journalist, writer and patriot (b. 1856) January 26 – James Edwin Campbell, American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867) February 7 – William Hayden English, American politician (b. 1822) February 25 – Joseph P. Fyffe, American admiral (b. 1832) March 30 – Charilaos Trikoupis, 7-time prime minister of Greece (b. 1832) April 9 – Gustav Koerner, German-American statesman (b. 1809) April 27 – Sir Henry Parkes, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1815) April 30 – Hamilton Disston, American industrialist and land developer (b. 1844) May 1 – Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, King of Herat (b. 1831) May 7 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1861) May 10 – Antti Ahlström, Finnish industrialist, founder of Ahlstrom (b. 1827) May 13 – Nora Perry, American newspaper correspondent (b. 1831) May 17 – Muhammad Al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait (b. 1831) May 18 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1813) May 19 – Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, father of Archduke Ferdinand (b. 1833) May 20 – Clara Schumann, German composer, pianist (b. 1819) May 24 – Luigi Federico Menabrea, Italian soldier, statesman (b. 1809) June 19 – Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (b. 1827) July–December July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811) July 4 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist (b. 1850) July 11 – Ernst Curtius, German historian (b. 1814) July 13 – August Kekulé, German chemist (b. 1829) July 16 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer, co-founder of the Académie Goncourt (b. 1822) July 19 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859) August 10 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848) August 12 – Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, British army general (b. 1821) August 13 – Sir John Everett Millais, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1829) August 17 – Bridget Driscoll, early British automobile fatality (b. c. 1851) August 18 – Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher (b. 1843) August 25 – Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar (b. 1857) September 18 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819) September 22 – Pavlos Kalligas, Greek jurist, politician (b. 1814) September 23 – Ivar Aasen, Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet (b. 1813) September 24 – Louis Gerhard De Geer, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1818) October 3 – William Morris, English designer, poet and political activist (b.