1896

1896(MDCCCXCVI) was aleap year starting on Wednesdayof theGregorian calendarand aleap year starting on Mondayof theJulian calendar,the 1896th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 896th year of the2nd millennium,the 96th year of the19th century,and the 7th year of the1890sdecade. As of the start of 1896, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

1896 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	1896 MDCCCXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2649
Armenian calendar	1345 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6646
Baháʼí calendar	52–53
Balinese saka calendar	1817–1818
Bengali calendar	1303
Berber calendar	2846
British Regnal year	59Vict. 1– 60Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2440
Burmese calendar	1258
Byzantine calendar	7404–7405
Chinese calendar	Ất chưaNăm (WoodGoat) 4593 or 4386 — to — Bính thân năm (FireMonkey) 4594 or 4387
Coptic calendar	1612–1613
Discordian calendar	3062
Ethiopian calendar	1888–1889
Hebrew calendar	5656–5657
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	1952–1953
-Shaka Samvat	1817–1818
-Kali Yuga	4996–4997
Holocene calendar	11896
Igbo calendar	896–897
Iranian calendar	1274–1275
Islamic calendar	1313–1314
Japanese calendar	Meiji29 ( minh trị ２９ năm )
Javanese calendar	1825–1826
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4229
Minguo calendar	16 beforeROC Dân trước 16 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	428
Thai solar calendar	2438–2439
Tibetan calendar	Âm mộc dương năm (female Wood-Goat) 2022 or 1641 or 869 — to — Dương hỏa năm con khỉ (male Fire-Monkey) 2023 or 1642 or 870

Events

January–March

January 5:Röntgenrays.

January 5:RöntgenX-ray.

• January 2– TheJameson Raidcomes to an end as Jameson surrenders to theBoers.
• January 4–Utahis admitted as the 45thU.S. state.
• January 5– An Austrian newspaper reportsWilhelm Röntgen's discovery, last November, of a type ofelectromagnetic radiation,later known asX-rays.
• January 6–Cecil Rhodesis forced to resign as Prime Minister of theCape of Good Hopefor his involvement in theJameson Raid.
• January 7– American culinary expertFannie Farmerpublishes her first cookbook.
• January 12– H. L. Smith takes the firstX-rayphotograph.
• January 16–Devonport High School for Boysis founded inPlymouth(England).
• January 17–Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War:Britishredcoatsenter theAshanticapital,Kumasi,and Asantehene AgyemanPrempeh Iis deposed.
• January 28– Walter Arnold, ofEast Peckham,Kent,England, is fined 1 shilling forspeedingat 8 mph (13 km/h), exceeding the contemporary urbanspeed limitof 2 mph (3.2 km/h), the first speeding fine.
• February 1–Puccini's operaLa bohèmepremieres inTurin,Italy.
• February 11–Oscar Wilde's playSalomé(1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.
• February 19–Braamfontein Explosion:A train carrying 56 tons ofdynamiteexplodes atBraamfontein,Johannesburg,killing more than 78 people.
• March 1–Battle of Adwa:Ethiopiadefends its independence from Italy, ending theFirst Italo-Ethiopian War.
• March 3– Publication begins forDer Eigene,the world's first magazine with an orientation to malehomosexuality,byAdolf Brandin Berlin.
• March 9– Responding to national outrage at the defeat at Adwa, Italian Prime MinisterFrancesco Crispiresigns.
• March 29– TheRoyal College of St Patrick, Maynoothin Ireland is granted the status ofpontifical universityby charter of theHoly See.

April–June

• April–Svante Arrheniusfirst publishes the "greenhouse law", becoming the first person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other combustion processes are large enough to causeglobal warmingthrough thegreenhouse effect.
• April 4– The first knownwomen's basketballgame between two colleges is played betweenStanfordandCalifornia.

