May – John Kells Ingram, poet, scholar, economist, and historian of economic thought (born 1823). 10 June – Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (born 1822). 8 July – John Horgan, politician and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (born 1834). 3 August – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor (born 1848). 7 August – James Brenan, artist (born 1837). 13 August – George Charlemont, former Gaelic footballer (born 1873). 17 November – Francis Leopold McClintock, Royal Navy officer, explorer in Canadian Arctic Archipelago (born 1819). 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (born 1824). Full date unknown Robert Cain, brewer and businessman (born 1826). Denis Kearney, politician in America (born 1847). References 1900s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland