14 – Lombe Atthill, Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1827) September 16 – Hormuzd Rassam, Iraqi archaeologist (b. 1826) September 23 – Tup Scott, Australian cricketer (b. 1858) September 27 – Jorge Chávez, Peruvian aviator (b. 1887) September 28 – Marie Pasteur, French chemist (b. 1826) September 29 – Winslow Homer, American painter (b. 1836) October October 3 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist (b. 1833) October 17 – Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist, poet (b. 1819) October 21 – Charles van der Stappen, Belgian sculptor (b. 1843) October 23 – King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) of Siam (b. 1853) October 27 – Henrietta Gould Rowe, American litterateur (b. 1835) October 30 – Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828) November November 6 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot, writer (b. 1838) November 7 – Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan playwright (b. 1875) November 13 – Isabel Grimes Richey, American poet (b. 1858) November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831) November 19 – Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835) November 20 (N.S.) – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828) November 23 Hawley Harvey Crippen, American murderer (executed) (b. 1862) Octave Chanute, French-American engineer, aviation pioneer (b. 1832) December December 1 – William Pryor Letchworth, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1823) December 3 Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, founder of Christian Science (b. 1821) Wesley Merritt, American general (b. 1836) December 8 – Paškal Buconjić, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (b. 1834) December 28 – Benjamin Pitman, English-born American stenographer and crafts promoter (b. 1822) December 29 – Reginald Doherty, British tennis player (b. 1872) December 31 – John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868) Date unknown Emma Bedelia Dunham, American poet and teacher (b. 1826) Nobel Prizes Chemistry – Otto Wallach Literature – Paul Heyse Medicine – Albrecht Kossel Peace – Permanent International Peace Bureau Physics – Johannes Diderik van der Waals References Primary sources and year books New International Year Book 1910 970pp of detailed global coverage. Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 206–24.