Famous Deaths for Year 1900

Months in Year 1900: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 68 of 68

Jan 3rd - Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80
Jan 8th - Billy Bates, cricketer (656 runs & 50 wkts in 15 Tests for Eng), dies
Jan 20th - John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81
Jan 20th - Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74
Jan 22nd - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
Jan 30th - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71
Feb 3rd - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33
Feb 16th - George Labram, US mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle
Feb 18th - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
Feb 23rd - William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies
Mar 6th - Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
Mar 10th - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94
Mar 11th - Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
Mar 18th - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32
Mar 19th - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
Mar 19th - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
Mar 26th - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80
Mar 27th - Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
Mar 31st - Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99), dies
Apr 4th - Edward VII, King, assassinated
Apr 5th - Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle
Apr 20th - Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies
Apr 21st - Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
Apr 24th - George J D Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76
Apr 30th - John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck
May 5th - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
May 7th - Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81
May 18th - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
May 20th - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80
May 31st - James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75
May 31st - John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle
Novelist Stephen Crane (Jun 5th) Jun 5th - Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28
Jun 11th - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53
Jun 21st - Polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69
Jun 29th - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
Jul 24th - Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
Jul 29th - Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
Jul 30th - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
Aug 4th - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
Aug 5th - James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
Aug 6th - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74
Aug 12th - James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42
Aug 12th - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
Aug 16th - Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies
Aug 19th - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
Aug 25th - Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55
Aug 25th - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Aug 25th) Aug 25th - Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55
Aug 28th - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies
Sep 23rd - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
Sep 25th - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
Sep 29th - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
Oct 9th - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57
Oct 14th - Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies
Oct 14th - Sandor Erkel, composer, dies at 54
Oct 15th - Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49
Oct 20th - Charles Dudley Warner, US writer (As We Go), dies at 70
Oct 20th - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
Oct 28th - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
Nov 6th - PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
Nov 21st - J J Ferris, cricketer (48 wickets for Aust in 8 Tests in 1880's), dies
Nov 22nd - Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (Nov 30th) Nov 30th - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
Dec 8th - Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87
Dec 14th - Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
Dec 21st - Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
Dec 27th - William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Brit const (hydr crane), dies at 90
Dec 28th - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)