1834) October 6 – Sir James Abbott, British army officer and colonial administrator in India (b. 1807) October 7 – Louis-Jules Trochu, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1815) October 8 – George du Maurier, French-born British cartoonist and writer (b. 1834) October 10 – Ferdinand von Mueller, German-born Australian botanist (b. 1825) October 11 Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824) Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829) October 12 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1817) October 19 – Emmy Rappe, Swedish nursing pioneer (b. 1835) October 21 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer and inventor (b. 1844) October 23 – Columbus Delano, American statesman (b. 1809) October 26 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (b. 1827) October 30 – Carol Benesch, Silesian and Romanian architect (b. 1822) November – Margaret Eleanor Parker, English social activist; first president of the British Women's Temperance Association (b. 1827) November 12 – Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (b. 1843) November 16 – Josip Šokčević, Croatian viceroy (b. 1811) November 22 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American inventor of the Ferris wheel (b. 1859) November 23 – Ichiyō Higuchi, Japanese poet and novelist (b. 1872) November 26 Benjamin Apthorp Gould, American astronomer (b. 1824) Coventry Patmore, English poet (b. 1823) December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, creator of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833) Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, noted Polish apologist of Rabbinic Judaism (b. 1824) Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, British admiral of the fleet (b. 1806) December 30 – José Rizal, national hero of the Philippines (b. 1861) References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar