Austrian
Politician
Carl von Linde11th June, German
Scientist
Maria Konopnicka23rd May, Polish
Writer, poet
Ellen Richards30th November
Ellen Swallow Richards3rd December, American
Chemist, University teacher, Economist
Rābiḥ az-Zubayr30th November, Sudanese
Military leader
Georg Brandes4th February, Danish
Critic
Arrigo Boito24th February, Italian
poet
Hermann Cohen4th July, German
Philosopher
William B. Cushing4th November, American
Naval officer
Charles Alfred Pillsbury3rd December, American
Industrialist
John Fiske30th March, American
Philosopher
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson28th October, American
Orator
Charles Cros1st October, French
Poet
Henry Hyndman7th March, British
Writer
Lewanika30th November, Zambian
King
Jean-Gaston Darboux14th August, French
Mathematician
Antero Tarquínio de Quental18th April, Portuguese
Poet
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin31st August, American
American publisher
Alexandre Ribot7th February, French
Politician
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi31st August, British, American
Physician
Pîhtokahanapiwiyin30th November, Canadian
Chief
José Maria de Heredia22nd November, Cuban, French
Poet
François Coppée26th January, French
Poet
Elliott Coues9th September, American
Historian
François Hennebique26th April, French
Engineer
Károly Eötvös11th March, Hungarian
Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician
Joseph Victor Widmann20th February, Swiss
Journalist
Emil Christian Hansen8th May, Danish
Mycologist
Alfred-Amédée Dodds6th February, French
Military commander
Antonio Fogazzaro25th March, Italian
Novelist
Rikard Nordraak12th June, Norwegian
Composer
Maurice Rouvier17th April, French
Politician
George Trumbull Ladd19th January, American
Philosopher
Nikolay Konstantinovich Mikhaylovsky27th November, Russian
Literary critic
Alessandro Fortis16th September, Italian
Politician
Augusta Emma Stetson30th November, American
Religious leader
Felice Cavallotti6th November, Italian
Politician
Charles Lapworth20th September, British
Geologist
Steele MacKaye6th June, American
Playwright
Gustaf Retzius17th October, Swedish
Physician
Marie-Charles David de Mayrena31st January, French
Adventurer
Alexander Kohut22nd April, Hungarian
Rabbi
Clara Louise Kellogg9th July, American
Singer
Camilla Urso13th June, French, American
Violinist
Christian Lundeberg14th July, Swedish
Politician
Charles Benjamin Dudley14th July, American
Chemist
Helen Blackburn25th May, Irish
Editor
Berthold Delbrück26th July, German
Linguist
Bronson Howard7th October, American
Dramatist
Gustav Ratzenhofer4th July, Austrian
Officer
Samuel David Ferguson1st January, American
Bishop
William John Courthope17th July, British
Writer
Annie Louise Cary22nd October, American
Singer
Charles Follen Adams21st April, American
Poet