Famous Deaths for Year 1898

Months in Year 1898: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 72 of 72

Jan 3rd - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70
Jan 4th - Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73
Jan 11th - Gaetano Capocci, composer, dies at 86
Jan 14th - Lewis Carroll, writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65
Jan 16th - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
Jan 23rd - W A Remy, composer, dies at 66
Jan 28th - Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74
Feb 16th - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
Feb 18th - Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58
Mar 1st - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
Mar 11th - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
Mar 12th - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
Mar 15th - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
Mar 16th - Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23
Mar 17th - Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washington
Mar 18th - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
Mar 19th - Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26
Mar 27th - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan dies at 80
Mar 31st - Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum), dies
Author of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll (Jan 14th) Apr 12th - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
Apr 15th - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
Apr 18th - Gustave Moureau, painter, dies
Apr 21st - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
May 1st - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81
May 19th - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
May 22nd - Edward Bellamy, writer, dies at 48
May 28th - Edward Bellamy, US author (Looking Backward), dies
Jun 3rd - Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77
Jun 3rd - Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74
Jun 5th - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
Jun 6th - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
Jun 10th - Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
Jun 13th - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
Jun 17th - Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
British Prime Minister William Gladstone (May 19th) Jun 18th - George Ulyett, cricketer (949 runs 50 wkts for England 25 Tests), dies
Jun 22nd - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist, dies at 66
Jun 25th - Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist, dies at 70
Jul 7th - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
Jul 8th - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
Jul 11th - Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
Jul 12th - Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
Jul 15th - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
Jul 18th - Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62
Jul 20th - Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86
Jul 30th - Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
Aug 8th - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
Aug 17th - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56
Aug 21st - Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40
Aug 23rd - Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82
Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck (Jul 30th) Sep 2nd - Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire
Sep 2nd - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
Sep 5th - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
Sep 9th - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
Sep 10th - Elisabeth AE, empress of Austria/wife of Franz Joseph I, dies at 60
Sep 11th - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer, dies at 74
Sep 14th - Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies
Sep 14th - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
Sep 16th - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
Sep 20th - Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78
Sep 24th - Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70
Oct 12th - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
Oct 24th - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
Oct 30th - Yakov Petrovich Polonsky Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78
Nov 2nd - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
Nov 4th - Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62
Nov 20th - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies
Nov 28th - C F Meyer, writer, dies at 73
Dec 13th - George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72
Dec 16th - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832)
Dec 24th - Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41
Dec 24th - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (b. 1828)
Dec 29th - Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74