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Months in Year 1908: January February March April May June July August September November December

Deaths 1 - 74 of 74

Jan 4th - Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70
Jan 9th - Abraham Goldfaden, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis), dies at 67
Jan 9th - Wilhelm Busch, writer, dies
Jan 10th - Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65
Jan 14th - Holger Drachmann, writer, dies
Jan 17th - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
Jan 23rd - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
Jan 25th - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
Jan 25th - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
Feb 1st - Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
Feb 14th - Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer, dies at 72
Feb 23rd - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
Feb 24th - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
Feb 29th - Pat Garrett, U.S. gunslinger
Feb 29th - John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (as Lord Hopetoun)
Mar 11th - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83
Mar 11th - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
Mar 12th - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
Mar 25th - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
Mar 28th - John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68
Apr 4th - Josef Sucher, composer, dies at 64
Apr 5th - Gaetano Coronaro, composer, dies at 55
Apr 11th - Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
Apr 20th - Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85
Apr 22nd - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
May 12th - Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69
May 23rd - Francois Coppee, French poet, dies
May 24th - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
May 26th - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist (Ahmadiyya motion), dies at 69
May 31st - C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96), dies
May 31st - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
Jun 2nd - Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68
Jun 5th - Luca Fumagalli, composer, dies at 71
Jun 8th - Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66
Jun 9th - Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46
Jun 11th - Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45
Jun 14th - Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
Jun 21st - Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64
US President Grover Cleveland (Jun 24th) Jun 24th - Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97), dies at 71
Jul 3rd - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
Jul 5th - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
Jul 10th - Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78
Jul 10th - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
Jul 14th - William Mason, composer, dies at 79
Jul 18th - Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83
Jul 20th - Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62
Jul 20th - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
Jul 22nd - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
Jul 24th - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)
Aug 8th - Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40
Aug 11th - Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
Aug 13th - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67
Aug 20th - Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
Physicist/Nobel Laureate Henri Becquerel (Aug 25th) Aug 25th - Henri Becquerel [Antoine ], French physicist, dies at 55
Aug 26th - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
Sep 3rd - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Dutch East-Indies), dies
Sep 17th - Thomas E Selfridge, earlier US aviator, 1st to die in an air crash
Sep 20th - Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer, dies at 64
Sep 21st - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist/composer (Spanish Dancer), dies
Sep 29th - Joaquim M Machado de Assis, Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69
Nov 4th - Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies
Nov 8th - Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
Nov 14th - Kwang-siu, emperor of China, dies
Nov 15th - Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies
Nov 15th - Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73
Nov 16th - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829)
Nov 19th - Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79
Nov 20th - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
Nov 27th - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
Dec 22nd - Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44
Dec 23rd - Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72
Dec 23rd - Francois A Gevaert, Belg/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at 68
Dec 24th - Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80
Dec 30th - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (b. 1844)

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