Famous Deaths for Year 1905
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Deaths 1 - 69 of 69
Jan 10th - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
Jan 11th - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
Jan 13th - George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
Jan 14th - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
Jan 19th - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
Jan 20th - Stanislaw Pilinski, composer, dies at 65
Feb 1st - Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77
Feb 4th - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
Feb 10th - Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78
Feb 12th - Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies
Feb 13th - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
Feb 15th - Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77
Feb 17th - Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
Feb 18th - Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75
Feb 20th - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
Feb 28th - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
Mar 6th - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
Mar 12th - Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
Mar 15th - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60
Mar 15th - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
Mar 19th - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49
Mar 24th - Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
Mar 26th - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
Apr 4th - Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73
Apr 23rd - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
Apr 23rd - Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
Apr 25th - Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70
Apr 28th - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
Apr 29th - Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
May 9th - Ernst Pauer, composer, dies at 78
May 23rd - Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75
May 26th - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies
May 29th - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
Jun 4th - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85
Jun 13th - Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
Jun 13th - Tippo-Tip, [Hamed ben Mohammed], Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67
Jun 15th - Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies
Jun 16th - Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51
Jun 22nd - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
Jun 30th - John Hay, US politician, dies
Jul 4th - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
Jul 5th - Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker, dies
Jul 8th - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
Jul 23rd - Jean-Jacques, painter, dies
Aug 10th - Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged
Aug 14th - Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
Aug 14th - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
Aug 21st - Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
Sep 2nd - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79
Sep 4th - Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies
Sep 10th - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
Sep 13th - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
Sep 14th - Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo gov (1890-98), die
Sep 18th - George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
Sep 19th - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
Sep 21st - Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64
Sep 25th - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
Oct 2nd - Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62
Oct 6th - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies
Oct 13th - Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67
Oct 21st - Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69
Oct 28th - Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies
Oct 29th - Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
Nov 2nd - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
Nov 8th - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
Nov 17th - Adolf WAKF, duke of Nassau/grand duke of Luxembourg, dies at 88
Nov 17th - Philip EFMCBLG, earl of Flanders, dies
Nov 17th - Adolphe of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
Dec 9th - Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 66
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