A picture of the restoredPanathenaic Stadium,the site of the1896 Summer Olympics

• April 6– The opening ceremonies of the1896 Summer Olympics,the first modernOlympic Games,are held inAthens,Greece.
• April 9– The National Farm School (laterDelaware Valley College) is chartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
• April 23–Blackpool Pleasure Beach,a popular English theme park ( "Britain's Biggest Tourist Attraction" ), is founded by Alderman William George Bean.
• May 8–Cricket:AgainstWarwickshire,Yorkshiresets a still-standingCounty Championshiprecord in England, when they accumulate an innings total of 887.
• May 13– The Franchise Bill is passed by theColony of Natal's Legislative Assembly, disfranchising natives of other countries.
• May 18–Plessy v. Ferguson:TheU.S. Supreme Courtintroduces theseparate but equaldoctrine, and upholdsracial segregation.
• May 26
  • Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovnain theDormition Cathedral, Moscow;this will be the lastcoronation of the Russian monarch.TheQing dynastyis represented at the coronation by Chinese officialLi Hongzhangwho through September goes on to visit Germany, Britain, Canada and the United States.
  • Eleven years after its foundation, a group of 12 purely industrial stocks are chosen to form theDow Jones Industrial Average.The index is composed entirely of industrial shares for the first time.
• May 27–St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado:The costliest and third deadliest tornado in U.S. history levels a mile wide swath of downtownSt. Louis, Missouri,incurring US$2.9 billion (1997 USD) in normalized damages, killing more than 255 and injuring over 1,000 people.
• June 4– TheFord Quadricycle,the first vehicle developed byHenry Ford,is completed, eventually leading Ford to build the empire that "put America on wheels".
• June 7–Mahdist War:Battle of Ferkeh– British and Egyptian troops are victorious.
• June 12–J. T. Hearnesets a record for the earliest date of taking 100 wickets in cricket, in England (it is equalled byCharlie Parkerin1931).
• June 15– The 8.5M_wSanriku earthquakeandtsunamikills 22,000 in northeastern Japan.
• June 18– TheNew York TelephoneCompany is formed, succeeding the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, to control telephone service within New York City.
• June 23– Liberal leaderWilfrid LaurierdefeatsCharles TupperduringCanadian federal electionsfor the8th Canadian Parliament,to become the first FrancophonePrime Minister of Canada.
• June 28–Twin Shaft disaster:An explosion in the NewtonCoalCompany's Twin Shaft Mine inPittston, Pennsylvaniaresults in a massive cave-in that kills 58miners.

July–September

• July 9–William Jennings Bryandelivers hisCross of Gold speechat theDemocratic National Convention,which nominates him for president of the United States.
• July 11–Wilfrid Laurierbecomes Canada's seventhprime minister,and the first French-speaker to hold that office.
• July 21– In Washington, D.C., in response to a "call to confer" issued byJosephine St. Pierre Ruffinto all women of color, theNational Association of Colored Women's Clubsis organized.
• July 26– TheInternational Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congressopens in London.
• July 27– Acausewayis opened between the islands ofSaaremaaandMuhuinEstonia.
• July 30–Atlantic City rail crash:Shortly after 6:30 pm, at a crossing just west of Atlantic City, New Jersey, two trains collide, crushing five loaded passenger coaches, killing 50 and seriously injuring approximately sixty.
• August– The1896 Eastern North America heat wavekills 1,500 people from Chicago, Illinois to Boston, Massachusetts.
• August 1– The Park Seung-jik shop, predecessor ofSouth KoreanconglomerateDoosan Group,is founded inJoseon(the kingdom of Korea).
• August 14– TheUganda RailwayAct, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa fromMombasatoLake Victoria.
• August 16–Skookum Jim Mason,George Carmackand Dawson Charlie discovergoldin theKlondike, Yukon.
• August 17–Bridget Driscollis run over by aBenzcar on the grounds ofThe Crystal Palace,London, the world's first motoring fatality.
• August 23– TheCry of Pugad Lawininitiates thePhilippine Revolution.
• August 27
  • The shortest war in recorded history, theAnglo-Zanzibar War,starts at 9:00 in the morning, and lasts for 45 minutes of shelling.
  • Britain establishes a Protectorate over theAshanti peopleconcluding theFourth Anglo-Ashanti War.
• September 2–Clarkson Universityholds its first classes, with 17 students attending inPotsdam, New York.
• September 15– TheCrash at Crushtrain wreck stunt is held in Texas.
• September 22–Queen Victoriasurpasses her grandfatherKing George IIIas the longest-reigning monarch in British history up to this time.
• September 28–PathéFrères, a French film company and one of the oldest film companies, is founded by the brothersCharles Pathé,Théophile Pathé, Émile Pathé and Jacques Pathé.
• September 30
  • Italy and France sign a treaty whereby Italy virtually recognizesTunisiaas a French dependency.
  • Khodynka Tragedy:acrowd crushatKhodynka Fieldin Moscow kills at least 1,200 of those marking the coronation year of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.

