Deaths 1900

john ruskin



gottlieb daimler



mary kingsley



january 5 – william a. hammond, american military physician , neurologist, eleventh surgeon general of united states army (1862–1864) (b. 1828)
january 20 – john ruskin, english writer, artist, , social critic (b. 1819)
january 31 – john douglas, 9th marquess of queensberry, scottish nobleman , boxer (b. 1844)
february 18 – clinton l. merriam, american politician (b. 1824)
february 23 – william butterfield, british architect (b. 1814)
march 6

gottlieb daimler, german inventor , automotive pioneer (b. 1834)
carl bechstein, german piano maker (b. 1826)


march 10 – johan peter emilius hartmann, danish composer (b. 1805)
march 18 – hjalmar kiærskou, danish botanist (b. 1835)
march 28 – piet joubert, boer politician , military commander (b. 1834)
march 29 – cyrus k. holliday, cofounder of topeka, kansas, , first president of atchison, topeka , santa fe railway (b. 1826)
april 2 – gustaf Åkerhielm, 6th prime minister of sweden (b. 1833)
april 5

joseph louis françois bertrand, french mathematician (b. 1822)
osman nuri pasha, ottoman military leader (b. 1832)


april 12 – james richard cocke, american physician, homeopath, , pioneer hypnotherapist (b. 1863)
april 17 – george curry, wild west robber (wild bunch) (shot) (b. 1871)
april 19 – james dawson, australian activist (b. 1806)
april 22 – amédée-françois lamy, french soldier (b. 1858) (killed in battle)
april 24 – george campbell, 8th duke of argyll, british politician (b.1823)
april 30 – casey jones, american railway engineer (b. 1863)
may 1 – mihály munkácsy, hungarian painter (b. 1844)
may 9 – carit etlar (carl brosbøll), danish author (b. 1816)
may 18 – félix ravaisson-mollien, french philosopher (b. 1813)
june 2

samori ture, west african empire-builder (b. 1830)
clarence cook, american critic , writer (b. 1828)


june 3 – mary kingsley, english explorer , writer (b. 1862)
june 5 – stephen crane, american author (b. 1871)
june 11 – belle boyd, american confederate spy , actress (b. 1843)
june 19 – princess josephine of baden (b. 1813)

july–december

saint gregorio grassi



king umberto i



kuroda kiyotaka



friedrich nietzsche



sir arthur sullivan



oscar wilde



july 5 – henry barnard, american educationalist (b. 1811)
july 8 – henry d. cogswell, american philanthropist (b. 1820)
july 9 – gregorio grassi, italian franciscan friar , roman catholic martyr , saint (b. 1833)
july 26 – nicolae crețulescu, 2-time prime minister of romania (b. 1812)
july 29 – umberto i, king of italy (assassinated) (b. 1844)
july 31 – alfred, duke of saxe-coburg , gotha, second son of queen victoria (b. 1844)
august 1 – rafael molina sanchez, spanish bullfighter (b. 1841)
august 4 – Étienne lenoir, belgian engineer (b. 1822)
august 7 – wilhelm liebknecht, german social democratic politician (b. 1826)
august 8 – józsef szlávy, 6th prime minister of hungary (b. 1818)
august 10 – charles russell, baron russell of killowen, lord chief justice of england (b. 1832)
august 12 – wilhelm steinitz, austrian-born chess player, first unsesputed world champion (b. 1836)
august 13 – vladimir solovyov, russian philosopher , poet (b. 1853)
august 16 – josé maria de eça de queirós, portuguese writer (b. 1845)
august 23 – kuroda kiyotaka, japanese politician, 2nd prime minister of japan (b. 1840)
august 25 – friedrich nietzsche, german philosopher , writer (b. 1844)
september 5 – arthur sewall, american politician , industrialist (b. 1835)
september 23

william marsh rice, american philanthropist , university founder (b. 1816)
arsenio martínez-campos y antón, spanish revolutionary (b. 1831)


september 27 – albert bernhard frank, german botanist , mycologist (b. 1839)
september 29 – samuel fenton cary, american politician (b. 1814)
october 15 – zdeněk fibich, czech composer (b. 1850)
october 20 – charles dudley warner, american writer (b. 1829)
october 22 – john sherman, american politician (b.1823)
october 28 – max müller, german philologist , orientalist (b. 1823)
november 22 – sir arthur sullivan. english composer (b. 1842)
november 30 – oscar wilde, irish writer (b. 1854)
december 4 – aquileo parra, 11th president of colombia (b. 1825)
december 14 – paddy ryan, irish american boxer, former world s heavyweight champion (b. 1851)
december 21 – leonhard graf von blumenthal, prussian field marshal (b. 1810)
december 31 – josé plácido caamaño, 12th president of ecuador (b. 1837)
undated – lin hei er, chinese rebel




^ mary henrietta kingsley | english traveler . encyclopedia britannica. retrieved 2017-10-22.