26 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) May May 1 – Pierre Nord Alexis, President of Haiti (b. 1820) May 3 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871) May 6 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841) May 10 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826) May 12 – Sir William Huggins, British astronomer (b. 1824) May 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano, composer (b. 1821) May 22 – Jules Renard, French writer (b. 1864) May 27 – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) May 28 – Kálmán Mikszáth, Hungarian novelist (b. 1847) May 29 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837) May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, British-born American physician (b. 1821) June June 5 – William Sydney Porter (alias O. Henry), American novelist (b. 1862) June 7 – Goldwin Smith, British-born Canadian historian and journalist (b. 1823) June 8 – Henry Granger Piffard, New York dermatologist and author of the first systematic treatise on dermatology in America (b. 1842) June 11 – Maria Schininà, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed (b. 1844) June 24 – Juan Williams Rebolledo, Chilean admiral and politician (b. 1825) July July 3 – Tokugawa Akitake, Japanese daimyō, the last lord of Mito Domain, younger brother of the last shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu (b. 1853) July 4 Melville Fuller, American Chief Justice (b. 1833) Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835) July 10 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812) July 12 – Charles Rolls, British aviator, automobile manufacturer (b. 1877) August August 6 – Klemens Bachleda, Polish Tatra guide and mountain rescuer (b. 1851) August 10 – S. Isadore Miner, American journalist (b. 1863) August 13 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (b. 1820) August 14 – Frank Podmore, British psychical researcher (b. 1856) August 15 – Constantin Fahlberg, Russian chemist (b. 1850) August 16 – Pedro Montt, 15th President of Chile (b. 1849) August 26 William James, American psychologist, philosopher (b. 1842) Thomas Petrie, Australian explorer, gold prospector, logger and grazier (b. 1831) August 28 – Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist, physiologist, anthropologist, and fiction author (b. 1831) September September 1 – Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Russian chemist (b. 1841) September 2 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844) September 6 – Elías Fernández Albano, president of Chile (b. 1845) September 7 Emily Blackwell, American physician (b. 1826) William Holman Hunt, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1827) September