October–December

• October 1–Gottlieb Daimlerbuilds the first gasoline truck.
• October 2– TheVictorian Football Leagueis established asAustralian rules footballin Australia (a predecessor of theAustralian Football League).
• October 30– The Augusta High School cornerstone is laid inAugusta, Kentucky,marking the end of theAugusta Methodist College.
• November 3–1896 United States presidential election:RepublicanWilliam McKinleydefeatsWilliam Jennings Bryan.The event is viewed by some as apolitical realignmentfor theUnited States Republican Party.
• November 27–Richard Strauss's orchestral tone poemAlso sprach Zarathustrais first performed, inFrankfurt,conducted by the composer.
• November 30
  • Udinese CalcioAssociation football club is founded in Udine, Italy.
  • "St. Augustine Monster":A large carcass, later postulated to be the remains of agigantic octopus,is found washed ashore nearSt. Augustine, Florida.
• December 1– ArchaeologistAlois Anton Führer,Nepalese General Khadga Samsher Rana and an expedition rediscover the great stone pillar ofAshokaatLumbini,traditionally the spot of the birthplace ofGautama Buddha,after usingFaxian's records.
• December 10
  • New York Aquariumopens.
  • The premiere ofAlfred Jarry's absurdist playUbu Roiin Paris causes a near-riot.
• December 14– TheGlasgow Subway,the third-oldestunderground metrosystem in the world, opens.
• December 25–John Philip SousacomposesThe Stars and Stripes Foreverwhich will become the national march of the United States.
• December 30–José Rizal,Filipino scholar and poet, isexecutedby Spanish authorities in the Philippines.

Date unknown

• France establishes an administrative post inAbengourou,Ivory Coast.
• A school of mines opens inKimberleyand will form the core of theUniversity of the Witwatersrand.
• The pharmaceutical andhealthcarecompanyHoffmann-La RocheinSwitzerlandcomes wholly under the control ofFritz Hoffmann-La Roche.
• Racing Club de Lyon, a football club in France, is officially founded and becomes a predecessor ofOlympique Lyonnais.

Births

January–February

George Burns

Morarji Desai

• January 2–Dziga Vertov,Russian filmmaker (d.1954)
• January 4
  • Everett Dirksen,American politician (d.1969)
  • André Masson,French artist (d.1987)
• January 8
  • Arthur Ford,American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (d.1971)
  • Clifton Sprague,American admiral (d.1955)
• January 12–Uberto De Morpurgo,Italian tennis player (d.1961)
• January 14–John Dos Passos,American author (d.1970)
• January 20–George Burns,American actor, comedian (d.1996)
• January 21–J. Carrol Naish,Americancharacter actor(d.1973)
• January 23–Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg(d.1985)
• January 26–József Kiss,Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (d.1918)
• February 1–Anastasio Somoza García,21st President of Nicaragua(d.1956)
• February 2–Ramón Franco,Spanish aviation pioneer (d.1938)
• February 4–Friedrich Hund,German physicist (d.1997)
• February 18–Li Linsi,Chinese educator and diplomat (d.1970)
• February 19–André Breton,French writer (d.1966)
• February 25–Heinrich Gontermann,German World War I fighter ace (d.1917)
• February 28–Philip Showalter Hench,American physician, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(d.1965)
• February 29
  • Morarji Desai,4thPrime Minister of India(d.1995)
  • William A. Wellman,American motion picture director (d.1975)

March–April

Ira C. Eaker

Nikolay Semyonov

• March 1–Dimitri Mitropoulos,Greek conductor, pianist and composer (d.1960)
• March 13–Field Eugene Kindley,American World War I fighter pilot (d.1920)
• March 20–Wop May,Canadian World War I pilot (d.1952)
• March 22–Joseph Schildkraut,Austrian-American actor (d.1964)
• March 29–Wilhelm Ackermann,German mathematician (d.1962)
• April 13–Ira C. Eaker,World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d.1987)
• April 15
  • Gerhard Fieseler,German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, aircraft designer and manufacturer (d.1987)
  • Nikolay Semyonov,Russian chemist,Nobel Prizelaureate (d.1986)
• April 17–Señor Wences,Spanish ventriloquist (d.1999)
• April 21–Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer,Dutch war hero, resistance fighter and humanitarian (d.1978)
• April 26–Ernst Udet,German World War I fighter ace, NaziLuftwaffeofficial (d.1941)
• April 27–Rogers Hornsby,American baseball player (d.1963)
• April 30–Reverend Gary Davis,American musician (d.1972)

May–June

Mark W. Clark

Jorge Alessandri

• May 1
  • Mark W. Clark,American general (d.1984)
  • J. Lawton Collins,American general (d.1987)
• May 2–Helen of Greece and Denmark,Queen Mother of Romania (d.1982)
• May 3–Karl Allmenröder,German World War I fighter pilot (d.1917)
• May 5–Kaju Sugiura,Japanese admiral (d.1945)
• May 19–Jorge Alessandri,27thPresident of Chile(d.1986)
• May 23–Andor Jaross,ethnic Hungarian politician (d.1946)
• May 29–Luther W. Youngdahl,American politician,Governor of Minnesotafrom 1947 to 1951, and a United States district judge from 1951 to 1978 (d.1978)
• May 30–Howard Hawks,American director (d.1977)
• May 31–Ernest Haller,American cinematographer (d.1974)
• June 2–Nubar Gulbenkian,Ottoman-born Armenian-British oil trader, socialite and intelligence operative (d.1972)
• June 6
  • Henry Allingham,British World War I veteran, world's oldest man (d.2009)
  • Italo Balbo,Italian Fascist leader, aviator (d.1940)
• June 7
  • Robert S. Mulliken,American chemist,Nobel Prizelaureate (d.1986)
  • Imre Nagy,3-time prime minister of Hungary (d.1958)
• June 19–Wallis Simpson,American-born Duchess of Windsor (d.1986)
• June 23–Francisco Malabo Beosá,Equatoguinean royalty (d.2001)
• June 29–Boris Podolsky,Russian-American physicist (d.1966)

July–August

Thomas Playford IV

Trygve Lie

Jean Piaget

Gerty Cori

• July 2–Quirino Cristiani,Argentine animated film director (d.1984)
• July 4–Mao Dun,Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and Minister of Culture (d.1981)
• July 5–Thomas Playford IV,South Australian politician (d.1981)
• July 16
  • Gertrude Welcker,German actress (d.1988)
  • Trygve Lie,Norwegian politician, 1st United Nations Secretary General (d.1968)
• July 17–Dumitru Dămăceanu,Romanian general and politician (d.1978)
• July 18–Patrick O'Boyle,American Roman Catholic prelate (d.1987)
• July 19–Stafford L. Warren,American physician and radiologist; inventor of the mammogram (d.1981)
• August 7–Ernesto Lecuona,Cuban pianist, composer (d.1963)
• August 9
  • Erich Hückel,German physicist, physical chemist (d.1980)
  • Léonide Massine,Russian ballet dancer, choreographer (d.1979)
  • Jean Piaget,Swiss psychologist (d.1980)
• August 10–Walter Lang,American film director (d.1972)
• August 13–Rudolf Schmundt,German general (d.1944)
• August 14–Albert Ball,British World War I fighter ace, Victoria Cross recipient (d.1917)
• August 15–Gerty Cori,Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(d.1957)
• August 18–Jack Pickford,Canadian-born American actor, film director, and producer (d.1933)
• August 27–Léon Theremin,Russian inventor (d.1993)
• August 28–Arthur Calwell,Australian politician (d.1973)
• August 30–Raymond Massey,Canadian-born American actor (d.1983)

