Famous Deaths for Year 1893
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Months in Year 1893: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 77 of 77
Jan 2nd - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
Jan 7th - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
Jan 9th - Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle & is eaten
Jan 11th - Benjamin F Butler, US gen/pres candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74
Jan 15th - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
Jan 16th - Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74
Jan 17th - Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
Jan 19th - Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68
Jan 22nd - Vincenz Lachner, composer, dies at 81
Jan 23rd - Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75
Jan 23rd - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
Jan 26th - Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
Jan 27th - James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62
Feb 1st - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
Feb 13th - Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58
Feb 18th - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
Feb 20th - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
Mar 5th - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64
Mar 5th - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer, dies at 37
Mar 17th - Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
Mar 19th - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69
Apr 4th - Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86
Apr 9th - Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66
Apr 19th - John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies
Apr 22nd - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825)
Apr 27th - John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
Apr 30th - Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57
May 3rd - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
May 4th - George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
May 14th - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
May 14th - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
May 23rd - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
Jun 7th - Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43
Jun 10th - Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49
Jun 21st - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
Jun 23rd - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
Jul 6th - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
Jul 7th - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
Jul 9th - William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide
Jul 17th - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
Jul 20th - Tom Kelly, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1977-79, 64 runs), dies
Aug 6th - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
Aug 7th - Alfredo Catalani, composer, dies at 39
Aug 16th - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
Aug 17th - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52[NS=8/29]
Aug 22nd - Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75
Aug 29th - Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 [OS=8/17]
Sep 3rd - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)
Sep 15th - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
Sep 19th - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
Oct 4th - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88
Oct 10th - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
Oct 14th - Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 84
Oct 16th - Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
Oct 16th - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
Oct 18th - Charles F Gounod, French composer (La reine the Saba), dies at 75
Oct 18th - Lucy [Blackwell-]Stone, US abolitionist/feminist, dies
Oct 30th - John Abbott, PM of Canada (C) (1891-92), dies at 72
Nov 4th - Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86
Nov 4th - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
Composer Tchaikovsky (Nov 6th)
Nov 6th - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), dies at 53
Nov 7th - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, dies at 37
Nov 12th - Alexander Freiherr von Bach, premier of Austria (1852-59), dies at 80
Nov 13th - Antoine T d'abbadie, French explorer: Ethiopia, dies at 78
Nov 16th - George Alexander Osborne, composer, dies at 87
Nov 17th - Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, king of Bulgaria (1879-86), dies at 36
Nov 22nd - James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
Nov 30th - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
Dec 1st - Eduard Franck, composer, dies at 76
Dec 4th - Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian Major, dies in battle against the Ndebeles during First Matabele War
Dec 9th - George Elvey, composer, dies at 77
Dec 14th - Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86
Dec 17th - Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch min of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71
Dec 22nd - Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91
Dec 22nd - Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80
Dec 30th - Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72
Dec 31st - Jacob G de Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist, dies at 74
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