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Calendar overview 1890
Map with all linked sites: | 1890 | |
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 is forced to resign by Kaiser Wilhelm II . |
 succeeds him as German Chancellor. |
 a massacre of members of the Lakota . |
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 makes Japan a modern state. |
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| 1890 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1338/39 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1882/83 (turn of the year 10/11 September) |
| Baha'i calendar | 46/47 (March 20/21) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1295/96 (beginning of April 14th or 15th) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2433/34 (southern Buddhism); 2432/33 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 76th (77th) cycle
Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Ox Jahres) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 1252/53 (turn of the year April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 4223/24 (October 2-3) |
| Iranian calendar | 1268/69 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 1307/08 (August 17/18) |
| Japanese calendar |
Meiji 23 (
明治 23 年); Kōki 2550 |
| Jewish calendar | 5650/51 (September 14/15) |
| Coptic calendar | 1606/07 (September 10/11) |
| Malayalam calendar | 1065/66 |
| Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire) | 1305/06 (March 1) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 2200/01 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 2201/02 (New Year October) |
| Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar) | 2432/33 (April 1) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1946/47 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
German Empire / Great Britain
- January 25 : The German Reichstag rejects a government proposal to extend the Socialist Act for an indefinite period by 167 votes to 98 .
- February 4th : Contrary to the advice of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and without his prescribed countersignature , the February edicts are published according to the will of Kaiser Wilhelm II . They announce an expansion of worker protection .
- February 20 : In the Reichstag election in Germany in 1890, the Social Democrats become the strongest party for the first time with 19.7% of the vote, but only get 35 seats due to the prevailing majority vote . The left-liberal parties also gain votes, while national liberals and conservatives lose.
- March 18 : Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck submits his resignation to Kaiser Wilhelm II , which the young monarch has previously urged several times. The resignation is completed two days later.
- March 20 : Chancellor Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II , his successor is Leo von Caprivi .
- March 20 : Founding of the People's Anti-Semitic Party
- July 1st : Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty : The German Reich receives Heligoland from Great Britain ; In exchange, the German Reich recognizes the English claims to Zanzibar and cedes the German colony Wituland to Great Britain.
Parade for the cession of Heligoland to Germany
- August 9th : The island of Helgoland is handed over to German administration by the British .
- October 12 : The party conference of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD) in Halle decides to rename the party to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Other events in Europe
- January 1st : Louis Ruchonnet becomes Swiss President for the second time .
- November 23rd : The death of Wilhelm III. means complete independence for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . Wilhelm's ten-year-old daughter Wilhelmina becomes Queen of the Netherlands. Since Salian inheritance law applies in Luxembourg , the personal union ends and Adolph I becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg .
Africa
- February 27 : Carl Peters and Mwanga II of Buganda sign the Uganda Treaty , which, however, is not ratified by the German Reich.
- July 1st : The Kingdom of Burundi under Mwezi IV. Gisabo is formally incorporated into the German colonial area of German East Africa .
- August 5 : An Anglo-French agreement defines the mutual spheres of interest in West Africa.
- October 18th : Curt von François founds the Namibian capital Windhoek (Windhuk).
Asia
- July 1 : First parliamentary elections in Japan
- November 29 : The Meiji Constitution comes into force in Japan . The Reichstag , like the Prussian state parliament, is made up of a house of representatives and a manor house, and has its first session.
America
- May 2 : The western part of the disorganized Indian Territory is organized as Oklahoma Territory .
- July 2 : US President Benjamin Harrison enacts the Senate and Congress- approved Sherman Antitrust Act . This gives the government an opportunity to limit the market power of monopolies .
- July 3 : Idaho becomes the 43rd state in the USA .
- July 10 : Wyoming becomes the 44th state in the USA .
- December 29 : In the massacre near Wounded Knee in the US state of South Dakota , US troops kill between 200 and 300 Indians from the Lakota (Sioux) tribe .
economy
- February 5 : With the entry in the commercial register, Allianz Versicherungs-AG starts its business operations in Berlin. Most of the members of the supervisory board of Munich Reinsurance Company , the management board of Munich Re Carl von Thieme , who played a key role in driving the project, the industrialist Heinrich Lueg and Deutsche Bank act as founders . The share capital of 4 million marks is mainly subscribed by the Merck Finck & Co and Deutsche Bank , the rest by the other founders. Wilhelm von Finck is elected chairman of the supervisory board,Hermann Pemsel as his deputy.
- May 31 : The Northwest German Trade and Industry Exhibition opens in Bremen . Until it closes on October 15, around 1.2 million people will attend the exhibition based on the model of the world exhibitions, organized jointly by the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Prussian Province of Hanover .
- July 1 : The Kuehne + Nagel company is founded in Bremen.
- July 16 : The German company Deutsch-Österreichische Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG is founded in Düsseldorf.
- October 1 : The Bern compressed air tramway operated by the Berner Tramway Company begins operation on the Bärengraben - Bahnhof - Friedhof route .
- October 17 : Ludwig Hirschhorn and Theodor Grob found the Hirschhorn & Grob joint venture, now Bank Julius Baer , in Zurich .
- November 4th : The first section of the City and South London Railway , a predecessor of the later London Underground , opens.
- End of the year: Argentina can no longer service its foreign debts due to a drastic drop in commodity prices , causing London's Barings Bank , one of the country's main creditors , to go bankrupt . As a result, there are further crises in South Africa and the United States.
science and technology
Nellie Bly (January 25)
Clément Ader (October 9)
Emil von Behring
- January 25th : On the 73rd day, journalist Nellie Bly completes her journey around the world in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's novel Journey around the earth in 80 days .
- March 4 : The Forth Bridge over the Firth of Forth near Queensferry in Scotland, which was completed last year, is inaugurated as part of the Edinburgh – Dundee railway line . The cantilever bridge has in its opening, the largest wingspan of all bridges in the world.
- May 15 : The Reichenhall hydroelectric power plant is the first AC power plant in Germany to go into operation.
- July 3 : At the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich are Potinklumpen found that from fused Celtic coins are made.
- October 1 : The first line of the Bern tramway opens. It leads from Bärengraben via the train station to the Bremgarten cemetery . There is a turntable for turning the vehicles at both ends . The vehicles are driven by compressed air, or “air trams” for short, based on the system developed by the Parisian engineer Louis Mékarski .
- October 9 : Clément Ader's monoplane Éole flies about 50 m, then the aircraft is destroyed in the crash.
- December 6th : The French medic Charles Richet inoculates immune serum in a human for the first time .
- Emil von Behring publishes together with Kitasato Shibasaburō the essay on the creation of diphtheria immunity and tetanus immunity in animals . This is considered the basis of serum therapy against diphtheria .
- Foundation of the German Zoological Society
Culture
- from 1890: Development of Art Nouveau and beginning of Viennese Modernism .
Visual arts
- August 11th : The Royal Museum of Fine Arts opens in Antwerp , which houses works of art mainly from the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Vincent van Gogh paints the painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet and The White House at night .
Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Vincent van Gogh: The White House at Night
literature
- Oscar Wilde's novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray appears for the first time in an issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine .
- Knut Hamsun made his literary breakthrough with his debut novel Hunger, which was published in its entirety for the first time .
- The novella La Fête à Coqueville ( The Feast in Coqueville ) by Émile Zola appears together with three other texts published by Ernest Flammarion in Paris.
- Jacob August Riis publishes the photo documentation How the Other Half Lives .
Music and theater
- 4th January : The world premiere of the operetta The poor Jonathan by Karl Millöcker takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. The libretto is by Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer .
- January 15 : The ballet Sleeping Beauty choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg.
- May 13 : The lyrical drama Dante by Benjamin Godard is at the Opéra-Comique premiered in Paris.
- May 17th : The opera Cavalleria rusticana ( Sicilian Peasant Honor ) by Pietro Mascagni with the libretto by Giovanni Verga has its world premiere at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. The opera becomes the composer's greatest success.
- October 19 : In Berlin, with Henrik Ibsen's supporters, the first theater performance of the Free Volksbühne , founded on May 23 by Otto Brahm , Bruno Wille and others, takes place. Its aim is to enable socially and socially disadvantaged groups of the population to have access to education and cultural life.
- November 4 : The opera Fürst Igor by Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin is premiered three years after the composer's death at the Court Opera in Saint Petersburg.
- December 19 : The opera Pique Dame by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on a libretto by his younger brother Modest Tchaikovsky , based on the story of the same name by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin , is premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg.
Others
- May 14 : The Typographische Gesellschaft München (tgm) is founded in the Rococo hall of the Hackerbräuhaus in Munich.
- May 15 : The opening of the Volksgarten Nymphenburg takes place on Romanplatz in the Munich suburb of Nymphenburg , at that time the largest amusement park in Germany.
- May 31 : The Ulm Minster receives the finial attached. The Gothic church with the highest steeple in the world is thus completed 513 years after the foundation stone was laid.
society
- August 6 : William Kemmler is the first person to be executed on the electric chair . He was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of murdering his friend Matilda Ziegler with an ax.
- October 30th : An imperial edict of education is issued in Japan . The edict shifts the focus of the Japanese educational system established as part of the Meiji Restoration away from the originally American-influenced knowledge building and back to moral training based on the Confucian model. This change is a concession to the growing conservative forces in the country and numerous protests in the population. The edict is sent to all schools in the country by the Imperial Court Ministry .
- December 14th : In the German Empire , liberal and humanist-minded citizens founded the Association for the Defense against Anti-Semitism in order to publicly counter the growing hostility towards Jews . Rudolf von Gneist is the first chairman of the association.
religion
- May 2nd : Kaiser Wilhelm II establishes the Evangelical Church Building Association as an institution for the creation of new sacred buildings in Germany.
- November 20 : The encyclical Catholicae ecclesiae judges Pope Leo XIII. to the missionaries in Africa and formulate statements against slavery .
Disasters
- January 2 : The 1882 of Edison for the electrification of New York commissioned in power station on Pearl Street in Manhattan is largely destroyed by a fire.
- February 22 : The two-year-old Walnut Grove Dam on the Hassayampa River in Arizona , USA, collapses after several days of rain. The tsunami killed between 50 and 150 people.
- February 28 : The passenger ship RMS Quetta sinks in the Torres Strait on the Queensland coast after colliding with a previously unrecorded underwater rock. 134 of the 292 people on board die. To date, it is the worst shipwreck in Queensland history.
- September 4 : A large fire caused severe damage in the Greek city of Thessaloniki . The European quarter burns down completely. 20,000 people become homeless.
- November 10 : The British Royal Navy ship HMS Serpent runs aground near Cabo Vilán in Spain and sinks in stormy seas. 172 sailors die in this catastrophe , three can save themselves on land. For the dead who were driven ashore in the next few days, the locals set up the Cemiterio dos Ingleses .
nature and environment
- September 25 : US President Benjamin Harrison signs the law on the establishment of Sequoia National Park in California . Fauna and flora , including giant sequoias , should be protected and preserved for posterity.
- October 1 : Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada , one of the most famous national parks in the USA , is established after. The conservationist John Muir has campaigned for the protection of this landscape for years.
Historical maps and views
Born
January
- January 1 : Max Gablonsky , German soccer player and athlete († 1969 )
- January 1 : Charley Jordan , American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter († 1954 )
- January 1 : Franz Spunda , Austrian teacher and writer († 1963 )
- January 5 : Sarah Aaronsohn , spy († 1917 )
- January 5 : Ermanno Amicucci , Italian journalist († 1955 )
- January 7th : Antal Molnár , Hungarian composer and musicologist († 1983 )
- January 7th : Maurice McLoughlin , American tennis player († 1957 )
- January 7th : Henny Porten , German film actress († 1960 )
- January 8 : Joel Bennett Clark , American politician and judge († 1954 )
- January 8 : Rudolf Medek , Czech writer and soldier († 1940 )
- January 8 : Fritz Saxl , Austrian art historian († 1948 )
- January 9 : Manuel Andrada , Argentine polo player († 1962 )
- January 9 : Karel Čapek , Czech writer († 1938 )
Kurt Tucholsky, 1928 (born January 9th)
Emy Roeder (born January 30th): Tall seated Tripolitan
Fanny Kaplan (born February 10th)
- January 9 : Kurt Tucholsky , German journalist and writer († 1935 )
- January 11 : Ludwig von Andok , German painter († 1981 )
- January 11 : Oswald de Andrade , Brazilian writer († 1954 )
- January 11 : Bud Scott , American jazz musician († 1949 )
- January 14th : Adolf Armbruster , German farmer († 1972 )
- January 14 : Arthur Holmes , English geologist († 1965 )
- January 14 : Maria Kurenko , Russian singer († 1980 )
- January 16 : Maura Böckeler , German Benedictine, writer and researcher about Hildegard von Bingen († 1971 )
- January 16 : Karl Freund , German cameraman († 1969 )
- January 18 : Jeanne Demons , Canadian actress († 1958 )
- January 18 : Charles Drouin , French racing car driver († 1974 )
- January 19 : Élise Rivet , French nun who hid refugees and helped the Resistance († 1945 )
- January 20 : Rudolf Ahorn , German football player († 1914 )
- January 21 : Mauricio Galvao , German hockey player († 1945 )
- January 22 : Fred M. Vinson , American politician († 1953 )
- January 25 : Karl Adler , German musicologist († 1973 )
- January 26th : Grantly Dick-Read , English doctor († 1959 )
- January 28 : José Martínez , Argentine musician and band leader († 1939 )
- January 29 : Marguerite Canal , French composer († 1978 )
- January 30 : Peter Jensen , German politician († 1969 )
- January 30 : Bruno Kastner , German actor († 1932 )
- January 30th : Emy Roeder , German sculptor and painter († 1971 )
- January 31 : Adolf Bach , German specialist in German († 1972 )
February
- February 3 : Paul Scherrer , Swiss physicist († 1969 )
- February 5 : Cyril Asquith , British lawyer († 1954 )
- February 5 : Stanisława Zawadzka , Polish opera singer and vocal teacher († 1988 )
- February 6 : Ernst Wilhelm Lotz , German Expressionist poet († 1914 )
- February 9 : Hanns Hopp , German architect († 1971 )
- February 10 : Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak , Russian poet and writer († 1960 )
- February 10 : Fanny Kaplan , Russian anarchist and social revolutionary († 1918 )
- February 11 : Jan de Vries , Dutch Germanist and religious scholar († 1964 )
- February 11 : Heinz Werner , German psychologist († 1964 )
- February 12 : Ernst Arnold , Austrian composer and Wienerlied writer and singer († 1962 )
- February 12 : Charles Cellérier , Swiss Protestant clergyman († 1966 )
- February 13 : René Labouchère , French aviator and racing car driver († 1968 )
- February 15 : Klara Maria Faßbinder , activist of the German women's and peace movement († 1974 )
- February 15 : Robert Ley , politician of the NSDAP († 1945 )
Ronald Aylmer Fisher (born February 17): Memorial window in Cambridge
Myra Hess (born February 25)
- February 17 : Ronald Aylmer Fisher , British geneticist, evolutionist and statistician († 1962 )
- February 18 : Edward Arnold , American actor of German descent († 1956 )
- February 18 : Vladimir Mikhailovich Korezki , Russian lawyer († 1984 )
- February 18 : Adolphe Menjou , American actor († 1963 )
- February 20 : Ferdinand Herbst , German Protestant theologian († 1950 )
- February 20 : Georg Thomas , German general († 1946 )
- February 22 : Alfred Cooper , British politician, diplomat and author († 1954 )
- February 22nd : Hinatsu Kōnosuke , Japanese poet, translator and literary scholar († 1971 )
- February 22nd : Francis Samuelson, 4th Baronet , British racing car driver († 1981 )
- February 25 : Myra Hess , British pianist († 1965 )
- February 27 : Freddie Keppard , American cornet player († 1933 )
March
- March 1 : Benito Quinquela Martín , Argentine painter († 1977 )
- March 1 : Heinz Hilpert , German theater director († 1967 )
- March 3 : Tsubota Jōji , Japanese children's book author († 1982 )
- March 5 : Wilhelm Boden , German lawyer and politician († 1961 )
- March 6 : Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff , German diplomat and resistance fighter († 1945 )
- March 6th : Adolfo Salazar , Spanish composer, music critic and musicologist († 1958 )
- March 8 : Johannes Albers , German politician († 1963 )
- March 8 : George M. Humphrey , American businessman and politician († 1970 )
- March 8 : Oswald von Nell-Breuning , German Catholic theologian (SJ) and economist († 1991 )
- March 9 : Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov , head of government and foreign minister of the Soviet Union († 1986 )
- March 11 : Vannevar Bush , American scientist († 1974 )
Vyacheslav Molotov (born March 9)
Vannevar Bush (born March 11th)
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- March 11 : W. Lee O'Daniel , American politician († 1969 )
- March 12 : Idris (Libya) , King of Libya (1951–1969) († 1983 )
- March 12 : William Dudley Pelley , American anti-Semite († 1965 )
- March 12 : Willy Walb , German engineer, automobile racing driver and race director († 1962 )
- March 13 : Frank Thiess , German writer († 1977 )
- March 13 : Fritz Busch , German conductor († 1951 )
- March 15 : Ignacio Asúnsolo , Mexican sculptor († 1965 )
- March 15 : Gertrud Kurz , founder and head of a Swiss refugee aid organization († 1972 )
- March 15 : Joseph Neuhäuser , German composer († 1949 )
- March 15 : Wilhelm Petersen , German composer († 1957 )
- March 16 : Anton Plankensteiner , Austrian governor of Vorarlberg († 1969 )
- March 18 : Gunnar Andersen , Norwegian soccer player and ski jumper († 1968 )
- March 20 : Lauritz Melchior , Danish hero tenor († 1973 )
- March 20 : Beniamino Gigli , Italian opera singer and film actor († 1957 )
- March 20 : Elna Jørgen-Jensen , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer († 1969 )
- March 20 : Franz Winkler , Austrian politician († 1945 )
- March 21 : C. Douglass Buck , American politician († 1965 )
- March 22nd : Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin , German member of the resistance against Hitler († 1945 )
- March 23 : Augustus Bertelli , British entrepreneur and racing car driver († 1979 )
- March 23 : Adolf Julius Merkl , Austrian constitutional and administrative lawyer († 1970 )
- March 23 : Andrei Stojanow , Bulgarian composer, pianist and music teacher († 1969 )
- March 26 : Harry von Arnim , German officer († 1941 )
- March 26 : Joseph De Luca , Italian-American musician († 1935 )
- March 26 : Franz Schauwecker , German writer and publicist († 1964 )
- March 28 : Erwin Mehl , Austrian sports scientist († 1984 )
Paul Whiteman (born March 28): record cover with tape
Anthony Fokker (born April 6)
Fokker Spin from 1910
- March 28 : Paul Whiteman , American orchestra leader and band leader († 1967 )
- March 29 : Harold Spencer Jones , British astronomer († 1960 )
- March 31 : Benjamin Willard Adams , American athlete († 1961 )
- March 31 : William Lawrence Bragg , British physicist and Nobel Prize winner († 1971 )
April
- April 1 : Heinrich Otto Meisner , German archivist and historian († 1976 )
- April 2 : Agnes Straub , German actress († 1941 )
- April 5 : Harold Elmer Anthony , American zoologist and paleontologist († 1970 )
- April 5 : Jean Bobescu , Romanian violinist, conductor and music teacher († 1981 )
- April 5 : Ernesto Joaquim Maria dos Santos , Brazilian folk musician († 1974 )
- April 6 : André Danjon , French astronomer († 1967 )
- April 6 : Anton Herman Gerard Fokker , Dutch aircraft designer († 1939 )
- April 7 : Victoria Ocampo Aguirre , Argentine writer, translator, cultural manager and feminist († 1979 )
- April 8 : Hans Böhm , German politician († 1957 )
- April 8 : Zbigniew Drzewiecki , Polish pianist and music teacher († 1971 )
- April 14 : Scott R. Beal , American assistant director († 1973 )
- April 14 : Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger , German Ministerial Director in the Reich Chancellery († 1947 )
