author of juvenile literature for girls (b. 1824) March 23 – Thomas Lake Harris, American poet (b. 1823) March 29 Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1877) Albert Sorel, French historian (b. 1842) April 6 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849) April 19 Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) Spencer Gore, British tennis player, cricketer (b. 1850) April 25 – John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839) May 10 – Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1825) May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (b. 1829) May 23 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 1828) June 5 – Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842) June 10 – Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845) June 17 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess champion (b. 1872) June 25 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853) July–December July 1 – Manuel García, Spanish opera singer, music educator and vocal pedagogue (b. 1805) July 11 – Grace Brown, American murder/and or drowning victim (b. 1886) July 17 – Carlos Pellegrini, 11th President of Argentina (b. 1846) August 6 – George Waterhouse, 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824) August 14 – Aniceto Arce, 27th President of Bolivia (b. 1824) August 19 – Ezequiél Moreno y Díaz, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1848) September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet, librettist (b. 1847) September 5 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1854) September 13 – Emily Pitts Stevens, American school founder (b. 1841) September 23 – August Bondeson, Swedish author (b. 1844) October 9 – Adelaide Ristori, Italian actress (b. 1822) October 16 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (b. 1826) October 19 Arthur von Mohrenheim, Russian diplomat (b. 1824) Charles Pfizer, German-American chemist, co-founder of Pfizer (b. 1824) October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839) October 23 – Vladimir Stasov, Russian music critic (b. 1824) October 30 – Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British politician (b. 1814) November 1 – Archduke Otto of Austria (b. 1865) November 7 – Todor Burmov, 1st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1834) November 9 – Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, French Discalced Carmelite religious professed and saint (b. 1880) November 12 – William Rufus Shafter, American general (b. 1835) November 16 – Mother Veronica of the Passion, Ottoman-born religious leader (b. 1823) November 19, – Georgia