Famous Deaths for Year 1897
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Deaths 1 - 56 of 56
Jan 12th - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
Jan 30th - John Cottam, cricket (Test for Aust 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies
Feb 1st - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)
Feb 5th - Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42
Feb 6th - Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable), dies
Feb 7th - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
Feb 19th - Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81
Feb 23rd - Woldemar Bargiel, composer, dies at 68
Mar 9th - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
Mar 10th - Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79
Mar 11th - Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58
Mar 11th - Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45
Mar 19th - Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
Mar 20th - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
Mar 27th - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
Apr 3rd - Johannes Brahms, German composer/conductor (Hung Dances), dies at 63
Apr 8th - George Garrett, composer, dies at 62
Apr 8th - Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician, dies
Apr 23rd - Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25
May 2nd - William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63
May 10th - William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70
May 10th - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)
May 12th - Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53
May 12th - Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
May 21st - Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
May 23rd - Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34
Jun 9th - Alvin Graham Clark, dies 3 weeks after 1st use of Yerkes 40" lens
Jun 22nd - Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54
Jul 12th - Felix Godefroid, composer, dies at 78
Jul 16th - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies
Jul 20th - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
Jul 29th - Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
Aug 8th - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79
Aug 13th - Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63
Sep 20th - Karel Bendl, composer, dies at 59
Sep 21st - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
Sep 30th - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
Oct 8th - Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43
Oct 8th - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
Oct 9th - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79
Oct 11th - Leon Boelmann, French organist/composer (Suite Gothique), dies at 35
Oct 17th - Isidor Dannstrom, composer, dies at 84
Oct 19th - George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
Oct 21st - Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50
Oct 24th - Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73
Oct 28th - Hercules Robinson, South Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72
Nov 6th - Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
Nov 9th - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
Nov 15th - John Mercer Langston, US black jurist, dies at 67
Nov 17th - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
Nov 19th - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
Nov 30th - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64
Dec 16th - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies at 57
Dec 18th - Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70
Dec 28th - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
Dec 29th - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer. (b. 1812)
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