- April 15 : Billy DeBeck , American comic artist († 1942 )
- April 16 : Walter Tausk , German sales representative and writer, Nazi victim († 1941 )
- April 16 : Nikolai Sergejewitsch Trubetzkoy , Russian linguist and ethnologist († 1938 )
- April 17 : Art Acord , American actor and rodeo champion († 1931 )
- April 17 : Carl Krayl , German architect († 1947 )
- April 17 : Johnny Alexander St. Cyr , American banjo player and guitarist († 1966 )
Camilio Mayer (born April 25): Grave in Stedten an der Ilm
Alfred Jodl (born May 10th)
- April 18 : Alexander Granach , Austrian-American theater and film actor († 1945 )
- April 20 : Adolf Schärf , Austrian Federal President († 1965 )
- April 21 : Benno Landsberger , German Assyriologist († 1968 )
- April 23 : Georges Casse , French racing driver († 1948 )
- April 24 : Guy Cordon , American politician († 1969 )
- April 25 : Camilio Mayer , German high- wire artist († 1972 )
- April 26 : Joseph H. August , American cameraman († 1947 )
- April 26 : Rudolf Grob , Swiss Protestant clergyman and director of a sanatorium († 1982 )
- April 29 : Daisy Fellowes , French author and editor and social celebrity († 1962 )
- April 29 : Franz Mueller-Darß , German forester and SS-Standartenführer († 1976 )
- April 30 : Ludwig Adamovich , Austrian lawyer and Minister of Justice († 1955 )
May
- May 1 : Franz Wiedemeier , German politician († 1970 )
- May 2 : Edward Elmer Smith , American science fiction writer and chemist († 1965 )
- May 3 : Soma Morgenstern , Austrian-Jewish writer of Galician descent († 1976 )
- May 4 : Arthur Kolnik , Galician-Jewish illustrator and painter († 1972 )
- May 6 : Friedrich Oehlkers , German botanist († 1971 )
- May 6 : Oskar Rümmele , German politician († 1975 )
- May 7 : Huug de Groot , Dutch football player († 1957 )
- May 8 : Theodor Asholt , German politician († 1969 )
- May 8 : John Meehan , American screenwriter († 1954 )
- May 8 : Arthur Winkler-Hermaden , Austrian geologist († 1963 )
- May 10 : Alfred Jodl , German colonel general and career officer († 1946 )
- May 10 : Clarence Brown , American film director († 1987 )
- May 10 : Jan Egbertus Jonkers , Dutch criminal lawyer († 1971 )
- May 11 : Willie Applegarth , British athlete and Olympic champion († 1958 )
- May 12 : Kurt Student , German Air Force officer († 1978 )
- May 14 : Johannes Reinwaldt , Danish racing cyclist († 1958 )
- May 14 : Rosa Young , American educator († 1971 )
- May 15 : Rudolf Kopf , Austrian lawyer and politician († 1971 )
- May 15 : Kârale Andreassen , Greenlandic painter, draftsman and catechist († 1934 )
- May 17 : Stewart Hoffman Appleby , American politician († 1964 )
- May 17 : Walter Flanigan , American football official († 1962 )
- May 19 : Hans Ahrbeck , German educationalist, pedagogue and university professor († 1981 )
- May 19 : Ho Chi Minh , Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman († 1969 )
- May 20 : Giuseppe Agostini , Canadian conductor and composer († 1971 )
- May 23 : Dennis H. Robertson , English economist († 1963 )
- May 23 : Herbert Marshall , British film actor († 1966 )
- May 23 : Julius Scheuble , first President of the Federal Labor Office († 1964 )
- May 25 : Alexander Jakowlewitsch Arosew , Russian-Soviet writer, politician and diplomat († 1938 )
- May 30 : Paul Czinner , Hungarian author, film director and producer († 1972 )
- May 30 : Roger Salengro , French politician († 1936 )
- May 31 : Hilla von Rebay , Alsatian painter († 1967 )
- May 31 : Harry Hines Woodring , American politician († 1967 )
June
- June 2 : Luigi Arrigoni , Italian Archbishop († 1948 )
- June 3 : Baburao Painter , Indian film director († 1954 )
- June 3 : Paul Luchtenberg , German politician and educator († 1973 )
- June 5 : Anton Werkgartner , Austrian coroner († 1970 )
- June 5 : Konrad Frühwald , German politician († 1970 )
- June 5 : Wilhelm Fraenger , German art historian († 1964 )
- June 7 : Erik Peterson , German Roman Catholic theologian († 1960 )
- June 7 : Fred Endrikat , German writer and cabaret artist († 1942 )
Arthur Tedder (2nd from left) (born June 11th): 1944 in Maastricht
Egon Schiele (born June 12): self-portrait
Wilhelm Leuschner (born June 15): Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
Stan Laurel (born June 16)
- June 9 : José Antonio Ramos Sucre , Venezuelan poet and diplomat († 1930 )
- June 10 : Charles Marchand , Canadian folk singer († 1930 )
- June 12 : Egon Schiele , Austrian expressionist painter († 1918 )
- June 12th : Théophile Alajouanine , French psychiatrist († 1980 )
- June 13 : Hans Nachtsheim , German zoologist and geneticist († 1979 )
- June 15 : Wilhelm Leuschner , German politician, member of the Reichstag, resistance fighter, Nazi victim († 1944 )
- June 16 : Stan Laurel , English comedian and film actor → Laurel and Hardy († 1965 )
- June 17 : Adachi Hatazō , Japanese general († 1947 )
- June 17 : Ludlow Griscom , American ornithologist and botanist († 1959 )
- June 19 : Carl-Anton Schaefer , German politician († 1974 )
Lewis H. Brereton (born June 21)
Otto Feick (born July 4th): inventor of the gym wheel
George II of Greece (born July 19)
- June 21 : Lewis H. Brereton , American Lieutenant General († 1967 )
- June 21 : Alvin Olin King , American politician († 1958 )
- June 21 : Frieda Riess , German photographer († 1955 )
- June 21 : Kurt C. Volkhart , German engineer, designer and racing driver († 1959 )
- June 24th : Freddy Charlier , Belgian ice hockey player and racing car driver († 1929 )
- June 25 : Hans Marchwitza , German worker poet, writer and communist († 1965 )
- June 26 : Fritz Uphoff , German painter († 1966 )
July
- July 1 : Fritz Haas , Austrian power plant builder († 1968 )
- July 2 : Paul Graetz , German cabaret artist and comedian († 1937 )
- July 3 : Biagio Nazzaro , Italian automobile and motorcycle racing driver († 1922 )
- July 4th : Andreas Breynk , German national soccer player († 1957 )
- July 4th : Otto Feick , German inventor of the gym wheel († 1959 )
- July 4th : Adam Sołtys , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher († 1968 )
- July 8 : Walter Hasenclever , German writer († 1940 )
- July 8th : Hanns Johst , German playwright and poet and functionary of the NSDAP († 1978 )
- July 8 : Leopold Zahn , Austrian art historian, writer and biographer († 1970 )
- July 9 : Fritz von Twardowski , German diplomat († 1970 )
- July 10 : Vera Mikhailovna Inber , Russian-Soviet writer († 1972 )
- July 11th : Fritz Elsas , German politician and resistance fighter († 1945 )
- July 11 : Arthur Tedder , British Air Force General († 1967 )
- July 11th : Aimé Vassiaux , French racing car driver († 1967 )
- July 12 : Anton Kuh , Austrian journalist, writer and lecturer († 1941 )
- July 12 : René Barbier , Belgian composer and professor († 1981 )
- July 14 : Ossip Zadkine , Belarusian painter and sculptor († 1967 )
