Famous Deaths for Year 1888
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Months in Year 1888: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 53 of 53
Jan 5th - Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday
Jan 14th - Stephen Heller, composer, dies at 74
Jan 21st - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer, dies at 83
Jan 29th - Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75
Jan 30th - Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77
Jan 31st - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
Feb 5th - Anton Mauve, Dutch painter/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh, dies at 49
Feb 13th - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
Mar 4th - Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88
Mar 6th - Louisa May Alcott, US author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55
Mar 9th - William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
Mar 10th - Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57
Mar 12th - Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
Mar 16th - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
Mar 24th - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
Mar 26th - Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
Mar 29th - Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74
Apr 14th - William Fisk Sherwin, composer, dies at 62
Apr 15th - Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65
Poet/Critic Matthew Arnold (Apr 15th)
Apr 16th - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
May 17th - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
Jun 3rd - Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60
Jun 12th - Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Neth Spectator), dies at 62
Jun 15th - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
Jun 20th - Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66
Jun 20th - John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45
Jun 23rd - Emil Naumann, composer, dies at 60
Jul 4th - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
Jul 10th - Rafael Hernando, composer, dies at 66
Jul 20th - Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies
Jul 21st - Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53
Aug 8th - Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79
Aug 9th - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45
Aug 9th - Isaac Strauss, composer, dies at 82
Aug 16th - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
Aug 17th - James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies
Aug 19th - Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
Aug 21st - Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70
Aug 24th - Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies
First Victim of Jack the Ripper Mary Ann Nichols (Aug 31st)
Aug 31st - Mary Ann Nichols, a 42-year-old prostitute, was found stabbed to death in London, 1st of at least five murders by Jack the Ripper
Sep 9th - John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
Sep 11th - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77
Sep 30th - Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
Sep 30th - Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
Oct 8th - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies
Oct 16th - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
Oct 19th - Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary/founder (Flemish Wind), dies at 38
Nov 1st - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
Dec 2nd - Franz Xaver Witt, composer, dies at 54
Dec 2nd - Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
Dec 3rd - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
Dec 10th - Mariano Obiols, composer, dies at 79
Dec 31st - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808)
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