September–October

Adele Astaire

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• September 1–A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of theInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness(d.1977)
• September 4–Antonin Artaud,French stage actor, director (d.1948)
• September 10–Adele Astaire,American dancer (d.1981)
• September 14–José Mojica,Mexican Franciscan friar, tenor and film actor (d.1974)
• September 22–Uri Zvi Greenberg,Israeli poet and journalist (d.1981)
• September 24–F. Scott Fitzgerald,American writer (d.1940)
• September 25–Sandro Pertini,President of Italy(d.1990)
• September 30–Jolie Gabor,Hungarian-American entrepreneur, jeweler and memoirist (d.1997)
• October 1–Abraham Sofaer,Burmese-born British actor (d.1988)
• October 7–Paulino Alcántara,Filipino-Spanish soccer player (d.1964)
• October 12–Eugenio Montale,Italian writer,Nobel Prizelaureate (d.1981)
• October 14–Bud Flanagan,British entertainer, comedian (d.1968)
• October 22–Earle Clements,American politician,governor of Kentucky(d.1985)
• October 28–Howard Hanson,American composer (d.1981)
• October 30–Ruth Gordon,American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (d.1985)
• October 31–Ethel Waters,American singer, actress (d.1977)

November–December

Carlos P. Garcia

Jimmy Doolittle

• November 4
  • Carlos P. Garcia,8thPresident of the Philippines(d.1971)
  • Ian Wolfe,American actor (d.1992)
• November 8–Marie Prevost,Canadian-born American actress (d.1937)
• November 10
  • Jimmy Dykes,American baseball player, manager (d.1976)
  • Mary, Lady Heath,Irish aviator (d.1939)
• November 13–Nobusuke Kishi,Prime Minister of Japan (d.1987)
• November 14–Mamie Eisenhower,First Lady of the United States(d.1979)
• November 15–Giovanni Ancillotto,Italian World War I flying ace (d.1924)
• November 16
  • Oswald Mosley,leader of the British Union of Fascists (d.1980)
  • Lawrence Tibbett,American opera singer, actor (d.1960)
• November 17–Lev Vygotsky,Russian psychologist (d.1934)
• November 23–Klement Gottwald,Czechoslovak communist politician (d.1953)
• November 25
  • Virgil Thomson,American composer, critic (d.1989)
  • Jessie Royce Landis,American actress (d.1972)
  • Priscilla Dean,American actress (d.1987)
  • Albertus Soegijapranata,Indonesian Jesuit priest (d.1963)
• November 26–Manuel A. Odría,79th President of Peru (d.1974)
• November 28–Lilia Skala,Austrian-American actress (d.1994)
• December 1–Georgi Zhukov,Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.1974)
• December 2–Alfons Tracki,German-Albanian priest (martyred1946)
• December 5–Carl Ferdinand Cori,Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(d.1984)
• December 6
  • Ira Gershwin,American lyricist (d.1983)
  • Hermannus Reydon,Dutch journalist and Nazi collaborator (d.1943)
• December 12–Vasily Gordov,Soviet general (d.1950)
• December 14–Jimmy Doolittle,American aviation pioneer, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (d.1993)
• December 15–Miles Dempsey,British general (d.1969)
• December 16–Anna Anderson,pretender to the Russian throne (d.1984)
• December 23–Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,Italian writer (d.1957)
• December 27–
  • Louis Bromfield,American writer (d.1956)
  • Carl Zuckmayer,German writer, playwright (d.1977)
• December 28–Roger Sessions,American composer (d.1985)
• December 29–David Alfaro Siqueiros,Mexican muralist (d.1974)