- July 16 : Wilhelm Buddenberg , German painter († 1967 )
- July 16 : Carlos Carmelo Cardinal de Vasconcelos Motta , Archbishop of Aparecida († 1982 )
- July 16 : Theodor Hetzer , German art historian († 1946 )
- July 17 : Robin Christian Andersen , Austrian painter († 1969 )
- July 17th : Paul Gros , French racing car driver († 1961 )
- July 18 : Charles Erwin Wilson , American politician († 1961 )
- July 18 : Frank Forde , Australian politician and Prime Minister († 1983 )
- July 19 : George II , King of Greece († 1947 )
- July 19 : Peter Wiepert , German farmer, local history researcher, author († 1980 )
- July 20 : Albert Arnheiter , German rower († 1945 )
- July 20 : Richard Billinger , Austrian writer († 1965 )
- July 20 : Wilhelm Corsten , German historian and canon in Cologne († 1970 )
- July 20 : Enrico Giaccone , Italian racing driver († 1923 )
- July 20 : Giorgio Morandi , Italian painter and graphic artist († 1964 )
- July 20 : Gonzalo Roig , Cuban composer († 1970 )
Rose Kennedy (born July 22nd)
Konstantin Melnikow (born August 3): Melnikow House in Moscow
Erich Weinert (* August 3rd): GDR postage stamp
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- July 21 : Eduard Dietl , German general († 1944 )
- July 22 : Rose Kennedy , mother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy († 1995 )
- July 23 : Joan Amades i Gelats , Catalan ethnologist and folklorist († 1959 )
- July 23 : Bruno Asch , German politician († 1940 )
- July 27 : Karl Heinrich Ernst Assmann , German librarian († 1970 )
- July 27 : Erich Dunskus , German actor († 1967 )
- July 30th : Ludwig Schwamb , German lawyer and politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism († 1945 )
- July 31 : Georg Amberger , German athlete († 1949 )
- July 31 : Anne-Cécile Rose-Itier , French racing car driver († 1980 )
August
- August 1 : Walter Bud , German painter and graphic artist († 1915 )
- August 1 : Archer Taylor , American folklorist († 1973 )
- August 2 : Arnold Kübler , Swiss writer († 1983 )
- August 3 : Louis Charavel , French racing car driver († 1980 )
- August 3 : Konstantin Stepanowitsch Melnikow , Russian architect († 1974 )
- August 3 : Charles Edison , American politician († 1969 )
- August 3 : Josef Friedrich Perkonig , Austrian writer († 1959 )
- August 4 : Erich Weinert , German writer († 1953 )
- August 5 : Rudolf Benkendorff , German meteorologist († 1973 )
- August 5 : José Dera Avelino , Filipino politician († 1986 )
- August 5 : Erich Kleiber , Austrian conductor († 1956 )
- August 5 : Hans Gál , Austrian composer († 1987 )
Harry Hopkins (born August 17)
- August 5 : Naum Gabo , Russian artist († 1977 )
- August 7 : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , American labor movement activist and politician († 1964 )
- August 9 : Emmy Brode , German painter († 1967 )
- August 10 : Vsevolod Michailowitsch Abramowitsch , Russian aviation pioneer and flight instructor († 1913 )
- August 10 : Gerd Fricke , German radio play director, radio play speaker, radio presenter and actor († after 1960)
- August 10 : Richard Sedlmaier , German art historian and university professor († 1963 )
- August 11 : Aaslaug Aasland , Norwegian lawyer and politician († 1962 )
- August 11 : Heinrich Weitz , German politician, President of the German Red Cross († 1962 )
- August 12 : Stella Harf , German actress († 1979 )
- August 13 : Alfred Ahner , German painter and draftsman († 1973 )
- August 13 : Josef Fučík , Czech painter († 1955 )
- August 13 : Friedrich Ernst Peters , German writer († 1962 )
- August 13 : Li Zongren , Chinese general, politician, Vice President († 1969 )
- August 14 : Bruno Tesch , German chemist and entrepreneur; Zyklon B producer († 1946 )
- August 15 : Elvin Morton Jellinek , American doctor and researcher into alcoholism († 1963 )
- August 15 : Jacques Ibert , French composer († 1962 )
- August 15 : Elizabeth Bolden , American supercentenarian († 2006 )
- August 17 : Harry Hopkins , American politician († 1946 )
- August 18 : Maurice Podoloff , American lawyer and sports manager († 1985 )
Walther Funk (born August 18)
HP Lovecraft (born August 20), surrounded by beings from his Cthulhu myth
Duke Kahanamoku (born August 24)
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- August 18 : Walther Funk , German journalist and politician († 1960 )
- August 19th : Auguste Viktoria von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , German princess; Wife of the last king of Portugal († 1966 )
- August 19 : Konrad Knudsen , Norwegian journalist and politician († 1959 )
- August 20 : Cees ten Cate , Dutch football player († 1972 )
- August 20 : HP Lovecraft , American writer († 1937 )
- August 23 : May Harrison , British violinist († 1959 )
- August 24 : Duke Kahanamoku , Hawaiian swimmer, surfer and actor († 1968 )
- August 24 : Franz Joseph Philipp , German church musician and composer († 1972 )
Man Ray (born August 27): grave on the Parisian Cimetière Montmartre
Franz Werfel (born September 10th) in 1940
Agatha Christie (born September 15): commemorative plaque
- August 27 : Man Ray , American painter and photographer († 1976 )
- August 27 : Alfons Wagner , German metallurgist, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG († 1978 )
- August 28 : Ivor Gurney , English composer († 1937 )
- August 29 : Richard Gardiner Casey , Australian politician († 1976 )
- August 30 : Leo Cherniavsky , Canadian violinist of Ukrainian origin († 1974 )
September
- September 1 : Herbert Goldschmidt , German local politician († 1943 )
- September 1 : Arthur W. Upfield , British-Australian crime novel writer († 1964 )
- September 3 : Friedrich Altrichter , German officer and military writer († 1948 )
- September 5 : Johann Josef Demmel , Bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany († 1972 )
- September 6 : Manfred Gurlitt , German author and composer († 1972 )
- September 9 : Arthur Drey , German poet, playwright, essayist († 1965 )
- September 9 : Kurt Lewin , German-American psychologist († 1947 )
- September 9 : Francis Bousquet , French composer († 1942 )
- September 9 : Marriner S. Eccles , American entrepreneur and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board († 1977 )
- September 9 : Harland D. Sanders , founder of the system catering company Kentucky Fried Chicken († 1980 )
- September 10 : Elsa Schiaparelli , Italian-French fashion designer († 1973 )
- September 10 : Franz Werfel , Austrian writer († 1945 )
- September 11th : Marius Ulfrstad , Norwegian composer († 1968 )
- September 12 : Erich Lehmann , German athlete († 1917 )
- September 12 : Karl Peter Röhl , German painter, graphic artist and designer († 1975 )
- September 15 : Thomas C. Chattoe , Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher († 1982 )
- September 15 : Agatha Christie , British writer († 1976 )
- September 15 : Frank Martin , Swiss composer († 1974 )
- September 16 : Ernst Deutsch , German actor († 1969 )
- September 18 : Vladimír Ambros , Czech composer († 1956 )
- September 18 : Tsuchiya Bunmei , Japanese poet († 1990 )
- September 20 : Kathleen Parlow , Canadian violinist and music teacher († 1963 )
- September 20 : Richard Sjöberg , Swedish athlete († 1960 )
- September 21 : James P. Hogan , American film director († 1943 )
Max Immelmann (born September 21)
Groucho Marx (born October 2)
Eddie Rickenbacker (born October 8)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (born October 14)
- September 21 : Max Immelmann , German fighter pilot in World War I († 1916 )
- September 23 : Friedrich Paulus , German general († 1957 )
- September 25 : Grigory Michailowitsch Semjonow , Russian general; White leader in the Russian Civil War († 1946 )
- September 25 : Hans Vogt , German engineer; Inventor of the optical tone process († 1979 )
- September 27 : Giuseppe Aiello , Italian-American mobster († 1930 )
- September 29 : Ahmad Kasravi , Iranian linguist, historian and philosopher († 1946 )
- September 30th : André Gobert , French tennis player († 1951 )
- September 30th : Higashiyama Chieko , Japanese actress († 1980 )
October
- October 1 : Eduard Fiedler , German politician († 1963 )
- October 1 : Stanley Holloway , British actor († 1982 )
- October 2 : Friedrich Griese , German writer († 1975 )
- October 2 : Groucho Marx , American comedian († 1977 )
- October 4 : Vladimir Beklemischew , Russian zoologist and ecologist († 1962 )
- October 4th : Gladys Pyle , American politician († 1989 )
- October 5 : Kasimir Edschmid , German writer († 1966 )
- October 6 : Phyllis Gardner , English artist († 1939 )
- October 8 : Henrich Focke , German aircraft and helicopter designer († 1979 )
- October 8 : Edward Vernon Rickenbacker , American racing driver, entrepreneur and fighter pilot in World War I († 1973 )
- October 8 : Philippe Thys , Belgian cyclist († 1971 )
- October 9 : Jānis Mediņš , Latvian composer († 1966 )
- October 10 : Maurice Deprez , French racing car driver († 1970 )
- October 11 : August Herman Andresen , American politician († 1958 )
- October 11 : Fanny Jensen , Danish social democratic politician († 1969 )
- October 14 : Louis Delluc , French filmmaker, writer and critic († 1924 )
- October 14 : Dwight D. Eisenhower , American politician; President of the USA († 1969 )
- October 15 : Homer Martin Adkins , American politician († 1964 )
Michael Collins (born October 16)
Klabund (born November 4): lithograph by Emil Orlik
Carl FW Borgward (born November 10th) (left) around 1950
- October 16 : Michael Collins , Irish freedom fighter and politician († 1922 )
- October 17 : Magda Bäumken , German actress († 1959 )
- October 17 : Ernst Blass , German writer († 1939 )
- October 17 : Carl Buchheister , German painter († 1964 )
- October 21 : Gerrit Engelke , German worker poet († 1918 )
- October 23 : Eberhard Wildermuth , German politician († 1952 )
- October 24 : Kathleen Lockhart Manning , American composer († 1951 )
- October 24th : Thomas Tien Ken-sin , Chinese Archbishop of Beijing and Cardinal († 1967 )
- October 27 : Max Jungnickel , German writer († 1945 )
- October 27 : Heinrich Niebes , German politician († 1966 )
- October 28 : Josef Lense , Austrian mathematician († 1985 )
- October 29 : Hans-Valentin Hube , German Colonel General of the Wehrmacht († 1944 )
- October 29 : Abram Ilyich Jampolski , Russian violinist and music teacher († 1956 )
- October 29 : Alfredo Ottaviani , Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal († 1979 )
- October 30 : Ernst Adams , German politician († 1973 )
- October 30 : Jakow Eschpai , Russian composer and teacher († 1963 )
November
- November 1 : Rudolf Henggeler , Swiss Benedictine and historian († 1971 )
- November 2 : Georg Harms-Rüstringen , German artist († 1955 )
- November 2 : Kishida Kunio , Japanese playwright († 1954 )
- November 4 : István Déván , Hungarian athlete and winter sportsman († 1977 )
- November 4 : Klabund , stage name of the German writer Alfred Henschke († 1928 )
- November 6 : Alfonso Castaldo , Italian clergyman; Archbishop of Naples and Cardinal († 1966 )
- November 6 : Bentley Collingwood Hilliam , English singer, songwriter, composer and actor († 1968 )
- November 7th : Josef Behrens , German engineer and inventor († 1947 )
- November 7 : John B. Hollister , American politician († 1979 )
- November 8 : Karl Harrer , German journalist; Founding member of the German Workers' Party († 1926 )
- November 8th : Ernst Schneller , German teacher and KPD member of the Reichstag († 1944 )
- November 10 : Achmad Mochtar , Indonesian molecular biologist († 1945 )
- November 10 : Carl FW Borgward , German engineer and car designer († 1963 )
- November 12 : Kurt Hoffmann , German rower († 1976 )
- November 13 : Stanislav Novák , Czech violinist († 1945 )
- November 13 : Albert Stohr , German clergyman; Bishop of Mainz († 1961 )
- November 16 : Gyula Feldmann , Hungarian football player and coach († 1955 )
- November 16 : Elpidio Quirino , Philippine politician and President († 1956 )
- November 20 : Hermann Adler , German officer († 1967 )
- November 20 : Robert William Armstrong , American actor († 1973 )
- November 21 : Jeanne Mammen , German painter († 1976 )
- November 22 : El Lissitzky , Russian painter, graphic designer, architect, typographer, photographer († 1941 )
Jeanne Mammen (born November 21): Memorial plaque in Berlin
Charles de Gaulle (born November 22)
- November 22nd : Kosta Manojlović . Serbian composer and ethnomusicologist († 1949 )
- November 22nd : Harry Pollitt , British Communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain († 1960 )
- November 22 : Charles de Gaulle , French general and politician († 1970 )
- November 26 : Aleksander Wielhorski , Polish pianist and composer († 1952 )
- November 27 : Hugo ten Hövel , German politician († 1953 )
- November 27 : Toyoshima Yoshio , Japanese writer († 1955 )
December
Carlos Gardel (born December 11th)
- December 4 : Karl Angerstein , German officer († 1985 )
- December 4 : Gerhard Krahmer , German archaeologist († 1931 )
- December 5 : Katharina Aline Ahlmann , German entrepreneur († 1963 )
- December 5 : George Howard Earle , American politician († 1974 )
- December 5 : Fritz Lang , Austrian-American director and screenwriter († 1976 )
- December 6th : Rudolf Schlichter , German artist († 1955 )
- December 7th : Rudolf Bella , Hungarian composer († 1973 )
- December 8 : Bohuslav Martinů , Czech modern composer († 1959 )
- December 8 : Theodor Pool , Estonian politician († 1942 )
- December 9 : Guillaume Gagnier , Canadian horn player and double bass player († 1962 )
- December 9 : Leon Phillips , American politician († 1958 )
- December 10 : Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz , German military, Air Force General and Adjutant Hermann Görings († 1979 )
- December 10 : Byron Ingemar Johnson , Canadian politician († 1964 )
