admiral (d. 1946) December 26 – Marius Canard, French orientalist (d. 1982) December 28 – F. W. Murnau, German film director (d. 1931) Date unknown Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter (d. 1976) Tudorancea Ciurea, Romanian general (d. 1971) Traian Cocorăscu, Romanian general (d. 1970) Nicolae Costescu, Romanian general (d. 1963) Ibrahim Hashem, 3-time prime minister of Jordan (d. 1958) Virginia Pereira Álvarez, first Venezuelan woman to study medicine in Venezuela (d. 1947) Deaths January–June January 7 – Golam Ali Chowdhury, Bengali landlord and philanthropist (b. 1824) January 19 – Anton de Bary, German biologist (b. 1831) January 20 – William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer, southern statesman (b. 1825) January 29 – Edward Lear, British artist, writer (b. 1812) January 31 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815) February 3 – Sir Henry Maine, British jurist (b. 1822) February 5 – Anton Mauve, Dutch painter (b. 1838) February 22 – Anna Kingsford, British women's rights activist (b. 1846) February 24 – Seth Kinman, American hunter, settler (b. 1815) March 6 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832) Josif Pančić, Serbian botanist (b. 1814) March 9 – William I, German Emperor, King of Prussia (b. 1797) March 12 – Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (b. 1813) March 16 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801) March 23 – Morrison Waite, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1816) March 27 – Francesco Faà di Bruno, Italian mathematician (b. 1825) March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer, pianist (b. 1813) April 4 – Emma Elizabeth Smith, Whitechapel Murders victim (b. 1843) April 14 – Emil Czyrniański, Polish chemist (b. 1824) April 15 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822) April 17 – Ephraim George Squier, American archaeologist, newspaper editor (b. 1821) April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer (b. 1816) May 11 – Frederick Miller, German-born American brewer and businessman (b. 1824) May 15 – Edwin Hamilton Davis, American archaeologist, physician (b. 1811) May 19 – Julius Rockwell, United States politician (b. 1805) May 26 – Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (b. 1812) June 7 – Edmond Le Bœuf, French general, Marshal of France (b. 1809) June 8 – Sir Duncan Cameron, British army general (b. 1808) June 15 – Frederick III, German Emperor, King of Prussia (b. 1831) June 23 – Edmund Gurney, British psychologist