– Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, French politician, 28th Prime Minister of France (b. 1821) January 21 – Elisha Gray, American inventor, appliance manufacturer (b. 1835) January 22 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Empress of India (b. 1819) January 27 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813) January 28 – Iosif Gurko, Russian field marshal (b. 1828) February 7 – Ana Betancourt, Cuban national heroine (b. 1832) February 10 – Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist (b. 1818) February 11 King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1854) Ramón de Campoamor, Spanish poet (b. 1817) February 14 – Sir Edward Stafford, Scottish-New Zealand educator, politician and 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1819) February 22 – George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851) February 26 – Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, Polish writer (b. 1829) March–April March 13 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833) March 23 – Konstantin Stoilov, 8th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1853) March 31 – Sir John Stainer, British composer and organist (b. 1840) April 1 – François-Marie Raoult, French chemist (b. 1830) April 3 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario (b. 1844) April 9 – Shrimad Rajchandra, Indian Jain philosopher, scholar and poet, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1867) April 24 – Arvid Posse, 2nd prime minister of Sweden (b. 1820) May–June May 1 – Lewis Waterman, American inventor, businessman (b. 1837) May 4 – Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, Belgian art collector and art historian (b. 1858) May 5 – Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, statesman, and three-time President of Peru (b. 1825) May 7 – Dimitar Grekov, 10th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1847) May 19 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, 1st President of South Africa (b. 1819) May 21 – Sir John Commerell, British admiral of the fleet (b. 1829) May 22 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist and assassin (b. 1869) May 24 – Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist (b. 1823) May 31 – Ernest de Sarzec, French archeologist (b. 1832) June 2 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844) June 4 – Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist (b. 1814) June 9 Walter Besant, English writer (b. 1836) Adolf Bötticher, German art historian (b. 1842) June 13 – Leopoldo Alas, 'Clarín', Spanish novelist (b. 1852) June 16 – Herman Grimm, German historian (b. 1828) June 21 – Anthony Hoskins, British admiral (b. 1828) June 25 –