January 1 Johannes Ludovicus Paquay, Belgian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1828) January 2 – Clara Augusta Jones Trask, American dime novelist (b. 1839) January 6 José María Gabriel y Galán, Spanish poet (b. 1870) Ann Eliza Smith, American patriot (b. 1819) January 9 – Louise Michel, French anarchist (b. 1830) January 11 – Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Polish Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847) January 14 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840) January 19 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817) January 20 – Gyula Szapáry, 10th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1832) January 22 Ștefan Fălcoianu, Romanian general and politician (b. 1835) Clara Harrison Stranahan, American college co-founder and trustee (b. 1831) January 27 – Watson Heston, American cartoonist (b. 1846) January 31 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844) February 2 –Mabel Cahill, Irish tennis champion (b. 1863) February 3 – Adolf Bastian, German anthropologist (b. 1826) February 4 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841) February 5 – Andrijica Šimić, Croatian hajduk (b. 1833) February 9 – Adolph von Menzel, German painter (b. 1815) February 12 – Marcel Schwob, French writer (b. 1867) February 15 – Lew Wallace, American writer (Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) (b. 1827) February 16 – Jay Cooke, American financier (b. 1821) February 17 – Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1857) February 19 – Benjamin Harris Babbidge, Australian politician, 19th Mayor of Brisbane (b. 1836) February 20 – Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain (b. c. 1828) February 24 – Fanny Cochrane Smith, Aboriginal Tasmanian (b. 1834) February 25 – Edward Cooper, 83rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1824) March–April March 1 – Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor (b. 1822) March 3 – Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist, author (b. 1830) March 6 Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal, 12th President of Haiti (b. 1832) John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818) March 13 – Nil Izvorov, Bulgarian Orthodox priest and venerable (b. 1823) March 15 Meyer Guggenheim, Swiss-born patriarch of the Guggenheim Family (b. 1828) Amalie Skram, Norwegian author, feminist (b. 1846) March 17 – Juan Nepomuceno Zegrí Moreno, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1831) March 23 – Martha E. Cram Bates, American journalist (b. 1839) March 24 – Jules Verne, French science fiction author (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) (b. 1828) March 25 – Maurice Barrymore, British actor (b. 1849) March 28 – Huang