Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) December 30 – Paul Bowles, American author (d. 1999) December 31 – Mallikarjun Mansur, Hindustani classical vocalist (d. 1992) Date unknown Fawzi Al-Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1962) Deaths January January 1 – Harriet Powers, American folk artist (b. 1837) January 4 – Léon Delagrange, French pioneer aviator (b. 1873) January 5 – Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834) January 12 – Bass Reeves, one of the first African-American Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River (b. 1838) January 13 – Andrew Jackson Davis, American spiritualist (b. 1826) January 25 – W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit, academic (b. 1860) January 27 – Thomas Crapper, British plumber (b. 1836) January 29 – Sir Charles Todd, Australian telegraph pioneer (b. 1826) January 30 – Granville Woods, African-American inventor (b. 1856) February February 6 – Alfonso Maria Fusco, Italian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1839) February 7 – Elizabeth Martha Olmsted, American poet (b. 1825) February 9 – Miguel Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother (b. 1854) February 10 – Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist (b. 1831) February 14 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849) February 20 – Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1846) February 23 – Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1864) February 26 – Esther E. Baldwin, American missionary (b. 1840) March March 1 – José Domingo de Obaldía, 2nd President of Panama (b. 1845) March 4 – Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857) March 9 – Fredrik von Otter, 8th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1833) March 10 – Karl Lueger, Austrian mayor (b. 1844) March 18 – Julio Herrera y Reissig, Uruguayan poet, writer (b. 1875) March 20 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820) March 26 – An Jung-geun, Korean assassin (b. 1879) March 27 – Alexander Agassiz, American scientist (b. 1835) March 28 – David Josiah Brewer, American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1837) March 29 – H. Maria George Colby, American fashion editor (b. 1844) March 30 – Jean Moréas, Greek poet, essayist and art critic (b. 1856) April April 4 – Augusta Harvey Worthen, American educator and author (b. 1823) April 15 – Angelia Thurston Newman, American activist and author (b. 1837) April 12 – William Graham Sumner, American social scientist (b. 1840) April 21 Anne Isabella Robertson, Anglo-Irish writer and suffragist (b. circa 1830) Mark Twain, American writer (b. 1835) April