Clay Smith, American politician (b. 1826) Floriano Vieira Peixoto, 2nd president of Brazil (b. 1839) Émile Munier, French artist (b. 1840) July–December July 18 – Stefan Stambolov, 9th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (assassinated) (b. 1854) July 28 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803) July 29 – Floriano Peixoto, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839) August 4 – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, Quebec journalist, politician (b. 1818) August 5 – Friedrich Engels, German communist philosopher (b. 1820) August 8 – Howell Edmunds Jackson, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1832) August 22 – Luzon B. Morris, American politician (b. 1827) September 8 – Adam Opel, German founder of the automobile company Adam Opel AG (b. 1837) September 26 – Ephraim Wales Bull, American horticulturalist, creator of the Concord grape (b. 1806) September 28 – Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist, chemist (b. 1822) October 8 – Empress Myeongseong (Queen Min), last Korean empress (assassinated) (b. 1851) October 13 - Franklin Leonard Pope, American engineer, explorer, and inventor (b. 1840) October 25 – Sir Charles Hallé, German-born pianist, conductor (b. 1819) October 27/28 – Adele Spitzeder, German actress, folk singer and confidence trickster (b. 1832) November 5 – Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan (b. 1847) November 23 – Mauritz de Haas, Dutch-American marine painter (b. 1832) November 24 – Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (b. 1823) November 27 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (b. 1824) December 12 – Allen G. Thurman, American politician (b. 1813) December 13 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist, inventor of the dynamo (b. 1800) December 27 – Eivind Astrup, Norwegian Arctic explorer (b. 1871) Date unknown Adelia Cleopatra Graves, American educator (b. 1821) References Sources Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1895: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry'' (1896); highly detailed compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage. not online.