Crespo, 14th President of Ecuador (b. 1833) February February 4 – Franz Reichelt, Austrian-born French tailor and inventor (b. 1879) February 9 – Hyacinthe Loyson, French preacher and theologian (b. 1827) February 10 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon (b. 1827) February 16 – Nicholas of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and saint (b. 1836) February 17 Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary) (b. 1854) Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer, member of the Scott expedition to the South Pole (b. 1876) February 21 – Osborne Reynolds, Irish physicist (b. 1842) February 25 – William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852) February 28 Henry Hendrickson, United States Navy seaman (b. 1875) Bill Storer, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1867) March March 1 George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847) Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1839) March 3 – Oskar Enqvist, Russian admiral (b. 1849) March 4 – Augusto Aubry, Italian admiral and politician (b. 1849) March 17 Anna Filosofova, Russian feminist activist (b. 1837) Lawrence Oates, English army officer, member of the Scott expedition to the South Pole (b. 1880; hypothermia) March 22 – Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b. 1864) March 29 – Remaining members of the Scott expedition to the South Pole: Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish naval officer (b. 1883) Robert Falcon Scott, British naval officer and explorer (b. 1868) Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872) March 30 – Karl May, German author (b. 1842) March 31 – Robert Love Taylor, American congressman, senator and Governor from Tennessee (b. 1850) April April 3 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American aviation pioneer, in aircraft accident (b. 1879) April 6 – Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (b. 1855) April 10 – Gabriel Monod, French historian (b. 1844) April 12 Clara Barton, American nurse (b. 1821) Frederick Dent Grant, American soldier and statesman (b. 1850) April 13 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886) April 14 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835) April 15 – 1,517 victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, including: Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873) John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman (b. 1864) Archibald Butt, American presidential aide (b. 1865) Thomas Byles, British Catholic priest (b. 1870) Jacques Futrelle, American mystery author and journalist (b. 1875) Luigi Gatti, Italian-born restaurateur (b. 1875) Sidney Leslie Goodwin, English toddler; youngest victim of the Titanic disaster, unidentified until 2007 (b. 1910)