Wilhelm Liebknecht, German Social Democratic politician (b. 1826) August 8 Emil Škoda, Czech engineer and industrialist (b. 1839) József Szlávy, 6th prime minister of Hungary (b. 1818) August 10 – Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1832) August 12 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-born chess player, first undisputed World Champion (b. 1836) August 13 – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher and poet (b. 1853) August 16 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese writer (b. 1845) August 23 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840) August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, writer (b. 1844) September 5 – Arthur Sewall, American politician, industrialist (b. 1835) September 19 – Belle Archer, American actress (b. 1859) September 23 William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist, university founder (b. 1816) Arsenio Martínez-Campos, Spanish general, revolutionary, and Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1831) September 29 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814) October 15 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850) October 19 – Sir Roderick Cameron, Canadian shipping magnate (b. 1825) October 22 – John Sherman, American politician (b.1823) October 28 – Max Müller, German philologist, Orientalist (b. 1823) November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842) November 26 – Méry Laurent, French artist's muse, model (b. 1849) November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854) December 4 – Aquileo Parra, 11th President of Colombia (b. 1825) December 14 – Paddy Ryan, Irish-American boxer, former world's heavyweight champion (b. 1851) December 21 – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (b. 1810) World population World population: 1,640,000,000 Africa: 133,000,000 Asia: 947,000,000 Japan: c. 45,000,000 Europe: 408,000,000 Latin America: 74,000,000 Northern America: 82,000,000 Oceania: 6,000,000 References Further reading Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events...1900 (1901), vast compendium of data; global coverage online edition Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century 1900-1933, Vol. 1 (1997) pp 7–35; global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare. Herbert C. Fyfe, Pearson's Magazine, July 1900: "How Will The World End?"