Deaths

January–June

Clara Schumann

• January 4–Joseph Hubert Reinkens,German Old Catholic bishop (b.1821)
• January 5–Charlie Bassett,American sheriff (b.1847)
• January 8–Paul Verlaine,French lyric poet (b.1844)
• January 15–Mathew Brady,American photographer (b.1822)
• January 18–Charles Floquet,Prime Minister of France (b.1828)
• January 20–Prince Henry of Battenberg,Lombardy-born British royal, married toPrincess Beatrice of the United Kingdom(b.1858)
• January 26–James Edwin Campbell,American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867)
• February 7–William Hayden English,American politician (b.1822)
• February 25–Joseph P. Fyffe,American admiral (b.1832)
• March 30–Charilaos Trikoupis,7-time prime minister of Greece (b.1832)
• April 9–Gustav Koerner,German-American statesman (b.1809)
• April 27–Sir Henry Parkes,Australian politician,Premier of New South Wales(b.1815)
• April 30–Hamilton Disston,American industrialist and land developer (b.1844)
• May 1–Naser al-Din Shah Qajar,Shah of Persia, King of Herat (b.1831)
• May 7–H. H. Holmes,American serial killer (executed) (b.1861)
• May 10–Antti Ahlström,Finnish industrialist, founder ofAhlstrom(b.1827)
• May 13–Nora Perry,American newspaper correspondent (b.1831)
• May 17–Muhammad Al-Sabah,emir of Kuwait (b.1831)
• May 18–Daniel Pollen,9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b.1813)
• May 19–Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria,father of Archduke Ferdinand (b.1833)
• May 20–Clara Schumann,German composer, pianist (b.1819)
• May 24–Luigi Federico Menabrea,Italian soldier, statesman (b.1809)
• June 13–Alpheus Felch,American politician, governor and senator fromMichigan(b.1804)
• June 19–Louis Brière de l'Isle,French general (b.1827)

July–December

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Otto Lilienthal

Alfred Nobel

Jose Rizal

Margaret Eleanor Parker

• July 1–Harriet Beecher Stowe,American author (b.1811)
• July 4–Marcelo H. del Pilar,Filipino writer, journalist (b.1850)
• July 11–Ernst Curtius,German historian (b.1814)
• July 13–August Kekulé,German chemist (b.1829)
• July 16–Edmond de Goncourt,French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b.1822)
• July 19–Abraham H. Cannon,American Mormon apostle (b.1859)
• August 10–Otto Lilienthal,German aviation pioneer (b.1848)
• August 12–Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden,British army general (b.1821)
• August 13– SirJohn Everett Millais,British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b.1829)
• August 17–Bridget Driscoll,early British automobile fatality (b. c.1851)
• August 18–Richard Avenarius,German-Swiss philosopher (b.1843)
• August 25– SultanHamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar(b.1857)
• September 18–Hippolyte Fizeau,French physicist (b.1819)
• September 22–Pavlos Kalligas,Greek jurist, politician (b.1814)
• September 23–Ivar Aasen,Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (b.1813)
• September 24–Louis Gerhard De Geer,1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b.1818)
• October 3–William Morris,English designer, poet and political activist (b.1834)
• October 6–Sir James Abbott,British army officer and colonial administrator in India (b.1807)
• October 7–Louis-Jules Trochu,French general and politician, 26thPrime Minister of France(b.1815)
• October 8–George du Maurier,French-born British cartoonist and writer (b.1834)
• October 10–Ferdinand von Mueller,German-born Australian botanist (b.1825)
• October 11
  • Anton Bruckner,Austrian composer (b.1824)
  • Edward White Benson,Archbishop of Canterbury (b.1829)
• October 12–Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs,Prime Minister of Denmark (b.1817)
• October 19–Emmy Rappe,Swedish nursing pioneer (b.1835)
• October 21–James Henry Greathead,British engineer and inventor (b.1844)
• October 23–Columbus Delano,American statesman (b.1809)
• October 26–Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour,French statesman (b.1827)
• October 30–Carol Benesch,SilesianandRomanianarchitect(b.1822)
• November –Margaret Eleanor Parker,English social activist; first president of the British Women's Temperance Association (b.1827)
• November 12–Joseph James Cheeseman,Liberian politician, 12thPresident of Liberia(b.1843)
• November 16–Josip Šokčević,Croatian viceroy (b.1811)
• November 22–George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.,American inventor of theFerris wheel(b.1859)
• November 23–Ichiyō Higuchi,Japanese poet and novelist (b.1872)
• November 26
  • Benjamin Apthorp Gould,American astronomer (b.1824)
  • Coventry Patmore,English poet (b.1823)
• December 10–Alfred Nobel,Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (b.1833)
• December 29
  • Jacob ben Moses Bachrach,noted Polish apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (b.1824)
  • Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet,British admiral of the fleet (b.1806)
• December 30–José Rizal,national hero of the Philippines (b.1861)