- December 10 : Zeki Velidi Togan , Bashkir historian and politician († 1970 )
- December 11th : Carlos Gardel , Argentine tango singer († 1935 )
- December 11 : Mark Tobey , American painter († 1976 )
- December 12 : Kazimierz Jósef Stanislaw Ajdukiewicz , Polish philosopher and logician († 1963 )
- December 12 : Theodor Neubauer , German resistance fighter, operationally illegal leadership of the KPD († 1945 )
- December 13 : Stanley Gardner , Canadian pianist and music teacher († 1945 )
- December 14 : Sigurd Hoel , Norwegian writer († 1960 )
- December 15 : Gerhard Arndt , German farmer and politician († 1963 )
- December 15 : Federico Callori di Vignale , Italian Roman Catholic clergyman; Cardinal († 1971 )
Edwin Howard Armstrong (born December 18)
Lanoe Hawker (born December 30)
- December 17 : Pierre Chami , Lebanese Archbishop († 1967 )
- December 17th : Joachim von Prussia , son of Kaiser Wilhelm II. († 1920 )
- December 18 : Edwin Howard Armstrong , American electrical engineer and inventor († 1954 )
- December 20 : Jaroslav Heyrovský , Czech physical chemist († 1967 )
- December 21 : Hermann Joseph Muller , American biologist and geneticist; Nobel Prize Winner († 1967 )
- December 21 : Mikalaj Aladau , Belarusian composer († 1972 )
- December 21 : James A. Noe , American politician († 1976 )
- December 22nd : Heinrich Luhmann , German teacher and local poet († 1978 )
- December 22nd : Nol van Berckel , Dutch football player († 1973 )
- December 23 : Johannes Hoffmann , German politician († 1967 )
- December 24 : Rosebery d'Arguto , Polish music teacher, composer and conductor († 1943 )
- December 24 : Amerigo Bartoli , Italian painter and caricaturist († 1971 )
- December 25th : Robert Ripley , American comic artist and world traveler († 1949 )
- December 27th : Emil Dovifat , German journalist and university professor († 1969 )
- December 28 : Viktor Lutze , Chief of Staff of the SA († 1943 )
- December 29th : Käthe Dorsch , German actress († 1957 )
- December 29 : Yves Nat , French pianist and composer († 1956 )
- December 30th : Artur Mahraun , German founder and "Grand Master" of the Young German Order († 1950 )
- December 30th : Lanoe Hawker , British fighter pilot in World War I († 1916 )
- December 31 : Karl Artelt , German politician († 1981 )
- December 31 : Friedrich Nowack , German politician (SPD) († 1959 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Suekichi Aono , Japanese literary scholar and critic († 1961 )
- Jan Appel , German revolutionary († 1985 )
- Harry William Hugh Armytage , British artillery officer († 1967 )
- Karl Assmann , Austrian lawyer, soccer player and co-founder of SK Sturm Graz († 1958 )
- Anton von Avanzini , Austrian politician († 1969 )
- Albert Duquesne , Canadian actor († 1956 )
- Broadus Farmer , Canadian violinist and music teacher († 1959 )
- Papa Charlie Jackson , American blues musician († 1938 )
- Otto Georgi , Chilean painter († 1969 )
- Teodoro Gutiérrez Calderón , Colombian poet and writer († 1958 )
- Philip Dalton Hepworth , British architect († 1963 )
- Alfredo Lobos , Chilean painter († 1917 )
- Fernando Meza , Chilean painter († 1929 )
- Carlo Salamano , Italian racing driver († 1969 )
- Guillermo Vergara , Chilean painter († 1943 )
Born around 1890
- Paquita Escribano , Spanish singer († around 1970 )
Died
January February
- January 3 : Ole Andreas Bachke , Norwegian lawyer and politician (* 1830 )
- January 3rd : Karl von Hase , Protestant theologian, real privy councilor of the Saxon Grand Ducal (* 1800 )
- January 3 : Charles-Marie Panneton , Canadian pianist, music teacher and composer (* 1845 )
- January 4th : Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Auersperg , Bohemian-Austrian politician and Prime Minister (* 1814 )
- January 6 : Józef Nikorowicz , Polish composer (* 1827 )
- January 7th : Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , wife of Kaiser Wilhelm I, German Empress and Queen of Prussia (* 1811 )
- January 7th : Hans Matthison-Hansen , Danish composer and organist (* 1807 )
- January 7th : George Lemuel Woods , American politician (* 1832 )
- January 8 : Elbridge G. Lapham , American politician (* 1814 )
- January 9th : Anton Friedrich von Tröltsch , German doctor and professor of ear medicine (* 1829 )
- January 10th : Ignaz von Döllinger , German Catholic theologian (* 1799 )
- January 12th : Olympe Audouard , French suffragette (* 1832 )
- January 14 : Karl von Gerok , German theologian and poet (* 1815 )
- January 17 : Salomon Sulzer , Austrian cantor and church musician (* 1804 )
- January 19 : Georg Albert , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Prussian General (* 1838 )
- January 20 : Franz Lachner , German composer (* 1803 )
- January 21 : Nathan Marcus Adler , German-British rabbi (* 1803 )
- January 24 : Harrison H. Riddleberger , American politician (* 1844 )
- January 25 : Pieter de Jong , Dutch orientalist (* 1832 )
- January 30 : Hayreddin Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (* 1822 / 23 )
- January 30th : Karl Merz , American composer (* 1836 )
Empress Augusta († January 7th)
Ignaz von Döllinger († January 10)
Salomon Sulzer († January 17)
- February 3 : Christoph Buys Ballot , Dutch scientist, founder of meteorology in the Netherlands and initiator of international climate research (* 1817 )
- February 3 : Heinrich Vieweg , German publisher and bookseller (* 1826 )
- February 4 : Antoine d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier , French officer and Spanish pretender to the throne (* 1824 )
- February 4 : Fletcher Stockdale , American lawyer, Governor of Texas (* 1823 or 1825 )
- February 11 : Friedrich Heinrich Eduard Kochhann , German politician (* 1805 )
- February 12 : Nicolai-Peter Ahlmann , German politician (* 1809 )
- February 17th : Arvid Ahnfelt , Swedish literary historian (* 1845 )
- February 17 : Christopher Latham Sholes , American book printer, journalist and inventor (* 1819 )
- February 18 : August Hartel , German architect (* 1844 )
- February 18 : Gyula Andrássy , politician in Austria-Hungary (* 1823 )
- February 22nd : Carl Bloch , Danish painter (* 1834 )
- February 27 : Christoph Moufang , diocesan administrator of Mainz (* 1817 )
Gyula Andrássy († February 18)
Carl Bloch († February 22)
March April
- March 2 : James E. English , American politician (* 1812 )
- March 3 : Adalbert von Bredow , Prussian lieutenant general (* 1814 )
- March 5 : Johann Baptist Arbinger , German politician (* 1819 )
- March 7th : Karl Rudolf Friedenthal , German politician, lawyer and entrepreneur (* 1827 )
- March 8 : Hermann Conradi , German writer of early naturalism (* 1862 )
- March 18 : Johann Georg Halske , German entrepreneur (* 1814 )
- March 19 : John S. Hager , American politician (* 1818 )
- April 4 : Giovanni Corsi , Italian opera singer (* 1822 )
- April 8 : Friedrich Strampfer , Austrian actor and theater director (* 1823 )
- April 11th : Joseph Merrick , Englishman, known as "Elephant Man" (* 1862 )
- April 13 : Samuel J. Randall , American politician (* 1828 )
- April 20 : John Henry Gurney , English banker and amateur ornithologist (* 1819 )
- April 30 : Gustav Biedermann , Czech philosophical writer (* 1815 )
May June
- May 3 : James Burnie Beck , American politician (* 1822 )
- May 7th : James Nasmyth , English engineer and astronomer, inventor (* 1808 )
- May 17 : Elisha Dyer , American politician (* 1811 )
- May 21 : Eduard von Fransecky , Prussian general of the infantry (* 1807 )
- May 23 : Louis Victor Antonio Artan de Saint-Martin , Dutch-Belgian painter (* 1837 )
- May 25 : Eduard von Wattenwyl , Swiss Protestant clergyman (* 1815 )
- May 28 : Carlos Céleo Arias López , Honduran politician (* 1835 )
- May 28 : Victor Ernst Nessler , German composer (* 1841 )
- May 28 : Otto Mengelberg , German history and portrait painter and lithographer (* 1817 )
James Nasmyth († May 7)
Eduard von Fransecky († May 21)
Carl Steffeck († July 11th): white horse, dog and boy
- June 13 : Christian Friedrich Arnold , German architect and academy professor (* 1823 )
- June 19 : Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll , German classical philologist (* 1819 )
- June 24th : Benjamin Samuel Williams , English commercial gardener (* 1824 )
- June 29 : Alexander Parkes , British chemist (* 1813 )
- June 30th : Samuel Parkman Tuckerman , American composer (* 1819 )
July August
- July 3 : Gilman Marston , American politician and army officer (* 1811 )
- July 4th : Philipp Friedrich Arnold , German anatomist and physiologist (* 1803 )
- July 7th : Henri Nestlé , German entrepreneur (* 1814 )
- July 10 : Thomas Clay McCreery , American politician (* 1816 )
- July 11 : Carl Steffeck , German animal painter and graphic artist (* 1818 )
- July 12 : Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger , German theologian, educator, author (* 1816 )
- July 13 : John C. Frémont , American explorer, major general and politician (* 1813 )
- July 15 : Gottfried Keller , Swiss poet and writer (* 1819 )
- July 18 : Lydia Becker , British women's rights activist (* 1827 )
- July 18 : Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters , German astronomer (* 1813 )
- July 29 : Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter (* 1853 )
- July 30 : Ferdinand Schmidt , German writer and people's educator (* 1816 )
Gilman Marston († July 3)
Gottfried Keller († July 15) around 1860
Lydia Becker (1827-1890)
Vincent van Gogh († July 29): self-portrait
- August 3 : Louise-Victorine Ackermann , French writer and member of the Parnassiens (* 1813 )
- August 6 : William Kemmler , American, first person to be executed on the electric chair (* 1860 or 1861 )
- August 9 : Eduard von Bauernfeld , Austrian comedy poet (* 1802 )
- August 11 : John Henry Newman , British Catholic theologian and cardinal, previously an Anglican pastor and theologian (* 1801 )
- August 12 : Heinrich Otte , German Protestant clergyman, medieval archaeologist and art and church historian (* 1808 )
- August 30 : Nicolás Ruiz Espadero , Cuban pianist and composer (* 1832 )
- August 30th : Marianne North , British painter (* 1830 )
Louise-Victorine Ackermann († August 3)
Eduard von Bauernfeld († August 9th)
John Henry Newman († August 11)
Johannes Bosboom († September 14th): Child baptism
Alphonse Karr († September 29)
September October
- September 3 : Christian Ludwig Landbeck , German-Chilean ornithologist (* 1807 )
- September 4 : Edward Noyes , American politician (* 1832 )
- September 8 : Isaac P. Christiancy , American lawyer and politician (* 1812 )
- September 11th : Eduard Degener , German-American politician (* 1809 )
- September 16 : Carl Franz Wilhelm Edel , German lawyer and politician (* 1806 )
- September 24 : John William Clark Watson , Confederate States politician (* 1808 )
- September 28 : Ludwig Wilhelm , Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt (* 1812 )
- 29 September : Alphonse Karr , French journalist, writer and satirist (* 1808 )
- October 2 : Philip F. Thomas , American politician (* 1810 )
- October 4 : Catherine Booth , wife of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (* 1829 )
- October 7th : John Hill Hewitt , American composer, poet and newspaper publisher (* 1801 )
- October 11 : Mathias Auinger , Austrian paleontologist (* 1810 )
- October 12 : William Young Sellar , Scottish classical philologist (* 1825 )
- October 14 : Friedrich von Hassel , Prussian lieutenant general (* 1833 )
- October 15 : Christian Wilhelm Ludwig von Abeken , German politician (* 1826 )
- October 18 : Friedrich Wilhelm August Carl von Arnim , Prussian administrative officer (* 1814 )
- October 19 : Émile Léonard Mathieu , French mathematician (* 1835 )
- October 20 : Richard Francis Burton , British consul, researcher, translator, and orientalist (* 1821 )
- October 26 : Carlo Collodi , Italian writer ("Pinocchio") (* 1826 )
Catherine Booth († October 4)
William Young Sellar († October 12)
Richard Francis Burton († October 19)
Carlo Collodi († October 26)
November December
- November 3 : Ulrich Ochsenbein , Swiss politician (* 1811 )
- November 4 : Helena Demuth , housekeeper to Jenny and Karl Marx (* 1820 )
- November 8 : César Franck , French composer (* 1822 )
- November 8 : Sophie Wörishöffer , German writer (* 1838 )
- November 9 : Johann Theodor Friedrich Avé-Lallemant , German music teacher, music critic and music writer (* 1806 )
- November 22nd : Wilhelm Henneberg , German animal nutrition physiologist (* 1825 )
- November 23 : Kathinka Hedwig Agerskov , Danish genre painter (* 1859 )
- November 23 : Thomas Rhodes Armitage , British medic (* 1824 )
- November 23 : Wilhelm III. , Dutch king (* 1817 )
- November 26 : James Milton Smith , American politician (* 1823 )
Ulrich Ochsenbein († November 3)
César Franck († November 8)
William III. († November 23): King of the Netherlands
- December 9th : Otto Michaelis , German economic liberal, journalist and politician (* 1826 )
- December 14 : Gottlieb Samuel Studer , Swiss mountaineer, panoramic draftsman and author (* 1804 )
- December 15 : James Croll , Scottish naturalist (* 1821 )
- December 15 : Sitting Bull , Indian chief (* around 1831 )
- December 21 : Niels Wilhelm Gade , Danish composer and conductor (* 1817 )
- December 21 : Johanne Luise Heiberg , Danish actress (* 1812 )
- December 26th : Heinrich Schliemann , German merchant and discoverer of Troy (* 1822 )
- December 29th : Si Tanka , better known as Big Foot, chief of the Minneconjou Lakota Indians (* 1815 )
- December 31 : Hyacinthe Aube , French admiral and governor of Martinique (* 1826 )
James Croll († December 15)
Sitting Bull († December 15)
Johanne Luise Heiberg († December 21)
Gottlieb Samuel Studer († December 22nd)
Heinrich Schliemann († December 26th)
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