Famous Deaths for Year 1894
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Months in Year 1894: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Deaths 1 - 60 of 60
Jan 1st - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
Jan 8th - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84
Jan 13th - Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
Jan 19th - Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, dies at 58
Jan 21st - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24
Feb 4th - Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone), dies at 79
Feb 11th - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
Feb 12th - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
Feb 13th - Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65
Feb 14th - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
Feb 19th - Ernesto Camillo Sivori, composer, dies at 78
Feb 21st - Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45
Feb 25th - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51
Mar 3rd - Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
Mar 11th - John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82), dies
Mar 12th - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
Mar 20th - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91
Mar 21st - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80
Mar 24th - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68
Mar 27th - Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
Apr 8th - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55
Apr 11th - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
May 8th - Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79
May 21st - August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
May 21st - Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
May 24th - William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63
Jun 3rd - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
Jun 5th - Immanuel Faisst, composer, dies at 70
Jun 22nd - Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (b. 1823)
Jun 24th - M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56
Jul 1st - Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
Jul 1st - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
Jul 5th - Betty Paoli, writer, dies
Jul 8th - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer, dies
Jul 13th - Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26
Jul 17th - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
Jul 18th - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
Aug 3rd - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
Aug 16th - Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
Aug 18th - William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57
Aug 26th - PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
Sep 8th - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
Sep 13th - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
Sep 17th - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
Sep 24th - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies
Oct 7th - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
Oct 30th - Honoré Mercier, politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
Nov 1st - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845) Reigned from 1881
Nov 20th - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64
Nov 27th - Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian noblewoman, wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
Dec 3rd - HM Jozef Schadde, Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76
Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (Dec 3rd)
Dec 3rd - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, dies at 45
Dec 7th - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89
Dec 8th - Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71
Dec 8th - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
Dec 12th - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
Dec 13th - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68
Dec 29th - Christina Rossetti, English poet, dies at 64 in London
Dec 30th - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76
Dec 31st - Thomas J Stieltjes, mathematician (Stieltjes-integral), dies at 38
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